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ALTOUR Unveils ALTOUR iQ During Innovation Faceoff at Business Travel Show America 2026, Moving Business Travel Beyond Reporting to Decision Intelligence

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ALTOUR’s new groundbreaking conversational intelligence platform propels corporate travel beyond traditional reporting to predictive insights, smarter decisions, and measurable business outcomes.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ALTOUR, a global leader in business travel management, has unveiled ALTOUR iQ, its proprietary AI-powered conversational travel intelligence platform designed to transform how organizations understand, predict and optimize their travel programs. By enabling users to explore business questions in plain language and receive insights instantly, ALTOUR iQ shortens the path from information overload to informed strategic decisions.

ALTOUR iQ was showcased as an Innovation Faceoff finalist at Business Travel Show America 2026, a competition highlighting innovations in managed travel, meetings and traveler support. Haley Rossow, ALTOUR’s Senior Director of Global Business Intelligence, presented the platform on October 14 in New York, demonstrating how conversational intelligence helps travel leaders understand performance and shape future outcomes.

Developed in-house, ALTOUR iQ represents a significant advancement in corporate travel technology, moving beyond conventional dashboards and historical reporting to deliver predictive insights, scenario analysis and actionable intelligence in seconds.

Rather than requiring travel managers to navigate complex reports or spend hours analyzing fragmented data, ALTOUR iQ enables them to ask business questions in everyday language, uncover the factors driving performance, anticipate future outcomes and evaluate actions that can deliver maximized business value. That unlocks greater capacity to recognize opportunities early and improve program performance in line with an organization’s priorities and budgets.

From Data Visibility to Decision Intelligence

The platform’s capabilities are built around four interconnected dimensions of decision intelligence:

Know: Gain immediate visibility into travel program performance, spending patterns, and emerging opportunities.Understand: Identify the underlying drivers of costs, traveler behavior, and program outcomes.Anticipate: Forecast future trends, identify emerging risks, and evaluate potential financial impacts.Challenge: Test assumptions, explore alternative strategies and determine which actions can deliver the greatest business value.

By connecting program activity with its drivers and likely outcomes, ALTOUR iQ supports more informed conversations with leadership about budget priorities, supplier strategy and the contribution of travel and meetings investments to organizational goals.

“What makes ALTOUR iQ so powerful is its ability to synthesize large volumes of data and uncover insights in seconds that could otherwise take hours of searching and analysis,” said Rossow. “A travel manager can ask where savings opportunities are concentrated, explore what is driving them and test how different actions could affect the forecast – all within the same conversation. That means spotting opportunities sooner and intervening while there is still time to improve the outcome fundamentally changes what travel management teams can accomplish”

Innovation Designed Around Business Outcomes

ALTOUR iQ reflects ALTOUR’s broader commitment to redefining corporate travel management through proprietary technology, AI-driven automation and solutions designed around client business outcomes.

By connecting travel program activity with the decisions that influence cost and performance, ALTOUR iQ enables travel leaders to operate more strategically, engage executive stakeholders with greater confidence and demonstrate the measurable contribution of their travel programs to broader organizational goals.

“Travel managers are being asked to demonstrate how their programs contribute to broader business goals, and technology should give them greater capacity to do that,” said Gabe Rizzi, President of ALTOUR. “ALTOUR iQ goes beyond showing what happened to help them understand why, where to focus and which actions could have the greatest impact before costs or risks escalate. Showcasing the platform at Innovation Faceoff gives buyers a firsthand look at how ALTOUR is setting a new standard for what travel managers can expect from their technology and what their programs can achieve.”

Following its unveiling at Business Travel Show America, ALTOUR iQ is being made available through a phased commercial rollout, with broader market availability planned for Q1 2027.

To learn more about ALTOUR iQ or book a demo session, visit altour.com.

