Digital Engagement Program to Gather the Global Tea Industry, Explore Opportunities, Challenges and Trends

NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex’s World Tea Virtual Summit: What Now?, taking place Oct. 12-14, 2020, will feature tea industry leaders who’ll explore the global state of tea, opportunities and challenges, trends, and how to stay relevant in 2020 in both product development and messaging, among other topics. Registration for the digital event, along with the full conference program, will be available in early September at https://www.worldteaexpo.com/virtualsummit. 

World Tea Virtual Summit – from the organizers of the World Tea Conference + Expo and World Tea Academy – will feature insightful educational sessions, a New Product Showcase, The Best of Tea Awards, a virtual happy hour and opportunities to connect with the industry. The keynote will be presented by Sebastian Michaelis, “The Man with the Million Pounds Taste Buds” and the director of tea buying and blending at Tata Global Beverages (International).

“We’re delighted to bring the tea community together again for three days of learning, sharing ideas, reconnecting and networking virtually, in addition to supporting one another as we continue the shared journey through COVID-19,” said Tim McLucas, vice president, bar and restaurant, Questex Hospitality Group. “We invite the international tea and beverage industry to attend this October, as well as retailers and other businesses interested in tea.”

The summit’s educational agenda will cover an array of topics and feature industry experts, including: Peter Goggi, President, The Tea Association of the USA; Daniel Lewis, Certified Tea Sommelier and Tea Master, T by Daniel; Tony Tellin, Co-Founder, A. Tellin Company; Rona Tison, Executive Vice President – Corporate Relations & PR, ITO EN (North America) INC; Maria Uspenski, Founder and CEO, The Tea Spot; and Shabnam Weber, President, The Tea and Herbal Association of Canada; among others.

The World Tea Virtual Summit sponsors are ITO EN, Menna and The Tea Spot.

To inquire about the World Tea Virtual Summit or to become a sponsor, contact the World Tea Conference & Expo team at worldtea@questex.com. And be sure to follow the upcoming event on Twitter (@worldteamedia) and Facebook and Instagram (@worldteaexpo), or via #WorldTea2020.

World Tea Conference + Expo 2021
Next year, Questex will also present the World Tea Conference + Expo, July 14-16, 2021 in Denver, Colo. Conference delegates will experience new tea products, discover new ways to profit from tea across vertical markets, gain insights on starting or running a tea business, hear about the latest tea trends, and discuss tea issues in the global marketplace.

Questex Hospitality, organizer of the World Tea Conference + Expo and the World Tea Virtual Summit, opens doors and expands opportunities for an entire world of qualified hospitality owners, operators, suppliers and industry professionals eager to do business. The company focuses on connecting buyers and senior-level decision makers across the supply chain.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

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Awards Program Honors the Leaders in Pharma Marketing and Advertising

NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex today announces the finalists for the Fierce Pharma Marketing Awards, an annual awards program from Fierce Pharma. The competition highlights the pharma companies and their agencies that have produced thought-provoking, innovative, and compelling campaigns that are making a difference and meeting the global health challenges of today and tomorrow.

“This year’s submissions surpassed our expectations in both ingenuity and technical prowess, and they show just how innovative and creative pharma marketing can be. We are excited to share the great list of finalists that are paving the way and represent the industry’s elite marketers,” added Tracy Staton, Editor-in-Chief, Fierce Pharma.

Hundreds of entries were submitted by individuals representing over 40 organizations, for consideration in 13 categories including Online Video or Film, Social Media for Consumer, Website for Consumer, Digital Campaign – Non-Social Media, and Innovation Challenge. See the full list of categories.

Among the many extraordinary campaigns that have been recognized as finalists, the following organizations stand out as those with multiple finalist nominations: Condé Nast, Emcay, Fingerpaint, Harmony Biosciences, Hill Holliday, Proximyl Health, Samsung Biologics, and W2O. To view the full list of Finalists, click here. 

Each submission was reviewed by an exclusive panel of executives from major companies including Area 23, an FEC Health Network Company, CMI/Compas, Evoke KYNE, FCBCure, an FCB Health Network company, GCI Health, GSW, a Syneos Health Company, Havas Health & You, Klick Health, McCann Health, Ogilvy Health, Univision Communications, and W2O Group. All applications were evaluated based on the following criteria: creativity, strategy, audience impact, social good, true innovation, and effectiveness.

