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Villa Sandi Turns Its Vineyards Into An Intelligent Ecosystem For Precision Viticulture

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Agronomic data, climate sensors and artificial intelligence are being deployed across all of the Group’s estates in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions of Italy, driving a new approach to vineyard management that reduces resource consumption while enhancing grape quality.

CROCETTA DEL MONTELLO, Italy, July 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Villa Sandi, a historic family-owned winery in Italy’s Veneto region and a pioneer of premium Prosecco, is accelerating its commitment to precision viticulture by transforming its vineyards into an intelligent ecosystem where sensors, satellite imagery, drones and decision support systems work together to make every intervention more targeted and sustainable, while helping agronomists identify the ideal harvest window.

Among the wineries at the forefront of digital innovation in the Prosecco category, Villa Sandi has implemented a precision viticulture ecosystem connecting more than 200 hectares of vineyards through a single digital platform that collects and interprets agronomic and climate data in real time. The initiative, launched more than two years ago, is part of a broader sustainability strategy that has also earned all of Villa Sandi’s vineyards Biodiversity Friend certification, recognizing farming practices that protect ecosystems and natural resources.

The investment is designed to make vineyard management more precise, sustainable and resilient to climate change, while reinforcing the quality that underpins Villa Sandi’s continued growth in key export markets – foremost among them the United States, where demand for authentic, high-quality Prosecco continues to grow.

The system combines weather stations monitoring temperature, humidity, rainfall and wind; electronic leaf sensors measuring leaf wetness; and soil sensors reading moisture down to roughly 70 centimeters. AI-powered decision support tools transform this data into practical recommendations for agronomists, while drones and satellite imagery monitor vegetative vigor plot by plot, identifying variations within just a few meters, early signs of vine stress and the optimal harvest timing.

“Technology does not replace human expertise — it makes it more informed,” says Leonardo Moretti Polegato, Vice President of Villa Sandi. “Viticulture is built on observation, sensitivity and an in-depth knowledge of the land. Today, we can complement that experience with digital tools and artificial intelligence that help us interpret large volumes of data and better understand the specific needs of every vineyard. This allows us to intervene only where necessary, at the right time and with the appropriate level of intensity, improving grape quality while reducing our environmental impact.”

Agronomists now have real-time visibility into climate conditions, soil moisture, plant behavior and vineyard variability, enabling more accurate planning and targeted interventions. Their role has evolved from collecting information to interpreting it and applying field expertise. This approach responds directly to rising temperatures, increasingly erratic weather and growing pressure on water resources, which have led to more frequent heat stress, irregular rainfall and water scarcity. Continuous monitoring allows irrigation and plant protection treatments to be fine-tuned before problems arise, rather than reacting after the fact.

“Over the next 10 to 20 years, I believe AI will have its greatest impact in helping us understand vineyards more deeply and make increasingly precise decisions,” Moretti Polegato adds. “The ability to collect, analyze and interpret large amounts of data will allow us to anticipate plant needs, respond more effectively to climate challenges and optimize the use of natural resources. But the future of viticulture will not be driven by technology alone. The greatest value will come from combining artificial intelligence with human expertise. Technology can generate new insights, but it is the knowledge and sensitivity of viticulturists that transform data into meaningful decisions.”

The results are already tangible. Villa Sandi estimates it has reduced plant protection treatments by up to 20% and cut water consumption by an average of around 10% through optimized irrigation. Even greater gains have been achieved in vineyards where precision management is combined with soil composition studies and the “M” series rootstocks developed with the University of Milan’s Wine Research Team. In these plots, water savings reach up to 70% compared with neighboring vineyards, providing a practical response to increasingly frequent water stress.

This intelligent ecosystem marks a new phase in Villa Sandi’s innovation journey, driven by the daily collaboration of agronomists, winemakers and technical specialists, and designed to evolve as new technologies and expertise emerge. The goal is to deepen understanding of every vineyard, preserve its natural balance and consistently deliver grapes of the highest quality, harvest after harvest.

