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Simulations Plus, Inc., a global leader in model-informed and AI-accelerated drug development that advances biopharma innovation, announced that Shawn O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer, will be participating in the 23rd Annual Craig-Hallum Institutional Investor Conference taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. O’Connor will host one-on-one meetings with institutional investors on Thursday, May 28, 2026. For more information about the events or questions about registration, interested parties should reach out to their contacts at Craig-Hallum. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Simulations Plus on CIMdata.com
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Carahsoft Canada Inc, The Trusted Public Sector IT Solutions Provider, will be joined by more than 10 of its technology partners at CANSEC 2026, Canada's leading defense, security & emerging technology event. Hosted by the Canadian Association of Defense and Security Industries (CADSI), the event will take place May 27-28 at the EY Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, convening first responders, law enforcement, border and security agencies, special operations units, industry and academia to explore and showcase advanced technologies supporting land, naval, aerospace and joint military operations. LEARN: Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with senior military officials, Government leaders and global defense and security stakeholders shaping mission priorities and procurement strategies across the Canadian Public Sector. The event will showcase advanced technologies supporting Canada’s defense and security ecosystem across land, naval, aerospace and joint military operations, while offering insight into emerging security challenges and evolving national defense initiatives. Participants can engage
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Xometry, Inc. the global, AI-native marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers of custom manufacturing, announced the appointment of Lukas Biewald, co-founder and former CEO of Weights & Biases, and SVP, AI Initiatives at CoreWeave, Inc., to its Board of Directors. “Lukas has spent his career building the platforms that AI teams actually rely on during production, most notably at Weights & Biases, where he helped establish the system of record for how the world's leading teams train and deploy models. That experience maps directly to what we're building at Xometry: AI that makes manufacturing capacity instantly accessible, starting with our AI-powered quoting engine,” said Randy Altschuler, CEO and Co-founder at Xometry. “As we scale that intelligence across supplier matching and agentic procurement workflows, having a board member who understands both the technical depth and the operator's discipline required to get AI right is exactly the kind of perspective we need.” “Manufacturing is one
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HCLTech, a leading global technology company, has been named Citrix GSI of the Year for supporting enterprise digital workplace transformation and cloud adoption using Citrix technologies. The award recognizes HCLTech’s close collaboration with Citrix, spanning early‑stage product co‑development, solution validation and enterprise‑wide transformation programs. HCLTech’s unified virtual workspace solution, combined with Citrix virtualization technologies, enables enterprises to modernize end‑user environments, enhance employee experience and support hybrid and cloud‑first operating models. “Our partnership with Citrix is built on a deep strategic alignment and a shared vision for the modern digital workplace,” said Ravi Yeddanapudi, EVP, Digital Foundation Services, HCLTech. “By bringing together Citrix’s platform leadership and HCLTech’s industry expertise, global delivery scale and outcome‑driven solutions, we are helping enterprises modernize end‑user environments at speed, with consistency and positive business impacts.” “Partners are fundamental to how Citrix shows up for customers every day. What makes this community so powerful is the diversity of organizations supporting our work - from global leaders to regional experts,
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Siemens Smart Infrastructure launched Asset Performance Advanced, a new AI-enabled managed building service. By combining an integrated predictive failure mode classification with advanced fault detection and diagnosis (FDD), the solution helps customers across industries optimize operations, improve energy performance, and enhance occupant comfort. Bringing together predictive intelligence, prescriptive AI, and expert-guided actions, Asset Performance Advanced supports the transition toward human-centric autonomous buildings – enabling them to sense issues, decide actions, and continuously improve performance.  The solution is built on three core capabilities: predictive, prescriptive, and workflow. It identifies root causes of performance issues, recommends high impact actions to address them, and enables automated, optimized execution across teams. Unlike analytics-only solutions, Asset Performance Advanced not only detects issues but also operationalizes response – combining AI-assisted recommendations, standardized resolution playbooks, and integrated workflows that route tasks to the right teams, supported by Siemens Digital Service Centers. This ensures that insights consistently translate into
