Debuting in Kate Spade New York’s 2026 fall global campaign, the two-time Grammy-winning artist joins the brand as a new icon to reach a new generation

NEW YORK, July 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kate Spade New York today announced two-time Grammy-winning artist Tyla as its new Global Brand Ambassador. The brand continues to inspire a new generation through its “Spark Something Beautiful” brand ethos, rooted in optimism and with the power to spark joy that spreads.

Behind the scenes image from the set of the 2026 fall global campaign. Tyla carries the Duo Mini shoulder bag in Laurel Leaf.

Known for her distinctive style, magnetic creativity and global cultural influence, Tyla embodies the spirit of Kate Spade New York—effortlessly bringing together fashion, music and individuality.

“Tyla radiates what Kate Spade New York is all about: joy, optimism, and a confidence that lifts everyone around her,” said Eva Erdmann, CEO and Brand President, Kate Spade New York. “From her music to her personal style, she makes people feel something. That’s rare. And she’s doing it at a pivotal moment in her career—a new album, a new chapter, and the world watching. We’re thrilled to have her with us as we spark something beautiful, together.” 

The partnership with Tyla will unfold across brand campaigns, social content and in-store advertising, with Tyla making her debut appearance in the brand’s fall 2026 campaign. The campaign is centered around joy hiding in plain sight and includes nods to Tyla’s new sophomore album, A*POP, woven into the creative with a signature Kate Spade New York sense of play. Throughout the creative, Tyla carries the brand’s hero silhouette, the Duo Mini shoulder bag, in new seasonal colorways including Beet and Laurel Leaf. The new fall collection is available for purchase in August 2026 with additional styles launching throughout the season in Kate Spade New York stores and katespade.com.

The announcement coincides with Kate Spade New York’s celebration alongside Tyla at a PAPER Magazine album launch event in Los Angeles. The brand will share additional campaign details in August.

BTS Assets: HERE

Photo Credits:
BTS Photographer: Marcus Gustaffson
Creative Agency: Marcel
Production House: Wanda

For more information visit KateSpade.com and follow along on social media by following @katespadeny.

About Kate Spade New York:
Since 1993, Kate Spade New York has believed that style is a language of optimism, with the power to spark joy that spreads. Today, we’re creating a world that feels uplifting, where luxury and warmth coexist. Our handbags, clothes, shoes, jewelry and more are classics with a twist, balancing craft with a playful spirit through thoughtful function, intentional color, and unexpected details—they’re pieces made to live with easily and love endlessly. In everything we create, we ignite a spark, turning the everyday into something more beautiful. Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry house of brands.

Please contact katespade@abmc-us.com for media inquiries.

About Tyla:
In an era where niche culture has taken priority over monoculture, two-time GRAMMY^® winner TYLA has ascended to true and unequivocal global superstar status. With A*POP, asserted and fully aware of her presence in pop music, she presents a project that refuses containment or dismissal. It’s confrontational, candid but fun, and spills authenticity rooted in where she’s from: a country that has always spoken in more than one musical language. Through this language, she reveals her range not just as an African artist, but as a global pop star with an entire world behind her.

TYLA’s journey got off to a historic beginning in 2024, when she won her first GRAMMY^® Award, and made Billboard chart history with the three-time RIAA^® Platinum smash hit “WATER,” and the release of her seminal debut albums, TYLA and TYLA+. The set produced another Hot 100 and GRAMMY^®-winning hit, “PUSH 2 START,” and sent seven songs to the U.S. Afrobeats chart, including two no. 1s. The campaign made TYLA the highest-charting African female soloist on the Billboard 200. With her highly-anticipated second go-round, A*POP, TYLA picked up where she left off. “CHANEL,” one of the album’s standout singles was an immediate pop sensation. It topped the U.S. Afrobeats chart and earned over 150 million video views, while TYLA’s follow-up effort, the Zara Larsson-assisted,Y2K-inspired “SHE DID IT AGAIN,” became a disruptive moment, and amplified TYLA’s commitment to the pop star realm. “IS IT LOVE?,” the album’s third single, earned TYLA her record fourth no. 1 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats chart. A*POP is available now.

Public AI platforms were not built to adhere to punitive regulatory requirements or drive down AI costs. See how we solved this at Black Hat, booth 8308.

