WOOSTER, Ohio, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PRC-Saltillo, a pioneer and global leader in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), announces the global launch of the Genesis product line, a new generation of communication devices designed to expand communication possibilities for adults, teens, and children with acquired or long-term complex communication needs, including ALS and cerebral palsy.

The Genesis product line debuts with two highly customisable Windows®-based AAC solutions: the Genesis 13 (13-inch) and the Genesis 16 (16-inch). Backed by 60 years of engineering, clinical, linguistic, and communicator expertise, Genesis is designed to help communicators make the most of every opportunity with thoughtful design, access flexibility, and familiar tools that support everyday communication.

“Innovation is meaningful when it helps people connect more fully with the world around them,” said Sarah Wilds, CEO. “Genesis brings together thoughtful design, state of the art durability, and personalisation to open new possibilities for communicators across the global AAC community.”

Designed around real-world communication needs

Genesis 13 and Genesis 16 include features designed to support independence, clarity, connection, and comfort across everyday environments.  The new devices offer expansive, vibrant screens, a 7.62 centimeter (3-inch) angled partner display, customisable quick access controls, surround-style audio from front- and rear-facing speakers, a multi-angle kickstand, larger power and volume buttons, long-lasting battery life, and generous storage capacity.

Flexible access and personalisation

Genesis solutions can be customised to fit each communicator’s body, access method, routines, and style. Access options include an advanced eye tracker with improved outdoor performance, a head tracker, wireless and wired switches with two switch-scanning ports, TouchGuides, and keyguards. Communicators can also personalise their device with an all-black design, ten frame colours, a cushioned backpack, and heavy-duty mount options.

Familiar tools, trusted support

Genesis makes the transition to a new device feel familiar with many of the features and tools PRC-Saltillo customers already use and trust. Every Genesis device supports robust vocabulary options, including Unity®/Unidad®, LAMP Words for Life®, Essence®, WordPower®, CoreScanner™, and more, along with a Windows-based platform and Empower® and/or NuVoice® software for familiar navigation and a seamless transition.

Every Genesis device also includes PRC-Saltillo support for communicators and communication partners.

Join the Global New Possibilities Tour

To celebrate the global launch of Genesis, PRC-Saltillo is taking the New Possibilities Tour around the world, giving communicators, families, and professionals the opportunity to explore Genesis firsthand and discover what the new devices can do.

Genesis trial and purchased devices will start shipping in the U.S. in October. PRC-Saltillo AAC Consultants are available to share Genesis product information, answer insurance funding questions, and support customers as they begin something extraordinary. Customers outside the U.S. may contact their local PRC-Saltillo subsidiary to learn more about Genesis options in their region.

About PRC-Saltillo

Founded in 1966, PRC-Saltillo is a pioneer and global leader in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology for individuals with complex communication needs. The company offers a full range of speech-generating devices, industry-leading AAC apps, and research-based vocabulary systems. PRC-Saltillo is 100% employee-owned and headquartered in Wooster, Ohio, USA, with subsidiaries in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Collaboration introduces a flexible ground architecture that enhances efficiency, enables multi‑orbit operations, and supports operators’ modernization strategies across the region

HERNDON, Va., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ST Engineering iDirect, a leader in satellite communications, is powering leading satcom integrator and service provider Datacom with its Intuition ground system, enabling Datacom to deliver cloud‑native services for satellite operators across the Asia Pacific region. Intuition improves bandwidth efficiency, enables multi‑orbit operations, accelerates network modernization without vendor lock‑in, and introduces a flexible bring‑your‑own‑hardware architecture.

As operators face unprecedented growth in data demand and the operational complexity of hybrid GEO and NGSO networks, ST Engineering iDirect is enabling Datacom to set a new benchmark for ground operations in the region. The deployment of Intuition supports Datacom’s Satellite Modernization Blueprint, a scalable, repeatable framework designed to help operators transition to software‑defined, cloud‑native architectures. Through moving away from traditional five‑ to ten‑year hardware migration cycles, Datacom will enable its customers to achieve immediate agility, faster service activation, and more efficient use of network resources.

