LAGOS, Nigeria, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Foreign Investment Network (FIN) is set to host its highly anticipated 2025 Annual FIN-Forbes Renewable Energy Leadership Roundtable and Awards, scheduled for April 9, 2025, at the prestigious Marriott Hotel Al Jaddaf, Dubai, on the sidelines of the Net Zero MEA Summit.

Leading this year’s cohort of awardees are four outstanding Nigerian Governors:

Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Dikko Umar Radda (Katsina), Peter Mbah (Enugu), and Lucky Aiyedatiwa (Ondo)—recognized for their visionary leadership and transformative achievements in governance and sustainability. These Governors will be presented with the FIN-Forbes Outstanding Leadership Award for their commitment to driving economic growth, infrastructure development, and renewable energy adoption in their respective states.

Organized by FIN, a UK-based investment and media consultancy with over three decades of experience in facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI) across Africa and other developing regions, the Roundtable underscores FIN’s mission to foster global partnerships and economic advancement. Over the years, FIN has successfully catalyzed investments exceeding $30 billion USD into African markets, particularly in energy, agriculture, ICT, and industrial development.

According to Dr. Olayinka Fayomi, Chairperson of FIN, “This event celebrates visionary leadership and innovation, recognizing those who are reshaping Africa’s future through impactful policies and strategic investments.”

Additional honorees include Alhaji Mohammed Indimi and Dr. Deji Adeleke, both recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Celebrated tech entrepreneur and founder of Konga, Prince Nnamdi Ekeh, will be honored with the Africa e-Commerce Leadership Award, recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to digital trade and innovation across the continent.

Other distinguished nominees include Dr. Olasupo Olusi, the MD of Bank of Industries, Nigeria, for his laudable transformation of the bank and others who have demonstrated excellence across business, policy, and social impact.

The event also signals the launch of FIN’s 2025 Annual Global Investment Series, including:

5th International  Trade & Investment Forum – Sept. 20, New York2nd FIN Fashion Industry Summit – Sept. 21, New York4th Africa Cashless Payment Conference – Oct. 2, Lagos8th Emerging Markets Forum  – Oct. 10, Washington D.C.FIN Web Conference & AI Expo – Oct. 26–28, Silicon Valley, USA – Immerse yourself in the future at the AI Expo, where groundbreaking AI, tech innovation, and global thought leadership converge to shape tomorrow’s digital world. www.Finwebconference.com 

These global events reflect FIN’s unwavering commitment to innovation, collaboration, and sustainable economic development worldwide.  admin@finmagazine.com

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New Oracle AI Agent Studio empowers Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications customers and partners to easily create, extend, deploy, and manage AI agents and agent teams across the enterprise

LONDON, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle CloudWorld — Oracle today announced Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, a comprehensive platform for creating, extending, deploying, and managing AI agents and agent teams across the enterprise. Part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the new AI Agent Studio provides easy-to-use tools for customers and partners to create customized AI agents that address complex business needs and can help drive new levels of productivity.

“AI agents are the next phase of evolution in enterprise applications and just like with existing applications, business leaders need the flexibility to create specific functionality to address their unique and evolving business needs,” said Steve Miranda, executive vice president of applications, Oracle. “Our AI Agent Studio builds on the 50+ AI agents we have already introduced and gives our customers and partners the flexibility to easily create and manage their own AI agents. With the agents already embedded in Fusion Applications and our new AI Agent Studio, customers will be able to further extend automation and ultimately, achieve more while spending less.” 

