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apg Solutions Appoints Wade Reitmeier as Vice President of Product & Engineering and Confirms Bart Hoemann as Vice President of Operations

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MINNEAPOLIS, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — apg Solutions is pleased to announce two key leadership appointments that further strengthen the company’s global leadership team and support its continued efforts to accelerate innovation, strengthen operational excellence, and drive long-term growth.

Wade Reitmeier will join apg on July 6 as Vice President of Product & Engineering. In this role, Wade will lead apg’s global product and engineering organization, driving product strategy, innovation, and technical execution to ensure apg continues delivering solutions that anticipate evolving customer needs, address emerging market trends, and create value for customers around the world.

Wade brings more than 25 years of experience as a product management and engineering leader, with a strong track record of driving growth, innovation, strategic alignment, and operational excellence across global technology and manufacturing organizations. He joins apg most recently from Entrust, where he served as Director of Product Management and played a key role in advancing solutions in secure identities, payments, and data protection on a global scale. Wade’s experience connecting product strategy, customer needs, and technical innovation will support apg as it continues to evolve its product roadmap and deliver practical, market-relevant solutions for customers worldwide.

Wade holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

apg is also pleased to confirm Bart Hoemann as Vice President of Operations on a permanent basis, following his successful tenure as Interim Vice President of Operations.

During his time in the interim role, Bart’s leadership, consistency, and impact have been instrumental in driving stability, operational improvements, and progress across apg’s global operations. As Vice President of Operations, Bart will continue to lead the operations organization with a focus on execution, process discipline, operational scalability, and support for the company’s strategic priorities. His leadership will help ensure apg continues delivering the quality, responsiveness, and reliability customers expect from a trusted global partner.

“These appointments reflect our continued commitment to investing in the capabilities that matter most to our customers,” said Heather Stewart, President and CEO of apg. “As the retail and cash management landscape continues to evolve, our customers need a partner that can help them stay ahead through innovation, reliability, and operational excellence. Wade’s deep product and engineering expertise will strengthen our ability to develop solutions that address emerging customer challenges and opportunities, while Bart’s proven operational leadership ensures we can consistently deliver the quality, responsiveness, and execution our customers expect. Together, their leadership strengthens our ability to innovate with purpose and create lasting value for our customers around the globe.”

These leadership appointments further enhance apg’s ability to execute its strategy of delivering innovative cash management and point-of-sale solutions while continually improving the customer experience. Together, Wade and Bart will play key roles in helping apg anticipate market needs, accelerate innovation, and deliver greater value to customers through product leadership, engineering excellence, and operational performance.

About apg Solutions

apg Solutions is a leading provider of cash drawers and cash management solutions for retail, hospitality, and other industries worldwide. With a focus on reliability, innovation, and customer support, apg helps businesses improve efficiency, security, and performance at the point of sale and beyond.

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AiPPT.com Expands AI Presentation Creation with Four Integrated Modes and Smarter Content Workflows

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SINGAPORE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPPT.com announced the completion of its four mode AI presentation ecosystem, integrating AiPPT Classic, AiPPT Flow, AiPPT Visual, and AiPPT Agent into one unified platform. The update introduces enhanced AI creation workflows, HTML web page generation through AiPPT Agent, and a redesigned workspace that helps users create, manage, share, and organize their content more efficiently.

AiPPT.com is the only platform that offers four different AI presentation modes in one ecosystem, allowing users to select the most suitable creation approach for different needs.

Four AI Modes for Different Presentation Needs

These modes support different stages of presentation creation, from planning to final delivery.

Structured projects such as business reports, proposals, and academic presentations can be created efficiently with AiPPT Classic. For content that requires more flexibility, AiPPT Flow introduces adaptive layouts, smart diagrams, templates, and interactive components that adjust to changing ideas.

Visual storytelling takes another step forward with AiPPT Visual, which combines AI generated images, animations, and presentation to video capabilities. AiPPT Agent connects these experiences through an intelligent workflow that helps users turn ideas and materials into complete presentations.

