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BEYOND EXPO 2024 REACHES NEW HEIGHTS WITH UNPRECEDENTED INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

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MACAO, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The fourth edition of BEYOND Expo 2024, themed “Embracing the Uncertainties,” has soared to new heights, establishing itself as the definitive tech event in Asia. Held from May 22-25, 2024, at The Venetian Macao Cotai Expo, this year’s expo achieved unparalleled international recognition, drawing a global audience and setting new records for participation and diversity.

BEYOND Expo 2024 showcased cutting-edge technological innovations while highlighting its unique strengths. Beyond the traditional tech showcases, BEYOND Expo presented groundbreaking projects in Asia across ConsumerTech, ClimateTech, and Healthcare. The event was marked by the global participation of guests, exhibitors, attendees, and media, truly making it an international affair. Additionally, the expo seamlessly integrated various elements, including celebrity appearances, entertainment, women in tech, and culinary experiences, making it a multifaceted tech festivity.

These aspects collectively positioned BEYOND Expo as the new pinnacle of Asian tech events, unparalleled in scale and diversity, drawing industry leaders, tech enthusiasts, investors and exhibitors from across Asia.

Key Numbers:

20,000 attendees from 70+ countries and territories820 exhibitors, with 40% representing international companies7 stages featuring 250+ speakers and 160+ panel discussions and fireside chats600 investors, including 200 LPs and 150 family offices from 30 different countriesPresence of over 200 media outlets

Event Highlights:

Landmark Opening 

The Opening Ceremony featured influential leaders including Dr. Robin ZENG, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CATL; Neil SHEN, Founding and Managing Partner of HongShan Capital; GUO Guangchang, Chairman of Fosun International; LIU Qingfeng, Chairman of iFLYTEK Co., Ltd.; XU Bing, Co-founder of SenseTime; ZHANG Wen, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Biren Technology; Siddharth CHATTERJEE, UN Resident Coordinator in China; and Jon CREYTS, CEO of RMI.

Unprecedented Attendance and Record-Breaking Exhibitors 

The expo attracted over 20,000 participants from more than 70 countries and territories and over 820 exhibitors, representing various industries and sectors. This confluence underscored the event’s stature as a preeminent tech symposium, offering a myriad of innovation displays, industry leading discussions and networking opportunities.

Expansive and Diverse Programming

BEYOND Expo presented a comprehensive agenda featuring seven stages and encompassing over 160 fireside chats and panel discussions, led by more than 250 speakers and moderators. Topics covered the three sub-brands: ConsumerTech, ClimateTech, and Healthcare, and extended to include the Global Investment Summit, SheTech Summit, Wealth Summit, Asia-Latam Tech Summit, Japan Tech Forum, Founders Forum and more.

Global Confluence 

BEYOND Expo 2024 achieved a significant milestone with the introduction of new agenda items covering different geographies, including the Asia-Latam Tech Forum, Japan Tech Forum, on top of the ORIGIN Asia Conference. These forums facilitated discussions on regional technological advancements and featured participation from government officials, investors, and founders, sparking new ideas and innovations. The expo also saw participation from distinguished guests from Europe, the US, Latin America, North Asia, Southeast Asia, and beyond, enhancing BEYOND Expo’s international presence. Attendees engaged directly with global experts and industry leaders, expanding their networks and exploring collaboration opportunities.

 

Innovative New Sessions 

Introducing several novel sessions aimed to elevate the attendee experience, BEYOND Expo introduced Funds at First Pitch, a platform for startups to present their innovations directly to potential investors. BEYOND SheTech was dedicated to empowering women in technology, offering insights and strategies to support their advancement in the field. Additionally, the BEYOND Wealth Summit featured insightful sessions covering topics such as legacy preservation, next-gen wealth management, impact investing, art, philanthropy, and more, with esteemed experts sharing their insights and perspectives. Furthermore, the inaugural Founders Forum brought together entrepreneurial leaders to discuss industry trends and innovative strategies. These sessions not only enhanced knowledge-sharing but also fostered meaningful connections and collaborations among attendees.

 

Enhanced Diversity 

This year heralded the highest representation of women in BEYOND Expo’s history, with women constituting 30% of attendees. Moreover, the expo showcased innovative technologies that demonstrated how technology can empower and enhance the lives of underprivileged communities. This emphasis on diversity enriched the dialogue and perspectives shared throughout the event.

The Fun Continues 

Attendees had numerous opportunities to forge valuable connections while indulging in various activities, including Macao culinary delights at the Food Market, Breath Yoga Session by Siddharth CHATTERJEE, BEYOND Golf Tournament, Gala Dinner, and the Charity Poker Night. The fun also continued in the evenings with lively parties such as the Pool Party, the BEYOND x Magic Room Crew Party, and the BEYOND x Team Wang design Party.

