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Taiwan Creative Content Agency’s TCCF PITCHING Submission Deadline Fast Approaching

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TAIPEI, July 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — To foster more marketable and internationally influential works, the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) will host the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) 2024 in November. TCCF aims to continue expanding international opportunities for the production, investment, sales, and distribution of cross-disciplinary cultural content from Taiwan, offering investment support totaling over USD 3 million. This year’s TCCF PITCHING is divided into “Project to Screen” for audiovisual project pitches, and “Story to Screen” for published texts, comics, and original story concepts with adaptation potential.

International Submissions for “Project to Screen”

Submissions for “Project to Screen” are currently being accepted globally and will close on July 31. Interested parties are encouraged to seize this rare opportunity and apply. Apart from prize money offered by TAICCA and its official partners, TCCF offers an opportunity to apply for investment support from TAICCA totaling over USD 3 million for all selected projects of “Project to Screen” and “Story to Screen”, along with accommodation subsidies and training resources. 

Last year, “Project to Screen” opened its doors to international projects for the very first time, attracting submissions from over 15 countries and regions, including the U.S., France, Germany, Pakistan, Armenia, Iran, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and India. A total record of 539 submissions for TCCF PITCHING garnered attention from the global audiovisual market.

TCCF Award Winners Shine on the Global Stage

TCCF award winners are making significant impacts and gaining recognition at prestigious film festivals and markets as well. The documentary After the Snowmelt, winner of the “TAICCA X CNC AWARD” in TCCF 2023, met distributors from around the world at TCCF and has since been selected to multiple international film festivals, including Visions du Réel in Switzerland, Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea, Trento Film Festival in Italy, and Millennium Docs Against Gravity in Poland, showcasing Taiwan’s cultural and content strengths on the global stage.

Joanne DENG, the big winner of last year’s TCCF “Story to Screen” for her novel Second Lead, recently shared her hope for Second Lead’s adaptation in the future, hoping it would evoke moving emotions. After winning two major awards at TCCF 2023, Second Lead was selected for the “Shoot the Book!” pitch event at Cannes’ Marché du Film, showcasing its impressive development potential. Veteran film and television agent Sandy LIN of The Grayhawk Agency, which represented Second Lead at TCCF PITCHING, shared that apart from persistence and effort, turning a literary work into a film or TV series requires a lot of luck and goodwill, “Thanks to the assistance from TCCF. The adaptation of Second Lead is still in progress, and we look forward to achieving our long-awaited goal soon.”

TCCF PITCHING 2024 Call for Projects

Submission Period: June 3 (Mon) – 31 July (Wed) @ 5 pm (GMT+8)

For more details, please visit the official TCCF website (https://www.tccf.tw/zh/pitching). Selected entries will be announced in September.

About TAICCA (https://en.taicca.tw/)

The Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA), established in June 2019 and supported by the Ministry of Culture, is a professional intermediary organization working to promote the development of Taiwan’s content industries including film and TV, publishing, pop music, ACG, and more.

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TAICCA PR | Wengin Hsu | wengin.hsu@taicca.tw

TAICCA PR | Alice Chang | alice.chang@taicca.tw 

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EYKON is expanding the role of the meter at the grid edge

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Latest generation of the EYKON E360 residential meter family combines proven meter-to-cash capabilities with enhanced sensing, communications and control.

VIENNA, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EYKON today introduced EYKON E360 S3, the latest generation of its EYKON E360 residential smart meter family, extending what utilities can achieve from an endpoint already deployed across the low-voltage network.

Accurate measurement and dependable meter-to-cash operations remain fundamental. But as networks become more dynamic, the meter, located at the grid connection point can provide valuable information about local grid conditions and support defined actions in the low voltage network.

EYKON E360 S3 strengthens this role, providing enhanced voltage-quality indicators, updated processing and communications architecture and hardware-based security, alongside established billing and consumption data. 

“The meter remains essential to meter-to-cash, but its value does not stop there there,” said Peter Müller, Head of BU Electricity – Residential. “With EYKON E360 S3, utilities can use the same endpoint for deeper sensing and supported control applications. Across a meter estate, that creates the potential to get much more operational value from infrastructure already in place.”

EYKON E360 S3 also supports action at the grid edge through an integrated supply control switch and, depending on the variant, additional inputs, outputs and interfaces.

The new series builds on the established EYKON E360 family with improved sustainability approach, reduced meter self-consumption by 30 % and a smaller housing with less raw material.

EYKON E360 S3 will be presented at Enlit Europe 2026 as part of the company’s wider approach to connected infrastructure, grid visibility and intelligent grid management, showing how utilities can make more of the infrastructure they already operate.

About EYKON

EYKON, formerly the Landis+Gyr EMEA business, operates as an independent utility infrastructure technology company built on more than 130 years of utility expertise. Headquartered in Switzerland, with a network of expert local teams, the company serves customers in more than 75 markets and supports over 100 million connected endpoints across the region.

Combining proven technology, deep utility expertise and real-world operational insight from one of the largest installed bases in EMEA, EYKON connects what utilities measure with how they operate. This helps customers gain greater visibility, make better decisions, maintain greater control and unlock more value from the infrastructure they already operate.

 

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GOcxm Launches Signal IQ™ to Help CPG Brands Act on the Insights Lost Between Brand, Shopper, Trade and Sales

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The AI-powered system identifies where marketing programs and in-store execution fall short and tells the right teams what to change to improve results.

