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Obsidi® Awards, Presented by BMO, returns for its second year to celebrate Black Tech Excellence: Nominations are open

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TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2024 /CNW/ – Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) is pleased to announce the return of the Obsidi® Awards, Presented by BMO, taking place on June 20, 2024. As the only initiative of its kind in Canada, the event spotlights exceptionally accomplished Black tech professionals, Black-led organizations, and allies making strides in the industry. With three new award categories added which will broaden the candidate pool in 2024, this year’s ceremony is bound to be even more successful. 

Nominations must be submitted via Obsidi.com/awards by Friday, March 1, 2024, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. New this year, Obsidi® members can vote for their top choice in each category, narrowing the selections from five nominees to three finalists. Voting will be open from Monday, March 25, 2024, until Friday, April 5, 2024, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. All award winners will be officially announced by June 3, 2024. 

Winners will be whisked to the opulent Liberty Grand on June 20, 2024, to be celebrated amongst their peers and lifted up by the industry for an event of revelry, fine dining, and musical entertainment. The awards ceremony will honor Black professionals, Black-led organizations, and allies making an impact in the following categories: 

BMO Black Entrepreneur of the Year, Technology Industry BMO Black Tech Community Builder of the Year Black Professional Trailblazer of the Year, Presented by Sun LifeBlack Tech Executive of the Year Black Marketer of the Year Black Tech Ally of the Year Black Tech Recruiter of the YearBlack Employee Resource Group of the Year Black Breakout Professional of the Year – Technology Division Black Breakout Professional of the Year – Sales Division 

“Awards ceremonies are seeded in luxury, but the Obsidi® Awards, Presented by BMO, is an absolute necessity. Across North America, Black professionals, Black-led organizations, and their allies are making significant impacts in tech – this platform gives them the recognition and rewards their achievements deserve. We bring Black tech excellence together for elevation, inspiration, and celebration!” announces Lekan Olawoye, CEO and founder of BPTN.

“We’re excited to be back for another year – partnering with BPTN in a meaningful way to honor the achievements of Black Tech professionals. We hope that the Obsidi® Awards, Presented by BMO, continues to grow and cement the legacies of diverse professionals who are making a big difference in tech and innovation”, added Bojan Pavlovic, CIOO North American Personal & Business Banking and Wealth Management, BMO Financial Group.

For more information about the nomination criteria, table bookings, sponsorship, and any other event details, please visit obsidi.com/awards.

For media passes or all other media relations inquiries, please contact Middlé Lemoine, Marketing Operations Lead at BPTN, at marketing@bptn.com.

About Black Professionals in Tech Network Inc.

Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) is North America’s largest Black community of tech professionals. Founded in 2018, BPTN bridges the network gap in the tech industry by providing Black technical and business professionals with senior executive sponsorship, skills building, and a strong peer network to level up their careers. BPTN partners with companies to attract, hire, and retain Black tech talent. With over ninety thousand members, BPTN launched Obsidi®, a multi-sided tech job board and networking platform for professionals looking to find jobs and connect with employers of choice. The 2024 Obsidi® Awards, Presented by BMO will be the second year of the event.

About BMO Financial Group

Serving customers for 200 years, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider – the 8th largest bank by assets in North America. With total assets of CAD$1.14 trillion as of October 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.

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Forbes Recognizes DXC’s Consulting Excellence in 2025 World’s Best Management Consulting Firms Ranking

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ASHBURN, Va., May 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ – DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider, has been named to the prestigious Forbes World’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2025 list for the third year in a row. Out of 955,000 consulting firms in the U.S., fewer than 0.02% made the ranking, which is based on a rigorous survey of 2,350 clients and peers across 33 categories.

“This recognition highlights DXC’s deep industry expertise and unwavering commitment to driving business transformation through consulting and engineering,” said Howard Boville, President, Consulting & Engineering Services – Powered by AI. “As enterprises accelerate their digital evolution in the era of AI, we continue to deliver intelligent, scalable and secure solutions that help our clients innovate, optimize and gain competitive advantages industries.”

The consulting sector remains one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding areas within professional services. A recent analysis by the Business Research Company projects that the global management consulting market will exceed $1.07 trillion in 2025, growing from $1.02 trillion in 2024. By 2029, the market is expected to reach approximately $1.33 trillion. To help businesses navigate this vast industry and identify top consulting partners, Forbes and Statista have collaborated to create a definitive ranking of the world’s leading management consulting firms.

DXC earned recognitions in the following categories: Automotive, Digital Transformation, IT, Technology, Telecommunications, and IT Strategy & Implementation. With a global team of 50,000+ highly skilled engineers and consultants, DXC is driving innovation across industries like financial services; healthcare and life sciences; public sector; aerospace and defense; automotive and manufacturing, and more. From improving fraud detection in banking to enhancing safety in autonomous driving, we’re helping clients transform their operations and unlock the potential of AI. The complete list of honorees can be viewed on the Forbes website.

For more information on DXC Consulting and Engineering Services – Powered by AI, visit https://dxc.com/us/en/offerings/analytics-and-engineering 

Forward Looking Statements

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About DXC Technology

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates. Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and colleagues at DXC.com.

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Huawei Cloud Credence Forum Singapore 2025: Enhancing Enterprise Quality and Efficiency through Cloud Resilience

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SINGAPORE, May 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On May 16 2025, the Huawei Cloud Credence Forum Singapore 2025 successfully brought together over 30 global industry leaders and technology experts. The forum provided a platform for comprehensive discussions on building and operating resilient cloud services, fostering innovation and driving improvements in both quality and operational efficiency in the digital era.

