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IAAPA Announces Global Partnership with Expression Capital Partners to Support Growth and Investment Across the Attractions Industry

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IAAPA, the premier association representing the global attractions industry, has announced a new global partnership with Expression Capital Partners LLP, marking a significant investment in the long-term success, financial health, and innovation capacity of IAAPA members around the world.

IAAPA Announces Global Partnership with Expression Capital Partners to Support Growth and Investment Across the Attractions Industry
IAAPA Announces Global Partnership with Expression Capital Partners to Support Growth and Investment Across the Attractions Industry

As IAAPA’s exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner and Platinum Sponsor of all IAAPA Expos, Expression Capital Partners will bring expanded financial expertise, investment resources, and strategic guidance to attraction owners, developers, and operators across all global regions.

Expression Capital Partners – authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority – brings a uniquely deep connection to the leisure and entertainment industry. Unlike traditional private equity firms, most of Expression Capital’s founders were born into the entertainment industry, representing generations of building, operating, financing, and innovating within attractions, hospitality, and live entertainment.

“IAAPA is thrilled to welcome Expression Capital Partners as our global private equity and M&A advisory partner,” said Jakob Wahl, President and CEO of IAAPA. “Their multigenerational expertise and deep understanding of our industry bring tremendous value to IAAPA members. This partnership opens the door for members to access high-level investment guidance, strategic financial support, and opportunities to bring bold ideas to life. We look forward to working together to strengthen and advance the attractions industry worldwide.”

During IAAPA Expo 2025. Elliot Hall, a founding partner at Expression Capital Partners LLP. shared Expression Capital’s vision for supporting the global attractions community. 

“We are proud to serve as IAAPA’s exclusive private equity and M&A advisory partner. With decades of experience in the entertainment industry, our team understands this sector in a unique way.

“Whether members are looking to invest, raise capital, bring a new concept to life, or navigate a buy, sell, or merge opportunity, we’re here as a trusted resource to support long-term growth across the attractions industry.”

How IAAPA Members Will Benefit

Through this global partnership, IAAPA members will gain:

  • Direct access to specialized investment expertise from a firm deeply rooted in the attractions and entertainment sectors.
  • Support with buying, selling, merging, or raising capital, including guidance through complex transactions.
  • Opportunities to explore strategic investments through Entertainment Investments 1 LP and other capital channels.
  • Advisory services for emerging concepts, helping visionary ideas evolve into fully funded, operational attractions.
  • Stronger global financial connections, enabling companies of all sizes – from start-ups to major operators – to pursue transformative growth.

This collaboration ensures that IAAPA members have a trusted partner ready to help them innovate, expand, and build sustainable futures for their businesses.

www.expressioncapitalpartners.com 

 

China’s Tech Rising Star Zhongwei Sail Breaks Micro LED Barriers; First Solutions Set for Global Debut at AES in UAE

DUBAI, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Beijing Zhongwei Sail Technology Co., Ltd. (“ZW-Sail”), a pioneer in Micro LED semiconductor micro-display systems, today announced the successful tape-out of its first process verification chip. Achieving critical performance breakthroughs, the company’s inaugural solutions will make their international debut at the 19th AES Consumer Electronics Show in the UAE this December.

Despite being established less than a year ago, ZW-Sail has demonstrated remarkable “China Speed,” setting multiple industry records through its agile execution:

  • World’s First DRSP chip architecture.
  • Industry First parallel three-color R&D mechanism to solve complex matching issues.
  • Proprietary S2W process design.
  • Global Record for full-color display brightness, far exceeding the industry’s current highest benchmarks.
  • Industry Lowest heterogeneous bonding cost.

As an ecosystem innovator in Micro LED—widely regarded as the “Ultimate Display” technology—ZW-Sail employs a unique heterogeneous stacking solution. This approach overcomes long-standing global challenges regarding luminous efficiency and full-color maturation. The company has successfully conquered the sub-2-micron pixel high-precision design barrier. Its full-color brightness far exceeds the industry’s current highest performance benchmarks, establishing a significant lead in both brightness and energy efficiency.

