Project Saathi connected UK undergraduates and Mumbai youth through meaningful cultural exchangeParticipants engaged in community immersion, collaborative projects, and peer-led learning experiencesThe initiative highlights the role of global partnerships in advancing societal impact and experiential education

MUMBAI, India, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), through its community-based education initiative Abhyudaya, recently hosted six undergraduate students from Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), UK, for Project Saathi, a week-long cross-cultural immersion programme that brought together two very different worlds in the shared pursuit of learning, empathy, and human connection. It marked the first collaboration of its kind, creating a unique platform for cross-cultural exchange and experiential learning.

Held from May 23–29, 2026 in Mumbai, the programme paired MMU students with Abhyudaya’s ‘Sitaras’ — high-potential young students from underserved communities in Mumbai’s K-West ward (Andheri West). Through one-on-one collaboration, community engagement, cultural exploration, and creative projects, participants gained firsthand exposure to diverse perspectives, lived realities, and shared aspirations.

Cross-cultural understanding and global perspectives

For the Sitaras, the programme provided an opportunity to engage with peers from a different cultural background, build international friendships, and gain exposure to global perspective. For the MMU students, the experience offered valuable insights into lived social and economic realities, aspirations and challenges of communities in urban India, while encouraging deeper reflection on social impact and inclusion.

Arati Nagaraj, Director, Abhyudaya, observed, “Project Saathi demonstrates what education can achieve when it moves beyond the institution and into the world. For our Sitaras, being paired with peers from Manchester Met was a deeply affirming experience. It reinforced that their stories, intelligence, and potential are valued far beyond their immediate communities.”

What the week looked like

The programme opened on Monday, May 25 with an introduction to Abhyudaya led by the Sitaras themselves, followed by icebreaker activities. The objectives for the week were set collaboratively: to explore and document different cultures through creative outputs, to develop a shared artefact showcasing combined talents, and to present the resulting work to an audience at the end of the programme.

Subsequent days were structured around sustained collaborative work sessions interspersed with immersive community experiences. Participants undertook home visits in K-West ward — a defining feature of the programme, designed to move abstract conversations about inequality, aspiration, and access into deeply personal and human encounters. The week concluded with final presentations, where each pair shared the creative work they had built together across the week, followed by a farewell and celebration at the Abhyudaya Centre.

A partnership built on shared purpose

The MMU cohort was led and accompanied by Professor Liz Warren, Pro Vice-Chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University, who visited the Abhyudaya Centre during the week to observe the programme in person.

Reflecting on the experience, Professor Warren described the programme as an example of education at it best. “Seeing our students working alongside the remarkable Sitaras was truly special. The partnership between SPJIMR, the Abhyudaya initiative, and Manchester Met demonstrates the power of education to transform lives, businesses, and communities, and to create positive social impact.”

The partnership between SPJIMR and MMU is grounded in a shared philosophy: that the most enduring learning happens not through instruction alone, but through genuine relationship. Project Saathi operationalises that philosophy at the level of individual human connection.

For SPJIMR, the collaboration with MMU represents a natural extension of Abhyudaya’s broader ambition: to demonstrate that socially engaged management education is not a niche supplement to mainstream business schooling, but one of its most powerful forms.

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About SPJIMR

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) is one of India’s leading postgraduate management institutes. It is ranked by Business Today as one of the country’s top five business schools, and rated by the Positive Impact Rating as one of the top five schools worldwide for societal impact. Known for its innovative and socially conscious approach to management education, research, and community engagement, SPJIMR aims to influence managerial practice and promote the value-based growth of its students, alumni, organisations and its leaders, and society. SPJIMR holds the international ‘Triple Crown’ of accreditations from EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA.

Visit SPJIMR.org for more information.

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TAIPEI, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Innodisk, a leading global AI solution provider, showcases the full breadth of its collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. at Computex 2026. Building on the “AI on Dragonwing” computing series launched earlier this year, Innodisk has rapidly expanded the edge platform lineup to span four generations of Qualcomm Dragonwing™ processors, delivering scalable performance from 20 to 700 TOPS across a broad spectrum of edge AI workloads.

Architecture Meets Industrial Edge Demands

The shift toward edge AI in factory automation, smart cities, and defect inspection heightens the demand for power-efficient inference. For battery-powered AMRs and AGVs, minimizing power consumption is critical to sustaining operational endurance and lowering thermal costs—positioning this high-performance, low-power architecture as a compelling choice for next-generation deployments.

With Dragonwing, Qualcomm Technologies aims to deliver industry-leading power efficiency and multimodal compute to the industrial segment. Spanning the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ8, IQ9, IQ10, and IQ-X Series with product longevity support through 2036 or later, this scalable processor portfolio helps enable enterprises to right-size compute infrastructure. Capitalizing on this, Innodisk unleashes this potential by providing a “AI on Dragonwing” hardware lineup of modules, starter kits, and deployment-ready systems, paired with its IQ Studio software toolkit streamlines evaluation-to-deployment with BSP, benchmarking, and model optimization.

