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Honeywell announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Jillian (Jill) Evanko, 48, Chief Executive Officer of Duravant, LLC, to its Board of Directors as an Independent Director and Audit Committee member, effective immediately. Following the spin-off of Honeywell's Aerospace business expected on June 29, 2026, it is anticipated that Craig Arnold, Bill Ayer, Scott Davis and Deborah Flint will join the Board of Honeywell Aerospace, and that Evanko will serve on the Honeywell Board alongside current directors Vimal Kapur, Duncan Angove, Michael Lamach, Grace Lieblein, Indra Nooyi, Marc Steinberg, Robin Watson and Stephen Williamson. Evanko has more than 25 years of experience across the industrial and manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining Duravant in January 2026, she spent nearly a decade at Chart Industries, Inc., most recently as President and CEO and prior to that as Chief Financial Officer. As CEO of Chart Industries, she oversaw the company's strategic direction across capital allocation, operational excellence, transformative acquisitions and growth objectives to increase the company's market capitalization. Prior to Chart Industries, Evanko served as the Chief Financial Officer of Truck-Lite Co.,

Cotality™, a leading global property information, analytics, and data-enabled solutions provider, announced at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, that it is a founding member in Snowflake’s Financial Services Working Group under Open Semantic Interchange (OSI). As a key contributor to the newly established group, Cotality is pioneering the structural definitions and semantic frameworks required to deliver AI-ready data at scale. This collaboration ensures that complex property and financial data meet open semantic standards, establishing an interoperable data layer that accelerates the deployment of cross-ecosystem agentic AI workflows. As organizations move rapidly to autonomous intelligence, a primary bottleneck to enterprise AI adoption is "semantic friction"—the heavy data engineering and translation required for large language models and autonomous agents to understand fragmented schemas. By aligning Cotality's foundational datasets directly with the OSI framework, enterprise buyers across insurance, lending, and capital markets can instantly deploy data that is not just accessible but inherently understood

CGI, one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, and technology company Telia have signed an agreement for a business transaction as well as a strategic partnership. Under the business transaction, Telia’s cloud and capacity services for enterprises, as well as IT end-user services in Finland, will be transferred to CGI. At the same time, nearly 250 Telia employees will join CGI to support the ongoing development and delivery of these services. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals. In addition, the companies are launching a strategic partnership through which CGI will support Telia's business operations with scalable, secure services that leverage cloud technology, while Telia will support CGI's growth through secure data center infrastructure and network services. With the new agreement, CGI strengthens its role as a pioneer in building secure and scalable IT environments in the region. Going forward, CGI will be able

Now available for purchase, this definitive 2026 study equips organizations with evidence-based benchmarks, cross-cohort gap analyses, and presentation-ready data assets to drive AI strategy. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA–June 3, 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and the digital transformation it enables, today announced that its research report, the AI in PLM: Adoption, Investment, and Readiness Report, is now available for purchase in the CIMdata store. Fielded in the first quarter of 2026, this extensive study delivers an objective, evidence-based reference tool to support high-stakes AI strategy, product planning, and procurement decisions across the PLM domain. The research captures data from three critical industry cohorts—industrial companies, software providers, and service providers—and quantifies where their market expectations and strategies diverge. "We are incredibly excited to make this research available to the broader market," said Cheryl Peck, CIMdata’s Chief Marketing Officer. "Rather than generic AI hype,

Siemens announced Intelligence Center X, new industrial AI orchestration software designed to help organizations turn industrial AI from isolated experimentation into scalable, real world business impact through a hybrid workforce where people and AI agents work together with shared context, workflows and lifecycle intelligence. By connecting data, models and workflows on a single governed foundation, Intelligence Center X enables companies to deploy AI-driven applications and agents faster, with full traceability and control. Intelligence Center X combines the Mendix™ low-code platform with Siemens’ Graph Studio and AI Studio software from the Rapidminer® portfolio to create the enterprise context, business-specific lifecycle intelligence, and orchestrated agents and intelligent applications businesses needed to turn AI ambition into real value gains. Across industries, companies have invested in AI but are struggling to scale beyond pilots because data is fragmented, governance is inconsistent, and AI insight does not connect to real workflows. Intelligence Center X is designed