This year’s winners will be announced at Digital Pharma Innovation Week on October 26-30, 2020. More details will be announced shortly.

For sponsorship opportunities contact: 

Andy Walker  202-496-5522  awalker@questex.com

Dor Peled  917-258-5159  dpeled@questex.com

Shauna Greg  212-400-6228  sgreig@questex.com

About Questex: 
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here. 

About Fierce Pharma: 
Biopharma is a fast-growing world where big ideas come along daily. Our readers rely on FiercePharma for the latest news, analysis and data on drugs and the companies that make them. FiercePharma covers the pharma waterfront, from late-stage drug development through the entire lifecycle—tracking regulatory approvals, payer negotiations, manufacturing, marketing, patent fights, government investigations and regulation, M&A deals and beyond. Our aim is to analyze the day’s news, showing readers not only what they need to know, but why they need to know it. Beyond the daily, the FiercePharma team produces special reports that take stock of the industry’s products and finances, and shed new light on industry trends. 

Media Contact 
Emily Schriver 
Marketing Manager | Life Science & Healthcare 
Questex  
917-932-0431 
eschriver@questex.com 

NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Questex launches Hospitality Insights, a subscription platform created for global investors, developers, operators and advisors in the hospitality industry.

The new platform is part of Questex’s strategic direction of tying a portfolio of industry leading events with thought-leading editorial content, providing audiences with the tools they need in one location to make the right connections, understand trends, and discover new opportunities and business contacts to grow their businesses.  

“We have developed an innovative approach to continue our mission of developing and positioning the right content in front of the right people at the right time. Our new platform delivers news, content, insight and opinion into a single experience that allows our audiences to stay connected all year long. We filter out the noise and provide the tools business professionals need to shape decisions and guide business to improve the bottom line. We recognize that the hospitality industry is severely impacted by the pandemic and that is why we are offering a complimentary trial to the community,” said Paul Miller, CEO, Questex.

Hospitality Insights’ tagline “content with purpose” is evident in all aspects of a user’s experience, from easy on-the-go podcast interviews to deeper “In Focus” video interviews with industry leaders including Joachim Schmitt, CEO of Orascom Hotel Management in a discussion about the recent Travelodge news, Thanos Papasavvas, Founder & CIO, ABP Invest diving into Q2 investor sentiment, and a candid CEO discussion of redefining the industry between David Kong, CEO, BWH Hotel Group, Federico J González, President & CEO, Radisson Hotel Group, and Keith Barr, CEO, IHG.

Topical areas in year-round editorial coverage include adjacent spaces, asset management, destination outlook, development, design, investment, stakeholder alignment and tech hub.

Editor in Chief, EMEA of Questex, Katherine Doggrell says, “Hospitality Insight brings you unique news and comment from leading members of the hotel market, giving you the tools you need to engage with this most dynamic of sectors.”

Hospitality Insights offers three levels of membership. Complimentary Subscribers have access to daily news coverage and selection of newsletters, Insighters receive exclusive deep-dive content including “Insights” from industry shapers and decision makers plus virtual access to all events, and Oracle members receive investment insights in the form of a monthly profitability index, investor sentiment assessments and private roundtable discussions.

Group President for Questex Travel & Hospitality, Alexi Khajavi says, “Informed industries make for more efficient markets and the hotel investment market has always suffered from opacity. Hospitality Insights informs and connects the hospitality industry’s most active investors with insights that power the deals.”

During this critical time, Questex will open its Insighter membership to industry’s professionals at no cost, for a complimentary 60-day trial. Hospitality Insights also offers thought leadership solutions for companies looking to reach an engaged audience of nearly 355,000 users, which can be found in the media kit.

Questex Hospitality Group is the producer behind some of the industry’s largest and most successful live events, including The Annual Hotel Conference which brings together over 1,000 leading UK hoteliers, investors and suppliers each year in Manchester, The Resort & Residential Hospitality Investment Forum which attracts investors and developers from the leisure sector, and its flagship event which is in nearly every global hotel chain CEO’s calendar, The International Hospitality Investment Forum, which connects over 2,500 senior hospitality and tourism leaders each year in Berlin.

