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Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) Selected by Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) to Lead Major National & Provincial Sustainability Programs

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TORONTO, Oct. 1, 2024 /CNW/ – In celebration of Energy Efficiency Day, Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) is thrilled to announce its selection by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to lead two pivotal multi-year projects aimed at significantly enhancing sustainability within Canada’s built environment. These projects focus on both new construction and existing affordable housing. For new construction, the Codes Acceleration Project will support Building Officials in accelerating the adoption of higher Tier Building Codes in several regions across the country. For existing affordable housing, SBC’s EnergySPRING program focuses on supporting Ontario’s Social Housing and Indigenous Communities undertake scalable, deep-energy retrofits within their low-rise multi-unit residential buildings.

These projects will drive meaningful progress in creating a more sustainable and energy-efficient future for all Canadians. SBC’s Executive Director Michael Singleton notes, “Codes Acceleration advances eco-system development, awareness, and capacity building on high-performance sustainable national building codes. EnergySPRING scales Social & Indigenous Housing Provider’s ability and supply-chain capacity to deliver low-carbon deep retrofits. Both programs, Codes Acceleration and EnergySPRING, are enabling true market transformation towards sustainable resilient homes in Canada.”

Advancing Codes Acceleration

SBC will spearhead the Codes Acceleration initiative, a comprehensive program designed to support regional Building Officials across Canada as these officials work to implement and support builders to adopt higher Tiers of the latest National Energy Codes for both single family homes and commercial buildings. Through a series of workshops, SBC will demonstrate practical, high-performance solutions that meet the higher Code Tier energy requirements. The workshops combine leading Integrated Design Processes (IDP), real-world technology applications, and regional considerations, thus ensuring that the highest energy-related Tiers can be understood and embraced by Canadian Code Officials.

This initiative, made possible by funding from NRCan’s Codes Acceleration Fund, aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of the National Building Code (NBC) and National Energy Code for Buildings (NECB) across Canada, ensuring that even the highest energy performance tiers are seen as achievable with current designs and technologies. The virtual workshops are already underway for 2024, and SBC encourages all interested Codes officials, and market actors to reach out for participation details.

EnergySPRING: Transforming Ontario’s Social Housing & Indigenous Communities

The EnergySPRING Market Transformation Program adapts the globally proven Energiesprong model for a made-in-Ontario solution to drive deep-energy retrofits within Ontario’s Social Housing and Indigenous communities. While focused on improving resiliency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and enhancing the overall quality of housing, EnergySPRING projects will address pressing electrification, housing, affordability, extreme weather, and workforce challenges associated with existing low-rise housing in underserved communities.

Guided by the EnergySPRING Market Transformation Advisory Group (EMTAG), the program will engage market actors across Ontario to develop a sustainable market and supply-chain ecosystem for scaling deep-energy retrofits. Through IDP sessions with Municipal Social and Indigenous housing providers, engagement with key market actors, and the provision of practical resources, EnergySPRING will support the transformation of affordable low-rise housing communities, making them energy-efficient, electrified, and adapted for the future. “We are pleased to join EMTAG (EnergySPRING Market Transformation Advisory Group) to share national decarbonization insights, engage the housing eco-system, and/or support EnergySPRING with complementary research such as our Canadian Climate Retrofit Mission and Energy Efficiency in Rental Housing reports.” says Corey Diamond, Executive Director of Efficiency Canada.

Sustainable Buildings Canada’s Commitment

Established in 2002, Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) has been at the forefront promoting sustainable practices within Canada’s building sectors. As a national non-profit organization, SBC is dedicated to driving innovation and fostering collaboration to achieve a more sustainable built environment.

“We are honoured to have been selected by NRCan to lead these transformative projects,” said Mr. Singleton, who further notes, “both the Codes Acceleration initiative and the EnergySPRING program are critical to advancing sustainability in Canada. These projects not only align with our mission but also present an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of Canadians”

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For further details on the upcoming workshops, please visit https://sbcanada.org/codes-acceleration-workshops/, or to connect with the EnergySPRING program, please visit https://SBCanada.org/energyspring/

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IDEMIA Public Security Selected by NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to Collaborate on its Mobile Driver’s License Project

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 IDEMIA’s leadership and expertise in the digital credential market positions it well to help accelerate the adoption of Mobile ID

RESTON, Va., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IDEMIA Public Security North America, the leading provider of convenient and trusted biometric-based solutions, has been selected by NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to take part in its Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) Project. IDEMIA is one of fifteen technology providers and industry experts selected by the NCCoE to work on the first use case of the Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) project, which has a focus on implementing mDLs in financial services to meet customer identification program requirements.

