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Worcester Polytechnic Institute to Help Develop Novel Sign Language Technology

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Erin Solovey, assistant professor of computer science at WPI

“This project takes a human-centered computing approach to build a foundation that advances understanding of how deaf individuals could work and learn in environments that are designed with their needs and preferences at the forefront.” -Erin Solovey, assistant professor of computer science


WORCESTER, Mass. (PRWEB)

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researcher has received a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that could lead to significant breakthroughs in technology platforms for the ASL-signing Deaf Community. Erin Solovey, assistant professor of computer science, will investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of computer interfaces that will allow deaf individuals to navigate, search, and interact with technology completely in American Sign Language.

Members of the Deaf Community whose first or primary language is American Sign Language (ASL) currently engage with interactive computer tools presented exclusively in English, including those designed expressly for ASL content and educational materials. The lack of ASL-based navigation is in part due to the fact that the signed languages of the world have unique requirements that do not align with existing text-based user interface design practices. Therefore, the development of Sign-Language First (SL1) technology offers great promise for ASL-signing users and others interested in signed language content. SL1 design has the potential to level the playing field for deaf students seeking to access academic, linguistic, and other informational content online.

“This project takes a human-centered computing approach to build a foundation that advances understanding of how deaf individuals could work and learn in environments that are designed with their needs and preferences at the forefront,” said Solovey.

Jeanne Reis, M.Ed., co-principal investigator on the project, brings over three decades of experience and understanding of the need for this technology. Reis is director of the Center for Research and Training at The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC)—a nationally recognized leader in educational, therapeutic, and community services with deaf and hard of hearing children and adults. “Technology that is truly SL1 accessible has the power to enhance educational opportunities and facilitate lifelong learning, especially in science and technology,” said Reis. “It can also improve career opportunities in STEM fields, broadening participation in the workforce by an incredibly dynamic, creative, valuable—and very underrepresented—population.”

In this project, Solovey and Reis will explore previously developed and novel approaches that will allow users to engage with technological tools through a signed language with no reliance on conventional written language. To that end, they propose that all aspects of a user interface, including menus, search tools, and navigation buttons, be presented visually. The research team will look at the feasibility of incorporating photos, videos, illustrations, and characters representing the linguistic features of ASL vocabulary, such as handshapes, movement patterns, and location (i.e., placement on the signer’s body).

The team will base their early investigations on existing resources for deaf students created by Reis and Robert Hoffmeister, PhD, in projects done with primary funding from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MADESE). Both projects involved partnerships with The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC), Boston University, numerous deaf professionals and subject matter experts, and schools for deaf students nationwide. Reis and Hoffmeister’s work resulted in two groundbreaking tools: the ASL STEM Concept Learning Resource (ASL Clear), released in 2017, and the ASL Assessment Instrument (ASLAI), released in 2010. ASL Clear focuses on STEM concept learning in ASL; ASLAI is the first computer-based standardized and robustly normed ASL language arts assessment administered to deaf students across the country. Since both are real-world tools with a common need to engage deaf users in ASL without switching to written English, they provide solid context in which to explore the design of ASL interfaces and evaluation tools to determine what works, what doesn’t, and what new features can be added.

Throughout the three-year grant, the WPI–TLC team will work with researchers, software engineers, ASL experts, educators, and doctoral students, many of whom are deaf, to ensure that members of the ASL-signing community have key leadership roles and active participation in the project. The team will also collaborate with Gallaudet University, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and The Learning Center for the Deaf in Framingham, Mass.

About Worcester Polytechnic Institute

WPI, the global leader in project-based learning, is a distinctive, top-tier technological university founded in 1865 on the principle that students learn most effectively by applying the theory learned in the classroom to the practice of solving real-world problems. Recognized by the National Academy of Engineering with the 2016 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, WPI’s pioneering project-based curriculum engages undergraduates in solving important scientific, technological, and societal problems throughout their education and at more than 50 project centers around the world. WPI offers more than 50 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree programs across 14 academic departments in science, engineering, technology, business, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts. Its faculty and students pursue groundbreaking research to meet ongoing challenges in health and biotechnology; robotics and the internet of things; advanced materials and manufacturing; cyber, data, and security systems; learning science; and more. http://www.wpi.edu

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San Francisco Fire Department Neighborhood Emergency Response Team Recognized for Readiness in First Annual Regroup Ready Award

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After receiving dozens of nominations from schools, healthcare organizations, businesses, churches and communities that are using Regroup in a variety of ways, Regroup selected the San Francisco Fire Department’s (SFFD) Neighborhood Emergency Response Team


SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)

Regroup Mass Notification, provider of a powerful and easy-to-use mass communication platform, today announced the winner of the first annual Regroup Ready Award, the San Francisco Fire Department’s Neighborhood Emergency Response Team.

