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Innovative solutions to business and social challenges driven by access to SAS Viya and its new AI tools

CARY, N.C., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SAS, a leader in data and AI, has announced the winners of the 2024 SAS Hackathon across 25 regional, industry, technology, specialty and student categories. These winning teams represent businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, universities and SAS Partners.

The 2024 SAS Hackathon offered hands-on experience with the very latest SAS Viya technology.

This year’s SAS Hackathon boasted 1,731 registrants from more than 70 countries. This led to an all-time high of 145 approved teams that participated in the month-long hack, supported by 110 SAS mentors. SAS produces the annual SAS Hackathon, which was sponsored this year by long-time SAS Partners Microsoft and Intel.

During the SAS Hackathon, teams of data scientists, business analysts, technology enthusiasts and students come together – often virtually across continents – to network, learn from each other and from a SAS mentor, and experiment with new technologies that spark innovation and improve lives.

Cutting-edge tech
The 2024 SAS Hackathon offered hands-on experience with a host of new technologies, including the very latest from SAS® Viya®, SAS‘ cloud-native, massively parallel data and AI platform. Four new Viya offerings were available to SAS Hackathon teams:

SAS Viya Workbench – a self-service, on-demand compute environment for conducting data preparation and exploratory data analysis and developing AI models.Model Cards – best described as “nutrition labels” for AI models, they highlight indicators like accuracy, fairness and model drift. With emerging AI rules, it is crucial to understand and share with regulators how models are performing.SAS Data Maker – a synthetic data generator, it addresses data privacy and data scarcity challenges by generating high-quality synthetic data without compromising sensitive information.SAS Viya Copilot – a personal AI assistant, it enhances productivity for developers, data scientists and business users by accelerating code generation, data cleaning and exploration, marketing planning and more.

“Hackathons are a fantastic way to advance novel ideas and explore new methods. And with hands-on access to SAS Viya and its powerful new AI tools, the winning teams in this year’s SAS Hackathon have raised the bar of innovation to new heights,” said Jennifer Chase, Chief Marketing Officer at SAS.

“Their projects will have a substantial impact on many of today’s business and societal challenges. Congratulations to the winners and all SAS Hackathon participants for inspiring us.”

Preventing heat stroke and saving lives
An example of a SAS Hackathon team effectively using these new technologies is team StaSASticians. Team members are experts in data analytics, mathematical modeling and health care. Using SAS Viya Workbench and SAS Data Maker, along with SAS Viya and Python tools, they developed an AI-enabled Heat Stroke Prevention System for construction workers.

The system analyzes real-time weather data and sensor information from IoT-equipped smart helmets from IoT company (and team member) BeeInventor that monitor factors such as workers’ heart rate and core body temperature. The system then provides real-time warnings of potential heat stroke to protect high-risk workers. This can save lives and enhance safety, productivity and regulatory compliance while also reducing health care costs.

In a world warming due to climate change, this Heat Stroke Prevention System is a very timely and targeted innovation. For the 2024 SAS Hackathon, team StaSASticians won in three categories: Americas (region), Insurance (industry) and IoT (technology). And its project is typical of the many inspiring stories within this year’s SAS Hackathon.

Overall winner?
While SAS announced category winners today, the overall SAS Hackathon winner will be named at SAS Innovate, the SAS data and AI technology conference, May 6-9, 2025, in Orlando, Florida.

2024 SAS Hackathon winners
More than 100 expert judges chose regional winners and global industry, technology, specialty and student winners. To learn more about each winning team and view videos of their projects, visit the SAS Hacker’s Hub community and search by team name.

Regional winners

Americas – StaSASticians [U.S.] Using SAS Viya, SAS Viya Workbench, SAS Data Maker and Python tools, this team developed an AI-enabled Heat Stroke Prevention System for construction workers. See above for more details.Asia-Pacific – Nupeak Neurons [India]. This team from IT services provider and SAS Partner Nupeak Group applied computer vision and machine learning to create a new approach to quality inspection in the pharmaceutical industry. Using SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning and Python tools, the team created an automated system for inspecting injectable pharmaceuticals that quickly detects defects, improves manufacturing quality and ensures product safety.EMEA – Butterflies [U.K.] The flood of data, misinformation and disinformation are becoming major problems, often negatively influencing decisions and causing harm. SAS Partner Butterfly Data has developed a tool to help analysts assess data sources for their reliability and credibility. The tool uses advanced natural language processing (NLP) and classification models to check the trustworthiness of news and open source data. Built with SAS Viya, Viya Workbench, and Viya Copilot, as well as open-source tools like Git and Python, the tool helps verify data sources, spot unreliable information and ensure the use of ethical information to make decisions.