LAS VEGAS, July 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Armor today launched Sovereign AI, a governed AI work platform for the whole company. The largest enterprises are building their own internal AI platforms because public AI hasn’t given them what their customers demand: trust. Most companies cannot afford that build. Sovereign AI is that platform for everyone else.

Sovereign AI Topology. Every person, agent, and model connects through the Governed Control Plane. Smart isolation keeps agents off your endpoints. Multi-model routing picks the right brain for every task. Policy, secrets, spend, and audit ride every single request. Nothing talks to a model, or your data, any other way.

Sovereign AI gives companies one governed way to use AI, private and inside its own walls, with data, spend, and audit trail owned by the company, not the vendor. It covers how people actually work with AI: Chat, Build, Flow, and Data. Governed tightly enough for the board, accessible enough that the team doesn’t route around it. When the board asks whether the company’s AI can be trusted, the answer isn’t a vendor’s promise. It’s the company’s own audit log.

“Every AI vendor demos the front end. What companies actually buy is the control underneath: governance, audit trail, authority over every model and every dollar. That’s why we built Sovereign AI,” said Chris Drake, founder and CEO, Armor.

That control covers cost as much as risk. Organizations cap AI spend by team and by task, and Sovereign AI matches each request to the right resource for the job automatically, or the customer sets the rules. If a provider changes its pricing, its terms, or its availability, the work moves and the business doesn’t notice. Sensitive work never leaves the building; expensive capability is governed, capped, and audited. No surprise invoice at the end of the month because an agent ran all night.

None of it runs unsupervised. Every request and response passes through a single control layer: policy enforced, secrets never reaching user devices; every action logged. The humans who need to approve sensitive decisions still do.

Sovereign AI is built by Armor, which has spent 17 years securing regulated industries and today protects more than 1,700 organizations across 40+ countries held to the highest bars in the business, including HITRUST/HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR. When the auditor shows up, “the vendor handles it” doesn’t close the finding. Armor spent 17 years learning that. Sovereign AI is what that lesson looks like as a product.

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About Sovereign AI

Sovereign AI is the governed AI work platform for the whole company, built by Armor. One control layer for every model, every team, and every dollar, inside your walls, under your rules. Armor has spent 17 years securing regulated industries, protecting over 1,700 organizations across 40+ countries held to the highest compliance bars in the business. Sovereign AI is what that experience looks like as a product. Learn more at sovai.com.

About Armor

Since 2009, more than 1,700 organizations in 40+ countries have relied on Armor to protect regulated data in the public and private cloud. AI is the next risk, so Armor built Sovereign AI to bring that same protection and compliance to how organizations use AI in the workplace: a fully governed platform that lets them leverage AI without creating undue risk to their data and their regulatory obligations. For more information, visit armor.com and sovai.com and follow us on LinkedIn. 

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Every employee gets a safe front door to AI. Chat on day one: quick starts, recent work, and every model behind one governed composer.

Every Request Passes Through One Governed Layer. Policy, secrets, and role-based access live in one place, and every use is logged. Nothing reaches AI, or comes back, without passing through it.

Eight Roles, Each One Configurable. Every role carries its own model, an editable prompt, and skills drawn from a library that keeps growing across cloud providers and tools. Add agents to a run when the work calls for it.

A Process That Does Not Skip the Hard Parts. Define how work gets done once, then reuse it. Every build moves through the same stages, so security review, architecture, and documentation happen every time, not just when someone remembers.

An Answer to AI Slop. You set how many review loops a run takes and the success criteria for each. Adversarial review puts two critics against the work: one finds issues, the other resolves them, then they swap. A score below the threshold sends the work back around.

Your Choice of Models, Governed Centrally. One place to govern every model your company touches. Chat, code, and image models are included; add frontier or open models when you want them. Route work to the right model, cap the expensive ones, and switch mid-task without losing the context.

