• Arizona-based SenesTech Inc., is focused on novel, non-lethal solutions to animal pest management through products that specifically target male and female rats’ fertility to reduce the proliferation of new pup litters
• The company achieved successes in limiting rodent populations with its liquid ContraPest(R) bait formulation and recently introduced a new product in a soft bait formulation, branded Evolve(TM)
• SenesTech has introduced its products throughout the United States and in other countries that include South Africa and the Maldives and, just recently, the United Arab Emirates
• SenesTech regards rodent control as one of the world’s most challenging problems, creating a ready-built market for its products — especially in light of news reports about municipal efforts to contain burgeoning rat populations in select cities

Animal pest control innovator SenesTech (NASDAQ: SNES) is expanding distribution of its rodent birth control solution globally, adding the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) market as the latest entry point for its new Evolve(TM) Soft Bait product. The UAE agreement announced Jan. 2 (https://ibn.fm/pM9to) is part of SenesTech’s new rodent control product distribution agreement through Pesterminators Pvt Ltd and its subsidiary TCS Global for General Trading LLC.

SenesTech created its own unique niche within the pest control market after introducing its non-lethal liquid ContraPest(R) bait. Instead of poisoning rats, the bait targets fertility reduction in male and female rats, and Evolve(TM) has a similar mechanism of action but in a soft bait presentation preferred over liquids by pest management professionals (“PMPs”) and residential customers.

SenesTech’s products are the first, and still the only, such rat contraceptives for both males and females registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) designed to be non-lethal.

“The UAE has implemented strict measures in recent years to control and prevent the use of harmful chemicals. Health officials in Dubai have issued warnings about hiring illegal companies, with municipal regulations prohibiting the importing, handling, and trading of pesticides without permission, and limiting the use of poisons in sensitive areas,” Pesterminators and TCS Global, UAE CEO Sathes Ramachandran stated in the company’s announcement.

“Pesterminators is committed to introducing sustainable solutions for the pest management segment and holds a solid position in the UAE,” Ramachandran added. “Evolve aligns well into our pest control practice and meets regulatory requirements in the region.”

SenesTech President and CEO Joel Fruendt labeled rodent control one of the world’s most challenging problems in an Oct. 19 interview for the Lytham Partners Fall 2023 Investor Conference (https://ibn.fm/FomqU).

“Traditional pest control tools like lethal poisons seek to control the death rate and are therefore very reactive. The challenge, as we see it, is the incredible rate of reproduction of the rats. Given sufficient food, water and harborage, two breeding rats can result in 15,000 offspring after a single year,” Fruendt said.

“The largest pest company in the world, Rentokil, commissioned an interactive study, The Rise of Rats, that revealed how a pair of rats could produce nearly half a billion descendants in just three years. Half a billion! You cannot poison them, or trap them or gas them fast enough to overcome their fertility,” he said.

The company conducted studies of ContraPest’s(R) effectiveness at poultry farms on the east and west coasts of the United States, through the farms’ integrated pest management programs. The studies showed that SenesTech’s product cut the rat population in half in three months and produced a sustained 90 percent reduction over the 12-month study at the western facility, and that pullet survival from predation rebounded by 88 percent at the eastern facility — delivering hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits in the process.

The growth in the rodent population in cities and suburbs has become an increasing concern since the 2020 COVID pandemic. New York City created an official “rat czar” position to deal with its troubles last year. Boston catalogued more than 3,900 rodent-related complaints as well, and Chicago logged more than 50,000 similar complaints (https://ibn.fm/Ae5vv).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SenesTech.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to SNES are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/SNES

Fintech industry leaders and professionals are invited to FinovateEurope at the Intercontinental O2, London. FinovateEurope is a meticulously curated, fast-paced conference for and by executives of finance verticals. Join the conference to witness global fintech executives offer sharp insights and strategies on the latest trends bracing the industry.

Attended by 1000+ decision makers and innovators, the event will consist of more than 500+ attendees from financial institutions and banks, namely HSBC, Barclays, JP Morgan Asset Management, BNP Paribas, Lloyds Banking Group, Citi, Bank of America, Commerzbank & more. Participants get the opportunity to meet the top investors and financial executives from VC firms looking for new avenues. The attendee list consists of 700+ C-level and heads/directors/VPs.

At FinovateEurope, 35+ companies are all set to pitch their latest technologies and innovations in demo sessions. This consists of a 7-minute demo session on the main stage and a physical demo stand at the exhibition hall. Companies giving the best demo sessions have a chance to win the Best Of Show award. 2023 recipients like 10x Banking, FinTech Insights by Scientia, NayaOne, TAZI AI, and Your Juno, will also share their winning journey with the audience.

