Home Blog Page 1611

“Marishi Fuji” Wins Grand Gold Prize at the World Green Tea Contest 2025

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Phenimax, a specialty tea retailer devoted to premium organic Japanese teas, is proud to announce a significant achievement. Its flagship organic Temomicha (Hand-rolled Japanese Tea), “Marishi Fuji,” has received the Grand Gold Prize, the highest honor at the World Green Tea Contest 2025 in Shizuoka, Japan.

Phenimax LLC._MarishiFuji
Phenimax LLC._MarishiFuji

This prestigious recognition reaffirms the unparalleled quality of Marishi Fuji, a premium hand-rolled Japanese tea crafted from organic Marishi leaves. Earlier this year, it achieved the highest bidding price at Japan’s first green tea auction of the season in May, earning significant acclaim both domestically and internationally. Phenimax also submitted Marishi Fuji to leading international competitions, including the Japanese Tea Selection Paris in France (currently under review).

Phenimax will release a Marishi Fuji Temomicha Set, an exquisite, limited-edition that unites the award-winning Marishi Fuji, a bespoke Arita ware tea set, and traditional Wasanbon confectionery. With only ten sets available, each represents a rare opportunity to experience Japan’s finest artistry. Pricing is available upon individual inquiry, and the set serves as a truly distinguished gift for special occasions.

For details on the “Marishi Fuji Temomicha Set”: https://phenimax.com/pages/world-green-tea-contest-2025-entry

For “Marishi Fuji Temomicha Set” Inquiry: https://phenimax.com/pages/marishi-fuji-purchase-inquiry

Preserving a 400-Year Tradition: Temomicha (Hand-rolled Japanese Tea)

Phenimax is not merely a purveyor of organic teas. We are devoted to preserving and sharing with the world the most exquisite and rare premium green teas, meticulously crafted using the Temomi (hand-rolling) method. This traditional technique, with a history of more than 400 years, was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Japan in 2024. Each batch is hand-rolled for over eight hours after harvest, resulting in a tea of remarkable depth and refinement. Among our offerings is the award-winning Marishi Fuji, part of a collection produced only in limited quantities.

The Secret Behind the Legendary Marishi Cultivar

The Marishi Fuji tea, honored with the Grand Gold Prize, offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It is crafted from the elusive Marishi cultivar, a legendary and exceptionally rare strain cherished by connoisseurs.

Unlike the neatly trimmed, dome-shaped rows found in most commercial tea fields, the Marishi tea plants grow freely in a gentle, tree-like form. This natural growth allows sunlight to reach every leaf evenly, nurturing the development of leaves of exceptional quality. Each leaf is cultivated organically and carefully hand-picked, one by one. Only the tender new bud and the two young leaves that have just opened—known as Ichishin Niyo (“one bud, two leaves”)—are selected.

In contrast, most teas on the market are machine-harvested, often including stems and tougher leaves. The meticulous hand-picking process used for Marishi Fuji ensures unparalleled flavor and refinement. These uncompromising standards in cultivation and harvesting are key reasons the tea achieved the highest bidding price and widespread acclaim at this year’s first tea auction.

“Wholefood” Organic Matcha (Under the “Unicross” Brand)

Phenimax is also expanding its offerings with globally rare and innovative organic matcha products. Phenimax has commenced pre-orders for its Japanese Wholefood Organic Matcha. In today’s global market, over 90% of matcha is produced using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, artificially creating a vibrant green color. Phenimax challenges this norm by offering matcha that is not only organic but also Wholefood. Typical matcha sold worldwide removes the leaf veins, stripping away most of the nutrients. Phenimax’s proprietary technology finely grinds the entire leaf, including veins, down to a silky powder, delivering the complete nutritional profile. Additionally, Phenimax has developed the world’s only Japanese Wholefood Organic GABA Matcha (as of October 2025), which boasts an elevated GABA content through special technology. Pre-orders for both are now available.

Organic 100% Uji Matcha – The Rarest of the Rare

For true connoisseurs of ceremonial-grade matcha, Phenimax proudly presents an exceptional creation: organic matcha made exclusively from tea leaves grown in the historic Uji region of Kyoto.

Uji has long been celebrated as the birthplace of Japan’s finest tea, yet it now accounts for only about 4% of the nation’s total production. Under the official definition of Uji teas in Japan, teas blended with leaves from neighboring prefectures such as Mie, Nara, or Gifu may still be sold as “Uji matcha.” As a result, nearly all so-called “Uji” matcha on the market is blended.

Phenimax’s matcha is different. Ours is a true organic 100% Uji matcha—pure, authentic, and almost impossible to find, even in Japan. Limited quantities are now available.

Learn more about our Organic Matcha here: https://phenimax.com/pages/the-hidden-truth-about-matcha

Phenimax LLC._OrganicMatchaProducts
Phenimax LLC._OrganicMatchaProducts

Phenimax – Redefining the Future of Japanese Tea

From one-of-a-kind hand-rolled teas like Marishi Fuji to our collection of organic 100% Uji matcha, wholefood organic matcha, and wholefood organic GABA matcha, Phenimax unites centuries of Japanese craftsmanship with contemporary refinement. Each creation embodies the spirit of purity, patience, and perfection that defines authentic Japanese tea.
Experience the art of tea at its highest form. available through our official website and private inquiry.

