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Welcome to MedHealth as they join the EDM Association

MedHealth Group Pty Ltd is a purpose-built collection of industry leading health, medical and employment brands to get the best possible health and employment outcomes for their client organisations and the people they support.

MedHealth supports whole populations to better outcomes, yet never loses sight of the individual they are working with to build a better life through work and health. MedHealth’s customers are from a broad base of government sector and private business organisations who are responsible for the health and employment outcomes of an individual.

Headquartered in Melbourne, their team includes over 4,000 committed health, employment and support professionals, backed with the expertise of over 900 independent medical specialists, covering all major medical and allied health disciplines.

MedHealth is part of a global network which includes Australia, the United States of America, Canada and the United Kingdom.

DataStrat joins EDM Association

DataStrat is a data governance consultancy and technology company that helps organizations build AI-ready data ecosystems through DCAM assessments, governance frameworks, data quality and cataloging, and strategic data staffing.

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EDM Association welcomes Liberty Global as its newest member

Liberty Global is an international investment and telecommunications company that operates broadband, video and mobile communications businesses while investing in technology, media, sports and infrastructure companies.

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Colorado State University joins EDM Association

Colorado State University is a leading public research and land-grant university in Fort Collins, Colorado, offering a broad range of academic programs while driving high-impact research, innovation, sustainability, and community engagement.

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Pfizer Inc. is the EDM Association’s Newest Member

Pfizer Inc. applies science and their global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. Their global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines as well as many of the world’s best-known consumer health care products.

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The AREA Launches Innovation Impact Framework to Help Organizations Maximize AR Success

New interactive resource guides enterprises from idea generation through adoption, diffusion, and measurable business impact

BOSTON, MA — September 15, 2026 — The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) today announced the launch of the Innovation Impact Framework, a new resource designed to help organizations improve the success rate of augmented reality (AR) initiatives by focusing on the human and organizational factors that drive adoption and measurable impact.

While organizations continue to invest in AR technologies to improve productivity, training, collaboration, and operational efficiency, turning innovative ideas into sustainable business outcomes remains a significant challenge. The AREA Innovation Impact Framework provides a practical roadmap that helps enterprises navigate the journey from initial concept to successful implementation and widespread adoption.

“Many innovations begin with great enthusiasm and high expectations, only to fall short of delivering the intended results,” said Mark Sage, Executive Director of the AREA. “The Innovation Impact Framework brings together decades of experience from advanced visualization experts who have collectively contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in business benefits and spent years teaching and mentoring Human Factors best practices. This framework captures lessons learned from both successful innovations and valuable missteps to help organizations create meaningful and lasting impact.”

The interactive framework guides users through the interconnected elements that influence innovation success:

Ideas – Innovation can emerge from any level of an organization. Whether ideas originate from frontline workers identifying operational challenges or from executive leadership driving strategic transformation, the framework helps organizations understand how ideas evolve into impactful solutions.

Human-Centered Design – At the core of the framework is Human-Centered Design (HCD), which emphasizes understanding the real problems users face before developing solutions. The AREA highlights the importance of defining the right problem.

Pleasant User Experience – The framework underscores that successful innovation depends on more than an intuitive user interface. User experience encompasses every interaction users have with a solution, including discovery, onboarding, support, and even the social dynamics associated with using new technology.

Impact & Capital – Building on established innovation research, including principles introduced in Diffusion of Innovations, the framework explores the key factors that influence adoption and value creation. Organizations can evaluate innovations based on users’ perceptions of relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability, helping leaders better understand what drives acceptance and success.

Adoption & Diffusion – The framework encourages organizations to think beyond traditional return on investment (ROI) metrics. While financial returns remain important, broader measures of impact can play an equally critical role in determining whether an innovation achieves widespread adoption and long-term value.

The Innovation Impact Framework is designed as an interactive learning resource. Users can explore each stage of the innovation journey, examine the key characteristics associated with Human-Centered Design phases, and gain deeper insights into the factors that contribute to successful innovation outcomes.