More than 100+ expert speakers will present their experiences and perspectives, exploring all aspects of digital transformations in financial services. Understand the latest trends and innovations that drive the industry towards better growth and higher revenue. Speakers include representatives from BBVA, Societe Generale, ABN AMRO, Citibank, ING, NatWest, SEB, Lloyds, JP Morgan, Revolut., Deutsche Bank, Raisin, Stripe, Klarna, OakNorth and more.

The event will witness participants featuring fresh startups as well as industry veterans all sharing their views, strategies, and ideas on the common Finovate event platform.

To know more, please visit https://ibn.fm/BTFPR

• Digital marketing and engagement company Electronic Servitor Publication Network is releasing a series of infomercials that provide a powerful visual explanation of the advantages of a strong digital presence as well as an overview of the company’s disruptive technology: the Digital Engagement Engine(TM)
• So far, the company has released two visual presentations, available on its website and YouTube channel (linked below) showing client companies how to grow profit by offering a superior way to engage their target audience
• The Digital Engagement Engine(TM) is intended to help solve problems such as fragmentation of data and lack of communication between the many apps that are part of businesses’ technology stacks
• XESP’s disruptive technology helps increase a client company’s ability to generate revenue, preserve margins, increase productivity, reduce cost, and reduce the time to market, as well as enabling them to grow at scale

Electronic Servitor Publication Network (OTCQB: XESP) is pioneering the next step in the evolution of digital marketing through its disruptive technology, the Digital Engagement Engine(TM) (“DE2”), designed to help businesses become more digitally dynamic and profitable. To provide more information about the capabilities of the DE2, XESP is releasing a series of infomercials, the first of which are available on its website’s home page at https://ibn.fm/mpOeG. The company has also released a second video, posted on its website Investor Relations page at https://ibn.fm/1b6hS, as well as cross-posting both videos on its YouTube channel (https://ibn.fm/FOcbw).

Targeting multiple verticals in markets such as MedTech, Biotech, FinTech, and eGaming, these presentations are intended to provide a conversational and visual explanation of the advantages of having a strong digital presence, as well as to give a good overview of the Digital Engagement Engine(TM) and how it helps companies maintain connections to their target audiences (https://ibn.fm/6kmzK).

The Digital Engagement Engine(TM) is a superior solution to prevailing problems affecting the current business landscape. With the world of business becoming more competitive than ever, companies need to invest in appropriate technologies to effectively commercialize and market their products. However, as Electronic Servitor Publication Network observes in one of the visual presentations, the technologies that businesses have long adopted do not support communication with each other, a characteristic that leads to fragmentation of the products and the data they generate. “The more sophisticated the technology gets, the more bogged down a company and its sales staff becomes,” explains XESP.

XESP, which aims to serve the next generation of technology-enabled businesses, emphasizes that businesses must consistently improve their digital practices to keep up with the ever-evolving business landscape. Past methodologies that were previously adopted to achieve results, including the use of search engine optimization (“SEO”) to drive web traffic and other mass-market techniques, have become static, offering diminishing returns.

To solve these problems, Electronic Servitor Publication Network is deploying its disruptive DE2 technology. “At XESP, we use our Digital Engagement Engine(TM) to learn from your past and current interactions to create new engagements that are tailored, as if we are talking to each intended target on a personal level that they comprehend,” explains the infomercial.

Moreover, the Digital Engagement Engine(TM) platform syncs the many technological tools of businesses and harmonizes data that would otherwise remain separate in multiple different apps and locations. “Once all products and data are aligned, the DE2 will embed your best rules and logic from your most highly talented sales and marketing people and deploy them digitally,” the company continues. The inclusion of the businesses’ own rules and logic results in deeper customer engagement that provides a superior outcome.

“At Electronic Servitor Publication Network, we do not sell you another license or a piece of technology; we sell you the ability to increase revenue without adding more tech debt or costly unproductive marketing and sales teams,” XESP conveys. With XESP’s Digital Engagement Engine(TM) platform, businesses focus on the outcome instead of access to more technology. And, given that XESP provides its disruptive platform as a managed service, it delivers results without taxing staff or usurping other resources.

In addition, the company’s DE2 platform identifies the exact target market, and the best way to get to them, while efficiently driving one-to-one customer engagement. Other benefits of XESP’s tech stack include faster time to market, cheaper customer acquisition, reduced costs, increased productivity, preservation of margins, and the ability to grow the business at scale.

