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Ancera Unveils Innovative Apollo Food Defense System at IPPE 2025

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1 year ago

January 8, 2025

Robotics system to automate onsite data analytics generation with higher accuracy, throughput, and economics compared to human operators

BRANFORD, Conn., Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Ancera, creator of the world’s first food defense system, is announcing its newest technology innovation – APOLLO – at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE). APOLLO is a mobile command center for food defense, generating large volumes of actionable data to drive better decisions around food safety and production efficiency. Compared to manual methods, Apollo automates 75% of the touch points needed, all while ensuring more accurate and timely results. The APOLLO system was developed in response to concerns from poultry industry’s rising costs around labor, anti-microbials, and diagnostics. Ancera will showcase the technology at its IPPE booth #B38033 in Atlanta from January 28-30, offering demos and tours to attendees.

Ancera, creator of the world’s first food defense system, is announcing its newest technology innovation – APOLLO – at the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE).

“It’s 2025, but poultry companies are still relying on outdated diagnostics and delayed reporting systems,” said Arjun Ganesan, Founder and CEO of Ancera, the data analytics software company helping poultry producers monitor pathogens, enhance food safety, and increase profit margins. “Apollo brings cutting-edge automation and analytics together, giving producers the data they need to predict and prevent risks, maximize productivity, and improve their bottom line. This is a food defense command center delivered right to their doorstep.”

The food industry is challenged by a lack of infrastructure to support modern technology integrations for safety monitoring, despite its considerable spend of billions of dollars to enhance safety. The ability to have this new, automated lab equipment on-site with the rapid testing methods is a significant advancement in protecting the food supply and consumers. Precise monitoring reduces the spread of pathogens and allows companies to zero in on the origin to quickly and effectively apply interventions, reduce downtime, minimize the risk of recalls, and better protect consumer health. The advanced traceability and visibility offered by Ancera’s system create actionable pathways for companies to make operational improvements.

Fast access to actionable data has significant cost-savings implications for processing plants. Ancera data are already in use at processing plants to efficiently apply PAA and improve food safety around Salmonella Serotypes of Human Health Concern (HHC). As poultry companies aim to reduce their downtime, optimize use of anti-microbials, and accelerate compliance-readiness, Apollo will serve as critical infrastructure to enable data-driven decisions with actionable and complete information.

Meet Apollo: Live Automated Lab Demonstrations
Ancera invites poultry producers to be among the first to witness Apollo in action. Live, 15-minute demonstrations of the system’s capabilities will take place at IPPE, led exclusively by Ancera’s lab engineering team. As space is limited, attendees are encouraged to register for a demo ahead of IPPE at cluck.ancera.com/IPPE.

Apollo integrates robotics, novel assays, and Ancera’s data science expertise to tackle the industry’s most pressing challenges:

Automated Threat Detection: Tracks and analyzes threats faster and more accurately.Profit-Driven Insights: Provides real-time, actionable data to eliminate inefficiencies and boost margins.Scalability: Deploys seamlessly across operations, generating massive datasets economically and effectively.

Ancera’s Food Defense System
Ancera will also spotlight its proven software solutions designed to address key industry challenges:

Downtime Management – Tailors treatment strategies to optimize costly farm downtime, unlocking operational savings at every location.Salmonella Compliance Readiness – Equips producers with a proactive, data-driven approach to navigate evolving government regulations and safeguard profitability.Product Efficacy Monitoring – Measures the real-world ROI of vaccines, feed additives, antimicrobials, and other treatments to reduce procurement budgets and improve product performance.

In addition to the lab demos and tours, Ancera’s Matt Zwilling, Director of Engineering and Operations, will present a Tech Talk at IPPE on January 28 at 12:30 p.m. in Theater B. The talk, “Autonomous Labs: Raising Data Quality, Lowering Labor Costs,” is open to all conference attendees.

About Ancera
Ancera delivers the world’s first food defense system that improves the productivity, profitability, and compliance-readiness of the poultry supply chain. Its full scope AI-powered solution provides objective datasets in near real-time, managing risks and offering custom interventional solutions to defend against microbial, geopolitical, and climate threats. Backed by advanced microbiology, data science, novel assays, and industry expertise, Ancera makes complex data accessible and easier to understand, providing clear actionable pathways at all operational stages to enhance consumer safety and protect the food chain’s resilience. For more information, visit ancera.com.

