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Coventry University Celebrates 10-Year Milestone With PSB Academy

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SINGAPORE, Sept. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Coventry University proudly commemorates a decade of transformative collaboration with PSB Academy in Singapore, significantly enhancing educational landscapes across the region. 

Under the banner of “Learn Life,” the #CUPSBA10 campaign launches with an alumni gathering jointly organised by Coventry University Group’s Singapore hub and Coventry University at PSB Academy (CU@PSBA), hosted at Eden Hall, the official residence of the British High Commissioner to Singapore. 

This event, honoured by the presence of His Excellency Mr Nikesh Mehta OBE, British High Commissioner to Singapore, brings together Coventry University alumni from PSB Academy, stakeholders, and industry leaders. Together, they celebrate a decade of expanding global education opportunities in Southeast Asia. 

Dr Michael Yap, Managing Director of Coventry University Group’s Singapore Hub, said: “We are proud to jointly organise this momentous event with PSB Academy. It signifies a decade of education excellence and collaborative efforts to enrich the educational landscape of Singapore. We look forward to continuing our mission of providing quality education that meets global standards and prepares students for successful careers.” 

This milestone underscores Coventry University’s steadfast dedication to nurturing a heritage of excellence and innovation in education. Through its acclaimed academic programmes at PSB Academy, Coventry University has continuously enriched the region’s educational fabric. 

“Transnational and global education is crucial in today’s interconnected world, and institutions like Coventry University and PSB Academy play a vital role in bridging educational excellence across borders,” remarked His Excellency Mr Nikesh Mehta OBE, British High Commissioner to Singapore. “Their commitment to fostering international collaborations and delivering high-quality education not only enhances opportunities for students but also contributes significantly to the global knowledge economy.” 

“We are proud to work with Coventry University in shaping the future of education in Singapore,” said Mr. Viva Sinniah, Chairman of PSB Academy. “This event marks a significant milestone in our shared commitment to providing world-class educational experiences that prepare students for global challenges and opportunities.” 

British High Commissioner to Singapore, Nikesh Mehta OBE, added: “Transnational and global education is crucial in today’s interconnected world, and this collaboration between Coventry University and PSB Academy is a prime example of bridging educational excellence across borders. 

“Fostering a thriving environment for academic excellence results in not just a high-quality education but also significant contributions to addressing global challenges. I look forward to witnessing the continued growth and success of this collaboration in the years and decades to come.”

New Programmes and Global Education at PSB Academy 

In 2024, CU@PSBA introduced two new courses: Master of Business Administration in Finance and Master of Science (MSc) in Renewable Energy Engineering. These programmes are designed not only to meet industry demands but also to address pressing global issues such as sustainability and renewable energy. 

The Master of Science (MSc) in Renewable Energy Engineering focuses on developing expertise in renewable energy technologies and sustainable practices. In light of global climate challenges, this program emphasises innovation and research to support the transition towards a sustainable energy future. 

“These new programmes are a testament to our dedication to preparing future leaders who can not only navigate the complexities of the global economy but also drive meaningful change. By equipping our students with the expertise needed to address the world’s most pressing challenges, we are shaping a generation that will lead the way toward a more sustainable and resilient future,” said Mr. Derrick Chang, Chief Executive Officer of PSB Academy. 

Continuing a Decade of Growth 

Excitingly, CU@PSBA has recently announced new initiatives, which include a new student chapter in collaboration with the Singapore Press Club (SPC), marking a significant expansion of educational opportunities. This partnership, initially spanning two years with renewal options, aims to deepen industry connections and enhance student learning experiences. It includes an exclusive mentorship programme for CU@PSBA’s BA (Hons) Media and Communications students, led by SPC, providing invaluable guidance from experienced professionals and reinforcing Coventry University’s commitment to practical, industry-relevant education. 

In addition, PSB Academy has partnered with ISCA (Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants) to extend ISCA student membership benefits to all PSB undergraduate accounting students. This collaboration grants access to SCAQ candidature and ISCA Associate membership, offering exclusive resources like coordinated events, workshops, publications, and online materials. CU@PSBA students will also participate exclusively in the “ISCA Acc Challenge,” which aims to provide hands-on experience with the Singapore Chartered Accountant Qualification (SCAQ) professional pathway. 