The dynamic digital engagement service drives faster growth for small companies looking to get noticed and helps larger companies maintain or grow their market share. The achievement of these benefits is partly driven by the Digital Engagement Engine(TM) platform’s use of artificial intelligence (“AI”), which works around the clock, 365 days a year, contributing to the digital transformation of businesses.

“Become digitally transformed today with Electronic Servitor Publication Network and keep your competitors in the rearview mirror,” the company concludes in one of the infomercials.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.XESPN.com. 

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to XESP are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/XESP

• GEMXX in September signed a binding letter of intent to acquire a 50% interest in the historic Yukon Gold Project, which holds 2,210,660 ounces of proven gold resources, and potentially holds a total of 4 million ounces of gold
• The company recently updated the progress made in the review and verification of previously completed exploration work as part of the due diligence process to purchase the Yukon Gold Project property
• GEMXX is also assessing the data to determine whether other minerals and/or rare earth elements are also commercially viable on the property
• The move to acquire the Yukon Gold Project property is part of GEMXX’s long-term asset expansion plan, which has also seen it acquire a 50% interest in an exploration company that owns 100% interest in two gold projects in British Columbia, Canada

GEMXX (OTC: GEMZ), a publicly traded, mine-to-market company that focuses on producing gold, gemstone, and jewelry from its own land resources, has this year intensified the execution of its long-term asset expansion plan, initially acquiring a 50% interest in Crazy Horse Mining Inc. (“CHMI”), a Canadian exploration company that owns 100% interest in two gold projects in British Columbia, Snow Creek and Rosella Creek, covering more than 700 acres (https://ibn.fm/B5mmQ).

“The acquisition of the Snow Creek and Rosella Creek gold asset portfolio enhances the company’s long-term asset expansion plan and helps to de-risk revenues, but more importantly, it complements our Ammolite production with the world’s most sought-after commodity,” said GEMXX CEO Jay Maull of the CHMI acquisition, announced in March. “This will provide GEMXX with a significant reduction in the cost of goods for our entire gold jewelry product line and will bring the company one step closer to our goal of becoming vertically integrated.”

In September, the company moved another step closer to achieving this goal when it signed a binding letter of intent to acquire a 50% interest in the historic Yukon Gold Project, which holds 2,210,660 ounces of proven gold resources, according to an NI 43-101 Resource Report completed in 2010 by Aurora Geosciences Ltd. (https://ibn.fm/jFv88). The acquisition is pending, awaiting the completion of due diligence and verification of the considerable exploration work that had been carried out on the property. This exploration work includes trenching, diamond drilling, soil sampling, ground magnetometer and induced polarization surveys, and geological mapping and prospecting.

GEMXX is also awaiting the verification of assessments quantifying the proven as well as the potential gold resources (https://ibn.fm/EXf9t). According to the Resource Report, which includes probable and possible values, the Yukon Gold Project potentially holds a total of 4 million ounces of gold. (GEMXX has not yet verified the historic resource classification or volume, but it remains confident they indicate the property’s potential.)

With the due diligence and verification processes well underway, GEMXX recently sought to update investors and shareholders on the progress made in this regard. According to the update, the company has engaged a professional geological services firm to assess the historical resource documents and data pertaining to the Yukon Gold Property project.

As part of the assessment and verification, the firm will update the historical resources to the current Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (“CIM”) reporting standards. Any additional drilling programs or assay results added will be included in the updated S-K 1300-compliant report.

In addition to reviewing and verifying data relating to the lucrative gold assets, GEMXX is assessing the data to determine whether other minerals and/or rare earth elements (“REEs”) are also commercially viable on the property. (REEs are a set of 17 elements used to manufacture vital components of modern technology, from defense and telecommunication systems to electronic and transportation equipment.)

GEMXX has also begun discussions with the current owner/partner to conduct a pilot plant on the Yukon property starting next year. “A pilot plant will test the parameters of new technologies, production systems, and process technologies to support the sustainable scale-up of mineral processing and production methods. It will provide an opportunity to test flowsheet visibility, equipment, and operations on a small scale before full production,” commented Maull.

The Yukon Gold Property is located south of Whitehorse within Canada’s Yukon Territory. It consists of 145 full Yukon Quartz Claims, which entitle the current owner and potentially GEMXX, subject to the successful finalization of the planned acquisition, to the minerals in the property’s bedrock (https://ibn.fm/mQghD).

