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AUSTIN, Texas, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Alegion, a human intelligence platform for AI and machine learning initiatives, announced today at the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference that it has raised $3.6 million in Series A funding.

Led by RHS Investments, the infusion of capital will allow the company to accelerate its AI offerings and capitalize on AI’s exponential growth, which is expected to exceed $16B annually by 2022, according to IBM research. With over half of all development teams planning to integrate AI services into their apps by 2018, Alegion is using the funds to fortify its AI products and scale operations.

“Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies are already beginning to change the world as we know it,” said Nathaniel Gates, the CEO and co-founder of Alegion. “We are uniquely positioned to supply the human intelligence that is required to enable artificial intelligence.”

Alegion helps data science teams accelerate and optimize AI and machine learning projects by supplying large-scale, custom training datasets, human-scored results validation, and human-in-the-loop exception processing.

“Confidence in the training data produces confidence in the resulting model,”  adds Gates. “We introduce human intelligence into the process which provides the quality and scale necessary to achieve rapid, successful results.” 

About Alegion

Alegion is an Austin-based technology company that provides human intelligence solutions designed for today’s AI & machine learning initiatives. Alegion provides AI training data, algorithm validation and human-in-the-loop exception processing.  The Alegion platform supports a wide array of business automation solutions including user generated content moderation, sentiment analysis, data enrichment, tagging and categorization.  Alegion provides solutions for Fortune 500 companies and public-sector organizations including Charles Schwab, Conde Nast and the State of Texas. 

For more information, visit www.alegion.com.

 

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NEW YORK, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Dispel, a leader in secure collaborative systems and software-defined perimeters, today announced it has been selected as a 2017 Gartner Cool Vendor in Unified Communications (May 11, 2017, Mike Fasciani, Bern Elliot, Steve Blood, Tom Eagle, Adam Preset). Dispel offers a comprehensive suite of simple, secure products for all workers at companies of any size seeking to protect intellectual property and material activity; secure networks against monitoring and intrusion; and prevent downtime from attacks such as DDoS and ransomware. In addition to industries facing cyberattacks, Dispel provides collaboration and data products for employees in volatile geopolitical regions.

According to Gartner, “The shift to cloud-based videoconferencing services has been a major theme in the unified communications and collaboration (UCC) space for the past few years, and momentum in that direction continues to build. As large global enterprises, government agencies and financial services market segments consider following this trend, they often ask whether it puts them at greater security risk.”

“Companies are seeking novel, proven technologies to secure their data worldwide without compromising productivity,” said Ethan Schmertzler, CEO of Dispel. “We are extremely pleased to be recognized as a 2017 Cool Vendor by Gartner, because we believe it acknowledges the fundamental shift in demand by industry for secure platforms that are easy to use, and immune to traditional attack vectors. Dispel offers customers a truly unique and simple solution for global collaboration that workers prefer to use.”

Gartner states in the Cool Vendor report, “With cyberattack security concerns on the rise, application leaders for unified communications (UC) are demanding security competencies when selecting cloud-based conferencing providers.”

Dispel is an easy-to-use communications platform that creates highly secure, private enclaves for information exchanges. Dispel creates interoperable voice, video, messaging, file sharing, and design applications inside Reconnaissance Resistant Networks; mitigating the threat of corporate espionage and cyberattacks—keeping company information secret and secured. 

Reconnaissance Resistant Networks (“RRNs”) are a proprietary class of software-defined perimeter introduced by Dispel in 2014. RRNs can be deployed in under 30 minutes by an average non-technical user; easily integrate with third party systems; and provide a traceless, encrypted, scalable network within which a company can operate. For video conferences that last minutes, to data exchanges lasting months, Dispel allows workers to collaborate in high-speed, cloud-based environments accessible from any device. When a session ends and data preservation is complete, the secure enclave is destroyed, improving security and lowering costs by eliminating the need for maintenance, updates, or manual configuration. 

According to Gartner, “The unified communications (UC) landscape has evolved during the past few years, due to global market trends such as increased automation through artificial intelligence (AI), web-service-based consumption, heightened awareness of security vulnerabilities, and the massive expansion of connected devices. These trends have converged to create an opportunity for companies to enable their employees and customers to securely engage and collaborate in new ways — from anywhere, at any time, using any device, in any application.”