IDEMIA, and their fellow collaborators, will work with the NCCoE to accelerate the adoption of digital identity standards and best practices by producing reference architectures, representative workflows, and implementation guides to address real-world challenges faced by the adoption of mDL in the financial sector.

As a leader in the biometric and identity space, IDEMIA is uniquely positioned to contribute their knowledge and expertise to the project. IDEMIA has demonstrated its leadership in the digital credential market and has rolled out its next generation of mobile ID technology to New York, ArizonaDelaware, Iowa, and Mississippi, with more states to launch later this year. With a customer-first and privacy by design approach at the forefront of their technology, IDEMIA’s mobile ID app is designed to provide individuals with an easy and contactless way to verify their identity while protecting their privacy and ensuring security.

“Whether boarding a plane, creating a bank account, or making an online purchase, mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and other digital credentials have the potential to improve the way we conduct transactions, both in person and online. To help realize this potential, the NCCoE is collaborating with more than a dozen partners from across the mDL ecosystem to build out reference implementations and to accelerate the adoption of mDL standards and best practices,” said Bill Fisher, co-lead of the NIST mDL project, NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

“With our commitment to expanding the use of mobile ID as a trusted, government-issued digital ID, we are thrilled to be part of this collaboration to develop digital identity standards and best practices surrounding mobile ID,” shared Donnie Scott, CEO of IDEMIA Public Security North America. “Our team is looking forward to contributing our expertise, insights, and resources and seeing what this unique collaboration among our fellow technology providers will bring to the future of mobile ID and the digital credential market.”

For more on IDEMIA’s mobile ID technology, click here.

About IDEMIA Public Security North America   
IDEMIA Public Security North America is a leader in identity security and authentication services to governments and private companies operating in North America. Our mission is to Unlock the World, Make It Safer – helping people access what matters most, more quickly, more safely, and more securely, in both the physical and the digital worlds. Our best-in-class technology helps to authenticate and secure physical and digital transactions. IDEMIA is recognized by the National Institute of Standards (NIST) as a top-ranking participant in the Institute’s passenger facilitation simulation testing as well as in its regular Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) rankings, reinforcing the trustworthiness and reliability of IDEMIA’s facial recognition solutions for government and consumers alike.    

Learn more at www.na.idemia.com / Follow @Idemia_NA on Twitter and on LinkedIn.   

About the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is a collaborative hub where industry organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to address businesses’ most pressing cybersecurity issues. This public-private partnership enables the creation of practical cybersecurity solutions for specific industries, as well as for broad, cross-sector technology challenges. Through consortia under Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), including technology partners—from Fortune 50 market leaders to smaller companies specializing in IT security—the NCCoE applies standards and best practices to develop modular, adaptable example cybersecurity solutions using commercially available technology. The NCCoE documents these example solutions in the NIST Special Publication 1800 series, which maps capabilities to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and details the steps needed for another entity to recreate the example solution. The NCCoE was established in 2012 by NIST in partnership with the State of Maryland and Montgomery County, Maryland. Information is available at: https://www.nccoe.nist.gov

Media contact:    
Genevieve de Vera        
IDEMIA Public Security North America  
(978) 808-7047  
genevieve.devera@us.idemia.com

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Tripleseat Announces Integration with Amaze Insights to Enhance Comprehensive Reporting for Hotels

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Tripleseat, the leading event management software for hotels, restaurants, and unique venues, is excited to announce a new integration with Amaze Insights, a dynamic reporting platform designed to streamline data from multiple sales and catering (S&C) platforms.

CONCORD, Mass., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Tripleseat, the leading event management software for hotels, restaurants, and unique venues, is excited to announce a new integration with Amaze Insights, a dynamic reporting platform designed to streamline data from multiple sales and catering (S&C) platforms. This integration aims to enhance the ability of hotel brands, management companies, and individual properties to drive occupancy and revenue by providing a comprehensive view of their sales data in a single, easy-to-use platform.

This integration aims to enhance the ability of hotel brands, management companies, and individual properties to drive occupancy and revenue by providing a comprehensive view of their sales data in a single, easy-to-use platform.

With this new integration, Tripleseat customers in the hospitality industry can now seamlessly leverage Amaze Insights to pull key performance data from Tripleseat and multiple other platforms into one consolidated report. This integration will enable hotel professionals to track crucial metrics like booking pace, need-to-fill dates, and more, all from a single, intuitive dashboard. The partnership addresses the growing need for comprehensive, streamlined reporting tools that help hotels optimize operations and increase profitability.