• Industry-leading quality, factory pre-assembly, and modular design facilitate rapid integration of systems and liquid cooling components, shortening Time-to-Online (TTO)
• Ten Rack models available in 44OU, 48U, 48OU, and 52U configurations for same-day data center integration to support a wide range of deployments
• Certified for up to over 5500 lb./2,500 kg static load capacity to maximize compute power per rack, enabling higher compute densities and optimal space utilization

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), an AI, Enterprise, Storage, and 5G/Edge Total IT Solution Provider featuring Data Center Building Block Solutions^® (DCBBS), today announced a comprehensive portfolio of racks engineered specifically for mission-critical, high-density AI data center deployments. The ORv3 standard allows Supermicro to offer customers a range of racks which simplify the integration of liquid cooling solutions for high compute-density systems, resulting in a reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Supermicro DCBBS racks are tested and then delivered in shock and vibration tested crates as part of Supermicro’s DCBBS portfolio. These workload-optimized rack -and cluster-scale solutions are validated and ready to power on day one.

Supermicro’s Comprehensive Portfolio of Racks for AI Data Center Deployments

“AI infrastructure starts with the right foundation, and our purpose-built rack portfolio is engineered to accelerate every stage of deployment,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “As a key component of our DCBBS technologies, these high-density, liquid-cooling-optimized racks enable customers to deploy AI clusters faster, maximize compute density, improve reliability, and reduce total cost of ownership. Our manufacturing scale enables us to deliver up to 3,000 of these advanced racks per month, including 2,000 liquid-cooled racks from our facilities around the world for immediate deployment into existing and new data centers. The racks are Plug-and-Play ready for immediate installation in the customers data center.”

Learn more about Supermicro’s rack portfolio here and in this video summary. 

By implementing standardized, fully modular architectures, factory pre-assembly, and optimized logistics, Supermicro can eliminate complex integration and deployment of bottlenecks. Backed by Supermicro Rack Integration Services and modular DCBBS portfolio Supermicro is capable of delivering complete, rack-scale data center infrastructure solutions at scale, streamlining deployment which gives customers a reduced Time-to-Online (TTO). Engineered entirely in-house by Supermicro, all racks feature a reinforced chassis with a certified static load capacity of up to 5500 lb/ 2,500 kg—significantly exceeding typical industry standards. This robust architecture reliably supports the extreme weight of rack-scale clusters that comprise fully populated GPU-accelerated systems, power delivery systems, and liquid-cooling components, ensuring uncompromising structural reliability for mission-critical environments. Leveraging premium-grade materials and high-precision manufacturing processes, Supermicro’s rigorous quality assurance includes seismic and vibration qualification headlined by GR-63-CORE Zone 4 testing to verify stability under the most intense operational stresses.

Optimized to support advanced liquid cooling, the designs support effortless integration with in-rack and in-row CDUs, sidecars, rear-door heat exchangers (RDHx), and liquid cooling manifolds. Dedicated, clearly separated pathways for coolant supply and return lines ensure optimized routing for enhanced efficiency and serviceability, as well as complete isolation of power and network cabling to prevent signal interference.

Portfolio Overview:

NVIDIA Vera Rubin/GB300 Platform (MGX): 48U and 52U racks available in both 750mm and 600mm widths with integrated busbars

OCP ORv3 Platform: 44OU and 48OU 21-inch racks with integrated busbars

EIA Standard Platform: 48U and 52U 19-inch racks

DCBBS delivers complete, modular AI infrastructure built from validated components and subsystems, enabling flexible deployment from individual servers and networking to full rack-scale and data center-level solutions, including software and services.

Supermicro continues to lead the industry with its comprehensive portfolio of AI infrastructure solutions, enabling organizations worldwide to deploy scalable, efficient, and environmentally responsible AI data centers. The entire Supermicro Rack Series is available now. To learn more about Supermicro’s rack-scale solutions and rack integration capabilities, contact your Supermicro representative or visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/dcbbs.

Supermicro’s wide range of rack offerings is now available worldwide from our manufacturing facilities in Silicon Valley, the Netherlands, and Asia.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro’s motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Built on the Agentic Supply Chain Operating System, company-specific Agentic Business Processes enable organizations to orchestrate work across virtually any business process or business transaction at enterprise scale

BOSTON, July 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink, the world’s largest Agentic Business Network for the life sciences and healthcare supply chain, today announced new OPUS Platform capabilities that enable organizations to create Agentic Business Processes across the end-to-end supply network.