DXC Technology, a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, announced DXC Engineering, a distinct service offering and a foundational pillar of its Consulting & Engineering Services (CES) business. DXC Engineering is built on the 20-year digital engineering heritage of Luxoft—which DXC acquired in 2019—and consists of more than 11,000 highly specialized engineers delivering mission-critical solutions across Financial Services, Automotive, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Energy and other industries. The new entity brings together three distinct capabilities: deep domain expertise, an industry-specific/AI partnership ecosystem, and Physical AI-enabled smart product design. DXC Engineering does not separate industry knowledge from technical execution, giving customers a single partner for the challenges that matter most. DXC builds solutions for customers that include a trading risk engine that can navigate real market volatility, an autonomous driving stack that meets functional safety standards, and a real-time telecom network platform that scales. DXC Engineering builds on these with focused investments to harness

At Computex 2026, Cadence announced the industry’s first fully autonomous virtual agentic AI design engineer, extending the ChipStack™ AI Super Agent to Level-5 autonomy. Built on Cadence’s AI-driven electronic design automation (EDA) portfolio with NVIDIA Nemotron models, and secured by NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, the new agentic capabilities enable customers to run dynamic simulations in automated workflows. At NVIDIA, 1000s of engineers are using billions of compute hours per year to run millions of tests to verify their designs. Each engineer will use ChipStack agents to run hundreds of dynamic simulations with Cadence® Xcelium™ Logic Simulation and Jasper® Formal Verification, delivering over 40X faster RTL validation cycles and reducing a typical five-week verification loop to less than a day, dramatically accelerating the validation of complex semiconductor designs. “We see our customers using AI to let their expert engineers take on more ambitious silicon designs with greater speed and confidence,” said Paul Cunningham, senior vice president and

BIMsmith, the leading platform for building product research and BIM content, announced the next evolution of Detail Shelf, featuring AI-powered search capabilities and expanded access to manufacturer construction details across a growing range of building product categories. The release improves how architects, engineers, and specifiers discover technical content by combining a significantly expanded detail library with intelligent AI search technology that understands detail attributes and context. Since its launch in 2020, Detail Shelf has helped design professionals access thousands of manufacturer-provided construction details. The enhanced platform released today builds on that success by increasing content availability and making it easier to navigate complex technical information through AI-driven discovery tools. “Construction details are among the most valuable resources manufacturers provide, but historically they've been difficult to find and organize at scale,” said Benjamin Glunz, CEO of BIMsmith. “We've expanded the amount of information available through Detail Shelf and paired it with AI technology that

Use of the Industrial AI Cloud for secure automation The Scheer Group and Telekom subsidiary T-Systems have entered into a strategic partnership. The partnership aims to reduce dependence on international technology conglomerates and embed German and European values in their solutions. As part of the collaboration, Scheer PAS, a company within the Scheer Group, will use its Agentic Process Orchestration Platform to leverage the T Cloud Public and Industrial AI Cloud infrastructure in Munich. Seamless integration and control of AI agents Scheer IDS, another company within the Scheer Group, complements the partnership with comprehensive expertise in holistic business process consulting within the SAP environment. Through the structured analysis, harmonization, and transformation of business processes, it is ensured that AI initiatives and platform decisions are built on a robust technical and procedural foundation. At the same time, customers benefit from sophisticated AI and data services as well as access to powerful GPU resources for Telekom/T-Systems’ demanding AI applications. With the Agentic

AlphaSTAR Technology Solutions, a leading provider of simulation technology for advanced materials and manufacturing processes, announced that it has partnered with Stratasys Ltd., the industry leader in providing complete polymer 3D printing solutions. Through this partnership, AlphaSTAR’s Toolpath Simulator will enable Stratasys customers to shorten design cycles and generate more precise, qualified builds, while reducing trial & error. With a presence in North America, Europe, Asia and over 200 channel partners worldwide, Stratasys has major manufacturing customers across the globe in aerospace, automotive, industrial, consumer, and energy sectors who can benefit from this functionality now housed inside GrabCAD Print Pro. AlphaSTAR’s Toolpath Simulator is available as a plug-in to the GrabCAD Print Pro software platform, which manages the print preparation process for Stratasys 3D printers and offers enhancements designed for manufacturers who need to efficiently produce end-use parts and move to production-scale volumes. By inserting toolpath-driven analysis into an FDM workflow, customers are able to