The Regroup Ready award program was created to recognize and reward organizations or institutions that are using the Regroup Mass Notification platform in exceptional or creative ways to keep people safe and informed. Nominations included clients that use day-to-day communications to save time and money, and those whose emergency notifications made a clear difference during urgent situations.

After receiving dozens of nominations from schools, healthcare organizations, businesses, churches and communities that are using Regroup in a variety of ways, Regroup selected the San Francisco Fire Department’s (SFFD) Neighborhood Emergency Response Team as its 2019 Regroup Ready award winner. The nomination stood out because of the critical role played by communication in training, coordinating and deploying volunteers to help neighbors during disasters and emergencies.

The SFFD Neighborhood Emergency Response Team has leveraged Regroup to assist in the training of over 1,000 volunteers and leaders in 50 San Francisco neighborhoods. Multi-modal messaging capabilities and reporting have been instrumental in organizing volunteers for deployment. “We send a custom short text with full details in the correlated email, and have had great success with the response. This allowed us to send volunteers to support residents in the Counties north of San Francisco after the devastating fires,” wrote Capt. Erica Arteseros, who submitted the nomination. “Additionally, we have been able to create groups for each neighborhood leader to administer messages to the volunteers who live in their area… Team leaders message volunteers about activities they are having at the neighborhood team level.” Arteseros highlights the flexibility of Regroup’s platform and its usefulness in equipping team leaders with the ability to communicate quickly and effectively.

“We created a platform for organizations to reach their entire community in an easy and expedient way,” says Chris Utah, COO of Regroup Mass Notification. “Every year, we are impressed by how many creative ways our clients use Regroup. The Regroup Ready Award was created to shine the light on how they’re using our system to keep people safe from danger, and informed every day. We’re proud to honor the SFFD Neighborhood Emergency Response Team and highlight the work they’re doing to bring volunteers together to help their neighbors during critical situations.”

As the 2019 Regroup Ready Award Winner, the SFFD Neighborhood Emergency Response Team will receive a physical award to display at its office and a $500 donation to an eligible charity or nonprofit of its choice.

To learn more about the award and ways in which organizations across the nation use Regroup for emergency and day-to-day mass communication, visit http://www.regroup.com.

About Regroup Ready Award

The Regroup Ready Award is a program created to highlight the efforts of those who go above-and-beyond by using mass notifications to serve their organizations or communities. The program includes the use of day-to-day communications that save time and money to improve daily operations. It also recognizes organizations that use Regroup’s advanced communication technology to keep people informed in emergencies including fires, active shooter situations, natural disasters, and more.

About Regroup

Regroup Mass Notification empowers better mass communication that keeps people safe and informed at all times. The company’s award-winning, cloud-based mass communication platform is what clients across North America and around the globe rely on to send both emergency and day-to-day communications to millions of people. By enabling one-click messaging to mobile devices, landlines, social media, email, websites, and more, Regroup Mass Notification helps organizations keep people safe, strengthen operational resilience, mitigate risk, and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world.

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BrainStation Launches Digital Marketing Diploma program

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BrainStation’s Digital Marketing Diploma Program

After overwhelming demand for our part-time digital marketing certificate courses, we’re very proud to announce the launch of BrainStation’s full-time Digital Marketing Diploma Program.


NEW YORK (PRWEB)

BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills training and workforce transformation, is now accepting applications for a new Digital Marketing Diploma Program. Designed to transform skill sets and prepare individuals for careers in digital marketing, the 12-week Digital Marketing Diploma Program will be offered at BrainStation’s state-of-the-art campuses.

“After overwhelming demand for our part-time digital marketing certificate courses, we’re very proud to announce the launch of BrainStation’s full-time Digital Marketing Diploma Program, which is a natural addition to our suite of diploma programs, including Data Science, User Experience (UX) Design, and Web Development,” said Jason Field, BrainStation Founder and CEO.

