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Avnet AI Tech Days Empower Singapore’s AI Ambitions

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Event in Singapore to Showcase Latest AI Solutions and Expertise, Supporting National Growth Goals

SINGAPORE, April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Building on Singapore’s growing leadership in artificial intelligence (AI), fueled by strategic initiatives like the S$150 million Enterprise Compute Initiative and the National AI Strategy 2.0, Avnet Asia is set to power this progress at its upcoming AI Tech Day – Shaping the Future of AI on May 14, 2025. At this event, attendees will gain actionable insights into deploying the latest AI technologies, forge valuable connections with industry leaders, and discover how Avnet can accelerate their AI journey.

This event will feature Avnet’s comprehensive ecosystem of cutting-edge AI solutions, developed through close collaboration with a robust ecosystem of industry leaders, including AMD, Infineon, LITE-ON, Micron, Molex, MPS, Nichicon, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Supermicro, Taoglas, and Yageo Corporation. Attendees will have the opportunity to witness live demonstrations and static displays showcasing the latest AI innovations from Avnet’s design services team and its strategic partners. Alongside these collaborations and demonstrations, the event will also showcase Avnet’s sister companies, Tria and element14.

“Avnet is excited to host Avnet AI Tech Days – Shaping the Future of AI,” said Tan Aik Hoon, Regional President, Avnet South Asia and Korea. “Our collaboration with industry leaders aligns perfectly with Singapore’s ambitious National AI Strategy. We are committed to providing the technologies and expertise needed to empower local businesses and drive the nation’s success in the global AI arena.”

A key highlight of the Avnet AI Tech Day in Singapore will be the invaluable insights shared by prominent figures shaping Singapore’s AI landscape. Guest speakers Laurence Liew, Director of AI Innovation at AI Singapore, and Dr. Nyan Myo Naing, Senior Specialist & Senior Lecturer at the Autonomous Technology Innovation Centre (ATIC), Nanyang Polytechnic, who will both bring significant authority and practical expertise to the event. Their presentations will complement a comprehensive display of advanced AI infrastructure and platform technologies, expertly curated by Avnet to accelerate AI integration across various key sectors.

Laurence Liew, Director of AI Innovation at AI Singapore and a key architect of the national AI strategy, will keynote on “Building an AI-First Nation: Empowering Businesses with Singapore’s Leading AI Initiatives,” bringing his perspective from over 30 years of technology leadership and his pivotal role in initiatives like 100 Experiments (100E) and AI Apprenticeship Programme (AIAP).  Adding a crucial practical dimension to the Avnet AI Tech Day will be Dr. Nyan Myo Naing, Senior Specialist and Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic. Dr. Naing, who has extensive expertise in AI, deep learning, computer vision, and deploying AI on edge computing devices, will present on “Real-Time Edge AI: Deploying Smart Algorithms and Streaming Pipelines for Industrial-Grade Performance.” His direct experience in delivering AI solutions for numerous industrial projects within Singapore brings a real-world perspective to the event, offering attendees actionable knowledge on implementing advanced AI in industrial settings.

Avnet’s commitment to understanding and addressing the evolving needs of the AI market is further emphasized by its recent Avnet Insights survey. The findings reveal a strong global optimism regarding AI’s impact on product development, with a significant percentage of engineers already integrating AI into their designs. Notably, Singapore is proactively leveraging its infrastructure and talent to adopt AI across diverse industries. The survey also identifies key challenges such as security, privacy, and data quality, highlighting the importance of the solutions and expertise Avnet and its partners will present at the Avnet AI Tech Day. Download the full Avnet Insights whitepaper here.

“The findings of our recent global Avnet Insights survey underscore Avnet’s commitment to equipping our customers to navigate the complexities of AI development. We are dedicated to providing the necessary tools, technologies, and expertise to succeed in this exciting new era of AI-powered innovation. Avnet will leverage our deep expertise and extensive network to unite leading suppliers, innovative customers, and a strong partner ecosystem, ensuring we collectively unlock AI’s transformative potential across Southeast Asia,” concluded Tan.