Global industry winners

Banking – Raffles Vietnam. Many banks face policy complexity that can lead to misunderstanding and misalignment. SAS Partner Raffles Data & Analytics has created RAGI, a generative AI solution built on SAS Viya. With RAGI, banks can automate the extraction of business rules from policy documents and resolve conflicts or gaps in credit policies, saving time and money. By seamlessly integrating with SAS Intelligent Decisioning, RAGI drastically reduces the time-to-market for new policies and products.Energy – IAEA: Climate Change and Challenges to Nuclear Plant Safety [U.S., Italy]. As countries confront the climate crisis and energy-security concerns, nuclear energy is increasingly recognized for its potential. But it must demonstrate a proven level of safety. A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Pacific Disaster Center, and Oakland University assessed natural hazard risks in nuclear facility site selection. Using SAS Viya and its AI and machine learning capabilities, the team identified various natural hazards (floods, wildfires, severe weather and more), uncovered correlations between hazards, analyzed hazard characteristics and affected regions, and estimated the probability of occurrence and risk to new and existing nuclear facilities.Health Care – NEAR Exergame [Malaysia]. A team of researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia has created a system that delivers engaging and safe rehabilitation for stroke patients and elderly individuals. Powered by AI and SAS Viya, the system offers real-time recovery feedback while tracking progress, predicting outcomes and tailoring a therapy plan for each patient.Insurance – StaSASticians [U.S.] See above for more details.Life Sciences – RatioTeam [Italy]. This team from SAS Partner Rationence developed Abstract Finder, a solution that exploits generative AI to enhance biomedical literature retrieval. Powered by SAS Viya, the solution helps researchers, medical and health professionals and students quickly find the abstracts they need within the PubMed database to advance scientific discovery.Public Sector – Team Only Planet 2120 [Netherlands]. This diverse and dynamic team of experts included specialists in civil engineering (Heijmans and Dura Vermeer), water management (Waterschap Rivierenland and Groene Metropoolregio Arnhem-Nijmegen), data science/GIS (SAS Partner Notilyze) and climate research (Wageningen University). By using SAS Viya, open source tools and GIS mapping and simulation, the team integrated diverse data sources to create comprehensive visualizations of climate scenarios in the Dutch river delta. These helped the team optimize water-management strategies.Retail, Consumer Goods & Manufacturing – Supply Chain Resource Cooperative NCSU [U.S.] A team from North Carolina State University has developed a machine learning-based system that grades apparel factory compliance with established labor standards. NCSU used SAS Viya to develop its framework, which creates a more transparent and ethical way to evaluate apparel supply chains.Telecom – Advanced Analytics TEF Vivo. [Brazil]. A team from telecom provider Vivo created a solution that automates revenue and profit forecasting in the mobile segment. Using machine learning models and data analysis within SAS Viya led to significant increases in forecasting accuracy, a simplified process, and easy visualization and adjustment. The result? Better strategic planning and resource allocation, reduced manual effort and improved efficiency.