“More than $270 billion dollars was spent on digital ads around the world last year, which really illustrates the increasing need and demand for digital marketing skills. We worked with hiring partners from some of the most innovative companies to design a Digital Marketing program that truly prepares professionals for these opportunities. This ‘by-industry-for-industry’ approach has helped us achieve an employment rate of over 97% for our diploma programs around the world,” Field said.

Led by educators with experience working in the field, BrainStation’s Digital Marketing Diploma Program will provide graduates with a comprehensive understanding of digital marketing strategies, concepts, and techniques, including search engine optimization and marketing, content marketing development and management, email marketing strategy and deployment, social media marketing across all major platforms, data analytics and campaign reporting, and more.

“Like all of BrainStation’s Diploma Programs, the Digital Marketing Program is delivered in a dynamic learning environment, built on collaboration and feedback, which gives students the opportunity to roll up their sleeves and work on real-world projects. For over 40 hours a week, they learn and apply new concepts, with an extremely low student-to-teacher ratio – It’s common to find classes of 30 students with up to five Educators providing feedback,” Field said.

“It’s closer to ‘on-the-job-training’ than ‘going-back-to-school,’ which means that when you graduate, you’ll have the marketing skills and confidence to excel, as well as real portfolio pieces to show off. The ROI is quite clear.”

As part of its Diploma Programs, BrainStation offers a range of industry networking opportunities, as well as ongoing career guidance and support, covering resume writing and job applications, personal branding, interview preparation, and more. Graduates are also tapped into BrainStation’s exclusive hiring network, which includes hundreds of brands such as Shopify, KPMG, and Microsoft.

For more information, or to start an application to BrainStation’s Digital Marketing Diploma Program, please visit BrainStation.io.

About BrainStation — The Digital Learning Company™

BrainStation is the global leader in digital skills training and workforce transformation, with corporate training, diploma programs, certificate courses, industry-leading events, and more, both online and at state-of-the-art campuses in cities such as New York, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, and Boston.

Established in 2012, BrainStation works with over 350 industry leaders from the most innovative companies, developing cutting-edge digital education that has empowered more than 75,000 professionals and some of the largest corporations in the world, including Hootsuite, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Johnson & Johnson, and Telus, among others.

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Clear Labs Moves Headquarters, Expanding Office and R&D Space to Support Rapid Growth

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Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced that the company has relocated its headquarters to 1559 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California 94070 in order to support its growth plans.


SAN CARLOS, Calif. (PRWEB)

Clear Labs, the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing, today announced that the company has relocated its headquarters to 1559 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California 94070 in order to support its growth plans. The new space represents about a 2.5x increase in square footage over its previous office in Menlo Park and features an expanded R&D lab.

“Clear Labs is raising the standard for the way food is tested,” said Sasan Amini, CEO of Clear Labs. “With this space, we’re redoubling our commitment to designing new products for the food industry and accelerating the transformation of the diagnostics market.”

Over the past year, Clear Labs has grown its team by 45%, including new members on the product development and commercialization team.

In 2018, the company launched Clear Safety, its flagship platform, with Salmonella detection and serotyping capabilities. A year later, the company also announced its three-in-one product for Listeria testing and received AOAC Performance Tested Methods℠ certification for genus Listeria and Listeria monocytogenes testing, license number #09190. It combines Listeria detection, persistence monitoring, and Environmental Mapping™ in one unified platform.

Several of the world’s leading food brands are leveraging Clear Labs’ platform to strengthen their food safety programs.

Clear Labs is hiring in customer success and in R&D. Please visit the company’s Careers page to find open positions.

About Clear Labs

Driven by a mission to safen the global food supply, Clear Labs is the only automated and intelligent NGS platform purpose-built for food safety testing.

Clear Labs enables major brands to capitalize on a new era of food safety technologies by advancing DNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and robotics to create preventative food safety management systems.

We enable multi-target analysis of pathogens through all desired forms of molecular characterization at lower cost and with greater accuracy.

The world’s largest food brands are already realizing the advantages of Clear Labs’ platform. Our goal is to raise the standard for the way food is tested and analyzed before it is consumed by billions of people each day.

To learn more, please visit: http://www.clearlabs.com/.

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Galactic Mathematics Helps States Title Disrupt 143-Year Old Industry

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I adapted this technique to work on title insurance risk, optimizing our machine learning algorithm to produce maximal value while enabling the best customer experience. It turns out, if you’re just optimizing a number, it doesn’t matter if it’s galactic dark matter or dollars of revenue and loss.


SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)

States Title Holding, Inc., one of the top ten largest real estate settlement service companies in the United States, was issued a patent for “Predictive Machine Learning Models” by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on December 17, 2019. The company can now find the “sweet spot” for automated title processing in its first-of-its-kind title insurance algorithm.

The patent for invention number 10,510,009 allows States Title to optimize the value-maximizing point in the instant underwriting model by modifying the previously well-known Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique with unique title-specific mathematical components. The company’s Chief Data Scientist, Andy Mahdavi, a Fulbright Scholar who earned his PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Harvard University, previously applied the Markov technique to study dark matter using galaxy cluster data from NASA satellites.

“During the first half of my career, I was an astrophysicist, working on unraveling the nature of dark matter, a substance that makes up 85 percent of the cosmos and yet is totally invisible and extremely difficult, if not impossible, to detect in a lab. To do this, I leveraged a statistical technique called Markov Chain Monte Carlo, which optimizes theoretical models until they match the data, providing the most suitable match. When I arrived at States Title, I adapted this technique to work on title insurance risk, optimizing our machine learning algorithm to produce maximal value while enabling the best customer experience. It turns out, if you’re just optimizing a number, it doesn’t matter if it’s galactic dark matter or dollars of revenue and loss.”

– Andy Mahdavi, Chief Data Science Officer, States Title Holding, Inc.

This new patent complements the patent awarded to States Title in April 2019, which protects the company’s use of data science to create predictive title insurance by assigning a risk score to indicate how safe a property is in terms of potential liens or other liabilities that may cloud a property’s title. The second patent protects States Title’s unique application of the Markov technique to turn this risk score into a profit/loss number.

Mahdavi joined the company from Capital One, where he applied the scientific rigor of almost two decades in academia to develop hyper real-time fraud protection. He is emblematic of how States Title attracts experts from a variety of fields to disrupt an industry that has looked the same for more than 100 years.

“Anyone who has bought or refinanced a property has experienced the friction and frustration inherent to the traditional title and escrow process. Our team brings academic and industrial expertise from astrophysics, data science, machine intelligence, supply chain management, operations research and engineering disciplines together in a concerted effort to reimagine the residential mortgage industry.”

– Max Simkoff, Chief Executive Officer, States Title Holding, Inc.

About States Title Holding, Inc. and States Title

Founded in 2016 in San Francisco, States Title Holding, Inc. has grown rapidly to become one of the top ten largest title and escrow companies in the US. The States Title family of companies – States Title, North American Title Company (NATC) and North American Title Insurance Company (NATIC) – is able to impact 90% of all real estate transactions in the US. States Title’s first-of-its-kind, patented technology solution utilizes machine intelligence to make residential real estate closings vastly more simple and efficient. Current customers are able to close more loans, faster, and at a lower cost, while maintaining best in class quality and service. To learn more visit http://www.statestitle.com.

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ForneyVault® Partners with Stonemont Solutions on Software Integration

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Stonemont saw value in their customers having access to ForneyVault and updated their product interface to make that possible.


PITTSBURGH (PRWEB)

ForneyVault®, an integrated construction materials testing platform, recently added Stonemont Solutions as a software integration partner for its ForneyVault platform. The integration allows Stonemont’s customers to have easy access to the ForneyVault platform along with Stonemont’s quality control and mix design software for the construction materials industry.

ForneyVault links testing machines, LIMS packages, third-party software and ancillary equipment via a private cloud database. With ForneyVault, data flows seamlessly throughout the testing process, reducing the risk of errors, increasing compliance and driving more positive outcomes for labs of all types. To date, laboratories in more than 30 locations in three countries have logged more than 400,000 tests with ForneyVault.

Stonemont’s software product is used by aggregate, asphalt and concrete producers at more than 3,500 plants in North America. Stonemont offers desktop, server, enterprise and hosted editions of its software that easily scale from the single plant operator to the largest producers. The centrally managed editions provide real-time data access and analysis of products.

The Stonemont program is used to enter specimen parameters, then ForneyVault collects and transfers test results. This allows Stonemont customers to view data, conduct analysis and generate reports in one place.

“Stonemont saw value in their customers having access to ForneyVault and updated their product interface to make that possible,” says Jeff Dziki, CEO, Forney LP. “ForneyVault continues to find great partners like Stonemont to integrate our materials testing platform into their systems, including ElmTree System, Command Alkon, Agile Frameworks, Utah Department of Transportation (Aurigo Masterwork) and LafargeHolcim (SAP).”