Empowering Frontier Applications and Driving Multi-Billion Dollar Markets
On the application front, micro-display chips are regarded as the core engine driving the surging AR glasses market, which boasts an annual growth rate exceeding 100%. Leveraging inherent advantages such as high brightness, low power consumption, and long lifespan, Micro LED technology is steadily replacing traditional display solutions across multiple key sectors.

However, ZW-Sail’s advanced chip technology extends far beyond AR. Taking Visible Light Communication (VLC) as an example, Micro LED is recognized as a key technology for next-generation aerospace communication and ultra-high-speed short-range interconnects.

Unlike traditional solutions, ZW-Sail’s chips offer distinct advantages for next-generation connectivity:

  • Ultra-High Modulation Bandwidth: Enabling the high-speed data transmission essential for 6G networks.
  • Superior Signal Intensity: High brightness ensures robust connectivity.
  • Array Integration: This structure boosts total capacity, allowing for massive parallel communication and precise directional links.
  • Efficiency: Maintaining low power consumption for short-range optical interconnects.

Empowering Frontier Applications
The technology also empowers high-end sectors, specifically:

  • Aerospace: High-reliability solutions for both secure optical communications and mission-critical displays.
  • Smart Automotive: Pixelated intelligent headlights.
  • Advanced Manufacturing: High-resolution maskless lithography.
  • Biotech: Optogenetics and embodied AI.

Elite R&D Heritage
The core team comprises veterans from China’s top-tier “National Optoelectronic Team” and international institutes. With over 20 years of semiconductor experience, members previously led designs for specialized optical interaction modules and participated in China’s earliest mass-produced silicon-based micro-displays.

About ZW-Sail
Beijing Zhongwei Sail Technology Co., Ltd. focuses on Micro LED chip design, process development, and application solutions. The company is dedicated to solving industrialization bottlenecks to provide high-performance chips for global consumer electronics, communications, and frontier technologies.

 

The Roadmap to Securing Your Own Digital Domain is Now Available

ICANN Releases 2026 Guidebook, Other Resources to Support Organizations Planning to Apply for New Domain Extensions in April 2026

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Internet is constantly evolving – transforming and changing as users innovate new technologies and platforms for connection, learning, and opportunity. Businesses and other entities will have a rare chance to be part of the next phase of that evolution when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins accepting applications for new domain extensions next year. That means that companies and organizations can apply to have custom domain extensions – otherwise known as generic top-level domains (gTLDs). A gTLD is the part of an Internet address that comes after the last dot.


Today, ICANN published the official Applicant Guidebook for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, expected to open to receive applications on 30 April 2026. The guidebook is the authoritative manual for any entity – brands, communities, cities – that wants to apply for a gTLD. It gives interested parties the application questions, requirements, and processes to lead readers through application submission and evaluation processes.

New gTLDs present a unique opportunity for businesses, communities, regions, and organizations to strengthen their digital presence. A custom domain extension, like .brand or .city, is a powerful tool to enhance visibility, build consumer trust, and foster innovation as part of a digital presence or strategy. The 2026 Round of new gTLDs also will expand the number of Internationalized Domain Names, which will be available in more than two dozen scripts, representing over 300 languages used around the world.

New gTLDs are managed by registry operators, which play a key role in the Internet ecosystem. As the nonprofit responsible for coordinating the Internet’s global Domain Name System, ICANN has developed a comprehensive process to assess and approve registry operators.

“It’s important that new gTLD applicants be prepared for the assessment of the gTLD string they wish to apply for, as well as all of the applicable evaluations, including financial and operational capabilities,” said ICANN President and CEO Kurtis Lindqvist. “The Applicant Guidebook tells them exactly what’s required and helps them navigate the process.”

