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Business Wire
9 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Pearl Appoints Cher-Marie Scott to Lead Global Dental AI Expansion
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pearl, the global leader in AI-powered dental diagnostics and practice performance solutions, today announced the appointment of Cher-Marie Scott as Vice President of International Sales. A recognized force in global dentistry, Scott joins Pearl with over 20 years of experience bridging clinical insight, operational leadership, and commercial execution at scale. Scott began her career as a registered dental care professional in the UK, progressing through clinical and practice management roles within some of Europe's largest dental support organizations (DSOs). She later joined Ivoclar, where she spent the last decade leading international DSO strategy, most recently serving as Head of DSO for EMEA and LATAM, where she built and scaled a high-performing global key account team and helped define the playbook for strategic partnerships with DSOs across multiple markets. In her new role at Pearl, Scott will oversee international sales and enterprise partnerships, with a mandate to expand adoption of the company's AI solutions, including its FDA-cleared Second Opinion® platform and Practice Intelligence™ analytics suite, across Europe and other high-priority global markets. 'The race is on among mature DSOs internationally to adopt innovative technologies that elevate care delivery, streamline operations, and reinforce regulatory readiness,' said Scott. 'Pearl's best-in-class AI platform, regulatory leadership, and visionary roadmap make it the clear partner of choice. I'm excited to help dental groups around the world unlock the transformative potential of Pearl's technology.' Scott's appointment underscores Pearl's commitment to meeting global demand across customer segments, from large enterprise DSOs to growing SMBs, channel partners, and public health systems. Her deep operational and clinical background enables her to connect with senior leaders across business and clinical functions, advising on implementation strategies that optimize both patient care and performance. 'Cher-Marie is a powerhouse in dental innovation, with the strategic acumen and experience to scale technology where it matters most,' said Ophir Tanz, founder and CEO of Pearl. 'She brings a uniquely global perspective to our team at a pivotal time and we're thrilled to have her leading our international growth efforts.' In addition to leading international growth at Pearl, Scott serves as Chair of the UK Dental Nurse Forum, a 16,000-member professional group supporting clinical education and workforce engagement. She is esteemed as a trusted advisor and respected voice in global dental enterprise. About Pearl Pearl is an AI-driven company committed to enhancing patient care in dentistry. Founded in 2019 by a team with decades of experience developing successful, enterprise-grade computer vision solutions, Pearl introduced the first-ever FDA-cleared AI capable of reading and instantly identifying diseases in dental x-rays. With regulatory clearance in 120 countries, Pearl's AI assists dentists in making precise clinical decisions and effectively communicating with patients, thereby transforming the dental care experience worldwide. As dentistry's global AI leader, Pearl is committed to the ongoing innovation of robust, accessible AI tools that improve patient health outcomes and build greater trust in dental medicine. To request a demo, please visit
Otago Daily Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Fine concert an antidote to winter chill
DUNEDIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS "SUBLIME SCHUBERT" Sunday, July 20 King's & Queen's PAC A crowd-pleasing showcase of music by some of the world's greatest Baroque and Classical era composers delighted a capacity audience at Sunday's second Dunedin Symphony Orchestra "Sublime Schubert" concert. Last weekend's pair of DSO matinee series concerts were both very popular, showing that this relaxed approach to midwinter music remains a hit with local audiences. Sunday's concert began with Handel's famous Music for the Royal Fireworks, an exuberant Baroque celebration featuring a substantial overture and several dance-like movements, which the orchestra tackled with spirited aplomb led by visiting conductor Benjamin Bayl. Then, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra principal oboe Robert Orr joined the DSO as soloist in Mozart's lively Oboe Concerto in C major. Filled with brilliant, virtuosic passages and including a series of spectacular soloist cadenzas, the concerto was given a masterful performance by Orr, with sterling support from the orchestra. Both soloist and ensemble worked beautifully together to bring this lyrical and playful piece to life. The concert's second half featured Schubert's dramatic, high-energy Symphony No 4 in C minor — dubbed "Tragic" by the 19 year-old composer. Filled with Schubert's signature beautiful melodies and rhythmic interplay, the piece gave the orchestra's various sections ample chances to shine, which they made the most of. Particularly worthy of note was the superb performance by the woodwind section. All in all, Sunday's matinee concert was a wonderful musical treat, and a delightful antidote to the winter chill.
