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“Now global brands have a single, unified engine to power intelligent customer interactions scaling SoundHound’s reach to serve every enterprise, on every channel, at an unprecedented level.” The combined company is also targeting more than $500 million in future revenue from its existing customer base through cross-selling opportunities and expanded services. As part of the transaction, SoundHound has retired LivePerson’s outstanding debt, creating a debt-free balance sheet to support growth and continued product development. John Collins, who previously held senior leadership roles at LivePerson, has been appointed CFO of the combined company. “Our shared focus is clear: accelerate innovation and deliver immediate impact for our customers,” said John Sabino, CEO of LivePerson. “Together, we offer an unparalleled value proposition for enterprises seeking to modernize their contact centers and digital touchpoints with a trusted, enterprise-grade AI partner.”

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“With the AWS APT CoE, we are bringing together Tech Mahindra BPS’ process expertise and AWS-native AI capabilities to help customers operationalize Agentic AI with stronger governance, faster execution, and measurable business impact.” The CoE has already demonstrated its potential through Collections Guru, an agentic AI-powered collections solution jointly developed by Tech Mahindra and AWS and deployed by UK-based financial services outsourcing provider Target Group. Built on AWS cloud and AI infrastructure, the solution delivered approximately 40% efficiency gains by autonomously optimizing collection strategies. Katie Pender, Chief Operating Officer, Target Group, said, “Since introducing the Collections Guru agent, we’re seeing encouraging early results, including anticipated efficiency gains of around 40% in the areas where it’s been rolled out. It’s been a valuable step in how we’re modernising our operations.” The launch strengthens Tech Mahindra’s AWS-focused AI services strategy and expands opportunities for enterprises seeking production-ready agentic AI transformation.

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“Ian is the kind of product leader who can turn a rapidly changing market into a clear and compelling product vision,” said Kevin Weiss, Chief Executive Officer at Sectigo. “He has an impressive track record of building and scaling security and identity products through periods of significant growth and complexity, while translating major technology shifts into solutions customers can adopt and trust. Ian’s leadership will strengthen our ability to deliver on our promise of Simplicity at Scale and accelerate the next phase of innovation across our CLM platform.”

As Chief Product Officer, Hassard will lead Sectigo’s product vision and strategy, working closely with engineering and go-to-market teams to guide the continued evolution of Sectigo Certificate Manager. His focus will be on translating changing customer and market requirements into platform capabilities that simplify certificate operations, reduce risk and prepare organizations for the next generation of digital trust.

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“Certificate Lifecycle Management is becoming foundational to how organizations secure digital operations at scale,” said Hassard. “Sectigo has the market position, technology and depth of expertise to define where this category goes next. I’m excited to build on that strength and advance a platform that makes it easier for organizations to manage growing certificate complexity, reduce risk and prepare for what comes next.”

Hassard brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling products across identity, cybersecurity and networking. Before joining Sectigo, he served as Vice President of Product Management at Okta, where he led product strategy across the Auth0 and Okta Customer Identity portfolio. Earlier, he co-founded RootSecure, a cybersecurity company acquired by Arctic Wolf, where he went on to hold product leadership roles helping drive the company’s growth. An inventor with multiple patents spanning identity, security and emerging technologies, Hassard has built his career translating complex technological shifts into practical products that solve real-world security challenges at scale.

About Sectigo

Sectigo is a leading provider of Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM), helping organizations secure human and machine identities while reducing the hidden risks of modern digital trust. As certificate volumes grow and lifespans shrink, unmanaged certificates are becoming a source of outages, compliance exposure, and operational disruption. Sectigo uses orchestrated automation to deliver Simplicity at Scale through its cloud‑native CLM platform, bringing visibility, control, and lifecycle management together across complex environments. With more than 700,000 customers, including 65% of the Fortune 500, Sectigo is one of the largest and longest‑standing certificate authorities, with over 20 years of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

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“Computer vision must do more today than just reliably capture images. What is crucial is how quickly and easily image processing moves from an idea to a concrete application and how well cameras, software, and AI functions can be integrated into existing systems. This is exactly what we align our product strategy with: IDS offers industrial cameras and computer vision components that users can flexibly combine into their own solutions. Instead of turnkey systems, we focus on modular hardware and software with high quality, long-term availability, technological standards, and comprehensive support right up to customer-specific customizations. Being close to customers and partners is essential: Requirements from real-world applications feed directly into our development process, helping to improve existing products, expand our portfolio, and bring innovations to industrial applications more quickly. At VISION 2026, we will demonstrate how IDS continues to advance machine vision, from traditional industrial cameras to computer vision components with integrated AI,” explains Jan Hartmann, Managing Partner at IDS. 

Product and technology innovations for VISION 2026 

IDS Imaging Development Systems has been developing industrial cameras and computer vision components for industrial and non-industrial applications for almost 30 years. The focus of this year’s trade fair presence is on new uEye vision camera platforms, which serve as the technological basis for upcoming 2D industrial camera series. They are designed for higher performance, simple integration, and long-term availability. 

