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Robots & Pencils Expands Retail and Consumer Goods Leadership with Appointment of Saul Delage as Client Partner

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As AI reshapes how Retail and Consumer Goods businesses compete, Robots & Pencils plants its flag in the vertical and brings in a 30-year industry veteran to lead the charge.

CLEVELAND, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering partner known for high-velocity delivery and measurable business outcomes, today announced the appointment of Saul Delage as SVP, Client Partner, Retail and Consumer Goods (RCG). Based in Chicago, he brings 30 years of experience building executive partnerships and driving growth across some of the most recognized names in digital transformation. Delage joins a proven leadership team at Robots & Pencils with extensive experience delivering for more than 100 of the world’s most recognized consumer brands, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

The appointment is a deliberate move. Robots & Pencils is investing with intention in Retail and Consumer Goods, including CPG, eCommerce, Restaurants & Everyday Essentials, and Retail, an industry under mounting pressure to move from AI experimentation into generative and agentic AI that performs in production and delivers measurable business outcomes. Delage will lead client relationships across the vertical, helping enterprise leaders get more from their AI investments and more from their investments in AWS, while strengthening the company’s presence in key markets and building closer, more embedded partnerships with clients.

The Right Leader for the Moment

“Saul is the kind of leader clients trust before the contract is signed and can’t imagine working without after,” said Len Pagon, CEO of Robots & Pencils. “He has worked alongside some of our team before. He knows how we operate, and he knows this vertical inside out. Retail and Consumer Goods is a large growing industry vertical for us, and we went out and got the right leader.”

A Career Built on Trust and Delivery

Delage arrives with a career forged across Cognizant, Isobar, Havas, Razorfish, and Fry, where he built high-performing growth teams, secured long-term relationships with Fortune 500 companies, and earned a reputation as one of the most technically fluent executives in the industry, equally effective in the boardroom and in the details of delivery.

His hire reflects the company tenet that winning in Retail and Consumer Goods requires leadership with deep business experience, the technical fluency to speak the language of AI, and the delivery discipline to back it up.

“Retail and Consumer Goods businesses have made significant investments in AI, and too many have little to show for it in production,” said Delage. “Robots & Pencils builds enterprise AI systems — generative, agentic, and production-ready — that move fast and tie directly to revenue and customer experience. That is exactly what this industry needs right now, and Robots & Pencils is built to deliver it.”

Built on AWS. Driven by Outcomes.

Robots & Pencils is unabashedly aligned with AWS and is building its Retail and Consumer Goods vertical around that conviction. The goal is helping enterprise leaders drive measurable business outcomes on AWS, from first deployment to full-scale production. For AWS co-sell teams and enterprise leaders who need a partner that moves fast and delivers, that commitment is the differentiator.

Retail and Consumer Goods businesses ready to move from AI experimentation to AI execution can learn more at robotsandpencils.com or connect with Saul Delage directly to explore what’s possible.

About Robots & Pencils

Robots & Pencils is an Applied AI Engineering Partner that builds AI systems designed for enterprise velocity and measurable business impact. An AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and AWS Pattern Partner, with delivery centers in Canada, the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, the company combines world-class UX with elite engineering talent for rapid, enterprise-grade delivery. Founded in 2009, Robots & Pencils has earned the trust of leaders in Consumer Products and Retail, Education, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing industries, gaining a reputation as a high-velocity alternative to traditional global systems integrators. Visit robotsandpencils.com and follow the company on LinkedIn.

Contact: Scott Young
scott.young@robotsandpencils.com

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BRAHMA AI Wins 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy®

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Emmy Award recognises the foundational technology behind BRAHMA AI’s high-fidelity AI content platform

LONDON, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BRAHMA AI has been named a recipient of a 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for AI-Based Face Replacement and Performance-Preserving Post-Production Transformation. The award recognises BRAHMA AI’s Neural Performance technology.

The award honours systems that change a performer’s appearance while preserving natural expression, movement, lighting and scene realism, maintaining continuity across a sequence and adapting to changes in pose, lighting and occlusion.

BRAHMA AI is recognised alongside Disney Research, Rising Sun Pictures and Digital Domain, and is the only AI-native company among the four recipients.

