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Greenberg Traurig’s Mian R. Wang to Present at the PLI Women Lawyers in Leadership Conference 2023

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Mian R. Wang, a Litigation shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Boston office, will present on the “Best Leadership Practices for Women Lawyers” panel at the Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Women Lawyers in Leadership Conference 2023, Sept. 13.

BOSTON, Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mian R. Wang, a Litigation shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP‘s Boston office, will present on the “Best Leadership Practices for Women Lawyers” panel at the Practising Law Institute‘s (PLI) Women Lawyers in Leadership Conference 2023, Sept. 13. Wang and fellow panelists will share best leadership practices for women, including how to develop a leadership style, network and communicate effectively, and manage staff in the legal workplace.

Wang is an MIT-trained critical thinker focusing her practice on corporate malfeasance. She represents public and private companies, financial institutions, directors, officers, and individuals before state and federal courts in commercial and bankruptcy litigation. She routinely handles matters related to fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, high-value breach of contract, preference claims, and fraudulent transfers. Her practice covers multiple disciplines and industries, including education, health care, event management, start-up firms, financial institutions, and commercial finance and asset management firms.

Wang has been recognized as one of the “Emerging Women Leaders in the Law” by the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts, was named among the “40 Under 40” in 2020 by the Boston Business Journal, selected as an “Up & Coming Lawyer” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and selected as “Ones to Watch” by The Best Lawyers in America. She is the author of “Bringing Authenticity to the Practice of Law” published in Business Law Today and “Lessons I Learned to be More Effective as a Woman Lawyer” published in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

About Greenberg Traurig’s Litigation Practice: Greenberg Traurig’s Litigation Practice includes a team of more than 700 attorneys. The firm’s trial lawyers regularly appear in state and federal courts throughout the country, as well as in appellate courts and before international arbitration panels. They work closely with in-house counsel to develop a strategy that best fits a litigation cost and proficiency model appropriate to the client’s unique needs and goals.

About Greenberg Traurig’s Boston Office: Established in 1999, Greenberg Traurig’s Boston office is home to more than 85 attorneys practicing in the areas of banking and finance, corporate, emerging technology, energy, environmental, gaming, governmental affairs, intellectual property, labor and employment, life sciences and medical technology, litigation, public finance, real estate, restructuring and bankruptcy, tax, and white-collar defense and investigations. An important contributor to the firm’s international platform, the Boston office includes a team of nationally recognized attorneys with both public and private sector experience. The team offers clients the value of decades of helping clients in complex legal matters and hands-on knowledge of the local business community, supported by the firm’s vast network of global resources.

About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has more than 2650 attorneys in 47 locations in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm is a 2022 BTI “Highly Recommended Law Firm” for superior client service and is consistently among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100 and NLJ 500. Greenberg Traurig is Mansfield Rule 5.0 Certified Plus by The Diversity Lab. The firm is recognized for powering its U.S. offices with 100% renewable energy as certified by the Center for Resource Solutions Green-e® Energy program and is a member of the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program. The firm is known for its philanthropic giving, innovation, diversity, and pro bono. Web: http://www.gtlaw.com.

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Lisa Murray, Greenberg Traurig, 978.750.0333, [email protected], gtlaw.com

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Outward Media, Inc. B2BC Marketing Database Reaches 145 Million Contacts with Validated Email Addresses

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The expanded database includes 95 million small-and-mid-sized business (SMB) records, making it one of the largest U.S.-focused SMB databases in the world.

Anonymized Data Addressed Privacy Concerns

OMI has partnered with data marketplace leaders such as Snowflake to offer anonymized data options to address growing privacy concerns. With Snowflake’s anonymized data options, OMI clients – including brands and agencies — can connect OMI’s third-party B2BC data to their preferred martech platforms to power digital campaigns. OMI’s B2BC contacts and audience segments are accessible on the Snowflake Media Data Cloud. These contacts are matched to digital IDs to drive digital campaigns with powerful reach and accuracy.

OMI Services: Fueling Digital Marketing Campaigns, ABM and More

OMI views its B2BC data as a Living File® and regularly maintains and updates its database so that it accurately reflects the changing business environment. With the highest standards for data quality, OMI performs ongoing database cleansing — a process of analyzing, validating, purging, updating, and replacing data to ensure ongoing accuracy – and guarantees 95% email validity for 30 days.