Website: https://phenimax.com

Andika Rama Makes Triumphant Comeback to Win TGR Asia Esports GT Championship 2025 as Indonesia Clinches Country Title

The Indonesian driver previously claimed the TGR Asia Esports GT Championship title in 2023

BANGKOK, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) Asia Esports GT Championship 2025 concluded at Toyota Alive Space, Bangkok, where fifteen of Asia’s top sim drivers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand competed across three high-intensity races in Gran Turismo 7.

On the podium, Andika Rama (champion), first runner-up Moreno Pratama and second runner-up Chong Kai Chang
On the podium, Andika Rama (champion), first runner-up Moreno Pratama and second runner-up Chong Kai Chang

The championship kicked off with five striking livery designs, each representing the participating countries, bringing vibrancy and identity to the track.

In the individual category, Indonesia’s Andika Rama claimed the top podium spot with a total of 74 points, demonstrating precision, focus, and adherence to his race strategy. First runner-up Moreno Pratama, also from Indonesia, finished with 62 points, while Malaysia’s Chong Kai Chang secured second runner-up with 59 points.

With two drivers on the podium, Indonesia accumulated 169 points across Andika Rama, Farizi Pramaditya, and Moreno Pratama, clinching the Country Championship. Malaysia and Singapore followed in second and third place, earning 151 and 93 points respectively, highlighting consistent performance and strong teamwork over the three races.

Race Highlights

The Suzuka circuit set the tone for an electrifying opening race, with drivers pushing the GR Yaris through its iconic bends and high-speed straights. As the only circuit with wet conditions, the race difficulty was further elevated when an unexpectedly heavy downpour hit the track, turning every lap into a test of reflexes and composure. Drivers had to carefully select and manage their tire compounds, balancing grip and durability to navigate the slippery surfaces, while timing their pit stops strategically to maintain pace without losing precious seconds.

Malaysian frontrunner Taj Aiman seized an early lead, but the spotlight soon shifted to a fierce three-way battle as Andika Rama with Malaysia’s Chong Kai Chang and Iqbal Suji, fought for the podium positions. Spectators were kept on edge as the trio fought corner-to-corner in the slick conditions.

In the final laps, Andika Rama executed a decisive charge to claim victory. Following closely behind were compatriot Moreno Pratama and Chong Kai Chang in second and third place respectively. Despite leading six out of seven laps, Taj Aiman slipped to fourth position after grappling with unfortunate tire issues, marking a dramatic Malaysian-to-Indonesian shift at the top of the results.

The Interlagos leg — the longest circuit yet at 21 laps, nearly three times the length of Suzuka — unfolded under a dramatic day-to-night transition, adding endurance-style complexity to the competition. This was also the first time in the Championship’s history that a full team format race was introduced.

Each team fielded three drivers in the GR010 Hybrid and had to execute two compulsory driver swaps at any point in the race.

This flexible open format placed immense pressure on real-time calls: pitstop strategies, tire management, energy conservation, and maintaining pace as track conditions shifted.

Malaysia, led by opening driver Taj Aiman, established an early advantage, with Singapore’s Fadtris Isa and the Indonesian team trailing close behind. Indonesia and Singapore demonstrated exceptional tire management, stretching their stints and minimising pitstops, while Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand cycled through more sets of tires — a choice that would shape the race’s mid-section.

As dusk settled over the Interlagos at Lap 15, Malaysia seized the pit-stop window: Iqbal Suji, the team’s third driver, rejoined the track just as Singapore and Indonesia pitted, reclaiming the lead. By Lap 16, the differing strategies had created a 17-second gap between Singapore and Malaysia.

Malaysia’s carefully timed swaps and teamwork allowed them to extend their advantage in the final laps, ultimately securing first place. Indonesia’s strategy and consistency through evolving conditions earned them second place, while Singapore held strong to claim third.

The final showdown at Watkins Glen unfolded over 14 intense laps, demanding razor-sharp precision and split-second decision-making. Racing in the GR Supra Race Car ’19, Indonesia and Malaysia set the early pace, with Andika Rama continuing his momentum from Suzuka. The field remained incredibly tight, with nearly all drivers separated by less than a second from each other.

A bold early pitstop by the Malaysian team propelled them into the top three by Lap 9. But their strategy came at a cost — rapid tire degradation on the soft compounds forced an additional stop just three laps later to switch onto mediums, opening the door for Indonesia to fight their way back to leading positions.

Singapore’s Fadtris Isa delivered one of the race’s standout moments, climbing into second place and closing in on race leader Andika Rama. His charge briefly reshuffled the leaderboard and kept both Indonesia and Malaysia on alert.

In the final laps, Andika Rama’s precise racecraft and disciplined strategy secured his second individual win of the night, with teammate Moreno Pratama crossing the line in second. Malaysia’s Chong Kai Chang staged an impressive comeback of his own, climbing from seventh to third after his second pit stop — overtaking four competitors in a decisive late-race push to claim the final podium spot at Watkins Glen.

“This year’s TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship showcased exactly what the TGR philosophy stands for,” said Jaja Ishibashi, General Manager of Toyota Motor Asia. “Every racer pushed their limits, refined their approach, and demonstrated remarkable composure across changing conditions. Beyond the results, what stood out most was the collective commitment to improvement and teamwork. These are values that continue to drive GAZOO Racing forward.”