Visit Hospitality Insights at www.hospitalityinsights.com.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

Media Contact
Alexandra Aldridge
Marketing Director, Travel & Hospitality
aaldridge@questex.com
212-895-8284

Chegg Research Shows Close to Two-Thirds of U.S. Undergraduates Want to Continue Online Learning Post COVID-19

NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nearly 50,000 faculty members, academics, instructional designers, administrators and educators in all areas of higher education registered to attend REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, hosted by ASU on July 13-14, 2020.  With universities, state schools and community colleges representing more than 150 countries live at the event to witness 113 speakers leading more than 88 sessions, the virtual event set a new standard in decentralizing remote education expertise and unveiled a new research study from Chegg on how students are adapting to the new normal.

The Chegg survey shows that almost two-thirds (69%) of U.S. undergraduate students surveyed about their experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown said they would welcome some degree of online tuition post-pandemic. During the coronavirus pandemic, over a third of students (39%) said their academic performance was unaffected by the switch to remote learning, while a minority (36%) said they learned all the same things online as they would have done with face-to-face tuition.

“I immediately thought of Chegg’s ability to tap into their vast database of undergraduate students and share the student’s point of view on this transformation,” said David Levin, executive producer of REMOTE and University Entrepreneur in Residence at Arizona State University. “When I shared this concept with the Chegg executive team, they were among the first to committ financial backing to enable the event and resources to field the research.”

The vision for REMOTE as a ‘for good’ event came to Levin in early March as he watched the world change amidst the impact of COVID-19, and specifically the pivot educators and students were forced to adapt to virtually overnight.  “Part of understanding how to manage this transformation in pedagogy includes understanding the student point of view and offering this research to faculty at no cost helps everyone make more informed decisions,” Levin commented.

“Coronavirus has brought an overnight revolution. By fast-forwarding underlying trends, it has crystallised the stark choice faced by colleges:  they need to innovate if they want to survive,” said Dan Rosensweig, Chegg’s President and Chief Executive Officer.

The survey included 1,145 two-year and four-year U.S. undergraduates aged 18 and over and was conducted during the first two weeks of June by the polling organization Dynata on behalf of Chegg in collaboration with REMOTE and Arizona State University Foundation.

The survey identified a number of areas where universities can seek to improve online courses. Over three quarters of the students surveyed (77%) said their online course experience could be improved with better communication, while 76% said they want better planning for online courses.

The survey is available for download here.

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit is produced by Questex.

Learn more about REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit here. To register to attend the Summit, click here or stay connected on LinkedIn.

Media Contacts
Kate Spellman
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488

Marc Boxser
Chegg
presss@chegg.com

LDI Reconvenes in November 2021

NEW YORK, Aug. 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex, the parent company of Live Design International (LDI), today announces the event will be forced to cancel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. LDI was originally scheduled to run October 23-25, 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

The 2021 edition is scheduled to take place November 19-21, 2021 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

“For more than three decades, LDI has been the hub for the global live production community to learn about new technologies and applications, engage with peers and industry vendors and replenish creativity,” says Marian Sandberg, Vice President & Market Leader, LDI and Live Design. “This will be the first time in our 32-year history that the event has been forced to cancel. Our thoughts go out to everyone who has been affected by the current situation. Our number-one priority remains keeping our entire industry safe and helping to rebuild in the near future, in a manner that reflects our community-forward focus.”

The LDI team is working through the logistics that are involved with canceling an event. All attendee registration tickets purchased for the original LDI 2020 dates will be honored for a full credit towards the 2021 event. Exhibitors and sponsors will be contacted soon with information.

Please contact Marian Sandberg, Vice President & Market Leader, LDI and Live Design, at msandberg@livedesignonline.com with immediate exhibitor inquiries. 

Additional updates regarding LDI will be published on ldishow.com.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

Media Contact
Kate Spellman
Chief Marketing Officer
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488

LONDON, July 22, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hospitality Insights, a division of Questex, launches the second quarterly Investor Sentiment Assessment, in partnership with ABP Invest, an advisory firm providing strategic outlook and research on geopolitics, economics, markets and FX and a frequent keynote speaker at Questex events. The assessment captures the intentions of investors with over $150 billion in assets under management. 