“Tripleseat continues to lead the hospitality industry by offering our clients innovative solutions that simplify operations and improve performance,” said Sam Dewey, Tripleseat’s Senior Vice President of Growth. “The integration with Amaze Insights demonstrates our commitment to providing hotels with the most effective tools to manage their events and operations, driving both efficiency and profitability. By bringing together powerful event management and insightful reporting, we are enabling our clients to make smarter, data-driven decisions.”

“We’re thrilled to integrate Amaze Insights with Tripleseat,” said Jaime Job, CEO of Amaze Insights. “Our mission is to provide hoteliers with a single-source view of their performance data, helping them make faster, better-informed decisions. The synergy between Amaze Insights’ comprehensive reporting capabilities and Tripleseat’s powerful event management platform creates a solution that is both comprehensive and user-friendly for hotel teams. We look forward to seeing how this integration will empower hoteliers to drive growth and success.”

For hotel customers, this integration represents a significant opportunity to gain deeper visibility into their performance across various data points, from booking trends to revenue pacing. This will give them the ability to take quick, informed actions to meet business objectives. By combining the strengths of Tripleseat’s event management tools with the robust reporting capabilities of Amaze Insights, hotels will have more control over their event operations and be better positioned to succeed in an increasingly competitive market.

About Tripleseat Tripleseat is the leading hospitality management platform for restaurants, hotels, and unique venues that simplifies the booking process and streamlines communication for venue managers and customers. Founded in 2008, Tripleseat helps venues generate new leads, close more sales, and increase event revenue.

About Amaze Insights Amaze Insights provides advanced reporting tools that help hotels and management companies increase occupancy and revenue through dynamic, single-view reports. Amaze works with all major S&C platforms, offering users a streamlined way to analyze key performance metrics and make data-driven decisions.

For more information, visit tripleseat.com and amazeinsights.com.

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Dana Yerid, Tripleseat, 1 978 614 0490, Dana@tripleseat.com, www.tripleseat.com

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John Burke Joins Realogic Solutions’ Executive Committee, Expanding Leadership Excellence

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CLEVELAND, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Realogic Solutions, a leader in innovative business solutions and strategic consulting, is excited to announce the appointment of John Burke to its Executive Committee, effective immediately. John, who joined Real Talent Group, a portfolio company of Realogic Solutions, as Managing Director in August 2024, brings over two decades of executive management and sales leadership experience to his new role.

In his expanded capacity as Executive Vice President, John will oversee Realogic Solutions’ Partnership Program, spearheading collaborations with leading software and technology companies. His extensive experience in global sales, strategic alliances, and technology innovation will be instrumental in cultivating partnerships that drive mutual growth and enhance the value of the company’s solutions for clients across various industries.

John’s career spans high-impact leadership positions at industry giants such as SAP, Oracle, and Deloitte, where he developed a reputation for driving growth, scaling organizations, and building high-performing teams. His deep expertise in sales leadership, management consulting, and strategic hiring will be pivotal as Realogic Solutions continues its mission to deliver innovative solutions that empower businesses to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.

“John has consistently demonstrated the ability to transform businesses by aligning cutting-edge technology with strategic goals,” said David Snyder, CEO of Realogic Solutions. “His leadership style, which is grounded in humility and collaboration, aligns perfectly with our values of excellence and client success. We are thrilled to have him join the Executive Committee and contribute to Realogic Solutions’ ongoing growth and innovation.”

At Real Talent Group, John has already made significant strides in reimagining workforce solutions to accelerate economic progress. His experience in executive roles at SAP, Oracle, and other leading organizations, combined with a data-driven go-to-market approach, will help Realogic Solutions further expand its reach and impact across key sectors, including healthcare, automotive, and financial services.

John’s background also includes extensive work in cloud solutions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate strategy, making him a versatile leader with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses today. His addition to the Executive Committee signals Realogic Solutions’ commitment to expanding its leadership team with forward-thinking executives who bring both industry expertise and a track record of success.

John holds leadership positions on multiple boards, including Storyleaders, where he has helped foster transformative sales leadership across industries. While continuing as Managing Director for Real Talent Group, John is expanding his capacity in the role of Executive Vice President at Realogic Solutions, to focus on shaping the company’s strategic direction and strengthen partnerships as a member of the Executive Committee.

For more information about John Burke’s appointment and Realogic Solutions’ leadership team, please visit www.realogicsolutions.com .

About Realogic Solutions

Realogic Solutions is a leading business consulting and technology solutions provider, helping organizations accelerate their growth through innovative, data-driven strategies. With a focus on operational excellence, Realogic Solutions delivers value across industries, ensuring that clients achieve their business goals through cutting-edge solutions.

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