“This Emmy® recognises technology that has been proven where the bar is highest: feature films, television and live production, in front of performers, directors and global audiences,” said Jo Plaete, Chief Technology Officer of BRAHMA AI. “Human creativity amplified by AI, with the performer and the authenticity of the performance kept at the centre, is the foundation of everything we build at BRAHMA AI. Being recognised at this level confirms that approach is dependable enough for the most demanding work in the industry.”

Human facial performance is one of the hardest problems in generative media. Small losses in timing, gaze or expression change the performance. BRAHMA AI’s Neural Performance technology was built to hold those qualities fixed while enabling controlled changes of age, likeness and identity.

The technology was proven at feature-film scale on Robert Zemeckis’s Here. Younger versions of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright were visualised on set in near real time, and the system delivered approximately one hour of final 4K transformation for the finished film. It has since been used across feature films, television, live performance and multilingual content, most recently on Ramayana, where BRAHMA AI’s technology delivers performance-preserving English-language lip-sync for the film’s international release.

The core methods are protected by US Patent No. 12,322,018, ‘Latent Space Editing and Neural Animation to Generate Hyperreal Synthetic Faces.’ The same research now underpins ATMAN, BRAHMA AI’s digital-human technology, and the wider BRAHMA AI platform for creating, localising and governing enterprise audiovisual content.

The 2026 Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and will be held on 14 October 2026 at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California, in a joint ceremony with the Television Academy’s Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Awards. The official recipients are listed at televisionacademy.com.

About BRAHMA AI

BRAHMA AI is the AI-native operating system for enterprise content. It enables organisations to understand, organise, create, localise and govern audiovisual content at scale. 

Built on its Mind² philosophy, BRAHMA AI combines human creativity with machine intelligence to deliver high-fidelity content, faster workflows and trusted global distribution. Born in media, sports and entertainment, BRAHMA AI brings production-proven AI to organisations across entertainment, advertising, healthcare and financial services.

Visit www.brahma.io.

 

 

 

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Tata Elxsi Invests in KAVIA AI to Scale AI-Driven Software Engineering for Products and Enterprises

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BENGALURU, India, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tata Elxsi, a global leader in design and technology services, today announced a strategic investment in KAVIA AI, a Silicon Valley-based enterprise AI platform company. The investment strengthens the collaboration between the two companies to help enterprises manage, modernise, and transform complex software environments at scale.

As a global leader in AI and GenAI-driven product and software engineering, Tata Elxsi enables enterprises to implement the AI Development Lifecycle (AIDLC), accelerating architecture design, brownfield refactoring, software development, quality assurance, deployment, continuous monitoring and debugging across the product and software lifecycle.

The collaboration brings together Tata Elxsi’s expertise in domain-led engineering with KAVIA AI’s knowledge graph and workflow intelligence platform. Over the past one year, the companies have worked together to deploy the platform for enterprise engineering use cases, addressing challenges around industry-specific product and software engineering, accelerated release cycles, quality, resilience, and cybersecurity readiness.

Manoj Raghavan, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Tata Elxsi, said, “Through STEP.UP, Tata Elxsi’s startup engagement program for high-potential deep tech companies, we have worked closely with KAVIA AI and seen the strength of its technology firsthand. This investment reflects our shared vision for AI-driven software engineering.”

Across industries, distributed teams have been creating millions of lines of code over the years using multiple repositories and diverse technology stacks to evolve enterprise products and platforms. As organisations face this complex brownfield environment, critical knowledge often remains fragmented across code, documentation, systems, tools, and teams.

While most AI tools focus on accelerating coding, KAVIA AI enables enterprises to scale across the AIDLC by combining persistent knowledge, governed engineering artifacts, collaboration, traceability, and deployment through a single platform.

Labeeb Ismail, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KAVIA AI, said, “We are delighted with this strategic investment by Tata Elxsi and the trust it has placed in us. KAVIA AI brings system assets for enterprises to establish AIDLC workflows, operating models, and the checks and balances needed to operationalise AI across the software lifecycle. Together with Tata Elxsi, we look forward to shaping the future of software delivery.”