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RIVANNA nominated for MedTech Scale-Up of the Year at MedTech World Awards 2026 | North America

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13 minutes ago

May 5, 2026

Nomination places the Charlottesville-based company among growth-stage medtech leaders recognized for commercial momentum in AI-powered clinical decision support; public voting is open through May 8

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RIVANNA®, developer of AI-powered clinical decision-support solutions, today announced that it has been nominated for MedTech Scale-Up of the Year at the MedTech World Awards 2026 | North America. Public voting is open through Friday, May 8, 2026, with category winners to be announced at the inaugural North American Awards Gala on May 11, 2026, at the Hilton West Palm Beach in Florida.

The MedTech Scale-Up of the Year category honors a growth-stage company successfully scaling revenues, partnerships, and adoption across the global medical technology ecosystem. Nominees across the program’s 22 categories were selected through a structured process led by the MedTech World Steering Committee, with category winners determined by a combination of expert evaluation and public voting from the global MedTech community.

“We have built RIVANNA on validation earned from the most rigorous technical buyers in healthcare: competitive federal awards translated into FDA-cleared products, each paired with a commercial program that meets clinicians where they work,” said Will Mauldin, PhD, Co-founder and CEO of RIVANNA. “Being nominated for MedTech Scale-Up of the Year is a meaningful affirmation of that approach and the team executing it.”

Public voting closes Friday, May 8, 2026. Members of the MedTech community are invited to support RIVANNA’s nomination at the official voting page: vote here.

The award nomination follows a year of measurable scaling for RIVANNA:

In October 2025, RIVANNA reported on being named a finalist in MedTech Innovator’s 2025 Early-Stage Grand Prize competition, selected from nearly 1,500 global applicants to represent the top 4% of medtech innovations worldwide.In December 2025, RIVANNA reported on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 510(k) clearance of its Accuro® 3S Needle Guide Kit consumables, building on existing Accuro 3S device clearance.In April 2026, RIVANNA reported on peer-reviewed findings, published in 2025 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine (DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2025.11.011), showing that the Accuro® XV musculoskeletal imaging system enables non-physician operators to acquire diagnostic-quality scans after just one hour of hands-on training.In May 2026, RIVANNA reported on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 510(k) clearance of the Accuro® XV Diagnostic Ultrasound System for musculoskeletal imaging, authorizing commercial use across hospital and clinic settings.The company’s clinical program now spans eight sites nationwide with more than 1,500 patients enrolled.

The 2026 MedTech World Awards | North America, powered by Blue Goat Cyber, will be presented Monday, May 11, 2026, at the inaugural North American Awards Gala at the Hilton West Palm Beach, marking the first time the MedTech World Awards have been hosted in the United States.

About the MedTech Scale-Up of the Year Award
Presented by MedTech World, the MedTech Scale-Up of the Year category recognizes growth-stage medical technology companies demonstrating strong commercial momentum, expanding partnerships, and accelerating real-world adoption. The award is one of 22 categories spanning innovation, clinical excellence, regulatory strategy, investment, and leadership across the global MedTech ecosystem.

About RIVANNA
RIVANNA® is a medical technology company developing clinical decision-support solutions powered by proprietary clinical datasets, AI models, and purpose-built imaging hardware. The company’s platform automates complex anatomical analysis at the point of care, enabling faster, more confident clinical decisions while reducing variability and expanding access to advanced capabilities. The first applications target significant market opportunities in regional anesthesia and fracture care. RIVANNA has built a proven FDA regulatory track record across its Accuro® platform, with device clearances for Accuro® 3S (spinal needle guidance) and Accuro® XV (musculoskeletal imaging), a portfolio of supporting cleared consumables, and AI software modules advancing through regulatory review. The company is backed by 100+ patents and validated through clinical partnerships with leading academic medical centers. RIVANNA is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, and operates an FDA-registered, ISO 13485:2016-certified manufacturing facility. Learn more at rivannamedical.com.

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D2L Launch Week Highlights Latest Product Releases

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14 minutes ago

May 5, 2026

Latest innovations are designed to save time, simplify workflows, and help drive better learning outcomes

TORONTO, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – D2L, a global leader in learning innovation, hosted its first-ever D2L Launch Week, a four-day virtual webinar series spotlighting the company’s latest product innovations across D2L Brightspace in 2026.

Throughout the week, D2L showcased a range of product releases through live demos and practical customer use cases, highlighting how institutions, school districts and organizations can help to drive engagement and improve learning outcomes. The featured updates include enhancements to D2L Lumi for idea generation, intervention suggestions, quiz creation and summarization; tools to strengthen parent and guardian outreach; and administrative capabilities designed to help large organizations delegate course and configuration management more effectively.

