SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. ("Anixa" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer, today announced the appointment of Carmen Guerra, M.D., M.S.C.E., F.A.C.P., to its Cancer Business Advisory Board.

"Dr. Guerra has been influential in equitable access to cancer screening and clinical trials, and we are excited to have her join our Cancer Business Advisory Board. We look forward to her input and guidance as we advance our breast cancer vaccine to a Phase 2 clinical trial and continue progressing our ongoing ovarian cancer CAR-T therapy Phase 1 trial," stated Dr. Amit Kumar, Chairman and CEO of Anixa Biosciences.

Dr. Guerra is the Ruth C. and Raymond G. Perelman Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement for the Abramson Cancer Center.

Dr. Guerra's research is focused on developing and evaluating interventions to increase the participation of populations in cancer screening and cancer clinical trials. Dr. Guerra developed and currently oversees the Penn Medicine Colorectal Cancer Screening Navigation Program and the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program which have screened thousands of individuals and provided patient navigation to diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Guerra is also the site Principal Investigator of the NCI-funded Self-collection for HPV Testing to Improve Cervical Cancer Prevention (SHIP) Trial, a platform trial which compares the accuracy of self- and clinician-collected samples of multiple HPV collection kits and assays. The results of the SHIP trial are being submitted to the FDA and led to the approval of the first at home HPV test for cervical cancer screening. Dr. Guerra also is member of the American Cancer Society (ACS) Clinical Guidelines Development group and an author of the ACS colorectal, cervical, lung, and prostate clinical practice guidelines and the ACS guidance to clinicians for Multi-cancer Early Detection Tests, all which widely influence clinical practice.

Dr. Guerra was a member of the national board of directors of the American Cancer Society from 2016 to 2023 and served as the Board Scientific Officer.

"I am honored to join Anixa Bioscience's advisory board as the company advances promising clinical trials in breast cancer and ovarian cancer, two areas with significant unmet needs. I am looking forward to contributing to the board's efforts and collaborating with this distinguished group of advisors assembled by Anixa, which includes many colleagues that I have been privileged to work with throughout my career," Dr. Guerra stated.

About Anixa Biosciences' Cancer Business Advisory Board

Anixa's Cancer Business Advisory Board is an elite group that includes members such as Karen Knudsen, Ph.D., and Gary Reedy, both previous CEOs of the American Cancer Society, and Mike Shepard, Ph.D., inventor of Herceptin, among many others. The full membership and corresponding biographies can be found on the Anixa website.

About Anixa Biosciences, Inc.

Anixa is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer. Anixa's therapeutic portfolio consists of liraltagene autoleucel, or lira-cel, an ovarian cancer immunotherapy being developed in collaboration with Moffitt Cancer Center, which uses a novel type of CAR-T, known as chimeric endocrine receptor-T cell (CER-T) technology. This technology is differentiated from other cell therapies as the natural ligand of the FSHR receptor, FSH, binds to the FSHR receptor on the tumor cell instead of an antibody fragment. Moffitt is a world leader in cancer immunotherapy treatments, pioneering next-generation cell therapies such as CAR-T, and tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) to harness the power of the immune system. The Company's vaccine portfolio includes vaccines being developed in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic to treat and prevent breast cancer and ovarian cancer, as well as additional cancer vaccines to address many intractable cancers, including high incidence malignancies in lung, colon, and prostate. These vaccine technologies focus on immunizing against "retired" proteins that have been found to be expressed in certain forms of cancer. The breast and ovarian cancer vaccines were developed at Cleveland Clinic and exclusively licensed to Anixa. Cleveland Clinic is entitled to royalties and other commercialization revenues from the Company related to these vaccine technologies. Anixa's unique business model of partnering with world-renowned research institutions on all stages of development allows the Company to continually examine emerging technologies in complementary fields for further development and commercialization. To learn more, visit www.anixa.com or follow Anixa on LinkedIn, X, Facebook and YouTube.

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From category-shaping beverage entrepreneur Lance Collins comes a bold vision for the future of water—uniting crisp, vapor-distilled alkaline hydration with a pH of 9.5, consumer-driven design and environmental purpose.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- From beverage industry pioneer Lance Collins—the founder of some of the beverage industry's most successful brands, including FUZE®, NOS®, BODYARMOR® and CORE Hydration®—comes ZenWTR®, a premium water brand built for consumers who expect more from bottled water. ZenWTR® combines crisp, refreshing taste, forward-thinking packaging and measurable environmental purpose in a brand designed to help shape the future of water.