News.com.au
22-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Resources Top 5: Vanadium Resources soars on magnetite DSO offtake deal
An offtake agreement will see VR8 supply 100,000 tonnes of vanadium-rich magnetite DSO each month LMG is targeting the start of operations at its Demonstration Plant at the beginning of August 2025 A scoping study is nearing completion assessing mining and processing at Leliyn graphite project Your standout small cap resources stocks for Tuesday, July 22, 2025. Vanadium Resources (ASX:VR8) Signing an offtake agreement for the supply of 100,000 tonnes of vanadium-rich magnetite direct shipping ore (DSO) each month from the world-class Steelpoortdrift vanadium project in South Africa has seen Vanadium Resources (ASX:VR8) soar 122% to a daily high of 5.1c. It eased to close at 4.1c, with more than 55 million shares changing hands. Even with the late pullback, VR8 remains at 2025 highs. The binding agreement, which follows a recent MoU, was executed by VR8 subsidiary VanRes with China Precious Asia Limited (CPAL) and is subject to VanRes appointing a suitable mining contractor and ensuring the DSO product meets agreed specifications. Due to the absence of a standard spot price for the DSO product, the agreement, which is valid for two years, is also conditional on VanRes finalising pricing terms with CPAL by August 30, 2025. The offtake positions VR8 to transition from developer to producer and is a fillip as the company advances its near-term cash flow strategy aimed at unlocking value from Steelpoortdrift's vast JORC resource, while preserving the flexibility to pursue full-scale development as market conditions improve. 'We are pleased to formalise our partnership with CPAL through a commercially binding agreement,' VR8 executive chairman Jurie Wessels said. 'With a practical and realistic framework now in place for initiating mining activities and product supply, our attention will shift to closing this transaction. 'This includes finalising a pricing mechanism for our product — given the absence of a standard spot price — and appointing a mining contractor. 'The selected contractor will be responsible for establishing operations at Steelpoortdrift to extract, crush, screen and stockpile ore in accordance with agreed specifications. 'Alongside the anticipated delivery of DSO to CPAL, negotiations with other potential offtakers are also progressing." Those could lead to the full scale development of Steelpoortdrift, with the company investigating opportunities to move into beneficiation and downstream processing. Latrobe Magnesium (ASX:LMG) It has been a long, drawn out process with plenty of hurdles but there is light at the end of the tunnel for Latrobe Magnesium (ASX:LMG), which is targeting the start of operations at its Demonstration Plant in Victoria's Latrobe Valley in the beginning of August 2025. Investors welcome progress by the company, which aims to extract valuable magnesium from waste fly ash, and shares closed 45% higher at 1.6c. In an update in late June, LMG said that to begin ore commissioning and transition into operations, it was progressing the following: Obtaining approval to operate from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) Securing operating labour at suitable commercial rates Finalising the ash stockpile Reinstatement of the management team and mobilising vendor technical personnel; and Assessment of inventory and restock reagents as required. LMG submitted all required documentation to the EPA for approval to operate. On June 19, 2025, the EPA advised that although the submission was made in adequate time, the regulator was very busy at this time of year. Nonetheless, LMG was informed that its application was being prioritised and a draft amended pilot project licence would be issued for review by mid-July. The process plant is being progressively brought out of care and maintenance, with pre-start checks completed across most process areas. Ongoing pre-commissioning has included equipment and safety verifications, lubrication changes and dry test runs. All reagent inventories have been reviewed and quantities are sufficient to support plant start-up. LMG also executed an updated ash supply agreement with Energy Australia, enabling the development of the ash stockpile, which will be reclaimed, transported and supplied to the Demonstration Plant as feedstock. Mining contractor, RTL Mining and Earthworks, is preparing the stockpile which is expected to align with the start of operations. Operational procedures are undergoing final review by safety and management teams and these processes will underpin the onboarding and training program for operational staff in the lead-up to plant start-up. Kingsland Minerals (ASX:KNG) Strong progress is being made on a scoping study assessing the potential for on-site mining and processing at Leliyn graphite project about 250km south of Darwin in the NT with Kingsland Minerals (ASX:KNG) shares 13.79% higher to 16.5c. Work is well