The Avnet AI Tech Day offers exclusive access to industry insights and networking opportunities with key semiconductor, technology, and business decision-makers. Engineering professionals from tech manufacturing companies may register their interest to participate here.

Our valued partners will showcase their latest innovations, including these highlights, at the Avnet AI Tech Day in Singapore:

AMD: AMD will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of high-performance computing solutions driving advancements in AI across various applications, from cloud infrastructure to edge devices and endpoint solutions. Their exhibit will highlight the capabilities of their advanced GPUs, CPUs, NPUs, and FPGAs in powering demanding AI workloads.

Infineon: Infineon will showcase the PSOC™ Edge Vision Demo, highlighting human detection using AI/ML on the PSOC™ Edge E84 with a USB camera. This demonstration illustrates the seamless integration of AI/ML capabilities with hardware, offering an efficient platform for advanced human detection in applications such as smart homes and buildings.

LITEON: LITEON will present its state-of-the-art power supply, emphasizing its high power efficiency and various features. This power supply supports GREEN initiatives and offers potential for AI-enabled applications.

Micron: Micron will feature the Micron 6550 ION SSD, the world’s first 60TB PCIe Gen5 data center SSD. This product is engineered to deliver unparalleled performance, energy efficiency, and density, making it ideal for addressing the growing demands of AI workloads in AI data lakes, high-performance computing (HPC), big data, and analytics environments.

Molex: Molex will exhibit its EXTreme Ten60 Power connectors and High-Speed Pluggable Solutions, providing the robust power distribution and high-bandwidth connectivity crucial for AI applications like servers and data centers. Additionally, they will display the Molex Mirror Mezz Connectors, which offer efficient board-to-board communication suitable for AI hardware requiring high-performance processing in compact spaces.

MPS: MPS will showcase its latest innovation, the MPC24380, the Highest Power Density Module for AI GPUs and TPUs. This module addresses the challenges of increasing power requirements for AI processors by integrating output caps and utilizing a thermally efficient DrMOS-on-top approach with extremely low ThetaJT for improved heat transfer.

Nichicon: Nichicon will showcase its advanced capacitor solutions, including aluminum, hybrid, polymer capacitors, and SLB products. The demonstration will highlight their high-performance, space-saving designs and enhanced durability, making them suitable for applications in smart meters, IoT, automotive, and industrial sectors.

NXP Semiconductors: NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) will present its role as a trusted partner for innovative solutions across the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. Their “Brighter Together” approach combines leading-edge technology with pioneering people to develop system solutions that enhance the connected world’s quality, safety, and security.

STM: STM will feature the STM32N6 microcontroller (MCU) series, their most powerful to date and the first to integrate the Neural-ART Accelerator (NPU). This new series delivers a 600-fold increase in machine-learning performance compared to current high-end STM32 MCUs, enabling advanced machine-learning capabilities at the edge for applications like computer vision, audio processing, and sound analysis in both consumer and industrial domains.

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI): Supermicro will present its capabilities in empowering AI-driven solutions for enterprise, retail, and edge server deployments. A key product on display will be the AS -1115S-FWTRT, a 1U, short-depth system leveraging AMD’s EPYC series processors and capable of supporting a single double-width NVIDIA L40S GPU, offering customers flexibility in core counts and GPU capacity. Supermicro is a Total IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge.

Taoglas: Taoglas will highlight how antennas and Ethernet magnetics are becoming the essential connectivity backbone for edge computing and AI, ensuring robust, low-latency data transmission. Their presentation, “The Backbone of Connectivity,” will showcase groundbreaking innovations designed to support digital infrastructure.

YAGEO: Yageo will highlight its commitment to delivering high-quality passive component solutions designed to meet the evolving demands of AI across various industries worldwide. They will introduce the latest key applications of Yageo passive components in emerging technologies.