Throughout his career, Collins has stayed ahead of beverage trends by identifying what consumers will want next and bringing together innovation, function and taste in brands built for scale. Today, his beverage portfolio includes ZenWTR®, Recover 180™ Organic Sports Hydration, Accelerator® and WTR Plus®. With ZenWTR®, he is applying that same instinct to premium water—creating a product that delivers an exceptional drinking experience while challenging the category to think more ambitiously about packaging and environmental impact.

ZenWTR® begins with vapor distillation, followed by ionization through electrolysis to reach a pH of 9.5. A proprietary blend of minerals and electrolytes—including calcium, potassium and magnesium—is then added to create the brand's signature crisp, clean taste.

"I take preparation seriously, and staying hydrated is a big part of showing up ready every day," said Maxx Crosby, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end. "ZenWTR® tastes crisp and clean, and I respect that the brand is also working to help keep plastic from reaching the ocean. It's a smart choice that fits the way I train, take care of others, compete and live."

Designed for the Way Consumers Hydrate

At the center of the ZenWTR® lineup is its sleek 20-ounce bottle—a modern, highly portable format designed for active routines, on-the-go hydration and effortless everyday use. The broader portfolio gives consumers additional ways to choose ZenWTR® across occasions and channels.

ZenWTR®'s flagship bottle is made from 100% recycled, certified ocean-bound plastic collected from coastal areas where recycling resources are limited. By giving this plastic new value, ZenWTR® helps keep it out of the ocean while supporting recycling efforts and creating income opportunities for local collectors.

In a category long associated with single-use plastic, ZenWTR® is built on a different idea: the bottle itself can be part of the solution. By making packaging innovation central to the brand, ZenWTR® turns an everyday hydration choice into support for efforts to prevent plastic from reaching the ocean.

The preform included with ZenWTR®'s media launch kit offers a tangible look at that innovation. Made with recycled ocean-bound plastic, the compact preform is heated and blown into the finished flagship bottle—connecting the material's recovery story directly to the package consumers hold in their hands.

ZenWTR® also supports programs that rescue and recycle the equivalent of five ocean-bound plastic bottles for each qualifying Alumi-Tek bottle produced, helping prevent that material from reaching and polluting the ocean.

Pioneering Plastic-Negative

ZenWTR® became the first beverage in the world to receive Plastic Negative Certification. Following a third-party assessment of its plastic footprint, the brand partnered with the Plastic Credit Exchange to support programs recovering and recycling plastic waste equal to 200 percent—or twice—its annual plastic footprint.

ZenWTR®'s ocean-bound plastic supply network has sourced material from Indonesia, Thailand, Ecuador and Paraguay. Supply partners work with communities to establish collection infrastructure and bottle-deposit programs intended to improve recycling access, clean at-risk coastal environments and provide meaningful income.

The company also commits one percent of ZenWTR® revenue to ocean conservation and recycling education, advancement and access in the United States.

"ZenWTR® has the opportunity to do something way beyond hydration," said Collins. "We want to prove that consumers do not have to compromise on quality or taste to support meaningful environmental impact. Every bottle is an invitation to rethink what an everyday purchase can accomplish."

Backed by Leaders Across Sports and Entertainment

ZenWTR® is backed by a notable group of investors spanning professional sports, entertainment and business, including Travis Kelce, Phil Knight, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, James Harden, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Aaron Rodgers, Khloé Kardashian, Zoë Saldaña, Paris Hilton and Jared Leto, among others. Their support reflects the broad appeal of a brand built around premium hydration, forward-thinking design and measurable environmental purpose.

Built to Help Define the Future of Water

With a distinctive product experience, an innovative packaging platform and a founder whose brands have repeatedly helped reshape the beverage landscape, ZenWTR® is built to do more than compete in premium water. It is designed to help define what comes next—a future in which taste, function, design and positive environmental impact are expected from the same bottle.

ZenWTR® is currently available at retailers including Whole Foods Market, QuikTrip, Walmart, Amazon, Circle K Frontier Division, Kwik Trip, Bristol Farms and Erewhon, and will be available at H-E-B locations beginning October 5.

To learn more, visit www.ZenWTR.com.

About ZenWTR®

ZenWTR® is a premium vapor-distilled alkaline water brand with a pH of 9.5, founded by beverage industry pioneer Lance Collins, the founder of some of the beverage industry's most successful brands, including FUZE®, NOS®, BODYARMOR® and CORE Hydration®. Today, Collins' beverage portfolio includes ZenWTR®, Recover 180™ Organic Sports Hydration, Accelerator® and WTR Plus®. Built around the belief that great-tasting hydration can help drive meaningful environmental action, ZenWTR®'s flagship bottle is made from 100% recycled, certified ocean-bound plastic collected from at-risk coastal environments. The brand also supports plastic recovery initiatives and ocean conservation and recycling programs. ZenWTR® is available in a range of formats designed for active, at-home and on-the-go hydration.

