BARCELONA, Spain & RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 4, 2025--
Aizon and Sequence are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership aimed at delivering comprehensive, AI-powered solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. This collaboration will combine Aizon's cutting-edge AI and data analytics platform with Sequence's engineering and compliance expertise to deliver intelligent, compliant, and manufacturing-centric solutions that accelerate digital transformation in regulated environments.
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Sequence, established in 2002, is a consulting firm specializing in engineering and compliance for pharmaceutical manufacturing, laboratories, and computerized systems. With a strong track record of serving major pharmaceutical corporations, Sequence offers a range of services including project-based consulting, managed services, and specialized support.
Aizon brings to the partnership its innovative AI-driven pharma manufacturing optimization platform, which empowers pharmaceutical companies to optimize processes, gain real-time insights from manufacturing data, and ensure compliance. Aizon’s technology enables predictive analytics, advanced process control, and streamlined quality management, driving significant improvements in operational efficiency and product quality.
This partnership will focus on integrating Aizon's AI-driven insights with Sequence's capabilities to offer clients a seamless approach to:
"This partnership represents an exciting opportunity to drive significant value for the pharmaceutical industry," said Pep Gubau, Co-founder and CEO of Aizon. "By combining our AI capabilities with Sequence's deep understanding of engineering and compliance, we can empower companies to accelerate innovation, optimize manufacturing, and ultimately deliver life-saving therapies to patients faster."
"Sequence is thrilled to partner with Aizon to provide our clients with a more comprehensive and innovative approach to manufacturing," said Justin Wood, Chief Services Officer at Sequence. "Together, we will leverage our combined expertise to streamline the implementation process, enhance operational efficiency, and support our clients in achieving their goals of delivering high-quality products to the market more quickly."
About Sequence
Sequence Inc. provides turn-key consulting solutions and services for the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry with a focus on engineering and compliance. With over 20 years of experience, Sequence provides a full suite of services from initial planning and strategy to execution and ongoing support, ensuring clients' facilities are fit for intended use and meet all regulatory requirements. Founded in 2002, Sequence provides consulting solutions to clients across the U.S. and parts of Europe. The company is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina with a second hub in Framingham, Massachusetts. Learn more at Sequenceqcs.com.
About Aizon
Aizon is leading pharmaceutical manufacturing innovation with a unified, GMP-compliant predictive analytics platform. What sets Aizon apart is its unique integration of intelligent batch records, a contextualized lakehouse, and a purpose-built foundation for GMP-grade AI industrialization. Backed by over a decade of experience delivering AI-driven outcomes, such as increased yield, reduced COGS, and greater capacity, Aizon’s platform combines ease of use, flexibility, and scalability. This empowers customers to enhance decision-making and drive measurable impact on their P&L. Learn more at aizon.ai.
Aizon and Sequence Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing with AI-Powered Solutions
BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin on Sunday for another round of talks intended to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine as Moscow and Kyiv stuck to their sharply opposite views of a prospective peace deal.
Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials will hold a series of meetings in Berlin. He said he will meet personally with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner in Berlin.
Responding to journalists’ questions in audio clips on a WhatsApp group chat, Zelenskyy emphasized the need for Ukraine to receive firm guarantees from the United States and European allies that would be similar to those offered to NATO members after the U.S. and some European countries stonewalled Ukraine’s bid to join the military alliance.
“These security guarantees are an opportunity to prevent another wave of Russian aggression,” he said. "And this is already a compromise on our part.”
Zelenskyy emphasized that any security assurances would need to be legally binding and supported by the U.S. Congress, adding that he expected an update from his team following a meeting between Ukrainian and U.S. military officials in Stuttgart.
He said that he will meet separately with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and, possibly, other European leaders later in the evening. He said he hadn’t yet received any response from the U.S. to Ukraine’s latest proposals on the peace plan.
Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control and abandon its bid to join NATO, among the key conditions for peace — demands Kyiv has rejected.
Putin's foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told the business daily Kommersant that Russian police and national guard would stay in parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if they become a demilitarized zone under a prospective peace plan, a demand likely to be rejected by Ukraine as U.S.-led negotiations drag on.
Ushakov warned that a search for compromise could take a long time, noting that the U.S. proposals that took into account Russian demands had been “worsened” by alterations proposed by Ukraine and its European allies.
Speaking to Russian state TV in remarks broadcast Sunday, Ushakov said that “the contribution of Ukrainians and Europeans to these documents is unlikely to be constructive," warning that Moscow will “have very strong objections.”
Ushakov added that the territorial issue was actively discussed in Moscow when Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin earlier this month. “The Americans know and understand our position," he said.
Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”
He warned that Putin's aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.” “If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned on Saturday during a party conference in Munich.
Putin has denied plans to restore the Soviet Union or attack any European allies.
As peace efforts continued, Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of aerial attacks.
Ukraine’s air force said overnight Russia launched ballistic missiles and 138 attack drones at Ukraine. In its daily report, the air force said 110 had been intercepted or downed, but missile and drone hits were recorded at six locations.
Zelenskyy said Sunday that hundreds of thousands of families were still without power in the south, east and north-east regions and work was continuing to restore electricity, heat and water to multiple regions following a large-scale attack the previous night.
The Ukrainian president said that in the past week, Russia had launched over 1,500 strike drones, nearly 900 guided aerial bombs and 46 missiles of various types at Ukraine.
“Ukraine needs peace on decent terms, and we are ready to work as constructively as possible. These days will be filled with diplomacy. It’s very important that it brings results,” Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 235 Ukrainian drones late Saturday and early Sunday.
In the Belgorod region, a drone injured a man and set his house ablaze in the village of Yasnye Zori, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Uryupinsk in the Volgograd region, triggering a fire, according to the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov.
In the Krasnodar region, the Ukrainian drones attacked the town of Afipsky, where an oil refinery is located. The authorities said that explosions shattered windows in residential buildings, but didn’t report any damage to the refinery.
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Ciobanu reported from Warsaw, Poland.
Günter Sautter, left, foreign and security policy advisor to the Federal Chancellor, and former Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umjerow arrive for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Jared Kushner, entrepreneur and former chief advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
Ukraine's Secretary of National Security Rustem Umerov, right, and Günter Sautter, Foreign and Security Policy Advisor to Chancellor Merz meet in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Steve Witkoff, special envoy of the United States, arrives for talks between representatives of the U.S. and Ukraine, at the Hotel Adlon, in Berlin, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
In this grab from a video provided by the Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine on Friday, Dec 12, 2025, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy records a video at the road entering of Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine via AP)
