Watch out for Altius Technologies at the Power & Electricity World Africa 2020

January 9, 2020 – The Power & Electricity World Africa 2020 is entering its 24th year with a newer aspiration to synergize energy generation & efficient consumption in Africa. The show will be hosted at Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg on 31 March - 1 April 2020.

Africa’s largest and longest-running Power and Electricity conference and exhibition bring businesses worth billions of dollars together. It has helped shape the regional energy market through sharing knowledge, educating the market and facilitating influential meetings over the two decades of its operation.

Altius Technologies will attend the Power & Electricity World Africa 2020. The company specializes in digitally integrating businesses with tools like Product Information Management, Software services, Product Content Management & relevant eCommerce Consultancy services.

Marketing Head Arun Venkataraman of Altius Technologies exclaims, “Annual expos of such magnitude are once-a-year opportunity to synergize with new and existing customers.”

2020 edition is powered up with 8,000 attendees, 650 delegates, 350 speakers, 300 exhibitors & covering over 40+ African countries. Year on year, the event provides our partners with access to over 500 African energy utility and Independent Power Producers which otherwise is difficult. The show allows them to meet their actual real buyers.

"The businesses can make use of our e-commerce consultancy services for better results. We are a one-stop-shop for all your e-commerce needs”, regards Business Head Ishwarya Sevugan of Altius Technologies.

Other shows that are co-located with the Power & Electricity World Africa 2020 include The Solar Show Africa 2020, The Smart Electricity Show Africa 2020, The Energy Storage Show Africa 2020, The Clean Technology Show Africa 2020, The Electric Vehicles Show Africa 2020 for better outreach.

The focus of this forum is to develop sustainable, clean and bankable world-class energy projects for the growth of the African continent. Tens of thousands of executives and business leaders from across Africa have attended the show over the last 23 years.

Join us too and generate new ideas and contacts to drive your industry forward.

Show details:

Venue: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg

Event date: 31 March - 1 April 2020

Admission through Entry Pass.

Visit the official website for details.

10 Reasons Why Outsourcing Your Amazon Vendor Support Services Is An Excellent Idea For 2020

Without doubt, Amazon is the World’s largest online mall. Starting out as a single online retail giant via their website Amazon.com and operating out of USA, today, Amazon is using country based TLDs to create dozens of branches spread out in different locations of the globe.

We call it an online Mall because each of Amazon’s websites is made up of hundreds of local retailers. Each retailer individually buys products and sells them on the Amazon website. Being famous, Amazon is perhaps the best location to sell your goods.

There are hundreds of rags to riches stories of how people who started by borrowing a few hundred dollars are today making hundreds of thousands a year in profits selling goods on Amazon.

As business grows, it becomes impossible to keep track of everything that is happening. Here then are the top 10 reasons to outsource your Amazon Vendor Support Outsourcing Services in 2020:

1. Thousands of dollars in sales every hour requiring thousands of goods to be couriered.
2. Hundreds of goods eligible for Amazon Prime delivery and requiring preferential handling.
3. Thousands of questions posed by prospective customers.
4. Thousands of good returned or partially returned requiring appropriate refunds.
5. Hundreds of complaints of goods lost or damaged in transit.
6. Hundreds of complaints of wrong or defective products received by customers.
7. Hundreds of issues to be followed up and awaiting resolution with Amazon Vendor Support.
8. Technical problems with listing of hundreds of items.
9. Attention required because some listings do not comply with Amazon terms.
10. Keeping track of changing terms, and local taxation policies.

So, while on the one hand selling on Amazon is hugely profitable, once your business grows beyond tens of thousands of dollars a year, you will need support of a dedicated team to track each of the above situations. It is estimated that for every hundred thousand dollars in sales on Amazon, you require a 10-member dedicated team to keep track of everything and ensure your E-Commerce business runs on greased rails.

A 10-member team in any developed country would dig deep into your profitability. The ideal scenario, is for you to hire a 10-member virtual team i.e. a team that is typically based in a developing country (e.g. India), a team that will cost you 70% LESS than if you had to hire the same team from your own country.

With a virtual team in place, all you will have to do, is to keep an eye on the overall performance. And we dare say, that even for that you might need help – because your online business with Amazon, will just keep growing and growing.