About ALTOUR

ALTOUR is a globally recognized leader in corporate travel management dedicated to managing the complexities of connecting people so they can represent their brands in the most impactful way possible. With a presence in over 90 countries, ALTOUR’s approach is defined by the belief that there’s a “better way” to handle travel – smarter, faster, easier and more tailored to each client’s needs. ALTOUR’s global offering also covers the full meetings and events lifecycle, from strategy and sourcing to delivery and reconciliation, through one connected framework. As part of the Internova Travel Group, the highest-ranking American corporate travel management company according to Business Travel News, ALTOUR combines global reach with local insights to maximize the value of every business interaction. For more information, please visit our website at altour.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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ALTOUR
staffo.dobrev@altour.com

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Argentum AI Founder and CEO Andrew Sobko Honored by Goldman Sachs for Entrepreneurship

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Sobko Among the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs at the 2026 Builders and Innovators Summit

HEALDSBURG, Calif., Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Goldman Sachs is recognizing Andrew Sobko, Founder and CEO of Argentum AI, as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2026 at its Builders and Innovators Summit in Healdsburg, California.

Goldman Sachs selected Sobko from entrepreneurs across multiple industries for recognition at the two-day event. Under his leadership, Argentum AI is developing infrastructure designed to address one of the artificial intelligence industry’s most pressing challenges: securing the computing capacity, power, capital and data center infrastructure needed to support AI at scale.

“It is an incredible honor to be recognized by Goldman Sachs alongside some of the world’s most ambitious entrepreneurs,” said Andrew Sobko, Founder and CEO of Argentum AI. “We are building Argentum AI to redefine how the world accesses AI compute – making AI cloud infrastructure more scalable, flexible, and accessible to the companies shaping the future of artificial intelligence.”

“We are pleased to recognize Andrew Sobko as one of the most exceptional entrepreneurs of 2026,” said David Solomon, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. “As AI reshapes the global landscape, the leaders at Argentum AI are proving that agility and vision can be the ultimate competitive advantages. They are not simply building a great enterprise; they are redefining what is possible in their industry.”

In its 15th year, Goldman Sachs’ Builders and Innovators Summit brings together founders and CEOs of high-growth companies for discussions, educational sessions and networking with experienced entrepreneurs, academics and business leaders. The summit recognizes entrepreneurs whose leadership and innovation are helping shape the future of their industries.

About Argentum AI

Argentum AI is The Independent AI Cloud, providing enterprise-grade AI cloud infrastructure to hyperscalers, leading AI labs, and enterprises worldwide. Through its business model, Argentum combines power, data centers, GPUs, and capital to deliver AI compute at unprecedented scale and speed. Andrew Sobko, Founder and CEO of Argentum AI, is a serial entrepreneur recognized for building and scaling high-growth technology companies. He founded Argentum AI, The Independent AI Cloud, which has secured over $12 billion in contracted revenue and is rapidly expanding its global AI infrastructure footprint. The company delivers large-scale GPU compute.

For more information, visit argentum-ai.com.

About Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

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Opus 2 wins Company of the Year and Women Leaders in Tech at Legal Geek Awards

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Awards recognise company’s innovation and impact in addition to the outstanding individual leadership of Caroline Korteweg, Opus 2’s Director of AI & Market Development, Europe

LONDON, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Opus 2, a leading legal technology provider, won two Legal Geek Leaders in Tech Law Awards, underlining the company’s continued leadership in disputes technology as well as its latest AI innovations. Opus 2 won for Legal Tech Company of the Year, while Caroline Korteweg, Opus 2’s Director of AI & Market Development, Europe, won the Women Leaders in Tech award.

The Legal Geek Leaders in Tech Law Awards are a partnership between Legal Geek and Law.com and are an evolution of the former European Legal Innovation & Tech Law Awards. The winners were honored on 14 October in London, recognising firms, in-house teams, suppliers, and individuals who redefine what’s possible in legal services. Judging was conducted by editorial staff in addition to external panels consisting of leading individuals in select categories.

