NPower Maryland has announced it is hosting its first annual “Maryland Tech Leaders Salute Luncheon” that will recognize and honor alumni, tech leaders and partners who have brought the greatest contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion in tech.

Honorees will be saluted for their vision and work that has created a stronger, more diverse tech workforce in the US. As a group, these leaders and alumni have brought new opportunities for people from all ethnicities, genders and socio-economic backgrounds.

The networking luncheon will take place on Thursday, August 25th from Noon to 2 pm aboard a scenic cruise through the Baltimore Harbor. For tickets and sponsorships register here.

The event’s host is Stan Stovall, veteran journalist and News Anchor with WBAL-TV and the keynote speaker is Ron Gula, President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures. De’Rell Bonner, Strategic Partnership Manager, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity at Amazon Web will also be a guest speaker. .

“As an organization devoted to providing technology opportunities for underserved communities, we are pleased to honor those individuals and companies who support our mission in Maryland,” stated Demetrius Goodwin, NPower Maryland’s Executive Director. “We are pleased to also recognize outstanding NPower Maryland alumni who have advanced their tech careers with local companies.”

Event Honorees: 

• Tasha Cornish, Executive Director, Cybersecurity Association of Maryland
• Cynthia Gula, Managing Director, Gula Tech Adventures
• Cody L. Dorsey, Executive Director of the Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition
• Michelle Geiss, MPH | Co-Founder & Executive Director, Impact Hub Baltimore
• Wanda Gispert, VP| Talent & Workforce Development, MGM Resorts International
• Jesse Hillman, VP and Chief Information Officer, Tessco Technologies
• Alexis La Broi, Director, Audio Visual Services Division, MidPoint Technology Group
• Tina C. Williams-Koroma, Esq., CISSP, PMP, President, TCecure, LLC
• Dashawn Brownley, State of Maryland Department of Human Services - NPower Alumni
• Dailyn Fowler-Holmes, Systems Administrator, The Education Trust and Hiring Manager for Interns, NPower - NPower Alumni
• Austin Cole, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman

About NPower: NPower Maryland is closing the digital divide through recruiting and connecting under-represented young adults and veterans to IT careers. Founded in 2000, NPower is a recognized national leader in recruiting diverse talent, providing tech-training, IT credentials, career readiness and placing graduates into jobs with top companies. NPower’s programs reach underserved young adults (ages 18-26), veterans and military-connected individuals in 7 regions across the United States including Baltimore, MD,  NY, NJ, MI, MO, TX, and CA. NPower Maryland is led by Executive Director and Army Veteran, Demetrius Goodwin and a committed team of Marylanders who work as connectors of talent to companies and nonprofits seeking to enhance their workforce. 

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SIX RED SQUARES - SHAPING GOOD IDEAS TO BECOME EXCELLENT WEALTH GENERATORS

MARCH 10, 2022/ ESSEX, UK: Brands and business-minded people always have outstanding business ideas that need tweaking to become better for revenue generation. For a business or brand to grow, it thrives on commitment and deliberate actions like marketing and advertising to elevate its operations. While some entrepreneurs and brands may not have the ability to get to this elevation by themselves, others can comfortably. Ideally, the marketing, designing, and advertising activities go to experts specializing in idea crafting to generate wealth. This idea elevation is where the Six Red Squares (6rs) comes in to help.

Project Engagement

Any brand or business venture with an idea it wishes to shape can reach out to Six Red Squares on its website through the "Start a project" click button. Once clicked, clients are guided through various questions and guidelines depending on what they need to accomplish. Ideally, one must be ready to provide all their personal information and details about their project. Refreshingly, the button is not all about project execution; clients can just click to chat with 6rs staff, provide feedback, look for an opportunity to work with the company or seek more information. For more information about the history of 6rs, products, and more, clients should visit its website.

Business Branding

Having an identifiable brand is one of the starting points a business owner should pursue before anything else. Why is that a necessity? Creating a brand that one is proud of helps to stick in a client’s mind so that when they seek to buy anything a brand has, they don’t look elsewhere. So, a brand should look beyond the logo. The graphic designers at 6rs step in to draw up a brand strategy, name, toolkits, logo design, identity, and marketing videos, photography, and illustrations for selling. These are time-consuming activities that also require expertise to pull off. Brands may not do all these by themselves, so a helping hand in 6rs goes a long way in sorting this out to make brands get the right customers.

Printing Brand Extras

All brands want that perfect first impression to last a lifetime in the minds of their clients. How do they achieve this need? With the help of 6rs, brands can get powerful promotional tools that greatly highlight their products and services in a superior way to customers. Since print is one such powerful marketing tool, the advertising agency helps brands design and print marketing materials such as business cards, brochures, flyers, packaging and pitching decks, and many more. These items come in handy in marketing and brand activations. With 6rs at hand, brands can use their services to create a tangible difference in a client’s experience.