Those interested in participating through Reg A financing are encouraged to visit the company’s investor page (https://ibn.fm/aPzlz) or contact company officials for more information (ir@gemxx.com – 702-930-1815).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.GEMXX.com/investors.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to GEMZ are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/GEMZ

• Astrotech subsidiary AgLAB demonstrates the capability of significant improvements in yields for large scale producers of hemp and cannabis CBD-THC oils using breakthrough mass spectrometry technology
• The company’s AgLAB 1000-D2(TM) mass spectrometer and the Maximum Value Process(TM) testing method (“AgLAB MVP(TM)”) allows large-scale distillers to analyze oils during processing, and make real-time adjustments to boost yields and potencies
• Field trials resulted in improved ending-weight yields by an average of 30%, which can translate into bottom-line profits
• Astrotech presented the AgLAB Maximum Value Process at last year’s MJBizCon in November, it is the premier global hemp and cannabis business conference and tradeshow

AgLAB, Inc., a subsidiary of Astrotech (NASDAQ: ASTC), has breakthrough mass spectrometry technology in its AgLAB 1000-D2 mass spectrometer and the Maximum Value Process(TM) testing method (“AgLAB MVP”). AgLAB MVP is designed to improve yields and bottom-line profits for hemp (“CBD”) and cannabis (“THC”) producers of CBD-THC oils by up to 30%.

Large scale CBD and THC oil processors use molecular distillation systems (“MDS”) to produce the valuable oils that are used in lotions, pills, tinctures, and cartridges. Using the AgLAB MVP solution, customers are now able to analyze the oils during processing and make near real-time adjustments that can boost the ending-weight yields and potencies.

“The AgLAB 1000 is a powerful tool for large-scale distillers. This product and method fills a void by providing an easy and accurate real-time analysis that is used to make the right adjustments and improve the yields,” said Joe Levinthal, Chief Science Officer and Master Distiller of AgLAB.

“We are proud to introduce the AgLAB MVP, a breakthrough technology that is more accurate and faster than any other testing method. The AgLAB MVP is very fast and is easy to learn with results that more than pay for itself starting on the first day of use. We believe this is a game changer for the cannabinoid industry and processors must use the AgLAB MVP to stay competitive,” commented Tom Pickens, CEO and CTO of Astrotech.

The AgLAB-1000-D2 mass spectrometer is a ruggedized factory floor analytical instrument designed to quickly and easily analyze complex chemical compounds found in organic plant materials.

About Astrotech Corporation

Astrotech (NASDAQ: ASTC) is an instrumentation company that is focused on commercializing its proprietary ATi Mass Spectrometer Technology(TM) that is now used in airports and agriculture applications throughout the world.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AstrotechCorp.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to ASTC are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/ASTC

• As a technology breakthrough, AI is recognized as a powerful ally along the entire energy value chain for a cleaner, safer, more sustainable future
• AI benefits span all areas: plant design, operation and predictive maintenance, grid management and safety; It provides flexibility to the electricity system and helps it to become more sustainable
• Turbo Energy aims for international expansion with its advanced AI-driven Sunbox, optimizing residential solar energy usage and planning to enter industrial and commercial markets

Turbo Energy (NASDAQ: TURB), a NASDAQ-listed European innovator designing, developing, and manufacturing photovoltaic energy generation, management, and storage equipment, stands to benefit as the world rushes to find solutions to urgent environmental challenges. Global warming intensifies as human activities continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and poor industrial, livestock, and agricultural practices contribute to over 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, a new global record hit in 2022. This alarming trend triggers environmental consequences extending beyond rising temperatures (https://ibn.fm/5o5nn).

Today’s energy model requires a fundamental shift known as energy transition, and artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies are essential for this transformation throughout the energy value chain. In the sector, AI has emerged as a key technology from the initial stages, even before any energy is produced. For example, when determining suitable sites for wind or solar plants, AI provides valuable insights into resource availability, plant efficiency, and potential risks related to soil characteristics or extreme weather events.

Once a renewable plant is built and the power starts being generated, AI optimizes renewable energy production, prevents outages, and substantially reduces costs and plant downtime through predictive monitoring deployed to forecast plant failure risk.

Recent AI breakthroughs also help energy companies balance power supply and demand dynamically, manage distributed energy resources, and lower consumer bills. Because AI can provide more accurate and reliable weather forecasts, it generates better estimates of the expected renewable energy production. For example, Open Climate Fix’s transformer-based models trained on satellite data have improved predictions of solar energy generation in the U.K. by threefold, reducing reliance on fossil fuels (https://ibn.fm/MaSH8).