All contacts include business name, contact name, social profile, phone, business postal address, job title, and various business firmographics. The data is digitally formatted to power display and social media campaigns and improve reach and accuracy for ABM initiatives.

In addition, OMI also offers the following services:

  • Deterministic Intent Data: OMI’s deterministic intent data increases engagement and conversions for integrated, omnichannel campaigns by connecting brands with audiences that are actively in market for solutions and services like theirs. Fresh digital intent signals are provided to clients each week based on their pre-defined parameters. The signals are sourced from search queries, content downloads, and website clicks — which are then sorted by industry and category using natural language processing (AI).
  • Probabilistic Intent Data: OMI combines probabilistic intent monitoring with our high-quality B2BC contact data to empower brands to elevate ROI for their acquisition email marketing campaigns. The intent data uncovers the company name behind a prospect’s digital activity, such as online searches or website clicks, and enables brands to build a targeted audience of prospects who hold a higher chance of becoming customers.
  • Media Activation: With precise audience targeting now recognized as the most essential driver for optimized omnichannel campaign performance, OMI is a trusted partner in media activation, empowering brands and agencies to engage and activate omnichannel audiences with pinpoint accuracy. OMI’s end-to-end media activation services are backed by deterministic data, proven programmatic digital media buying expertise, and OMI’s massive B2BC contact database.
  • Email Campaign Management: With reputation risks to sender domains and IP addresses accelerating, OMI offers clients an acquisition email campaign management service that adheres to best practices to ensure successful email delivery.
  • B2BC Database Cleansing: OMI performs deep cleanses on B2BC databases as a service for clients, covering all channel points and all data sources, using a professional grade, automated process. All invalid contact data is removed and replaced with fresh, accurate data where possible.

About Outward Media, Inc.

Outward Media, Inc. is a trusted data partner that empowers Fortune 2000 businesses and startups alike with the highest quality, most accurate audience data to fuel engaged, integrated, omnichannel campaigns. Combining our massive B2BC database with innovative deterministic data and media activation services, OMI delivers real data, real results, and invaluable reach to real people, ensuring optimal digital marketing campaign ROI.

For more information, visit our website, email us, or call 310-274-5312.

Media Contact

Paula Johns, Outward Media, Inc., 1 760-522-0941, [email protected], www.outwardmedia.com

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Health

Three Collegiate Scholarships offered by Santé Center for Healing

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The award amount for each is $500 and recognizes three of Santé’s legacy makers:

Submission and Award Details
Submission period: September 5, 2023 – December 1, 2023
Award Announcement: December 8, 2023
Award Date: December 19, 2023

In 2020, 73.8 million Americans (adults aged 18 or older) had a mental illness and/or substance use disorder in the past year1. It is vital to have qualified individuals in the fields of mental and behavioral health and health care management.

For more scholarship insights and eligibility requirements, click here.

About Santé Center for Healing: For 27 years now, Santé has been fearlessly furthering a world where lives are defined by recovery, not addiction. Why? Left untreated, addiction is a fatal disease. 1 in 3 families are directly impacted by substance use disorder, and often for generations. Santé’s mission is to provide the resources for long-term recovery through an integrated clinical and medical continuum of care individualized to each unique person and family we have the pleasure to serve. For more information, visit santecenter.com.

1. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2021). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. PEP21-07-01-003, NSDUH Series H-56). Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Retrieved from https://www.samhsa.gov/data/

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Hollie Higgins, Santé Center for Healing, 1 214.444.7350, [email protected], https://www.santecenter.com/

Hollie Higgins, Santé Center for Healing, 1 214.444.7350, [email protected], https://www.santecenter.com/

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Science: Biology

BlocPower and Georgia Power Partner on Energy Empowerment Program to Support Energy System Improvements for Disadvantaged Communities in Georgia

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BlocPower, a national climate tech company focused on greening aging, urban communities today announced a collaboration with Georgia Power to implement an Energy Empowerment Program, designed to provide clean-energy projects in underserved areas in Atlanta, Macon, and Augusta.

ATLANTA, Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BlocPower, a national climate tech company focused on greening aging, urban communities today announced a collaboration with Georgia Power to implement an Energy Empowerment Program, designed to provide clean-energy projects in underserved areas in Atlanta, Macon, and Augusta.