“The Investor Sentiment Assessment is an important index for the hotel investment sector particularly at a point in time when the industry is reeling against the backdrop of an estimated $200 billion wall of money bearing down on it,” shares Alexi Khajavi, Group President, Travel & Hospitality, Questex. “It’s encouraging to see investors are as committed as ever to hospitality as an asset class and we expect Q4 2020 and certainly Q1 2021 and beyond to be active with regards to deal making and transactions.”

The Q1 assessment, which is available for download here, was launched at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, at a time when the sector was reeling, and this latest edition tackles the second phase of the outbreak, as the sector tentatively reopens around the world.

Thanos Papasavvas, founder & CIO, ABP Invest, said: “There has been a marked improvement on investors’ economic sentiment in this quarter’s Hospitality Insights Investor Sentiment Assessment, with 65% of investors expecting improved economic conditions over the next 12 months. Yet, whilst the broader economic sentiment has improved markedly since March, the investment sentiment for hotels has not had the same turnaround, with reduced positive sentiment and increased uncertainty. This has also led to an increase in the number of investors who think the hotel investment market cycle is in a contraction (65%) compared to 53% last quarter.”

Papasavvas added, “In terms of investment preferences, Germany stood out as the preferred investment location overtaking the UK, Italy and Spain. We believe this was instigated predominantly, but not only, by Covid-19. From an economic perspective, Germany’s contained levels of Covid-19 alongside the most generous fiscal support amongst any other government in percent of GDP terms, helps provide economic support and stable consumer sentiment. From a social perspective, a further two elements have also converged in our view: the constrained travelling opportunities from Covid-19 and the broader concerns on climate change which have both created a shift towards ‘staycations’ with Germans ‘finding their own country’ again.”

One key theme that has emerged is the investor interest in what is now a mainstream asset class, with M&A expected to flood out of this crisis. A vast majority of respondents classify themselves as net buyers (78%), with an optimal holding period of 6-10 years, which holds consistent with responses from our Q1 assessment. Travel will return, is the feeling, with pent up demand from both travellers and investors fuelling hope and keeping the focus on the sector.

The Q3 edition of the Hospitality Insights Investor Sentiment Assessment will be reserved for Hospitality Insights subscribers only. For more information on subscriptions, please contact Peter Kealy, Delegate Sales Representative, pkealy@questex.com.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

Media Contact
Alexandra Aldridge
Marketing Director, Questex Travel & Hospitality
212-895-8284
Aaldridge@questex.com

NEW YORK, July 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex’s Fierce AI Week, the virtual event focused exclusively on the application of AI to drive business, customer and process value for emerging and large enterprises, today announces Shankar Arumugavelu, Senior Vice President and Global CIO at Verizon will participate in a Fireside Chat with Fierce Telecom’s Editor in Chief, Linda Hardesty. Arumugavelu and Hardesty will discuss Verizon’s innovative customer experience through artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, Bindu Reddy, CEO/Co-Founder of Abacus.ai will deliver a keynote address on August 11. Fierce AI Week will take place August 10-12, 2020. Register to attend here.

Over three days, Fierce AI Week will offer a discuss, debate and define format of keynote presentations, vertical industry sessions focused on electronics/manufacturing, healthcare, telecom/technology and biotech/pharma and an AI Pitch Tank where start-up companies pitch new ideas.

Fierce AI Week will host dozens of speakers including thought leaders from a myriad of industries that will share real-world approaches to applying AI including machine learning, drug discovery and medical research. Bob Evans, the creator of Cloud Wars and former EVP at Oracle, SAP and InformationWeek, will outline his perspective on what AI means to the way we work today and into the future.

Additional speakers include:

• Rajeev Ronanki, Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, Anthem
• Arvind Ramanathan, Technology Leader, Argonne National Laboratory  
• Neil McRae, Managing Director & Chief Architect, BT
• Peter Richardson, Vice President of Pharmacology, BenevolentAI  
• David Shacochis, Vice President, Enterprise Technology, CenturyLink  
• Matt Hayes, Executive Director, Access Engineering, Cox Communication  
• Kaladhar Voruganti, Vice President, Technology Innovation, Equinix  
• James Hamrick, Senior Medical Director, Flatiron Health
• Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud
• Ian Bernstein, Founder, Misty Robotics  
• Bertrand Bodson, Chief Digital Officer, Novartis  
• Amy West, Head of U.S. Digital Strategy, Novo Nordisk  
• Brendan Gallagher, Chief Connected Health Officer, Publicis Health
• Rob Wilmot, Chief Architect, Red Hat North America  

Fierce AI Week will gather more than 3,000 C-level, technology, automation, marketing and AI specific professionals as well as investors and channel partners. Companies currently registered to attend include Abbott Laboratories, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Nestle, Verizon and more.