Industry Perspective: Navigating Enterprise Cloud Security in Multi-Cloud Environments

Mr. Maxi Wang Chief Executive Officer Huawei International emphasised, “With the rapid development of technologies, traditional operations models must evolve to meet the dynamic needs of modern enterprises. Therefore, we must continuously innovate and explore together to adapt effectively to the new requirements of cloud infrastructure, just like today’s topic: Accelerate innovation in cloud resilience. Earlier this year, the rise of DeepSeek ignited the adoption of enterprise intelligence across diverse industries, presenting new challenges to cloud infrastructure resilience. “

Huawei Cloud’s Deterministic Operations: Ensuring Security, Stability, and High Quality for Global Customers

Alex An, Director of the SRE Dept, highlighted: “Huawei Cloud achieved zero major incidents in 2024, demonstrating industry-leading quality standards. Huawei Cloud has localized the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concept, creating a deterministic operations system. This comprehensive system integrates quality culture, high-availability architectural design, dynamic risk management, and intelligent operations, enabling cloud customers to consistently achieve predictable business outcomes. Utilizing global networks, risk management, and digital twin technologies, Huawei Cloud Security Services swiftly restore and enhance customer experiences. The launch of the Huawei Cloud Credence Forum Singapore marks a significant step towards its global expansion, promoting local exploration and application of intelligent operations.”

Huawei Cloud’s Intelligence Service Practices: Delivering Business Certainty and High Availability

Jayson Zheng SRE Director of Huawei Cloud Application Services, stated: “Huawei Cloud’s enterprise intelligence services now support over 600 commercial customers. Our high-performance computing platforms facilitate efficient job scheduling for large-scale clusters, ensuring over 90% MFU and linear scalability performance, and meeting high availability needs. We provide high availability for cloud-based intelligence services, support process-level recovery of training tasks and PD separation of inference tasks. The operations and maintenance platform ensure an SLO exceeding 99.95%, MFU over 50%, and MTTR under 30 minutes, effectively helping customers optimise models and improve system throughput.”

Panel Discussion: Leveraging Cloud Resilience to Boost Development Agility and Operational Efficiency

A dynamic panel session moderated by Mr. Evan Cheng, Senior Vice President of Huawei Cloud Continuous Operation & Delivery, featured prominent industry experts including Mr. Jim Lim, Vice President of the Cloud Security Alliance; Mr. Gan XingPing, CIO of NatSteel; Ms. Ariel Lin, Founder and Director of Flex-Solver; and Dr. Zhang Xi, Huawei Cloud AI Expert.

The panelists provided valuable insights on how modern cloud resilience strategies can enhance enterprise agility and operational efficiency. Discussions covered critical topics such as cloud security standards, seamless intelligence integration into business processes to drive enterprise modernization, and real-world applications in intelligent operations and maintenance (O&M).

The conversation emphasised intelligent O&M’s pivotal role in boosting system reliability in today’s digital era. The session concluded with a strong alignment on these pivotal themes, reinforcing a shared commitment to supporting sustainable growth and digital transformation initiatives.

Official Launch of Huawei Cloud Credence Club Singapore: Promoting Industry Innovation and Development

Huawei Cloud also officially launched Huawei Cloud Credence Club in Singapore, marking a major step in its commitment to digital transformation and operational excellence across industries. Attended by the initial cohort of Credence members and key business leaders from the region, Huawei Cloud Credence Club will join forces with leading local enterprises to explore emerging technology trends, drive innovation with operational technologies, share best practices, and foster progress in industry transformation and technological advancement.

Huawei Cloud: Accelerating Innovations in Cloud Resilience

Ms Gigi Hu, Managing Director of Huawei Cloud Singapore, concluded: “Leveraging extensive global experience and professional expertise, Huawei Cloud has established a deterministic operations and maintenance system to ensure customer businesses operate safely and stably amid complex and changing environments. The system significantly enhances their business quality and operational efficiency, empowering them to achieve their goals effectively.”

Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud aims to expand the Credence Club’s role as a catalyst for innovation and collaboration. Engaging global experts and industry leaders, the club will focus on overcoming technological barriers, scaling intelligent operations, and elevating cloud productivity. The ultimate objective is to achieve reliable, intelligent operations, resource efficiency, and business agility, transforming O&M into a key enabler of an intelligent world.

 

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Columbus McKinnon to Host Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call on May 28, 2025

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCO), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions for material handling, will release its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2025 results before the market opens on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.

Following the release, management will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to review the financial and operating results for the period and discuss its corporate strategy and outlook. The conference call will be available via live webcast on Columbus McKinnon’s Investor Relations webpage, investors.cmco.com.

A replay of the call will be available approximately two hours after the conference call, until Wednesday, June 11, 2025, on the Company’s Investor Relations page.

About Columbus McKinnon
Columbus McKinnon is a leading worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions that move the world forward and improve lives by efficiently and ergonomically moving, lifting, positioning, and securing materials. Key products include hoists, crane components, precision conveyor systems, rigging tools, light rail workstations, and digital power and motion control systems. The Company is focused on commercial and industrial applications that require the safety and quality provided by its superior design and engineering know-how. Comprehensive information on Columbus McKinnon is available at www.cmco.com.

Contacts:

Kristine Moser
Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasurer
704-322-2488
kristy.moser@cmco.com

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