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SANTA CLARITA, Calif., Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Datalink Networks, a nationally recognized managed services, cybersecurity, cloud, and IT consulting provider, today announced its successful completion of its SOC 2 Type 2 examination as of August 27, 2026. The independent examination evaluated the design and operating effectiveness of controls supporting Datalink's IT Managed and Consulting System against the Security Trust Services Criteria established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The assessment confirmed that controls were suitably designed and operated effectively throughout the review period.

Scope of the examination: Datalink Networks' IT Managed and Consulting System was assessed against the AICPA Security Trust Services Criteria, evaluating the effectiveness of the organization's security, risk management, access controls, monitoring, incident response, and change management practices. The examination reviewed controls operating from April 1, 2026, through June 30, 2026.

The SOC 2 audit was conducted by A-LIGN, a leading provider of cybersecurity compliance assessments trusted by more than 4,000 organizations worldwide.

SOC 2 is one of the most widely recognized cybersecurity compliance frameworks for service organizations and demonstrates an organization's commitment to maintaining robust security controls and protecting customer information. Achieving SOC 2 Type 2 compliance provides customers, partners, and stakeholders with independent validation that Datalink has implemented and maintained effective safeguards to support the security of its services.

"SOC 2 compliance is more than an audit milestone; it reflects the culture of security, discipline, and continuous improvement that we have built across our organization," said Amr Salah, Director of Engineering at Datalink Networks. "Protecting our clients' environments is a responsibility we take seriously. This independent validation confirms that the controls, procedures, and safeguards we have implemented are operating effectively and supporting our mission to deliver secure, dependable, and scalable IT services."

Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the SOC 2 examination is designed for organizations of any size, regardless of industry and scope, to ensure the personal assets of their potential and existing customers are protected. SOC 2 reports are recognized globally and affirm that a company's infrastructure, software, people, data, policies, procedures and operations have been formally reviewed.

"Congratulations to Datalink Networks for completing their SOC 2 audit, a widely recognized signal of trust and security," said Steve Simmons, COO of A-LIGN. "It's great to work with organizations like Datalink Networks, who understand the value of expertise in driving an efficient audit and the importance of a high-quality final report."

This achievement reinforces Datalink Network's ongoing commitment to cybersecurity, operational excellence, and regulatory compliance while providing customers with confidence that required safeguards are in place to protect their data and support secure service delivery.

About Datalink Networks

Datalink Networks is a national IT solutions provider specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, Microsoft technologies, managed services, and strategic consulting. With more than 36 years of experience, the company helps mid-market and enterprise organizations strengthen their security posture, modernize infrastructure, improve operational efficiency, and achieve measurable business outcomes.

Datalink is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, Modern Work, and Infrastructure and serves clients across a wide range of industries nationwide.

Headquartered in Santa Clarita, California, with additional operations in Bentonville, Arkansas, Datalink Networks serves organizations nationwide through a customer-first approach focused on innovation, service excellence, and long-term strategic partnerships.

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A-LIGN is the leading provider of high-quality, efficient cybersecurity compliance programs. Combining experienced auditors and audit management technology, A-LIGN provides the widest breadth and depth of services including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, and PCI. A-LIGN is the number one issuer of SOC 2 and a leading HITRUST and FedRAMP assessor. To learn more, visit a-lign.com.

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The new capital will double Footprint's engineering and sales teams and fuel their West Coast expansion

NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Footprint, the AI operating system for risk, today announced it has raised $25 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors, with participation from MUFG, Commerce Ventures, LightBank, and Alumni Ventures, and continued backing from existing investors Index Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup, Operator Partners, and Animal Capital.

Footprint builds AI systems and workflows for financial-crime compliance (such as anti-money laundering, enhanced due diligence, know-your-customer, know-your-business, transaction monitoring investigations and beyond) for banks and fintechs. The new capital will double the company's engineering and sales teams as it advances Percy, the world's first end-to-end AI operating system built for financial crime compliance, and Trust Fabric, the governed infrastructure beneath it. It will also fuel the company's expansion into a new San Francisco office as it scales its agentic AI infrastructure for enterprise financial institutions.

"With this raise, we're doubling down on the thesis that risk operations will be re-envisioned for the AI-native era," said Eli Wachs, Footprint CEO and Co-Founder. "As AI expands the volume of financial crime in the global economy, we're building the agentic defense system that can expand to meet and defeat it."