“Artificial Intelligence is helping us to discover, identify, automate and learn how to drive new levels of business, customer and process value out of organizations, both big and small,” said John Siefert, Group President, Market Development and Executive Producer of Fierce AI Week. “We have a spectacular line up of industry thought leaders from various industries who will define their approach to applying AI and will provide practical solutions and outcomes to event attendees. This first of its kind virtual event will set the standard in defining what it means to be fierce in application of AI.”

Event sponsors include Equinix, Linguamatics, an IQVIA company, Red Hat and XMOS.

To register for Fierce AI Week, click here. For sponsorship and speaking opportunities, contact Rhiannon James at rjames@questex.com.

Stay connected with Fierce AI Week on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

Media Contact
Kate Spellman
Chief Marketing Officer
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488

World Tea Conference & Expo Reconvenes in July 2021

NEW YORK, July 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Questex, the parent company of World Tea Conference + Expo, today announces the event will be forced to cancel, as the Colorado Convention Center has declared no large-scale events can take place in the building for the rest of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World Tea Conference + Expo was originally scheduled to run October 15-18, 2020 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.

World Tea Conference + Expo has been the hub for tea industry professionals to come together with their passion of tea to learn, grow their businesses, and network with their peers, while building lasting partnerships and friendships. The 2021 edition is scheduled to take place July 14-16, 2021 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. This will be the first time in 18 years the event has been forced to cancel. Our thoughts go out to everyone who has been affected by the current situation and our number one priority remains keeping our entire community safe. 

Our team is working through all of the logistics that are involved with cancelling an event. We understand that you will have questions and concerns. All attendee registration tickets purchased for the original World Tea Conference + Expo 2020 dates will be honored for a full credit towards the 2021 event. Exhibitors will be contacted soon with information. Please contact Tim McLucas, Vice President, Hospitality Group, at tmclucas@questex.com with immediate exhibitor inquiries. 

Additional updates regarding World Tea Conference + Expo will be published on worldteaexo.com.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.

Media Contact
Kate Spellman
Chief Marketing Officer
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488

NEW YORK, July 07, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — COVID-19 has created a complicated new reality for universities and colleges to educate students at a distance. REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, hosted by ASU, takes place July 13-14, addressing this head on by bringing together an extraordinary line up of Educational innovators, thought practitioners and influencers to assist faculty with the preparation of online and blended learning for fall 2020. Click here to register to attend. The virtual conference, free for faculty, will address student experience, engagement, course design, discipline insights and other critical issues that are arising daily.

“Higher education faculty have been tremendously impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. With little training or support, in a very short amount of time, they pivoted to teach online,” said David Levin, University Entrepreneur in Residence, Arizona State University and Executive Producer of REMOTE. “REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit was design to equip faculty with tools, tips and techniques and a reflection on the pedagogy that would be effective for them get back to school this fall.” 

A diverse group of more than 100 speakers from 60 universities and institutions, the program includes keynote presentations and 88 half hour sessions focused on disciplines, best practices and policy over two three-hour days which include networking chats and live Q&A’s where attendees can directly ask questions and speakers will answer in real-time. In addition, there will be a live track of 12 sessions featuring Every Learner Everywhere experts in digital instruction and pedagogy.

Keynote speakers include:

• Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University will kick-off the event. President Crow will share his observations on the wider situation across higher education and on the opportunity for faculty to seize this moment to drive change to create a system fit for the 21^st Century. 
• Kristie Ornelas, Senior Director of Cisco Customer Experience and Scott Galloway, Professor at NYU Stern, founder, and bestselling author will discuss the future of higher education, lessons learned in remote learning and how technology companies can accelerate the ongoing transformation.

