Intelligent CIO North America Issue 35 | Page 31

LATEST REGIONAL PROJECT UPDATE

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ONTARIO
Toronto-based ARHT Media , a global leader in live hologram technology , showcased its live hologram CAPSULE technology to beam speakers to the Augmented World Expo ( AWE ) event . AWE ’ s co-founder Ori Inbar interacted with his pre-recorded hologram during the expo ’ s opening remarks .
Magic Leap Founder , Rony Abovitz , was also beamed in live from a studio in Miami for his fireside chat with Forbes columnist Charlie Fink focused on invigorating XR as such technologies move into the mainstream .
“ AWE ’ s annual expo is one of the premier XR events and we are thrilled to showcase our live hologram technology and the ARHT CAPSULE to the general public ,” said ARHT CEO Larry O ’ Reilly .

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CALIFORNIA
Appdome has announced the integration of its Cyber Defense Automation platform with developer platform GitHub .
GitHub Actions is now part of the Appdome Dev2Cyber Agility Partner Initiative to accelerate the delivery of secure mobile apps globally . With this new integration , GitHub users can leverage Appdome ’ s configurationas-code ease from inside GitHub and build any of Appdome ’ s security , anti-fraud , anti-malware , anti-cheat and other cyber defences into Android and iOS apps .
“ Mobile is fast becoming consumers ’ preferred way to interact with brands , which increases the urgency for development teams to create and update apps frequently to remain competitive . They ’ re working in an environment that is continuous , agile and fast-moving ,” said Tom Tovar , Co-Creator and CEO of Appdome .

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GEORGIA
KORE has confirmed the launch of its new vertical offering in retail solutions . The KORE Retail solution includes high bandwidth 5G cellular connectivity through fixed wireless access ( FWA ) to provide high-speed internet access traditionally available through wireline solutions . As many new retail applications rely on higher data volume and speed , a 5G network can offer greater bandwidth to support these new and evolving applications .
“ Digital transformation is rapidly picking up steam across retail and restaurant chains and we are seeing some interesting applications within this segment ,” said Romil Bahl , President and CEO , KORE .
“ Moving entirely to cellular connectivity or leveraging cellular as a failover technology is not easy . KORE has worked hard to make it simple to adopt through our fixed wireless access solutions .”

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MONTANA
Snowflake has united its data platform , partner-delivered solutions and industry-specific datasets in the newly launched Government and Education Data Cloud . The innovation empowers educational institutions and public sector agencies at the federal , state and local levels with a single , integrated and cross-cloud data platform . Securely exchanging information and collaborating with data remains a key focus area and a fundamental challenge for the majority of government agencies .
“ The Snowflake Government & Education Data Cloud will help government agencies and educational institutions accelerate their modernization efforts by making data more readily available on a cross-cloud data platform that meets the highest levels of data security and governance ,” said Jeff Frazier , Global Head of Public Sector , Snowflake .
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