HONG KONG, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lingnan University signed multiple significant strategic cooperation framework agreements yesterday (28 May) with Rizhao City, Shandong Province, Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co, Ltd. (Shandong Hi-Speed Group), Shandong Huge Dental Material Co., Ltd., and Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI). These collaborations aim to leverage each party's unique strengths in talent, research, and industry. Lingnan will conduct research projects with partner institutions, promote collaborative innovation, develop new quality productive forces, establish new research and development (R&D) institutions, accelerate the commercialisation of technological achievements, and cultivate a new generation of exceptional talent.
Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science of Lingnan University, was invited to attend the "Shandong-Hong Kong Opening-up and Cooperation, Technology Innovation for a Shared Future" 2024 Shandong-Hong Kong Technology Innovation Cooperation Conference, and delivered a speech where he said, "Lingnan University and Shandong Province share common development goals in sustainable development, green and low-carbon, and AI. The implementation of these pragmatic cooperation measures will strongly promote the exchange and deep integration of innovation elements between Shandong and Hong Kong, further accelerating the growth of new technologies and industries, and injecting vitality into new quality productivity. We look forward to having this agreement as a new starting point to advance Shandong-Hong Kong cooperation in broader fields, at higher levels, and to greater depths, making new and greater contributions to the economic and social development of both regions."
In the presence of witnesses Mr Lin Wu, Secretary of CPC Shandong Province Committee, and Prof Sun Dong, Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry of the HKSAR Government, Prof Qin, Dr Daniel Shi, Vice President of Advanced Electronic Components and Systems of ASTRI, Mr Wang Qifeng, Chairman of Shandong Hi-Speed Group, and Li Zaiwu, Municipal Party Secretary of Rizhao each signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU).
The signature of these strategic cooperation framework agreements marks an important milestone in Lingnan's integration into national development, including the establishment of the Lingnan University-Shandong Research Institute, creating a demonstration area for new quality productive forces driven by zero-carbon/ negative-carbon and smart technologies. Collaborations will be carried out in key projects such as green and low-carbon, AI, new materials, and biomedicine. Efforts will be made to implement technologies such as distributed CCUS (Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage), and to promote the commercialisation of Lingnan's achievements in carbon capture materials, stimulating the development of outstanding enterprises, as well as creating a new green and low-carbon brand for Shandong.
In the afternoon, a delegation from Rizhao City visited Lingnan University for a discussion and exchange session, and representatives from Lingnan and the Shandong Huge Dental Material Co., Ltd. held a signing ceremony for their collaboration on the development of new dental materials based on AI technology.
A major economic and carbon-emitting province in China, Shandong is steadily reaching its carbon emissions peak, and will soon become carbon neutral. It actively implements the important discourse of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, concerning the development of new quality productive forces. Shandong is vigorously promoting the conversion of old and new growth drivers, strongly cultivating and developing strategic emerging and future industries, and accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces, leading the nation in important developments. Recently, President Xi visited Rizhao to learn about local efforts in promoting the intelligent and green construction of ports and expanding the market. Lingnan hopes that these strategic cooperation framework agreements with the Shandong Provincial Government and enterprises will bring new opportunities for collaborative innovation and the integration of government, industry, academia, research, and applications.
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Lingnan University signs agreements with Rizhao City and Shandong Hi-Speed Group there to foster closer partnerships in green, low-carbon, and AI development
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Sydney-based sales team initiates platform support ticket after discovering significantly more contacts than expected. Investigation concludes that data is correct.
MELBOURNE, Australia and SINGAPORE, May 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Firmable, Asia-Pacific's leading AI-native sales platform, has confirmed the safe recovery of approximately 15,000 Australian accounting firm decision-makers previously unaccounted for in the data holdings of a leading global B2B data provider.
The contacts, which include finance directors, CFOs, managing partners, and senior decision-makers across accounting firms throughout Australia, were located on the Firmable platform during a routine free trial. The discovery was made by a Sydney-based sales professional who was trialing the platform.