A New Workspace for Creating and Managing AI Content

Alongside the four mode ecosystem, AiPPT.com has redesigned its workspace to help users manage all AI generated results in one place.

The updated workspace organizes presentations and creative projects through a centralized library, making it easier to find, reuse, and manage previous work. Users can also share presentations through links, view audience engagement data, and control access permissions directly from the workspace.

Building More Flexible AI Communication Experiences

As users create content for different audiences and platforms, presentation tools need to support more than slide generation. AiPPT.com continues to expand AI assisted creation by combining presentation building, visual design, editing, sharing, and content management in one connected experience.

About AiPPT.com

AiPPT.com is an AI powered presentation and content creation platform that helps users transform ideas, documents, URLs, and research materials into professional presentations. The platform combines AI generation, editing, visual creation, document understanding, conversion tools, and content management features within one workspace.

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Corinex and Plexigrid team up to deliver the most accurate digital-twin solution for grid visibility and flexibility to date

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VANCOUVER, BC and GIJÓN, Spain, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Corinex Corp. and Plexigrid S.L. have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to market Corinex Plexigrid Intelligence, a platform for low-voltage and medium-voltage power grids, built on the most accurate and granular power data.

As power-hungry AI unfolds, the electrification of industry, transport and heating/cooling accelerates, and the penetration of distributed energy resources explode, grid operators are facing the largest technological challenge in decades: planning, operating and orchestrating in real-time a distributed, intermittent and bidirectional electricity system with millions of DERs. Successfully solving this requires the next level of real time visibility, intelligence and control through their mid and low voltage sections of the grid. This strategic cooperation is aimed at delivering exactly that.

Corinex products observe and act on the physical grid, while Plexigrid software models and optimizes it. The partnership brings these complementary capabilities together, connecting real-time field intelligence with digital twin analysis, capacity decisions and flexibility actions.

The integrated solution helps utilities see real time voltage grid conditions, find available capacity, and act on network limits.

Built around Corinex’s BPL architecture and edge-computing capabilities, the solution places sensing, processing and intelligence across the grid. This gives Plexigrid’s digital twin richer and more accurate information from grid assets.

Why BPL Improves the Value of Digital Twins

Transmission grids are modelled and operated in real time using redundant, high-resolution instrumentation at every node and an exact electrical topology, manually curated by a dedicated topology team. This creates the “observability” requirements that transmission control systems need to operate. Scaling that approach from thousands of transmission nodes to tens of millions of distribution nodes would cost hundreds of billions and require hundreds of thousands of people. It is simply not feasible, which is why 99% of the nodes in the electricity grid remain unmodelled.

Plexigrid delivers a more realistic answer to this problem: a digital twin equipped with a layer of Bayesian AI that reconstructs the electrical topology and the state of the grid from systems DSOs already have in place, such as GIS (used for field operations and asset management) and AMI (used for billing). This creates unprecedented visibility and control in parts of the grid that were previously unobserved or only partially observed, using data from systems that were never designed for real time grid observability and control. But while these Bayesian digital twins provide game changing capabilities and are fast and cheap to adopt at scale, they do not reach the time resolution and accuracy of transmission control systems.

Corinex’s BPL takes the performance and inference quality of these digital twins to the next level by adding a layer of low-latency, high-resolution instrumentation and control that complements what DSOs already have across meters, feeders, transformers and other unmetered or partially observed grid assets. The result is a level of time resolution, accuracy and real-time capabilities never seen before in distribution grids. Besides, Corinex’s Grid Intelligence Node installed on the low voltage lines expands the number of the measuring points and adds further detailed measurements from the physical network, giving the twin a clearer view of loading, voltage, power quality, and emerging constraints.