Available at no additional cost, Oracle AI Agent Studio delivers easy-to-use tools, including advanced testing, robust validation, and built-in security, that will help Oracle Fusion Applications customers and partners create and manage AI agents. Leveraging the same technology that Oracle uses to create AI agents, Oracle AI Agent Studio enables users to easily extend pre-packaged agents and/or create new agents and then deploy and manage them across the enterprise. AI agents designed in the Oracle AI Agent Studio seamlessly integrate with Oracle Fusion Applications and can collaborate with third-party agents to complete complex and multi-step processes. Oracle AI Agent Studio includes:  

Agent template libraries: Enable users to create their own AI agents with pre-built templates paired with natural language prompts. Users can leverage the library of ready-made templates to support a variety of business scenarios, for example opportunity to quote, return order processing, or shift scheduling.Agent team orchestration: Enables users to set up multiple agents to work alongside people on complex tasks through pre-configured templates. For greater control, users can add checkpoints and approvals throughout multi-step processes.Agent extensibility: Enables users to modify and extend the 50+ pre-packaged Oracle Fusion Applications AI agents by adding documents, tools, prompts, or APIs to address their specific industry and business needs.Choice of LLMs: Enables users to access a variety of large language models (LLMs) to address specific business needs. Users can select from LLMs specifically optimized for Oracle Fusion Applications, such as Llama and Cohere, or plug in other external industry-specific LLMs for specialized use cases.Native Fusion integration: Enables users to quickly build enterprise-ready agents by providing direct access to Oracle Fusion Applications APIs, knowledge stores, and predefined tools without complex customizations. This deep integration automatically preserves enterprise-specific business logic within AI-powered workflows.Third-party system integration: Enables users to connect Oracle Fusion Applications AI agents to third-party agents through secure APIs that support both immediate next steps and long-running processes.Trust and security framework: Enables users to build and deploy agents that operate within a secure framework by requiring agents within the AI Agent Studio to always apply the latest Oracle Fusion Applications security configurations, policies, and access controls. This also allows users to build AI agents without the need to reconfigure security settings or sign new agreements.Validation and testing tools: Enables users to maintain trust and accuracy by verifying and monitoring results within AI-driven workflows. For example, built-in validation and testing tools help support reliability, repeatability, explainability, security, and performance of AI outputs.

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“AI-powered innovation is enabling our clients to reinvent processes and transform the way they work, driving a new performance frontier,” said Lan Guan, chief AI officer, Accenture. “According to our recent research, agentic architectures featuring AI agents will enter the mainstream in 2025, with three times as many organizations planning to invest in these capabilities compared to 2024. As we continue to work with Oracle to help clients across industries accelerate the adoption of AI, the new Oracle AI Agent Studio will allow us to orchestrate more powerful agents from Oracle, with Accenture’s AI Refinery platform, to drive new levels of productivity and growth.” 

“With the rapid rise of AI agents, organizations are facing an ongoing challenge of how to manage and measure the impact of these digital workers,” said Mauro Schiavon, global chief commercial officer, Oracle Business, and principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “As leaders look to demonstrate the ROI of their AI investments, platforms like Oracle’s new AI Agent Studio can enable customization that addresses unique business needs. We look forward to helping our joint clients across industries develop and deploy agentic AI for value creation and competitive edge.”

“Agents can help unlock the value of AI for the enterprise. We’re entering a period of agentic organizations that will fundamentally change how we work across functions and industries,” said Dan Priest, US chief AI officer, PWC. “PwC’s unmatched track record of teaming with Oracle to transform our clients’ businesses makes us very excited about what we can do with Oracle’s AI Agent Studio — more IQ, new capabilities, all lead to great possibilities.”

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“The new Oracle AI Agent Studio is an impressive next step for Oracle’s AI strategy. To truly optimize the impact of AI agents, organizations need to be able to customize the way they work to fit their unique business needs,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst, Constellation Research. “The evolution of AI across the enterprise is moving at a rapid pace and by enabling agents to be created, extended, deployed, and managed across the entire enterprise, Oracle will help its customers accelerate adoption and automation.”

“Oracle has AI-enabled their enterprise applications over the last few years with AI assistants, advisors, and agents. This product focus has enabled Oracle to extend this AI-enablement in the launch of its AI Agent Studio,” said Mickey North Rizza, group vice president, IDC. “The future of work is upon us, and Oracle is helping its customers and partners quickly and easily take advantage of agents in a way that will drive meaningful business value. To have this kind of functionality at no extra cost is a huge win for Oracle customers.”