By providing a structured approach that connects technology, people, processes, and business objectives, the AREA aims to help enterprises increase the likelihood that AR innovations deliver meaningful results for both organizations and their workforce. View the Innovation Impact Framework.

About the AREA

The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) is the only global, member-driven alliance dedicated to helping enterprises accelerate the adoption of interoperable, scalable, and sustainable AR-enabled solutions. The AREA provides resources, research, best practices, and networking opportunities that help organizations deploy AR technologies with confidence and achieve measurable business value. AREA is an EDM Association community. For more information, visit the AREA website.

Media Contact:

Karen Quatromoni
Karen@omg.org

 

Digital Twin Consortium and NTT DATA Announce COMPOSE Testbed to Advance Scalable Digital Twin Adoption

Led by NTT DATA Chile, and in collaboration with an initial ecosystem of partners, the initiative aims to advance modular, interoperable digital twin architectures for asset-intensive industries

BOSTON, MA – SEPTEMBER 14, 2026 – The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC™) and NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business technology services, today announced COMPOSE – Composable Operational Microfactory Platform for Smart Enterprises, a new DTC testbed led by NTT DATA Chile and developed in collaboration with an initial ecosystem of partners including Aingura IIoT, XMPro, Crysp and Rowan University. COMPOSE showcases a modular and scalable approach to digital twin architectures for asset-intensive industries.

The COMPOSE testbed is built around a physical microfactory that replicates real industrial operations in a controlled environment. It connects machines, sensors and software through common industrial standards, enabling continuous data collection and practical experimentation with digital twin solutions.

“COMPOSE exemplifies the future of digital twin innovation—modular, interoperable and built for scale,” said Dan Isaacs, GM & CTO of the Digital Twin Consortium. “By creating a vendor-agnostic, composable architecture, we’re enabling organizations to accelerate adoption, reduce integration complexity and unlock new levels of efficiency, including validation of multi-agent-based autonomous processes and operations. This testbed represents a collaborative ecosystem that will help enable standardization, processes and foster innovation.”

“Through COMPOSE, we aim to demonstrate how composable digital twin architectures can unlock scalable, efficient and cross-industry solutions. This testbed represents an important step in driving standardization, accelerating adoption and enabling organizations to realize measurable operational impact,” said Dr. Carlos Toro, Testbed Lead Developer and Innovation Director at NTT DATA Chile.

Its composable, vendor-agnostic architecture allows technologies to be integrated and reconfigured as modular components, accelerating the validation of new ideas without requiring the redesign of complete systems. This flexibility is particularly relevant for asset-intensive industries such as manufacturing, mining, utilities and oil & gas, where operational visibility, early fault detection and process optimization can deliver measurable business value.

COMPOSE also serves as a collaborative ecosystem within the Digital Twin Consortium community. NTT DATA’s microfactory provides real industrial data and a shared testing environment, enabling members to integrate their technologies, develop use cases and evaluate their combined performance. New contributors will also be able to join and enrich the testbed, supporting greater cross-industry alignment and potential collaboration opportunities.

Accelerating scalable digital twin adoption

The COMPOSE testbed addresses the growing need for scalable, interoperable and rapidly reconfigurable digital twin solutions that reduce integration effort and accelerate time-to-value.

Key benefits include:

  • Faster deployment of digital twins using reusable architectural components.
  • Reduced integration complexity through a vendor-agnostic, composable architecture.
  • Cross-industry applicability, enabling organizations to test use cases that advance data-driven and efficient operations while providing a clear pathway to scalable adoption.
  • Lower experimentation risk and cost by validating technologies in a microfactory environment before full-scale implementation.
  • Contribution to industry standards, providing insights to Digital Twin Consortium frameworks on OT/IT convergence and interoperability.

Working within the Digital Twin Consortium testbed program allows NTT DATA and its partners to validate COMPOSE under a trusted, neutral framework. The program provides access to globally recognized frameworks, best practices and expert guidance that strengthen the testbed’s development.

Through Digital Twin Consortium collaboration agreements, members can connect their technologies to real microfactory data, evaluate how solutions perform together and jointly refine reference architectures and use cases.