Gartner recommends companies “choose a conferencing service provider focused on security capabilities, rather than a general purpose conferencing provider, when the risk and cost of a potential cyberattack is high.”

Dispel pioneered the development and remains the sole provider of Reconnaissance Resistant Networks, giving companies and institutions of any size the ability to use the applications and services they already enjoy, from the devices they prefer, with transparent and minimal latency security.

Dispel solutions include:

• Dispel data rooms, video conferencing, messaging, VoIP telephony, virtual desktops, and VPN products.
• Dispel Cloud Provisioning for custom resource deployment within RRNs; providing intelligent virtual machine orchestration across six major cloud providers and on on-premises hardware.
• Integrations: Dispel for Apple macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Polycom, and more.
• Device support for IoT, hardware, and legacy endpoints.

For more information, Gartner subscribers can download Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Unified Communications, 2017 report published on May 11, 2017 including their full comments on Dispel here. Or, visit the Dispel website to learn more about Dispel.

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About Dispel
Dispel is a U.S. cyberdefense firm specializing in encrypted, traceless, disassociative communication and collaboration systems to insulate equipment, teams, individuals, and datasets from state-level, criminal, and hacktivist cyberattacks and observation.

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Email: press@dispel.io

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Compass Intelligence is honored to recognize the top innovators, technologies, best-in-class solutions and products, and leaders in the mobile, IoT, and emerging technology industries. The 5th annual 2017 Compass Intelligence Awards, brought to you by our partners Silverwood Partners, HYLA Mobile, Mind Commerce, and IoT Analytics were voted on by 40+ industry-leading press, editors, journalists, thought leaders, and analysts. The program included three primary award categories: Mobile & Wireless, A-List in IoT, and Bamboo Mobile, along with CompassIntel.com selected “of the Year” awards. The 68 different awards identify the best in mobile devices and software, wireless technology, mobile applications, platforms, Internet of Things, wearables, reuse/recycling of devices, robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, connected products, and emerging solutions.  

“Each year new innovations, products, and companies enter into the technology realm and recognizing those who are innovating and delivering best-in-class solutions is vital,” states Stephanie Atkinson, CEO & founder of Compass Intelligence. “It is an honor to distinguish those companies empowering and enabling enterprises, government, and consumers through digital, automation, and technology.”

The award recipients of the 5th Annual Compass Intelligence Awards are as follows:

Mobile & Wireless Awards

Bamboo Mobile Awards

Compass Intelligence Nominated Awards

Note: These awards were selected exclusively by the Compass Intelligence team.

About Compass Intelligence

Compass Intelligence, a market analytics and consulting firm, specializes in deep-level market segmentation and actionable research for the high-tech and telecom industries while delivering metrics-driven intelligence and insights. Compass Intelligence provides executive insights, market sizing/modeling, competitive analysis, strategic consulting, research-based marketing support, and expert recommendations on multiple markets. Visit us at http://www.compassintel.com. Follow Compass Intelligence on Twitter at @CompassIntel.

Note: Brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Media Contact: Stephanie Atkinson, satkinson@compassintelligence.com

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Caruma Technologies, Inc., The Intelligent Connected-Vehicle Platform™ company, and RapidSOS, an advanced emergency technology company, announced today that they are bringing emergency response cloud infrastructure capabilities to Caruma Technologies’ AI-Powered Open Vehicle Network™ to ensure faster help from emergency responders after serious car crashes. By integrating RapidSOS’s unique technology, Caruma can automatically transmit critical details in emergency situations—vision-augmented context, location, and vehicle information—providing 911 centers with lifesaving data to accelerate response times and improve situational awareness.

Existing 911 systems can instantly identify and locate landline calls in emergency situations; however, calls from mobile phones often cannot be precisely located by these systems and precious time is wasted trying to locate mobile callers.

Caruma’s solution combines artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision with high definition video and supplemental data collected by its windshield-mounted Caruma Cam device that automatically detects a crash. With RapidSOS’s technology, Caruma’s system will have the ability to send critical details into the 911 system to provide situational context—such as a view of the driver and passengers, the driver’s contact data, vehicle location and overall condition—so emergency responders can better assess the situation. If the driver is unconscious, emergency contacts can call 911 on behalf of a loved one, transmitting location and rich data to 911 so help can arrive quickly.