“Intuition gives Datacom a cloud-native foundation that unlocks immediate efficiency gains, faster service activation, and the flexibility operators need as they move into multi‑orbit architectures. This partnership accelerates modernization by removing hardware constraints and enabling a software defined operating model built for the next decade of satellite services,” said Sridhar Kuppanna, CEO, ST Engineering iDirect.

Representing an evolution in the orchestration model, ST Engineering iDirect is equipping Datacom to manage hardware procurement, full lifecycle services, and ground segment integration. Intuition’s advanced resource management—including Global Bandwidth Management, the Mx-DMA MRC waveform, and automated resource orchestration—maximizes spectrum throughput and simplifies operations. Combined with the elimination of proprietary hardware premiums, these efficiencies target double‑digit reductions in total cost of ownership for Datacom’s customers.

ST Engineering iDirect will support Datacom’s transition by providing Intuition under a subscription model, along with technical enablement, validation testing, and ongoing lifecycle support. Intuition will initially be deployed across multiple gateways to support a large installed base of maritime terminals, with the critical capability to roam between the customers’ existing and Intuition networks.

“By moving to a cloud-native, software-defined environment, we’re giving our customers immediate agility and the ability to evolve without the limitations of traditional hardware cycles. This deployment is the foundation of our Satellite Modernization Blueprint—a scalable model that helps operators increase efficiency, optimize bandwidth, and compete in a multi‑orbit future,” said Boris Ng, CEO, Datacom System International.

With Intuition creating a pathway toward advanced architectures including 5G Non‑Terrestrial Networks, edge compute integration, and AI‑assisted operational workflows, Datacom and its customers are well positioned for long‑term competitiveness in a multi‑orbit environment.

ST Engineering iDirect, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is a global leader in satellite communications (satcom) providing technology and solutions that enable its customers to expand their business, differentiate their services and optimize their satcom networks. With over 40 years of delivering innovation focused on solving satellite’s most critical economic and technology challenges we are committed to shaping the future of how the world connects. The product portfolio, branded iDirect, represents the highest standards in performance, efficiency and reliability, making it possible for its customers to deliver the best satcom connectivity experience anywhere in the world. ST Engineering iDirect is a leader in key industries including mobility, broadcast and military/government. In 2007, iDirect Government was formed to better serve the U.S. government and defense communities. For more information visit www.idirect.net.

SINGAPORE, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — APEX Bootcamp: RealRelay Edition ran in Singapore on 12 and 13 September 2026, organised by the Digital Defence Alliance Singapore (DDAS) and co-hosted by CWG Innovations, a partner company of Edvance International. It was open to students and young working adults with no prior technical or AI experience. Over two days, teams designed an AI agent and built it on RealRelay.

The programme ran on the same platform a school would use. RealRelay was built for education first, and the two days compressed a cycle that a teacher and a class would normally work through over a term.

Who was in the room, and what they built

The first edition was oversubscribed within days. For this edition, participants were selected against three criteria: they were already serious about AI, they arrived with an idea of their own, and they wanted the two days to build it rather than hear about it.

Mr Aaron Ang, Regional Director at CWG, mentored the teams himself and took them through it in stages. By the end of the two days every team had a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP) AI agent.

“Before this I was jumping between four or five different AI tools and spending more time googling which model was supposed to be good for what than actually building. RealRelay put all of it in one place, so I could stop thinking about the tools and start thinking about the problem we were trying to solve. By the end of day two I had an agent that actually did something, and I built it myself.”

Lim Ying Yi Chloe, Year 2 Big Data and Analytics, Temasek Polytechnic

Participants were also impressed by the way RealRelay handles cyber and AI security. Those protections sit inside the platform, so the checks happen while the agent is being built rather than at the end, and that is key to building a good agent.

One platform, over 300 models

RealRelay is an agentic AI platform that aggregates over 300 mainstream AI models behind a single interface. Its agents are built from functional modules for information retrieval, courseware generation, email processing, business data analysis and team collaboration. Users describe what they need in natural language to create, publish and share custom agents on the platform. RealRelay will also support agent trading, so people can monetise what they build.