The 2026 Round Applicant Guidebook is available in English; an HTML version will be available before the end of January 2026. ICANN will provide translations of the guidebook in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish no later than two months before the opening of the 2026 Round, as required by community-developed policy recommendations.

New Resources Available to Prepare Applicants

ICANN offers many resources to help prepare potential applicants, including webinars, key topic overviews, Frequently Asked Questions, and other support materials. All are available on the program website.

ICANN will open the application submission period on 30 April 2026 and will continue to publish additional applicant resources in the lead-up to the round opening. For more information on the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, please visit https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/.

About ICANN
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.

 

S2C, MachineWare, and Andes Introduce RISC-V Co-Emulation Solution to Accelerate Chip Development

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — S2C, MachineWare, and Andes Technology today announced a collaborative co-emulation solution designed to address the increasing complexity of RISC-V-based chip design. The solution integrates MachineWare’s SIM-V virtual platform, S2C’s Genesis Architect and Prodigy FPGA Prototyping Systems, and Andes’ high-performance AX46MPV RISC-V CPU core, providing a unified environment for hardware and software co-verification.

As RISC-V designs move toward high-performance, multi-core, and highly customized architectures, pre-silicon software development and system validation have become more challenging. This co-emulation solution supports a “shift-left” verification approach, allowing hardware and software teams to work in parallel. The result is reduced development time and lower project risk.

MachineWare’s SIM-V: A High-Performance Virtual Platform

MachineWare contributes its SIM-V full-system virtual platform, based on SystemC TLM-2.0, which offers high simulation speed and extensibility. SIM-V integrates with a broad range of third-party toolchains for debugging, testing, and coverage analysis.

The key strengths of SIM-V lie in its exceptional simulation performance and comprehensive support for Andes RISC-V cores. The platform provides instruction-accurate reference models that fully implement the AndeStar V5 Instruction Set Architecture, including the RISC-V Vector (V) extension. Using the SIM-V Extension API, designers can model, validate, and debug proprietary processor enhancements within a complete system simulation, with full trace and introspection capabilities for detailed visibility. “Our customers need tools that accelerate development without compromising accuracy,” said Lukas Jünger, CEO of MachineWare. “This co‑emulation solution gives them the ability to validate hardware and software in parallel, reduce integration risks, and bring products to market faster than ever before.”

Andes: High-Performance, Customizable RISC-V Cores

Andes Technology contributes its advanced CPU IP, including the high-performance AndesCore™ AX46MPV multicore processor. AX46MPV is an 8-stage superscalar 64-bit RISC-V CPU that supports up to 16 cores with a multi-level cache structure, a powerful Vector Processing Unit (VPU) with up to 1024-bit VLEN and High-Bandwidth Vector Memory (HVM), and ISA customizations via Andes Custom Extension™ (ACE).

With full MMU support for Linux and versatile performance scaling, AX46MPV is well suited for data center AI computation elements, Linux-capable edge AI platforms, and high-performance MPUs in storage, networking, and other performance-critical domains.

“Our customers value our RISC-V IP for its performance, robustness, and ability to add custom extensions that accelerate their key applications.” said Dr. Charlie Su, President and CTO of Andes Technology. “By collaborating with MachineWare and S2C on this co-emulation approach, we’re giving them the ability to evaluate that impact and co-optimize their software stack and silicon architecture before committing to costly silicon tapeout.”

S2C: Bridging Virtual and Physical with Co-Emulation

S2C connects the SIM-V virtual platform to physical hardware through its Genesis Architect and Prodigy FPGA-based prototyping systems. In this hybrid setup, CPU models run in SIM-V while peripheral subsystems execute at high speed on FPGA, connected via a high-speed transactional bridge. This approach provides a realistic system context capable of running full software stacks—from bootloader to application—while retaining detailed debug visibility.