Built for the evolving needs of modern legal teams, Opus 2 combines deep legal expertise with secure, AI-enabled technology to help organisations manage complexity, strengthen collaboration, and deliver better outcomes. The company is the clear leader in disputes software, counting 96 percent of the Am Law 50 and 92 percent of the FT’s most innovative firms as clients.

The recognition follows Opus 2’s introduction of Opus 2 Ingenuity™, the company’s agentic AI framework. Ingenuity runs on the millions of insights generated in the Opus 2 platform, supplying its multiple layers of AI with a superior foundation for understanding, surfacing, creating, and acting on intelligence.

In addition, Opus 2 recently won Best SaaS Solution for Law and Legal Services in the SaaS Awards, the CODiE Award for Best Legal Solution, and three Gold American Business Awards® for Best Legal Company (Large), Best Legal Solution, and People’s Choice for Best Legal Solution. The company was also named a 2026 Best Place to Work, and a finalist in the Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards and A.I. Awards.

About Opus 2

Founded in 2008, Opus 2 develops award-winning, AI-enabled software that solves the most pressing problems facing the practice of law. The company’s best-in-class solutions are essential to the commercial disputes ecosystem and trusted by the world’s most successful law firms for their critical matters. Those solutions are built on a flexible platform powered by its agentic AI framework, Opus 2 Ingenuity,™ that helps firms create intelligent legal solutions that win business, deepen client engagement, and simplify workflows firmwide. For more information, visit Opus2.com.

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Benzinga Announces 2026 Benzinga Awards

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DETROIT, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Benzinga announced the Benzinga Awards 2026 today, a digital awards program recognizing leading companies, innovators and professionals across financial services and fintech.

The 2026 program, which is judged in collaboration with DALBAR, will highlight organizations helping shape the future of financial technology, investing and financial services across a range of award categories.

“We are honored to partner with Benzinga and contribute DALBAR‘s independent research, analytical rigor, and industry expertise to the evaluation process for these prestigious awards,” said Steve Worthy, Managing Director of DALBAR. “By helping assess nominees against objective standards of excellence, innovation, and client impact, we are proud to support the recognition of organizations and leaders who are setting the benchmark for achievement across the financial services industry.”

The digital awards program will culminate in an in-person celebration on November 19, 2026, at Ascent Lounge, 10 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10019. The event will bring together award winners, sponsors and industry leaders for an evening celebrating this year’s honorees.

“This is our 12th year running the Benzinga Awards, and the field has never been harder to judge,” said Andrew Lebbos, SVP of Licensing at Benzinga. “A dozen years ago most of these companies didn’t exist. We are bringing everyone into one room in Manhattan for a night to recognize the people building the future of finance!”

Interested applicants can apply here: https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-awards#apply

The awards submission portal is open until October 23, 2026, 11:59 PM Eastern. Costs to apply are $250.00 per single award, or $500.00 for unlimited award submissions per company.

“Benzinga started as a newsroom, and over twelve years we have become something closer to infrastructure. The same real-time news, analyst ratings and corporate event data that millions of retail investors read on our site now flows through our APIs into brokerages, trading platforms and AI systems across the industry,” said Dave Maher, CEO and CTO of Benzinga. “These awards matter to us because we work alongside many of the honorees every day. Recognizing the companies that are rebuilding how people access and act on financial information is a natural extension of what Benzinga does.”

Winners will be announced ahead of the November celebration.

To apply to the Benzinga Awards 2026 program, click here.

For more information about the event or sponsorship opportunities, please visit https://www.benzinga.com/fintech-awards.

About Benzinga

Benzinga is a leading financial media and data technology company that empowers investors with high-quality, real-time market intelligence. Through its news platform, APIs, and data products, Benzinga provides traders, financial institutions, and fintech platforms with the insights they need to make smarter investment decisions. From breaking news and analyst ratings to corporate events and alternative datasets, Benzinga’s tools help market participants stay ahead of the information that drives price movement.

To learn more, visit www.benzinga.com.

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