Global technology winners

Computer Vision – avalanche [Turkey]. A student team from TOBB University of Economics and Technology designed a system to monitor social media platforms and economic and public camera data. The goal? Detect harmful content or dangerous activity and provide timely alerts to relevant authorities to prevent panic and protect public safety.Decisioning – Benjamin & Joseph (Benjo) [Singapore]. SAS IoT Partner Ecosystem member Benjamin & Joseph has developed a solution to automate line-by-line auditing of medical bills. Its Sherlock solution, powered by SAS AI and IoT analytics, helps reduce errors in medical billing. These errors lead to billions of dollars in preventable losses for health care providers and payers worldwide.Forecasting – Datacurate [India]. SAS Partner Datacurate Technologies created a procurement-planning solution for the food industry using SAS Viya. For a restaurant chain, for example, procurement planning involves determining which ingredients to buy, the optimal time for purchasing, and the precise quantities needed to meet anticipated demand. Effective procurement planning aims to minimize costs and reduce waste while ensuring timely availability of ingredients.Internet of Things (IoT) – StaSASticians [U.S.] See description above.Models – Butterflies [U.K.] See description above.Natural Language Processing (NLP) – Council Insights Heidelberg [Germany]. This team wanted to create a way for Heidelberg’s citizens to find out quickly about the work and resolutions of the city’s Municipal Council. Using SAS Viya, they built a system that automatically retrieves documents from the Council’s website, preps the data, and analyzes it with NLP, large language models (LLMs) and Viya tools so it can be easily accessed and searched. By better presenting the work of city committees, the team helps strengthen citizens’ trust in their local government. And this project could be a model for other cities.Visualization – Council Insights Heidelberg [Germany]. See description above.

Global special award winners

Channel Ready – Butterflies [U.K.] See description above.Sustainability – Cleaner Commutes [Netherlands]. Employee commuting is a significant part of many companies’ carbon footprint. Using SAS advanced analytics and machine learning, this team provides data-driven insights to companies to help them reduce their commuting emissions and comply with environmental regulations. Large volumes of synthetic data (from SAS Data Maker) can also help simulate different commuting scenarios so companies can assess employee impact and develop personalized solutions.Data for Good – AbuSearch [U.K.] This team from SAS Partner Katalyze Data and the Child Rescue Coalition used text analytics, NLP and other tools to fight child abuse. They analyzed chat and forums data from Project Nemesis, child-protection software for law enforcement. The goal was to identify users of the chat and forums who share and even produce harmful content on children, as well as those who find, groom and contact potential victims.Emerging Talent – NEAR Exergame [Malaysia]. See description above.Trustworthy AI – Butterflies [U.K.] See description above.

Global student winners

Data for Good – ORSOL [U.S.] This team from Purdue University examined how economically disadvantaged populations are disproportionally affected by climate change. It built a system to identify the 50 counties in the U.S. that are most at risk from the combination of climate change and economic vulnerability. And created data-driven insights to help policymakers better allocate resources.Ethical Data Analysis – Data Ninjas [U.K.] To develop a data-driven and ethical admissions process for graduate schools, this team from the University of London and the University of Wolverhampton used SAS Viya for Learners to mitigate bias and promote fairness.

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TEACH Educator Candidates Experience Consistently Higher Certification Pass Rates After Use of Study.com for Teacher Test Prep

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Research evaluated priority populations in North Carolina and South Carolina to assess direct impact to a diverse educator workforce, leading to an eight-percentage point increase in pass rates

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — As the U.S. K-12 student population becomes more diverse, with students from historically marginalized racial and ethnic identities comprising the majority of public-school students, it is critical that the educator workforce reflect the make-up of today’s classrooms. That prompted the creation of Study.com’s “Keys to the Classroom” initiative, focused on building a more robust and representative teacher pipeline to support student outcomes.

As part of this initiative, Study.com partnered with TEACH, a national nonprofit that implements comprehensive, statewide teacher recruitment systems to identify and support prospective teachers on their path to the classroom, in North Carolina and South Carolina. Together, these two organizations examined the impact of test preparation on pass rates of priority populations, such as teachers of color, exam re-takers and teachers on conditional or temporary licenses. Certification exams are often a barrier to aspiring educators from diverse backgrounds, but research shows that intervention support leads to positive outcomes.

In a research partnership across ETS®, Study.com – an official partner of the ETS Praxis exam, and TEACH, this pilot demonstrates that teacher candidates with sufficient use of Study.com for test preparation consistently passed the Praxis exam at higher rates than candidates with less usage. Sufficient use of Study.com led to an 8-percentage point increase in pass rates overall although priority populations, which were over-represented in this study with 45% non-white and 40+% re-take candidates, were positively impacted more significantly. For example, among Black re-takers in North Carolina, there was a 34% increase in passage rates.

Key Findings

The study found a direct impact to the educator workforce that demonstrates targeted intervention and support works, especially among priority populations who historically have lower pass rates on certification exams. Only 38% of Black teacher candidates and 57% of Hispanic teacher candidates pass the Praxis exam even after multiple attempts while 75% of white candidates ultimately pass1.

