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Fellow Exposes Time-Wasting Meetings: Unveils New Features To Unlock Unprecedented Efficiency Gains

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New Meeting Guidelines Feature Set and Cost Calculator Help Enterprises Kill Meeting Inefficiency and Supercharge Productivity

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In response to market demand following technology giant Shopify’s publicly declared war on useless and inefficient meetings, Fellow today announced the release of its new built-in Meeting Guidelines feature set for Google Chrome and Google Calendar users. These new integrated guidelines aid businesses in evaluating the true cost of meetings and help employees cut time spent in unproductive meetings.

“This isn’t about declaring an all-out ban on meetings. It’s about proactively redefining an organization’s meeting culture and changing the way meetings are conducted to boost productivity and reduce cost waste.” – Aydin Mirazee, CEO of Fellow

In the United States alone, more than 55 million meetings are held daily, with senior managers bearing the brunt of the burden. New data from Fellow shows that in 2023 managers are spending 14.5 hours a week in meetings (almost 40% of their work week!), up from 9.4 hours in 2019. Using an hourly rate of $38, this means companies are paying $29,000 PER YEAR per manager to attend meetings.

“While meetings are often cited as a huge source of productivity drain, this isn’t about declaring an all-out ban on meetings. It’s about proactively redefining an organization’s meeting culture and changing the way meetings are conducted to boost productivity and reduce cost waste,” says Aydin Mirazee, CEO of Fellow. “That’s why we’re seeing trailblazing companies sending a strong signal to their peers that changing how meetings are handled across the business is the key to optimizing human capital and an essential mode of operation in the future of work.”

Fellow’s Meeting Guidelines incorporate scientifically-backed best practices to keep meetings short, efficient and productive, and provide business leaders with essential insights that shed light on the often overlooked financial, opportunity, and mental health costs associated with unproductive meetings—a hidden toll that directly impacts the business bottom line.

Fellow’s Meeting Guidelines include the following features:

FREE Cost Calculator offers real-time insight into the monetary and time investments associated with meetings. The calculator also highlights the total cost of a recurring meeting series and helps meeting organizers assess their necessity.

Optimal Attendees prompts meeting organizers to reconsider additional attendees or designate them as optional when the participant count exceeds seven. Research indicates meeting decision-making abilities decrease with more than seven attendees.

No-Meeting Day gives businesses the ability to give employees a much-needed break from the meeting grind. A recent survey found the impact of one designated no-meeting day per week leads to increased autonomy, communication, and engagement.

Speedy Meetings enhance attendees’ effectiveness and reduce lateness through shorter meetings with 5-10-minute breaks. This small change in meeting behavior results in a 17% reduction in meeting time across an organization.

Short Meeting Notice prompts organizers to provide sufficient notice for meetings being booked, giving participants time to prepare.

Meeting Purpose encourages meeting organizers to define a clear meeting purpose when creating a meeting so attendees understand what’s expected from them before, during, and after the meeting.

Finite Recurring Meetings encourages meeting organizers to add an end date to recurring meetings. This practice prevents routine-induced disengagement and facilitates adjustments as needed.

Maximum Meeting Hours flags attendees with a heavy meeting schedule, prompting meeting organizers to reassess their participation. This guideline can prevent fatigue and protect deep work time.

“Meetings are an integral part of our work life. Eliminating them, especially in a remote or hybrid workplace, would make it more difficult for the team to build relationships and stay connected. So the issue is really about improving meeting quality so every meeting is high-value. Fellow with Meeting Guidelines provides a frictionless, fun way for employees to be more mindful in their approach to meetings and ensures they’re consciously building in meeting best practices. Fellow also gives them control over their time and the permission to push back on meetings that lack an agenda,” says Lea HVrler, Chief of Staff, Frontify.

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About Fellow

Fellow’s top-rated, AI-enabled meeting productivity software empowers organizations to reshape their meeting culture by building great meeting habits that lead to fewer and shorter, more effective, meetings. Whether in person or remote, Fellow ensures every meeting is an opportunity for collaboration, decision-making, and meaningful outcomes. Trusted by thousands of customers worldwide, and host for over 14 million meetings, Fellow makes meetings worth showing up to. For more information, visit https://fellow.app/

For media inquiries and further information contact:

Ellyn Winters-Robinson
Ignition Communications (PR for Fellow)
ellyn@ignition.ca

Heather Racicot
heatherr@z-pulley.com

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Veeva Announces AI in Vault CRM

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CRM Bot and Voice Control deliver GenAI-powered assistance in Vault CRM

SINGAPORE, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) today announced Vault CRM Bot and Vault CRM Voice Control, two new GenAI capabilities in Vault CRM. Unveiled at Veeva Commercial Summit Europe, CRM Bot and Voice Control join a host of new innovations coming to Vault CRM next year. With these new capabilities, companies can deploy AI that will have immediate value by boosting field productivity.