At the core of Footprint's platform is Percy, the world's first agentic AI operating system built end-to-end for risk. Unlike legacy rules-based systems, Percy investigates every case, surfaces every finding, and executes standard operating procedures (SOPs) with the speed and precision of an expert analyst. Percy operates in plain English, allowing teams to ask for reasoning or create new workflows without coding. Every investigation is documented with citations, timestamps, and a full task-by-task audit trail for regulators.

The Series B funding will also advance Trust Fabric, the governed infrastructure beneath Percy that lets you build a superintelligent "organizational memory" over time. Trust Fabric connects related signals across customers and cases, ensuring that insights and precedents set by one investigation are instantly available across KYC, sanctions, and monitoring. This allows teams to identify fraud rings and persistent bad actors that human analysts might miss. Trust Fabric also provides agent assurance, continuously evaluating whether AI agents follow policy and use evidence correctly, allowing quality assurance teams to inspect the exact trace behind every finding.

Footprint's technology already powers compliance teams at FDIC and OCC-regulated banks, as well as leading fintechs such as Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay. The platform is pre-integrated with hundreds of premiere data sources and vendors, such as LexisNexis and ComplyAdvantage, allowing Percy to verify findings against trusted sources of truth.

About Footprint

Footprint is a leading agentic platform (backed by Index, QED, Commerce Ventures) that learns your compliance program and runs it end-to-end. Investigations are fully auditable, connected to trusted vendors and data sources (e.g. LexisNexis, ComplyAdvantage, government registries) and committed to an organizational memory that compounds – adapting alongside your procedures, and improving your entire system. Footprint's technology empowers compliance teams to clear their alert backlog faster – with deeper context and better judgment. Its customers include a slew of FDIC and OCC-regulated banks, and fintechs such as Bilt, Nuvei, and MoonPay. Learn more at onefootprint.com 

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3DGS Becomes the New Standard for Media Production at IBC 2026: XGRIDS Leads the Charge from Innovation to Real-World Pipeline

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- During IBC 2026 at RAI Amsterdam, XGRIDS, the spatial intelligence company, is showing how production teams put photoreal locations into virtual production and live broadcast. Media and media-technology professionals from Europe and North America are walking a site scan into Unreal Engine using 3D Gaussian Splatting.

From Captured Reality to Live Production

In media and virtual production, turning physical locations into digital environments has traditionally required time-consuming reconstruction. XGRIDS makes the process more direct with spatial scanners such as Lixel K2 and spatial cameras such as PortalCam, which capture spatial detail and visual information for local processing in Lixel CyberColor (LCC). The resulting 3DGS environments can be brought into Unreal Engine through the XGRIDS LCC Plugin for UE, creating a streamlined path from physical locations to digital production.

At the IBC session, CM Fey, Product Manager at XGRIDS, showed how this workflow can fit into real production pipelines, moving a captured environment beyond reconstruction and into creative use. Once brought into the production environment, a photorealistic, navigable 3DGS scene can serve as a basis for scene composition, camera blocking, XR and ICVFX. Rather than treating spatial capture as a one-off visualization step, the workflow turns a physical location into a digital production asset that can be revisited and adapted across different creative needs.

The workflow also supports major production platforms including Pixotope, Aximmetry, Disguise and nDisplay. The following day, filmmaker and VFX supervisor Amir Ovadia Steklov presented "3DGS in Film Production," showing how he captured a spaceship film set with PortalCam and incorporated the resulting 3DGS environment into a cinematic VFX workflow.

A 3DGS Workflow Already on Air

The approach is already being applied across media and entertainment. PortalCam won four categories at the 2026 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards, while South Korea's SBS integrated 3DGS and XR into live news through the LCC Plugin for Unreal Engine and Pixotope. XGRIDS also showcased LCC Scan, bringing local, on-device 3DGS creation to iPhone for capturing people, objects and spaces as interactive 3D content.

As spatial capture becomes more accessible, real-world environments can move more easily from physical sites into digital workflows. XGRIDS is helping bridge the physical and digital worlds, opening up new possibilities for how reality is captured, represented and used.

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Hire further strengthens the industry-leading innovation team behind JND's AI strategy

SEATTLE, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- JND Legal Administration, the U.S. leader in legal management and administration services, today announced the appointment of Nathan Reff as Director of Applied Science within the company's Innovation and Strategy division, the team spearheading JND's AI transformation. Reff joins an established group of AI experts whose work has set the standard for how AI is applied in legal administration. A mathematician and applied AI leader known for a rigorous, research-driven approach to building AI systems, Reff brings more than a decade of experience spanning academic research and applied artificial intelligence.