About Villa Sandi
Villa Sandi is a family-owned winery based in the Veneto region of Italy, housed in a historic 17th-century Palladian villa. Since its acquisition by the Moretti Polegato family in 1975, the estate has become a benchmark producer of Prosecco and a key ambassador of Italian sparkling wines worldwide. With a presence in over 130 markets and a strong focus on quality, sustainability, and hospitality, Villa Sandi continues to promote the culture and heritage of its territory on a global scale.

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Allstream Energy Partners Nominated in Multiple Categories for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators

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Nomination Categories for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators in AI & Automation, Advertising, Marketing & PR

HOUSTON, Sept. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Allstream Energy Partners has been nominated in multiple categories for Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators program, recognizing organizations redefining their industries through innovation, leadership, and emerging technologies.

The company received nominations in six categories:

Best Workplaces for Innovators North AmericaAI, Automation and Machine Learning ExcellenceAdvertising, Marketing and PRSmall & Mighty CompaniesInnovative Leader of the Year: Efrain Garcia, Founder and CEOInnovative Team of the Year

The nominations recognize Allstream’s investment in proprietary AI-driven marketing technologies, digital publishing solutions, and workflows designed to change how energy companies build visibility, authority, and customer engagement.

Where Oil and Gas Digital Marketing Meets Publishing

Allstream Energy Partners has developed an agency-plus-publisher model combining digital marketing, content creation, industry communications, media publishing, executive networking, and business development.

As artificial intelligence changes how buyers discover suppliers, manufacturers, engineering firms, service companies, and technology providers, Allstream helps clients position themselves to be recommended—not simply found.

Its integrated capabilities include AI marketing strategy, AI-optimized website development, SEO for Oil and Gas, Answer Engine Optimization, Generative Engine Optimization, AI search visibility, content marketing, industry publishing, public relations, social media, paid search, email marketing, event promotion, podcasting, branding, and digital advertising.

Innovation Built for Energy

Unlike a general marketing agency, Allstream was built specifically for oil and gas, energy, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and industrial markets. Each founder brings 27 years of experience supporting sales, business development, capital projects, technical services, industrial marketing, and digital strategy.

This experience gives Allstream an understanding of how technical buyers evaluate suppliers, how projects move through the market, and how engineering, procurement, operations, and executive teams consume information.

The company continues investing in proprietary methodologies that combine industry knowledge, journalism, publishing, AI optimization, communications, and business development strategy. As AI becomes an important starting point for supplier research and vendor discovery, Allstream helps organizations evolve beyond traditional SEO.

“Marketing has fundamentally changed,” said Efrain Garcia, Founder and CEO of Allstream Energy Partners. “Our team recognized early that AI would transform how buyers discover companies, evaluate expertise, and make purchasing decisions. These nominations reflect our commitment to innovation and our mission to help the energy industry succeed in an AI-first world.”

About Allstream Energy Partners

Allstream Energy Partners is a Houston-based, AI-powered marketing and media company serving the energy and industrial supply chain. Through SEO, GEO, AEO, AI-optimized websites, publishing, strategic communications, networking events, and business partnerships, Allstream helps Oil and Gas companies strengthen their brands, improve visibility across search engines and AI platforms, and generate qualified business opportunities.
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Krelva Accepted Into the HBS Foundry Bootcamp at Harvard Business School

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Foster Britton spent four years learning to trade. Jerry Klamm grew a website to $100,000 a month in high school. Their bootstrapped, pre-launch company, Krelva, joins the new program in October and opens Krelva Meet, small live rooms where day traders trade the market together at their respective skill levels.

BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Krelva, a bootstrapped, pre-launch Buffalo company built for futures day traders, has been accepted into the HBS Foundry Bootcamp at Harvard Business School, a new online program for founders working toward their first check. Foster Britton started trading in 10th grade, at 15, before settling on futures trading. Jerry Klamm, 19, built Geometry Spot at 16, grew it to more than 175 million pageviews and $100,000 a month in revenue before he finished high school, and left the University at Buffalo to run Krelva full time.