advanced with the study set to be completed by the end of the current quarter. Alongside this study, testwork to produce purified, spherical graphite is being carried out and will also wrap up this quarter. These milestones will progress Leliyn to the next phase of development and enable KNG to begin a pre-feasibility study. The scoping study, based on a 194.6Mt resource grading 7.3% total graphitic carbon (TGC), contemplates a mine and processing facility producing a 94% spherical graphite concentrate, primarily used in the anodes of lithium-ion batteries. KNG also plans more drilling with a particular focus on expanding the indicated resource to provide flexibility in considering upscaling the size of the mine and/or processing plant. Cannindah Resources (ASX:CAE) Potential extensions to copper mineralisation at Mt Cannindah project in central Queensland pushed Cannindah Resources (ASX:CAE) to a daily top of 2.8c, 22% higher than the July 21 close, before closing at 2.5c. A review of historical data and the company's surface mapping and sampling point to potential extensions to the Cannindah Breccia resource. The Southern Breccia Extension target has been interpreted over a strike length of more than 300 metres and the Northern Breccia Extension target to over 200 metres. The review also identified features within and outside the resource that control the locations of higher-grade copper. These potential extensions raise the likelihood that further exploration will unlock more copper. This comes as US copper futures jumped to US$5.64/lb thanks to positive long-term demand expectations and the Trump administration declaring a planned 50% tariff on copper imports. Managing director Tom Pickett said the company's upcoming drill program would test the new extensions as well as previously disclosed tier-1 porphyry copper-gold targets in the Southern and Eastern areas. Koonenberry Gold (ASX:KNB) The Enmore project of Koonenberry Gold (ASX:KNB) in northern NSW continues to grow in stature with rock chip sampling identifying a parallel shear zone to the Sunnyside gold system and shares hit 5.8c, a rise of 11.54, before closing at 5.3c Sampling of a >950m long and ~300m wide gold-in-soil anomaly returned assays of up to 14.05g/t and visible gold was also observed in the new zone, which is in a similar structural and lithological setting to Sunnyside. 'We are applying the knowledge gained from our successful drilling campaign at Sunnyside and developing a pipeline of targets for drill testing,' managing director Dan Power said. 'This newly defined target sits on a parallel structure to Sunnyside and highlights the untapped district potential of our Enmore Project giving us the ability to advance multiple targets in our next drilling campaign in conjunction with extensional drilling at Sunnyside.'
Otago Daily Times
20-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Transported to idyllic world
NZSO principal oboe Robert Orr. PHOTO: SUPPLIED An excited audience packed the King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre on Saturday evening to hear an exceptionally polished performance by the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra under the inspirational conductor Benjamin Bayl with guest oboist Robert Orr. Three works from the Western classical repertoire transported the audience to an idyllic world of stability, exuberance and wealth as portrayed by three prodigious composers of the 18th and 19th centuries. The highlight of the event was the Mozart Oboe Concerto given a stunningly beautiful performance by Robert Orr. Orr's exceptional breath control over long lyric phrases held true over increasingly technically demanding solo obligatii. Orr richly deserved the prolonged applause. The reduced orchestration of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749) befits the concert chamber. Composed for extraordinarily large forces as incidental music in the days before loudspeakers were a thing, it invites its audience to celebrate peace by right, royally dancing the night away despite the fizzled fireworks display. Its catchy rhythms, rousing grandeur and the strength of the DSO's wind section created a successful performance. Schubert's 4th Symphony, ''The Tragic'', has a Bryon-esque opening. It wallows in poetic gloom before the following movements emerge grandly frenetic. Reprieve comes in the briefly sweeping menuetto. Schubert is better remembered for his chamber works. The Tragic is built on standard classic composition techniques in which a small amount of thematic material is, to put it simply, echoed down and up the melodic scale through the various timbres of instrumental groups before upping the tempo with inverted thematic material. All credit to all sections of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra and to the conductor for keeping the delivery crisp, energetic and tight while testing stamina. The whole event was a sublime escape, leaving the audience feeling all the richer for the experience.
