CleanEquity® Monaco 2021 – Registration and Collaboration

LONDON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CleanEquity® was founded in 2007 by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco & Mungo Park, Chair of Innovator Capital. The conference, aimed at accelerating development and implementation of sustainable technology innovation, returns on 22nd & 23rd July 2021.

CleanEquity Monaco 2021

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Over 600 companies across 11 sectors and 70 sub-sectors are sourced annually by Innovator Capital’s CleanEquity® team. The 30 best-in-class technologies, chosen by the selection committee are invited to present at the conference. The invitation-only conference is attended by financial, strategic, sovereign, corporate and family investors, established industry representatives, government officials, end users and international trade media. The chosen companies must meet high standards of unique technological differentiation, global relevance & impact, management ability & integrity, intellectual property and self-sustaining revenue potential.

In the 14 years since its founding, more than 350 companies have presented their ideas and solutions to advance climate change mitigation and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These companies have since gone on to raise over US$2 billion.

The conference provides an intimate and collegiate setting. This allows entrepreneurs to share their stories with established delegates and investors in key decision-making positions who share CleanEquity’s ambition to address the climate crisis by supporting sustainable technologies with reaching their commercial and strategic goals. CleanEquity’s proven team works efficiently to facilitate introductions and meetings before, during and after the conference.

In 2020 we joined forces with EarthX TV and opened our doors to a live, global audience. During the two day conference, over 28,000 people tuned in. We shall build on this success in 2021.

We are delighted to be partnering with Covington & Burling LLP for their 12th year. Andrew Jack, Partner and co-chair of Covington & Burling’s Energy Industry Group, commented:

“In a time of global disruption and societal inflection, we all need reminders that the future remains full of promise if we seize the opportunities that are before us.  As long time sponsors and supporters of CleanEquity, we at Covington deeply appreciate the differentiated value proposition that CleanEquity holds for that promise by convening leading entrepreneurs, investors and advisors from around the globe to drive progress in commercializing transformational sustainable technologies and expanding sustainability thought leadership.

Covington is proud to support and assist CleanEquity through our year-round commitment of a dedicated group of senior technology, policy and transactional lawyers to source and advise CleanEquity investors and presenting companies.  And as the conference continues to leverage the unique in-person features of its special setting in Monaco while also expanding its reach through a virtual medium on EarthX, we look forward to greater opportunities to connect with a broader universe of conference participants.

In a world that is increasingly complex and resetting rules in recovery from the pandemic, Covington & Burling has built a powerful firm-wide capability to help our clients navigate the intersection of law and policy, a capability which is aligned perfectly with the dynamic development of the global sustainable technology sector and the focus of events such as CleanEquity Monaco. The firm’s transactional and technology expertise coupled with our ability to advise on the toughest legal, policy and commercial challenges produces consistent results for our clients’ businesses.”

For further information about attending CleanEquity® Monaco 2021, please use the contact details below or visit the conference website: www.cleanequitymonaco.com

Contact:

Conor Barrett
Innovator Capital
conor.barrett@innovator-capital.com
Twitter: @CleanEquity

Logo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1503939/CleanEquity_Monaco_2021_Logo.jpg

Coppel Mexico Picks VoltDB to Power Customer Profiles

BEDFORD, Mass., June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — VoltDB, the only enterprise-grade data platform that meets the real-time data requirements of modern applications, announced today that Coppel, the biggest nationwide department store in Mexico, is now using the VoltDB Data Platform to create a unified system for customer profiles.

“Volt has really been a game-changer for us,” said Coppel CTO Robert Gil. “We can now have a unified platform to manage all of our 13 million customer portfolio data, which then feeds into much better customer experiences and far bigger ROI for us thanks to improved customer loyalty.”

One of Coppel’s main assets, customer portfolios, also present a big challenge: to have a single profile that is online and up-to-date with all the customer’s information and for this profile to be live in an omnichannel environment so that customers can access their information on charges, credits, and installments (balances) in real time, without compromising the speed at which transactions are processed within the portfolio.

Coppel chose VoltDB because it needed a data platform that could enable them to:

  • Store online information in one place
  • Be fault tolerant through distributed, multi-site optimized finite-difference (DRP) schemes
  • Analyze information in real time with dashboards
  • Do real-time data collection
  • Perform fraud analysis without compromising database performance

“All the tests we carried out with Volt exceeded the expectations with respect to performance in transactions per second,” Gil said.

Moving forward, Coppel plans to expand its use of Volt to various call center and customer service use cases.

For more information on why organizations across all industries are choosing VoltDB to power their operations, visit https://www.voltdb.com/.

About VoltDB

VoltDB is the only data platform designed to support telco applications in the age of 5G. We combine in-memory data storage with predictable low-latency and other key capabilities to power BSS/OSS, customer management, and revenue assurance applications that need to act in single-digit milliseconds to drive revenue or prevent revenue loss, without compromising on data accuracy. For more information, visit voltdb.com.