“Stonemont is pleased to partner with Forney LP to improve the experience of our mutual customers,” says Adrian Field, President, Stonemont Solutions. “Our integration with ForneyVault streamlines our customers’ workflow process of compression and flexural testing.”

About Forney LP and ForneyVault®

Forney LP is a material testing equipment innovator and distributor based in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, with additional facilities in Aurora, Colorado. Forney is the maker of ForneyVault®, an auditable, unalterable materials testing system. Forney’s focus is on material testing equipment for cementitious materials like cement, mortar, group and concrete for the construction industry, downhole cement and proppant materials for oil and gas industry, and general metals testing. Forney sells its products to more than 75 countries.

About Stonemont Solutions

Stonemont Solutions, based in Windsor, Colorado, develops quality control and mix design software for the construction materials industry. Its integrated software product for aggregate, asphalt, and concrete is used at over 3500 plants in North America. Stonemont Solutions offers desktop, server, enterprise, and hosted editions that easily scale from the single plant operator to the largest producers. Our server, enterprise, and hosted editions are centrally managed for real-time access and analysis of your products. Stonemont Solutions has been in business for over 20 years and is a trusted partner for quality control and mix design software.

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Sarson Funds’ Second Bold Bitcoin Prediction Predicated on Rising Geo-Political Instability and Increased Regulatory Clarity

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Considering the rising tensions in the Middle East and improved regulatory clarity for large investors in the West I want to go on record predicting that Bitcoin will never trade below $7,000 again. – John Sarson


BOSTON (PRWEB)

John Sarson, the Managing Partner of Sarson Funds, went on record with his 2020 Bitcoin prediction in a Tweet over the weekend. According to Sarson, as international political uncertainty casts ominous clouds over an otherwise positive economic narrative, one thing is certain about the state of digital assets – you will not see Bitcoin under $7,000 USD again.

In a memo to investors last Friday, Sarson noted that the combination of improved regulatory clarity at home and political instability abroad are creating a supportive environment for the world’s largest digital asset. “We [now] have so much more clarity into the trajectory of institutional crypto adoption with firms like JP Morgan issuing their own digital currencies and Fidelity offering Bitcoin custody and trading,” Sarson said.

Looking ahead to 2020, one significant sign of encouragement, according to Sarson Funds, is developments on Capitol Hill, particularly the proposed Crypto-Currency Act of 2020, a draft House bill sponsored by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), which Sarson claims has broad support among financial firms looking to keep pace with Asian and European rivals.

Sarson Funds Chief Marketing Officer, Jahon Jamali cites US digital asset leadership as “of vital national strategic interest.”

Jamali cautioned that beyond escalating tensions in the Middle East, it is China’s national blockchain technology initiatives that most directly threaten America’s global financial leadership saying, “Washington needs to step up and lead – the US must not lose the Blockchain Wars.” Comments that gain urgency and validity when considered with respect to Jamali’s background as former US intelligence officer.

This is not the first time Sarson Funds came out with bold New Year guidance for cryptocurrency investors. One year ago, while Bitcoin’s price hovered around $3600, Sarson publicly went on record with a press release stating that the price bottom was in for Bitcoin and that 2019 would herald renewed investor interest and growth for the digital currency.

Fast forward a year, and Bitcoin is up nearly 100%. During that time the Indianapolis and Boston based-firm focused on its core mission: educating Wall Street about blockchain technology and cryptocurrency investment strategies. From a nationwide speaking tour, presenting to investor groups and CFA Societies connecting thousands of financial advisors with transparent cryptocurrency educational resources, Sarson Funds believes increased regulatory advances will yield even further accelerated growth for digital assets in the new decade. Time will tell if Sarson’s predictions hold true again, with Bitcoin’s price trading just 3% above Sarson’s $7000 floor at the time of the announcement we may have our answer fairly quickly.

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Cybereason Named Finalist for ‘Best Customer Service Award’ in the 2020 SC Awards Competition

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Boston, MA (PRWEB)

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today announced it was named a finalist in the Best Customer Service category in the upcoming 2020 SC Awards competition. Winners will be announced during the SC’s Awards Gala Tuesday, February 25 in San Francisco during the RSA Conference.