RapidSOS’s technology also supplements Caruma’s ability to provide security from vehicle theft and tampering when parked or the engine is off. When a security threat is detected by Caruma’s proximity sensors and video cameras, an alert along with visual evidence is immediately sent to the driver. With the driver’s confirmation, a voice connection with 911 automatically is established and the vehicle location and other rich data is sent to 911 so help can be dispatched quickly.

“RapidSOS is leading the way in advanced emergency technology and we believe that this combination will give customers next level protection in connected vehicles with Caruma’s computer vision expertise,” said Michael Martin, CEO of RapidSOS. “Caruma’s value proposition of being an open connected platform fits well with our strategy and we look forward to a successful partnership that ultimately benefits emergency response systems and the people that rely on them.”

“Caruma is extremely pleased to be able to advance our offerings with RapidSOS and their emergency response solution,” said Chris Carson, CEO of Caruma Technologies Inc. “By integrating their 911 response technology, it will give us another advantage as we drive our software platform into the market and share the benefits of our AI-based computer vision technology.” 

The Caruma Control™ technology platform connects in-car cameras and sensor hardware to a continuous learning cloud and an artificial intelligence powered open vehicle network, which ‘learns’ the behavioral patterns of drivers and passengers, situational factors external to the vehicle and road infrastructural changes. Integrating RapidSOS’s unique technology improves response time for 911 dispatch and responders through a faster and more efficient transmission of voice and critical data into the 911 emergency ecosystem and furthers Caruma’s market-leading platform, which provides customers and partners a unique element to address driver safety and vehicle security.

About RapidSOS
RapidSOS is an advanced emergency technology company that is partnering with the 9-1-1 Community to provide precise wireless location and rich data to 9-1-1, without the need for an app, at no cost to PSAPs. The result is faster, more effective emergency response. Formed in 2012 and backed by some of the world’s top technologists, RapidSOS was named “2016 Start-Up of the Year” by the Consumer Technology Association, a Top Innovation of 2015 by MIT News, and Top 3 Innovative World Technologies by SXSW. Learn more at www.RapidSOS.com.

About Caruma Technologies, Inc.
Caruma is The Intelligent Connected-Vehicle Platform company that utilizes the underlying technologies found in autonomous driving vehicles to improve safety, security, and convenience. Caruma’s AI-powered vision-based connected-vehicle platform collects data that empowers fleet managers with context-rich information, insurance sector with a vision- augmented driver score, smart cities with deep insights about road segment infrastructure anomalies, mapping sector with rich dynamic data substrate for accelerating towards self-healing maps, and automotive sector with real data sets needed for ramping to level 4 autonomy.

Caruma and the Caruma logo are registered trademarks of Caruma Technologies, Inc.

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NEW YORK, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Overview:

IIoT is poised to transform many industry verticals including healthcare, retail, automotive, and transport. Initially focusing on improving existing processes and augmented current infrastructure, IIoT will evolve to encompass next generation methods and procedures. Data Analytics provides the means to process vast amounts of machine-generated and often unstructured data. Accordingly, Big Data technologies and predictive analytics enable stream lining of industrial processes. AI technology provides the means to further automate decision making and to engage machine learning for ongoing efficiency and effectiveness improvements.

Read the full report: http://www.reportlinker.com/p04945252/Connected-Manufacturing-Convergence-IIoT-Data-Analytics-and-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Manufacturing.html

This research evaluates IIoT technologies, companies, applications, services, and solutions. Report forecasts include overall global and regional IIoT outlook as well as IIoT by industry vertical, software, hardware, and services for the period 2017 to 2022. This research also evaluates the technologies, companies, and solutions involved in next generation manufacturing. The report assesses the impact of IIoT, Data Analytics, and AI on manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness. The report includes forecasts for each technology area as well as the global and regional outlook for manufacturing from 2017 to 2022. The research also assesses emerging AI business models, leading companies, and solutions. The report also provides forecasting for unit growth and revenue from 2017 – 2022 associated with AI supported predictive analytics solutions.