Celebrity Entrepreneurs and Influencers 

Enhancing the allure, international celebrities and global influencers such as David BECKHAM, Stephon MARBURY, DENG Yaping, and Jackson WANG shared their unique entrepreneurial journeys, offering rare insights and inspiration to all participants. Their presence has elevated BEYOND Expo’s status, contributing to its unique appeal and distinguishing it as a premier tech event in Asia, unmatched in its diversity and high-profile lineup.

Strong Investor Presence 

BEYOND Expo solidified its reputation as a nexus for investors, attracting over 600 investors, including more than 200 LPs and 150 family offices from 30 different countries. An impressive collective of over 50 institutional investors, including endowments, pensions, corporate venture capitals, and sovereign wealth funds, also attended. This convergence of financial acumen and global perspectives underscores the summit’s prominence as a hub for investment expertise.

Robust Media Engagement 

This year, over 350 media professionals attended, engaging with sessions focused on narrative creation, reporting, and content production. Esteemed regional and international media presence included CGTN, South China Morning Post, CNN, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TIME, and many more. Many of them served as panel moderators, offering unique insights and comprehensive coverage of the event.

Gratitude to Our Partners 

BEYOND Expo proudly acknowledged the support of over 100 partners, the most extensive array in BEYOND Expo’s history. Their invaluable contributions were pivotal in fostering an environment where innovation and collaboration flourished.

Join us in looking forward to the future of BEYOND Expo, where technology and innovation continue to shape our world and cultivate connections that will define the future.

About BEYOND Expo 2024

The BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) is Asia’s leading annual technology event. Serving as a dynamic platform since 2021, BEYOND Expo not only showcases global technological innovations but also provides a unique opportunity to foster innovation upgrades across diverse industries and regions. BEYOND Expo has attracted participation from Asia’s Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, unicorn companies, and emerging startups. Through a multifaceted approach involving expos, summits, and various activities, BEYOND Expo has successfully cultivated an innovative ecosystem, propelling collective development in the Asia-Pacific region and the global technology innovation industry.

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BinBase Expands 2026 BIN Dataset with Instant Payout Intelligence for iGaming, Gambling, and Cross-Border Transfers

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BinBase updates its 2026 dataset with specialized Fast Funds, Visa Direct, and Mastercard MoneySend indicators to help iGaming operators and payout platforms execute seamless, instant card disbursements.

MIAMI, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BinBase, a global provider of payment routing intelligence and card issuing data, has introduced specialized instant payout indicators as part of its upgraded 2026 BIN Database. Tailored for iGaming operators, online gambling platforms, crypto-to-fiat ramps, and payout aggregators, the updated dataset helps platform engineers streamline real-time card disbursements and Push-to-Card (P2C) transactions.

In high-velocity sectors such as online betting and gaming, instantaneous player payouts are a primary driver of customer retention. However, executing Push-to-Card transactions through protocols like Visa Direct and Mastercard MoneySend requires knowing whether the receiving card issuer supports Fast Funds for specific merchant category codes (MCCs). Attempting instant payouts on non-eligible cards leads to declined transactions, elevated processing fees, and poor user experiences.

The 2026 BinBase release solves this operational bottleneck by delivering dedicated attributes for real-time fund disbursements:

Fast Funds Eligibility: Granular indicators identifying domestic and cross-border Fast Funds support across global Visa and Mastercard ranges.Online Gambling Fast Funds (OG FF): Dedicated flags specifically identifying card ranges authorized to receive real-time gambling and betting payouts.Mastercard MoneySend & Visa Direct Indicators: Precise protocol compatibility markers (MS Ind & MT Ind) ensuring push transactions are routed only to eligible recipient cards.Direct Debit & Pull-Funds Support: Indicators for recurring collections and account-funding transactions.

“Player payouts in iGaming cannot wait for standard 2-to-3-day ACH settlements,” said a spokesperson for Damiko Inc. “By embedding our Fast Funds and Gambling FF flags into their payment engines, operators can instantly validate recipient cards before initiating a transfer, guaranteeing high success rates and instant liquidity for their users.”

Fintech engineers and payout architects can examine the full 29-field database schema and access a free 2026 sample dataset on GitHub.

To explore commercial licensing, bulk database downloads, or custom data feeds, visit BinBase at https://binbase.com.

About Damiko Inc

Damiko Inc is a US-based fintech data provider specializing in card issuer analytics, payment routing data, and global BIN database solutions. Operating through its flagship product, BinBase.com, the company supplies high-precision transaction intelligence to help merchants and payment facilitators worldwide optimize approval rates and mitigate processing fees.

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Fedor Lavrikoff, BinBase, 1 7866133334, sales@binbase.com, www.binbase.com 

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Walnut Coding’s Young Coders Serve as ‘Instructors’ at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp

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Ages 8 and 15, students showcase AI-era project-building skills from concept to working application

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Walnut Coding (the “Company”), a leading online platform for youth coding education, said two of its students – ages 8 and 15 – have joined the “instructor” lineup at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp, making them among the youngest “instructors” in the program’s history. The Company cites the pair as a prime example of how young learners can combine coding fundamentals with AI tools to turn ideas into working applications.