Key Use Cases & Customer Benefits

The joint solution supports multiple critical development stages:

  • Pre-silicon software development
  • Hardware/software co-verification
  • System performance analysis and tuning
  • Custom ISA extension development and debug

“Through co-emulation, our customers can accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs, and ensure software maturity—while benefiting from both cycle-accurate debugging and high-speed execution,” said Ying, VP of S2C. “But we can’t achieve this alone. We will continue to build on the high-performance advantages of hardware-assisted verification and work closely with our partners to collaboratively deliver shift-left solutions across the ecosystem.”

Looking Ahead

S2C, MachineWare, and Andes remain committed to advancing verification methodologies and providing scalable, efficient, and robust development tools for the RISC-V community. Together, the companies aim to strengthen the ecosystem for next-generation RISC-V chip design.

About MachineWare

MachineWare GmbH, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is a leading provider of high-speed virtual prototyping solutions for pre-silicon software validation and testing. Its flagship platform, SIM‑V, delivers industry-leading RISC‑V simulation performance and extensibility, enabling accurate modeling of complex SoCs and custom ISA extensions. The company serves diverse sectors including AI, automotive, and telecommunications.

About Andes Technology

As a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International and a leader in commercial CPU IP, Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533SIN: US03420C2089ISIN: US03420C1099) is driving the global adoption of RISC-V. Andes’ extensive RISC-V Processor IP portfolio spans from ultra-efficient 32-bit CPUs to high-performance 64-bit Out-of-Order multiprocessor coherent clusters. With advanced vector processing, DSP capabilities, the powerful Andes Automated Custom Extension (ACE) framework, end-to-end AI hardware/software stack, ISO 26262 certification with full compliance, and a robust software ecosystem, Andes unlocks the full potential of RISC-V, empowering customers to accelerate innovation across AI, automotive, communications, consumer electronics, data centers, and mobile devices. Over 17 billion Andes-powered SoCs are driving innovations globally. Discover more at www.andestech.com and connect with Andes on LinkedInX (formerly Twitter) , YouTube and Bilibili.

About S2C

S2C is a leading global supplier of FPGA prototyping solutions for today’s innovative SoC and ASIC designs, now with the second largest share of the global prototyping market. S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoC prototyping solutions since 2003. With over 600 customers, including 11 of the world’s top 25 semiconductor companies, our world-class engineering team and customer-centric sales team are experts at addressing our customer’s SoC and ASIC verification needs. S2C has offices and sales representatives in San Jose, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hsinchu, India, Europe and ANZ.

The World’s First AI Orchestrator Data Platform for Healthcare Launches

Orchestral – a Pioneering AI Orchestrator Data Platform Built for Healthcare

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — McCrae Tech has launched the world’s first health AI orchestrator.

The product, called Orchestral, is a health-native AI orchestrator data platform. It seamlessly connects diverse data sources with AI agents, workflows, and algorithms – enabling scalable, governed AI deployment across healthcare systems. 

“Most information technology in healthcare falls into two camps: either a big, dumb bucket of cloud data or isolated pockets of AI cleverness,” said Ian McCrae, founder of McCrae Tech. “We have created something vastly different that reshapes healthcare as we know it.”

Orchestral integrates three core components:

  • Health Information Platform (HIP): Ingests data from any source and delivers trusted, structured, standardized, and compliant health data.
  • Health Agent Library (HAL): Provides a governed registry of AI building blocks for the entire health system.
  • Health AI Tooling (HAT): Empowers data analysts and scientists to build agentic workflows, business intelligence reports, and more.

“Simply swamping clinicians with more data is not the answer to improve healthcare. Extra data may contain useful insights, but these are needles in a haystack without the necessary AI tooling to extract them into human-understandable observations.

“Orchestral delivers exactly that, enabling healthcare providers to harness AI’s full potential. Its potential impact on global health is comparable to the transformative shifts brought about by antibiotics, modern hygiene, and other breakthrough public health innovations,” says McCrae.

