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Pivot Bio to Sponsor 9th International Nitrogen Conference

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Global meeting to focus on improving nitrogen management for sustainable growth 

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Pivot Bio, a leading sustainable agriculture company, is teaming up with the International Nitrogen Initiative to sponsor the 9th International Nitrogen Conference Feb. 5 to 8 at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in New Delhi. The summit will convene international nitrogen experts from around the world. Pivot Bio’s sponsorship supported the participation of more than 20 world-renowned scientists from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Kenya, the Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Uganda and the United States, all of whom will consider how to move closer to INI’s goal of cutting nitrogen loss in half by 2050.

 

“The International Nitrogen Initiative is the world’s leading platform for improving nitrogen management.”

“The International Nitrogen Initiative is the world’s leading platform for improving nitrogen management,” says Pivot Bio CEO Chris Abbott. “It is a critical place for academics, policy makers and both emerging and traditional nitrogen providers to come together to help ensure the world’s farmers can continue to provide the food the world needs in the face of increasing volatility.”

By way of background, nitrogen is essential to plant growth, but until Pivot Bio arrived on the scene, farmers had only two choices for their crops: manure and synthetic fertilizer. In both cases, the all-important nitrogen was vulnerable to runoff and leaching, which lead to waste for farmers’ and loss that lead to environmental challenges. For example, surplus nitrogen can become nitrous oxide, the most potent of the three leading greenhouse gases.

By adhering directly to the roots of crops, Pivot Bio products can avoid this loss by, “spoon feeding the nutrient to the plant throughout its life cycle.”

As a result, Abbott said, “We welcomed with open arms the opportunity to help fund the INI conference and to share our own journey to give growers a better, more environmentally sustainable form of nitrogen.”

The invitation to sponsor the INI conference came from David Kanter, associate professor of environmental studies at New York University, INI chairperson and a member of the Pivot Bio Science Advisory Board.

“We are grateful for the funding from Pivot Bio, of course, but our gratitude goes far beyond the sponsorship. Pivot Bio has developed a promising way of keeping nitrogen with the crops that could see very important benefits for the environment and farmers’ bottom lines,” said Kanter. “We are very pleased to prominently include their voice at the world’s leading conference for nitrogen science and policy.”

Abbott and Karsten Temme, chief innovation officer and a co-founder of Pivot Bio, will address conference attendees in a 36-minute presentation that explains the workings of the company’s technological advances and why we need to continue finding a way to replace synthetic nitrogen fertilizers with products that take into account the needs of growers and the planet.

“We want to find ways to combine with other great ideas out there, to take the best new innovations and get them in the hands of growers as quickly as we can,” Temme said. “So, if we can prevent excess nitrogen from leaving a field in the form of nitrous oxide or nitrate runoff, for the grower, it’s better because 100% of the investment they make ends up getting converted into fuel for a crop.”

See their presentation online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tWs1z6LKls. Anyone interested in working with Pivot Bio on solutions that support our growers and our food system is invited to reach out to media@pivotbio.com.

About Pivot Bio
Pivot Bio is a leading sustainable agriculture company delivering farmers patented crop nutrition technologies that harness the power of nature to reliably and productively grow the food the world needs in the face of increasing volatility. Currently available in North America and soon in Brazil, the company’s products are a breakthrough innovation. They are among the industry’s most promising climate solutions because they deliver nitrogen to plants without the negative impacts of synthetic fertilizer. Our nitrogen is weatherproof, safer to handle, and does not leach or contribute to nitrous oxide pollution. By making this possible for the first time at scale, Pivot Bio is upending the 190 billion USD nitrogen market. Pivot Bio has been recognized twice by Time magazine on its annual list of best inventions, by Fast Company on its World Changing Ideas and World’s Most Innovative Companies lists, by CNBC in its Disruptor 50 list of private companies, and by Fortune on its Impact 20 list of startups driving social good. The company recently announced its fourth consecutive year of growth. For more information, visit PivotBio.com.

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Stay Better in China: Civilization is Colorful for Communication

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NANCHANG, China, Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report from Jiangxi International Communication Center(JXICC):

 

Moses, an international student from East China University of Technology, has stayed in China for four years. He experienced the speed of China and the colorfulness of Chinese civilization.