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Bluebeam, a leading developer of solutions and services for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals worldwide and part of the Nemetschek Group, announced that Bluebeam Max is now available to all customers globally, giving AEC teams the option to upgrade to a premium subscription that delivers AI-powered automation and next generation review tools.  First unveiled at Bluebeam’s Unbound 2025 conference, Bluebeam Max was made available to select customers under a beta program, where it delivered strong early results. Now widely available, Bluebeam Max expands the power of Bluebeam Revu with advanced automation and AI tools that help AEC teams reduce manual work and financial liability through early detection and improve collaboration across the entire project lifecycle. “AI is ushering in a new era for the built environment – one where complexity becomes manageable and data becomes actionable,” said Usman Shuja, CEO of Bluebeam. “Bluebeam Max is designed to help every user operate like a superuser –
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AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, announced a broad set of product innovations spanning its industrial software portfolio at AVEVA World 2026. The updates will make it faster and simpler for industrial organisations to put their operational data to work, driving better decisions, stronger compliance, and AI enhanced intelligent operations. For industrial organisations, the pressure to adopt AI is intensifying, and so are the underlying challenges: complex regulatory environments, a growing sustainability imperative, ageing infrastructure and fragmented data. “Gartner® predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects unsupported by AI-ready data.” “For industrial enterprises, the challenge is not ambition but infrastructure. The promise of AI remains largely unrealised for most industrial teams because the operational data, engineering data, workflows, and compliance frameworks required to safely deploy AI at scale have rarely been connected in one place," shared Rob McGreevy, Chief Product Officer, AVEVA. "The innovations we are announcing
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Centric Software® is pleased to announce that GRITEE Inc. has selected Centric PLM™ to digitalize and standardize product development processes to enable scalable growth. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. GRITEE Inc. is a South Korea-based fashion company with a portfolio of brands spanning innerwear, athleisure and apparel categories, including Gamtan, Wonderbra, Huit, Lefee and Benetton. As part of its digital transformation initiative to respond to a fast-evolving market, GRITEE aims to centralize product development information and standardize execution across functions. A GRITEE spokesperson says, “Today, multiple fast-moving trends emerge and disappear within a single season. We need to move away from manual, spreadsheet-based
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Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, announced it has been selected by Viasat, a global leader in satellite communications, to deliver a multi-year digital workplace modernization program across the company’s operations in the United States and worldwide. The agreement strengthens Atos’ presence in North America and expands its role supporting organizations that deliver mission-critical communications services. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Viasat provides secure connectivity solutions for aviation, government, maritime, consumer, and enterprise markets. Following its 2023 acquisition of Inmarsat, Viasat launched a global integration initiative to streamline IT services and provide a more unified, modern employee experience across its worldwide operations. “Viasat is a critical player in the global communications ecosystem, and we are proud to support their next phase of digital modernization,” said Michael Grunberg, head of Atos North America. “Our deep digital workplace expertise enables global organizations such as Viasat to scale securely, efficiently, and offer a world-class digital experience for their
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2026. “Keysight delivered the strongest quarter in the company’s history, capping a record first half with all-time highs in orders, revenue, EPS, and free cash flow,” said Satish Dhanasekaran, President and CEO of Keysight. “The disciplined decisions and strategic investments we have made over the past several years are enabling us to capitalize on accelerating demand and outperform. With strong year-to-date momentum and a robust pipeline of opportunities, we are raising our expectations for fiscal 2026.” Second Quarter Financial Summary Revenue was $1.72 billion, compared with $1.31 billion in the second quarter of 2025. GAAP net income was $349 million, or $2.02 per share, compared with $257 million, or $1.49 per share, in the second quarter of 2025. Non-GAAP net income was $497 million, or $2.87 per share, compared with $295 million, or $1.70 per share in the second quarter of
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