Logo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1334383/VoltDB_Logo.jpg

‫شبكة تلفزيون الصين الدولية (CGTN): الصين تستهدف أن تكون مركزًا للابتكار

بكين، 10 يونيو/حزيران 2021 / PRNewswire / — انطلاقًا من صناعة البوصلة وصناعة الورق والطباعة والبارود -هذه الاختراعات الأربعة العظيمة للصين القديمة- وصولًا إلى الغواصة المأهولة جياولونج وجسر هونج كونج-تشوهاي-ماكاو ومسبار المريخ تيانوين-1، فلطالما كانت الصين تتبنى الروح الإبداعية والحيوية المبتكرة لشعبها.

قال الرئيس الصيني شي جين بينغ خلال حوار مع مجموعة من الشباب المتميزين من جميع مناحي الحياة بتاريخ 4 مايو 2013: “الابتكار هو الروح التي تقود تقدم الأمة، وهو مصدر لا ينضب لازدهار البلد. إنه أيضًا جزء أساسي من الشخصية الوطنية الصينية”.

كما أضاف أو هذا هو فحوى المقولة القديمة: “إذا كان بإمكانك تجديد نفسك في يوم واحد، فافعل ذلك يومًا بعد يوم، حينها ستجد أنك تتجدد كل يوم”.

انطلاقة الابتكار

اتخذت الصين خطوات مهمة لتعزيز قدرتها الابتكارية على مدار السنوات القليلة الماضية، مع تحسن قوتها في جوانب العلوم والتكنولوجيا بشكل مطرد من حيث المؤشرات الرئيسية.

احتلت الصين المرتبة 14 من بين أكثر من 100 اقتصاد في جميع أنحاء العالم في تصنيف الابتكار القياسي في عام 2020، وهي الاقتصاد الوحيد متوسط الدخل المدرج ضمن أعلى 30 اقتصادًا لمدة سبع سنوات، وفقًا للمؤشر الذي أصدرته المنظمة العالمية للملكية الفكرية ( World Intellectual Property Organization ) في سبتمبر الماضي.

وورد في بيان صحفي صادر عن جهة المؤشر: “لقد رسخت الصين مكانتها كدولة رائدة في مجال الابتكار، مع مرتبة عالية في المقاييس المهمة، منها براءات الاختراع ونماذج المنفعة والعلامات التجارية والتصاميم الصناعية وصادرات السلع الإبداعية”.

تضاعف تمويل الحكومة المركزية للبحوث الأساسية على مدى السنوات الخمس الماضية، في حين يُقدر التمويل بنحو 6.16%من إجمالي نفقات البحث والتطوير في عام 2020، وفقًا لوانغ زيغانغ، وزير العلوم والتكنولوجيا.

من المتوقع أن يصل معدل إسهام التقدم العلمي والتكنولوجي في النمو الاقتصادي إلى 60% في عام 2020، حسب توقعات رسمية من وزارة العلوم والتكنولوجيا.

 تم تحقيق العديد من الإنجازات البارزة في مجال التكنولوجيا الفائقة في السنوات الأخيرة، فقد عاد مسبار شانجي-5 إلى البلاد بالعينات الأولى التي تم جمعها من القمر، بينما بدأت أول مركبة فضائية صينية تصل إلى المريخ في استكشاف الكوكب الأحمر.

وتتخذ الدولة خطوات سريعة لتطوير طائرات الركاب الكبيرة والقطار المحمول مغناطيسيًا، بينما تزدهر الصناعات المتعلقة بالاقتصاد الرقمي، وتكنولوجيا الجيل الخامس، والذكاء الاصطناعي، والسيارات الكهربائية على الجانب الآخر.

الوصول إلى الريادة في الابتكار اعتمادًا على الذات

وفقًا للخطة الخمسية الرابعة عشرة للصين (2021-2025) للتنمية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية الوطنية والأهداف بعيدة المدى حتى عام 2035، ينبغي اعتبار الابتكار جوهر عملية التحديث في الصين، وينبغي إيلاء الأولوية القصوى إلى الاعتماد على الذات وتحسين الذات في العلوم والتكنولوجيا كدور دعم إستراتيجي.

في مواجهة المنافسة الدولية الشديدة، وعلى خلفية تزايد النزعة الانفرادية والحمائية، شدد الرئيس شي على الاعتماد على الذات وتعزيز الذات في تطوير العلوم والتكنولوجيا في البلاد في اجتماع عقد في 28 مايو.

حث الرئيس شي جين بينغ المتخصصين في مجال العلوم والتكنولوجيا في الصين على تحمل المسؤوليات التي أوكلها إليهم العصر والسعي من أجل الاعتماد على الذات في العلوم والتكنولوجيا وتعزيز الذات على أعلى المستويات.