Upon production, electricity requires transportation and distribution. Smart grids, or those powered by AI, are more flexible, efficient, and reliable as they cross-reference forecasts of the volumes that can be generated by wind and solar plants with AI-generated estimates of demand (https://ibn.fm/BrFsV). Managing electricity storage, a key component to compensate for the intermittency inherent in renewables, becomes more effective. Reducing generation costs makes renewables more competitive, benefiting both customers and the environment.

In industrial facilities, it identifies areas for energy efficiency improvement and helps prevent environmental risks by detecting abnormalities in real time. Combined with robots and drones, AI enables safer, more efficient, and more effective inspections in environments previously deemed difficult.

Boasting cutting-edge products labeled as “the market’s most advanced AI-driven energy management system,” Turbo Energy makes no secret of its ambitious goals. In this dynamic landscape of AI-driven green energy, the company aims to position itself as a key player with a bold mission “to protect the world from energy and economic crises.” Turbo Energy recently released its flagship product, Sunbox, an all-in-one device for residential solar installations powered by AI capable of connecting to everything. Sunbox’s software analyzes energy data, optimizes battery usage, reduces bills, and provides peak-use reduction and uninterruptible power supply functions. With the 2023 launch of higher-power Sunbox models, Turbo Energy plans to expand Sunbox internationally into industrial and commercial markets.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Turbo-e.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to TURB are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/TURB

Charlie Napolitano, Managing Director of DealFlow Events, was recently interviewed by The GotStocks Podcast. In addition to introducing DealFlow Events and its upcoming conference schedule, Charlie provided key insights on how to maximize success when attending investor events.

A full transcript of the episode can be found below.

To listen to the audio, please use your favorite podcast app to find The GotStocks Podcast or visit https://ibn.fm/CharlieNapolitanoJanuary2024.

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Jonathan: Thank you all for joining us for our latest podcast episode with Charlie. He is the managing director of DealFlow Events, which has hosted hundreds of in-person and virtual events covering a wide array of business and investment topics.

Charlie, thank you so much for joining us today. I’m excited about this interview and the timing is perfect now that we’re entering a whole new year filled with events.

Charlie: Yeah, thanks Jonathan, for having me on. I appreciate it and I’m happy to be here and tell you more about The Microcap Conference and more about DealFlow Events.

But, yeah, I’m Charlie Napolitano. I’ve been with the company for seven years and DealFlow Events has been around now for 21 years since 2003. DealFlow focuses on events in the capital markets and we’ve been focused on that for 21 years with events taking place globally. And we’re excited for this next event that we have coming up January 30^th through February 1^st, which is called The Microcap Conference, in Atlantic City.

Jonathan: Great. So why did you all decide to launch a microcap conference?

Charlie: Yeah, you know, it’s something we’ve been thinking about for quite a while. And we’ve always been looking for the right time and the right place to host it. And now personally, I go to Atlantic City 5-6 times a year. I’m a big poker guy and when I was down there, it just kind of felt like an untapped resource. I hadn’t been to a large event there, but the spaces there are just so beautiful. The hotels are so nice right now, and I felt like it would be a place where people can go and enjoy themselves.

Simultaneously, we were looking into conferences in the micro-cap space, and we just felt like we had value to add there. As an event company, whose sole purpose is to bring people together into one space, we felt like in the Northeast, we could host something, bring value and bring people to what I think is a great place to have fun.

Jonathan: Awesome. And how can investors make the most of their time while they are at your microcap conference?

Charlie: Yeah, that’s a great question. I think the first thing that investors can do is they can take a look at the presenting companies on the website.  Or now, investors who have registered can go into MeetMax and start scheduling meetings with these companies. They’ll be able to log in, get the bio of each company, the ticker symbol, and I think the best thing is to spend a little time learning about each one of the companies, visit their website, see who their IR teams are and see which ones are going to fit into their portfolio and the companies that they like to invest in. They can, right away, schedule time to sit with those people before their calendars fill up.

I think that we are making it as easy as possible to get people down there. Specifically, buses running from Midtown Manhattan to Atlantic City that any investor can hop on free of charge. The room blocks there are just $79 a night. All the rooms there are beautiful and renovated at Caesar’s. So, I suggest that people stay there.

And other than the one-on-one meetings, we do have companies presenting as well. I think that investors would find value from sitting down and hearing from these companies in that setting and then obviously tons of networking. So, come meet with companies, but there will be other people that they can network and meet with, as well, people who can help with their future investments. I hope that they’ll meet with them as well during our launch party, wild west after party, and our poker tournament.

Jonathan: Well, while doing my own preparation, I noticed you have all different types of microcap companies. So, if you want, please give a little bit of an overview on that maybe next.