During this commemorative event, guests had the opportunity to hear from prolific alumni from Coventry University @ PSB Academy, including the esteemed Business Development Manager for Sustainability at the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) and Mr. David Gan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tipsy Collective, who shared their invaluable learning experiences at Coventry University. These accomplished professionals discussed how their education has been instrumental in shaping their prominent careers, highlighting the role of Coventry University in fostering their success in the dynamic industries of sustainability and entrepreneurship.

Looking ahead, Coventry University @ PSB Academy is committed to fostering a vibrant community for its graduates. This initiative will offer networking opportunities, exclusive talks, and early access to Coventry University @ PSB Academy merchandise. By providing these resources, Coventry University @ PSB Academy aims to empower its alumni, drawing inspiration from successful models worldwide to create a supportive and engaging environment for its members. 

About Coventry University

Coventry University is a global, modern university with a mission of creating better futures. We were founded by entrepreneurs and industrialists in 1843 as the Coventry School of Design and we continue to work with businesses to ensure we provide job-ready graduates with the skills and creative thinking to improve their communities. 

With a proud tradition of innovative teaching and learning, Coventry University is now one of the largest in the UK and has world-class campus facilities, the UK’s first standalone 5G network and a digital community of learning. Our students are part of a global network that has 50,000 learners studying Coventry University degrees in more than 40 different countries and partnerships with 150 higher education providers worldwide.  

Over two centuries, we have flourished in our home city and Coventry University Group now also delivers access to our range of high-quality services and partnerships through bases in London, Scarborough, Belgium, Poland, Egypt, Dubai, Singapore and Africa. From September 2023, we will be teaching students at a new campus in China in a joint institution with Communication University of China. 

We have greatly increased our research capacity and capability with a focus on impactful research, delivered for and with partners to address real-world challenges and support the sustainable growth of business and communities. The depth and breadth of our rapidly growing research portfolio was validated by the latest UK research assessment, which saw us jump 22 places in the research power rankings. 

We were awarded a Gold rating in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework, proving we deliver excellence in what students care most about – teaching, learning and achieving positive outcomes from their studies. In 2022, we were honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade, the UK’s most prestigious business award. In recent years, we have won many awards and vastly improved our rankings in the league tables that matter to students – but what matters to us is delivering transformational change for our students, partners and communities around the world as we continue to evolve into a global education group. 

About PSB Academy

As one of Singapore’s leading private education institutions with 60-years heritage producing more than 200,000 learners, PSB Academy is committed to defining its identity as “Asia’s Future Academy”. Established in 1964, the Academy started under Singapore’s Economic Development Board and later Productivity and Standards Board to upgrade the knowledge and skills of Singapore’s workforce.

With an approach to education that focuses on what really matters: performance in the New Economy, PSB Academy provides quality education to shape and nurture future-ready graduates with the necessary skills and tools to stay relevant in a digitally driven economy.

The Academy’s newly launched STEM Wing – an expansion of their City Campus, is an innovation hot house equipped with high-tech and industry approved labs and facilities, aimed to bolster STEM education for students. The learning spaces of the campus in the heart of the city connect students globally through a collaborative learning and networking environment that enables them to be agile innovators and contributors to society.

With a strong network of industry partners to prepare students for the workforce, PSB Academy today hosts over 17,000 students from more than 50 nationalities with its slate of certificate, diploma, degree, and short courses.

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Sophia Space and MIT Lincoln Laboratory Announce Research Collaboration on Space-Based Weather Modeling

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CRADA and related SpaceWERX Phase I research will explore space-based computing approaches for weather-modeling applications

PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sophia Space today announced a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with MIT Lincoln Laboratory to investigate how space-based computing approaches could support high-resolution weather-modeling research for remote operating environments.

The collaboration combines MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s weather-modeling research expertise with Sophia Space’s edge-compute concepts. The effort will explore whether distributed computing can support more timely environmental information for planning and decision-support applications.