This collaborative model helps accelerate innovation and enables new partnership models for market adoption, benefiting both participants and the broader digital twin ecosystem.

About NTT DATA

 NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D. Visit us at nttdata.com

About Digital Twin Consortium

The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) is Accelerating Digital Twin Innovation™. DTC advances digital twin adoption and market growth by working closely with members to foster development, raise awareness, and enhance interoperability of digital twin applications throughout the Digital Twin Lifecycle across industries. DTC is an EDM Association community. For more information, visit digitaltwinconsortium.org.

Welcome University of Leeds as EDM Association’s newest member

University of Leeds is a leading UK Russell Group university known for world-class research, high-quality teaching, and a diverse global community of more than 37,000 students.

Learn more here.

Journal of Innovation Explores the Future of Supply Chains in New August 2026 Edition

Special issue examines how circularity, intelligent systems, and adaptability are reshaping global supply chains

BOSTON, MA – August 28, 2026 — EDM Association, the global trade association for data management and technology standards, released The Journal of Innovation (JoI) August 2026 edition. The edition is titled Supply Chains Reimagined: Circular, Smart, and Adaptive, and features cutting-edge research and practical insights on the technologies, frameworks, and strategies transforming supply chains in an increasingly complex global landscape.

As organizations contend with geopolitical uncertainty, evolving regulations, digital transformation, and growing sustainability demands, supply chain leaders are rethinking traditional models to build greater resilience, visibility, and agility. This special edition brings together diverse contributions from industry experts, researchers, and practitioners who are advancing innovative approaches to supply chain design and management.

“Supply chains are no longer viewed simply as operational functions; they have become strategic assets that enable resilience, sustainability, and growth,” said Bassam Zarkout, Co-Chair of the Journal of Innovation. “This edition highlights emerging technologies and proven approaches that can help organizations navigate disruption while creating long-term value.”

The issue examines how organizations can respond to fluctuating regulatory, economic, and cross-jurisdictional conditions by embedding flexibility, transparency, and intelligence into their supply chain operations.

Featured articles include:

  • Digital Product Passports for Circular Supply Chains (ARTECH International & BeyondBarCode)
  • Regulatory Digital Product Passports as a Catalyst for U.S. Supply Chain Visibility: Implications of the EU ESPR and UN Transparency Protocol (MITRE Corporation)
  • Financial Supply Chain: The Importance of Data Management for the Payments Industry (EDM Association)
  • Evolvable Multi Agent Hierarchical Architecture for Contested Logistics Ecosystems (Leidos/University of Nottingham)
  • Demystifying Supply Chain Risk Assessment: The MITRE System of Trust™ Framework as a Foundation for AI Governance, Digital Twin Enablement, and Regulatory Compliance (MITRE Corporation)
  • Automated Negotiation for Next Generation Supply Chain Management Solutions (NEC Corporation)
  • Artificial Intelligence in Collaborative Data Sharing for Intra-Company Logistics: Track and Trace, Analytics, and Scalable Ecosystem Value (Ferdinand-Steinbeis-Institut)

“From digital product passports and AI-driven collaboration to supply chain risk management and automated negotiation, the contributions in this issue demonstrate how innovation is enabling more transparent, adaptive, and sustainable supply networks,” said Edy Liongosari, Co-Chair of the Journal of Innovation. “The insights shared by our authors provide both strategic direction and practical lessons for organizations seeking to modernize their supply chain ecosystems.”

The August 2026 edition was peer reviewed by Robert Martin (MITRE Corporation) and Journal of Innovation Co-Chairs Bassam Zarkout and Edy Liongosari. Read the August 2026 edition of the Journal of Innovation.

About the Journal of Innovation

The Journal of Innovation is an EDM Association peer-reviewed publication that brings together thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners to explore emerging technologies, standards, and business innovations that drive digital transformation and industry advancement.

About EDM Association

EDM Association is the only global trade association connecting the data, software, systems, and standards disciplines to accelerate industry innovation and our members’ business success. The Association provides a neutral forum for developing and implementing best practices, frameworks, standards and comprehensive training programs to advance data management, AI optimization, digital twins, augmented reality and more. Today, our membership community—comprising over 700 organizations from the Americas, EMEA and Asia, and over 30,000 professionals—collaborates to build trust and confidence in the data that powers their AI, digital transformation, innovation, regulatory initiatives and business goals. Join the data driven. Learn more at https://edma.org.