Responding to his win at the championships — his second TGR Asia Esports GT Championship title since 2023, Andika Rama commented, “Winning the 2025 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship is the result of months of preparation and sticking to our race strategies, even as other teams pushed hard and made aggressive pit calls. We focused on refining our approach lap by lap, adjusting in real time while remaining true to our plan. Each corner, each tire change, and each overtaking decision was an opportunity to improve. Seeing our strategy pay off and being crowned Asia’s champion again gives us an incredible sense of pride.”

Echoing Andika Rama’s sentiments, first runner-up Moreno Pratama added, “Competing against the top drivers in Asia was definitely a challenge. Every race tested my focus, adaptability, and determination. Teamwork was evident in every lap for every one of us. In such races, it is not just about speed, but about evolving and supporting one another. I’m proud to have pushed myself to the limit and to have earned a podium finish at the Asia Finals.”

Following his strong performance, second runner-up Chong Kai Chang shared, “Finishing third is bittersweet. I came in aiming for the championship, but earning my first podium spot at the Asia Finals is still a meaningful achievement. Racing against Asia’s best pushes me to keep improving, and I look forward to better accomplishments in my next races.”

Special awards were also given in recognition of drivers’ exceptional performances, with Andika Rama clinching Driver of the Day, Malaysia’s Chong Kai Chang taking home Best Racecraft Driver and Singapore’s Fadtris Isa winning Fastest Race Pace.

The positions were determined from cumulative points earned through finishing positions across all three races, with bonus points for the fastest laps in each of the three races. The top three individuals and teams each received a cash prize of USD 8,000, USD 4,500 and USD 3,000 respectively.

To re-watch the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship 2025, please click here.

Hi-res images of event and livery may be downloaded here

Appendix

Winners & Prizes

Individual Championship

Winner

Prize

Name

Points

1st Place

USD 8,000

Andika Rama Maulana (IND)

74

2nd Place

USD 4,500

Moreno Pratama (IND)

62

3rd Place

USD 3,000

Chong Kai Chang (MY)

59

Country Championship

1st Place

USD 8,000

Indonesia

169

2nd Place

USD 4,500

Malaysia

151

3rd Place

USD 3,000

Singapore

93

Special Awards

Driver of the Day

Andika Rama Maulana (IND)

Best Racecraft Driver

Chong Kai Chang (MY)

Fastest Race Pace

Fadtris Isa (SG)

Drivers

Country

Drivers

Thailand

Thanaphat Pungphat

Chaiyapat Lipikornkosol 

Akkrapon Meesanthea

Malaysia

Taj Izrin Aiman

Iqbal Suji

Chong Kai Chang

Singapore

Muhammad Fadtris Bin Isa

Ethan Yoh

Jarod Yikai Zulkifly

Indonesia

Moreno Pratama

Farizi Pramaditya

Andika Rama Maulana

Philippines

Victor Ancheta

Enzo Ison

Matthew Ang

Point System of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship

Award

Individual

Cumulative points over three races

Country

Total points of all (3) individual participants
representing the country, across three races

Races 

Beyond the main championship, the 2025 Asia Finals weekend delivered a full spectrum of high-octane racing, featuring special exhibition events and fan activations that celebrate the diversity and spirit of the TGR community. 

1. Pro-Am Exhibition Race (Media & Asia Finalists)  

Circuit: Deep Forest Raceway
Car: GR Yaris 

This unique format paired together media representatives from each market with Asia Finalists, blending journalistic curiosity with professional-level racing skill. Media participants will set qualifying times to determine grid positions, setting the stage for a thrilling collaboration between drivers and reporters. 

2. Asia Esports Team Exhibition Race   

Circuit: Race – Road Atlanta 
Car: GR Supra Race Car’19  

This exhibition race brought together 15 esports drivers from five leading Thai esports teams for an intense individual showdown on the virtual Road Atlanta circuit.

3. Time Attack Challenge   

Fans on-site also had the opportunity to experience the racing simulators, setting their best lap times across multiple attempts for a taste of competitive virtual racing.

About the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship 2025 

The TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Asia Esports GT Championship 2025 is a regional online race, bringing together the region’s top sim racers to pit their skills against each other in Gran Turismo 7 on PlayStation®41 (PS4®) and PlayStation®51 (PS5®), using a curated line-up of Toyota GR performance models. As a premier regional esports tournament, it showcases the highest level of virtual racing talent across Asia.

Aligned with TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s global vision, e-Motorsports has become a core pillar of TGR’s motorsport activities — expanding the spirit of racing beyond the physical track. The championship serves as a platform to make motorsports more accessible, inclusive, and engaging for a broader audience, allowing fans and aspiring racers alike to experience the thrill, discipline, and Kaizen-driven mindset that define GAZOO Racing.

About TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR)

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) is TOYOTA’s racing company where motorsports activities are a key pursuit of product development. Its ethos builds on a heritage of more than 60 years of excellence in “making ever-better cars”. With this aim, the company takes into account feedback and learnings gained on tough racing roads under harsh environments to create the thrill and joy of racing Toyota GR cars for everyone.

About Toyota Motor Asia

Toyota Gazoo Racing Asia is the motorsports arm at Toyota Motor Asia [TMA], the regional corporate headquarters and subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation. TMA leads and supports the Asia region in sales and marketing activities, service parts, accessories and customer services, thus contributing to the overall development of auto industry and the growing economies in the region.

Toyota envisions the future mobility society to bring freedom of movement to all. Moving forward, Toyota will provide a diverse range of mobility services and transportation solutions to people around the world as we transform Toyota into a mobility company.