Themed on Chinese-style modernization, Moses shares his wonderful lives and touching stories in China from various aspects such as cultural construction, industrial development, ecological protection, and rural revitalization. He is eager to bring Chinese-style modernization experience back home for contributing to the prosperity and development of their countries. He also expects China to play a more active role on the global stage and contribute more wisdom and strength to world peace and development. He believes that these beautiful visions will certainly become reality as China continues to develop and make progress.

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The AI solutions for Japanese businesses make a global splash with the NVIDIA promotion campaign

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The tech giant NVIDIA highly appreciates the AI solutions developed by FPT Smart Cloud in elevating customer experience and optimizing workforce competency.

HANOI, Vietnam, Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In April 2024, NVIDIA joined forces with FPT Corporation in the global initiative of AI and Cloud advancement. After 6 months, the AI solutions of FPT Smart Cloud – a subsidiary of FPT Corporation, have positioned themselves amidst the world’s 52 outstanding success stories featured by NVIDIA. FPT is currently offering more than 15 state-of-the-art AI solutions built on the natural language model for Japanese.

Enabling the intelligent call center 

In the digital age, AI virtual assistants are integrated into the contact center to automate simple to sophisticated tasks.

According to NVIDIA, FPT Smart Cloud has enabled seamless communication through the development of FPT AI Engage – the virtual agent for call center. The virtual agent can interact naturally and automate inbound calls, outbound calls, and voice-based call transfer (IVR). Operating on NVIDIA’s most advanced infrastructure, the AI vendor has been able to accelerate the speech synthesis model by 4 times and increase virtual agent efficiency.

The AI capabilities of FPT Smart Cloud have attracted a wide range of banking and financial institutions, particularly Home Credit Vietnam. The consumer finance company has been applying FPT AI Egnage since 2019. In the first year of operations, the virtual assistant can automatically process up to 12 million calls per month, allowing Home Credit to save 50% in operating expenses and attain a success call rate of 98%.

Building the AI-powered workforce of the future 

With the support of NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs, FPT Smart Cloud has developed FPT AI Mentor, fostering the next-generation employee training through automation and personalization. FPT AI Mentor applies the large language model (LLM) developed on NVIDIA DGX H100 and supported by NVIDIA NGC and PyTorch to generate and customize learning content based on the business knowledge base.

Long Chau, a pharmaceutical chain with 1,700 stores, has successfully integrated FPT AI Mentor into the daily training process for pharmacists, increasing employee knowledge quality by up to 55% while reducing 30% of resources compared to the traditional method.

NVIDIA further appraises the excellent efforts of FPT Smart Cloud in leveraging AI technologies to transform traditional call center operations and business training processes. In the past three years, FPT Smart Cloud invested on R&D initiatives for Indonesian and Japanese natural language processing technologies. In 2023, FPT Smart Cloud with the bilateral collaboration with Home Credit Indonesia, marking a crucial milestone as the first made-in-Vietnam AI solution to successfully attract and win over large enterprises in the global landscape. For the year 2024, the vendor aims further to conquer international markets, including Indonesia and Japan.

The original blog about FPT Smart Cloud solutions on the NVIDIA website can be found here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/case-studies/fpt-smart-cloud-levels-up-customer-service-operations/

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Husqvarna Group appoints Maha Elkharbotly as President of the Gardena Division

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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Maha Elkharbotly has been appointed President of the Gardena Division and will also be a member of Husqvarna Group’s executive management team.

Maha Elkharbotly holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Illinois and is currently President at I-Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of DSM Firmenich. Maha has previously held multiple executive positions at DSM Firmenich, LIXIL, Grohe and Whirlpool.  

“I am very pleased to welcome Maha to Husqvarna Group. Her broad experience and strong knowledge in sales, marketing, channel management and leadership will be valuable assets in the continued journey of Gardena. Maha brings vast experience from building brands as well as driving international expansion, innovation and business transformation. This expertise will be central to continue building Gardena’s position as a global leader in watering, as well as advancing smart garden systems including robotic mowers for passionate gardeners”, says Pavel Hajman, CEO of Husqvarna Group.  

Maha Elkharbotly will be based in Ulm, Germany and assume her new position within the Gardena Division on January 1, 2025.

For additional information, please contact:
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Henrik Sjöström, Head of External Communications
+46 727 15 77 85
press@husqvarnagroup.com

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Johan Andersson, Vice President Investor Relations
+46 702 100 451
ir@husqvarnagroup.com

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