To outsource your Amazon Vendor Support Service in 2020 visit https://StaffCloud.biz or call them on +91-9326311511. Do it today and ring in the profits.

The Oklahoma 100 helps Jones PR land largest-ever account

Oklahoma agency lands statewide client, publishes commemorative issue

Jones PR kicked off 2020 by winning the largest account in the firm's history – a milestone founder Brenda Jones Barwick says was aided by its effective deployment of The Oklahoma 100, the content marketing platform which this month celebrated its fifth year with a special issue, banner and retrospective video.

"In 2015, Jones PR was honored to sign The 100 Companies' contract, becoming The 100 Companies' first network affiliate, yet back then we had no idea how rewarding the journey would turn out to be," said Brenda. "Not only have we positioned our firm and clients as thought leaders throughout our state, the experience of being a high-profile publisher in our community led to greater awareness of our firm, increased market share and now the landing of our largest account ever."

Since its January 2016 inaugural issue, The Oklahoma 100 eNewsletter, website and social media network featuring 100-word stories and 100-second videos has won state and national awards, exploded to 70,000 subscribers while daily engaging a loyal social media following, including nearly 4,000 Facebook followers, the highest number within The 100 Companies network.

To celebrate the launch of its fifth year, The Oklahoma 100's first issue of 2020featured the special banner and a video with one of its first video subjects, Mick Cornett, who was then mayor of Oklahoma City. Mick, an entrepreneur and broadcast journalist who served as president of theU.S. Conference of Mayors and was named one of Newsweek's five most innovative mayors, joined Jones PR as Executive Counsel in April 2019. In the video, Brenda and Mick reminisce about that first interview before looking ahead at what the next decade might have in store for Oklahoma.

Brenda, who previously worked in the White House, the State Department and one of the southwest's largest ad agencies, launched Jones PR in 2001. After attending Chris Schroder's May 2015 presentation about The Atlanta 100 at PRSA Counselors Academy, she joined a dozen PR firm owners who urged Chris to expand The 100 Companies into a larger network, now launched in 24 markets from Denali to Dubai. The 100 Companies' media offerings have expanded from geographic-focused media channels managed by PR firms to brand journalism publications serving industry vertical markets, municipal governments and, later this year, traditional journalism platforms sponsored by local and national brands.

Looking back over The Oklahoma 100's impressive growth, Brenda mused, "Along the way, we sharpened our editorial voice, sparked creativityin some of our youngest team members and have thoroughly enjoyed watching other members of The 100 Companies network bring innovative ideas to our platform."

Publishing options expand, offering increased flexibility

The 100 Companies continues to expand its options and flexibility based on innovative feedback from its network members. In 2019, the brand journalism platform expanded publishing choices from two to nine options. In 2020, The 100 Companies introduces a monthly flexibility option: while members commit to an annual publishing plan, they can now choose to increase or decrease the number of stories per issue and publishing frequency on a month-by-month basis. "We continually find some of the best ideas for the growth of our company come from listening to our innovative members, who bring their own creativity and perspective to our network," said The 100 Companies publisher and founder, Chris Schroder.

The 100 Editorial team expands, appoints new Editor-in-Chief

This month, The 100 Companies welcomed Kristie Coggins as our new editorial coordinator, who will increase editorial support to members. Kristie previously worked for two years at PR Newswire and for five years in the graduate admissions department at Western Carolina University, from which she earned bachelors and masters degrees in English.

Leah Steinberg has been promoted to editor-in-chief of The 100 Companies and will lead its six-person editorial and production staff. Leah has been a leader on the editorial team since 2016, serving as editor and co-managing editor, and brings to the position her prior experience in Colorado as writer, editor and media specialist and as a director in the University of Kansas development office.

Sam Bojarski has been promoted to co-managing editor. Sam joined the team in 2017 as an editor after working on The Pittsburgh 100 as part of the WordWrite team. Prior to that, he worked with several publications and the University of Pittsburgh.

Savanna Garde has been promoted to operations manager and will manage many of the systems and on-boarding needs of our PR members. Savanna joined The 100 Companies in 2018 as the content and distribution coordinator following four years as a logistics manager at Anisa International. She began her career as an intern with Schroder PR in Atlanta.

Unparalleled Invention of Artificially Intelligent Computerized System for Administering and Supervizing Human Operators in Business

Computing Technology and Artificial Intelligence have come a long way in the processing of sustainable changes across business verticals as well as personal stanzas. A recent culmination of that is an Artificially Intelligent Robotic staff appearing in the horizon for administering and supervising concerned human operators of business operations of any organization, private or governmental. This unparalleled invention has been patented at the Patent Office, USA.

This computerized AI system acts in real-time as another resourceful head of a team that will not only be communicatively interactive but will also hold a significant role as a supervisor and administrator within the team. This will be the first instance of practical implementation of an AI system within the business vertical that is based out of human knowledge and progress that is being termed as ‘Machine Rules Man’ technology in the sustainable evolution of computing standards. The innovation is more than just a robotic helping hand of man but will undertake responsibilities and enrichment of business prospects through real-time interaction with human operators at various levels including administering concerned human staff without the technical ossification of customary AI functionalities like job automation or crunching big datasets.

The various functional areas of the business will find workflow efficiency, improvement in utilization of manpower and time resources. That will have considerable financial impact with less manual labor and minimized time ratios distributed across various jobs within the organization, with the AI system taking over substantial and significant responsibilities that add to the collective asset of the company or business.

The concept of robotic member of staff has been developed by Asim Datta and is based on the Servomechanism Principle” of Control Engineering, one of the most important theories for automation of mechanical instruments. The principle hypothetically generates feedback from the system based out of various informational error signals, a derivation of the current state within the target cycle which again acts as the initiator of the next signal to trigger movement of the system in an indefinite loop until the target is fulfilled. In the spectrum of a business framework, the generation of feedback is aimed at various business operational goals from within its own dataset, embedded with intelligence about organization’s operational policy and rules.

Thus various human operators in a session will now have another resource with integrated business insight, time competencies, and authoritative power to command and control. This paves the way for a new technologically enriched global value and ethics that will add to the sustainability of the entire consumer and business scope. With such invention and innovation gradually becoming integral parts of our lives, one can only look forward to more reforms in terms of system changes and their positive impact on life and society.

Maxeler Technologies Licenses Healthcare Technologies

Maxeler Technologies recently licensed novel, “explainable” AI-driven prescription prediction technologies from Georgetown University.  Using the patent-pending, technology developed at Georgetown’s Information Retrieval Laboratory under Professor Ophir Frieder, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care. Frieder, the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Professor in Computer Science and Information Processing, is the lead inventor of the technology.

The AI-driven prescription predictive models suggest effective medications that minimize adverse effects. Many artificial intelligence based efforts focus on the aforementioned problem but do so using “black box” approaches which solve the problem, but fail to provide interpretability. Since prescribing physicians are hesitant to rely on suggestions whose derivations are not understood, the lack of interpretability renders the results of the black box AI unuseable. Frieder and his collaborators solved that problem by making the recommendations explainable.
 

High dimensional information and temporal event relationships complicate the development of predictive models. Traditional approaches transform and “flatten” electronic health records into vector representations that ignore medical event temporal relationships, reducing prediction accuracy. The explainable approach automatically restructures each patient’s electronic medical record into a graph and utilizes a graph-kernel approach to formulate prescription predictions.   As graphs are easily understood both by doctors and patients, the developed system will provide comprehensible explanations of why a particular medication is prescribed.  The products are expected to address domestic and international markets.

Maxeler intends to propose using medical records from a national health service to start adapting the research models to real-world data. “Our goal is to develop a model to process electronic medical records relying on proven, scalable, data-mining techniques, yielding a nearly real-time, personalized, clinically explainable drug prediction approach,” says Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler Technologies.  Antibiotic prescriptions will be the initial focus. This is because real-time personalized prescriptions are needed as resistance to antibiotics is personalized and develops over time.  As Frieder explains, “This partnership with Maxeler provides us with the opportunity to move our research from the abstract to clinical practice, hopefully globally improving patient care.”

 
About Maxeler Technologies
 
Maxeler Technologies is one of the world’s leading companies with tools and services for software transformation, optimization of data movement and data representation, in High Performance Computing on standard CPUs as well as computing hardware for specific mission critical domains. Maxeler solutions including Cybersecurity, AI, Risk and Imaging have been used in production in Finance, Oil-and-Gas, Government and Academic Research.
 
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