Under the agreement, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will contribute weather-modeling research expertise, including the identification of modeling configurations, parameters, and data sources for evaluation. The team will develop representative test data and assess weather-model performace against defined research metrics using frameworks compatible with Sophia Space’s initial hardware configurations.

Sophia Space will provide the AI-inference compute environment for evaluating representative weather-model workloads, including terrestrial and potential space-based computing configurations. The organizations will explore high-level system and service architectures that may inform future research into space-based computing applications.

Sophia Space and MIT Lincoln Laboratory are also pursuing related work under Department of the Air Force STTR Topic SF25D-T1201 through the SpaceWERX Futures Series: Adaptive and Intelligent Space Challenge. The related effort examines technologies relevant to autonomous, resilient, and networked space-system operations.

“This partnership reflects our conviction that space-based computing infrastructure should be developed through rigorous collaboration between commercial innovators and world-class research institutions,” said Rob DeMillo, Co-founder and CEO of Sophia Space. “MIT Lincoln Laboratory brings unmatched weather sensing, forecasting and decision-support research expertise, and together we will explore the potential application of space-based computing to weather-modeling research.”

The collaboration aligns with Sophia Space’s research interests in edge-compute architectures, distributed processing, and sensor fusion integration for environments.

“Timely weather information is critical for operations in remote and contested environments,” said Dr. Timothy Bonin, Assistant Group Leader of the Air Traffic Control & Weather Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. “This collaboration allows us to explore how space-based computing can help process satellite observations and other environmental data closer to the point of collection, while assessing potential impacts on communications demands and information-delivery timelines.”

About Sophia Space Inc.
Sophia Space is building the future of orbital computing and in-space data centers. Its modular TILE (Thermal-Integrated LEO Edge) technology enables passive computing alongside in-situ data processing, AI acceleration, and edge computing for satellites, defense systems, and commercial space stations—dramatically reducing latency and delivering actionable insights where and when they are needed. Learn more at www.sophia.space.

About MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development (R&D) center chartered to apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Since 1951, the Laboratory has developed technology that has transformed the activities of the defense, scientific, and industry communities. Its mission focuses on long-term technology development as well as rapid system prototyping and demonstration. Through several mechanisms, it facilitates partnerships with companies to advance R&D and increase U.S. technical competitiveness. Learn more at www.ll.mit.edu.

 

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Oracle and AstraZeneca Partner to Advance AI-enabled Healthcare Innovation

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Collaboration to connect AstraZeneca’s scientific and therapeutic expertise with Oracle’s real-world data, cloud, AI, and clinical capabilities to accelerate clinical research and bring evidence-driven insights into care workflows to help improve patient care

AUSTIN, Texas and ABU DHABI, UAE, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle today announced an agreement with AstraZeneca to explore how AI and real-world data can help clinicians identify eligible patients for clinical trials, accelerate evidence generation, and bring relevant research insights into everyday care. The collaboration is expected to combine AstraZeneca’s scientific and therapeutic expertise with Oracle’s health data, cloud, AI, analytics, and clinical workflow capabilities.

Through a non-binding agreement, the companies plan to explore selected use cases that could improve clinical-trial efficiency and success by leveraging modern applications and AI to help care teams identify eligible patients earlier and easier, resulting in greater access to clinical trials for patients in need and helping to overcome one of the largest obstacles in clinical trials – patient recruitment. Initial disease areas to be explored could include oncology; cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases; respiratory and immunology; and rare diseases.

Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca said: “This unique collaboration brings leaders in healthcare and AI together at a global scale to accelerate the journey from the discovery of medicine to patient care. Combining AstraZeneca’s world class science with Oracle’s deep data and technology expertise, we can help clinicians identify patients sooner, optimize clinical trials, and generate evidence continuously across the lifecycle of a medicine.”

“Some of the most important opportunities for AI are in healthcare, where better use of data can help turn scientific innovation into better outcomes for patients,” noted Mike Sicilia, chief executive officer, Oracle. “By bringing AstraZeneca’s scientific expertise together with Oracle’s data, cloud, AI, and healthcare capabilities, we have an opportunity to help accelerate research, connect more patients to clinical trials, and ultimately bring relevant insights into care faster.”