Built for the classroom, and more

Education is where RealRelay started. The goal was a full ecosystem rather than a standalone tool, so that students across disciplines can develop agentic AI solutions for their own fields. Teaching, collaboration and assessment run as a closed loop entirely on the platform. Lecturers take part in the whole development process, offering guidance and supporting iterations while the work is happening, instead of grading only the finished deliverable.

A dedicated teaching-analytics module sits underneath it. The module analyses classroom recordings and student learning data so teachers can read the state of a class in real time and identify where individual students are weak, which makes differentiated instruction practical rather than aspirational.

All of it runs under the same governance as the rest of the platform. The school controls permissions, security, auditing, retention and access centrally, class by class or department by department.

Education is the first of several verticals. The team is already building out cybersecurity, with fintech to follow, and after that the industries its own market research has flagged as the ones where agentic AI pays off earliest. Each vertical is built the same way: functional modules shaped around how that industry actually works, on the same platform and under the same governance.

Security built into the platform

Conventional AI platforms leave security testing to a separate purchase. A penetration testing vendor, a scanner, a red team and an auditor. That is four suppliers, four data agreements, and findings that arrive weeks after the work.

RealRelay keeps it inside one boundary. Build, test and govern sit on the same platform, with one supplier, data that never leaves, and findings that surface while the agent is running.

Within an organisation’s authorised scope, the security agent conducts a five-stage assessment covering more than 20 vulnerability categories: surface, identity, input, logic and proof. Unlike traditional tools, it carries out practical vulnerability exploitation before it generates a report. Outputs are risk ratings, reproduction evidence and remediation guidance. Once fixes are deployed, automatic re-testing and record keeping close the loop.

The loop re-arms every time an agent changes, which matters because agentic systems change faster than any assessment schedule can follow. The platform runs in cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployments, and customers can hold their own keys and connect local models, so the engine sits wherever the data is allowed to be.

Because agent development and security validation are completed in a single closed-loop environment, there is no need to integrate multiple systems and vendors, and the coordination and compliance costs that come with them fall away.

Edvance International’s security DNA

Edvance International is a leading cybersecurity solutions distributor in Hong Kong with more than 20 years in the field, and has been applying that experience where artificial intelligence and cybersecurity meet.

Agents at scale create risks that conventional security methods do not cover, across creation, distribution and runtime. Supply chain exposure, data governance, and protection that cannot keep pace with iteration are problems an organisation meets as soon as it starts building agentic AI.

Against that backdrop, together with CWG Innovations, Edvance International has taken years of hands-on attack and defence experience and risk-governance practice and embedded them deep in RealRelay’s underlying architecture. Security protection moves from post-incident remediation to the product-design phase, with threat identification, vulnerability validation and closed-loop remediation running through the whole chain of agent building, testing and governance. Security becomes an innate capability of an AI agent rather than a retrofitted patch.

Exploring Climate Resilience and Ecological Symbiosis – Advancing Education for Sustainable Development
Sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Jointly Organized by Earth Environmental Foundation and Chengdu University of Information Technology

HONG KONG, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Earth Environmental Foundation (EEF) hosted a successful “EEF Western Sichuan ‘Resilience & Symbiosis’ Interdisciplinary Field Study Camp” Sharing Session cum Press Conference last Saturday (12 September). The event celebrated the outcomes of this year’s Camp, continued EEF’s “School ESG Ambassador Programme” (SESGAP), and featured inspiring discussions on climate change, resilience, and ecological symbiosis, as well as cross-border collaboration between Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland. The sharing session brought together students, educators, government officials and industry leaders to reflect on the Camp’s impact and chart future directions for youth empowerment in environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