This partnership will allow income-qualified customers, including, without limitation, commercially owned multi-family residences, locally owned businesses, houses of worship, non-profit and community organizations, and institutions of higher learning to install or upgrade their energy systems, leveraging $0 down, better-than-market financing and subscription options. Solutions include heat pumps, induction stoves, heating, cooling and lighting upgrades, EV charging and many more clean, energy efficient technologies.

Georgia Power will utilize BlocPower’s program planning software, BlocMaps, community-based outreach methods, and business development expertise to provide clean energy options that make communities greener and healthier. Sparkfund, a tech-enabled services provider of Georgia Power will manage the installation of projects for eligible customers.

“As someone who grew up in Atlanta, I am thrilled to support Georgia Power in their incredible plan to deliver healthy green building upgrades to low- and moderate-income Georgia residents,” said Donnel Baird, CEO and founder at BlocPower.

“We are excited about this partnership and look forward to continuing to make a difference for our customers and communities,” says Bentina Terry, Georgia Power Senior Vice President, Customer Strategy & Solutions. “Through this program, Georgia Power has a unique opportunity to engage income-qualified and underserved communities, enabling us to bridge the advanced energy technology access gap to catalyze energy savings, greenhouse gas reductions, improve health and resiliency.”

Georgia Power commercial customers interested in energy efficiency upgrades, please visit blocpower.io/electrify-georgia.

About BlocPower
BlocPower is a New York-based climate technology company rapidly greening American cities. Since its founding in 2014, the company has completed energy projects in 5,000+ households. BlocPower utilizes its proprietary software for analysis, leasing, project management, and monitoring of clean energy projects. The company is backed by the world’s top investors, including Goldman Sachs, Kapor Capital, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate and Social Impact. In 2022, Fast Company named BlocPower the #4 Most Innovative Company in the World. For more information, please visit https://blocpower.io.

About Georgia Power
Georgia Power is the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), America’s premier energy company. Value, Reliability, Customer Service and Stewardship are the cornerstones of the company’s promise to 2.7 million customers in all but four of Georgia’s 159 counties. Committed to delivering clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy, Georgia Power maintains a diverse, innovative generation mix that includes nuclear, coal and natural gas, as well as renewables such as solar, hydroelectric and wind. Georgia Power focuses on delivering world-class service to its customers every day and the company is recognized by J.D. Power as an industry leader in customer satisfaction. For more information, visit www.GeorgiaPower.com and connect with the company on Facebook (Facebook.com/GeorgiaPower), Twitter (Twitter.com/GeorgiaPower) and Instagram (Instagram.com/ga_power).

About Sparkfund
Sparkfund is a tech-enabled services provider that supports leading energy brands to deliver the energy transition to their customers. The company brings the necessary capabilities to deliver Energy Transition Management (ETM) across energy services, digital solutions, grid connectivity and financing to handle the complexity of the energy transition across technology categories, building types, project sizes and geographies.

Media Contact

Alex Apter, BlocPower, 1 7189242873, [email protected], blocpower.io

Jacob Hawkins, Georgia Power, [email protected], www.georgiapower.com

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Washington Research Foundation commits $1.2 million to collaborative Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program at University of Washington and Washington State University

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UW’s program has supported 29 startups and their founders since its launch, including Greg Newbloom (Membrion) and David Younger (A-Alpha Bio). Melanie Anderson and Sarah Pristash each completed the program and later successfully applied for the WRF Postdoctoral Fellowship to further develop their research.

Because PEP is new to WSU, the partnership will draw on UW’s experience and apply the expertise of both institutions’ commercialization offices to create a diverse cohort of researchers and bolster the region’s pool of entrepreneurial talent. CoMotion will independently fund two additional awards per year at UW.

WRF’s Director of Grant Programs Meher Antia said that this collaborative approach will build on the known benefits of cross-institutional partnerships and strengthen Washington’s innovation ecosystem.

“UW and WSU both have enviable commercialization records, and we expect that their combined strengths and perspectives will provide excellent training and increase the odds of much-needed technologies reaching the market,” Antia said.

She also sees PEP as a natural complement to WRF’s Postdoctoral Fellowship program.

