Comment: Boosting feminine illustration and recommendation for younger girls beginning out in know-how

On International Women in Engineering Day 2023, Mai Hassan, Solutions Consultant at Excellent Zephyr, mentioned the important thing limitations for girls getting into the tech business, together with creating actual change through the recruitment course of, and provides recommendation to these beginning out on this area.

Polytag and Biffa crew as much as assist Ocado Retail, Co-op and Aldi acquire packaging lifecycle information

Recycling tech firm, Polytag, and sustainable waste administration firm, Biffa, have introduced a collaboration with Ocado Retail, Co-op, and Aldi.

Through monitoring analytics through the Polytag dashboard, the UK retailers will be capable of entry real-time information insights, corresponding to the place, when and the way a lot packaging has been recycled.

Moreover, Polytag will allow Biffa to begin to seize real-time information on packaging composition straight by means of its processing operations, informing recycling technique, funding in sorting, restoration tools, and the onward monitoring of supplies.

The companies have joined forces as a part of plastics, useful resource, effectivity and recycling charity RECOUP’s 26-week lengthy ‘Bottle to Bottle’ undertaking, along with label printer Interket UK, the UK’s largest dairy co-operative Arla Foods and Müller Milk & Ingredients.

This will see Co-op’s water bottles and Aldi and Ocado’s milk marked with UV 2D tags, printed by Interket UK, with a Polytag UV tag reader retrofitted onto the plastic conveyor at Biffa’s Teesside MRF within the northeast of England.

Patchworks launches new instruments for e-commerce manufacturers: Connector Builder, Connector Marketplace and Process Flows

Patchworks has launched the most recent additions to its integration platform as a service (iPaaS) – Connector Builder, Connector Marketplace and pre-built Process Flows which allow e-commerce manufacturers to customize their very own integrations.

Patchworks, a latest member of the MACH Alliance, says that, with Connector Marketplace, its library of pre-built connectors, groups with minimal tech experience can combine best-of-breed functions rapidly and simply with the press of a button.

Connector Builder permits manufacturers or businesses to automate, streamline, and develop their operation by constructing bespoke connectors for techniques and Process Flows permits retailers to attach their techniques collectively by means of drag and drop course of workflows by connecting collectively ‘shapes’ in sequence.

Featuring DREST, DePoly, and Dexory: Six retail know-how funding rounds it’s worthwhile to find out about

RTIH rounds up six retail tech ventures who have recently secured significant investments in their businesses, together with Cart.com, Upp., and Utu.

Deutsche Bahn opens checkout-free retailer at railway station in Berlin, powered by AiFi know-how

AiFi has introduced the opening of its latest autonomous retailer inside Berlin’s Ostbahnhof Deutsche Bahn railway station.

The 24/7 ServiceRetailer is run by DB Station&Service, operated by SSP Deutschland.

While US-based AiFi has elevated its European presence over the previous 4 years, this latest location in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, is the primary one for public prospects to launch in Germany.

“Our technology has been helping consumers avoid long queues and reclaim that critical time amid their travels, so that they can move through their days more swiftly and focus their time and attention on things that matter most,” says Sander Garnier, New Business and Account Manager, Europe at AiFi.

“We are proud to partner with Deutsche Bahn to bring frictionless technology to shoppers and commuters in Berlin’s Ostbahnhof railway station.”