Charlie: Yeah. So, the companies that people can expect to see there range from market caps of $30 million to $500 million. We have a couple that are as high as $900 million, and we have some that are in the $10-12 million range, which we found were interesting companies and good growth opportunities.

And, we have a really wide range of sectors – we weren’t sector specific for companies. So, you can find ones that are in healthcare, information technology, consumer, fintech, energy and many others that you will see on the website.

Jonathan: And then you also have a programming portion of the event. Let’s hear a little bit more about that.

Charlie: Yeah, so that’s fundamental to DealFlow Events. We’ve always put a strong focus on our programming, putting together cutting-edge education and bringing thought leaders together to share their experiences on specific topics, and The Microcap Conference isn’t any different from our other events, in this respect.

So, we put together some great panels and keynote presentations. Investors will be able to learn about investment strategies, and I think the issuers will be able to learn about doing a capital raise with PIPEs, learning about different IPO strategies, and things like that. We’ll have speakers there like Peter Schiff and a lot of other great speakers, as well.

Jonathan: That’s incredible. So, what else would set your event apart from similar ones from event organizers in the space and how do attendees benefit from participating at your event specifically?

Charlie: Yeah, another great question. I would say that as an event organization our primary goal is always the experience of our attendees from the second that they register, to the event itself, and beyond. We like to make things as seamless and easy as possible. I hope that that comes through to people through our website design and just the way that we interact with our attendees. Somebody’s always here to answer a question as quickly as possible.

At the event itself, we like to ensure that everything is organized and people are getting a great value, specifically, receiving valuable information that they can’t get anywhere else. Also, people will find the one-on-one meetings are structured well with quality companies and investors that are definitely worth speaking with.

Jonathan: And, while we’re here, can you give us a walkthrough of your entire 2024 events timeline as it exists right now? I’m sure you’ll probably find some ways to expand it, but also, is there anything else you want to share with the audience – maybe what to expect going forward through this year?

Charlie: Yeah, definitely. I’d love to see your listeners come to our other events, as well. We have the Venture Debt Conference taking place in New York City on March 6th. We’ve got the Activist Investor Conference taking place in New York City on March 21st. We have the SPAC Conference taking place at the Westchester Country Club on June 11th and 12th, followed by the Reg A Conference taking place on June 13th also at the Westchester Country Club. And we’ll have some more events taking place in the fall that we’ll announce in the next month or so. And anybody who physically attends The Microcap Conference will see that we have plenty of promotions for the sign up and attendance of future events.

Jonathan: Incredible. Well, thank you so much for joining us, Charlie. From the very first event we attended, we’ve always been impressed with your team’s conferences. You really have an amazing line up for this year and we look forward to seeing you in Atlantic City soon.

Charlie: Yeah, same here. Can’t wait to have you guys. Thanks.

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For more information on The Microcap Conference, please visit https://themicrocapconference.com/

About DealFlow Events

DealFlow Events has hosted hundreds of in-person and virtual events covering a wide array of business and investment topics since 2003. The company has built a reputation as a thought-leader and trailblazer for its commitment to covering cutting-edge topics in unique forums for networking and education. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.DealFlowEvents.com.

• Significant improvements in both vision and cognition, sustained over three years, were reported with CNM-Au8 treatment in results from the long-term open-label extension (“LTE”) of the VISIONARY-MS trial in participants with stable relapsing multiple sclerosis
• Michael Barnett, a key clinical advisor, hailed the results, observed long term and over and above background therapy. as “unprecedented”
• A drug that may halt MS disease progression or improve function on top of standard-of-care MS therapies would represent a significant milestone in drug development for this disease
• Clene will present the full clinical results for the LTE at the ninth annual Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis Forum scheduled for February 29 through March 2, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida

Clene (NASDAQ: CLNN) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Clene Nanomedicine Inc., is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on improving mitochondrial health and protecting neuronal function to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“ALS”) and multiple sclerosis (“MS”). The company recently reported new CNM-Au8(R) results from a long-term open-label extension (“LTE”) of the VISIONARY-MS trial in participants with stable relapsing multiple sclerosis (“RMS”) totaling nearly three years of follow-up (https://ibn.fm/bBbjI).

Clene is closely studying CNM-Au8 because a drug that may halt MS disease progression and may even improve function on top of standard-of-care MS therapies would represent a milestone achievement in drug development for this disease.

