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Minister Vandal announces partnership with NFI Group and Manitoba to create the world-leading “All-Canadian Build” facility in Winnipeg

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$15 million from the Government of Canada enables start-to-finish manufacturing of electric and hydrogen fuel-cell transit buses in Canada, creating green jobs and expanding the Green Prairie Economy

WINNIPEG, MB, Oct. 25, 2024 /CNW/ – Creating more clean mass transit options gets Canadians around their communities quicker and helps in our fight against climate change.

Today, the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister for PrairiesCan, announced a federal investment of $15 million for NFI Group to expand operations and fully manufacture New Flyer transit buses in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This investment will enable NFI Group to competitively respond to growing demand for Canadian-made zero-emission transit buses, adding hundreds of skilled jobs to the company’s Canadian operations with more opportunities for local suppliers, and growing Manitoba’s role in the green Prairie economy.

Canadians want greener options, and municipal governments are responding. By increasing bus manufacturing capacity in NFI Group’s Winnipeg-based facilities, Canadian public transit authorities will be able to purchase more Canadian-made zero-emission buses to address their fleet renewal needs. The funding will ensure NFI Group can meet Canadian standards and will support the development of workforce training specific to zero-emission vehicle manufacturing including a proposed “Zero-Emission Pre-Apprenticeship Program.”

In 2023, Minister Vandal dedicated $100 million of existing PrairiesCan funding over three years to support projects aligned with priorities of the Framework to Build a Green Prairie Economy, which include growing our manufacturing sector and capitalizing on clean electricity to seize new opportunities in the net-zero future. The Framework and funding are intended to encourage greater collaboration among governments and industry, leverage additional funding, and attract new investments across the Prairies.

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“This is a significant step forward by NFI Group. Increasing manufacturing capacity in the zero-emission heavy-duty vehicle sector is good news for Canada and solidifies Manitoba’s leadership in this field.
–The Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister for PrairiesCan

Canada is a world leader in the low carbon economy. Today’s announcement with NFI Group builds on important investments that our government is making to build Canada’s zero-emission vehicle supply chain, including in commuting systems. This is an expression of confidence in our manufacturing sector and in our efforts to build a sustainable economy of the future that is part of Canada’s path to net-zero.”
–The Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry

“This project is about putting a ‘Made in Canada‘ stamp on the low-carbon economy. Here in Manitoba blue-collar workers are part of the transition to a net zero future, and it’s companies like NFI that are leading the charge. We’re pleased to partner with the federal government to get this All Canadian Build facility done so we can continue to put Manitoba at the cutting edge of zero emission transportation technology.
“–The Honourable Wab Kinew, Premier

“Today’s announcement is a major milestone for the entire team at NFI that will enable us to complete full buses in Canada for the first time in over 20 years. I would like to thank our partners at the Province of Manitoba and PrairiesCan for their commitment and financial support that will help enhance Manitoba’s Green economy,” said Paul Soubry, President and CEO, NFI Group. “These funds will be strategically invested alongside our own capital to expand our production capacity and increase our zero-emissions transit bus offerings, which will create new jobs and help create more livable North American communities.”
Paul Soubry, President and CEO, NFI

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The Framework to Build a Green Prairie Economy marks a new way for the federal government to work more closely with Prairie stakeholders on their priorities for a cleaner and sustainable economy that leaves no one behind.
The Framework resulted from extensive engagement across the Prairies and is a principles-based approach to greater collaboration among orders of government, local and regional organizations, and partners that respects provincial jurisdiction and supports economic reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
Future federal collaboration with sectors across the Prairie economy will build on opportunities to address challenges such as those related to supply chains, climate action, clean energy, and electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure.
The Canadian automotive sector, including medium and heavy-duty vehicles, is important to the Canadian economy and Canadians. It supports nearly 550,000 direct and indirect jobs in Canada, contributed $18 billion in 2023 to Canada’s gross domestic product, and is one of the country’s largest export industries.
The Government of Canada is committed to the transportation industry’s transition to electrification while creating and maintaining jobs, promoting economic growth and investment in the sector and related supply chains, and supporting the shift to a net-zero economy.

