Introducing ThinQ Claw and Expanded AI Home Experiences
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LG unveils the next evolution of AI Home at IFA 2026, leveraging upgraded contextual intelligence to recommend relevant actions, coordinate connected devices and services, and deliver a more personalized experience.The brand-new ThinQ Claw introduces text-chat-based interactions to AI Home, comprehending intent and context to provide tailored, situationally-appropriate support and enhanced customer value.Visitors to IFA can explore an expanded AI Home ecosystem spanning intelligent home and energy management solutions and learn about LG’s AI-powered ThinQ Pro for shared and commercial spaces, which is making its European debut.

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics (LG) is unveiling the next evolution of its AI Home at IFA 2026. Bringing together AI-powered appliances, connected services and contextual intelligence, LG AI Home simplifies daily routines, enhances convenience and delivers a more personalized and intuitive customer experience.

A Home That Understands You
LG AI Home analyzes schedules, routines, the home environment and appliance usage to recommend appropriate actions and optimize coordination between devices and services. By providing personalized suggestions based on real-world context, it proactively supports customers to spend less time managing their appliances and more time enjoying life. To illustrate this vision at IFA 2026, LG invites visitors to explore immersive AI Home spaces—spanning living, kitchen and rest zones—where they can experience firsthand how LG’s AI technologies coordinate devices and services around different everyday routines.

ThinQ Claw: Extending AI Home Through Chat and Contextual Intelligence
At IFA 2026, LG is introducing ThinQ Claw, a new text-chat-based AI agent experience that further enriches and expands the company’s AI Home offering. Built on the concept of OpenClaw and optimized specifically for LG AI Home, ThinQ Claw can understand user intent and context and help complete tasks by connecting and coordinating relevant services and devices.

ThinQ Claw interprets updates shared by the user within the context of their life, rather than as isolated events. This enables it to recommend (or help initiate) appropriate actions aligned with personal preferences and the unique demands of each situation. It can manage cooking appliances to help the user prepare for hosting guests, monitor indoor air quality and temperature before the user arrives home to create a more comfortable environment based on current conditions, or suggest tailored experiences to entertain, empower or relax.

Beyond appliance control, ThinQ Claw works collaboratively with daily services like calendars and other connected services. Instead of requiring complex automation rules, it allows users to share their plans or current status through a natural chat interface. In addition to being able to understand requests and determine the necessary steps, ThinQ Claw can remember customers’ likes and dislikes, leading to increasingly personalized experiences over time. This intelligent and context-aware agent expands how customers engage with AI Home by providing increasingly personalized support both inside and outside the home. ThinQ Claw will be demonstrated at LG’s AI Home Zone throughout IFA 2026.

An Expanded AI Home Ecosystem
The AI Home Zone highlights LG’s open AI Home ecosystem powered by Homey, a smart home platform developed by Athom, which LG acquired in 2024. With its broad interoperability across brands and connected devices, Homey enables a safe and reliable connected home experience.

Homey allows users to manage diverse products from different manufacturers and service providers in one place. Through a comprehensive Home Energy Management System (HEMS) demonstration, IFA visitors can observe how Homey intelligently orchestrates energy generation, storage and consumption in real time by connecting smart meters, solar panels, home batteries and EV chargers with LG appliances. HEMS can help reduce household electricity bills by optimizing when energy is generated, stored and consumed, while taking advantage of dynamic energy pricing where supported.*

IFA 2026 will also mark the European debut of LG ThinQ Pro. Designed for multi-family residential and commercial environments, ThinQ Pro supports the efficient management of devices and facilities while illustrating how LG’s AI Home vision extends beyond the home into shared and professional spaces.

Applied across the entirety of the AI Home ecosystem, the LG Shield security framework helps protect connected appliances, services and customer data, enabling safe and secure AI experiences.

“ThinQ Claw marks the next step in LG AI Home, illustrating how AI can understand customer intent and life context to support a more personalized and streamlined daily experience,” said Baek Seung-tae, president of the LG Home Appliance Solution Company. “LG will continue advancing AI Home through innovations that are increasingly intuitive and responsive to customers’ needs.”

About LG Electronics Home Appliance Solution Company 
The LG Home Appliance Solution Company (HS) is a global leader in home appliances and AI home solutions. By leveraging industry-leading core technologies, the HS Company is committed to enhancing consumers’ quality of life and promoting sustainability. The company develops thoughtfully designed kitchen and living appliance solutions and has recently integrated LG’s Robot Business Division to incorporate advanced robot technologies into its home solutions. Together, these products offer enhanced convenience, exceptional performance, efficient operation and sustainable lifestyle solutions. For more news on LG, visit www.LG.com/global/newsroom/.

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Data4Life and Monash Health have partnered to optimize clinical trial design and execution, complemented by educational workshops and professional training programs, with a shared commitment to improving patient outcomes.

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MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria, Australia, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Data4Life, an international nonprofit digital health organization funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation. The announcement was made by Associate Professor Tam C. Nguyen, Director of Research & Innovation, Monash Health and Tim Walz, Chief of Staff, Data4Life, at the Launch of the Monash Health Global Relations Office, with Monash Health Chief Executive Prof. Eugine Yafele and Global Victoria CEO, Danni Jarrett in attendance.

The Global Relations Office is a new site launched at Monash Health to strengthen international health partnerships, building alliances with leading international hospitals, universities, and health organisations for research, training, and knowledge exchange.

Under the MoU, Monash Health will support the alliance’s clinical trials through optimized trial timelines and patient enrolment, helping to achieve fast and effective subject recruitment. Data4Life will streamline clinical trial processes, collaborate on patient recruitment activities, and support the secondary use and standardisation of health data through open science and common data models, alongside professional training in Good Clinical Practice (GCP), study conduct, and other areas of clinical research.

Monash Health provides care for 1.2 million residents through 250 integrated services delivered across more than 40 locations and communities in southeast Melbourne, including statewide tertiary support for complex women’s, neonatal, and paediatric care. Its research portfolio comprises 1,600 active studies, including 600 FIH and phase 2 trials and observational studies. Monash Health also operates two paediatric and two adult clinical trial centres, supported by two ethics committees/IRBs covering both paediatric and adult studies.

”Monash Health is an institution that brings exceptional clinical depth. With over 175 years of experience and decades of longitudinal records, it is a world-leading partner for such a collaboration. Data4Life is committed to providing Monash Health’s teams with the tools and expertise required to perform federated studies, cross-border comparisons, and reproducible real-world evidence as efficiently as possible.”- Dr. Ben M.W. Illigens, CEO, Data4Life

The collaboration brings together Monash Health’s clinical research expertise with Data4Life’s scientific and technical expertise and open-source software platforms, D4L Collect and Data2Evidence, built on HL7® FHIR® and the OMOP Common Data Model, respectively.

D4L Collect is a platform for collecting prospective, multimodal health data in clinical and epidemiological studies through a secure researcher workspace and participant mobile app. It supports patient-reported outcomes (PROs), questionnaires, wearable and sensor data, and other health data in HL7® FHIR® format. D4L Collect workflows are designed to support decentralized data collection, conforming with GCP and ICH E6(R3) requirements.

Data2Evidence is an integrated Real-World Data (RWD) platform, designed for standardization and analysis of healthcare data, and reproducible Real-World Evidence (RWE) generation. It combines ETL mapping, quality assessment, cohort definition, OHDSI analytics, secure governance, and supporting federated studies in one platform, reducing manual processes and time to evidence.

Beyond clinical trials, both organizations will expand their collaboration through knowledge exchange, workshops, training programmes, and other joint initiatives. Tim Walz has been invited to Monash Health’s Research and Innovation Week 2026 (7–11 September), where he will discuss the collaboration’s progress to date and the strategy ahead.

About Data4Life

Data4Life develops open-source clinical research software built on internationally recognized standards, including FHIR and OMOP CDM. Funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation, we operate under nonprofit governance, serving researchers, healthcare organizations, life sciences companies, and regulators with the digital tools required for fit-for-purpose real-world data and real-world evidence generation.

Designed to support multicenter studies and decentralized data collection, our integrated software ecosystem streamlines the secondary use of health data, from prospective multimodal data collection and standardization to reproducible data quality assessment and data analysis.

Our federated approach enables collaboration across distributed data sources while preserving patient privacy and data sovereignty as well as supporting security, governance, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions.

We’re headquartered in Potsdam, with offices in Berlin and Singapore, and partner with leading academic and healthcare institutions including Mount Sinai, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the Hasso Plattner Institute.

As co-lead of OHDSI Germany, Data4Life contributes open-source software and technical expertise, supports OMOP CDM adoption, and participates in network studies and collaborative research across borders.

Data4Life will co-host the OHDSI Europe Symposium 2028 in Germany with our OHDSI Germany partners, bringing together researchers, healthcare organizations, regulators, and industry from across the globe for three days of scientific exchange in observational health research.

www.data4life.care

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From expert keynotes and practical workshops to a hackathon, this year’s festival equips participants with practical insights to move from AI pilots to enterprise-grade deployment

SINGAPORE, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — NUS-ISS has launched the 11th edition of its flagship Learning Festival, a six-week series running from 28 August to 10 October 2026. Marking its second decade, this year’s festival, themed “The Next AI Transformation”, focuses on the key shift organisations must make from AI experimentation to measurable impact.

As enterprise AI adoption accelerates globally, the NUS-ISS Learning Festival 2026 provides a platform for practitioners, business leaders, professionals and organisations to explore AI-ready data foundations, responsible AI deployment, leadership transformation, workforce evolution and future skills development.

“As AI moves from experimentation into everyday operations, the challenge is no longer simply understanding what AI can do, but scaling it effectively and responsibly,” said Mr Khoong Chan Meng, Chief Executive Officer of NUS-ISS. “This year’s Learning Festival focuses on what matters next: strong data foundations, governance, workforce skills, and leadership.”

Participants can look forward to a dynamic lineup of activities, including talks, expert panels, hands-on workshops, and a hackathon designed to bring the NUS-ISS community together throughout the festival.

Key event highlights include:

Main festival opening (28 Aug)

NUS-ISS opens the festival with a full-day campus event featuring 28 sessions, including talks, panels, fireside chats, and workshops – for industry leaders, professionals and practitioners across the public and private sectors.

The agenda focuses on key organisational priorities, including governing autonomous AI agents, scaling AI impact, and building the enterprise architecture and data foundations needed to support AI adoption.

Experts from Alibaba Cloud Group, Nvidia Singapore, Salesforce, Visa, Grab and the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore will share hands-on AI strategies and best practices alongside NUS-ISS’ practice-based lecturers.

“Show Me Your Agents” hackathon – Powered by AWS (5 Sep and 10 Oct)

A new addition to this year’s Learning Festival, Show Me Your Agents is an open innovation competition that aims to bridge the gap between emerging AI technology and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore.

Hosted by NUS-ISS and powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the hackathon brings together students, professionals, startups and SMEs to design, build and present agentic AI solutions to real business challenges.

Competing in the SME and Public categories, teams will have five weeks to develop AI agent-powered solutions for administrative automation, customer service, supply chain operations, and more.

The teams will present their final solutions to a panel of judges at Demo Day on 10 October, vying for top honours and AWS cloud credits, alongside special awards recognising real-world readiness, agent design and social impact.

Demo Day will serve as a key culmination of the Learning Festival, bringing together participants to showcase their solutions and celebrate a season of learning, experimentation and innovation.

“AI won’t take your job. AI will change your organization.” (15 Sep)

In a collaboration with the IT Management Association (ITMA), Damien Cummings, Chief of AI Strategy and Organizational Transformation at NUS-ISS, will speak at a by-invitation session for ITMA members. He will explore why AI initiatives often stall because of organisational challenges rather than technical limitations, and how the role of the CIO is evolving as organisations navigate an increasingly AI-driven future.

To find out more about the NUS-ISS Learning Festival, please visit
https://www.iss.nus.edu.sg/learning-festival/2026

About National University of Singapore (NUS)

The National University of Singapore (NUS) is Singapore’s flagship university, which offers a global approach to education, research and entrepreneurship, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. We have 15 colleges, faculties and schools across three campuses in Singapore, with more than 40,000 students from 100 countries enriching our vibrant and diverse campus community. We have also established more than 20 NUS Overseas Colleges entrepreneurial hubs around the world.

Our multidisciplinary and real-world approach to education, research and entrepreneurship enables us to work closely with industry, governments and academia to address crucial and complex issues relevant to Asia and the world. Researchers in our faculties, research centres of excellence, corporate labs and more than 30 university-level research institutes focus on themes that include energy; environmental and urban sustainability; treatment and prevention of diseases; active ageing; advanced materials; risk management and resilience of financial systems; Asian studies; and Smart Nation capabilities such as artificial intelligence, data science, operations research and cybersecurity.

For more information on NUS, please visit nus.edu.sg.

About NUS-ISS

Established in 1981, NUS-ISS nurtures digital talent for the industry through graduate education, executive education programmes, consultancy, applied research, and career services. NUS-ISS guides individuals and organisations to bridge future opportunities through a unique portfolio of multiple learning pathways such as blended learning and stackable programmes, leading the way in shaping the next curve of digital excellence. It offers a wide spectrum of programmes in critical industry disciplines, such as digital leadership, software development, data science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, product management, smart health and digital innovation.

To date, close to 216,000 digital leaders and professionals from across 8,854 corporate client organisations, and 10,059 graduate programmes alumni have benefitted from NUS-ISS’ suite of services. Its programmes are delivered by NUS-ISS staff with an average of more than 20 years of industry experience and supported by a strong network of partners. NUS-ISS also works with industry partners and associations locally and globally to co-create a digital learning ecosystem that inspires and shapes solutions for the digital economy.

For more information on NUS-ISS, please visit www.iss.nus.edu.sg

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