Below are the Contents of our current ABL Technology Online News & Trendletter + Mimi Grant’s Blog & Vlog
August 16, 2022
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ABL-TECH MEMBER NEWS
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- 7thSense Collaborates on MSG Sphere Technology at New Burbank Studio + Works with Outernet London & Electrosonic
- Alvaka‘s “Ransomware Rescue” Car Placed #2 at Spec Corvette National Championship
- Coherent Unveils New Ultraviolet Lasers for Flow Cytometry
- Covetrus Study Finds Its Technology Saves Time, Provides Relief to Veterinary Practices
- Eckert & Ziegler Teams with PRECIRIX, NAID/NIH & European Defense Fund
- Adam Miller-Affiliated Instil Integrates Online Fundraising Powered by Pledge
- LookinLA Wants You to Participate in its 2023 Annual Marketing Report
- Xsolla Helps Indie Studios Get Early-Stage Funding & Launches Streamlined Payouts for Game Developers
INSIGHTS FROM ADAPTIVE TECH LEADERS
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- AfterNow on: Increasing Productivity + How VR Can Enhance Flow & Focus – Aug. 17 Event
- Dave Berkus on: Importance of Explaining “Why” & Most-Effective Leadership Styles
- GIDEON on: Predicting the Future with GIDEON Data + Monkeypox Outbreak
- Half Past Nine on: Marketing Data Visualization to Leverage Your Sources of Truth
- Nortridge Software on: Why You Should Offer Buy-Now, Pay-Later Services
- OEwaves on: Next-Generation High-Performance Lasers
- Optimum Info on: Vertically Focused Field Operations Solution
- Parasoft on: Black Friday is Coming – Load Your Test Apps Now
- Profi on: Becoming an Indi Professional Service Provider & 11 Best Coaching Management Software
- ProProfs on: How to Create a Workplace Safety Quiz
- Marshall Toplansky on: The Need for Reshoring Semiconductors & Future of Space
- Vincit on: More About its “CEO of the Day” Program
HEALTH IT MEMBER NEWS
UPCOMING ABL-TECH ROUND TABLES & EVENTS
In September’s Zoom Tables, we’ll be discussing “Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation: What’s Key Now.”
Sept 1 – ABL-Tech OC ZOOM Table – featuring Arvind Verma, CEO, Optimum Info
Sept 2 – ABL-Tech SGV ZOOM Table – featuring John Tanner, CEO, Tanner Research
Sept 9 – ABL-Tech WLA ZOOM Table – featuring Greg Lebsack
Sept 20, 9-11 a.m. – “AFTER THE SALE” ABL MEMBERSHIP- WIDE ZOOM EVENT: featuring 3 Members who were able to reap the benefits (and a few thorns) that went along with their “SOLD” signs. Hear firsthand the stories about their “Roads to the Exit,” Post-Exit Realities – including what’s worked better (and worse) than expected, and what they’d do differently next time. Bring your questions, because our speakers are bound to have plenty of answers!
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TECH INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDS
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- President Biden Signs $280 Billion Bipartisan Bill to Boost Domestic High-Tech Manufacturing
- Top 25 Emerging Technologies: Which Ones Will Live Up to the Hype?
- Cybersecurity, Cloud and AI & Robotics: The New Digital Utilities
- How to Spot a Deepfake? “One Simple Trick is All You Need”
- Top 3 Soft Skills That Are Anything But Soft In Technology Leadership
- FCC Denies SpaceX Bid for Nearly $1 Billion in Rural Broadband Subsidies for Starlink; MEANWHILE Google Fiber Plans 5-State Growth Spurt
- CDC Drops Quarantine Recommendation for Those Exposed to COVID
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Blog by Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization
Re-Cap of Mimi’s Recent Participation at the FUTURES Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Mimi recently participated in the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” held at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building on the National Mall. Here, Mimi shares a brief photo journal, with captions, of her incredible experience.
In 1879, the “National Museum” – the nation’s first, was “crowned” on the Washington Mall. Last November, after being closed for the past 20 years, the renamed Smithsonian “Arts + Industries Building” (AIB) reopened its doors to host the “FUTURES” exhibit. Over the eight months of the exhibit, FUTURES looked at a number of themes, including the future of AI, Generative Design, Conservation, Energy, Transportation, Work, Fashion, Gaming, and “Healthcare – in 2050.”
On June 25th, the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” highlighted a special demonstration entitled, “The Doctor Is In (SPACE),” “demonstrating” how an astronaut using a MedWand on a patient in space could conceivably link with a terrestrial doctor for an exam. MedWand’s Co-Founders, Bob Rose, CEO, and Samir Qamar, MD, CMO, were frequently seen on-hand answering questions from the 12,000 visitors who toured the Exhibit on “Solstice Saturday,” when several of the Smithsonian museums, including AIB, stayed open late – some till midnight.
Later, I had the honor of moderating an outstanding panel of experts, supplemented with questions from the audience who “Interrupted Your Regularly Scheduled Panel” throughout “WIYRSP: Living Longer in the Future.” To kick it off we introduced “Elizabeth,” a great grandmother, who was captured on her grandson’s iPhone for the masses when she demonstrated her impressive moves as she got down to Bruno Mars at her 100th birthday party surrounded by friends and family…
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WELCOME NEW MEMBER!
>>>Mark Parinas is Founder & CEO of Curaesoft, which he launched in 2015 after completing a three-year study of the critical software solution needs in the healthcare industry. Curaesoft specializes in custom software built for healthcare, social services, and workforce management. They also build electronic health record systems that cover a healthcare service company’s many different but interdependent functional needs, including clinical recording, healthcare business management, clinical compliance, recruitment, HR and financial management, clinical billing, payroll, staff performance evaluation, care coordination, wage/hour, and more. Curaesoft uses a highly agile process to extract the business, clinical, and process support needs from its clients and builds working software assets that can pay back in enhanced operational efficiency and clinical effectiveness. Mark is also CEO of CVHCare, a home health agency which he co-founded in 2005, which serves the San Francisco Bay, Greater Sacramento, and Greater Los Angeles areas. Previously, Mark was an ICU RN for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and a CCU/ Tele/MedSurg RN for Sutter Healthcare. Earlier, he was a Key Channels Development Specialist for Nestle, SA. Already a long-time Member of ABL-Health’s Oakland Round Table, Mark has now also joined the ABL-Tech West Los Angeles Round Table.
Vlog by Mimi Grant
To Boost or Not to Boost?: That is THE Question
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Podcast Episodes
Is It Time For a COVID-Era Marshall Plan?; 6/2021
Lessons We Can Learn Today From the Last Great Epidemic; 5/2021
Super-Charge Your Post-Pandemic Strategic Plan; 4/2021
Back to the “Skills of the Future”; 10/2020
The Importance of Brand Narratives; 10/2020
Winning in the COVID – Or Any – Economy; 10/2020
The Latest Silicon Valley Breakthrough: Liquid Biopsy; 7/31/20
Getting Back to Work in the Office – How to Do It; 6/23/20
The Four Pillars of the Latest “New Normal”; 5/26/20
Labs (and Tesla) Help California to Reopen; 5/12/20
Appreciating the Silver Lining in the ‘New Normal’; 4/15/20
Tips & Clips from the WFH Pros; 3/30/20
MITIGATION: California & ABL Members Respond to COVID-19; 3/24/20
The Robots Are Coming – It’s About Time; 9/16/19
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