Africa Finance Corporation Raises Record US$524m in Dual-Currency Samurai Loan Facility

The transaction marks AFC’s largest Samurai loan to date and reinforces the Corporation’s growing footprint in Japan’s capital markets

LAGOS, NIGERIA – EQS – 2 December 2025 – Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has closed a landmark US$524 million equivalent dual-currency Samurai term loan facility.

The transaction marks AFC’s largest Samurai loan to date and reinforces the Corporation’s growing footprint in Japan’s capital markets amid rising investor confidence in its credit fundamentals. The three-year syndicated facility, comprising US$505 million and JPY 3 billion, was significantly oversubscribed following strong demand from Japanese lenders.

AFC’s strong traction in Japan has been supported by a series of milestones, including its 2019 debut samurai loan, its 2023 guarantee of the Arab Republic of Egypt’s JPY75 billion Samurai Bond, and the award of an A+ (Stable) long-term issuer credit rating by the Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) earlier this year. AFC’s 2022 Samurai facility of US$419 million equivalent (US$412 million and JPY 1 billion) matured in October 2025 and was fully repaid by AFC.

AFC maintains a strong presence in Asian capital markets, where it has raised over US$1.3 billion in the past decade across Chinese, Indian and Korean loan facilities.

“Japan continues to be an important and strategic market for AFC,” said Banji Fehintola, Executive Board Member and Head of Financial Services at AFC. “The strong support from Japanese lenders in our latest Samurai loan underscores the depth of confidence in AFC and the trust we have built with investors over the past few years. This successful transaction strengthens our funding base and expands our global investor reach as we continue mobilising capital to address the infrastructure deficit in Africa.”

The new facility was arranged by long-standing relationship banks, Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank and SMBC Bank International, which acted as Mandated Lead Arrangers and Bookrunners. The transaction drew strong momentum from AFC’s lender roadshow held during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in August.

In a further demonstration of deepening engagement with Japanese and Asian investors, the facility welcomed several first-time lenders to AFC, including Bank of Taiwan, China Construction Bank Corporation, First Commercial Bank, Taiwan Business Bank, The Chiba Bank, The Shizuoka Bank, and The Yamanashi Chuo Bank.

Proceeds from the facility will be used for general corporate purposes, supporting AFC’s mandate to drive sustainable development through infrastructure investment across Africa.

Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC).

Download Image: https://apo-opa.co/4itEOzg (AFC closes a landmark US$524 million-equivalent dual-currency Samurai term loan — its largest to date — underscoring rising Japanese investor confidence in Africa’s growth story)

Hashtag: #AFC

The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

About AFC

Africa Finance Corporation was established in 2007 to be the catalyst for pragmatic infrastructure and industrial investments across Africa. AFC’s approach combines specialist industry expertise with a focus on financial and technical advisory, project structuring, project development, and risk capital to address Africa’s infrastructure development needs and drive sustainable economic growth.

Eighteen years on, AFC has developed a track record as the partner of choice in Africa for investing and delivering on instrumental, high-quality infrastructure assets that provide essential services in the core infrastructure sectors of power, natural resources, heavy industry, transport, and telecommunications. AFC has 47 member countries and has invested over US$17 billion in 36 African countries since its inception.

Lunit to Highlight New AI Evidence in Cancer Screening and Breast Density-Driven Risk Modeling at RSNA 2025

Eight oral presentations and six posters demonstrate advances in mammography, DBT performance, and density-informed risk modeling

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lunit, a leading provider of AI for cancer diagnostics and precision oncology, today announced it will present 14 studies at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2025 Annual Meeting. Spanning screening mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), breast density science, and risk modeling, this year’s program represents one of the company’s most extensive evidence portfolios to date. Lunit will exhibit at South Hall, Booth #4100, and host expert-led sessions in the Lunit Education Room #1252 throughout the meeting.

Among the highlighted research, real-world results from Capio S:t Göran Hospital in Sweden evaluated more than 193,000 screening examinations before and after the introduction of Lunit INSIGHT MMG. When AI was paired with a single radiologist, the screening program achieved higher invasive cancer detection, greater positive predictive value, and fewer unnecessary recalls compared to human-only double reading—reinforcing findings from the ScreenTrustCAD interventional trial and demonstrating that AI-integrated single reading can maintain or improve accuracy while alleviating workforce pressure.

New evidence from Massachusetts General Hospital assessed AI performance on screening DBT using 1,000 retrospective examinations, showing that Lunit INSIGHT DBT correctly localized 84.4% of true-positive cancers, with particularly strong performance for mass-presenting and invasive ductal carcinoma cases. The study also detailed cancer subtypes less likely to be identified by AI, offering practical insight into the algorithm’s strengths and limitations as DBT adoption accelerates worldwide.

Further expanding the evidence base, two oral presentations from Elizabeth Wende Breast Care explored how volumetric breast density, as quantified by AI-powered algorithms, and family history influence risk stratification across leading models, and how density changes over time affect prediction consistency. In a cohort of 44,651 women, Tyrer-Cuzick classified substantially more women as high-risk than BOADICEA, driven by heavier weighting of density and family history inputs. A complementary longitudinal analysis of 335,000+ images demonstrated that incorporating volumetric breast density over time improved calibration and discrimination, while static or categorical density inputs consistently underestimated cancer incidence. Together, these findings strengthen the role of density-informed and longitudinal risk modeling in supporting risk-adapted screening strategies.