TORONTO, Nov. 10, 2026 /CNW/ — GOcxm, the unified growth platform for CPG brands, today announced the launch of Signal IQ™, an AI-powered system that connects signals across brand marketing, shopper marketing, trade marketing, sales and retail execution. It answers critical business questions and gives every team a clearer view of what’s happening and what to do next.

CPG brands typically manage these functions through separate systems, data sources and reports. Each team sees only part of the picture, often in recaps after programs end. By then, the opportunity to adjust has passed, and the same gaps carry into the next plan. Most tools are systems of record: they report what happened. Signal IQ is a system of action. It works like a dedicated team that knows a brand’s business, monitoring programs around the clock and prioritizing what needs attention.

“Every program a CPG brand runs teaches it something, but those lessons rarely reach every team that could use them,” said Gary Kalk, Founder and CEO of GOcxm. “The hard part is finding the gaps and opportunities that matter. We built Signal IQ to put those insights in the right hands, so every program makes the next one stronger.”

Signal IQ does three things:

Finds what falls between teams. It connects overlooked data across functions, turning information collected by one team into insights others can act on.Adds context to the systems brands already use. It works with existing tools and workflows, streamlining reporting and reconciliation so teams spend less time assembling information and more time acting on it.Starts informed and keeps learning. It draws on GOcxm’s years of experience running CPG programs and builds on each program a brand runs, applying those lessons to audience targeting, promotional strategy, trade investment and retail compliance.

Signal IQ is powered by multiple models, each designed to answer a specific business question using a brand’s own data on marketing, trade and retail execution performance. It brings their findings together, identifies gaps and adds context by retailer, region and store to help teams decide where to act.

Each brand’s data stays its own. Signal IQ applies GOcxm’s CPG experience to a brand’s programs without sharing that brand’s data with any other, and runs on GOcxm’s SOC 2 Type II certified platform.

Actions, not dashboards

Knowing what’s working has limited value if the findings stay in a report. Signal IQ turns those findings into specific actions and routes them to the people responsible across brand, shopper, trade, sales and field teams.

Some actions require an immediate response. When a display is missing or in the wrong spot, the field team gets specific guidance to fix it in-store. Others inform the next planning cycle, such as shifting media investment toward the channels that best support the brand’s objectives.

Consider a shopper program. Most brands learn whether it “worked” overall. Signal IQ examines products, promotion, pricing and display execution to estimate how those choices affected sales and where the next dollar could have the greatest impact. The recap becomes a playbook: which combinations to prioritize at each retailer, where to focus investment and what each team needs to do to achieve the brand’s desired outcome.

“Over the years, we’ve seen GOcxm evolve from a technology provider into a strategic partner. Signal IQ is a natural next step. Working alongside the tools and partners we already use, it brings together data and insights that were previously difficult to connect, giving our teams a clearer understanding of what’s working, where opportunities exist and how to act on them. GOcxm’s ability to turn information into smarter decisions has directly contributed to our sales growth,” said Kyle Barlow Senior Director of The Coca-Cola Company Canada.”

Signal IQ is available now for CPG brands. To request a demo, visit gocxm.com/signal-iq.

About GOcxm

GOcxm is a unified growth platform for modern CPG brands, connecting consumer activation, trade marketing and retail execution in one operating system. Signal IQ brings AI-powered intelligence across the platform, turning program and in-market data into shared insights and recommended actions. GOcxm pairs its platform with a dedicated client team and serves large CPG organizations, including Fortune 100 brands. The company is SOC 2 Type II certified and has expanded its platform through the acquisitions of MobileXCo and Emotive Technologies (Apex). Learn more at gocxm.com.

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EYKON launches Orkestra, a new software platform for modern utility operations

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Modular architecture helps utilities extract more value from existing infrastructure while protecting the continuity of critical operations

VIENNA, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EYKON today announced EYKON Orkestra, a new software platform designed to help utilities respond to growing data and operational demands without disrupting the systems they depend on today.

While metering and billing remain critical, growing grid visibility, analytics and control needs require increasing amounts of data, at greater frequency, for different operational purposes.

Orkestra scales with the needs of utilities, introducing dedicated data streams for Billing, Grid Analytics and Control, and allowing each to evolve and scale independently while remaining part of one shared, secure platform.

“Utilities need to move forward, but they cannot compromise the operation flowsthey rely on,” said Ifigeneia Stefanidou, Head of Strategy and Solutions at EYKON. “Orkestra is designed around both realities. It protects continuity of the critical operations, while creating the foundation for new data, analytics and control capabilities to develop over time.”

Its modular structure allows utilities to adopt capabilities according to their priorities, building from established metering and billing towards deeper grid insight and operational control. This creates a gradual path forward, and does not require utilities to replace what already works.

“The opportunity is in smarter data use. Putting the right data to work for the right purpose,” said Thomas Lenze, Head of product management Solutions, Software and Services. “Orkestra gives utilities a way to evolve progressively, along ever-changing regulatory requirements and always within a secure platform environment.”

EYKON Orkestra will be presented at Enlit Europe 2026, alongside EYKON’s metering, grid analytics and flexibility capabilities, demonstrating how utilities can make more of the infrastructure already in place.

About EYKON

EYKON, formerly the Landis+Gyr EMEA business, operates as an independent utility infrastructure technology company built on more than 130 years of utility expertise. Headquartered in Switzerland, with a network of expert local teams, the company serves customers in more than 75 markets and supports over 100 million connected endpoints across the region.

Combining proven technology, deep utility expertise and real-world operational insight from one of the largest installed bases in EMEA, EYKON connects what utilities measure with how they operate. This helps customers gain greater visibility, make better decisions, maintain greater control and unlock more value from the infrastructure they already operate.

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