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DataDasher Appoints Industry Veteran Kevin Beard to Advisory Board

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Veteran industry executive and Atria Wealth Solutions co-founder also invests in the wealthtech advisor AI platform

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DataDasher AI, an artificial intelligence platform built for financial advisors, today announced that wealth management executive Kevin Beard has joined its advisory board and made a significant investment in the wealthtech company.

Beard brings more than 30 years of experience across advisor recruiting, enterprise growth strategy, and broker-dealer leadership. He co-founded Atria Wealth Solutions.

“For more than three decades, I’ve watched administrative work pull advisors away from clients and growth, and now AI providers promise to change that dynamic,” Beard said. “But most AI solutions are vaporware, offering limited efficiencies and surface-level intelligence. DataDasher is built around the actual work advisors do every day, so it addresses that problem in a way the whole firm benefits. DataDasher is becoming foundational to how serious advisory firms operate.”

DataDasher helps advisory firms automate meeting preparation, client summaries, and follow-up workflows while surfacing relevant client insights across their existing systems. The platform integrates with Redtail, Orion and Bento Engine, giving advisors a centralized workflow layer across meetings, notes and follow-up. It is SOC 2-certified.

“Kevin has spent decades helping shape how wealth management firms grow and operate,” said Alexander Kearns, CEO and co-founder of DataDasher. “He understands what advisors need on the ground and how enterprises evaluate technology at scale. His decision to invest in DataDasher, both as an advisor and as an investor, reflects where serious operators see this industry heading.”

Beard co-founded Atria Wealth Solutions, where he served as chief growth officer, helping grow the firm to nearly 2,500 advisors and close to $1 billion in annual revenue before its acquisition by LPL Financial. He has held senior roles at AIG Advisor Group, Royal Alliance Associates and Rehmann. Wealth Solutions Report named Beard a top Black leader in wealth management in both 2022 and 2026, while InvestmentNews recognized him as a top figure in wealth management innovation in 2023.

About DataDasher
DataDasher is an AI-powered platform designed specifically for financial services professionals. Based in San Francisco, DataDasher helps financial services firms realize AI-enabled operational as well as cost efficiencies and save 15+ hours per week per user by automating workflows, reducing administrative work and turning every interaction into organized, actionable insights that help firms strengthen client relationships and deliver advice more efficiently. Firms can book a demo or request a sandbox trial environment by visiting www.datadasher.ai/demo.

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Endless Access and Ink & Switch Launch Backstitch, a Real-Time Collaboration Plugin That Goes Beyond Git for Godot

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The new open-source tool brings Google Docs–style collaboration to the Godot editor for artists, programmers, jam teams, indie studios, and classrooms alike.

WILMINGTON, Del., June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Backstitch is now in public alpha. The plugin, developed by Ink & Switch under a brief commissioned by Endless Access and funded by the Endless Foundation, brings real-time version control and collaboration to the Godot game engine. You can try it today at backstitch.dev.

Git wasn’t built for games

Version control has long been a friction point in Godot development. Artists hit merge conflicts that break scenes. Programmers spend their time fixing teammates’ Git issues instead of writing code. Less-technical contributors get locked out of projects entirely. Git was built for code, but games are far more than code.

Backstitch brings real-time, Google Docs-style collaboration directly into the Godot editor, whenever you save, your changes are automatically shared with your team, with intelligent automatic merging so you’re never stuck with a broken scene. Teams can view a full history with visual diffs, revert to older versions, and create and merge branches, all without leaving Godot or touching a terminal.

“Version control is something anyone should have access to, not just programmers,” said Paul, researcher at Ink & Switch. “Students don’t care about version control. They want to build a game and collaborate quickly. That’s exactly the right demand: get out of the way and enable creative work.”

Currently in alpha, with real-world testing underway

Backstitch is in alpha, and the current focus is gathering feedback from real-world use. Endless Access is testing the plugin with students in an upcoming game jam and across its learning programs, while Ink & Switch is engaging Godot developers and indie teams to try it in their own workflows. Early use within Endless Access, including prototyping work on Threadbare (the open-source game with a Best of GDC mention), has helped shape the tool.

Backstitch supports both online sync and fully offline workflows. It is free and open-source, and was recently presented at GodotCon Amsterdam in the session Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot.