Reff has spent the past several years at the leading edge of applied AI, building generative AI and machine learning solutions that have reshaped how legal organizations work. He is known for a measurement-driven methodology that treats defensibility as seriously as performance, with careful attention to evaluation, bias assessment, and workflow design. These priorities align directly with the standards JND's Innovation and Strategy team has built its reputation on.

Reff holds a PhD in Mathematics from Binghamton University and spent a decade as a tenured professor, earning the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019. He is a strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, a skill he applies in working directly with clients and domain experts.

"AI is changing what clients should expect from a legal administration partner, and JND is defining what that looks like," said Jennifer Keough, CEO and Co-Founder of JND. "Our Innovation and Strategy team is the strongest in the legal industry, and Nathan's expertise adds to that strength as we deliver the next generation of AI-enabled services."

Reff's appointment reflects JND's continued investment in its Innovation and Strategy division, the group responsible for bringing AI into practice across the company's service lines. The division has developed and vetted the AI processes JND uses on behalf of clients and set the standards that govern how those technologies are put to work. That track record has made JND a leader in responsible, client-ready AI, and Reff's addition expands the division's capacity to build on it.

"We've assembled a team of exceptional scientists and engineers, and Nathan is exactly the kind of addition that keeps us ahead," said Ben Sexton, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Strategy. "He shares our commitment to scientific rigor, understands these technologies from first principles, and knows what it takes to make them work reliably for clients."

Reff is a published researcher with more than a dozen peer-reviewed publications in mathematics and machine learning.

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JND Legal Administration, a Sedgwick company, is the nation's foremost legal services management and settlement administration solutions provider. Founded by industry veterans Jennifer Keough, Neil Zola, and David Isaac, the company serves plaintiff and defendant law firms, global corporations, and U.S. government entities across five main service lines. JND eDiscovery has been inducted into the National Law Journal Hall of Fame for Best Managed eDiscovery and Litigation Support Provider, and Best End-to-End eDiscovery Provider. For more information, visit JNDLA.com.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CAEVES Technology, Inc., the leading AI Data Platform for Unstructured Data, securely transforming enterprise dark data into accessible, searchable, and AI-ready assets, today announced that Kirk Ryan has joined its Advisory Board as Director of AI Innovation. Ryan will lead the buildout of CAEVES' AI practice and guide the next phase of product portfolio development, with a focus on extending the CAEVES AI Data Platform beyond Microsoft Copilot to additional AI assistant ecosystems.

Ryan brings two decades of experience scaling mission-critical infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He previously served as Global Principal Technologist at NetApp and is Managing Director of KDBL, a United Kingdom based AI consultancy firm. A recognized voice in enterprise AI, retrieval-augmented generation, search, and the Model Context Protocol, Ryan writes and speaks regularly on the technical foundations that connect enterprise data to AI systems.

In this role, Ryan will work alongside the CAEVES product and engineering teams to:

- Expand AI assistant compatibility, extending the AI Data Platform's reach from Microsoft Copilot to other leading AI platforms and assistants

- Advance indexing and contextualization, strengthening how unstructured data is made discoverable and machine-usable at scale, on premises and in all major cloud providers

- Deepen governance and security, reinforcing the controls enterprises require to bring AI to sensitive, regulated data, through data lineage, classification, enrichment and redaction

- Broaden platform reach, working toward a model that makes unstructured enterprise data accessible across any cloud, any storage platform, and available to any AI platform or assistant

"Kirk has spent his career solving the hard infrastructure problems that sit underneath enterprise AI," said Jaap van Duijvenbode, VP of Product & Customer Experience at CAEVES Technology. "As organizations look to extend AI beyond a single assistant or a single cloud, his experience is exactly what we need to build that path responsibly and at scale."

"Unstructured data is the largest untapped resource in the enterprise, and it is currently locked to whichever AI assistant happens to be in front of it," said Kirk Ryan. "CAEVES has already proven the model with Microsoft Copilot as part of its Intelligent Deep Storage™ offering, currently available for Microsoft Azure customers. My focus is helping extend that same discipline around indexing, governance, and security to the broader AI ecosystem, so enterprises can put their dark data to work wherever they choose to run AI."

Ryan's appointment reflects CAEVES' continued investment in its AI Data Platform as enterprises seek to unlock unstructured and archival data for AI-driven insight, regardless of where that data lives or which AI assistant accesses it.

About CAEVES Technology, Inc.