“Oracle continues to break new ground with its deployment of predictive, generative, and now agentic AI across the Oracle Fusion Applications Suite,” said Evelyn McMullen, research manager, Nucleus. “The new AI Agent Studio is a logical next step in Oracle’s strategy and will enable organizations to maximize AI output across every area of their business. Oracle is helping its customers build their own digital workforce, all under existing subscriptions. I think the studio will help Oracle customers unlock entirely new levels of productivity and success.” 

Oracle Fusion Applications Suite enables organizations to take advantage of the cloud and the latest advancements in predictive, generative, and agentic AI to help break down organizational silos, standardize processes, and manage finance, HR, supply chain, and customer experience data on a single integrated cloud platform. To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications Suite, please visit: oracle.com/applications

For additional information on Oracle Fusion AI Agent Studio, visit: https://www.oracle.com/applications/fusion-ai/ai-agents/

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New capabilities within Oracle Cloud HCM enable HR teams, managers, and employees to drive engagement, increase productivity, and enhance company culture 

LONDON, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle CloudWorld — Oracle has added new employee communications and event management capabilities to the Oracle ME employee experience platform within Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). The latest updates to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Communicate solution within Oracle ME enable HR teams to boost employee engagement in company-wide initiatives, help managers deliver more effective communication to drive productivity, and empower employees to foster inclusivity through grassroots events.

“Many organizations use multiple point solutions to support internal communications and event management, but these often don’t deliver the employee participation or insights needed for HR teams to effectively support their workforce and drive meaningful change,” said Yvette Cameron, senior vice president, global HCM product strategy, Oracle. “The latest updates to Oracle Communicate deliver a single communications and event management solution to help increase employee engagement, deliver more effective team communication, and drive change across the organization.”

Oracle Communicate connects event management with workforce data. This helps teams create personalized internal communications that drive employees to act on key initiatives, increase productivity, foster organizational culture, and build a better employee experience.

The latest updates enable HR teams to:

Manage HR events: Comprehensive event management capabilities enable HR teams to create and promote events that support priority company initiatives, such as new hire onboarding or open enrollment.Connect with the right audiences: Flexible targeting tools enable HR teams to engage with the right employees at the right time through any preferred method of communication, such as email, text, or the Oracle Activity Center.Increase employee engagement: Real-time event analytics enable HR teams to leverage engagement insights to create and promote events more effectively and drive increased participation.

The latest updates enable managers to:

Manage team events: Enhanced management capabilities enable managers to create and promote events for their teams that support priority initiatives, such as learning and development trainings, strategy and vision alignment, or team building.Deliver effective team communication: Personalized communication tools enable managers to send tailored messages to targeted team members to encourage specific actions, such as reporting on progress following new initiative launches or promoting team recognitions.  Drive employee productivity and growth: Data-driven analytics enable managers to view insights on team member event participation and leverage key learnings for better coaching and career development conversations.

The latest updates enable employees to:

Manage peer-to-peer events: New self-service event management capabilities enable employees to create and promote grassroots events that drive learning, development and community, and help them connect with peers who share the same interests.Foster workplace connectivity: Easy-to-use communication tools enable employees to share events across Oracle Activity Center and create newsletter digests to strengthen company culture. Additionally, AI-powered capabilities deliver recommended employee events based on data including location, activity, and personal interests.Access centralized communications: A unified communications hub enables employees to view all communications, including HR-led initiatives, team notifications, and employee-led events, to easily engage with the most relevant activities.

Part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, Oracle Cloud HCM is a complete solution connecting every human resource process from hire to retire across an organization with a native employee experience platform and embedded AI capabilities. By connecting all people, work, and skills data on a single platform, HR teams have access to a single source of truth to help inform their people strategy. In addition, embedded AI acts as an advisor to help analyze workforce data, generate content, and augment or automate processes to help improve business operations.

For additional information on Oracle Cloud HCM applications, visit oracle.com/hcm.

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