About Avnet

As a leading global technology distributor and solutions provider, Avnet has served customers’ evolving needs for more than a century. Through regional and specialized businesses around the world, we support customers and suppliers at every stage of the product lifecycle.  We help companies adapt to change and accelerate the design and supply stages of product development. With a unique viewpoint from the center of the technology value chain, Avnet is a trusted partner that solves complex design and supply chain issues so customers can realize revenue faster.  Learn more about Avnet at www.avnet.com.

Avnet Asia Media Contact

Seraphina Wee
Corporate Communications and Public Relations Manager, Asia Pacific
Seraphina.wee@avnet.com

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Wondershare to Showcase AI-Powered Business Workflows with PDFelement at Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong

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HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wondershare, a global leader in productivity and creativity software, will participate in the Microsoft AI Tour Hong Kong on April 22, 2026, at the Grand Hyatt Hong Kong. At Booth E10, the company will showcase its AI-powered business workflow solutions across its product portfolio, highlighting Wondershare PDFelement as a key focus, and inviting attendees to experience how intelligent workflows can transform modern business operations.

As Microsoft’s flagship global AI event, the Microsoft AI Tour brings together industry leaders, partners, and innovators to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping business landscapes. At the Hong Kong stop, Wondershare will highlight its deepening collaboration with Microsoft, showcasing how its product ecosystem works seamlessly within Microsoft’s AI and cloud technologies to enable more efficient, secure, and scalable workflows.

This collaboration comes at a pivotal time for Hong Kong’s rapidly evolving AI landscape. Hong Kong is rapidly emerging as a key AI innovation hub, driven by strong policy support and accelerating enterprise adoption. Despite this momentum, many organizations still face challenges such as fragmented AI adoption, integration complexity, and data security concerns. In collaboration with Microsoft, Wondershare addresses these challenges by enabling connected, end-to-end AI workflows that deliver practical and measurable productivity gains.

Under the theme “Streamline Workflows. Power Content with AI.”, Wondershare presents a unified approach to AI-driven productivity. At the center of this ecosystem is Wondershare PDFelement, enabling smarter and more efficient document workflows within enterprise environments and helping businesses adopt AI in practical, everyday scenarios. Supporting this vision, Wondershare’s broader product portfolio—including EdrawMax, EdrawMind, Filmora, and Reelmate—extends AI-powered capabilities across diagramming, mind mapping, video creation, and premium comic content creation, forming a connected, end-to-end workflow, all of which will also be showcased on-site at the event.

Through live, interactive demonstrations, attendees visiting Booth E10 will be able to explore Wondershare’s full product ecosystem and gain hands-on insight into how AI can enhance productivity across a wide range of business scenarios.

Wondershare warmly invites all participants to visit the booth and discover how AI-powered workflows can unlock new possibilities for business growth.

About Wondershare:

Wondershare is a globally recognized software company founded in 2003, known for its innovative solutions in creativity and productivity. Driven by the mission “Creativity Simplified”, Wondershare offers a range of tools, including PDFelement for document management; EdrawMax, EdrawMind for diagraming, Filmora and SelfyzAI for video editing. With over 2 billion cumulative active users across all products and a presence in over 200 countries and regions, Wondershare empowers the next generation of creators with intuitive software and trendy creative resources, continually expanding the possibilities of creativity worldwide.

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Cohesity Appoints Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ)

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SINGAPORE, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Cohesity, today announced Nigel Lee as Technical Sales Leader for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). Based in Singapore, Lee will lead the company’s technical sales strategy, pre-sales organisation, and solution engineering execution across the region, reporting to Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International at Cohesity, and reflects Cohesity’s increased investment in the region as a strategic priority.

In this newly created role, Lee will strengthen technical engagement with customers and partners, and drive adoption of Cohesity’s AI-driven data security and cyber resilience platform across APJ.

Lee brings 29 years of experience leading pre-sales, sales engineering, and go-to-market changes across Asia Pacific. He has a strong record of building high-performing teams, driving enterprise growth, and engaging C-level stakeholders in complex markets.

