THUUZ SPORTS, Partners FOX Sports and IBM Take First Place At Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards

Thuuz Sports, the fast-growing leader in automated short form sports video production, took home the top award at Thursday's Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards, winning for their cutting edge use of AI and ML as part of their collaboration with FOX and IBM during the FIFA World Cup. Thuuz's powering of the highlight machine was a first in consumer technology and has ushered in a new era of engagement with custom highlights for broadcasters and consumers alike. The honors taken home last week follow finalist accolades awarded by Cynopsis Sports and Hashtag Sports earlier this year for Thuuz's cutting edge technology work.

The inaugural Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards celebrate the exceptional teams behind the most outstanding broadcast productions of the past year. The awards spotlight the industry talent creating the television productions with the biggest impact. The nominees from both sports and entertainment production came from Broadcasters, Production Companies, Post Production, Content Creators & Technology Supply Chain from around the world.

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Thuuz Automated Video Highlights Platform Adds Adobe Premiere Pro Editing Integration

Automated sports video production platform Thuuz has launched a product integration with Adobe. Users can edit video clips using Adobe Premiere Pro directly within the Thuuz platform.

“We believe this new integration into the most widely used editing software on the market will not only make the job easier for editors and media partners to quickly service their audiences, it will quickly become the must have platform for anyone in media,” said Warren Packard, Thuuz CEO, in a press release.

Thuuz’s AI system uses live event audio, video, and live game statistics to rank video highlights by levels of excitement. The automated video highlights platform is used by media companies including Fox Sports, NBC Sports, Direct TV, Dish Network, Hulu, IBM, Liberty Global, Kayo Sports and Charter Communications. The platform is also used by the NFL and powered Fox’s Highlights Machine during the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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MLB Crypto Bobbleheads Have Sold For Thousands Of Dollars

A 2018 digital bobblehead of then-Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper stamped on the Ethereum blockchain has sold for $7,300 (25 Eth), while a bobblehead of LA Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw sold for $3,500 (12.2 Eth). 

The figures, bought and sold on the secondary market at MLBC.app, are a part of the MLB-licensed game MLB Champions, which was created by the Los Angeles-based Lucid Sight. The company is betting that people will start to understand digital scarcity and ownership. 

During the 2018 MLB baseball season, Lucid Sight released MLB Crypto Baseball, a beta version of MLB Champions, a digital collecting game in which fantasy players buy and sell collectibles that  earn rewards based on the results of real life baseball games. During the World Series in late October, the company will launch a new version of the continuously-evolving game.

Lucid Sight CEO Randy Saaf and his co-founders grew up in the 1980s. He recalls a time when collector card stores were common. “You could buy baseball cards from 7/11,” he said. Baseball cards date back to the 19th century, and have over the years been packaged with items like tobacco and Cracker Jacks. 

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GeekWire Elevator Pitch winner Syndio rides high with a software solution to address pay bias

Twelve entrepreneurs rode to the top of Seattle’s Smith Tower for Season 2 of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch. One of them kept going beyond that historic skyscraper elevator ride, all the way to victory at the 2019 GeekWire Summit on Wednesday.

The four finalists from four episodes of Elevator Pitch — in which business concepts were pitched in a 32-second elevator ride — emerged from a season featuring ideas related to agriculture, transportation, AI, IoT connectivity and more. They pitched once again, this time on stage in front of hundreds of Summit attendees at the Hyatt Regency. The entrepreneurs included:

• Greg Newbloom, CEO of Membrion Membrion, a University of Washington spinout that makes ion membranes for use in fuel cells and water desalination systems.

• Keith McCall, founder and CTO of Pollen Systems Pollen Systems, creators of agriculture and drone technology for the wine industry.

• Maria Colacurcio, CEO of Syndio Solutions, creators of a software solution to address discriminatory pay gaps.

• Jinesh Varia, CEO ofIndustrility, a startup focused on IoT technology solutions for industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Colacurcio and her Syndio pitch managed to impress our panel of judges once again and take the title this year. Her pitch also won the Geek’s Choice award after live voting by the audience in the Summit app.

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Willis Towers Watson and Syndio join forces on a pay equity solution

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 07, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Willis Towers Watson (WLTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Syndio, a leading HR analytics platform company with a mission to eradicate pay disparities.

The two companies will create a unique solution — combining Willis Towers Watson’s expertise in human capital advisory, data and software services with Syndio’s technology based on vetted methodology — to better enable organizations to address issues related to pay equity and fair pay.

“Pay gaps are one of the critical challenges that organizations and their HR functions face today,” said Mark Reid, leader, Global Rewards, Willis Towers Watson. “We’re excited that our collaboration with Syndio can help eradicate workplace pay disparities, leading to higher retention rates, a stronger corporate culture and greater profitability.”

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