Lunit will also host a series of expert-led sessions in its Education Room #1252, offering deeper clinical and scientific perspectives on key themes presented at RSNA. Highlights include:

  • Image-Based Risk (Nov 30, 1:30–2:00 PM CST)

    A cross-disciplinary discussion featuring Drs. Graham Colditz, Joy Jiang, and Hari Trivedi, exploring how image-based risk complements traditional models and what this means for more personalized, risk-adapted screening strategies.

  • Interval Cancer Detection with AI (Dec 1, 11:30 AM–12:00 PM CST)

    Prof. Fiona Gilbert (University of Cambridge) will present new evidence on the ability of AI to identify interval breast cancers typically missed during routine screening, outlining how AI-supported detection could reduce missed cancers and improve population-level screening outcomes.

  • Academic Leadership in AI Adoption (Dec 2, 10:30–11:00 AM CST)

    Drs. Liz Morris (UC Davis Health) and Elizabeth Burnside (University of Wisconsin–Madison) will compare two distinct approaches to implementing breast AI in academic environments. The session will examine evidence, ethics, and practical considerations for responsible adoption.

  • Real-World DBT Performance (Dec 2, 4:30–5:00 PM CST)

    Dr. Manisha Bahl (Mass General) will share new clinical data on how Lunit INSIGHT DBT performs in digital breast tomosynthesis workflows, highlighting improvements in cancer detection, diagnostic consistency, and the potential to reduce interval cancer rates when integrated into routine practice.

“RSNA is where the field looks to understand whether AI is delivering measurable clinical value, and this year’s program reflects that momentum,” said Brandon Suh, CEO of Lunit. “Across mammography, DBT, and density-driven risk modeling, our studies highlight how rigorously validated AI can enhance screening performance, support radiologists, and strengthen the foundation for risk-adapted care. We remain committed to generating evidence that drives responsible and meaningful adoption in clinical practice.”

###

About Lunit

Founded in 2013, Lunit (KRX: 328130) is a global leader on a mission to conquer cancer through AI. Our clinically validated solutions span medical imaging, breast health, and biomarker analysis—empowering earlier detection, smarter treatment decisions, and more precise outcomes across the cancer care continuum.

Lunit offers a comprehensive suite spanning risk prediction and early detection to precision oncology. Our FDA-cleared Lunit INSIGHT suite and breast health solutions support cancer screening in thousands of medical institutions worldwide, while the Lunit SCOPE platform is used in research partnership with global pharma and laboratory leaders for biomarker research, and companion diagnostic development.

Trusted by over 10,000 sites in more than 65 countries, Lunit combines deep medical expertise with continuously evolving datasets to deliver measurable impact—for patients, clinicians, and researchers alike. Headquartered in Seoul with global offices, Lunit is driving the worldwide fight against cancer. Learn more at lunit.io/en.

Appendix – Lunit RSNA 2025 Full Study List

Oral Presentations (8)

Poster Presentations (6)

 

InSkill Receives Frost and Sullivan’s 2025 Global New Product Innovation Recognition for Its Industrial AI Copilot Platform

The company is honored for advancing industrial performance with GenAI copilots that improve equipment uptime, boost worker productivity, and streamline knowledge capture across industrial operations.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that InSkill has received the 2025 Global New Product Innovation Recognition in the industrial AI copilot platform sector. This recognition highlights InSkill’s outstanding achievements in AI innovation and customer-centric product design. Copilots built on InSkill’s platform are transforming industrial operations by supporting frontline workers, guiding detailed procedures, automating complex tasks, and delivering measurable returns on investment across thousands of industrial sites worldwide.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. InSkill excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align product innovation with the evolving needs of the global industrial ecosystem while executing with efficiency, scalability, and precision.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy centered on AI innovation and customer engagement, InSkill has shown exceptional agility and vision in driving digital transformation across industries. The company’s no-code, vendor-agnostic platform empowers organizations to build, deploy, and share copilots seamlessly across diverse systems, brands, and equipment types. This creates a connected knowledge network that captures, protects, and unifies fragmented industrial expertise.

Innovation is central to InSkill’s mission. GenAI copilots built on the InSkill platform address key operational challenges by streamlining workflows, increasing asset utilization, boosting first-time-fix rates, and eliminating hidden inefficiencies—helping customers realize measurable improvements in productivity and performance.

“Industrial workers can access copilots through mobile apps, web portals, or embedded APIs, ensuring flexibility across job functions and geographies. This simplicity of use, combined with the company’s collaborative culture, allows InSkill to achieve impressive adoption: thousands of published copilots, widespread usage across industrial sites, and an ever-growing network of contributors and users,” said Karthik Sundaram, Research Director, Industrial at Frost & Sullivan.

InSkill’s customer-first culture is deeply embedded in its product strategy. The company’s structured engagement model ensures continuous feedback from users, driving iterative innovation and strengthening long-term partnerships. By combining scientific rigor, transparent improvement cycles, and responsible AI governance, InSkill has positioned itself as both a technology provider and a trusted ally in industrial digital transformation.

“Industrial expertise is one of the most valuable assets in the world, yet too often it is locked in documents, equipment, or the minds of a few people,” said Dale Calder, Founder & CEO of InSkill. “When that knowledge becomes available in the flow of work, organizations can onboard people faster, keep machines and devices running, and feel confident that critical know-how will still be there for the next generation of workers.”

