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Instructure Announces EdCo Partner Program at InstructureCon to Elevate Excellence in Teaching and Learning

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Salesforce, Grammarly and Inspera are the latest additions to the EdTech Collective, which continues as the largest partner community in the edtech industry with over 1,000 partners

SALT LAKE CITY, July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Instructure, the leading learning ecosystem, announced the creation of the EdCo Partner Program to support partners dedicated to improving student success. EdCo partners can connect directly with educators and students within the Instructure Learning Ecosystem, where learning happens. The EdCo Partner Program is part of the ever-expanding EdTech Collective, Instructure’s partner ecosystem designed to help intensify educational impact by working as an industry to solve the most important problems facing educators.

New categories within this program include integration partners, evidence partners, strategic partners and solution partners. This new program connects Instructure’s resources to enhance support for partners at every stage of their journey by providing tailored assistance based on the type of partnership.

The EdTech Collective was created in 2021 to help partners meet the numerous challenges facing the industry. Since then, it has grown to over 1,000 members and supports companies of all sizes and stages with unique tools to build solutions, drive adoption and grow impact. Some of its new partners include:

Salesforce, the number one AI CRM, will collaborate with Instructure, combining innovative technologies to enhance the educational experience for students and educators alike. Informed by our joint customers, we are committed to combining the strengths of Salesforce Education Cloud and Instructure to streamline administrative processes, improve student engagement, and foster personalized learning. Together, Instructure and Salesforce are driving transformative change in the education sector, empowering institutions to achieve meaningful successGrammarly’s institution-wide offering, Grammarly for Education, announced its intention to integrate its Writing Score API into Canvas LMS, providing a real-time quality check on any document and supporting students in submitting their most correct, clear and engaging writing. When institutions enable Writing Score, students will be able to get immediate baseline feedback on an assignment’s correctness, clarity, delivery and engagement before they submit their final version.Inspera’s assessment and proctoring tools help improve the student experience by seamlessly integrating with the LMS. Canvas customers will be able to benefit from Inspera’s experience in delivering high-stakes digital assessment at scale, as well as the efficiency gains available from a centrally administered approach to exam delivery. Existing customers of both Inspera Assessment and Canvas will also benefit through the deeper integration of the two solutions which will greatly improve usability for academics that want to link assessments from Inspera into Canvas and vice versa.

EdCo partners now have various ways to work with Instructure and can earn badges to display on their website and marketing materials to demonstrate their partnership. Instructure offers them focused support to address significant challenges such as high teacher turnover rates, low student test scores and a need to demonstrate the efficacy of edtech tools as post-pandemic funding ends. They have access to extensive industry expertise, the ability to collaborate with and learn from other partners, access to a global network of educational institutions and a unique set of tools to bring their solutions to market. EdCo partners can build an integrated solution within Instructure’s trusted, user-friendly and highly interoperable ecosystem. EdCo partners can differentiate and grow their solutions with rigorous, formative research, unique implementation insights and tools to scale.

“With the creation of the Instructure EdCo Partner Program, we are extending our long-held belief in the power of the ecosystem by connecting the broad partner community with our users in ways that allow them to jointly create learning environments that address their most pressing challenges,” said Mitch Benson, Chief Strategy Officer at Instructure. “The program helps our partners build integrations, drive adoption of their tools and grow their impact.”

Close to 65 valued Instructure partners are InstructureCon sponsors and will attend the conference to connect with users, demonstrate their solutions and facilitate discussions. AWS, K16 Solutions and Lincoln Learning Solutions are the exclusive Diamond Sponsors of InstructureCon 2024. Platinum Sponsors include Microsoft, Salesforce, Cidilabs, Respondus, Class, Jax Consulting and Intelliboard.

EdCo Partner Categories

Integration Partners can tap into Instructure’s ecosystem and Canvas through the Instructure LTIEvidence Partners have insight into how their solutions are used and the evidence of impactStrategic Partners include business and brand partners, co-sellers, service partners and channel partnersSolution Partners include Canvas solutions such as Catalog, Credentials, Pathways, Item Bank, white-labeled products and more

For more information about InstructureCon, check out the Frequently Asked Questions page and the event agenda.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Forward-looking statements are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. All statements other than statements of historical facts are “forward-looking statements” for purposes of these provisions, including those relating to future events or our future financial performance and financial guidance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “project,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “intend,” or “continued,” the negative of terms like these or other comparable terminology, and other words or terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. These statements are only predictions. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to future events, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, or currently unknown to us. Our assumptions may turn out to be inaccurate and cause actual events or results to differ materially from our expectation or projections. We discuss many of these risks, uncertainties and other factors in greater detail in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on February 21, 2024 and as may be described from time to time in future reports we file with the SEC. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based on information available to us on the date hereof, and we expressly disclaim any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

ABOUT INSTRUCTURE

Instructure (NYSE: INST) powers the delivery of education globally and provides learners with the rich credentials they need to create opportunities across their lifetimes. Today, the Instructure ecosystem of products enables educators and institutions to elevate student success, amplify the power of teaching, and inspire everyone to learn together. With our global network of learners, educators, partners and customers, we continue to deliver on our vision to be the platform that powers learning for a lifetime and turns that learning into opportunities. We encourage you to discover more at www.instructure.com.

CONTACT:
Brian Watkins
Corporate Communications
Instructure
(801) 658-7525
brian.watkins@instructure.com

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Ultra Clean Announces Retirement of the Chief Financial Officer Sheri Savage

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HAYWARD, Calif., April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: UCTT), today announced that Sheri Savage, CFO, will be retiring from the company.