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Another focus area is event-based imaging. Together with Prophesee, IDS provides insight into further developments in the field of event-based cameras. The technology is particularly suitable for highly dynamic applications such as drones, AGVs, and autonomous systems, for example for object recognition, tracking, or safe navigation. 

In the field of 3D vision, the company is presenting news regarding the 3D ToF camera Nion, including a new RGB set for synchronized image acquisition that merges color and depth data. In addition, IDS will showcase a new version of the Ensenso N Series active stereo vision system for precise and robust 3D data acquisition in robotics, bin picking, and metrology. 

AI cameras and embedded vision systems are also part of the technology roadmap. IDS is expanding the uEye Live series of monitoring cameras with streaming and recording capabilities to include AI-enabled models, enabling AI-powered image processing on-the-edge. High-performance neural networks from our partner DENKweit perform tasks such as fast object and position detection, precise parcel handling and efficient code reading. 

Insight into innovation projects 

As a key innovation project, IDS is presenting the “GMSL Multi-Camera Vision System.” It demonstrates how intelligent embedded vision processes and combines images from multiple cameras with integrated ISPs and SoCs directly within the system, before transmitting the resulting data via a single GMSL cable. This reduces latency and data load in favor of a reliable basis for your own projects with distributed GMSL cameras, 

especially in mobile applications. 

Another project demonstrates active focus control fully integrated into the camera, where control and feedback occur directly via the software. The robust hardware is suitable for demanding applications in logistics, autonomous systems, and retail. 

For vegetation analysis, IDS is showing an NDVI camera that combines multispectral imaging with high resolution color imaging. It makes the health status of plants visible and provides reliable NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) values, with which planning and resource allocation in agriculture can be specifically improved. 

VISION Makeathon 2026 

At the VISION Makeathon 2026, tangible prototypes are created from ideas: Interdisciplinary teams develop practical solutions for current image processing challenges within one day. IDS contributes as a project company with its own challenge, technology, and expert know-how. 

VISION, the world’s leading trade fair for image processing, will take place October 6–8 at Messe Stuttgart.

About IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH: 

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is a leading manufacturer of industrial cameras and pioneer in industrial image processing. The owner-managed, environmentally certified company develops high performance and versatile 2D and 3D cameras as well as models with artificial intelligence (AI) or with streaming/event recording feature. The almost unlimited range of applications covers multiple non-industrial and industrial sectors of equipment, plant and mechanical engineering. Since its foundation in 1997 as a two-man company, IDS has developed into an independent, ISO and environmental-friendly certified family business with around 320 employees. The headquarters in Obersulm, Germany, is both a development and production site. With subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, South Korea and the UK, as well as further representative offices in France, Benelux and India, the technology company has a global presence. 

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The expanded go-to-market strategy targets key international growth zones across the DACH region, Southern Europe, LATAM, and APAC. The initiative follows knowmad mood’s recent corporate expansion, including its merger with German consultancy knowmad mood Germany (formerly Aservo).

Operationalizing Agentic AI Across Complex Delivery Environments

As enterprise engineering organizations transition past early AI pilots, corporate leaders face increasing pressure to verify whether automated developer tools yield measurable business results. Digital.ai categorizes this market shift as the “Fourth Wave” the industry-wide evolution toward deploying artificial intelligence as an active, agentic participant across the entire software development lifecycle rather than maintaining it as a isolated coding assistant.

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To support this transition, Digital.ai offers flexible deployment models across on-premises, private cloud, and SaaS environments, allowing enterprises to integrate AI workflows into existing toolchains without vendor lock-in.

“AI value only shows up when it’s grounded in real delivery pipelines, which is why this partnership is about giving enterprises the governance and domain expertise to make that shift responsibly, not just generating more output,” said Digital.ai CEO, Derek Holt. “Enterprises are past the pilot phase and are actively looking for partners who can operationalize AI at scale, and this is Digital.ai and knowmad mood meeting that demand together.”

Combining Domain Governance with Scalable AI Infrastructure

The collaboration pairs knowmad mood’s specialized Centers of Excellence spanning Agile Governance, IT Service Management, Cloud Migration, and DevSecOps with Digital.ai’s agentic software pipeline tools. This combined architecture enables enterprise IT departments to modernize development processes while maintaining strict regulatory compliance and software security.

“Enterprise AI transformation in software development and design is as much about culture and operating model as it is about tooling, and knowmad mood’s role is bringing that local, domain-specific change management expertise to Digital.ai‘s technology. We’ve already seen this play out with joint customers across financial services, manufacturing and automotive, and this partnership lets us bring that same approach to more enterprises navigating the same shift,” said Rainer Heinold, CEO, knowmad mood Germany.

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The Nion captures moving objects with virtually no blurring. Its high resistance to stray light ensures reproducible measurement results both indoors and outdoors. The measuring range of 0.3 to 7.5 meters covers typical industrial scenarios. The robust IP67-rated housing allows it to be used in more demanding environments. Power over Ethernet (PoE) reduces installation effort and cabling.