CAEVES helps organizations securely transform enterprise dark data into accessible, searchable, and AI-ready assets while reducing storage costs and AI investments. Built natively on Microsoft Azure, CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ tiers inactive data to durable, low-cost object storage and indexes it for Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, all within the customer's own environment and with no vendor lock-in. Founded by the team behind Talon Storage, CAEVES has offices in the United States, the Netherlands, and India.

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NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Consello, the leading global advisory and investing platform, today announced an agreement with The European Tour to become an Official Supporter of the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in County Limerick, Ireland.

The 2027 Ryder Cup returns to Ireland for the first time since 2006. As a gateway to Europe and a hub for hundreds of the world's largest companies, the island of Ireland is an important location for business activity and for Consello, with offices in Dublin, Limerick, and Belfast.

The firm already has close ties to the Ryder Cup. Consello Ambassador and recent winner of the 2026 Amgen Irish Open, Shane Lowry, a three-time Ryder Cup veteran, memorably retained the Ryder Cup for Europe with an iconic winning putt on the 18th green at Bethpage in 2025. In addition, Consello Advisor, Paul McGinley, captained Europe to victory at Gleneagles in 2014 and holed the winning putt as a player at The Belfry in 2002.

Consello Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Declan Kelly said, "The upcoming 100th anniversary of the Ryder Cup is a major milestone for one of the greatest occasions in all of sport. The tournament is a natural fit for Consello given our strong association with leadership, excellence, teamwork, and sports. The Ryder Cup's return to Ireland has special meaning for all of us who were born on the island of Ireland and love golf, and we are delighted to be partnering with The European Tour for what promises to be an unforgettable weekend at Adare Manor."

Chief Executive Officer at the European Tour Group and Ryder Cup Europe, Guy Kinnings said, "We are delighted to welcome Consello as an Official Supporter of the Ryder Cup. We have had a long association with Declan and his team. Consello's global perspective, commitment to excellence, and deep engagement with sport make it a natural partner for this event. We look forward to working together as we build toward what will be a memorable Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in 2027."

About Consello

Consello is an Advisory and Investing Platform with offices in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Dublin, Belfast, London, Brussels, and Abu Dhabi.

Consello's distinct advisory practices provide the complete strategic counsel today's leaders need to grow and transform their organizations. Consello's advisory expertise spans Corporate Advisory; M&A; Management Consulting; Talent; and Sports and Entertainment. Dedicated teams operate in each practice, led by a leadership group with deep operational experience across industries, business growth stages and market cycles and with an expansive set of global corporate relationships.

Consello's investment business, Consello Capital, identifies high-potential mid-market companies and invests capital and expertise to transform their growth.

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Partnership advances Monumental Sports & Entertainment's vision for technology-forward Capital One Arena powered by industry-leading LG display technology

All-new 'LG Collective' to debut this season as a dynamic new gathering space and seating destination

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE) today announced a new long-term partnership naming LG Electronics USA the Official TV, Commercial Display and Appliance Partner of the reimagined Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C. The partnership, aligned with ANC, will bring LG's Direct View LED display technology throughout the transformed venue, delivering true-to-life visual experiences for fans while supporting the arena's next generation of entertainment, operations and hospitality.

Under the multi-year partnership, LG will power the arena's most visible and impactful display experiences, including new exterior LED displays, interior LED and television displays throughout the venue, digital displays across the arena's new business and conference center, and the innovative new "Visibowl" digital display.

A Fast Company Innovation by Design Award finalist, the new LG-powered Visibowl at Capital One Arena will reimagine how fans experience live events by replacing traditional concourse walls with more than 500 feet of immersive digital displays, allowing fans to stay connected to the action as they move throughout the arena. Together, these technologies will create dynamic storytelling opportunities, real-time content, and engaging experiences for the millions of fans who visit Capital One Arena each year.

"The New Capital One Arena is undergoing the most significant transformation in its history, with technology playing a central role in redefining the fan experience," said Jim Van Stone, MSE President of Business Operations and Chief Commercial Officer. "LG's industry-leading innovation and commitment to delivering exceptional visual experiences make them an ideal partner as we build a venue that sets a new standard for sports and entertainment in our nation's capital."

The MSE partnership with LG Electronics includes the "LG Collective"—a new premium seating destination for Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals games and select Capital One Arena events debuting at the start of the 2026–27 season—which will become a featured gathering place at the transformed Capital One Arena. Located on the arena's District Level (former 100 Level), the LG Collective is designed to bring fans and season ticket holders together before, during and after events with views into the bowl and seats connected to the space. The destination will combine an upscale lounge and bar, with all-inclusive food and beverage offerings and integrated club seating with a variety of industry-leading LG innovations creating a dynamic seating experience.