كما قال الرئيس أن الانطلاقات العلمية والتكنولوجية يجب أن تعالج القضايا الأكثر إلحاحًا، مع التركيز على تلبية احتياجات البلاد، سواء العاجلة أو طويلة الأجل.

مع تحول الصين من مُصنع عالمي إلى مبتكر عالمي، فإن الخطة الخمسية الرابعة عشرة مفادها أن المجالات التالية ستكون محور تركيز البلاد خلال السنوات الخمس إلى الخمس عشرة المقبلة، والتي تشمل الذكاء الاصطناعي والمعلومات الكمية والدوائر المتكاملة والصحة والحياة، والعلوم المتعلقة بالمخ، والتربية الحيوية، والفضاء، واستكشاف أعماق الأرض والبحار.

من المزمع أن ترفع الصين استثماراتها في البحوث الأساسية خلال فترة الخطة الخمسية الرابعة عشرة، مع توقعات بأن يصل التمويل إلى أكثر من 8% من إجمالي نفقات البحث والتطوير، وفقًا لوزارة العلوم والتكنولوجيا.

 https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-08/China-aims-to-become-an-innovation-powerhouse–10QnCEg98Oc/index.html

فيديو –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJsi0soSNo

CGTN: An open China is a boon to global economy

BEIJING, 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Over 1,000 global brands including Swatch of Switzerland, Swarovski of Austria, Shiseido of Japan and America’s Tesla gathered at the first China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan Province in May.

With a large host of business, trade, invention and innovation expos and fairs, access to foreign products is now easy and convenient in China. But decades ago, it was a completely different story.

Before the 1970s, many people were struggling to fill their bellies, let alone pampering themselves with a shopping spree.

China’s reform and opening-up policy altered the country’s course of development.

Since the initiation of this policy, the country has gone through three major waves of opening-up.

The first began in 1978 and continued through the 1980s and 1990s. It saw an influx of foreign direct investment for infrastructure building and industrial projects across the country.

The second wave began in 2001 with China’s accession to the WTO, which spurred another burst of foreign investment and greater integration with the global economy.

Now, as China embarks on a fresh chapter of development under its 14th Five-Year Plan, the nation is on the cusp of a new wave marked by proactive initiatives to deepen integration even further.

The vehicles include the development of new free trade zones (FTZ) and the Hainan free trade port, the integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and new international trade and investment agreements such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Agreement (RCEP).

This policy approach has driven reforms and expanded the market, enabling a more specialized division of labor. In addition, intense competition stimulated by trade liberalization and import tariff cuts forced domestic businesses to be more efficient. It has also led to the optimization of the allocation of resources and industrial upgrading.

More than 40 years of reform and opening-up have seen China’s total imports and exports soar from $20.6 billion to more than $4.5 trillion, making the country the world’s top trading nation.

Having moved the nation from times of scarcity to today’s shopping spree experience, reform and opening-up is not only a recipe for China’s success, but has arguably become an indispensable driving force towards a more prosperous world.

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-05-19/An-open-China-a-boon-to-global-economy-10mwRLc0YVy/index.html 

Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1530600/image.jpg

Moonbug Entertainment’s Hugely Popular Kids Shows come to the BBC

Programs Including Global Hits CoComelon, Go Buster, Little Baby Bum And More Are Now Available

LONDON, June 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Moonbug Entertainment Ltd., one of the largest digital media companies in the world, today announced its fun, relatable and enriching kids shows are now available on the BBC. All available episodes of hugely popular titles, including CoComelon, Digley and Dazey, Little Baby Bum, Go Buster and Playtime with Twinkle can now be enjoyed by families across the UK on BBC iPlayer.

Moonbug x BBC

“Our collaboration with the BBC marks the first partnership with a public service broadcaster. A real quality stamp for our creative teams!” said Nicolas Eglau, Managing Director EMEA & APAC, Moonbug. “BBC is known worldwide for its engaging programming for preschoolers, and Moonbug is excited to enter a partnership with such a renowned organization.”

Moonbug’s programming introduces universal themes that children can relate to via colorful animation and compelling storytelling. Whether it’s eating veggies or getting ready for bed, Moonbug’s playful animation and catchy songs supports children’s development and learning.

About Moonbug Entertainment
Moonbug Entertainment is an award-winning global entertainment company providing values-based educational programming for children. Its popular kids lineup includes global sensations CoComelonBlippiLittle Baby BumMy Magic Pet MorphleSupa StrikasGo BusterPlaytime with TwinkleGecko’s GarageARPO and many more which are available in 27 languages.

In just two years, it has become a kids programming powerhouse with a library of more than 550 hours of content, which is distributed on more than 100 platforms globally, including YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Tencent, Youku and Roku. In May of 2020, Tubular Labs named Moonbug one of the leading digital kids’ entertainment companies in the world based on the total number of minutes watched worldwide.

Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1529884/BBC_Moonbug.jpg