After completing the double-blind period, study participants were offered continuance of CNM-Au8 30mg for up to an additional 96 weeks in the LTE. Analyses were reported for the modified intent to treat population that included all study participants with valid clinical data. Clene noted that:

• Low contrast vision acuity (“LCVA”) demonstrated sustained improvement by up to 38 letters across both eyes in individual participants, representing multiple row gains on a greyed-out MS eye chart.
• Cognitive improvement, particularly working memory and information processing speed as tested using the symbol digit modality test (“SDMT”), showed improvement by up to 35 points in individual participants, where a three-point change in cognitive processing speed has been deemed notable in other MS studies.
• Improvements demonstrated during the 48-week double-blind period were sustained in the LTE for the timed 25-foot walk and nine-hole peg tests.

CNM-Au8 is used in combination with other agents, has no known drug-drug interactions, and is designed to improve function in MS.

Clinical effects improving both function and survival were seen in an earlier ALS trial, using the same drug.

Professor Michael Barnett, Professor of Neurology, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, and one of the trial’s key clinical advisors, said, the observed long-term clinical improvements for participants with stable disease, over and above background immunomodulatory disease-modifying therapy, are unprecedented. “The data show clear overall improvements in vision and cognition for participants treated for nearly three years from randomization. Importantly, these results were robust and consistent,” Barnett added. “Positive impacts on disease progression and the potential to at least partially reverse established disability, if confirmed in a larger study, represent a major therapeutic leap for patients with MS.”

Placebo participants who transitioned to CNM-Au8 during the LTE showed significant improvements compared to the original baseline in LCLA and SDMT, generally consistent with the increase observed in participants originally randomized to Clene’s lead asset.

Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, M.D., Head of Medicine at Clene, underscored the idea that despite tremendous advances in immunotherapies for MS, there is a significant unmet need for treatments to prevent neurodegeneration and create opportunities for clinical improvement. “These data continue to build a strong case in favor of pursuing CNM-Au8 in upcoming Phase 3 studies. Clinically significant improvement is rarely seen in MS patients, and this trial provides evidence of CNM-Au8’s potential to improve function in this population,” Greenberg said. “Clene is currently reviewing these data with prospective pharmaceutical partners interested in MS.”

Clene will present the full clinical results for the LTE at the ninth annual Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (“ACTRIMS”) Forum scheduled for February 29 through March 2, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Clene.com.

NOTE TO INVESTORS: The latest news and updates relating to CLNN are available in the company’s newsroom at https://ibn.fm/CLNN

• SuperCom Ltd. is a digital security solutions innovator focused on revolutionizing public safety around the world through the use of technology, data intelligence and complementary services
• SuperCom’s PureSecurity Suite is used in dozens of projects worldwide, mostly by governmental agencies, for electronic monitoring of criminal suspects and convicted offenders, including those involved in domestic violence cases
• One recent report noted that millions of people were affected by domestic violence in the United States during 2022. Additionally, a burgeoning number of cases were observed in the island nation of Jamaica during that year, leading to the implementation of a new protective law there
• Electronic monitoring is also at the heart of a program established by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to improve and expand its oversight of millions of people caught in the immigration system

A report by news magazine Caribbean National Weekly (Law Alone Will Not Curb Domestic Violence) this month highlighted the growing incidents of domestic violence both in the Caribbean and in the United States, and how laws alone are not enough (https://ibn.fm/D4yI1). “What law can effectively prevent people from trying to control others, control where they go, when to go and with whom they go, and even what they wear when they go?”

Jamaica, in particular, has been reeling from a surge in domestic violence, according to the report. More than 2,500 men and 6,200 women sought assistance from the island nation’s Domestic Violence Intervention Centers (“DVICs”) in 2022, prompting the passage of a new law to provide support for victims.

The report also noted that there were an estimated 10 million cases of domestic abuse in the United States that year, resulting in the death toll of thousands of victims.

Electronic-monitoring security solutions developer SuperCom (NASDAQ: SPCB) is committed to advancing public safety through technology, as exemplified by the company’s suite of products for the electronic monitoring (“EM”) of criminal offenders, which is widely used by dozens of governmental clients presently.

Those court-supervised EM programs include a contract announced in December for SuperCom’s GPS tracking and domestic violence offender monitoring solutions in communities across the state of Kentucky (https://ibn.fm/MdQrm).

Domestic violence concerns, of course, exist worldwide. In October, the government of Romania placed a third order for SuperCom’s products to support its domestic violence monitoring, GPS Tracking of offenders, and home detention monitoring efforts. Overall, the country has awarded the company a $33 million project (https://ibn.fm/dcvyC).

