ESL Pro League launches player council – Esports Insider

The ESL Pro League has announced the creation of a player council featuring competitors from the CS:GO competition’s 12 partnered teams. The first-of-its-kind council, titled the EPL Player Council, has already hosted its first meeting and saw representatives from all partnered teams attend. There are currently four meetings scheduled to take place throughout 2021. RELATED: ESL […]

Optibus launches new AI platform to help cities plan transit routes

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Real-time transit can be a dilemma for municipalities that lack scalable infrastructure. Tasks like routing, timing, and asset management are tough to optimize without a system for moving the necessary pieces into place. And with the number of heavy-duty transit […]

paiN Gaming Launches Influencers House Lifestyle Project

Following a model that was established in Brazil from Final Level and LOUD content creation, the esports organization paiN Gaming is also launching its own project in which five selected influencers will live and produce gaming lifestyle-based content. The mansion is located in the São Paulo district Alphavile. paiN Gaming expects to generate more engagement […]

Peking University Launches Training Class for Esports Management Talents

China’s top educational institution, Peking University, announced that it has launched a three-month-long training class from Jan. 16 –  April 11, targeting people who want to become management talents in the esports industry. The class is aimed at developing top esports industrial talents. Wenyi He, secretary of the Peking University National Sports Industry Research Foundation […]

Kaskada launches platform to prep data for AI models

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Feature engineering, or the process of using domain knowledge to extract features from data, is essential to tuning AI and machine learning performance. It’s also typically arduous and involves rewriting features before they’re deployed. Often, a missing piece is infrastructure […]

Salesforce launches tool to help businesses drive loyalty during the pandemic

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Salesforce today unveiled a product designed to help companies that are selling through distribution channels automate, scale, and leverage AI-driven insights for their rebate programs. Called Rebate Management, it taps a customizable data model to promote visibility and collaboration for […]

NAVI Launches ‘NAVINATION’ Fan Engagement Initiative

Ukraine-based esports organization NAVI (Natus Vincere) has launched its new fan-focused initiative called NAVINATION this week. Through a partnership (which was revealed in December of 2020) with Los Angeles-based blockchain game tech company DMarket, NAVINATION is best described as equal parts competition and a fan engagement initiative that will be rolled out in seasons. The […]