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Green Prairie Economy
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The online sports coaching platforms market to grow by USD 1.24 Billion from 2024-2028, driven by athlete involvement and AI-powered market transformation- Technavio

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NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Report with the AI impact on market trends – The Global Online Sports Coaching Platforms Market size is estimated to grow by USD 1.24 billion from 2024-2028, according to Technavio. The market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of  14.07%  during the forecast period. Involvement of athletes and sportspersons in online sports coaching platforms is driving market growth, with a trend towards increasing internet penetration. However, availability of substitutes for online sports coaching platforms  poses a challenge.Key market players include Actiquest Inc., Athletic Mentors, Coachbox, Coaching.com, CoachIQ, CoachNow, EDGE10 Group, Famous NYC Inc., FitSW Inc., FRONT RUSH LLC, GamePlanner Ltd., Netplay Sports Pvt Ltd, Online Sports Academy, Qridi Ltd, Sideline Sports, Siliconcoach, Simply Coach, SPORT.XYZ INC, Sporthood, Sportlyzer LLC, Sports Guru Tech India Private Ltd., SportsShare, TeamBuildr LLC , and TrainingPeaks LLC.

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Online Sports Coaching Platforms Market Scope

Report Coverage

Details

Base year

2023

Historic period

2018 – 2022

Forecast period

2024-2028

Growth momentum & CAGR

Accelerate at a CAGR of 14.07%

Market growth 2024-2028

USD 1244.6 million

Market structure

Fragmented

YoY growth 2022-2023 (%)

12.2

Regional analysis

North America, Europe, APAC, South America, and Middle East and Africa

Performing market contribution

North America at 48%

Key countries

US, China, and Japan

Key companies profiled

Actiquest Inc., Athletic Mentors, Coachbox, Coaching.com, CoachIQ, CoachNow, EDGE10 Group, Famous NYC Inc., FitSW Inc., FRONT RUSH LLC, GamePlanner Ltd., Netplay Sports Pvt Ltd, Online Sports Academy, Qridi Ltd, Sideline Sports, Siliconcoach, Simply Coach, SPORT.XYZ INC, Sporthood, Sportlyzer LLC, Sports Guru Tech India Private Ltd., SportsShare, TeamBuildr LLC , and TrainingPeaks LLC

Market Driver

Online coaching platforms in the sports industry have gained significant traction due to the expanding Internet access worldwide. With over 5.44 billion Internet users in 2023, representing 67.1% of the global population, these platforms offer unparalleled accessibility for athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and data analytics have been integrated into these platforms, enabling real-time performance monitoring and personalized training programs. The sports industry’s digital transformation is accelerating, as more coaches and athletes recognize the benefits of online platforms. Enhanced Internet connectivity supports this shift, making it easier for users to access resources, training modules, and performance analytics online. By 2030, the number of Internet users is expected to reach over 7.5 billion, fueling the growth of the global online sports coaching market.

The sports coaching market is booming with the rise of digital platforms. Sports coaching platforms provide teams and athletes with technology-driven solutions for virtual coaching sessions, video lectures, and educational materials. Performance tracking is a key feature, utilizing biometric sensors, wearable technology, and video analysis. AI and athlete data are used for sports analytics and personalized training plans. Coaches can offer one-time licensed or subscription-based models to reach a wider audience, including professional and non-professional athletes in soccer, basketball, swimming, baseball, and more. Platforms support various coaching methods such as autocratic, democratic, holistic, and athlete-centered techniques. Interactive learning, gamification, and cloud-based solutions enhance the online training experience. Wearable devices like Fitbit trackers and smartwatches are integrated for real-time monitoring and analysis.

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Market Challenges

The global online sports coaching market faces substantial competition from various alternatives, including traditional in-person coaching, free online content, self-directed training, wearable fitness devices, smart home gym equipment, local gyms, and community sports programs. These options provide athletes with diverse choices, making the market highly competitive. Free workout videos, training plans, and sports tutorials on platforms like YouTube and social media offer a cost-effective alternative. Wearable fitness devices and smart home gym equipment often include coaching features, potentially reducing the need for separate online coaching services. Local gyms and community sports programs offer personalized attention and hands-on guidance, appealing to some athletes. The increasing sophistication of AI-powered fitness apps with automated coaching erodes the perceived value of human-led online coaching. This array of alternatives puts pressure on online coaching platforms to differentiate their offerings and demonstrate clear value propositions to attract and retain users. Consequently, the availability of these substitutes will limit the growth of the global online sports coaching platforms market during the forecast period.The online sports coaching market is growing rapidly, offering various solutions for professionals and non-professionals alike. Biomechanics, training history, and performance metrics are key challenges for coaches, requiring advanced digital tools. Gamification, interactive learning, and wearable technologies enhance user experience. Cloud-based solutions offer accessibility, while sports analytics provides valuable insights. Soccer, basketball, swimming, and baseball coaches use digital coaching tools, AI, and fitness trackers like Fitbit or smartwatches with inbuilt sensors. One-time licensed and subscription-based models cater to different needs. Coaches employ autocratic, democratic, holistic, and athlete-centered methods, leveraging online training platforms. Wearable devices and cloud-based solutions enable real-time monitoring and analysis, improving overall performance.