“Krelva Meet is the room I wish I had at 15.” Foster Britton, co-founder, Krelva

Krelva exists because of how hard Britton’s first four years were. Trading is highly complex, the internet is full of people teaching it, and most of what a beginner finds is confusing, contradictory, or sold by someone with something to sell. The question is never whether there is enough information. It is where to start and who to listen to.

“I started trading in 10th grade, in forex before anything else, and it took me four years to get it right,” Britton said. “It was not that the charts were hard. It was that there is so much online, most of it is confusing, and there is no way to know where to start or who to listen to.”

Today Krelva has two things. The first is a free beginner course that shows people where to start; it teaches the basics without promising anyone a payday. The second is Krelva Meet, which opens in October at $50 a month with a 14-day free trial: a new way to trade Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 futures, not alone and not in a crowd of strangers, but in a small live room with people at your own verified level.

Krelva Meet started with a frustration anyone who has spent time in a trading Discord will recognize. People post their results, and some of those results are real. Screenshots are easy to fake, a few prop firms now issue verified payout cards, and none of it tells a beginner whether the person answering their question is actually where they say they are. So the beginner guesses, and the loudest voice usually wins.

Krelva Meet checks. Every trader has a level that Krelva verifies before they enter a room, and the company is building direct brokerage verification so the check happens automatically. Rooms are built from traders at the same level. Someone who has never passed a prop firm evaluation sits with others who have not either. Pass one, and you move up to rooms with traders who have passed. Get paid out, and you move up again. Alongside the rooms, Krelva is launching a rating: simple, earned over time, and moved by how you answer questions during the session rather than by what you claim. Rooms are not a signal service and tell no one what to buy or sell. They are about the process: reading the market before the open, talking it through with people at your level, and finding out afterward where and why you were right or wrong.

Krelva does not claim to make anyone a better trader faster. It is trying to give people a place to start.

“Krelva Meet is the room I wish I had at 15,” Britton said.

The HBS Foundry Bootcamp at Harvard Business School has drawn attention since its launch for its $699 price and its format, which from Krelva’s understanding pairs weekly live sessions with HBS faculty and guests with AI versions of those same professors, built to push back on weak ideas.

“I’m interested in this new program at Harvard Business School. I think using AI tools to learn is the future, but I’m curious to see how Harvard does it and if it actually works,” Klamm said. “I like that it says the AI professors are built to challenge weak ideas, so I’m going to push it to the limit and see how it performs compared to a real professor.”

The waitlist for Krelva Meet is open now at https://krelva.com.

“Most traders look at the chart at 9:30 every morning by themselves. There are thousands of other traders just like you,” Klamm said. “Why would you trade alone if you could trade with a group you trust? That is the whole idea.”

About Krelva

Krelva is a Buffalo, New York company built for futures day traders. Its free beginner course, built by co-founder Foster Britton, teaches the basics of trading. Its paid product, Krelva Meet, puts traders in small live rooms with other traders at the same verified level to trade Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 futures together, for $50 a month with a 14-day free trial. Krelva was founded in 2026 by Jerry Klamm and Foster Britton. Learn more at https://krelva.com.

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Larry Ellison Cancels His Plan to Sell Oracle Stock

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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that Larry Ellison, Executive Chair of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, has cancelled his 10b5-1 Plan to sell Oracle stock. No Oracle stock was sold under that plan, and he has no other plans to sell any of his Oracle stock.

About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.

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“Safe Harbor” Statement: Statements in this press release relating to future plans, expectations, beliefs, intentions and prospects, are “forward-looking statements” and are subject to material risks and uncertainties. A detailed discussion of risks that affect our business is contained in our SEC filings, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors.” Copies of these filings are available online from the SEC or by contacting Oracle’s Investor Relations Department at (650) 506-4073 or by clicking on SEC Filings on the Oracle Investor Relations website at www.oracle.com/investor/. All information set forth in this press release is current as of September 12, 2026. Oracle undertakes no duty to update any statement in light of new information or future events.

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