Building on this foundation, Tata Elxsi and KAVIA AI are working together to harness the power of AI responsibly and help organisations transform their products and services.

About Tata Elxsi

Tata Elxsi is a global design and technology leader, driving innovation at the intersection of design, digital, and engineering. With 35+ years of experience across industries, the company delivers end-to-end solutions for automotive, media, healthcare, energy, smart manufacturing and communications—from embedded systems to cloud-native platforms.

Tata Elxsi combines domain-led consulting, full-stack development, and system integration with a portfolio of award-winning AI and GenAI platforms.

By combining AI-first thinking with full-stack product engineering, Tata Elxsi enables organisations to move from GenAI experimentation to scaled deployment—securely, efficiently, and with confidence.

For more information, visit www.tataelxsi.com.

About STEP.UP

STEP.UP is Tata Elxsi’s startup engagement program for deep tech startups, combining co-creation and joint go-to-market engagement with an innovation fund. The program supports founders with strategic investment, engineering and design expertise, and access to global markets. By bridging innovation and commercialization, STEP.UP helps accelerate the journey from breakthrough ideas to industry-scale impact.

For more information, visit https://www.tataelxsi.com/step.up.

About KAVIA AI

KAVIA AI is the enterprise software engineering platform for complex codebases. KAVIA connects teams through code understanding, workflow automation, artifact generation, reviewable code and validation across repositories and environments.

The platform supports Visual Studio Code, CLI and Git-based workflows and offers customer-controlled deployment options and flexible model choices.

Learn more at kavia.ai.

General inquiries: Submit a request through the KAVIA AI Contact Page.

 

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Tamar AI Unleashes Creativity with Glanze, a New AI Streaming Platform at 83rd Venice Film Festival

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VENICE, Italy, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tamar AI, the Palo Alto-based AI-powered creative technology company behind TapNow, the world’s first AI-native Creative OS, today announced the launch of Glanze at the 83rd Venice Film Festival. As a streaming platform for original AI-native series, films, and explorable worlds, Glanze extends the TapNow ecosystem, creating a single connected path from creation to global audience.

Powered by TapNow and fed by its global IP incubation initiative 10,000 Parallel Universes, Glanze is a streaming platform built to redefine how stories are discovered, turning the exploration of original works into part of the entertainment experience. With Glanze now live, locally rooted AI-native series and films are brought to global audiences without the limits of traditional streaming platforms. Glanze opens with 40 titles available for preview, enabling creativity to travel without boundaries.

“Debuting Glanze at Venice, one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals and where the future of cinema is first seen, marks our ambition to establish AI as a creative and meaningful force in the global film industry. Glanze is not just a streaming platform but an integral part of the TapNow ecosystem, rooted in our belief that AI exists to amplify creation from idea to distribution,” said Klaus He, Co-founder of Tamar AI.

The Glanze launch was accompanied by a panel co-hosted by TapNow during the Venice Film Festival’s Venice Production Bridge on September 4. The “AI x Cinema: The 10,000 Parallel Universes Initiative” panel brought together AI filmmakers, industry leaders and film educators to explore AI’s creative and economic impact on filmmaking. The session closed with a technical presentation of “Primodia,” a flagship series from the 10,000 Parallel Universes initiative, to showcase TapNow’s Creative OS in action. On September 7, a curated screening of selected AI-native stories from the initiative offered a first look of the original worlds that Glanze is built to bring to global audiences.

Venice marks the beginning of a broader season of activity for Tamar AI, which will next bring its AI filmmaking community to Japan and Korea for Arena Peak Asia, its proprietary creator hackathon focused on cross-border AI storytelling, in October 16 – 19.

About Tamar AI
Tamar AI is a global AI-powered creative technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, built on the belief that AI should amplify the creator, not replace them. Its flagship product, TapNow, the world’s first AI-native Creative OS, powers an ecosystem spanning tools, community, talent development, production, education, and distribution, forming a continuous path from first idea to finished work, from creator community to global audience. Trusted by creators across 150+ countries and regions, Tamar AI supports creators at every stage of the creative lifecycle through AI Creation System, AI-native Creator ecosystem, and Glanze – the streaming platform for original AI-native IPs.

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