Upon finding roughly 20,000 relevant contacts in Firmable compared to approximately 5,000 in the incumbent global provider's database, he immediately suspected a technical error and contacted support.
After a thorough review, the Firmable team confirmed no error had occurred. The contacts had been there the whole time.
"We understand the confusion," said Paul Perrett, co-CEO of Firmable. "When someone has been using a global platform and then opens ours, the difference in coverage can be genuinely disorienting. We want to reassure users that if Firmable is showing you significantly more contacts than you expected that is the platform working correctly. The data is real. The people exist. In this case, they are safely at work as finance decision makers in Australia."
The incident is believed to be part of a broader pattern in which sales professionals transitioning from global data platform providers to Firmable report unexpectedly complete coverage across their markets. Firmable's support team has noted a consistent theme: users assume the volume is a bug. It is not.
Unlike platforms built on recycled third-party data feeds optimised for North America, Firmable assembles its proprietary contact and account data through AI-driven web aggregation, LLM-based extraction, and continuous entity resolution across ANZ and APAC. The result is a dataset built for the region, rather than one in which the region is an afterthought.
The 15,000 recovered contacts are now available for immediate prospecting. Firmable wishes them well.
About Firmable
Firmable is Asia-Pacific's leading AI-native sales platform. Over 1,000 customers across Australia, New Zealand, and markets in Southeast Asia use Firmable to build prospect lists, monitor buying signals, and run sales engagement on proprietary, continuously refreshed data. Firmable was co-founded by Leigh Jasper, Paul Perrett, and Karthik Venkatasubramanian, who previously scaled Aconex to a $1.6 billion acquisition by Oracle. For more information, visit firmable.com.
Sydney-based sales team initiates platform support ticket after discovering significantly more contacts than expected. Investigation concludes that data is correct.
MELBOURNE, Australia and SINGAPORE, May 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Firmable, Asia-Pacific's leading AI-native sales platform, has confirmed the safe recovery of approximately 15,000 Australian accounting firm decision-makers previously unaccounted for in the data holdings of a leading global B2B data provider.
The contacts, which include finance directors, CFOs, managing partners, and senior decision-makers across accounting firms throughout Australia, were located on the Firmable platform during a routine free trial. The discovery was made by a Sydney-based sales professional who was trialing the platform.
Upon finding roughly 20,000 relevant contacts in Firmable compared to approximately 5,000 in the incumbent global provider's database, he immediately suspected a technical error and contacted support.
After a thorough review, the Firmable team confirmed no error had occurred. The contacts had been there the whole time.
"We understand the confusion," said Paul Perrett, co-CEO of Firmable. "When someone has been using a global platform and then opens ours, the difference in coverage can be genuinely disorienting. We want to reassure users that if Firmable is showing you significantly more contacts than you expected that is the platform working correctly. The data is real. The people exist. In this case, they are safely at work as finance decision makers in Australia."
The incident is believed to be part of a broader pattern in which sales professionals transitioning from global data platform providers to Firmable report unexpectedly complete coverage across their markets. Firmable's support team has noted a consistent theme: users assume the volume is a bug. It is not.
Unlike platforms built on recycled third-party data feeds optimised for North America, Firmable assembles its proprietary contact and account data through AI-driven web aggregation, LLM-based extraction, and continuous entity resolution across ANZ and APAC. The result is a dataset built for the region, rather than one in which the region is an afterthought.
The 15,000 recovered contacts are now available for immediate prospecting. Firmable wishes them well.
About Firmable
Firmable is Asia-Pacific's leading AI-native sales platform. Over 1,000 customers across Australia, New Zealand, and markets in Southeast Asia use Firmable to build prospect lists, monitor buying signals, and run sales engagement on proprietary, continuously refreshed data. Firmable was co-founded by Leigh Jasper, Paul Perrett, and Karthik Venkatasubramanian, who previously scaled Aconex to a $1.6 billion acquisition by Oracle. For more information, visit firmable.com.
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Relief as Firmable locates 15,000 accounting decision-makers reported missing at leading global B2B data provider