Specifically:

Black teacher candidates in both N.C. and S.C. experienced a 12-percentage point increase in pass rate with sufficient use of Study.com for test prep.

In N.C., Black teacher candidates who re-took the Praxis exam following sufficient use of Study.com for test prep had a 17-percentage point increase in pass rate than for Black re-takers overall.

While Praxis exam re-takers overall tend to pass at lower rates, sufficient use of Study.com improved their scores by 12-percentage points in N.C. and by 7-percentage points in S.C.

Teacher candidates with temporary or conditional licenses in N.C. had a 10-percentage point increase in pass rate with sufficient use of Study.com than those without it.

“This partnership has enabled us to extend the support we offer to aspiring teachers by providing more necessary interventions on their preparation journey,” explained Veronica Wilson, Co-Executive Director, TEACH. “The results of this study highlight that we can reduce the barrier of licensure exam passage that future teachers face when trying to get into – or stay in – the classroom, especially among diverse educator populations. And we can do it at scale.”

Value of Diverse Teacher Pipeline

Nationwide, only 7% of teachers identify as Black while about 14% of public-school students identify as Black. That gap is even greater among Hispanic and Latine students who comprise nearly one-third of the public-school population but only 9% of educators identify as Hispanic or Latine2. These representation gaps impact students across multiple variables. For example, the likelihood that a student is seen as disruptive by a teacher of a difference race increases by 46% for students of color – that leads to disciplinary actions that are closely linked to future academic performance3. While teachers of color positively impact the outcomes for students of color, research shows they also positively impact white students across academic performance, critical thinking and creativity factors.

“Given the significant and systemic barriers that educators of color can encounter entering and advancing within the profession, it is essential for the industry to understand those barriers and address them through robust, targeted resources. This support is crucial for teachers’ entry into the profession as well as for their long-term retention and success,” said Dana Bryson, SVP, Social Impact at Study.com. “This study unequivocally reinforces the findings of other reports: when aspiring educators have access to comprehensive test preparation tools and resources, they achieve higher pass rates, directly addressing teacher shortages and creating a more equitable and representative education system that benefits all students.”

“Ensuring that teacher candidates – especially those from diverse backgrounds – are fully supported and well-prepared for the Praxis exam is crucial to building a more equitable education system,” said Paul Gollash, Senior Vice President of K-16, ETS. “By helping teacher candidates excel, we take an important step toward expanding access to opportunities that have historically been limited. Mentoring, coaching and other candidate development offerings create a teaching workforce that more accurately reflects the diverse communities they serve.”

Impact and Reach

Both North Carolina and South Carolina face ongoing teacher shortages that disproportionately impact low-income students and students of color, populations that need more support. In North Carolina, the Governor’s Office of Roy Cooper invested more than $1.3 million to support nearly 8,000 future teachers with test prep, which included more than 3,800 licenses from Study.com and 5,000+ test vouchers from ETS. In South Carolina, a close partnership with Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement (CERRA) enabled 2,000+ aspiring teachers to receive support, more than 1,200 of whom used a donated license from Study.com. The TeachNC and TeachSC initiatives are supported by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the South Carolina Department of Education, respectively. 

Methodology

As part of this research project, 10,053 current and future educators across North Carolina and South Carolina received support from Teach.org and Study.com. Study.com provided 4,700+ licenses while TEACH purchased at least 5,000 Praxis test prep vouchers and provided them at no cost to participants. From that pool, the research pilot examined the test results and pass rates of 2,557 teacher candidates over 18 months who took a Praxis exam after joining TeachNC or TeachSC. Of those, 1,832 were in North Carolina and 725 were in South Carolina. The study also over-indexed in key, priority population segments as it relates to the educator workforce: 30% Black / African American and 44% exam re-takers. Almost 90% of both groups reported having a temporary or no license (89% in S.C. and 88% in N.C.). 