Frost & Sullivan commends InSkill for setting a new standard in product innovation and customer-centric excellence. InSkill’s agentic AI architecture unifies published expertise, internal procedures, site specific knowledge, real time data, and historical solutions. It understands the nuances of industrial equipment and adapts guidance based on device state, asset configuration, and worker role. Copilots built on InSkill provide guidance based on device state, asset configuration, and worker role.

InSkill copilots also help preserve critical know-how from experienced or retiring workers so that this knowledge remains accessible at scale. The company’s approach ensures accuracy and reliability by limiting responses to customer-approved data sources while maintaining strict data governance and privacy across user groups. This approach allows organizations to deploy AI with confidence while strengthening how industrial knowledge is captured, shared, and applied across the production and maintenance lifecycle.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the New Product Innovation Recognition to companies that demonstrate excellence in product design, functionality, and customer impact. The recognition highlights organizations that pioneer new technologies and redefine industry standards through continuous innovation and measurable market results.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.
Contact us: Start the discussion.

Contact
Camila Tinajero
E: camila.tinajero@frost.com 

About InSkill
The InSkill platform is used to create, distribute, and manage powerful generative AI-Powered Copilots for Industrial Machines and Processes. Copilots built on InSkill are deployed in more than 4,500 facilities worldwide and are being widely used by field service teams, call centers, product groups, channel partners, and customers across the industrial landscape. The InSkill Platform is built with a powerful Agentic AI Engine to handle the unique challenges industrial workers, sites, and OEMs face while scaling expertise across teams, sites, and global operations.

To learn more about InSkill’s AI copilot platform and download the full report, visit:
https://inskill.ai/l/frost-sullivan-industrial-ai-copilot-platform-award/

Contact
E: info@inskill.ai

Solace Signals the Future of Real-time Agentic AI with Introduction of Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise

New solution harnesses Solace’s market-leading real-time data platform to enable enterprises to build and orchestrate robust and reliable single and multi-agent AI applications

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AWS re:Invent 2025, Booth # 1570 — Solace, the real-time data and agentic AI company, today announced general availability (GA) of Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise, an open agentic AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy and operate intelligent and well-governed AI-powered applications – from simple single-agent to powerful multi-agent orchestrated solutions – that interact in real-time with enterprise applications and data.

Agentic AI promises greater productivity and increased competitiveness, with a recent industry report indicating it can accelerate business processes by up to 50 percent and reduce low-value work time by up to 40 percent, thanks to autonomous decision-making and continuous learning capabilities. Getting there remains a challenge, however, as organizations struggle to move agentic AI applications from experiments into production, providing access to enterprise applications and data while ensuring security, observability, and trust.

Additionally, IDC states: “Agentic AI will require event-driven data architectures to continuously provide high-quality, relevant, and contextual data products to support the dynamic nature of agentic business activities. Supporting agentic AI at scale demands use of autonomous agents within enterprise intelligence architectures, automating data management, governance, and synthesis functions.” *

Solace Agent Mesh addresses these challenges, providing the capabilities required to create, deploy and manage agentic AI solutions in a secure, governed and scalable way. Built on a proven event-driven platform, Solace Agent Mesh fundamentally transforms how agentic AI systems serve users, respond to business events and integrate with enterprise data, offering:

  • Faster time to innovation: enterprises can rapidly innovate by integrating and orchestrating native and third-party AI agents, enabling faster experimentation, accelerated development, and quicker time-to-market
  • Improved user experience: business users can talk with their data using their preferred user interfaces, with broad access to enterprise applications and data, whether real-time or static knowledge bases
  • Greater scalability and reliability: Solace Agent Mesh uses parallel agent execution and asynchronous communication between all agents, enabling horizontal scaling to production levels while also providing a stronger level of resilience in response to system failures and implementing hot agent upgrades
  • Increased operational efficiency: Solace Agent Mesh’s unique intelligent data management helps minimize LLM costs, while significantly improving performance and accuracy
  • Comprehensive security: strong agent-based access control, SSO, action-level permissions, and user delegated access deliver the critical security, governance and compliance required for AI agent-driven solutions

“There are many challenges to overcome in relation to enabling AI agents to take automated actions and there is a case to be made for involving experts in inter-application communication,” said Matt Aslett, Director of Research, Analytics and Data, ISG Research. “Solace is well-placed to address this opportunity with Solace Agent Mesh, which provides the core capabilities required for communication between agents and will enable Solace customers and prospects to build on existing investments in microservices and EDA as they move towards agentic AI.”

The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025 notes: “Solace’s event-driven agents stand out: they help enterprises build responsive, real-time, event-driven applications and enable high-performance streaming for enterprise applications.” **

Secure, Scalable and Enterprise-grade functionality

Solace Agent Mesh was built from the ground up as an open, flexible platform designed to make it easy for enterprises to experiment with single or multi-agent systems to deliver on their agentic AI objectives, from simple uses cases to the most demanding distributed organization-wide production deployments.