“We’re proud to showcase the ways D2L continues to innovate to help make learning more personalized, efficient, and scalable,” said Christian Pantel, Chief Product Officer at D2L. “From new D2L Lumi features to enhanced communication tools and more flexible distributed administration capabilities, these updates are designed to help our customers save time, improve usability, and deliver better learning experiences at scale.”

Enhancements to D2L Lumi

Among the new capabilities were several updates to D2L’s AI-native tool, D2L Lumi, designed to improve usability, transparency, and alignment across workflows, including:

D2L Lumi Ideas: Generates assignment and discussion ideas directly within Brightspace, making it easier to generate high quality content aligned to learning outcomes.D2L Lumi Insights: Gives educators access to learning intervention suggestions, designed to provide recommended next steps based on learner data.D2L Lumi Quiz: Helps educators generate questions from multiple course content topics and includes a more streamlined question-generation workflow.D2L Lumi Summary: Supports summarization from more content sources, including nested submodules, and can give educators the ability to preview and adjust source text before summarization.

Updates to Parent and Guardian Communications

D2L also introduced new parent and guardian communication enhancements to help K-12 educators strengthen engagement beyond the classroom. Teachers can now send bulk emails to all parents and guardians associated with students in their class. For individual student outreach, teachers can also email parents and guardians of a specific learner, making it easier to share timely updates on student progress and classroom activity.

Manage Distributed Administration at Scale

Distributed Administration gives organizations more flexibility to delegate administrative responsibilities across organization levels. With Distributed Administration, administrators can manage specific areas, enabling them to oversee courses while helping to reduce bottlenecks and free up time.

Learn more about the latest product releases showcased at D2L Launch Week.

About D2L
D2L is transforming the way the world learns, helping learners achieve more than they dreamed possible. Working closely with customers all over the world, D2L is on a mission to make learning more inspiring, engaging and human. Find out how D2L helps transform lives and delivers outstanding learning outcomes in K-12, higher education and businesses.

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Ultima Markets Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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14 minutes ago

May 5, 2026

10 Years of Trust. Focused on Tomorrow.

EBENE CYBERCITY, Mauritius, May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ultima Markets Ltd (“UM”), authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius, marks its 10th anniversary under the theme, “10 Years of Trust. Focused on Tomorrow.” Since 2016, UM has transformed into a leading global brokerage.

Milestones

UM built a world-class trading space through ultra-fast tech and strict compliance, launching the UM Terminal, AI-driven MT5, and Mobile App. Key milestones include FSC Mauritius Authorisation (2023), a Willis Towers Watson partnership providing $1M fund protection, joining the UN Global Compact (2024), and securing 50+ awards by 2026.

Celebrating Lasting Partnerships

Exclusive initiatives include:

Ultimate Trader Cup: An epic trading competition to prove your edge.Ultima Loyalty Programme: A tiered system turning loyalty into long-term rewards.Ultima Partnership Programme: Leverage 10 years of market trust into lasting revenue.Inter Partnership Perks: VIP events and match access via its Inter partnership.

The Five ‘U’s

Core values guiding UM’s next decade:

User: Designing around trader needs and removing friction.United: Fostering community growth through learning.Upright: Acting transparently and ethically.Upward: Pursuing continuous product and performance growth.Upgrade: Elevating trader skills, tools, and outcomes.

Focused on Tomorrow

Guided by The Five ‘U’s, UM remains focused on tomorrow, investing in innovation, transparency, and global expansion. Building on recent advancements like Copy Trading Pro and UM Academy, its commitment is providing the ultimate trading edge and elite support worldwide.

About Ultima Markets

Ultima Markets Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius, offering a secure, regulated CFD trading experience. As the Official Regional Partner of FC Internazionale Milano, UM unites football passion with trading knowledge. Serving 170+ countries with 1,000+ instruments, the broker is a 50+ award winner and proud UN Global Compact supporter, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals for responsible growth. The products, services and initiatives described in this press release are offered exclusively by Ultima Markets Ltd. This communication is not directed at, nor are the products and services described herein available to, residents of the United Kingdom.

Ultima Markets (UK) Limited (“UM UK”) is a distinct legal entity authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in the United Kingdom. UM UK secured its FCA authorisation in 2025. UM UK is not the subject of this press release.

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