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1 National Council on Teacher Quality: https://www.nctq.org/publications/A-Fair-Chance
2 Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/12/10/americas-public-school-teachers-are-far-less-racially-and-ethnically-diverse-than-their-students/
3 Brown University: https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-07-18/discipline

Study.com opens the door to the life-changing impact of education for more than 34 million learners and educators a month through its award-winning online learning platform for K12 curriculum, college courses and test preparation. With learners and educators in more than 11,000 school districts nationwide, Study.com is recognized by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for meeting Level IV evidence standards. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Study.com has been honored as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company and included in the GSV150, celebrating the world’s most transformative private companies in education, for the last two consecutive years. The company has donated $29 million across social impact programs committed to increasing educational equity. These programs include Working Scholars®, an accelerated pathway for working adults to earn a debt-free bachelor’s degree; College Saver, which has saved students more than $475 million in tuition costs, and Keys to the Classroom, which seeks to help aspiring educators prepare for and pass their teacher certification exams.

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Jedox Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software

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BOSTON and FREIBURG, Germany and LONDON and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates and SINGAPORE and SYDNEY, Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Jedox, the world’s most adaptable planning and performance management solution, was named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software. Jedox was recognized by independent analyst firm Gartner, based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Jedox AI-powered solutions accelerate finance transformation with effective planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis.

Jedox solutions, built with JedoxAI technology designed for global finance leaders, provide faster access to accurate information so organizations can operate efficiently and uncover new opportunities that increase revenue. The platform connects real-time operational and financial data through hyperautomation to automatically create a replica or “digital twin” of a business so leaders can model any scenario, plan, budget and forecast effectively, and make sound decisions.

Over the last five years, before AI became mainstream, CFOs used Jedox AIssisted™ planning wizards to understand future demand and predict customer churn through AI-enhanced forecasts. Today JedoxAI is a digital business partner to finance leaders by summarizing complex financial information and providing a catalyst to ad hoc reporting through Gen AI natural language interrogation of data within the Jedox platform. Use cases include applying Gen AI to draft management commentary on forecasted business performance or summarize long-range plans based on key drivers of performance.

“We’re thrilled to be named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software,” said Florian Winterstein, CEO of Jedox. “We believe it reflects the confidence our 2,800 customers and global partner ecosystem place in Jedox. Through our AI-powered solutions for planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis, organizations are accelerating their digital transformation from siloed processes to collaborative integrated business planning, outperforming their goals, and achieving greater business value.”

As most people understand Microsoft Excel, they quickly master the Jedox platform and its drag-and-drop management reporting and dashboarding. This simplifies adoption and change management within the office of finance and allows for better and faster transformation consistent with the way people like to work. Capturing ad hoc insights within dashboards and formatted financial and tabular views of budgets, forecasts, and plans enables companies to understand their drivers and focus effective performance management.

“Our R&D, engineering, and product development engine plans to deliver even more enterprise-ready applications of predictive analytics and Gen AI to the office of finance,” said Dr. Rolf Gegenmantel, Chief Product Officer of Jedox. “We’ve listened to the market through a global series of Jedox Elevate roadshows and customer roundtables. From this listening tour, our roadmap was shaped towards building more pre-built functional use case templates we call Best Practice Accelerators. We want our customers to increase collaboration, so they deepen their understanding of connections between financial and operational planning, and performance management, to further support autonomous finance operations and heightened value creation.”

2024 will end with record revenue for Jedox, high customer satisfaction and best-in-class retention rates, and global customer growth in diverse industries on six continents including Tony’s Chocolonely, Li&Fung, Schaeffler, Saudi Aramco, Deutsche Telekom, Henkell & Freixenet, and Sandvik.

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About Jedox

Jedox is the world’s most adaptable planning and performance management platform that empowers organizations to deliver plans that outperform expectations. Over 2,800 organizations in 140 countries trust Jedox to model any scenario, integrate data from any source, and simplify cross-organizational plans across all business systems. Jedox enables a culture of decisiveness and confidence so teams can plan for opportunities, react quickly to changes, and uncover what they didn’t know was possible.

For further details, kindly visit: www.jedox.com

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The Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 announces spectacular Closing Ceremony lineup: Jelly Roll, Barenaked Ladies and The War And Treaty!

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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 20, 2024 /CNW/ – The Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 presented by ATCO and Boeing announces today an all-star, GRAMMY-nominated talent lineup for its Closing Ceremony, Live at Rogers Arena on February 16: Nashville country superstar Jelly Roll, legendary Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies, and electrifying Americana duo The War And Treaty.