Patrick Schick, Product Manager for 3D Vision and Imaging Software at IDS, says: “The Nion provides stable depth data even under variable lighting conditions. This provides a solid foundation for automation processes that rely on fast and accurate 3D data.”

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Compared to standard ToF cameras on the market, the onsemi AR0130 depth sensor offers higher resolution, lower noise, more stable results in ambient light and improved motion stability. This enables the Nion to achieve high depth accuracy even when objects are moving quickly and under variable lighting conditions.

Thanks to its compact design, high measurement quality and excellent value for money, the Nion offers a straightforward introduction to 3D image processing. Companies can integrate the camera flexibly into existing systems and benefit from a cost-effective solution for reliable depth data. “In many cases, existing 2D processes can be retained and supplemented with depth data where necessary, if this aids decision making within the process,” emphasizes Patrick Schick.

The Nion 3D camera is now available in series production. Technical information is available in the IDS Webstore. You can also place orders and make individual enquiries there.

About IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH:

IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is a leading manufacturer of industrial cameras and pioneer in industrial image processing. The owner-managed, environmentally certified company develops highperformance and versatile 2D and 3D cameras as well as models with artificial intelligence (AI) or with streaming/event recording feature. The almost unlimited range of applications covers multiple non-industrial and industrial sectors of equipment, plant and mechanical engineering. Since its foundation in 1997 as a two-man company, IDS has developed into an independent, ISO and environmental-friendly certified family business with around 320 employees. The headquarters in Obersulm, Germany, is both a development and production site. With subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, South Korea and the UK, as well as further representative offices in France, Benelux and India, the technology company has a global presence.

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Driving Energy Flexibililty

PcVue 17 improves the energy efficiency of buildings and industrial processes. By centralizing data from multiple sources within a unified ecosystem, it actively optimizes energy demand through optimized control scenarios that can include AI-based forecasting, thus avoiding consumption peaks and reducing energy costs.

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Intelligent Assistance for Performance

PcVue 17 introduces intelligent assistance that enables users to configure workflows and orchestrate complex processes through low-code interfaces. By combining AI processing and real-time data analysis, it allows to automate routine tasks and accelerates decision-making across both systems and teams.

On the engineering side, PcVue 17 helps you design faster and be more efficient with enriched object libraries, and flexible modeling capabilities.

Certifications for Critical Infrastructure Cyber-resilience

Backed by IEC 62443-4-1 and IEC 62443-4-2 certifications, ensuring secure development processes and robust product security for industrial automation systems, the platform not only offers high performance, but also remains secure and resilient to cyber threats, thus ensuring operational confidence for critical infrastructures.

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Many marketing teams already have AI agents scattered across their team. But often, most of that work happens in an isolated fashion (in someone’s individual chat window, for instance), making it invisible to the rest of the team and disconnected from the organizational flow of work.

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Novoseletsky joins Conduent with extensive experience in corporate governance, global payments, regulatory affairs, and strategic transactions. Most recently, she served as Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Cantaloupe, where she led legal and compliance initiatives while supporting mergers and acquisitions. Before that, she spent more than a decade at Discover Financial Services, advising on global payments, product innovation, and regulatory matters across more than 20 countries.

The appointment comes as organizations operating in highly regulated industries face increasing complexity around AI adoption, data privacy, cybersecurity, and evolving compliance requirements. As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, legal leadership is becoming a strategic function that helps organizations balance innovation with governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.

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Conduent, which delivers digital business solutions for government agencies, healthcare organizations, and commercial enterprises, continues to expand its use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, automation, cloud computing, and advanced analytics. Strengthening executive leadership in legal and governance aligns with the company’s broader efforts to support long-term operational transformation and responsible technology adoption.

The appointment reflects a broader trend across the technology industry, where companies are reinforcing executive teams with leaders who combine legal expertise with business strategy. As AI and digital services become increasingly embedded in enterprise operations, governance and compliance are playing a more central role in enabling sustainable innovation and maintaining stakeholder trust.

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“Payteros has earned a reputation in the enterprise community as a trusted digital consulting and integration firm. They have deep domain expertise delivering on its enterprise clients’ most complex work. Together, we deliver a rare combination of specialized capabilities paired with world-class engineering.” — Shaun Bank, CEO, ImagineX

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Both companies share a proven track record of driving measurable business outcomes and exceptional client experiences for some of the most recognizable brands in the world.

“ImagineX is the ideal partner for the next chapter of Payteros. We share a philosophy built on treating clients like partners, delivering practical technology that drives tangible ROI, and holding ourselves to the highest standard of execution. Together, we can bring even greater value to our clients and create exciting opportunities for our team.” — Cameron Balash, CEO, Payteros

The acquisition will enhance the value ImagineX can bring to its clients where seamless enterprise-wide systems are integral to scale and profitability. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Source: PRNewswire

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