“WRF’s postdoc program supports innovative research from early-career scientists,” Antia said. “PEP focuses more closely on providing business and commercialization training for aspiring entrepreneurs, and we will encourage awardees from both programs to interact with and learn from one another.”

“CoMotion is thrilled to share our highly effective postdoctoral commercialization training program with WSU, and grateful for WRF’s ongoing commitment in this area,” said François Baneyx, UW’s vice provost for innovation and director of CoMotion. “The commercialization of technologies developed in the state’s research institutions has the potential to deliver profound economic and societal benefits that will be felt throughout our region and the world.”

The two universities have a long history of effective partnerships, said Christopher Keane, vice president for research at WSU and vice chancellor for research at WSU Pullman. “Discoveries and innovations through our joint research and scholarly activities have fueled prosperity across the Pacific Northwest. The collaborative environment allows our researchers to bring their unique strengths together to tackle society’s biggest challenges. We are excited to join UW in this program, which will bridge the gap between academia and industry to translate our research into innovative practical applications that have high public impact and enhance the region’s economic competitiveness,” said Keane.

UW and WSU will select and announce PEP awardees on a rolling basis.

About Washington Research Foundation:
Washington Research Foundation (WRF) supports research and scholarship in Washington state, with a focus on life sciences and enabling technologies. WRF was founded in 1981 to assist universities and other nonprofit research institutions in Washington with the commercialization and licensing of their technologies. WRF is one of the foremost technology transfer and grant-making organizations in the nation, having earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue for the University of Washington and providing over $147 million in grants to the state’s research institutions to date.

WRF Capital, the investment vehicle for Washington Research Foundation, has backed 122 local startups since 1996. Returns support the Foundation’s investment and grant-making programs.

For more information, please visit wrfseattle.org.

About CoMotion:
CoMotion at the University of Washington partners with the UW community on their innovation journey, providing tools, connections, and acumen to transform ideas into economic and societal impact. Find more information at https://comotion.uw.edu.

About the WSU Office of Commercialization:
The Washington State University Office of Commercialization supports faculty and researchers’ efforts to translate discoveries into innovations ready for the marketplace. The OC provides research translation opportunities and services through stewardship of the technology transfer process from conception to market by evaluating, protecting where possible, and licensing to industry partners or start-ups.

Media Contact

Dale Wadman, Washington Research Foundation, 2063365600, [email protected], https://www.wrfseattle.org/

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Science: Biology

Bluewater Announces Journey Maps™ for Cornerstone, SumTotal, and Saba for Enhanced Learning Experiences

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Revolutionizing the Learning Journey

Bluewater Journey Maps™ deliver an interactive, intuitive, and personalized learning experience overlaying existing LMS platforms. It provides a holistic, user-centric approach to organizational learning, aligning personal growth with organizational objectives.

Why Journey Maps?

  • Keep Your Same LMS: Journey Maps integrate with your current LMS, enriching it without requiring a replacement.
  • Interactive and Engaging: Journey Maps boost participation and retention by making learning more interactive.
  • Interactive & Intuitive Learning Paths: With the integration, companies can visualize and customize learning pathways for employees, making training modules more engaging and effective.

Collaborating for Success

“We are elated to bring Bluewater Journey Maps™ to a broader audience through this collaboration,” said Chris Bond, CEO of Bluewater. “Our commitment is to provide transformative learning solutions that are both powerful and user-friendly. With these integrations, we are ensuring that more organizations can effortlessly elevate their training programs.”

Availability

The Bluewater Journey Maps™ integration with Cornerstone, SumTotal, and Saba is available immediately. Organizations can also take advantage of a special 20% discount for the first year when scheduling a demo before October 15th, 2023.

About Bluewater

Bluewater Learning has been a trusted Cornerstone partner for 12 years, specializing in transforming how businesses leverage learning and talent technology. We focus on building long-term relationships instead of one-time transactions, emphasizing impact over tools. Our offerings are flexible and tailored, ranging from Managed Services to Journey Maps and Compliance Dashboards. We take your vision and convert it into a work of art, ensuring your LMS journey is not just successful, but truly transformative. For more information, visit www.bluewaterlearning.com.

Media Contact

Chris Bond, Bluewater Learning, Inc., 1 972-208-6000, [email protected], www.bluewaterlearning.com

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