The Closing Ceremony will bring to a spectacular close nine days of memories and life-changing sport events for the up to 550 competitors, their family and friends, and many thousands of Invictus Games supporters around the world who will have experienced the Games live, through broadcast and online.

Tickets for the Closing Ceremony, which went on pre-sale in late September, now start at the low price of $61 ($89.05 with fees) and are available now at invictusgames2025.ca/tickets/. 

The three Closing Ceremony acts join previously announced Opening Ceremony talent Noah Kahan, Nelly Furtado, and Roxane Bruneau on Saturday, February 8 at BC Place. Stay tuned for more Opening Ceremony superstar performers and celebrity appearances to be announced in early December.

About Jelly Roll

Award-winning, GRAMMY-nominated Nashville native singer/songwriter Jelly Roll (Jason DeFord) bowed at #1 on the Billboard 200 All Genre Chart for the first time with his acclaimed 2024 album, Beautifully Broken—which also earned the highest critical praise of his career so far from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Associated Press, NPR, and more. The release concluded his most successful year yet and followed his sold out Beautifully Broken Tour in arenas nationwide.

Just a year earlier, Jelly debuted Top 3 on the Billboard 200 All Genre Chart and #2 on the Top Country Album charts with his debut Country Album, Whitsitt Chapel (released June 2nd, 2023) – earning the biggest Country debut album in Billboard Consumption Chart history. Following his sweep at the 2023 CMT Music Awards where he earned three awards to become the most awarded artist of the night, the Billboard Country Power List Cover star and “country’s ‘most authentic’ new artist” (The New Yorker) received Billboard’s 2023 Breakthrough Award and the People’s Choice Award for Male Country Artist of the Year. Nominated for Best New Artist and Best Duo/Group Performance for “Save Me (with Lainey Wilson)” at the 2024 GRAMMY Awards, along with eight genre-spanning nominations at the 2024 iHeartRadio Awards and a win for Best New Country and Pop artist, Jelly is one of three artists alongside Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs to have scored three Country Airplay #1s in 2023 and the first to do it with his first three singles.

About Barenaked Ladies

Toronto-based Barenaked Ladies are one of Canada’s biggest rock success stories, with their self-titled 1991 cassette tape becoming the first independent release to be certified gold in Canada. With singles such as ‘Be My Yoko Ono,’ ‘If I Had $1000000,’ and ‘Brian Wilson,’ the band quickly earned a dedicated following across the country.

With their eclectic blend of witty lyrics, pop harmonies and melodic folk, they earned their first GRAMMY nomination in 1998 for their Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit single, ‘One Week’. The album it was featured on, Stunt, also peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200. Barenaked Ladies has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide and wrote the iconic theme song for award-winning television sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The quartet was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2018. 

The band’s latest album is In Flight, released in September 2023.

About The War And Treaty

Founded in 2014 by the husband-and-wife duo Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter, The War And Treaty has emerged as one of the most electrifying new acts in American music.

Recently earning their first ever GRAMMY nominations for Best New Artist and Best American Roots Song for “Blank Page,” they also received their first ever Duo of the Year nomination from the Country Music Association, Vocal Duo nomination from the Academy of Country Music, plus recognition by the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Grand Ole Opry, and the Americana Music Association including earning AMA Duo/Group of the Year for the second straight year.

About the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025

The Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025, presented by ATCO and Boeing, is an international sporting competition for wounded, injured, and sick service members and Veterans. From February 8-16, 2025, the seventh Invictus Games will bring together up to 550 competitors from up to 25 nations in 11 adaptive sports in the natural beauty of British Columbia, Canada. Invictus means unconquered and the Games celebrate courage, resiliency and the strength of the human spirit. Through the power of sport, the Games will inspire recovery, support rehabilitation, and generate a wider understanding and respect for those who have served their country.    

The Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025 will be held on the traditional territories of the Lil̓wat7úl (Líl̓wat), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. True Patriot Love Foundation, the Government of Canada, and the Province of British Columbia are the valued Founding Partners of the Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025.     

Visit invictusgames2025.ca/media-hub/ for our latest news, supporting materials and full Games details.

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