“Cybereason is thrilled with a spot in the finals of the SC Awards competition as our global customer success team offers unparalleled support to our more than 500 customers. It is a testament to the dedicated efforts of our entire team to be included with so many other distinguished finalists,” said Roi Carmel, Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Cybereason.

Cybereason is among the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in the world, with distribution in all major global markets. Cybereason’s big data analytics approach to mitigating cyber risk has fueled explosive expansion at the leading edge of the EDR domain, disrupting the EPP market. Cybereason helps all security teams prevent more attacks, sooner, in ways that enable taking decisive action faster.

Cybereason is no stranger to accolades and awards. The company achieved a record number of awards in 2019, including:

2019 Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startup

2019 SC Awards finalist for Best Endpoint Security Product

2019 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations outperformed every competitor

2019 CRN Security 100 – Endpoint security

2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for endpoint security

2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for EDR

2019 Next-Gen Cybersecurity Company of the Year- Cyber Defense Magazine

2019 Best Endpoint Security Product- Cyber Defense Magazine

2019 JMP Securities’ Elite 80 Technology Company

2019 Artificial Intelligence Innovator- IDC

2019 SC Media’s 30th Anniversary- Visionary Award- Sam Curry, chief security officer

About Cybereason

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring. The solution delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks. Cybereason is privately held and is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Asia-Pacific and continental Europe.

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Waggl Co-Founder and CEO Michael Papay Recognized for Entrepreneurial Excellence

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Michael Papay, Co-founder and CEO of Waggl, has been named a Startup Founder to Watch

“Michael Papay has earned this distinction by balancing Waggl’s rapid business growth with a keen focus on organizational culture and the employee experience. This has translated into a work environment in which all individuals are highly engaged,” said Jeff Snipes, Board Chair, Waggl.


SAUSALITO, Calif. (PRWEB)

Waggl, the leading platform for real-time feedback powered by Employee Voice, today announced that Co-founder and CEO Michael Papay has been named as a recipient of the “2019 Founders to Watch” award by The Startup Weekly, a leading independent source of news and insights for business builders.

“Leading a high-performing, resilient organization in today’s competitive business environment requires activating employees’ voices on topics that matter to both the vitality of individuals and the long-term success of the organization,” said Jeff Snipes, Board Chair, Waggl. “Michael Papay has earned this distinction by balancing Waggl’s rapid business growth with a keen focus on organizational culture and the employee experience. This has translated into a work environment in which all individuals are highly engaged and motivated to drive organizational success.”

The Startup Weekly’s 2019 “Founders to Watch” Award honors entrepreneurs who have demonstrated distinct excellence in building and growing their businesses throughout the year. Each applicant was evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and other thought leaders. Inclusion in the final awards list was based on several factors, including personal achievements, professional success, and contributions to the business community at large. A record number of applicants across a variety of industries competed for the award in 2019, with winners including David Freedman (Freestar), Richard Hoehn (Freightwise), Cody McLain (Support Ninja), Kaelin Poulin (LadyBoss), Andy Mackensen (SnackNation), Zach Simmons (Discuss.io), Michael Papay (Waggl), among others. For a full list of winners, visit: https://thestartupweekly.com/year_categories/2019-awards/

Waggl recently placed #15 on the San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 list and ranked 151 on the 2019 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States, with three-year revenue growth of 2482 percent, placing 26 within California-based companies, 19 within software companies, and 10 within San Francisco companies. The company was named as “Employee Engagement Vendor of the Year” by the 2019 North American Employee Engagement Awards, recognized as a Top Workplace of 2019 by the Bay Area Newsgroup, and by San Francisco Business Times/Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work, earning the #2 ranking for wellness and the #10 spot for smallest companies. Waggl was also recognized by the 9th Annual Best in Biz Awards as “Best Local Company of the Year” for the San Francisco Bay Area.

Waggl is a powerful technology platform that elevates Employee Voice to deliver actionable insight, fresh perspective, and tangible knowledge to leaders and teams. It goes beyond measurement to create true engagement by enabling fast, frequent, focused dialogue on the topics that matter most, and catalyzes authentic dialogue and alignment around critical business topics such as Employee Engagement, Culture Building, Internal Transformation, and Operational Excellence. Waggl is the most powerful Employee Voice platform used by strategic HR and Executive leaders today.