Digital Twin Capability

Typical performance with PLC smart-meter data

Performance with Corinex BPL

Time Resolution

5-60 min

1 min

Estimation accuracy

~90–95%

~99%

Operational uncertainty

~5-10%

 ~1%

Required safety margin

~10-20%

~2%-5%

Asset utilization

Conservative, approximately 80% of limits

Optimized, closer to true limits

Built for Edge and Distributed Intelligence

Corinex and Plexigrid use BPL as an architectural foundation for distributed grid intelligence. The platform processes data near substations, feeders, and grid assets. The grid intelligence is embedded in both Corinex and Plexigrid solutions and is architected to provide the best performance and value for DSOs. This supports real time data checks, local analysis, and earlier warnings of abnormal conditions. The platform continues to handle wider models, forecasts, planning, reports, and links to other utility systems.

The result is a distributed intelligence layer. It links field conditions to digital models and utility decisions.

“Utilities need more than connectivity and more than a cloud-based view of the network. They need an intelligence layer that can observe the physical grid, understand changing conditions, and support action at the speed required by modern distribution systems,” said Peter Sobotka, Founder and CEO of Corinex Corp. “Corinex delivers BPL, GIN, and edge capabilities across the grid. Plexigrid adds advanced digital twin and flexibility management capabilities that drive better capacity, investment, and operational decisions.”

“This partnership allows our models to be continuously grounded in high-resolution information from the physical network. Combining that information with distributed processing and advanced grid analytics creates a stronger foundation for planning, flexibility, and day-to-day operations.” said Alberto Méndez, CEO and Co-founder of Plexigrid.

About Corinex Corp.

Corinex Corp. provides technology that helps reinforce low-voltage and medium-voltage power grids. Its platform serves as digital grid capacity infrastructure. It gives utilities the data and control needed to manage congestion, add usable capacity, and get more from existing assets.

About Plexigrid

Plexigrid develops AI-powered digital twins and orchestrators for grid visibility, planning, and flexibility management to help utilities model grid conditions, find constraints, assess available capacity, and coordinate flexible resources.

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Techstars and Emirates NBD partner to accelerate enterprise-grade AI and FinTech solutions across the MENAT region

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DUBAI, UAE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, and startup accelerator Techstars, announced a strategic partnership centred on a commercially-driven “Acceleration-to-Enterprise” model to integrate high-growth AI and FinTech innovations directly into the bank’s regional ecosystem encompassing multiple markets.

Combining Techstars’ global pipeline of over 11,000 founders with the bank’s advanced analytics infrastructure, which currently manages over 50 active AI use cases, will deliver scalable, commercial pathways for agentic FinTech startups focusing on compliance, wealth management, SME banking and capital markets.

This initiative underscores Emirates NBD’s commitment to the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33), which aims to rank Dubai among the top four global financial centres by 2033.

Miguel Rio Tinto, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer at Emirates NBD, commented: “With Dubai now home to nearly 60% of GCC FinTech companies, we are pleased to partner with Techstars to tap into and capture FinTech’s new wave of innovation in agentic finance. Leveraging Emirates NBD’s regional footprint and digital capabilities, we are providing selected AI and FinTech startups with a direct pathway into enterprise banking, supporting solutions that can transform how we serve our nine million active customers.”

Neeraj Makin, Group Head of Strategy, Analytics and Venture Capital at Emirates NBD, said: “The partnership with Techstars reflects Emirates NBD’s continued focus on strengthening its innovation ecosystem and deepening engagement with global technology and startup networks. By combining access to emerging founders, market intelligence, and new technology trends, we aim to accelerate innovation opportunities that support the Group’s long term strategic, digital and AI ambitions across the region.”

This unique partnership helps AI startups pilot secure and personalised banking solutions using Emirates NBD’s cloud-native infrastructure to drive real impact.

David Cohen, CEO of Techstars, stated: “Techstars has always been about helping founders go faster. By partnering with a proactive, AI-first institution like Emirates NBD, we are giving our FinTech and AI founders a front-row seat to one of the most dynamic financial markets in the world. The UAE’s commitment to becoming a global hub for intelligent, data-driven innovation makes it the perfect launchpad for enterprise-grade solutions that will redefine the future of finance.”

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