Otago Daily Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Collaboration driver in taking conducting route
Ben Bayl is on his first visit to Dunedin to conduct the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED Ben Bayl has gone from pianist to organist to conductor as he discovered the joys of working in a team. He talks to Rebecca Fox from his home in Budapest about his journey. A common held cliche of conductors as dictatorial figures is becoming a thing of the past, says Australian conductor Ben Bayl. He believes it is far more rewarding to be a positive collaborator with the musicians he is leading. "I think the people skills are an essential part of the job, and it's something which I really kind of enjoy, meeting new people, working with new musicians, as it will be in Dunedin." Bayl will conduct the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra for the first time in two performances of "Sublime Schubert" this weekend on his first visit to the lower South Island. With only a week to meet the DSO's musicians and prepare for the concert, it is a tight turnaround which is normal for symphony performances. "It's like a first date with 60 people at once, and they make up their minds very quickly. So the first impression is very important." So while Bayl does not find he gets nervous before performances, that first meeting with a new orchestra can be a bit nerve-racking. "Sometimes the very first rehearsal with a new orchestra I do like to get out of the way just so you establish that bond and begin to work together. "I've heard lots of amazing things about the orchestra, so I'm really looking forward to meeting." Bayl has arrived in New Zealand from Budapest where he lives with his Hungarian wife and two preschool daughters. He will fit in a visit to his family in Sydney, where he was born and grew up, as well as a performance with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in Hobart on this trip. The travel is part of the job, especially given Bayl likes to return to Australia whenever possible, although he tries not be away from home for more than a fortnight at a time and if the job requires a longer stay, he often brings his family along with him. Last year the family came out to Brisbane with him for his season with Opera Queensland which required him to be there for eight weeks. "I guess it was like having a regular day job." It was a special project for Bayl as it included Australian acrobatic company Circa, combining acrobatics and opera, in the story of Dido and Aeneas. "It was a lot of fun. I quite enjoy these ideas of mixing different artistic worlds like opera and acrobatics. You wouldn't naturally put them together but someone had the genius idea to try it and I think it worked really well." Mixing things up is something Bayl has done a bit of in his life after starting out playing piano aged 4. "There was music in the family, we had a piano at home. My dad couldn't read music but could kind of play anything by ear and my mum had an aunt who was a piano teacher." Bayl and his three younger siblings were encouraged to give everything a go, so along with piano Bayl played cricket. "For me, it was the music that stuck, I think and I was also lucky, even at primary school there was a really good music teacher and a little concert band so I actually played the saxophone as well." Ben Bayl looks to create a positive collaboration with the musicians he leads. Then when he went to high school, he wanted to join the orchestra, so started playing the flute. "I wasn't really good at the flute. I couldn't get a decent sound out of it and I ended up being transferred to the percussion section because I could play xylophone and vibraphone and marimba because they were set up like a piano keyboard." It was then he started reading orchestral scores, having plenty of time in between the percussions calls to play. Bayl believes having inspiring teachers and mentors in that time encouraged his continued interest in music. Around this time he became interested in organ and choir music. However, he never actually wanted to be a professional musician and applied to study law at university. With his place secured, he decided instead to do a gap year, heading to England where he taught piano, travelled and "did the gap year thing". Then he received the opportunity to be the first Australian Organ Scholar of King's College Cambridge. "This is the point where I thought perhaps I should take this seriously so I never did begin the law degree." During this time he did a lot of work with choirs and singers which led to his interest in conducting. "So actually after university I kind of moved away from the organ and church music and went more towards opera, theatre world, orchestras, conducting, and this side of musical life." He had begun to realise he was not that excited about being a soloist. "I guess I loved the team nature of music. I loved the collaborative nature of opera and playing in an orchestra which I did a lot as a harpsichordists and keyboard player. I just loved the feeling of being on stage with other musicians, creating something together." So conducting offered him the opportunity to be involved in team-building and teamwork. Bayl then studied conducting at London's National Opera Studio and Royal Academy of Music. "Opera, of course, music is just one side of everything that's going on. If you think also about the