Target Audience:

· Internet of Things companies
· Artificial Intelligence companies
· Big Data and analytics companies
· Robotics and automation companies
· Cloud and Internet of Things companies
· Investment firms focused on automation
· Product and service providers of all types
Read the full report: http://www.reportlinker.com/p04945252/Connected-Manufacturing-Convergence-IIoT-Data-Analytics-and-Artificial-Intelligence-in-Manufacturing.html

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EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Krotos develops innovative technologies that fundamentally change the way sound effects are created. Krotos’ Dehumaniser wowed Hollywood and the video game industry by making it possible for actors to perform other-worldly creature growls in blockbusters like Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Jungle Book, Far Cry 4, Doom, and League of Legends. Now, with the launch of Reformer, Krotos makes it possible to actually design sound effects with your voice or any other live audio input. 

Unleashed from the constraints of the mouse and keyboard, Reformer allows sound artists to sculpt effects in real-time. Imagine using your voice to design a dramatic explosion in an action movie.  Artists can go beyond using the voice, and use any audio input to design a sound effect. For example, the engine revs of a street racer can be re-formed into ferocious black panther snarls. 

Reformer is now available as a plugin for the Avid Pro Tools digital audio workstation and other popular sound editorial environments. Visit https://www.krotosaudio.com to download Reformer and the Black Leopard sound effects library for free, and purchase additional sound effects libraries.

Krotos founder Orfeas Boteas explained that, “Reformer uses artificial intelligence and advanced signal analysis to allow you to perform sound effects with your voice or any other audio input.  In real-time, Reformer profiles the input sound, and then drawing from a palette of user-selected library sounds, uses that profile to sculpt a new sound effect.”  Bryan Celano, supervising sound designer on hit franchises like Dead Space, Final Fantasy, Gears of War, and Metal Gear Solid, commented that, “From the second I first spoke into the mic and heard the output from Reformer, I was very excited. It’s an awesome new way to work with sound effects libraries.”

Krotos has produced custom sound effects libraries for Reformer and partnered with renowned sound effects library producers like BOOM Library and SoundBits to make over 100 libraries available to users. BOOM creator Axel Rohrbach said, “Reformer is a very inspiring and fun way to use sound libraries. It easily and smoothly blends audio material.”

For more information:
Sarah Matulis
+44(0) 131 651 3251
press@krotosaudio.com

About Krotos
Based in Edinburgh’s bustling tech hub, Krotos creates unique audio technology solutions used in video game, film, TV, and VR productions worldwide. Their first product, Dehumaniser Pro, was launched November 2013 to rave reviews, and in 2017, Krotos secured an angel investment round of funding from award-winning video game pioneer, Leslie Benzies.

 

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TOKYO, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Corporation today announced that it has made its “Neural Network Libraries” (https://nnabla.org/) that serve as a framework for creating deep learning programs for artificial intelligence, available in open source. Software engineers and designers will now be able to make use of these core libraries free of charge to develop deep learning programs and incorporate them into their products and services. This shift to open source is also intended to enable the development community to further build on the core libraries’ programs.

Deep learning refers to a form of machine learning that uses neural networks modeled after the human brain. By making the switch to deep learning-based machine learning, the past few years have seen a rapid improvement in image and voice recognition technology, even outperforming humans in certain areas. Compared to conventional forms of machine learning, deep learning is especially notable for its high versatility, with applications in a wide variety of fields besides image and voice recognition, including machine translation, signal processing, and robotics. As proposals are made to expand the scope of deep learning to fields where machine learning has not been traditionally used, there has been an accompanying surge in the number of deep learning developers.

The work of neural network design is very important for deep learning program development. Programmers construct the neural network best suited to the task at hand, such as image or voice recognition, and load it into a product or service after optimizing the network’s performance through a series of trials. The software contained in Sony’s core libraries (operation module group) efficiently facilitates all the above-mentioned development processes, and incorporates the following necessary elements for deep learning R&D.

• All-purpose Execution Environment

The software in Sony’s core libraries is predominantly written in C++11, a programming language that runs in a variety of environments (OS and hardware, including GPUs) and operates on Linux, Windows, and a multitude of other platforms.

• High Efficiency Development Environment

On top of the C++ core libraries, Sony provides a layer of Python interface functions. Python is the prevailing programming language for deep learning development which allows for easy prototyping and high efficiency development. Because this allows for intuitive neural network design with fewer lines of code, it allows developers to focus on creating neural networks while developing technology that uses deep learning more efficiently, in less time, and at lower cost.