About Six Red Squares

It’s not often that one hears about students chatting away and, in the process, a brilliant business idea comes up. That’s what happened to six graphic design students sitting at a pub in Southend. They came up with a brilliant idea to start up a company that would help brands elevate their ideas into magnificent, money-generating avenues. In the process, 6rs was born, specializing in business branding, print media, online marketing, and website elevation.

Binance Smart Chain NFT Marketplace:

Binance Smart Chain (BSC) is snappily getting the mecca of economic NFT business development. It’s a massive upgrade from Binance Chain and operates on a binary-chain armature. Likewise, crypto-collectibles have a whopping daily trading volume of$3.58 billion as per CoinMarketCap. Let us explore further about this miracle.

NFT Marketplace Development on BSC Chain:

NFT Marketplace on Binance Smart Chain is the interlinked process leading to the creation of an entire business to carry out the digital collectibles on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) for carrying out its operations of creating, buying, bidding, and selling of collectibles.

Brugu offers the White Label Binance Smart Chain NFT MarketPlace Development Services that grease NFT applicants to fluently launch NFT MarketPlace on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network.

Features of Binance Smart Chain NFT MarketPlace:

• Effective Tokenization of means
• Enhanced Creation and Minting of NFTs
• Non-Commodity Replicas
• DAO creation and Operation
• Other Chain Interoperability

Final Thoughts:

Brugu Software Solutions has been recognized together as the most straightforward NFT marketplace development company. We’ve prior experience in developing NFT marketplaces on different blockchain platforms. The Binance Smart Chain blockchain platform is considered one of the simplest blockchain platforms within the crypto space. We at Brugu Software Solutions build Binance Smart Chain NFT marketplaces for the purchasers. Our main priority is to eliminate the general issues that are happening within the traditional NFT marketplaces. Our development team is one of the most spartan development teams within the cryptocurrency sphere. 

Hence, entrepreneurs like you can offer lesser value for artists by creating an NFT business in Binance Smart Chain. Set the ball rolling and vend decoration and rare crypto-collectibles soon!

SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is advising stakeholders that the European Union (EU) has signalled its intention to expand the scope of its lead restriction under entry 63 to Annex XVII of Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 ‘Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals’ (REACH).

Circulated by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on June 8, 2022, the draft regulation will restrict lead and its compounds in PVC polymers and copolymers.

There are several derogations in the proposed regulations, including:

• Certain PVC articles containing recovered rigid PVC permitted to be used for 10 years after the date of entry into force of the regulation, but subject to less than 1.5% lead in the recovered rigid PVC, and less than 0.1% lead for a layer of newly produced PVC or other material that covers the recovered rigid PVC. These PVC articles containing recovered rigid PVC are profiles and sheets for 1) specified applications in buildings and civil engineering works, 2) decks and terraces, and 3) specified interior building applications, as well as certain multi-layer pipes and fittings
• Suppliers of PVC articles containing recovered rigid PVC with 0.1% or more of lead directed to provide the statement ‘Contains lead’ on the article – this statement can be placed on the article packaging if it is not possible on the article
• Suppliers of PVC articles containing recovered rigid PVC required to provide documentation to national enforcement authorities, if requested, to substantiate the claims on the recovered origin of the PVC in those articles. Substantiation of such claims may include certificates issued by schemes to demonstrate traceability and recycled content, such as EN 15343:2007 ‘Plastics – Recycled Plastics – Plastics Recycling Traceability and Assessment of Conformity and Recycled Content’, or equivalent recognized standards. Claims made on the recovered origin of the PVC in imported articles must be accompanied by a certificate that provides equivalent proof of traceability and recycled content, issued by an independent third party

The following items are also exempted:

• PVC-silica separators in lead-acid batteries, for 10 years after the date of entry into force
• ‘Jewelry articles’ and ‘articles supplied to the general public that can be mouthed by children’ (paragraph 1, in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 5 & paragraph 7, in accordance with paragraphs 8 and 10) under entry 63 to Annex XVII of REACH
• Articles within the scope of four pieces of legislation:

1. Regulation (EC) 1935/2004 ‘Food contact materials and articles
2. Directive 2011/65/EC ‘Electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS recast)’
3. Directive 94/62/EC ‘Packaging and packaging waste’
4. Directive 2009/48/EC ‘Toy safety’

For more information, read SGS’s original SafeGuardS 077/22.

The WTO document states the draft regulation will be adopted in Q4 of 2022. It will then be brought into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the EU and brought into effect two years later.

SGS Consumer Product Services

SGS is committed to providing information about development in regulations for consumer products as complimentary services. Through a global network of laboratories, SGS provides a wide range of services including physical/mechanical testing, analytical testing and consultancy work for technical and non-technical parameters applicable to a comprehensive range of consumer products. In the end, it’s only trusted because it’s tested. Learn more about SGS’s Consumer Product Services.

SGS SafeGuardS keep you up to date with the latest news and developments in the consumer goods industry. Read the full EU Proposes to Restrict Lead in Articles Containing PVC Under REACH SafeGuardS.

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