CRM Bot embeds the large language model (LLM) of your choice into Vault CRM to enable a wide range of context-driven tasks including pre-call planning, suggested actions, recommended content, and context-specific learning. Planned for availability in late 2025, CRM Bot is included in Vault CRM for no additional charge and requires the Vault Direct Data API.

AI-powered Voice Control brings the human voice as a user interface into Vault CRM by leveraging Apple Intelligence for hands-free operation of CRM via spoken commands. Planned for availability in late 2025, Voice Control is included in Vault CRM for no additional charge and requires Apple Intelligence and compatible devices.

Delivering AI within its products – like CRM Bot and Voice Control – is part of Veeva’s overall strategy to help enable AI for the life sciences industry. Veeva also provides the Vault Direct Data API for high-speed access to data needed for AI and the Veeva AI Partner Program that enables customers and partners to more easily build AI applications that integrate seamlessly with Vault applications.

“Vault CRM Bot and Vault CRM Voice Control bring the latest advances in generative AI into Vault CRM for more effective, productive reps,” said Arno Sosna, general manager of CRM products at Veeva. “Our product focus is to leverage AI for clear use cases with high impact and ensure smoother more effective deployments of advanced technologies.”

Veeva customers and life sciences industry professionals can learn about these innovations and more in the Vault CRM Product Roadmap session replay in Veeva Connect starting November 25.

About Veeva Systems
Veeva is the global leader in cloud software for the life sciences industry. Committed to innovation, product excellence, and customer success, Veeva serves more than 1,000 customers, ranging from the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies to emerging biotechs. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Veeva is committed to balancing the interests of all stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, and the industries it serves. For more information, visit veeva.com.

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This release contains forward-looking statements regarding Veeva’s products and services and the expected results or benefits from use of our products and services. These statements are based on our current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those provided in this release and we have no obligation to update such statements. There are numerous risks that have the potential to negatively impact our results, including the risks and uncertainties disclosed in our filing on Form 10-Q for the period ended July 31, 2024, which you can find here (a summary of risks which may impact our business can be found on pages 36 and 37), and in our subsequent SEC filings, which you can access at sec.gov.

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Global Elite Training of World Internet Conference Digital Academy Begins

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WUZHEN, China, Nov. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A news report from CRIOnline:

On November 21, the launch ceremony for the Global Elite Training of the World Internet Conference Digital Academy was held. This training focuses on frontier trends on the digital economy, and the internet, and global advanced experience in digital transformation and leadership upgrades. During the sessions, authoritative experts from international organizations, globally renowned universities, and leading Internet companies gave lectures, and 40 trainees from 32 countries including Oman, Kenya, Tajikistan, and Mongolia participated in the training.

On that day, guests including Barbara Ramos, Chief of Research and Strategies for Exports of International Trade Centre (ITC), and Zhou Hongyi, Founder of 360 Group, delivered speeches on topics such as new quality productive forces and the digital economy, opportunities and challenges with cross-border e-commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), large models bringing humanity into a new era of AI, and international economic and trade rules and corporate digital transformation.

The trainees on site all said that this learning experience was very helpful to them. Lutbayar Naranzul, Director of Compliance of the Risk Management Division of the Development Bank of Mongolia, said, “My main job currently is to control Internet risks and safeguard cybersecurity. This training course is exactly what I needed, and the content is highly relevant to my work. I have gained a lot.”

Recently, during the main forum of the 2024 Wuzhen Summit,the World Internet Conference Digital Academy was officially launched.

 

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“Beidou + UAV” helps transmission line inspection

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TURFAN, China, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On November 18, the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company’s Transmission and Inspection Center carried out line inspection on the 220 thousand volt Shuncao line and tested the UAV RTK Beidou signal.

As the first batch of UAV Beidou signal switching pilot units of Xinjiang Electric Power Company, State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company has completed the Beidou signal switching of 67 UAVs, realizing the dual signal source guarantee of UAV operation “GPS+RTK”, reducing the signal error to “centimeter level”, and effectively improving the level of lean operation and maintenance of UAVs.

Up to now, the UAV inspection of the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company has covered 215 transmission lines of 35 thousand volts and above, with a total length of 4,834 kilometers, and the inspection volume in 2024 will reach 46,230 bases, with a range of 15,374 kilometers, and the total mileage is close to one-third of the equator. The number of the company’s UAV inspection towers has exceeded the number of manual inspections by 3 times, and UAV inspections have become the main force of transmission inspections.

In the next step, the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company will actively explore a safer and more efficient UAV inspection mode, and actively expand the application of UAVs in power transmission and inspection based on the principle of “solving problems and improving work efficiency”, so as to contribute to the company’s digital and intelligent transformation.

 

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