Connecting Research and Care

Anne-Claire Gerbaldi, Chief Digital, Data and AI Officer, AstraZeneca, added: “Too many patients are diagnosed late or face a long journey to get the care they need. To build the next decade of medicine, we aim to harness AI to connect learnings across science, clinical trials, and everyday care, generating insights that continuously strengthen research, accelerate innovation, and enhance patient outcomes. Bringing together the unique capabilities of Oracle and AstraZeneca, we believe we can support smarter clinical trials, strengthen safety monitoring, and help ensure patients are diagnosed sooner and receive the right care.”

Seema Verma, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Health and Life Sciences, said: “Healthcare progress depends on shortening the distance between scientific insight and the decisions clinicians make every day. AstraZeneca brings deep scientific and therapeutic expertise, and Oracle will deliver the secure data, cloud, AI, and clinical workflow capabilities. This collaboration has the potential to help health systems identify eligible patients sooner, broaden access to clinical trials, and generate evidence that supports the next decision, all under the governance of the health systems delivering care.”

AstraZeneca and Oracle intend to explore a continuous learning model in which insights from clinical research and routine care help inform future study design, safety monitoring, and patient care. The companies plan to establish shared governance, reusable technical components, and agreed outcome measures to assess results and determine whether successful approaches could extend across disease areas and geographies.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit www.oracle.com.

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Loyyal Unveils Perxi AI Business Suite to Help SMEs Run Their Business on WhatsApp

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Branded AI assistant brings everyday business activities into messaging channels, reducing the need for separate software and specialist teams

DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Loyyal today unveiled the Perxi AI Business Suite, enabling small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to manage everyday business activities through WhatsApp. Building on its introduction as a loyalty assistant, Perxi brings commerce, customer engagement and business management into one conversational interface, with capabilities including ordering, customer service and loyalty.

The suite helps SMEs and direct-to-consumer brands manage these activities without purchasing separate ordering systems, customer relationship management software or support tools. Its conversational approach reduces the need to hire specialists or train employees to operate multiple systems.

“Small business owners should be able to focus on growth without assembling a collection of software tools,” said Ashish Kumar Singh, Founder and CEO of Loyyal.

“Perxi brings everyday business capabilities into WhatsApp under each business’s own brand. We want to make these tools affordable and accessible while helping businesses retain greater control over their customer relationships, data and decisions.”

Perxi provides the underlying technology, while each business launches its assistant under its own brand name. Customers engage directly with the business they recognise, rather than entering a separate Perxi marketplace.

Customers can place orders, ask questions, receive assistance and access rewards within a familiar conversation. There is no additional branded application to install or separate login to remember. This approach is designed to appeal to younger consumers accustomed to discovering and interacting with brands through mobile messaging.

Beyond WhatsApp, Perxi can be deployed across messaging channels suited to each business and market, including Instagram, WeChat and KakaoTalk.
Multilingual capabilities enable businesses to serve customers in their preferred languages, supporting brands operating beyond English and those engaging diverse communities.

As conversational commerce and AI assistants become more prominent, SMEs face growing expectations for convenient, responsive interactions. Bringing business services into messaging channels offers a way to meet those expectations while building direct customer relationships.

Marketplaces and aggregators offer a fast route to market, but access to customer information and engagement opportunities varies. Perxi helps businesses establish a direct channel and gain insights from their own customer conversations and transactions.

These insights can inform service improvements, personalised engagement and retention, while reducing dependence on intermediaries for customer access.

Pricing is designed to remain simple and affordable. Loyyal plans further services under the same umbrella.

Perxi will return to exhibit at Dubai AI Festival on October 26–27, 2026, at Dubai World Trade Centre.

About Loyyal

Loyyal is a US-born, UAE-based enterprise technology company helping businesses turn loyalty and customer engagement into growth and revenue. Combining patented blockchain technology with AI, its modular portfolio spans loyalty management, rewards, points exchange, offers, gift cards, gamification and conversational business assistants.

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