Lucy Porter, CEO of Orchestral, highlighted the unsustainable pressures on U.S. and global health systems, including rising costs, workforce burnout, and error risks.

“Right now, up to 15% of diagnoses globally are estimated to be inaccurate, delayed or wrong[1]. This has huge implications for patients and is estimated to create a financial burden equivalent to 17.5% of total healthcare expenditure in OECD nations[2].

“Everyone is turning to AI to solve these issues. But what we see today is unworkable AI chaos – pilots and point solutions with no clear path to safe, widespread deployment.

“Without a dedicated health AI orchestrator, rapidly scaling AI remains virtually impossible. Orchestral fills this critical gap, serving as the trusted source of truth for models, tools, and data connections that teams rely on to deliver better care.

“We’re building the foundation that lets entire health ecosystems learn, adapt, and thrive in the age of agentic AI. We’re here to turn the world’s scattered health data into life-saving insight that’s trusted, explainable, and ready when it matters most,” says Porter. 

Orchestral has been built upon decades of clinical data storage engineering, initially within Orion Health and then, more recently, spun out into McCrae Tech as a standalone company because of the magnitude of this project.

What has emerged is a genuinely world-first product, defining a new category in health technology.

About McCrae Tech

McCrae Tech is a 100% New Zealand-owned innovation lab from the founders of Orion Health. It builds specialist health tech designed for clinical complexity, combining three decades of experience building health software that supports millions of lives, with the speed and agility of a start-up.
www.mccrae.tech

About Orchestral

Orchestral is the world’s first health AI orchestrator and is reshaping the future of healthcare with AI. It seamlessly connects diverse data sources with AI agents, workflows, and algorithms – enabling scalable, governed AI deployment across healthcare systems. 
www.orchestral.co

[1] The economics of diagnostic safety | OECD

[2] The economics of diagnostic safety | OECD

 

Xojo 2025r3 Delivers Major Updates, New Libraries Feature, Integrated AI Assistant, and Modern OS Support

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Xojo, Inc., the developers behind Xojo—a powerful cross-platform development tool and programming language— announce the immediate availability of Xojo 2025 Release 3, a significant update that expands platform compatibility, introduces powerful new development tools and enhances performance across Desktop, Web, Console, iOS and Android.

This release adds official support for macOS Tahoe 26 and iOS 26, including Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface technologies, ensuring developers can confidently build and deploy apps on the latest operating systems.

Xojo 2025r3 debuts Libraries, a major enhancement to the IDE that allows developers to package and reuse compiled classes and interface elements across Desktop, Web, Console and iOS projects. Libraries make sharing and versioning custom functionality easier and faster.

The IDE also introduces Jade, Xojo’s new integrated AI assistant. Jade helps developers write code more efficiently, suggest improvements and accelerate learning directly from inside the Xojo environment. “Xojo 2025r3 is one of our most forward-looking releases yet. With Libraries, modern platform support and our new AI assistant Jade, we’re giving developers powerful tools that help them work faster, build smarter and deliver great apps on every platform,” says Geoff Perlman, Xojo’s Founder and CEO.

New Features and Updates:

  • Support for macOS Tahoe 26 and iOS 26
  • IDE now supports Libraries for Desktop, Web, Console and iOS projects
  • IDE now has an AI assistant, called Jade
  • Added DesktopGrid control
  • Multiple WebListBox improvements
  • Web now uses Bootstrap v5.3.7 and Bootstrap Icons v1.13.1
  • Added Passkeys/WebAuth support for web apps
  • Windows DesktopXAMLContainer improvements
  • Expanded WinUI-backed controls
  • Several Crypto enhancements
  • Improved color settings for layouts and controls on iOS and Android
  • Android Support for PDFDocument
  • Android now uses Kotlin2.2.20 and targets Android 16 (SDK 36)

About Xojo
Xojo is a cross-platform development tool for building native apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, the web and Raspberry Pi. For over 25 years, Xojo has supported a growing community of developers passionate about creating powerful applications with ease. Learn more at xojo.com. Download Xojo 2025 Release 3 at xojo.com/download.