Built on TraceLink’s Agentic Supply Chain Operating System and powered by the world’s largest Agentic Business Network—linking more than 315,000 authenticated business entities and supporting hundreds of billions of annual supply chain exchanges—the OPUS Platform provides a no-code foundation for digitalizing work involving people, governed OPUS Agents, enterprise systems, and trading partners.

Existing TraceLink solutions serve as the operational foundation for Agentic Business Processes:

• Track and Trace provides serialization, traceability, verification, product movement, and reporting capabilities across supply chain businesses and systems.
• MINT standardizes, validates, and exchanges real-time business transactions across companies.
• POET enables composable multienterprise collaborative processes that coordinate people, partners, and agents.

Together, these solutions create the trusted operational context that enables OPUS Agents to reason over events, recommend actions, and orchestrate governed work. From planning and commercial operations to manufacturing, logistics, transportation, quality, compliance, returns, and partner lifecycle management, organizations can configure company-specific Agentic Business Processes for virtually any business process or business transaction.

“The differentiator in enterprise AI is the digital foundation beneath it,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink. “That’s the advantage organizations gain by building on the TraceLink network. Company-specific Agentic Business Processes create an elastic operating model where people and governed OPUS Agents continuously collaborate to improve productivity, strengthen service, and reduce operational risk—delivering the 50–100% productivity improvements and 30–50% service improvements organizations should expect from agentic supply chain operations.”

Build Company-Specific Agentic Business Processes Without Custom Code
The OPUS Platform enables organizations to configure company-specific Agentic Business Processes around their own operating model, business rules, and standard operating procedures—without custom software development. Organizations define how supply chain work is performed according to their own operating model while reducing the cost, complexity, and time traditionally associated with modernizing supply chain operations.

As regulations, product portfolios, trading partner requirements, and market conditions evolve, organizations can rapidly adapt business processes while standardizing execution across business units, regions, and trading partners—preserving the flexibility required for local operations without sacrificing enterprise-wide consistency.

Configure the Human-Agent Workforce
Reusable no-code agent profiles enable organizations to deploy OPUS Agents that evaluate information, perform operational work, recommend actions, and collaborate with people throughout Agentic Business Processes. Organizations define how agents participate in business processes according to customer-defined roles, permissions, business rules, and approval policies—ensuring work is performed consistently while maintaining governance and human oversight.

Agent profiles can be shared and configured to create OPUS Agents for many human teammates, enabling organizations to scale operational capacity, accelerate decision-making processes, improve productivity and strengthen operational resilience in a consistently managed operating model.

Orchestrate Event-Driven Execution at Enterprise Scale
Every business transaction, collaborative process, or product movement becomes the starting point for coordinated work involving people, enterprise systems, trading partners, and one or more OPUS Agents. Event-driven orchestration automatically initiates customer-defined business processes in response to business transactions, object changes, and workflow milestones. OPUS Agents evaluate information, coordinate work, recommend actions, and support decisions, helping organizations reduce the time between a business signal and a business response.

For example, a purchase order, shipment notice, quality event, or compliance exception can automatically initiate the appropriate business process, engage one or more OPUS Agents, evaluate supporting information, identify discrepancies, and present recommendations for review—reducing manual follow-up while preserving governance and human accountability.

Register now for FutureLink Barcelona to learn how organizations can build and deploy company-specific Agentic Business Processes with the OPUS Platform.

About TraceLink
TraceLink powers the transformation to an Agentic Supply Chain Operating Model for life sciences and healthcare by combining human expertise with agentic work across the end-to-end supply network.

Through Agentic Business Processes, Agentic Control Towers, the Integrate-Once™ Agentic Business Network, and governed OPUS Agents, TraceLink enables companies to significantly improve productivity, service, inventory, working capital, cost, compliance, quality, resilience, and revenue performance.

Powered by the OPUS Platform and the world’s largest Agentic Business Network, which links more than 315,000 authenticated business entities and hundreds of billions of annual supply chain transactions, TraceLink enables companies to digitalize business transactions, create trusted operational context, and perform work across multienterprise supply chain processes with greater speed, intelligence, control, and accountability.

Learn more at www.tracelink.com.

S Brands portfolio includes leading personal care brands such as KERATINplus, AlcoPlus, DeoPlus and Empress.

HONG KONG, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wipro Consumer Care International (WCCI), the FMCG division of Wipro Enterprises, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shareholding in S Brands Consumer Care Inc. (S Brands), a leading personal care company in the Philippines.