“APJ is a strategically important region for Cohesity, and Nigel’s leadership, passion and deep expertise make him exceptionally well positioned to lead our technical sales organisation,” said Mark Nutt, SVP & GM, International, Cohesity. “As we continue to invest in the region, his ability to align technical strategy with the rapidly developing customer requirements caused by the ever-changing threat and compliance landscape will be critical to accelerating our growth and ensuring our customers’ ongoing business resilience.”

Previously, Lee was Director of Data Storage Solutions, Asia Pacific at Lenovo, where he led the regional business and transformed the go-to-market to drive growth. He also held senior regional and global roles at NetApp.

“Across the region, organisations are under increasing pressure to secure, manage, and unlock value from their data as AI adoption accelerates and cyber threats evolve. Cohesity is uniquely positioned to simplify this complexity through a unified, AI-driven data security platform,” said Nigel Lee, Technical Sales Leader, Asia Pacific and Japan at Cohesity. “Having spent my career scaling organisations and embedding solution expertise early in the customer journey, I’m excited to join at this pivotal time and look forward to working with our teams, partners, and customers to drive meaningful, outcome-led growth.”

Lee holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST and a Bachelor of Computer Science.

About Cohesity 

Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into the world’s data. As the leader in AI-powered data security, Cohesity helps organisations strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and reduce IT costs. With Zero Trust security and advanced AI/ML, Cohesity Data Cloud is trusted by customers in more than 140 countries, including 70% of the Global 500. Cohesity is also backed by industry leaders such as NVIDIA, Amazon, Google, IBM, Cisco, and HPE.

Cohesity is certified as a Great Place to Work in multiple countries. Follow Cohesity on LinkedIn and visit www.cohesity.com to learn more.    

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EcoMatcher Unveils Tree Personas

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A New Nature Interface for Engaging with Your Trees, in Any Language

HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EcoMatcher, a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to plant and track trees transparently, today announced Tree Personas, a new Nature Interface designed to make tree gifting and sustainability engagement more personal, interactive, and memorable.

With Tree Personas, companies can assign a distinct digital personality to each gifted tree, enabling recipients to virtually visit their tree in TreeTracker 3D, chat with it through TreeChat+ in their own language, and learn about its growth, local environment, and real-world impact.

Tree Personas build on EcoMatcher’s earlier TreeChat, which introduced chatbot-powered conversations with trees, only in English. While TreeChat enabled interaction, Tree Personas shape how a tree communicates in any language – from curious and playful to calm and reflective – while all environmental data, location, and impact metrics remain authentic and unchanged.

EcoMatcher describes Tree Personas as a Nature Interface — a new category of digital interface that allows people to interact with real ecosystems through digital companions connected to living trees. The company believes Nature Interfaces can help reconnect people with nature in an increasingly digital world.

Rather than passively receiving information about a planted tree, users can build an ongoing relationship with it — asking questions, learning about its ecosystem, and following its growth over time. Even when users are away, Tree Personas continue to evolve digitally, encouraging people to return and discover new reflections, observations, and updates.

“Trees are essential for life on Earth, yet most people rarely have a personal connection with them,” said Bas Fransen, CEO of EcoMatcher. “Tree Personas turn planted trees into interactive companions that help people learn about nature and build deeper connections with the ecosystems that support us.”

Meet the First Tree Personas

EcoMatcher introduces three Tree Personas available to companies gifting trees, all inspired by real ecological stages and behaviours of trees:

Twiggles: A young, curious tree highlighting small discoveries in nature.Oakly: A grounded, thoughtful tree sharing ecosystems insights.Seren: A calm, reflective tree encouraging deeper connections with nature.

Companies can also collaborate with EcoMatcher to create custom Tree Personas aligned with their brand values, sustainability goals, or storytelling needs.

EcoMatcher will share more about the background and opportunities of Tree Personas during its upcoming Demo Day on April 27. To sign up, visit www.ecomatcher.com/demo.

About EcoMatcher

EcoMatcher is a Certified B Corporation that enables companies to integrate transparent tree planting into their business. Through its technology platform, organizations can plant trees, track them digitally, and engage employees and customers in sustainability. EcoMatcher’s customers include Dubai Islamic Bank, Grab, Infosys, and Singlife.

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