“This new contract allows us to bring our advanced technology to more communities and aid in the crucial work of domestic violence prevention and offender monitoring,” SuperCom CEO and President Ordan Trabelsi stated in the December announcement. “Leveraging our growing customer base and technology expertise, we plan to continue developing and providing advanced solutions that meet the evolving needs in our industry and help enhance public safety worldwide.”

SuperCom’s PureSecurity Suite includes technological advances that undergird its support network for EM programs, such as smartphone integration, secure communication, advanced security, anti-tamper mechanisms, fingerprint biometrics, voice communication, unique touch screens, and extended battery life.

Electronic monitoring is being adapted to the criminal justice system’s needs in various ways. Private prison companies are contemplating potential profits from expanding electronic monitoring of immigrants under the supervision of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) agency.

In August, ICE announced plans to improve the agency’s oversight of people going through immigration proceedings by using EM in the agency’s new Release and Reporting Management program.

The program currently keeps tabs on nearly 200,000 immigrants using technologies like ankle bracelets and facial-recognition apps, but could expand to track millions of people caught in the immigration system, according to The Lever (https://ibn.fm/lMQA4).

SuperCom announced its Q3 financial results in November, stating that revenues grew 67 percent year-over-year between 2022 and 2023, leading to a 74 percent growth in gross profit margins and 550 percent growth in EBITDA (https://ibn.fm/LN88z).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SuperCom.com.

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• Whilst the European Union has been hugely successful in growing its renewable energy generation capacity, the bloc’s energy storage infrastructure has yet to catch up
• Turbo Energy’s innovative product offering has sought to address this concern for households, providing consumers with an all-in-one AI-powered energy storage solution
• AI is playing an increasingly transformative role within advanced energy storage technologies, helping consumers optimize their energy usage and maximize savings

During the depths of the European winter in 2022, renewable energy sources generated more of the EU’s energy than fossil fuels for the first time ever. Coal power usage fell by 11 percent and gas by 13 percent despite initial fears that regional countries would have to resort to extensive coal usage as the bloc tried to wean itself off its historical dependence on Russian gas. Nonetheless and remarkably – among the 18 European countries that still utilize coal power as a source of energy, 15 reduced their coal generation in 2022.

A key factor underpinning this trend has been the increased prominence of renewable energy sources – and crucially, renewable energy storage technologies. Renewable energy sources account for close to 40 percent of the European Union’s energy generation capacity; in 2022 alone, 41GW of solar power generation capacity was added to the European grid, the equivalent of fully powering 2.7mn households for a year (https://ibn.fm/taBfl). Nevertheless, energy storage technologies and capacity have lagged far behind generation capacity in terms of uptake. Increasingly relevant to supplement electricity supply at times of peak usage (or absorb generation capacity when electricity demand declines) and shield against the vagaries of weather condition, energy storage capacity in the EU at present is a mere 60GW – with studies suggesting that storage capacity will need to increase to up to 191GW in 2030 and 486 GW in 2050 to make efficient use of renewable energy sources (https://ibn.fm/DXWeY).

Turbo Energy (NASDAQ: TURB), a designer, developer and manufacturer of photovoltaic energy generation, management, and storage equipment has sought to address this issue within the rapidly growing residential solar market in Europe. The company’s ‘SunBox Home’ system encompasses an all-in-one AI-powered energy storage solution, designed to assist households in managing their power consumption. Directly linked to a household’s solar panel generation unit, the SunBox system allows users to choose between settings including ‘maximum consumption’ or ‘maximum savings’, conserve a portion of its energy reserves in the event of unexpected electricity blackouts or rather, sell excess power back onto the grid.  The groundbreaking energy storage system additionally boasts the capacity to track weather forecasts, thus ensuring its batteries are fully charged in the event of a storm (https://ibn.fm/6k8Gs).

Artificial intelligence, as harnessed by Turbo Energy’s innovative energy storage systems, is playing an increasingly transformative role in advancing energy storage technologies, optimizing battery performance, and improving the overall effectiveness of these technologies (https://ibn.fm/tiHpx).

Whether it relates to the optimization of charging and discharging cycles to maximize energy storage system performance; making use of predictive maintenance models to anticipate potential defects leading to performance degradation; predict energy consumption patterns by analyzing historical data; or helping maintain grid stability through frequency regulation and voltage control, AI has the potential to play an increasingly important role in driving Europe’s ongoing transition towards renewable energy technologies. As both, a leading European purveyor of household solar energy systems as well an early mover in the inclusion of generative AI technologies within its revolutionary renewable energy storage solutions, Turbo Energy are well placed to play an increasingly prominent role in fueling Europe’s renewable energy evolution going forward.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Turbo-e.com.

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