Mr. Nagender Arya, President East Asia, COO-International Business, Wipro Consumer Care (Third from left) and Mr. Dick Sy Ong, Founder and President of S Brands (Third from right) made an official acquisition announcement.

This is Wipro Consumer Care International’s second strategic acquisition in the Philippines, following the acquisition of Splash Corporation in 2019, one of the country’s most iconic personal care companies with brands such as SkinWhite, Maxi-Peel and Vitress. This acquisition further strengthens Wipro’s personal care portfolio and reinforces its leadership position across Southeast Asia.

S Brands is a well-established player in the Philippine personal care market. Its portfolio includes trusted and category leading brands such as KERATINplus, the country’s No. 1 hair treatment brand; AlcoPlus, one of the most trusted hygiene brands; DeoPlus, a fast-growing leader in powder deodorants; Empress, an emerging hair care brand; Grips, a leading men’s grooming line; and Fiona Cologne, a leading teens’ fragrance brand. Together, these brands have built strong consumer loyalty and hold leading positions in their respective categories.

Wipro Consumer Care International has a strong presence across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, operating in more than 60 markets. Its key markets include India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, South of Mainland China region and Hong Kong SAR.

Mr. Nagender Arya, President East Asia & COO, Wipro Consumer Care International, said: “This acquisition is an important milestone in our journey to become one of Asia’s leading personal care companies. As our 16^th strategic acquisition, it reinforces our long-term commitment to the Philippines following the acquisition of Splash Corporation in 2019. It also reflects our continued focus on investing in high-growth emerging markets. The Philippines is the fourth-largest personal care market in Southeast Asia, with a young and growing consumer base. It offers significant opportunities across hair care, skin care, fragrance, and hygiene. We also see strong potential to take KERATINplus and other S Brands products into new international markets.”

Hong Kong and mainland China’s FMCG markets hold immense growth potential and represent a core strategic focus for our business. We keep sourcing high-quality personal care brands across other markets that align with evolving consumer demands. S Brands features a distinctive brand identity, and we are delighted to introduce it to our markets. Moving forward, we will allocate additional resources to support the brand’s growth.」 Mr. Nagender added.

Mr. Dick Sy Ong, Founder and President of S Brands, said: “S Brands is growing and we’re ready to reach more people in more markets. Wipro has the track record and global reach to help make that happen. And with their proven R&D and innovation, we can give even more to our customers. Wipro is big, yet I see their leadership team is still grounded. They have the heart and concern for what they do, and it’s in their culture to give back to communities. We believe in the same thing.“

Mr. Amit Kumar Dawn, Incoming Chief Executive of S Brands, shared: “This acquisition strengthens our position in the Philippines and opens up new opportunities for growth. KERATINplus is the market-leading hair treatment brand with strong consumer loyalty, an extensive distribution network, and excellent brand equity. The addition of S Brands further strengthens the Group’s overall portfolio in the Philippines, providing an even stronger platform to accelerate growth, build stronger brands, improve operational efficiencies, and create long-term value.

About Wipro Consumer Care International

Wipro Consumer Care International is the international arm of Wipro Consumer Care, one of the fastest-growing FMCG businesses with annual global revenues exceeding USD 1.2 billion. With a presence across 18 countries, the business has built a strong portfolio of 37+ leading brands marketed in 60+ countries, spanning personal care, home care, and other consumer categories. Its brands hold strong market positions across key markets, including No. 1 in Personal Care in Malaysia, No. 1 in Feminine Hygiene Wash in Indonesia, No. 1 in Clicks in South Africa, No. 1 in Talc in the Middle East. Brand portfolio includes Enchanteur, Romano and Bio-essence, which are leading brands across the Asia Pacific; Pahnli, South China’s leading laundry detergent brand ; and Santoor, India’s largest-selling soap brand.

With 17 manufacturing facilities, 11 R&D centers, strong local brands, consumer-led innovation, and a disciplined acquisition strategy, Wipro Consumer Care International continues to strengthen its presence across global markets. For more information, visit https://wiprocci.com/singapore/about-us/company-profile/

KUCHING, Malaysia, July 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As diabetes continues to place an increasing burden on Malaysia’s healthcare system — affecting an estimated 4.75 million Malaysian adults – Kuching will become the regional meeting point for leading diabetes experts this October as it hosts the “Diabetes Asia 2026” Conference (DAC 2026). The conference will bring together internationally renowned diabetes experts and local specialists, researchers and healthcare professionals to explore the latest advances in diabetes prevention, treatment and long-term patient care.