“Dragonwing processors aim to deliver industry-leading performance-per-watt with long-term supply commitment, helping to establish a solid foundation for physical AI deployment at scale,” said Shyam Krishnamurthy, SVP, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “Innodisk’s industrial edge integration expertise makes them a critical partner in bringing the AI on Dragonwing ecosystem to market.”

Scalable Compute Across Four Performance Profiles

The Computex lineup covers four Dragonwing™ platforms spanning distinct application profiles.

The Dragonwing IQ8 Series powers the EXMP-Q801 COM-HPC Mini module, designed to deliver up to 40 TOPS (Dense) with wide-temperature operation for vision inference and sensor fusion.

The Dragonwing IQ9 Series is designed to scale up to 100 TOPS (Dense) via dual NPU and powers the EXMP-Q911 module, EXEC-Q911 starter kit, and the APEX-A100 fanless edge AI system, helping to address industrial inspection, Driver Monitoring Systems (DMS), and multi-stream analytics.

The Dragonwing IQ10 Series, powering the EXMR-QA01, aims to extend the portfolio to a massive 350 TOPS (Dense). Featuring an 18-core Oryon™ CPU, support for up to 20 MIPI cameras at 16 MP, and an integrated Safety Island (SAIL) module, the platform is custom-engineered to help support heavy-duty AMR navigation, humanoid robotics, and VLM and VLA edge workloads.

The Dragonwing IQ-X Series stands out with native Windows compatibility. The EXDU-QX11 edge AI system, powered by the Dragonwing IQ-X processor, is designed to deliver up to 45 TOPS with native Windows compatibility. Offering dual-OS support for Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC and Ubuntu 26 LTS, it is designed to streamline deployment in PLCs, HMIs, and edge controllers equipped with features such as Ethernet, MIPI CSI, and CAN.

Live Demonstrations at Computex 2026

At the Innodisk booth, two live demonstrations validate deployment readiness. The first, showcasing the EXMP-Q911 module powered by the Dragonwing IQ9 processor, executes a concurrent pipeline of CNN defect inspection, DMS, and VLM-driven PPE detection within a strict 30W total system power. The system achieves an ultra-low 4.4 ms average inference latency, delivering a 2.6× speed advantage over traditional architectures while optimizing performance-per-watt.

The second demo showcases vision-powered autonomous robotic navigation on the EXFC-Q911 fanless system. Engineered for AMRs and AGVs, the system manages a high-throughput 8-channel GMSL2 camera pipeline and 3D depth sensors, delivering 360-degree spatial awareness and real-time obstacle avoidance with millisecond-level responsiveness at only 32W.

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SHENZHEN, China, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The 2026 Digital Engineering Summit, an annual flagship event for digital and intelligent transformation of the construction industry, was held in Shenzhen from May 29 to 31. Under the theme “Embrace the Future: Co-Charting a New Blueprint for Industrial AI × BIM 2.0 in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry,” the Summit explored practical pathways to improve efficiency, quality and value across the construction lifecycle.

The Summit brought together nearly 3,000 industry leaders, policymakers, academics, business executives and technology experts from China, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, Finland, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries and regions, reflecting its growing role as an international platform for industry exchange.

On May 29, the International Forum on the High-Quality Development of Chinese Enterprises Going Global brought together Chinese construction enterprises to exchange insights and explore sustainable pathways for international growth. Covering policy guidance, technology enablement, localized services and ecosystem collaboration, the forum highlighted digitalization as a key engine for deepening presence in Southeast Asia and expanding into global markets.

On May 30, the inaugural Global Smart Construction Forum convened representatives from international organizations, professional bodies, universities and industry associations under the theme “How AI and BIM Can Create Real Value for the Construction Industry.” Discussions spanned digital transformation, future skills, responsible innovation, sustainability and cross-market collaboration.

During the Summit, Glodon signed Memorandum of understanding with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Construction Industry Authority of the Philippines, further deepening cooperation in digital construction, AI and BIM applications, and professional capability building.

The Summit also highlighted the role of China’s Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR as a bridge for international industry collaboration. Glodon deepened partnerships with enterprises and organizations in two regions, including the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Federation of Electrical and Mechanical Contractors Limited, Macau Construction Association, The Macau Institution of Engineers and Chevalier (Construction) Company Limited, across AI research, digital twins, BIM adoption, green construction and talent development.

International participants also joined site visits in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, gaining first-hand insights into digital construction practices across municipal engineering, smart construction management, low-carbon facilities and public housing projects.

Looking ahead, Glodon will continue working with global partners through an open digital ecosystem to advance scalable DATA+AI and AI×BIM 2.0 applications for a smarter, greener and more connected construction industry.

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