The two students, Bolin Du, 8, and Peiqi Gao, 15, built working applications using Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, then presented the projects to the training camp themselves – walking the audience through their design choices, technical builds, and debugging process.

The move lands at a moment when AI coding tools are forcing a rethink across the education sector. Tools that can generate functioning code from a plain-language prompt have undercut the traditional argument for teaching children to program – that they need the skill to build things themselves. Walnut Coding’s answer is that the more valuable skill now is judgment – knowing what problem to solve, breaking it into parts, and determining whether an AI’s output actually works.

Gao built a travel-planning application that generates routes, itineraries, and recommendations based on user input, handling the project end to end, from requirements and design through coding and debugging. Du, the younger of the two, built an interactive calendar application, using HTML for page structure, CSS for visual design, and JavaScript for interactive features. Both students then took on an instructor’s role at the camp, presenting their project goals and technical implementation to the audience – a step Walnut Coding says separated the work from a typical classroom assignment.

These were not classroom exercises but working projects, built and presented inside a professional developer-training environment. The experience demanded more from both students than simply producing something functional – they needed to articulate their reasoning, defend technical choices, and refine the final result under scrutiny. Their participation signals a broader shift underway in what youth coding education can deliver.

AI is making code generation easier, but it is also redrawing which skills actually matter. A student who relies only on one-click generation may get a rough prototype quickly, but still struggle to spot logical flaws, judge whether the output is reliable, or turn an abstract idea into a product that actually works. Students with programming foundations, by contrast, are better positioned to define requirements, evaluate what the AI produces, correct its errors, and treat the technology as a tool rather than a shortcut to lean on.

“AI can help children generate code faster, but it cannot decide for them what problem they should solve, nor can it make the final judgment about whether the result is truly effective,” said Pengxuan Zeng, founder and CEO of Walnut Coding. “What these two students demonstrated is not just coding technique, but the ability to define needs, break down tasks, verify outcomes, and turn an idea into a working product. That is why we believe young people still need to learn programming in the AI era.”

Walnut Coding structures its courses around that thesis, pairing student-led project work with teaching-assistant guidance and AI-assisted support. According to the Company, this data is continuously fed back into its systems to refine the personalization of AI-assisted feedback — a closed-loop process linking teaching, practice, feedback, and curriculum development.

The Company frames the payoffs less around producing professional software engineers than around a broader form of literacy. As AI continues to reshape how tasks get done, the ability to understand the technology, structure problems clearly and collaborate effectively with intelligent tools may prove one of the most durable skills a young learner can develop.

Walnut Coding says it plans to keep expanding opportunities for students to build practical projects, partner with industry technology platforms such as Huawei Cloud, and develop the core capabilities needed to build with technology in the AI era.

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MOREH Showcases High-Performance LLM Inference on AMD GPUs at AMD Advancing AI 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, participated in AMD Advancing AI 2026, AMD’s flagship annual AI event held in San Francisco on July 22–23 (local time), where it demonstrated its distributed inference solution, the MoAI Inference Framework, running on AMD GPUs.

At the event, Moreh presented a live demonstration of the GLM-5.1 large language model (LLM) powered by the MoAI Inference Framework on a system equipped with 32 AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs across four nodes. Visitors experienced the chatbot firsthand, evaluating its response speed and service quality while observing performance across a range of real-world use cases.

Unlike conventional demonstrations that simply run an AI model, Moreh’s showcase displayed key inference service metrics in real time, including GPU utilization, Tokens Per Second (TPS), Time To First Token (TTFT), and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). This enabled attendees to directly verify both inference performance and GPU resource efficiency in a production-like service environment.

Global AI industry leaders and enterprise customers attending the event expressed strong interest in the system’s fast response times and stable performance. In particular, the live deployment of the computationally demanding GLM-5.1 model on AMD GPUs at production-grade service levels received positive feedback from visitors.

Moreh’s MoAI Inference Framework is widely recognized as the world’s first commercially deployed distributed inference solution built for the AMD ecosystem. Its distributed inference and heterogeneous computing technologies are designed to dramatically reduce AI service costs, enabling broader adoption of AI worldwide. The technology addresses one of the industry’s biggest challenges-the rapidly rising infrastructure and service costs caused by increasingly larger AI models-by delivering a more efficient inference infrastructure.

Moreh CEO Gangwon Jo stated, “This event provided an opportunity for global customers to verify firsthand that top-tier inference performance can be achieved on AMD GPU environments,” and added “We will continue advancing our AI infrastructure software so enterprises can operate AI services as efficiently as possible, regardless of the underlying GPU platform.”

Moreh develops its own AI infrastructure engine and has expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities through its foundation LLM subsidiary, Motif Technologies, covering both AI infrastructure and foundation models. The company is also strengthening its presence in the global AI market through strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, including AMD and Tenstorrent.

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