Availability
Xojo is free for learning and development, as well as for building apps for Linux and Raspberry Pi. Paid licenses start at $499 for cross-platform Desktop, Mobile, or Web development. Xojo Pro and Pro Plus licenses, starting at $999, offer additional support and resources for professional developers. Special licensing is available for educators and students. Visit xojo.com/store for details.

TraceLink Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2025 Vendor Assessment

BOSTON, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink, the largest end-to-end digital network platform for intelligent orchestration of the supply chain, has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Commerce Network 2025 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US53010225, November 2025). TraceLink views its placement as a Leader as consistent with the company’s commitment to enabling organizations to build and orchestrate multi-enterprise processes through an industrial, open, no-code digital network platform.

IDC MarketScape Highlights the OPUS Platform
According to the report: “Its Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS) Digital Network Platform is an open platform that provides low-code application development services that enable TraceLink and third parties to easily create multi-enterprise applications that enable the creation of digital networks that link companies, people, processes, and systems together around a common business purpose.”

TraceLink’s MINT, POET, and track‑and‑trace solutions deliver proven customer and trading partner value independently. But when unified on the OPUS platform, they exponentially multiply that impact, empowering organizations to work more efficiently with their trading partners, resolve issues faster, improve data quality, and maintain global compliance—all while lowering costs and accelerating supply chain performance.

“OPUS began as a bold idea: that life sciences supply chains need a shared, digital foundation where companies could work together with clarity, speed, and trust,” said Shabbir Dahod, President & CEO of TraceLink. “We believe this IDC MarketScape report reflects how that vision is taking shape uniquely at TraceLink. With OPUS now evolving into an agentic orchestration platform, organizations can link data, decisions, and partners across their ecosystems, enabling a fundamentally new way for supply chains to operate. There is no other supply chain platform in the world that possesses similar capability or value to OPUS.”

OPUS Drives Measurable Customer Value and Operational Efficiency
TraceLink’s OPUS platform enables life sciences and healthcare organizations to build a real-time digital network foundation and safely scale agentic automation across their supply chains. Powered by TraceLink’s industrial GxP platform and Business-to-Network Integrate-Once™ architecture, OPUS unifies trading partners, harmonizes data, and orchestrates shared processes across the entire supply ecosystem.

With OPUS, companies can accelerate partner onboarding and collaboration, digitalize previously manual and spreadsheet-driven coordination, and strengthen compliance and visibility through governed, real-time data enriched by TraceLink’s metadata framework. OPUS will also allow organizations to design and deploy digital teammates using no-code tools—enabling AI agents to monitor processes, reconcile information, and manage exceptions quickly, consistently, and with human-in-the-loop oversight.

By combining a secure digital network foundation with adaptive no-code agentic innovation, OPUS helps companies modernize collaboration, streamline operations, and improve product availability—resulting in a more resilient, intelligent supply chain built for speed, trust, and continuous improvement.

IDC MarketScape Highlights TraceLink’s Business-to-Network Integrate-Once™ Approach
The report further notes about OPUS: “It is an end-to-end digital supply network creation platform that enables integration with internal systems and trade partners and leverages TraceLink’s proven ‘Integrate Once, Interoperate with Everyone’ information exchange model.”

Unlike traditional point-to-point integrations that require separate connections for every partner, TraceLink’s Business-to-Network Integrate-Once™ model allows companies to link once and collaborate consistently across their entire ecosystem. Consistent with the report’s observation, this approach helps organizations achieve faster partner onboarding, greater interoperability, and real-time visibility across multi-enterprise processes—key to driving supply chain responsiveness and efficiency.