• Multifunctionality

They are equipped with the flexibility and expressiveness to keep up with the latest in the ever-innovating field of deep learning while also coping with the dynamic nature of neural networks

• High-speed Operation

Compatible with Nvidia GPUs, Sony’s core libraries can carry out neural network learning and execution at the highest available speeds, allowing for deep learning supported tech development with lower iteration time.

• Modification Made Easy

Furthermore, developing and adding new functions as needed on the leading edge of deep learning is simple. For example, it is easy to add optimizer modules as well as function blocks, which are structural elements of neural networks.

• Simple Hardware Transplanting 

The core libraries were built with transfers to new hardware in mind, and enable simple transplants to hardware such as smartphones and IoT devices.

Sony’s R&D Platform and System R&D Group have used these core libraries as a base for products and services that incorporate deep learning. These include AR Effect, a SmartAR (augmented reality) app for the Xperia™ smartphone series’ camera; Lifelog, an activity tracker app that uses action recognition technology; and the Price Estimation Engine, which provides highly accurate contract price estimates when buying and selling real estate.

This policy forms one part of Sony’s AI environmental improvement initiative. In a world where more goods and services are expected to make use of artificial intelligence to provide higher levels of convenience, Sony is making its core libraries open source in the hope that a wider range of developers and researchers will build on its programs, and with the aim of contributing to the development of society.

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NEW YORK, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — CB Insights today named Kasisto to the prestigious Fintech 250, a select group of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology. CB Insights CEO and co-founder, Anand Sanwal, revealed the Fintech 250 companies during The Future of Fintech, a gathering of the world’s largest financial institutions, best fintech startups, and most active venture investors.

“The financial services industry will see more change in the next 10 years than it has in the last 100. And that transformation is being driven by a group of smart insurgent startup companies. The Fintech 250 are the most promising of these insurgents. They are bringing emerging technologies and business models to financial services that will permanently change the way we handle money and do business,” said CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal.

“It’s clear that consumers are demanding a better banking experience and have, in fact, come to expect their banking to be like the rest of their digital lives – personal, contextual and predictive. With our conversational AI platform, KAI, financial institutions around the world are creating these same digital experiences for their customers,” said Kasisto CEO Zor Gorelov. “We’re honored to receive this recognition as one of the few companies in this space with production deployments under our belt – proving the business results and consumer impact when you combine intuitive conversational interfaces with a powerful AI ‘do’ engine. Every day, KAI bots are fulfilling requests, solving problems, predicting needs and ‘doing’ more banking – in an interface as natural as texting a friend and in the channel a customer prefers.”

The CB Insights research team selected the Fintech 250 companies based on several factors including data submitted by the companies and the company’s Mosaic Score. The Mosaic Score, based on CB Insights’ National Science Foundation-funded algorithm, measures the overall health and growth potential of private companies. Through this evidence-based, statistically-driven approach, the Mosaic Score can help predict a company’s momentum, market health and financial viability.

Companies such as Affirms, Stripe, Robinhood, Acorns, Nav and Blue Vine joined Kasisto in being recognized for their innovative technology in front of an audience of 1000 senior executives from around the world and news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.

Kasisto’s conversational AI platform,KAI Banking, enables banks and financial institutions to attract, engage and support their customers with human-like, intelligent conversations across mobile, web and messaging channels. Out of the box, KAI is fluent in banking intents and sentences so bots and assistants already know how to help customers manage money, track expenses, analyze spending, make payments, and more – in an interface as natural as texting a friend. With sophisticated machine learning, the experience is always improving and the self-service tools enable banks to quickly add new features, products, channels and geographies. KAI helps banks reduce customer care costs by fulfilling requests and solving problems, as well as deflecting calls with personalized insights. In fact, the KAI assistant in DBS digibank handles 82% of all customer inquiries and requests without human intervention. The platform also helps banks increase revenue and engagement with contextual product and services offers, financial well-being features based on data-driven recommendations, and the ability to acquire new customers with differentiated and compelling banking experiences.

Quick facts on the Fintech 250:

• These 250 emerging private companies have raised $14B across 240 deals in 2016.
• Applications of their technology include breakthroughs in insurance, lending, payments, human resources, real estate, and much more.
• More than 2,000 companies were nominated or applied for the Fintech 250 (only 8% were selected).
• Ribbit Capital has backed 17 of the Fintech 250 companies, while Andreesen Horowitz and Goldman Sachs backed 9.
• Twenty-three Fintech 250 companies have reached a valuation of $1B or more.
• 23 countries are represented among the Fintech 250 companies.