dramatic action, lights, costumes, stage, it's something which you create, which music is an important part of. So I just really enjoy that process." It's not an easy path to choose. First Bayl took apprenticeship roles with experienced conductors. He was appointed Assistant Conductor to Ivan Fischer at the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. He also assisted Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Daniel Harding and Richard Hickox with ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. "That's also a very good way to learn what to do or indeed what not to do in some cases. So I think that vocational side of it is really important, because the thing really with conducting is that you can't just practice in front of a mirror. It's a reactive activity, and I believe you can only learn by doing and practice by doing." That is what makes conducting difficult, he says. "You need the hours in front of musicians to hone your craft." Having and developing people skills is an important part of that journey, Bayl believes but it is often one not taught in conducting courses. Working as a freelance conductor, Bayl has found the music world in Europe to be 90% recovered from the turbulence that Covid-19 wrecked on the industry. "Its more or less back to where it was, but I think there is a little bit more caution in terms of long-term forward planning and programming. It's just taken a long time for the ecosystem to recover. There is more uncertainty." On the positive side, if you can look at it that way, Bayl says is that people seem to appreciate live music much more now than they did in the past. "You can't match that feeling of being in the room." For Bayl there was no safety net or proper financial support during those times and his wife was pregnant with their first baby when Covid hit. Having both Australian and Netherlands passports, thanks to his father, Bayl was able to move between countries. So they visited Australia twice in 2021 for concert performances going through hotel quarantine both times. Those experiences made him think more about his career as a whole so he did some online training in leadership management. "I looked at just broadening my skills beyond the podium and used the time to upskill as well." These days he has a full schedule. Once he returns from Australasia he has concerts with the Warsaw Chamber Opera and the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra followed by concerts in Amsterdam and Stuttgart. "No two days are the same really. I would say that working with orchestras is a bit different to opera because with an orchestra, with a symphonic programme, it's usually contained within a week. Opera's a bit different, especially if it's a new production, because it tends to take up more like five to seven weeks." One of his more recent highlights has been La Fest in Stuttgart, an opera which is a festival of baroque music and dance. It was about how human's celebrate events in their lives both happy and sad. Bayl, a choreographer and director, spent 18 months creating the work. "It was a very unusual show with the orchestra on the stage and 48 different pieces of music from 30 different composers and that was a huge project which is still going." He puts his interest in baroque music down to his time playing the organ and working with church choirs as they performed a lot of old music on historic instruments or copies of. "For me its an interesting sound world like being able to recreate a sound that those composers would have been familiar with which is different to the sound of a modern orchestra because the instruments have changed and developed in many ways, especially the strings. "So when I do Baroque music with a modern symphony orchestra like we do some Handel fireworks music next week I do try with the orchestra to explore as much achieving that sound world with the modern instruments as we can." Bayl is also the founder of the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra, although he no longer works with it, and is involved with English group the Hanover Band, an orchestra that plays on historic instruments music from the classical period. "We actually did a very big project in the pandemic. We recorded all the Beethoven symphonies for digital video broadcast basically in two weeks." When not working with companies, he finds there is plenty of work to do learning new music and preparing for upcoming concerts. And while he has a manager there is still work involved as there is with any small business. "You have to be your own accountant, publicity, logistics. It's like running a small business for one which is also what they don't teach at college. I feel like conductors should have an economics degree, a psychology degree, a music degree and a lot of experience and then you can start to get somewhere." Bayl, who is in his mid-40s, says there is always things to learn in the job whether it is how to do things better or interpret a score in a different way. "I think that's true especially with conducting. I think the amount of experience is really, really important and I always feel that there's more to know. There's always more to learn. There's always more depth to something and I think that should not be underestimated." TO SEE Sublime Schubert Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, July 19, 5pm. July 20, 3pm, King's and Queen's Performing Arts Centre.