“I am honored and humbled to have received this recognition from The Startup Weekly,” said Michael Papay, Co-founder and CEO, Waggl. “At Waggl, we believe that leveraging the voice of employees helps to unearth solutions and drive change from within. We walk the talk by demonstrating that an open, transparent forum where people can participate in important discussions about their own workplace leads to greater engagement and productivity, a shared sense of purpose, and a clearer path of action.”

To learn more about Waggl, please visit https://www.waggl.com/.

About Waggl

Waggl is the voice of people at work. Not a survey, not simply data — Waggl is a real-time, transparent engagement platform that goes beyond measurement to catalyze authentic dialogue and alignment around critical business topics: Employee Engagement, Culture Building, Internal Transformation, and Operational Excellence. Waggl elevates Employee Voice to deliver actionable insight, fresh perspective, and tangible knowledge to leaders and teams. People thrive when you engage their voices to make a difference. Organizations excel when their unique talent DNA helps strengthen agility, resilience and retention. Waggl is the most powerful Employee Voice platform used by strategic HR and Executive leaders today.

With a highly-seasoned management team and advisors including esteemed executives from Glassdoor, SuccessFactors, and Coupa, Waggl has built a customer-first culture that values strong relationships and ongoing innovation. The company’s solutions are continually evolving in response to input from its global customer base, which includes industry leaders such as 3M, City Electric Supply, Delta Dental, ebay, Freddie Mac, Heineken, Paychex, UCHealth and many others. For more information, please visit: http://www.waggl.com/.

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The ChannelPro Network Announces Its Inaugural Peer of the Year Award

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RALEIGH, N.C. (PRWEB)

The ChannelPro Network has named Joanna Sobran, president and CEO of MXOtech in Chicago, as the inaugural winner of its Peer of the Year award.

Each month during the calendar year, ChannelPro invites a successful MSP, value-added reseller, or solution provider to share his or her story in the Peer to Peer feature that runs in the digital and print issues of ChannelPro-SMB magazine. The column provides actionable advice on topics such as growing a business, improving operations and service delivery, developing new lines of business, hiring and retention, building sales and marketing strategies, and creating and nurturing corporate culture.

All 12 stories in 2019 were considered for ChannelPro’s inaugural Peer of the Year award by the publication’s editors, who selected the one they believe readers could learn the most from and immediately apply to their own business. Sobran’s story outlines the hiring and retention process she uses, which has helped grow her IT managed services business to more than $5 million.

“Joanna’s story details a recruitment and hiring process she developed that honors the firm’s core values and embraces diversity and inclusion,” says Rich Freeman, executive editor of The ChannelPro Network. “Hiring and retention remain top challenges for IT business owners who face a tight labor market as well as a skills gap. Joanna shares sound and creative strategies that have helped her grow MXOtech, and which readers could adapt for their own businesses.”

(Read the story here https://www.channelpronetwork.com/article/hiring-take-your-business-higher)

Sobran, who came from Poland as a child with her parents, founded MXOtech, a 100% woman-owned business, in 2005. She began her career in the healthcare industry working for two successful women entrepreneurs and later moved into IT recruiting, combining her healthcare and technology business expertise. Her knowledge of these two practice areas, along with her business development and recruiting skills, became the foundation on which she built her own successful company.

“My favorite part of owning a business is matching people with their dream job, watching them make an impact, and building a great company together,” Sobran says. “Through our training program, we have changed the lives of individuals from underserved communities and foreign countries so they can do what they love while providing for their families. This is why I get up every day excited to continue our journey.”

MXOtech has been recognized as one of the nation’s fastest-growing outsourced IT companies by Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 5000” list. MXOtech healthcare applications have also been nominated for Innovation Awards and adopted by Fortune 1000 companies. Most recently, the Women’s Business Development Center in Chicago presented Sobran with the Deborah Sawyer Rising Star Award. Visit http://www.mxotech.com

“The ChannelPro Network is honored that Joanna chose to share her story with our readers, and we are pleased to present her with our first-ever Peer of the Year award,” says Michael Siggins, president and publisher of The ChannelPro Network. “The competition was fierce, as all of our Peer to Peer stories last year were compelling sources of insight and inspiration for our readers.”

For 2020, ChannelPro will be expanding the Peer of the Year selection process to include nominees from the ChannelPro audience of readers and vendors as well as from our 12 Peer to Peer stories featured throughout the year. Interested parties can send nominations to: peer2peer@channelpronetwork.com.

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