The Fintech 250 Companies (in alphabetical order):

 

About CB Insights
Our team comes to work every day to build technology that helps corporations guess less and win more. We aggregate and analyze massive amounts of data and use machine learning, algorithms and data visualization to help corporations replace the three Gs (Google searches, gut instinct and guys with MBAs*) so they can answer massive strategic questions using probability not punditry.

With backing from the National Science Foundation and venture capital investors, we mine terabytes of data and knowledge contained in patents, venture capital financings, M&A transactions, hiring, startup and investor websites, news sentiment, social media chatter, and more. Our software algorithmically analyzes this data to help our clients see where the world is going tomorrow, today.

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About The Future of Fintech
The Future of Fintech is an exclusive gathering of the world’s largest financial institutions, best fintech startups, and most active venture investors.

For more information about the Fintech 250, visit:
https://www.cbinsights.com/research-fintech250

To learn more about CB Insights’ Future of Fintech, go here:http://events.cbinsights.com/future-of-fintech

About Kasisto
Founded in 2013, Kasisto is on a mission to enable companies to attract, engage, support, and transact with their customers via human-like, intelligent conversations, anytime, anywhere. Kasisto’s conversational AI platform, KAI, powers omni-channel bots and virtual assistants with deep domain expertise across mobile apps, web, messaging platforms, wearables, and IoT devices. With contextual and personalized conversations, they fulfill requests, solve problems, and predict needs as well as help companies support, market, and upsell products and services. Built with the deepest AI portfolio in the industry, KAI is an agile platform with self-service tools to customize and continually improve consumer experiences and seamlessly add new features. As an SRI International spin-off, Kasisto leverages decades of artificial intelligence research and IP to create a full-stack, scalable, enterprise-ready platform. For more information visit www.kasisto.com and follow @kasistoinc on Twitter.

CONTACT:  

Carly Rickards
Mighty for Kasisto
carly@mightypr.com
+1 858-472-8616

 

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SHENZHEN, China, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent has attracted attention yet again as a marketing leader at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this year, demonstrating the company’s strength as a marketer for the digital age. SY Lau, Senior Executive Vice President, Chairman of Tencent Advertising and Chairman of Group Marketing and Global Branding, took to the stage at the Festival, in the center between East and West, to showcase Tencent’s role as a connector.

At Cannes, where international marketing experts meet to exchange their latest and most groundbreaking ideas, SY Lau and Sophia Ong, GM, Strategic Partnership & KA, Online Media Group, Tencent, were joined by senior executives of global brand owners, including L’Oréal, Unilever, and Chanel. With artificial intelligence and creativity coming together, and the rise of technologies such as big data and cloud computing, the marketing industry is heading towards a future that will be even more diversified and personalized. Against this backdrop, the meetings explored the next steps for in-depth data collaborations, the creation of an ecosystem for intellectual property resources, and innovation promotion. They also discussed topics such as how to build strong brands in China’s fast-changing market, and how to leverage Tencent as a marketing partner to influence the burgeoning digital generation.

According to Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet trends report, there were 700 million mobile internet users in China in 2016, while mobile Internet consumption surpassed that of television in China. Mobile users in China spend more than 55% of their time online on Tencent platforms, including QQ, Qzone, Weixin, Tencent Video and Tencent News. Tencent is working with global brands to merge technology with creativity, in order to deliver creative marketing campaigns that have a human impact. Together with the ability to connect prospects and brands together, Tencent can support international brands in growing their market share and customer base. This includes leveraging Tencent’s strength in its user base, a wide range of popular content, 18 years of data insights and cutting-edge ad technology. All these advantages help Tencent to create marketing campaigns that achieve both branding and performance targets.

Established in 1998, Tencent is a leading provider of internet value-added services in China. Tencent enriches the daily lives of billions of internet users through its core services, such as social network platforms, digital content production and internet finance and banking. Since it was listed in 2004 in Hong Kong, Tencent has established itself as one of the world’s top ten most valuable companies, with its market cap recently passing 300 billion US dollars. Earlier this month, Tencent was ranked eighth in BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands.

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