Key features include:

  • No-code Agent Builder: both pro-code agent building, as well as an AI-assisted, form-based interface for creating agents without writing code
  • Dynamic Agent Orchestration: Solace Agent Mesh uses an intelligent orchestrator to break down inputs into tasks and assign them to the right agents in real time. It can also follow prescriptive workflows when it is critical to operate in specific ways
  • Connectors: out-of-the-box SQL, API, and MCP connectors provide simple and broad connectivity to enterprise applications and data, both real-time and static knowledge bases
  • Gateways: business users can use their preferred tools such as web chat, Slack or Microsoft Teams to interact with Agent Mesh, as well as set up Agentic Process Automation workflows invoked through events, enterprise application APIs and Webhook
  • Governance and Access Control: gateways serve as controlled entry points into the framework, granting access to the agent ecosystem through different interfaces like events, APIs, web chat, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Solace Agent Mesh offers single sign-on authentication as well as granular authorization and role-based access control, ensuring agents interact with applications and data with the permissions of the requesting user
  • Intelligent Data Management: innovative intelligent data management helps reduce LLM compute costs and avoids hallucinations through in-platform data operations and passing only relevant information to the LLM
  • Full Activity Observability: built-in workflow viewer and real-time observability tools enable comprehensive monitoring and tracking of LLM interactions, agent workflows, and system performance to build system trust and help debug
  • Enterprise-scale Architecture: decoupled, asynchronous orchestration of agents supports efficient parallelization of operations, enabling agentic AI projects to easily scale from Proof-of-Concept to production

“Agentic AI has completely changed the face of business, and requires revolutionary solutions to continue to fuel its unprecedented growth. Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise is the net result of a bold vision on how organizations can better harness the power of agentic AI,” said Shawn McAllister, CPO and CTO at Solace. “Organizations can quickly go from experiments to full scale enterprise production with fast development, and secure access to enterprise context, all powered with the proven robustness of an event driven architecture. Agent Mesh is designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of increasingly connected, real-time, and intelligent enterprises.”

Prospective organizations can register to join the Solace Agent Mesh pilot program. In addition to Solace Agent Mesh Enterprise, Solace offers open-source Solace Agent Mesh Community available on GitHub, providing developers with an event-driven framework for seamlessly integrating AI agents with real-world data sources and systems. 

Learn more

Market Leadership

Over the past two decades, Solace has built a reputation for delivering real-time data solutions that are trusted by enterprises with the most demanding operational use cases. Today, Solace delivers real-time data orchestration across systems, clouds and AI agents for many of the top organizations spanning key industries, such as Bosch in manufacturing; Heineken in consumer goods; Schwarz Group in retail; RBC Capital Markets in financial services; and PSA Singapore in transportation & logistics.

* IDC Tech Buyer, Agentic AI Impact on Enterprises: From the Tech Stack to the Future of Work and Services, US53272524, April 2025
** Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

About Solace:

Solace helps organizations operate in real-time through the power of events. With its real-time data and agentic AI platform, Solace delivers scalable, event-driven capabilities to bring together agents, applications and data across legacy, cloud, and AI systems. Established enterprises worldwide trust Solace to enable intelligent, time-sensitive experiences; modernize their application and integration landscape; and create seamless digital journeys for their customers, partners and employees. Learn more at solace.com.

Press Contacts

Europe & Americas
IBA International
Jamie Kightley
Jkightley@iba-international.com
+44 (0) 1572 757932

UK
Positive
Calum Mitchell
cmitchell@positivemarketing.com
+44 7793 160127

APAC
Rice, a FINN Partners Company
Trixie Wong
trixie.wong@finnpartners.com
+65 9757 7531

 

TP Receives Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 African Company of the Year Recognition for Excellence in the Outsourcing Industry

TP recognized for advancing Africa’s outsourcing landscape through its strategic integration of technology, emotional intelligence, and sustainable growth initiatives.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that global digital services leader TP has been recognized with the 2025 African Company of the Year Recognition in the outsourcing industry for its outstanding achievements in digital transformation, operational excellence, and customer-centric innovation. This recognition underscores TP’s leadership in integrating human expertise and empathy with advanced technology to deliver measurable business outcomes, drive sustainable growth, and transform the African outsourcing ecosystem through scalable, high-value services.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: visionary innovation & performance and customer execution. TP excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with consistency, efficiency, and scale.

“Through a forward-looking blend of GenAI, emotional intelligence, and hyper-automation, TP enables brands to scale personalization, shorten resolution times, and gain predictive insight into customer behavior and operational performance. These capabilities are applicable as part of a unified architecture that balances automation with human touch, differentiating from competing solutions that do so in isolation,” said Bernardin Arnason, Industry Director, Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy focused on digital innovation, local partnership, and sustainable ecosystem development, TP demonstrates exceptional agility in a rapidly evolving market. By embedding itself within Africa’s dynamic technology and service delivery landscape, the company continues to strengthen its regional footprint while aligning its capabilities with global outsourcing trends.

Innovation remains central to TP’s vision. Its unified architecture safely orchestrates AI, experts and technology at scale to create seamless, emotionally attuned customer interactions. This model delivers enhanced customer care that is simpler, faster, and safer for the world’s biggest brands and their customers.

TP’s strong commitment to inclusive growth further distinguishes it in the market. Through its deep engagement with national stakeholders—such as partnerships in Kenya to digitize public services—the company plays an active role in modernizing Africa’s service economy. Its people-first approach, combined with robust infrastructure investments, enables TP to deliver high-quality, multilingual support while creating meaningful local employment opportunities.

Frost & Sullivan commends TP for setting a new standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. The company’s vision, technology roadmap, and inclusive operating model are redefining the outsourcing industry across Africa—building an agile, innovation-driven framework that supports sustainable economic growth and strengthens Africa’s role in the global delivery ecosystem.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Company of the Year Recognition to organizations that demonstrate outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in market share, customer satisfaction, and competitive positioning. The recognition honors forward-thinking companies that are reshaping their industries through innovation, strategic excellence, and sustainable impact.