Media Contacts:

EDM Association
Karen Quatromoni
Director of Public Relations
Karen@omg.org

Steven Wright-Mark
stevenwm@paragonpr.com

 

[BLOG] One copy of the truth – Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Solid and the future of enterprise data

In partnership with the Open Data Institute and Inrupt Inc., the EDM Association hosted a webinar titled One copy of the truth – Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Solid and the future of enterprise data. This article summarizes the discussion from the webinar itself, and also provides additional information about the Solid protocol and the launch of a collaborative Community of Practice. 

Webinar Live Date: July 14, 2026

Speakers:

  • Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web, Co-founder/CTO, Inrupt Inc. and Co-founder, Open Data Institute
  • John Bruce, Co-founder and CEO, Inrupt Inc.
  • Jesse Wright, Project Lead – Solid, Open Data Institute
  • Elisa Kendall, Senior Ontologist, EDM Association
  • Jim Halcomb, Chief Research & Development Officer, EDM Association
  • Moderator: Emma Thwaites, Strategic Advisor, Global Policy and Corporate Affairs, Open Data Institute

Solid and the EDM Association Solid Community of Practice

Solid is a privacy-by-design protocol, built on standard web technology that aims to bring agency and interoperability to how data is used. Rather than each application holding its own copy of a person’s or organisation’s data, Solid stores it in a Pod: an online data store with fine grained access control linked to the person or organisation in question, rather than the specific app they’re using. Because Pods use open, linked-data standards, the same data can be reused across organisations without bespoke integration, and stays under the control of the person or entity it describes. Solid was developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee‘s lab at MIT, nurtured by a global community, and is incubated through the W3C Solid Community Group and standardised by the Linked Web Storage Working Group.

The Open Data Institute (ODI) became Solid‘s steward in October 2024, bringing more than a decade of experience in responsible data innovation. Its stewardship ensures the infrastructure develops to benefit society, with governance that reflects community values and standards that enable global interoperability. The ODI maintains Solid’s open-source foundations, is supporting the standardisation of parts of Solid technology in the Linked Web Storage group, and catalyses use-case pilots that demonstrate real impact. 

This webinar marked an exciting next step for Solid and the ODI: partnering with the EDM Association to convene a Community of Practice around the standard. The group is aimed at making Solid ready for real-world use in finance, healthcare and government, with conformance anchored to Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) and sector mappings built on assets such as the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO). More information on the community, and how you or your organisation can join can be found at the bottom of this message!

The Webinar in Brief

This webinar explored the origins and evolution of Solid, an open standard designed to give individuals greater control over their personal data while enabling organisations to build applications using a shared, interoperable data architecture. It reflected on how the web has evolved from an open, collaborative environment into one characterised by data silos and centralised platforms, positioning Solid as an alternative approach that allows individuals to control how their data is accessed and used.

The conversation also examined the relationship between Solid and AI, explaining how AI agents can access only the information an individual has granted permission to use rather than relying on centralised copies of personal data. The speakers also discussed how this model can help organisations build customer-facing AI applications while addressing challenges around data access and permissions across multiple systems.

During the Q&A, the discussion covered topics including data ownership, verifiable credentials, permission-based access, and the practical steps organisations can take to begin piloting Solid through an initial use case. The session concluded by noting that growing interest in AI is creating new opportunities for organisations to explore Solid as a foundation for data access and AI-enabled applications.

View the webinar presentation

Q&A: Read all the responses

Join the Solid Community of Practice: Your gateway to the future of enterprise data

If you or your organisation would like to learn more about Solid, and be part of this work, the community of practice is open to new members! We encourage you to join the Solid Forum via EDMConnect and help shape the future of enterprise data management. 

Forum meetings begin on September 10, 2026, and full meeting information is available on the EDMConnect Solid Forum.

Join the Solid Forum