Selected featured speakers include:

• Ariel Anbar, Professor, Arizona State University
• Mike Caulfield, Director of Blended and Networked Learning, Washington State
• Tom Thomas Cavanagh, Vice Provost for Digital Learning, University of Central Florida
• Cathy Davidson, Distinguished and Founding Director of the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center, CUNY
• Christy Fogal, Mathematics Professor, State University of NY/Monroe Community College
• Jose J. Vazquez, Clinical Professor, University of Illinois, Department of Economics

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit will take place in an interactive environment, which replicates the look and feel of a conference and allows attendees to discover immediate ways to improve online class delivery and to obtain navigation assistance around blended delivery. The digital environment provides multiple theaters where attendees can filter the extensive Agenda by areas of interest. Seven presentations run simultaneously every half hour, broken out by topics. The event optimizes networking among attendees with themed Lounges based on types of disciplines and common topics within each. Attendees can join chat rooms to meet and connect with others and share in “free-form” conversations. At the end of each day, attendees are invited to attend a Virtual Happy Hour to share highlights, favorite sessions and talk about the value the Summit.

To date, the Summit has over 17,000 registrants from more than 150 universities and institutions registered to attend. The majority of registrants are professors, instructors, lecturers, teaching professionals, instructional designers, provosts, deans, and department chairs and administrators. Fifty-eight percent of registrants are involved in hybrid teaching (online and on-campus), 35 percent are fully online and seven percent are on-campus only.

Summit sponsors include Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pearson, Cisco, Chegg, Course Hero, Microsoft, McGraw Hill, Cengage, Macmillan Learning, Soomo, Association of College & University Educators (ACUE), CogBooks, iDesign, Respondus and Six Red Marbles. Media partners include The Chronicle of Higher Education and Times Higher Education. The publishers, platforms and innovators have generously donated to the ASU Foundation with their sponsorship to allow a “free for faculty” model.

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit is produced by Questex.

Learn more about REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit here. View the complete speaker line up here. To register to attend the Summit, click here or stay connected on LinkedIn.

Media Contacts
Kate Spellman
Chief Marketing Officer
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488

Carrie Peterson
Sr. Manager, Media Relations | ASU EdPlus
Arizona State University
CarriePeterson@asu.edu
480 884 1541

Introduces Fierce AI Week to Examine the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Drive Business, Customer and Process Value

NEW YORK, July 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As companies transform digitally and infrastructure becomes more agile, the prospect of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) has never been more promising. Questex today announces it has entered the AI marketplace, which is expected to reach $390.9 billion by 2025 (Grand View Research, Inc.). 

Fierce AI will follow the established and successful Fierce content model and the first initiative will be a week-long virtual event focused exclusively on the application of AI to drive business, customer and process value for emerging and large enterprises. The event will offer a discuss, debate and define format of keynote presentations, vertical industry sessions and an AI Pitch Tank where start-up companies pitch new ideas, followed by a Fierce AI content site, newsletter and live events over time.

Scheduled to take place August 10-12, Fierce AI Week will deliver three days of presentations as well as tracks focused on electronics/manufacturing, healthcare, telecom/technology and biotech/pharma. Fierce AI Week will host dozens of speakers including thought leaders from a myriad of industries that will share real-world approaches to applying AI including machine learning, drug discovery and medical research. Fierce AI Week will gather C-level, technology, automation, marketing and AI specific professionals as well as investors and channel partners.

Fierce AI is the first new market to launch through the new Fierce model.

“We decided to enter this vertical due to market demand. Not only do we have a robust audience database in this area but we also have deep expertise in this topic through our other Fierce market brands,” said Paul Miller, CEO, Questex. “Our proprietary framework of delivering world-class content, strong audience interaction and identifying and launching events allows us to replicate and scale quickly into new verticals organically.”

To register for Fierce AI Week, click here. For sponsorship and speaking opportunities, contact Rhiannon James at rjames@questex.com.

About Questex
Questex helps people live better and longer. Questex brings people together in the markets that help people live better: travel, hospitality and wellness; the industries that help people live longer: life science and healthcare; and the technologies that enable and fuel these new experiences. We live in the experience economy – connecting our ecosystem through live events, surrounded by data insights and digital communities. We deliver experience and real results. It happens here.             

Media Contact
Kate Spellman
Chief Marketing Officer
Questex
kspellman@questex.com
212 895 8488