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices recognitions identify companies across regional and global markets for their superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic development. Industry analysts evaluate market participants through comprehensive interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices that advance industry standards.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Recognition

Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.
Contact us: Start the discussion.

Contact:
Ashley Shreve
E: ashley.weinkauf@frost.com 

ABOUT TP GROUP 
TP is a global leader in digital business services which consistently seeks to blend the best of advanced technology with human empathy to deliver enhanced customer care that is simpler, faster, and safer for the world’s biggest brands and their customers. The Group’s comprehensive, AI-powered service portfolio ranges from front office customer care to back-office functions, including operations consulting and high-value digital transformation services. It also offers a range of specialized services such as collections, interpreting and localization, visa and consular services, and recruitment process outsourcing services. The teams of multilingual, inspired, and passionate experts and advisors, spread in close to 100 countries, as well as the Group’s local presence allows it to be a force of good in supporting communities, clients, and the environment.

For more information: www.tp.com.

SNC and Applied Intuition Forge Alliance to Fast-track Battlefield Autonomy

Collaboration will fuse rapid software innovation with combat-tested systems integration to outpace global rivals

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SPARKS, Nev., Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In a move signaling how quickly autonomous systems are reshaping modern warfare, physical intelligence leader Applied Intuition and global aerospace and defense company SNC today announced a partnership aimed at accelerating delivery of next-generation autonomous defense technologies.

Everything that moves is quickly gaining autonomy – especially on the battlefield – and Applied Intuition is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to all moving machines on the front lines. The Silicon Valley company’s dual-use autonomy software expertise combines with SNC’s long history of trusted open architecture mission systems development and integration to create a bridge between the need for rapid innovation and operational readiness.

The partnership aims to put mission-ready autonomy into the hands of warfighters, faster. Together, the companies will explore key opportunities to integrate Applied Intuition’s leading autonomy and simulation software with a variety of SNC’s mission-tested systems across domains. The joint work will concentrate on challenges in localized missile defense and counter-UAS operations, areas where distributed autonomy and real-time sensor fusion could dramatically shorten response times and reduce risk in contested environments.

A near-term focus is on SNC’S Expeditionary Area Air Defense (EAAD) systems. These horizontally integrated, ready-to-deploy defense solutions can now be built on Applied Intuition’s vehicle intelligence platform, combining off-road autonomy with TRL-9 air defense. Reinforced by SNC’s proven systems integration and global support structure, Autonomous EAADs reduces both personnel risk and the number of personnel needed, accelerating affordable air defense capability to provide customers with a defense that’s easily adaptable to diverse mission profiles.

Autonomous EAAD systems deliver increased effectiveness while removing personnel from harm’s way, reducing complexity and shortening deployment timelines. They provide scalable, cost-effective protection across multiple platforms and environments. Autonomous EAADs leverages Applied Intuition’s Vehicle OS, Acuity Ground Autonomy, and Axion Mission Control.

“This partnership epitomizes the merger of Silicon Valley’s innovation pace with advanced defense rigor, setting a new standard for rapid, effective and operationally relevant technology deployment,” said SNC CEO Fatih Ozmen. “Together, we are building a future that is responsive, flexible, cost-effective and crucial for safeguarding lives and enhancing mission success in increasingly complex environments.”

“The Department of War is shifting from experimentation to operational autonomy, and Applied Intuition is helping enable that transition through our partnership,” said Applied Intuition CEO and Co-founder Qasar Younis. “Combining Silicon Valley speed, innovation and engineering power with decades of experience in complex defense systems, Applied Intuition and SNC are determined to make battlefield autonomy not just a concept for the future, but a capability ready for deployment now.”

The announcement follows a surge of momentum for both companies. Earlier this year, Applied Intuition closed a $600 million Series F and tender offer at $15 billion valuation. The investment underscored the growing importance of defense applications in the company’s strategy, particularly as the Department of War looks to adopt commercial-grade software to modernize its fleets. Applied Intuition’s Axion and Acuity defense product families have been used across major programs in the Department of War, and the company has become a trusted partner to each branch of the military.

Concurrently, SNC has quickly earned a global reputation for delivering expeditionary counter-drone capabilities with incredible speed and effectiveness. The company’s BRAWLR air-defense platform, part of its EAAD family of systems, has earned praise for its reliability and responsiveness enabled by SNC’s open architecture hardware and software solutions. Developed and deployed on an expedited timeline, this technology represents the latest in a long line of game-changing innovations that SNC has developed swiftly in response to customer needs that have proven to be both highly successful and lifesaving.

The new collaboration between Applied Intuition and SNC reflects a broader shift within the defense industry, where speed and adaptability have become as important as scale. By pairing a software-defined autonomy platform with a leading defense integrator known for rapidly deployable, combat-ready, open architecture systems, Applied Intuition and SNC hope to shorten the cycle between concept and deployment for warfighter-focused solutions that will have a positive impact on the battlefield. That, in theory, could allow militaries to field, test and update capabilities faster, without sacrificing safety or mission assurance.

Together, Applied Intuition and SNC are delivering cutting-edge autonomy fusing commercial software agility with deep defense engineering and integration mastery. To learn more about how Applied Intuition is powering the future of physical intelligence, visit applied.co.

About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.

About SNC
SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It’s part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen. For more information, visit sncorp.com.