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A2Z Cust2Mate Mass Production Facilities in China Are Fully Operational Ramping Up Cart Deliveries

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TORONTO, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: AZ), a global leader in smart retail technology, today announced that its mass production facilities in China are fully operational, with large-scale manufacturing now underway.

The launch of full-scale manufacturing marks a significant milestone in the Company’s growth strategy, providing the production capacity needed to support increasing demand from retailers across multiple markets. With manufacturing operations now running at scale, Cust2Mate has begun shipping systems to support both existing and new deployments.

To have a firsthand look at the Company’s production facilities being inaugurated by A2Z Cust2Mate CEO Mr. Gadi Graus, watch this video: Production Facilities in China

To meet growing demand, the Company is ramping up deliveries and deployment activities. Additional carts are being delivered to customers and deployment schedules are being accelerated as retailers continue to expand their smart cart programs. The combination of scaled manufacturing capabilities in China and expanded deployment operations in Israel positions Cust2Mate to support a growing pipeline of retailer programs worldwide while maintaining efficient delivery timelines and operational execution.

“This is a major milestone for Cust2Mate,” said Gadi Graus, CEO of A2Z Cust2Mate. “With our mass production facilities in China now fully operational, production running at scale, and shipments underway, we have significantly strengthened our ability to serve retailers around the world. At the same time, we are accelerating deliveries and deployments at Israel to support growing customer demand. These achievements reflect the progress we have made in scaling our operations and position us well for continued global growth.”

About A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp.

A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: AZ) makes in-store retail smarter by connecting retailers, brands, and shoppers at the Smart Cart. Cust2Mate transforms everyday shopping carts into AI-powered, connected commerce platforms that elevate the in-store experience, turning each visit into a seamless, personalized, and rewarding journey. The Smart Cart platform helps retailers and brands grow revenue through targeted retail media and real-time shopper engagement at the moment purchase decisions are made. It delivers actionable, real-time data that provides full visibility into in-store shopper behavior and decision-making. With its modular, state-of-the-art technology, Cust2Mate enables retailers to increase revenue, optimize store operations, and mitigate loss across their chains at scale. For more information on A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp. and its subsidiary, Cust2Mate Ltd., please visit www.cust2mate.com

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Genesis Computing Announced as Validated Technology Partner of Databricks

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NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Genesis Computing, the agentic data engineering platform, today announced it has become a Validated Technology Partner of Databricks, the Data and AI company.

Through the partnership, Genesis’s pretrained autonomous agents can now deploy directly within Databricks environments, enabling enterprises to automate complex data engineering workflows securely inside their own infrastructure.

Genesis provides autonomous agents purpose-built for enterprise data engineering. Powered by the Genesis Context Graph, the platform gives agents contextual awareness of enterprise systems, workflows, governance policies, and business context by continuously learning from an organization’s existing data estate.

Deployed directly within customers’ own environment, including Databricks, and other major cloud and data platforms, Genesis transforms fragmented institutional knowledge into operational assets that agents can act on autonomously.

Why This Matters for Databricks Customers

For Databricks customers, Genesis agents automate data engineering tasks such as complex migrations, data pipeline RCAs and customer data onboarding directly within the Databricks platform while understanding Delta Lake assets, respecting Unity Catalog governance, and executing workflows using existing enterprise tools.

Data never leaves their Databricks account.

Governance is enforced by design which means Databricks customers can automate pipeline development, legacy migrations, data catalog management, testing, and documentation while maintaining compliance and data residency requirements—all natively within their trusted Databricks platform built on lakehouse architecture.

Customer Results

Genesis delivers outcomes, not just co-pilot suggestions, through autonomous agents that execute end-to-end data engineering work, embedding semantic understanding in agent workflows, and natively handling structured and unstructured data preparation.

Real results: Healthcare data platform Abacus Insights, deployed Genesis agents within Databricks to automate customer data mapping and pipeline creation, reducing deployment timelines from months to weeks, accelerating discovery and mapping from weeks to days, cutting pipeline engineering effort by more than 50%.

About Genesis Computing

Founded in 2024 by data and financial industry luminaries, Matt Glickman and Justin Langseth, Genesis Computing is the autonomous data engineering platform built from the ground up to address the growing complexity of enterprise data engineering and the industry-wide data labor shortage. Genesis deploys AI agents securely within enterprise environments to deliver end-to-end data engineering outcomes and transform institutional knowledge into operational intelligence.

Learn more at genesiscomputing.ai

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