The Camp was sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club and jointly organized by the Earth Environmental Foundation and Chengdu University of Information Technology, with the PolyU-BGI Joint Research Centre for Genomics and Synthetic Biology in Global Ocean Resources and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science Education Association as co-organising partners. The seven-day Camp, held from 4 to 10 July 2026, engaged around 50 teachers and students from five secondary schools in Hong Kong and Macau – South Tuen Mun Government Secondary School, Pui Ching Middle School (Macau), Tang Shiu Kin Victoria Government Secondary School, G.T. (Ellen Yeung) College, and Cheng Chek Chee Secondary School of Sai Kung & Hang Hau District, N.T. – together with Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT), in immersive interdisciplinary fieldwork across Chengdu and the western Sichuan plateau. Drawing on geography, architecture, ecology and social science, participants visited CUIT, Sichuan University, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, Taoping Qiang Village, Xuecheng, and Yanwozhai Village in Songpinggou. Through smart meteorology courses, emergency disaster-response drills, and intangible-heritage Qiang embroidery workshops, students explored the earthquake-resistant architectural wisdom of the Qiang people, while a study of the horse-caravan (“mabang”) culture of Yanwozhai Village – covering equine behaviour, highland horse-taming techniques, and high-altitude patrols under Leave-No-Trace principles – deepened their appreciation of the symbiotic relationship between humans, horses, and nature.

Representatives from the five participating schools shared their firsthand experiences from the Camp. Students from EEF’s “School ESG Ambassador Programme” also shared their ongoing sustainability projects, followed by an update from Mr. Andrew TSANG, Chief ESG Development Officer of EEF, on the programme’s next phase.

Distinguished guests delivered keynote remarks and speeches, emphasising the event’s alignment with broader conservation and educational development goals.

The Hon Dennis LEUNG Tsz-wing, MH, Legislative Council Member, HKSAR, hoped: “Hong Kong’s primary and secondary school curricula can establish a more professional and enriched framework for environmental education, sustainable development education, and ESG education.”

The Hon Jonathan CHAN Pok-chi, MH, JP, Legislative Council Member, HKSAR, said: “I hope that, going forward, through positive interaction between the Government and the Legislative Council, together with civil society, academia, and organisations with a shared vision, we can achieve even more outstanding results.”

Mr. CHAN Kin Fung, Simon, Assistant Director (Conservation) of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, HKSARG, said: “The Government has launched Hong Kong’s Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2035, which sets out very clear, long-term goals for Hong Kong’s biodiversity work over the next decade, with particular emphasis on participation by the whole community.”

Mr. CHEUNG Ki-tang, Jack, MH, Member of Kwun Tong District Council, encouraged the students: “I hope all of you will dream bigger about your future, and not limit yourselves.”

Prof. LEE Ming-yuen, Simon, Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, delivered a keynote titled “Resilience and Symbiosis, Nature’s Gift to Us: A Journey of New Drug Discovery from Mangrove Microbes to Corals,” in which he elaborated on new research methods and trends in biomedical science.

Associate Prof. KANG Ping, of the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Chengdu University of Information Technology, shared: “Resilience teaches us to understand and adapt to our environment amid change, and to find new paths through challenges; symbiosis teaches us that humans and nature are not opposing forces, but grow together through mutual respect.”

Dr. TSUI Yun Pui, Joseph, Chairman and CEO of EEF, said: “EEF’s philosophy is to advance environmental protection through technology and innovation, and to connect the world through education and practice – and this Western Sichuan journey is a true embodiment of that education and practice in action.”

The event underscored three key benefits. Firstly, the practical application of environmental stewardship and disaster-resilience knowledge through hands-on fieldwork. Secondly, the cultivation of students’ leadership and cross-cultural competencies through direct engagement with Qiang heritage, panda conservation, and highland ecology. And thirdly, the strengthening of cross-border educational ties between Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland in support of Greater Bay Area development and sustainable, nature-based solutions.

The Camp was sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club and jointly organized by the Earth Environmental Foundation and Chengdu University of Information Technology. The earlier opening ceremony in Sichuan was attended by representatives from the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government. The Camp received extensive media coverage, including from Xinhua News Agency, China News Service, Sichuan Education Television, and Qiangguo Hao.

Other co-organizers include the PolyU-BGI Joint Research Centre for Genomics and Synthetic Biology in Global Ocean Resources, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science Education Association. Supporting organisations include the International Institute of Management, Global Universities Alumni Union, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified ESG Strategists, the Hong Kong Association of Financial Advisors, Hong Kong Engineering Associations Alliance, Hong Kong Institution of Building and Services Engineers, Hong Kong Society of Engineering Professionals, the Association of Chinese Internal Auditors, the University of Macau (Hong Kong) Alumni Association, and the Firefly Conservation Foundation.