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Axtria Ignite 2026: 450+ Life Sciences Leaders Convene With a Contrarian Message — Fix the Foundation Before You Scale AI

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More than 450 executives from 100+ leading life sciences organizations gathered in Princeton, NJ to move agentic AI past the proof-of-concept stageFounder and CEO Jaswinder “Jassi” Chadha challenged the industry with a counterintuitive mandate: before you build more agents, fix the foundation firstThe Ignite Leadership Awards honored transformation leaders from Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK, and Biogen; the Axtria Bedrock Honor recognized a 15-year partnership with Quest Diagnostics

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Axtria Inc., a global leader in AI-first data & analytics solutions and platforms for the life sciences industry, hosted Axtria Ignite 2026 on June 10 and 11 at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal under the theme “Industrializing Intelligence: The Agentic Enterprise.” More than 450 executives from over 100 leading life sciences, MedTech, and biotech organizations gathered to work through the harder question of 2026: what must be true before an enterprise can trust AI to run at machine speed.

Day 1 of the by-invitation-only event drew more than 200 attendees to product workshops on practical applications of AI, analytics, and commercial excellence. It included real-world success stories and value delivered from agents and hands-on experience with live agents. Day 2 featured four mainstage sessions and 16 panels across four tracks: industrialized data and the agentic backbone, agentic AI for business insights, high-performance customer engagement, and the shift from software to agentic ecosystems. Now in its fourth year, Axtria Ignite has become a regular fixture on the calendars of senior commercial and data leaders in life sciences.

The foundation is the strategy
In his keynote address, Axtria founder and CEO Jaswinder “Jassi” Chadha argued that the foundation determines whether AI in pharma scales. Drawing on three decades in the industry, he pointed to the persistent gap between ambition and execution: roughly 73% of biopharma still reports significant data issues, as many as 89% of AI pilots never reach production, and trust in AI systems has slipped from 61% in 2019 to 53% today, even as the industry races toward a projected 100,000-plus AI agents.

Against a pharma accuracy bar of 99.5%, Chadha laid out four things the foundation must carry: an AI-ready data supply chain, a semantic layer for agent accuracy, software guardrails for deterministic precision where stakes are highest, and a governance framework for digital workers at scale. Agents, in his framing, are new hires who must earn trust through validation and audit, not receive it on day one.

“Before you build the agent, fix the foundation first. The companies that will lead the agentic era are not the ones who moved fastest; they are the ones who built them with trust,” Jaswinder “Jassi” Chadha, Founder and CEO, Axtria.

Proving CFO-certifiable business value
Co-founder and CTO Navdeep “Navi” Chadha led a mainstage session with senior leaders from Thermo Fisher Scientific and Quest Diagnostics. The discussion moved past future potential to candid accounts of what has worked and what has not, from CFO-certifiable value reporting and integrated risk management to the discipline of defining exit criteria before a proof of concept begins. A recurring lesson surfaced across panelists: change management is the work, not a footnote.

“Change management and adoption cannot be the 45th slide in a 30-page deck at the business case approval,” Senior Digital Leader, speaking on a mainstage panel.

The conversations attendees took home
Across tracks, the discussions reached a level of candor that does not show up in industry research reports. A senior leader at a major pharma company described her team’s unlock: making clear that AI was here to elevate marketers rather than replace them. By her account, adoption now stands at over 90%.

“This is not an AI revolution. It’s a people revolution,” VP of Commercial AI at a top pharma company, closing mainstage session.

Ignite Leadership Awards
Axtria presented its annual Ignite Leadership Awards, recognizing leaders doing the hard work of transformation inside their organizations. These leaders were recognized for driving enterprise-wide AI transformations and genuinely bringing multiple disciplines together to truly make a difference to the foundation of AI to realize the true value. The 2026 honorees were:

Anvita Karara, Vice President, Commercialization AI Strategy & Analytics, Bristol Myers SquibbJeremy Pincus, Vice President, Medical Affairs IT, GSKBharti Rai, Senior Vice President, Biogen

Axtria Bedrock Honor
The Axtria Bedrock Honor recognized Quest Diagnostics for a 15-year partnership and the recent implementation of an Axtria SalesIQ™ sales force alignment solution across 34 role types and a ~1,300-person field organization, among the most complex sales force alignments in healthcare. The honor was accepted by John Liffert, Vice President, Commercial Operations, alongside Samantha Barnes-Weaver, Director, National Deployment and Alignments, and Marc Cangemi, Senior Director, Commercial Excellence, Compensation, and Deployment.

“Those of you who know the Quest business know it’s probably the most complex sales force alignment in healthcare. Because we were able to solve that, you made us better. You made our product better. Thank you for being our partners in this journey,” Jassi Chadha, Founder and CEO, Axtria.

About the event
Ignite 2026 featured 45+ speakers across panels and presentations, plus hands-on workshops with Axtria’s agentic products, including Axtria HIQ, Axtria SalesIQ™, Axtria MarketingIQ™, and Axtria DataMAx™. The agenda also included an Executive Incentive Compensation Roundtable and networking receptions on both evenings.

About Axtria
Axtria helps life sciences companies harness the potential of data science and software to improve patient outcomes by connecting the right therapies to the right patients at the right time. A leading global provider of award-winning cloud software and data analytics, Axtria delivers proven solutions that help pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostics companies complete their journey from data to insights to action. As a participant in the United Nations Global Compact, Axtria is committed to aligning its strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labor, environment, and anti-corruption. For more information, visit www.axtria.com.

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From Fan Passion to Financial Reward: Smart Good Things USA LLC Announces Upcoming Launch of Its Winble Fan-Monetization Platform for Sports Teams and Fans Across North and South America

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Pre-launch campaign timed to the 2026 FIFA World Cup aims to build early interest in a new fan engagement platform designed to help teams and supporters unlock rewards, financial opportunities, and recurring fan participation

PHOENIX, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In seeking to turn fan passion into recurring revenue for sports teams, clubs, and their fans globally, Smart Good Things USA LLC, the U.S. distributor arm of Paris, France-headquartered BleuBlanc Pay, announced today the upcoming launch of its Winble fan engagement and monetization platform in North and South America.

The company’s innovative technology, anchored by the patent-pending EEM (Exclusive Emotional Measurer) Bracelet, is capable of measuring and analyzing the emotions experienced by fans throughout sporting events. By capturing key emotional moments and engagement peaks—whether supporters are attending in person or following remotely—the technology provides unprecedented insights into the fan experience.

Unlike traditional fan loyalty apps or merchandise programs, this is a unique fan enterprise that can transform fans’ emotions into a tangible financial reward.

A pre-launch campaign (https://usa.winble.com/en) is planned to coincide with the global attention surrounding the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

At the core of the planned rollout is the company’s EEM Bracelet, a wearable that turns fan identity into an ongoing economic value for both sports organizations and fans and is intended to extend the relationship beyond the stadium. The bracelet platform is expected to support customizable team colors, rewards integration, cashback opportunities, membership participation, and connected experiences tied to sporting events and fan communities.

Where traditional sports teams and clubs have long depended on four established revenue streams­—media rights, ticketing, sponsorship, and merchandising—the Winble platform introduces an innovative concept that the company describes as a “fifth revenue stream.” This is a continual, subscription-driven membership channel that allows teams, leagues, colleges, and community organizations to convert their global fan bases into long-term economic relationships.

“The Winble.com platform was built around a simple but powerful idea—that the passion fans already have for their teams should produce value for them, not only for the leagues and media companies they pay to follow,” said Nouti Turkmani, CEO, Bleu Blanc Pay. “The EEM Bracelet is a payment device, a community identifier, and a rewards engine based in emotion, all in a premium wearable that lights up in your team’s colors during the moments that matter most. We believe it represents a meaningful step forward in how sports organizations connect with, and create value for, the millions of fans they have historically been unable to reach.”

The Winble platform’s first major sports deployment was with Juventus FC, one of the most-followed clubs in the world, which launched its co-branded J Winble program in Italy and France in late 2025. The company has confirmed that discussions are currently underway with three to four additional major European clubs across England, France, and Italy, and the U.S. launch is intended to extend that momentum.

“This is fan passion as commerce, a whole new definition of what it means to support a team,” Turkmani added. “That is the model we have proven internationally, and we are now bringing to the Americas.”

About Winble.com

Smart Good Things USA LLC is the US exclusive distributor of Winble.com

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New Study Finds Colorado Financial and Wealth Advisory Buyers Fall Into 3 Distinct Types, Not One

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DENVER, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — B2BSalesMagic, a strategic mastermind community for B2B experts and thought leaders, today released the 2026 Colorado Financial and Wealth Advisory Buyer Preferences Report based on a study of 100+ Colorado affluent and high net-worth buyers.

The study uncovered 3 distinct buyer mindsets instead of one: First-Timers (43%, never researched advisors before), Searchers (30%, searched previously, but didn’t find an advisor), and Switchers (27%, currently have an advisor and looking to switch).

The top 3 takeaways are:
1) The advisor shortlist is already set before the search even begins, even for First-Timers.

The study found that 43% of First-Timers and 100% of Searchers had 1-2+ advisors already in mind when they started. And surprisingly, 80% of switchers had at least 1-2+ replacement advisors in mind when they started. 

As Katie Lantukh, co-author and messaging strategist, says, “Most buyers looking for advisors today already have a list of names in mind before they start. Even a referral will get stack-ranked against what’s already on the list.”

2) If buyers can’t find answers on the advisor’s website, they don’t contact the advisor — they leave. 

The data shows that First-Timers (44%) and Switchers (56%) overwhelmingly just moved on to another advisor. For Searchers, 27% move on and 30% turn to AI. Only 9-15% will contact the advisor across the three buyer types.

“The traditional strategy of gatekeeping critical info to incentivize buyers to talk to the advisor is not working anymore,” says Hillary Gale Meehan, co-author and Denver-based marketing specialist. “If compliance is the reason you can’t publish certain data, make sure you monitor what 3rd-party sites or AI are saying about you, because they’re providing answers whether it’s accurate or not.”

3) Almost half of buyers choose an advisor they already knew before the search started.
The study shows that 45% of First-Timers and 47% of Switchers ultimately chose an advisor from their initial shortlist. Searchers were the outliers: 8% chose an advisor from their initial shortlist, and 59% did not choose anyone. Across the three buyer types, they chose an advisor they found during the search only 15-24% of the time.

“The timing of the referral is important,” says John Way, co-author and leader at B2BSalesMagic. “A referral that can linger in the buyer’s mind before they even think about looking is more effective than a referral after the search begins.” 

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The study surveyed 100+ Colorado buyers with household income of $100k – $200k+ and total investable assets of $250k – $5M+ who actively researched financial and wealth advisors from January to early June 2026.

Authors: John Way, leader at B2BSalesMagic and founder of Pipelineapp.io, Katie Lantukh, founder of Murphy Marketing, and Hillary Gale Meehan, founder of Moneta Advisor Marketing and host of The Finance Marketing Podcast.

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Speridian Technologies Launches FinOps for AI, Offering to Help Enterprises Turn AI Investment into Measurable Growth and Efficiency

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– A framework that gives finance and engineering teams visibility, discipline and governance to capture AI’s efficiency gains at a time when AI spend is growing up to four times faster than the value enterprises realize from it –

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Speridian Technologies, a global consulting and technology services firm, today announced the launch of its FinOps for AI offering, a structured engagement model that helps organizations convert AI spending into measurable business efficiency, stronger margins and faster growth. The practice helps organizations answer “how do we control AI spend?”  with a sharp focus on Token Cost Optimization (TCO): the discipline of tying every token consumed to the value it creates.

Across every sector, the mandate is the same: do more with less. AI has quickly become the most powerful tool to reach efficiency. But unlike flipping on a utility, AI is not unlimited or free. As organizations move beyond experimentation into full-scale production, the cost of running AI at scale is variable, often invisible and can grow exponentially as use cases multiply.

“In both the public and private sectors, organizations are discovering that scaling AI is fundamentally different from piloting it,” said Sourav Roy, vice president at Speridian. “Token consumption grows exponentially, costs become unpredictable, and finance teams are left without the visibility they need to connect spend to results. Our approach to FinOps brings the same discipline to AI that we brought to cloud infrastructure adoption a decade ago. This is about getting the most value from every dollar.”

Token consumption is highly variable, frequently invisible to finance teams, and can grow exponentially as AI spreads across the enterprise. Speridian’s framework targets four major cost drivers most enterprises overlook: input vs. output tokens, the modality premium, the model tier tax, and context window creep.

“What is needed is a structured, cross-functional approach that brings engineering and finance together to ensure AI spend translates into real value in an efficient manner,” continued Roy.

“Harnessing and realizing AI’s efficiency depends on a simple principle: you cannot improve what you cannot measure,” said Speridian’s Chief Executive Officer, Ali Hasan. “There is advantage when you track AI usage along with what it produces, and how efficiently it converts spend into value.”

Speridian’s approach addresses cost optimization across three layers:  design-time optimization, run-time optimization, and governance. Within this framework, Speridian deploys six proven optimization techniques — spanning prompt optimization, semantic caching and intelligent model routing — to drive measurable savings.

Engagements are delivered in three phases:

Assess: baseline current AI spend, identify token waste, and surface quick wins.Optimize: implement caching, model routing and prompt improvements for measurable cost reduction.Govern: build ongoing FinOps capability — dashboards, policies, chargeback and team enablement.

“Government agencies and enterprises alike are investing significant resources in AI, but many need structure in place to manage spend at scale,” continued Hasan. “Our framework gives clients visibility into where every dollar is going, techniques to reduce waste and governance to scale initiatives confidently. This is how AI can become a measurable driver of efficiency and growth.”

About Speridian 

Speridian Technologies is a global consulting and technology services firm that helps enterprises and public sector organizations modernize operations, enhance customer experience and accelerate digital transformation through advisory, implementation and managed services. With deep industry expertise and capabilities spanning AI, automation, cloud, analytics and enterprise platforms, Speridian delivers outcome-focused solutions that drive measurable business value. For more information about all of Speridian’s services and solutions, please visit www.speridian.com

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