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Segment Overview 

This online sports coaching platforms market report extensively covers market segmentation by

Platform 1.1 Mobile apps1.2 Web-based platforms1.3 Hybrid platformsService Type2.1 Personal coaching2.2 Group coaching2.3 Skill development2.4 Fitness and conditioningGeography 3.1 North America3.2 Europe3.3 APAC3.4 South America3.5 Middle East and Africa

1.1 Mobile apps-  Mobile coaching apps have transformed the way athletes access training and guidance, with two main types catering to diverse fitness needs. Dedicated sports coaching apps, designed specifically for sports training, provide features such as video analysis, workout plans, and progress tracking. Multi-purpose fitness apps, on the other hand, offer a holistic approach to health and wellness with a range of workout routines, nutrition advice, and lifestyle tracking tools. Both types of apps have experienced significant demand due to their convenience, personalization, and expert guidance. Dedicated apps cater to athletes seeking specialized training, while multi-purpose apps appeal to those with diverse fitness goals. With advanced features like video demonstrations, performance tracking, and real-time feedback, mobile coaching apps bridge the gap between professional instruction and self-directed practice, making them an essential tool for athletes of all levels. The future looks promising for these apps as technology continues to advance, further enhancing the sports training experience and fueling the growth of the global online sports coaching platforms market.

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Research Analysis

The Online Sports Coaching Platforms market refers to digital platforms that provide sports coaching services using technology. These platforms offer various features such as video lectures, educational materials, virtual coaching sessions, and cloud-based solutions for athletes, both professional and non-professional. The technology enables real-time feedback and analysis using artificial intelligence and fitness trackers like Fitbit and smartwatches with inbuilt sensors. The coaching methods range from autocratic, democratic, holistic, and athlete-centered techniques. Soccer, Basketball, Swimming, and other sports benefit from these platforms. One-time licensed and subscription-based models cater to diverse needs. Online training enhances accessibility and flexibility, making it an attractive alternative to traditional coaching methods.

Market Research Overview

Online sports coaching platforms are digital solutions that leverage technology to provide athletes with access to coaches, educational materials, and performance tracking tools. These platforms offer video lectures, virtual coaching sessions, and interactive learning experiences. Athletes can benefit from biometric sensors, wearable technology, and video analysis to optimize their training and performance. AI and sports analytics are integral parts of these platforms, providing personalized training plans based on athlete data, biomechanics, training history, and performance metrics. Gamification and cloud-based solutions add to the engagement and convenience of online training. Both professional and non-professional athletes can access these platforms through a one-time licensed or subscription-based model. Sports covered include soccer, basketball, swimming, baseball, and more. Coaching methods range from autocratic to democratic, holistic, and athlete-centered, with wearable devices like Fitbit trackers and smartwatches enhancing the training experience.

Table of Contents:

1 Executive Summary
2 Market Landscape
3 Market Sizing
4 Historic Market Size
5 Five Forces Analysis
6 Market Segmentation

PlatformMobile AppsWeb-based PlatformsHybrid PlatformsService TypePersonal CoachingGroup CoachingSkill DevelopmentFitness And ConditioningGeographyNorth AmericaEuropeAPACSouth AmericaMiddle East And Africa

7 Customer Landscape
8 Geographic Landscape
9 Drivers, Challenges, and Trends
10 Company Landscape
11 Company Analysis
12 Appendix

About Technavio

Technavio is a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.

With over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 17,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.

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Pharos Announces $5M Seed Round To Automate Hospital Quality Reporting

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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Hospital quality reporting platform Pharos announced today the close of its oversubscribed $5M seed round led by Felicis with participation from General Catalyst, Moxxie and Y Combinator. Pharos will use the funds to grow its engineering team, allowing customers to report to new clinical quality registries and measure a wider range of process metrics.

Founded in 2024 by a team of clinicians and AI researchers, Pharos automates clinical quality reporting for hospitals, enabling submission to state and national quality registries without manual abstraction.

Additionally, by enabling automatic extraction of custom process metrics, Pharos helps quality teams identify the process failures that are contributing to patient harm, enabling action on issues like sepsis mortality, hospital-acquired infections, and pressure ulcers.