"By partnering with Monumental Sports & Entertainment and ANC, LG is helping to shape the next era of the fan experience in the Nation's Capital," said Don Kwack, President and CEO, LG Electronics North America. "Our collaborations with Capital One Arena and other top venues nationwide demonstrate how LG display technology can elevate virtually every touchpoint in an arena. Through this partnership, concertgoers and fans of the Capitals, Wizards, and Mystics will enjoy a unique, connected experience—led by the incredible new Capital One Arena Visibowl powered by LG display technology."

ANC, a longtime leader in venue technology integration, will oversee the integration, implementation and ongoing service of the new display systems throughout the arena, ensuring seamless performance across every fan touchpoint.

"Capital One Arena's dramatic transformation showcases what can be achieved when great partners come together with a shared commitment to innovation," said ANC President and CEO Jerry N. Cifarelli. "LG's technology platform, paired with ANC's best-in-class integration and game-day content expertise, will deliver sports fans and concert goers a dynamic digital experience across every level of the venue."

The partnership supports MSE's broader vision for the modernization of Capital One Arena—with Phase Two of construction nearly complete—which includes significant investments in technology, enhanced hospitality and fan engagement. The new LED infrastructure will provide enhanced opportunities for live event presentation, sponsorship integration, wayfinding and immersive storytelling throughout the venue.

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BOSTON, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Radhika Saran, Cleo Pontone, and Sophia DeVito, students at Harvard University, have been named the U.S. National Winners of the James Dyson Award 2026 for their invention, Rumble Rims. The low-cost infrared eye-tracking headset is designed to help schools screen for possible concussions in about 60 seconds, bringing objective neurological insight into the sideline moments where coaches, athletes, and families often need clarity most.

Concussions remain a major concern for young athletes. According to the CDC, about seven in 10 emergency department visits for sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries and concussions are among children ages 17 and under, and contact sports account for approximately 45% of these visits among children.1 Separately, CDC analysis of the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 15.1% of U.S. high school students — approximately 2.5 million students — reported at least one concussion related to sports or physical activity in the prior 12 months.2 The CDC also advises that athletes with a suspected concussion should be removed from play immediately and kept out until cleared by a healthcare provider.3

The Invention: Rumble Rims

Rumble Rims was developed to close a gap in concussion care between expensive clinical systems and subjective sideline checks. The system combines a portable infrared headset, coach-facing display, and recovery dashboard to give schools a more accessible way to track eye movements that research suggests may provide an objective window into concussion-related neurological disruption.4

The headset uses infrared cameras and hot mirrors that reflect infrared light to the cameras while allowing visible light to pass through, preserving a clear line of sight for the athlete. During screening, the athlete completes an oculomotor task that captures how the eyes follow, fixate, and move. The coach-facing mobile display then translates complex eye-tracking measurements into real-time guidance that can help inform whether an athlete should be removed from play and referred for professional medical evaluation. After the game, the recovery dashboard allows repeat testing over time, creating an objective record that athletes, families, and clinicians can use to monitor progress before return-to-play. Rumble Rims is intended as a screening tool, not a diagnostic device; return-to-play decisions should remain under the direction of a qualified healthcare provider.3

The team's research included conversations with coaches and Matthew McTague, a certified physical therapist and former collegiate athlete, whose feedback helped shape Rumble rims' sideline-first design. McTague noted that concussion symptoms may not always appear when an athlete is tested at rest, but can emerge once heart rate, movement, balance, and eye tracking are challenged. His perspective highlighted the need for objective testing, since athletes in high-pressure situations may underreport symptoms. He recommended using tools like smooth pursuit eye tracking and real-world testing to improve evaluations.

Rumble Rims takes home $6,500 from the James Dyson Award national prize to support its next steps in development. The team plans to build and test a higher-fidelity headset prototype, refine the oculomotor test and validate the system with athletes, coaches, trainers and medical advisors. Long term, they hope to pilot Rumble Rims with schools and youth sports programs, pursue medical-device validation pathways and make objective concussion screening accessible to every sideline.

While the technology is still in development, its focus on objective eye-movement data responds to a clear clinical need: concussion assessment today still often depends on symptoms, history and clinical evaluation, while structural imaging is frequently normal and self-reporting can be incomplete.4

Radhika Saran, co-creator of Rumble Rims, said: "We wanted to give coaches, athletes and families clearer information at the exact moment of risk. If objective tools already exist, they should not be locked inside expensive clinical systems. They should be accessible where young athletes are actually getting injured."