“On behalf of the Board and the entire UCT team, I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Sheri for her remarkable 17 years of leadership and service,” said James Xiao, CEO. “Throughout her tenure, Sheri has played a pivotal role in shaping UCT’s financial strength, operational discipline, and long-term strategic direction. Her steady leadership, deep expertise, and unwavering commitment to excellence have helped guide the company through multiple industry cycles, positioning UCT for the next phase of growth. Sheri has been a trusted partner to me, the Board, and the broader global finance team, and her positive impact on this company will be lasting. We thank her sincerely for her dedication and wish her all the very best in her well-earned retirement.”

“It has been an incredible honor to be part of UCT’s journey over the past 17 years. I am deeply proud of what we have built together – strengthening our financial foundation, supporting our customers, and growing alongside a truly talented and committed global team,” said Sheri. “I am grateful for the trust and support I’ve received from my colleagues, our leadership team, and the Board throughout my tenure. UCT is well positioned for the future, and I look forward to watching the company continue to grow and succeed in the years ahead.”

The Board has initiated a comprehensive search for Sheri’s successor, considering both internal and external candidates, and will provide an update in due course.

About Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc.

Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. is a leading developer and supplier of critical subsystems, components, parts, and ultra-high purity cleaning and analytical services, primarily for the semiconductor industry. Under its Products division, UCT offers its customers an integrated outsourced solution for major subassemblies, improved design-to-delivery cycle times, design for manufacturability, prototyping, and high-precision manufacturing. Under its Services Division, UCT offers its customers tool chamber parts cleaning and coating, as well as micro-contamination analytical services. Ultra Clean is headquartered in Hayward, California. Additional information is available at www.uct.com.

Contact:

Rhonda Bennetto
SVP Investor Relations
rbennetto@uct.com

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SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary at Davos: GPS Jamming and AI Cyber Threats Now Converge

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CEO tells The National that navigation interference and AI vulnerabilities now form a single threat surface for critical systems.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Apr. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Jack Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ, warned that GPS jamming, GPS spoofing, and AI-enabled cyberattacks are converging into a single operational threat to critical systems. In remarks to The National, Hidary said the threats are no longer separate concerns but overlapping challenges requiring unified resilience.

SandboxAQ addresses both fronts with two technologies: AQNav, which uses the Earth’s magnetic field — the same signal birds and animals navigate by — to deliver resilient positioning, navigation, and timing in GPS-denied environments, and AQtive Guard, which unifies AI security and cryptographic posture management.

GPS interference is shifting from edge case to operational norm:

In June 2025, residents across multiple Middle Eastern countries reported location-service disruptions affecting consumer devices, ships, and aircraft, according to The National.In September 2025, media outlets reported GPS jamming on a flight carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, attributed to Russian interference.

“Recently, there was a plane flying and because it lost GPS because of jamming, the autopilot would not engage,” Hidary said, citing pilot reports of cascading failures inside aircraft systems. AQNav, tested by the US Air Force and several aviation companies, has drawn interest from Middle Eastern airlines.

Hidary linked GPS disruption to a parallel AI threat: “Large language models are also a vector of cyber attack.” He cited nation-state hackers exploiting generative AI tools, plus the Samsung incident, where engineers entered confidential information into ChatGPT.

The WEF’s 2026 Global Risks Report ranks cyber insecurity #6 among short-term global risks, with adverse outcomes of AI technologies showing the sharpest long-term rise — moving from #30 in the two-year outlook to #5 in the ten-year outlook. The report warns that “technological risks are also anticipated to worsen in severity over the next decade.”

Learn more or request a demo at sandboxaq.com. Read the full Davos coverage in The National.

About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is an enterprise company delivering AI solutions at the intersection of machine learning and science. Spun out from Alphabet in 2022, it develops Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) for life sciences, cybersecurity, financial services, navigation, and advanced materials. Visit www.sandboxaq.com to learn more.

 

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Tech-Access Canada Welcomes $165M Federal Investment to Accelerate Commercialisation

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OTTAWA, ON, April 28, 2026 /CNW/ – Tech-Access Canada, the national network of Canada’s Technology Access Centres (TACs), welcomes today’s federal Spring Economic Update, which includes an investment of $165 million over five years to extend support for the College and Community Innovation (CCI) Program.

Delivered through Canada’s tri-council research system and administered by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the CCI Program enables businesses to access applied R&D expertise, specialized facilities, and technical services to advance innovation and bring new technologies to market.

This investment will strengthen Canada’s capacity to support commercialisation and productivity by helping businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, accelerate the development, validation, and adoption of new products, processes, and technologies.

“Continued support for the CCI Program reinforces a proven model that connects businesses with the expertise and infrastructure they need to innovate and compete,” said Melanie Ross, Research Chair, Green Building Technology Access Centre, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and Chair of Tech-Access Canada’s Board of Directors. “Technology Access Centres deliver practical, industry-driven solutions that help companies move ideas forward and translate innovation into real economic outcomes.”

Each year, TACs work with thousands of companies across sectors to advance technologies along the commercialisation pathway from early-stage validation through to deployment and scale-up. By providing objective, non-dilutive support, TACs help companies make informed decisions, avoid costly missteps, and accelerate time-to-market.

“This investment helps ensure that innovation developed in Canada stays in Canada,” said Ken Doyle, Executive Director of Tech-Access Canada. “TACs help companies commercialise here at home reducing risk, accelerating time to market, and driving real outcomes. As Canadian firms scale and export globally, that success returns to the Canadian economy.”

Tech-Access Canada’s network includes more than 70 Technology Access Centres located across the country, providing businesses with access to over 2,100 applied R&D experts, millions of square feet of specialized facilities, and hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment and infrastructure.

About Tech-Access Canada

Tech-Access Canada is the national network of Canada’s Technology Access Centres (TACs), which help businesses access the expertise, facilities, and support they need to advance innovation and bring new products and services to market.

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