“Today, hospitals spend thousands of hours manually abstracting metrics from unstructured medical records to fulfill registry reporting requirements and understand patient safety events,” said Felix Brann, CEO and co-founder of Pharos. “This manual work is expensive, pulls clinical staff away from the front-line, and means that hospital teams get data long after patients are discharged. Pharos automates abstraction for quality reporting, letting hospitals report to new registries and track metrics that matter to them without adding to clinical reviewer backlogs. We give teams data in real-time, letting them take action on process gaps before they turn into patient harm.”

Brann was previously VP of Data Science at Vital. At Vital, he and Matthew Jones, CTO and co-founder, deployed live predictive AI into over 70 hospitals, integrating with every major electronic health record vendor. While trialing a sepsis model, they recognized the value AI could provide to hospital quality teams. Brann was previously VP of Quantitative Research at JP Morgan. He has published papers in major medical journals on sepsis prediction and medical record summarization using LLMs. Jones worked on the Orion Health EHR and grew M2X from inception to international expansion.

The team is also joined by Dr. Alex Clarke, Head of Research, an MD with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London. He worked as a medical AI researcher at Meta and experienced the time-consuming medical abstraction process firsthand during his time as a resident doctor.

“When we met the Pharos team and learned about their deep expertise in both healthcare and AI, we knew we had to work with them,” said Ryan Isono, Partner at Felicis. “The mundane areas of healthcare administration make up nearly $1 trillion in spend annually. Pharos uses AI to automate the manual process of hospital quality reporting, which is dramatically underinvested in and can have a huge impact on not just savings but patient safety, too. The platform automates manual data abstraction from medical records, enabling hospitals to identify and resolve process failures in real time. With their experience deploying AI in 70+ hospitals and publishing relevant research, we couldn’t imagine a better team to tackle this problem.”

Numerous studies have shown that access to data and adherence to processes can have significant impacts on patient safety. The American College of Surgeons estimates that 60% of current surgical site infections are preventable with good process, and the same is true for many other patient harm events. Pharos’ mission is to help hospitals prevent this harm before it happens.

You can learn more about the company and the technology at https://pharos.health/

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About Pharos

Pharos automates hospital quality reporting and helps staff identify the root causes of avoidable harm. Their AI automates chart abstraction for quality registries and process adherence measures, reducing staff burden and providing data instantly, rather than weeks after discharge.

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. Pharos enables quality teams to see where and why safety issues are happening in real time, enabling them to take action on issues like sepsis mortality, hospital acquired infections and pressure ulcers.

Pharos is a mission-driven team of clinicians and AI researchers from Meta, J.P. Morgan and Orion Health. They recently raised $5m in funding from Felicis, General Catalyst, Moxxie and Y Combinator to enable hospital quality teams with AI.

About Felicis
Founded in 2006, Felicis is a venture capital firm investing in companies reinventing core markets, as well as those creating frontier technologies. Felicis focuses on early-stage investments and currently manages over $3B in capital across 9 funds. The firm is an early backer of more than 45 companies valued at $1B+. More than 100 of its portfolio companies have been acquired or gone public, including Adyen (IPO), Credit Karma (acq by Intuit), Cruise (acq by General Motors), Fitbit (IPO), Guardant Health (IPO), Meraki (acq by Cisco), Ring (acq by Amazon), and Shopify (IPO). The firm is based in Menlo Park and San Francisco in California. Learn more at felicis.com.

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Saudi Geological Survey Releases New Geological Data Packages to Boost Mining Investment and Exploration

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Saudi Geological Survey (SGS) today announced the release of a new batch of geological data packages, further enriching its National Geological Database (NGD) Portal. This milestone coincides with the SGS’s founding day, underscoring its commitment to driving the mining sector’s growth through reliable and comprehensive geological information.

The newly released data packages cover 30% of the Arabian Shield. These packages include surface geochemical and aerial geophysical survey data collected as part of the General Geological Survey Program. Additionally, the National Core Library (NCL) drilling samples initiative has seen spectral scanning of over 70 kilometers of core samples and the digitization of more than 4000 technical reports related to mineral deposit sites.

The NGD Portal serves as a centralized platform for accessing and utilizing geological data, empowering researchers, industry professionals, and investors to make informed decisions and drive innovation in Saudi Arabia’s mining and mineral sector.

For more information, please visit https://ngd.sgs.gov.sa/en.

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