Cleo Pontone, co-creator of Rumble Rims, said: "We wanted to create something human-centered and research-driven. The strongest solutions start with understanding the people who will actually use them and the environments they will be used in."

Sophia DeVito, co-creator of Rumble Rims, said: "The best solution for a problem might not sit inside one person's expertise. That is why interdisciplinary collaboration was so important to this project."

The team's sideline-first design process was shaped by user research with athletes, coaches, medical professionals, and physical therapists. Early concepts explored helmets, mouthguards, a black-curtain room, and expandable structures that enclosed the screen, camera, and athlete's face. Through testing, the team realized accuracy depended less on building a controlled room and more on controlling the relationship between the eyes and cameras, leading to a headset design that moves with the athlete's head while keeping the screen separate and setup simple for coaches under sideline pressure.

Rumble Rims, alongside the two U.S. national runners-up, BiliRoo and Preta, will progress to the next stage of the James Dyson Award, with the international Top 20 shortlist to be announced on October 14th, selected by a global team of Dyson engineers, and the global winners on November 4th, chosen by James Dyson.

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The Invention: BiliRoo

BiliRoo is a wearable phototherapy device designed to treat infant jaundice while allowing parents to hold their babies during care.

Problem: Jaundice affects many newborns, and one in 10 infants require clinical treatment. In limited-resource settings, more than six million infants each year lack access to treatment due to sporadic electricity, high equipment costs and limited trained personnel. Current phototherapy machines can also separate parents from their babies, limiting skin-to-skin contact during care.

Solution: BiliRoo turns phototherapy into a wearable infant sling, using a filter that blocks harmful UV radiation while allowing therapeutic blue light from the sun to pass through. The design aims to make jaundice treatment simpler, more accessible and compatible with kangaroo care, so babies can receive treatment while being held by a parent.

BiliRoo was submitted by Daniel John, a University of Michigan medical student who grew up in Nepal, where limited access to medical care, unreliable electricity and expensive medical devices shaped his interest in designing for limited-resource settings. Inspired by conversations with physicians in Nepal and sub-Saharan Africa, Daniel created BiliRoo to make jaundice treatment simpler, more affordable and easier for parents to use while staying close to their babies.

The Invention: Preta

Preta is a design material platform that transforms carbon-rich agricultural waste into high-performance materials for everyday products.

Problem: Agricultural waste is often discarded or burned, releasing carbon back into the atmosphere, while many carbon capture systems remain energy intensive and difficult to scale. Existing applications for solid carbon are often limited to additives or soil use, creating a need for more scalable, product-focused uses.

Solution: Preta rethinks captured carbon as a primary material component rather than a small additive, enabling high carbon infill while remaining compatible with existing manufacturing systems. The team is developing products and prototypes across applications including furniture, flexible leather-like materials and larger-scale architectural uses, with the goal of turning manufacturing into a pathway for carbon drawdown.

Preta was submitted by Hana Khurshid and Steffek Rainey, students from Harvard's Design Engineering Program who bring backgrounds in architecture, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and environmental problem-solving. Driven by experiences with climate change, agricultural waste, pollution, and the challenge of making sustainable solutions desirable at scale, the team created Preta to turn carbon-rich waste into useful materials that can permanently store carbon in everyday products.

James Dyson Award

The James Dyson Award is an international design competition that inspires and celebrates the next generation of design engineers. Now in its 21st year, the Award has supported more than 400 problem-solving inventions with over $2.3m in prize money. It operates across 28 countries and regions and is run by the James Dyson Foundation, Sir James Dyson's engineering-education charity.

James Dyson Foundation

The James Dyson Foundation, established in the UK in 2002, now supports design, technology and engineering education programmes not only in the UK but also in countries around the world, including the United States, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines and Malaysia. To date, James Dyson and the James Dyson Foundation have donated more than $210 million to charitable causes. This includes a $16 million donation to establish the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, an $11 million donation to support the creation of the Dyson Centre for Engineering Design and the James Dyson Building at the University of Cambridge and finally, a $10.5 million donation to fund Malmesbury Primary School's STEAM Center and expansion project.

1 Sarmiento, K., Thomas, K. E., Daugherty, J., Waltzman, D., Haarbauer-Krupa, J. K., Peterson, A. B., Haileyesus, T., & Breiding, M. J. (2019). Emergency department visits for sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries among children — United States, 2010–2016 . MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 68(10), 237–242.

2 DePadilla, L., Miller, G. F., Jones, S. E., Peterson, A. B., & Breiding, M. J. (2018).