Against this backdrop, “Diabetes Asia 2026” Conference aims to equip healthcare professionals with the latest scientific knowledge, emerging technologies and collaborative networks needed to address one of the region’s most pressing health challenges.

Organised by the National Diabetes Institute (NADI) and supported by Business Events Sarawak (BESarawak), the Diabetes Asia Conference 2026 is the flagship event of its long-running Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Series, which has been advancing diabetes education for healthcare professionals since 2002. Now in its 23rd edition, the three-day hybrid conference will be held from 15 to 17 October 2026 at voco Kuching by IHG, bringing together healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and allied health practitioners from Malaysia and around the world. Delegates will have the flexibility to participate either in person or virtually, fostering greater collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the sharing of the latest advancements in diabetes prevention, management, and care.

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), approximately 21.1 per cent of Malaysian adults aged between 20 and 79 years are living with diabetes, representing around 4.75 million people. Globally, diabetes affects an estimated 589 million adults, with that figure projected to rise to 853 million by 2050, highlighting the growing importance of continuous professional education, scientific collaboration and evidence-based care in addressing one of the world’s fastest-growing non-communicable diseases.

Emeritus Professor Dato’ Mustaffa Embong, Chairman of the Diabetes Asia 2026 Conference, said the rapid pace of innovation in diabetes care makes continuous professional learning more important than ever.

“Diabetes care is evolving faster today than at any time in history. From breakthrough medicines and digital health technologies to a deeper understanding of the disease itself, healthcare professionals must continuously update their knowledge if patients are to fully benefit from these advances.

“For more than two decades, NADI’s Continuing Professional Development Series has been committed to strengthening diabetes care across Malaysia and the region. We are honoured to bring Diabetes Asia 2026 to Kuching, where local and international experts can come together to build new collaborations, inspire innovation and ultimately improve the quality of life for people living with diabetes.”

Since its inception in 2008, the Diabetes Asia Conference has provided a dedicated platform for advancing diabetes care in Asian populations through scientific exchange, multidisciplinary collaboration and continuing medical education. This year’s conference returns to East Malaysia with the support of the Sarawak Government through Business Events Sarawak (BESarawak), reinforcing Sarawak’s reputation as a preferred destination for international medical and scientific conferences.

DAC 2026 will feature internationally recognised experts from Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, alongside approximately 30 Malaysian specialists representing endocrinology, cardiology, nephrology, paediatric endocrinology, ophthalmology, psychiatry, nutrition, pharmacy and diabetes education.

The scientific programme features plenary lectures, symposiums, expert case discussions and Meet-the-Professor sessions covering the latest advances in obesity management, GLP-1 therapies, diabetes technology, cardiovascular and kidney protection, precision medicine, nutrition, mental health, paediatric diabetes and emerging treatments. Together with an accompanying exhibition and networking programme, the conference aims to foster meaningful collaboration between clinicians, researchers, academia and industry partners while supporting Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

Another highlight of DAC 2026 is its Free Paper Presentation, offering researchers the opportunity to present original clinical and scientific studies relating to diabetes and its associated complications. Outstanding submissions will be recognised through the Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Presentation Awards, with cash prizes of up to RM3,000. Abstract submissions close on 1 September 2026.

Professor Mustaffa added that hosting the conference in Sarawak reflects the state’s growing standing as an international destination for knowledge exchange and professional development.

“Hosting Diabetes Asia 2026 reflects Sarawak’s growing reputation as a destination for international medical and scientific conferences. Beyond the exchange of knowledge, delegates will experience Sarawak’s unique culture and hospitality while contributing to the state’s growing business events economy.”

“Diabetes care is evolving faster today than at any time in history. Innovation only improves lives when healthcare professionals continue learning and working together.”

Registration remains open for both physical and virtual participation, with early bird rates available until 1 September 2026. Healthcare professionals interested in attending or presenting research can register and obtain further information through the National Diabetes Institute at www.nadidiabetes.com.