IDC Analyst Perspective
“As companies accelerate their shift toward digitally connected, multi-enterprise supply networks, the ability to orchestrate processes and integrate partners at scale has become essential,” said Reid Paquin, Research Vice President, Industry Ecosystems & Business Networks, IDC. “TraceLink’s platform approach, with its no-code tools and multi-enterprise process capabilities, aligns well with the needs of organizations aiming to modernize collaboration, visibility, and responsiveness across their supply chains.”

To explore the full scope of TraceLink’s platform and product innovations, please visit www.tracelink.com.

Frequently Asked Questions 

Q: What is the IDC MarketScape report about?
A: The IDC MarketScape evaluates technology vendors that provide multi-enterprise supply chain commerce network capabilities. It assesses how platforms support integration, collaboration, orchestration, and digital process execution across partner networks.

Q: How do organizations use TraceLink’s OPUS platform?
A: Organizations use OPUS to improve partner interoperability, streamline shared workflows, enhance product visibility, and reduce manual effort across critical supply chain processes.

Q: How is OPUS evolving with agentic orchestration?
A: OPUS is advancing into an agentic orchestration platform where intelligent agents work alongside people to coordinate decisions, actions, and data across partner networks, enabling new levels of agility and responsiveness.

About TraceLink
TraceLink Inc. is the largest end-to-end intelligent supply chain platform for life sciences and healthcare, enabling end-to-end orchestration by linking more than 291,000 healthcare and life sciences entities through its Business-to-Network Integrate-Once™ network. Leading companies trust TraceLink to deliver complete global digitalization, visibility, and traceability of healthcare products, ensuring that every patient receives the medicines they rely on, safely, securely, and on time. 

About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

The First World Skills Youth Camp Successfully Held in Ningbo

NINGBO, China, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — From December 1 to 5, the inaugural World Skills Youth Camp was successfully held in Ningbo, co-organized by the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) and Ningbo Polytechnic University.

Themed “Youth Skills, Green Future: Together Shall We Find a Way”, the camp brought together 60 young participants from 28 countries worldwide, including Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Ethiopia.

Group photo of guests and participants at the World Skills Youth Camp
Group photo of guests and participants at the World Skills Youth Camp

The curriculum placed strong emphasis on methodological guidance. In a featured session, instructor Wang Yi systematically introduced a three-stage innovation methodology— “Imagining & Connecting, Filtering & Expanding, Verifying & Extending” —helping participants develop a structured approach to transforming creative ideas into tangible outcomes. Ida Goldacker, a participant from Germany, shared, “I now understand that innovation isn’t just about inspiration—it’s a logical process that can be learned and broken down step by step.”

To deeply integrate theory with practice, participants visited Zeekr Smart Factory (Meishan). The highly automated and intelligent production line offered a vivid, tangible glimpse into “smart manufacturing”. Jean Charles Dondo from Zimbabwe remarked, “This isn’t just an automobile factory—it’s a microcosm of future industry.”

The Event also prioritized emotional connection and cultural exchange to foster mutual understanding. Participants toured iconic cultural sites such as the Ningbo Museum and Tianyi Pavilion, experienced traditional lacquer art craftsmanship, and collaboratively created a lacquer painting titled “Lotus • Connection”, which they presented as a gift to the university. At the closing ceremony, youth from diverse nations joined voices in a bilingual (Chinese-English) performance of the song “You and Me”. Dilnaz Turdalina from Kazakhstan reflected, “When we sang together in harmony, I felt a warmth and unity that transcended national borders.”

Through a multidimensional program encompassing academic lectures, industry-academia-research integration experience, cultural immersion, and hands-on skills workshops, the Camp not only deepened international youth’s understanding of vocational education and industrial development but also built a bridge for cross-cultural communication, collaboration, and friendship—centered on skills. This initiative represents a meaningful contribution toward nurturing globally minded, multi-skilled youth and advancing the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals.