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Dataminr, the pioneer in AI-powered real-time event, threat & risk intelligence, announces the expansion of Intel Agents to cover the full spectrum of events discovered across the physical world. This groundbreaking use of Agentic AI for real-time intelligence deploys AI agents at scale to uncover and deliver the most relevant event context. By revolutionising how organisations rapidly understand, contextualise, and respond to events across the physical world, this launch marks a seminal moment in Dataminr's evolution. Real-time event detection "Intel Agents for the physical world transform real-time event detection into AI-powered real-time event, threat, and risk intelligence—a fundamental leap forward for the category Dataminr first pioneered," said Ted Bailey, Founder and CEO of Dataminr. "We can now tell our clients not just the 'what,' but also the ‘so what’, for everything Dataminr discovers across the physical, digital, and cyber domains. Our customers essentially have a fleet of AI agents working for them 24/7, autonomously asking and answering critical questions to provide the context customers need to respond with speed and confidence." Intel agents in the real world  With Intel Agents applied to physical events, customers gain immediate context that provides the full picture for any event, at any given moment, in real time. This powerful Agentic AI capability delivers actionable insights for a wide range of customers: Emergency Response: Provides instant insight into unfolding emergency events, such as a wildfire's projected spread and the communities most at risk. Defense Organisations: Offers critical context on the potential risks to military personnel posed by an unexpected event to ensure force protection. Cybersecurity: Enables a rapid understanding of the potential cyber infrastructure impacts of physical world events like natural disasters or geopolitical incidents. Corporate Security: Generates valuable perspective into the scope of an incident near a facility, spanning its potential impact on personnel, distribution, and business operations. In any scenario, Intel Agents provide context that is critical for safeguarding people, assets, and operations. Contextual intelligence picture Intel Agents write out this real-time context within the live Dataminr product Powered by Dataminr's domain-specialised LLMs for real-time reasoning, Intel Agents continuously ask and answer hundreds of questions about every event, threat, and risk as they unfold. To accomplish this, a fleet of AI agents scours the billions of data signals ingested daily from more than 1M public data sources, searches across Dataminr's 12+ year event and public data archive, and scans the broader public internet at large. Unlike task-based AI systems, Intel Agents are goal-oriented—empowered to make autonomous decisions about where to look and the relevance of what they find. A multi-agent Agentic AI workflow empowers AI agents to act independently, orchestrate collaboratively, and synthesise a comprehensive contextual intelligence picture. This fleet of autonomous AI agents operates at a scale and speed that no human team—regardless of size—could ever accomplish. It scans across and synthesises from zettabytes of data in mere seconds to deliver critical context for every event, risk, and threat when it's first detected and as it unfolds. Augmenting Dataminr's ReGenAI Live Briefs, Intel Agents write out this real-time context within the live Dataminr product. Potential future scenarios Intel Agents for the physical world are the next milestone in Dataminr's trailblazing Agentic AI roadmap Intel Agents for the physical world are the next milestone in Dataminr's trailblazing Agentic AI roadmap. Upcoming releases include Client-Tailored Context, where Intel Agents generate contextual intelligence customised to each organisation's unique operations, risk profile, and assets, and PreGenAI, a novel Predictive Intelligence capability that envisions potential future scenarios, predicts what might happen next, and recommends client actions. Intel Agents for the cyber domain are now generally available, and Intel Agents for the physical world are now available in private beta for customers using Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security, Dataminr First Alert, and Dataminr for News. General availability is expected in November 2025.  Company momentum and AI industry leadership  The launch of Intel Agents comes amidst accelerating momentum across the business. In August, the company closed a total of $250M in financing, first announced with initial investments by Fortress Investment Group and NightDragon. The company's AI industry leadership was also recently recognised as #27 on the prestigious Fortune Future 50. Dataminr continues to attract world-class talent, including the recent appointment of Tiffany Buchanan, formerly of CrowdStrike, as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Other recent announcements include the unveiling of Dataminr's Agentic AI roadmap, the enhanced Pulse for Cyber Partner API, and a strategic partnership with Genetec.

The Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO), the renowned organisation for security professionals working in Higher and Further Education around the world, is to host its first European Region Winter Conference at Leiden University in the Netherlands.  The Conference, which takes place from Wednesday, 27 November 2024 until Friday, 29 November 2024, is free to all AUCSO members. European Winter Conference Benny Vandenberghe, Chair of the European Region for AUCSO will open the Conference followed by a welcome from Professor Mr. Dr. E.R. Muller, Vice-Rector and Professor in Safety, Security and Law, and Leo Harskamp from Leiden University. Day One will begin with a session on ‘How UCare and Mental crisis intervention supports mental well-being at Ghent University’ followed by ‘Mental support after shocking events and crisis interventions: what can or should be done? Both these sessions will be led by Gunther Groenwals and Sarah Vermeersch from Ghent University in Belgium. Afternoon session Eric Lanxner from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Leo Harskamp from Leiden University will also lead a session The afternoon will see a session on ‘Horizon scanning and foresight – the added value of tools’ led by Leo Harskamp from Leiden University followed by ‘First Alert and ways to utilise it’ with Gus Hodson from Dataminr. Eric Lanxner from Université Libre de Bruxelles and Leo Harskamp from Leiden University will also lead a session on ‘Physical security – counter criminal and counter-terrorism’. Day Two session Day Two will see sessions on ‘Protests as a daily business’ with Jaap Weijermans from Universiteit van Amsterdam and long-term partner of AUCSO, Critical Arc, will be presenting its emergency management planning tool, Safezone, which is rapidly becoming the most widely-used and trusted technology of its kind. There will also be an interactive session on ‘What should AUCSO Europe focus on’ and announcements of what’s coming up in 2025. The Conference will be closed by Benny Vandenberghe, Chair of the European Region for AUCSO. Topical and interactive sessions Julie Barker, Chief Operating Officer, of AUCSO, said, "We are excited to be hosting our first European Region Winter Conference at Leiden University in the Netherlands and we are looking forward to welcoming many of our AUCSO members and colleagues from Higher Education in Poland, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, and the Netherlands." Julie Barker adds, "It’s going to be a jam-packed agenda of topical and interactive sessions together with lots of opportunities for networking and having some fun too."

Dataminr, one of the world’s pioneering AI companies, is launching ReGenAI (Regenerative AI), a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates textual descriptions as events unfold. Using predictive AI to analyse and synthesise key developments detected in more than one million public data sources, ReGenAI distils multidimensional events into concise event briefs that dynamically update.  Regenerating event Customers can gain a rapid understanding of an evolving event through a constantly updated Customers can gain a rapid understanding of an evolving event through a constantly updated, AI-powered live event brief, enabling corporations and governments to determine the impacts on their organisation and respond more effectively. “ReGenAI moves generative AI beyond the ‘prompt’ paradigm, with automatically regenerating event briefs that dynamically update in real-time as an event evolves,” said Ted Bailey, Dataminr’s Founder and CEO. Future of real-time information Bailey added: “With ReGenAI, Dataminr is transforming the future of real-time information, shifting away from static event reports and creating the first ever ‘live’ information. Governments and corporations can rely on ReGenAI to rapidly understand the scope and impacts of unfolding events, enabling them to act faster and keep their people and assets safe in an increasingly unpredictable world.” “Dataminr, with its new ReGenAI, is an exceptional solution. By detecting incidents in real-time and empowering the ReGenAI to synthesise this information, Dataminr not only speeds up our identification of security risks but also enhances our ability to respond swiftly and effectively,” said Chief Risk and Threat Analyst at Danske Bank. Regenerative capabilities “ReGenAI comes in as a living document, and it updates itself. So we don’t have to hunt for new information to learn that the status of something relevant to us has changed." "We can adjust quickly based on the regenerative capabilities that (Dataminr’s) AI provides,” said Corporate Vice President of Operations, Public Safety, Engineering & Maintenance at Six Flags. Predictive AI and generative AI capabilities ReGenAI is the latest breakthrough from Dataminr, a longtime trailblazer in the field of AI ReGenAI is the latest breakthrough from Dataminr, a longtime trailblazer in the field of AI. The company first pioneered multi-modal fusion AI for discovering events, risks and threats with unparalleled speed, scope and accuracy. In recent years, Dataminr deployed generative AI at scale, integrating real-time event descriptions that make public data signals actionable. Most recently, the company created more than 50 Dataminr-unique large language models (LLMs) and foundational models (FMs), turbocharging its predictive AI and generative AI capabilities and enabling Dataminr to pioneer Regenerative AI. The company’s LLMs and FMs are trained on its one-of-a-kind 12+ year historical event archive. Integrates ReGenAI ReGenAI is available in its initial release on April 30th for Dataminr Pulse customers. This first release integrates ReGenAI for events of global significance and broad global scope.  Future releases will deploy ReGenAI on a wider scale, integrating richer event context, customer-tailored impact assessments, and recommended customer actions. ReGenAI also unlocks the potential for generative AI to dynamically describe what might happen next as an event unfolds.

Twitter has around 350 million active users a month, all eagerly posting 280-character “tweets” about the world around them. It’s a vast amount of data from all over the globe. Security professionals have begun to appreciate the value of mining all that data for insights to help them protect people, assets and operations. One company leveraging the Twitterverse to provide real-time situational awareness to corporate security end users is Dataminr.Dataminr assembles this information flow into a useful timeline that summarises the ongoing sequence of events Algorithms for actionable security signals The New York-based technology company has developed algorithms that comb through the full Twitter dataset to provide actionable signals to security professionals around the world about security-related events as they unfold. For corporate security, early information about an unfolding event enables them to take action faster in order to secure their people, locations and business operations. “OMG! Just heard a loud bang on the quad,” a tweet might declare. Combined with location information gleaned from a mobile phone, such a tweet could be the first indicator of an unfolding security incident. As an event unfolds, hundreds of such tweets are likely to be posted from the surrounding areas, collectively offering a running narrative of developing events. Dataminr assembles this information flow into a useful timeline that summarises the ongoing sequence of events. Many times, tweets are the first information available from an incident even before the arrival of first responders.Dataminr’s information is provided in a variety of platforms, from a web-based dashboard to a mobile app or notification via email “Early notification allows security professionals to be more proactive,” says Dillon Twombly, SVP, Corporate Sales at Dataminr. “We have a broad range of users across Fortune 1000 companies, and also including country security managers, security operations centers, and executive protection. "In retail, we provide information for security operations or loss prevention. Events sometimes have a potential to spin out of control, and we allow security professionals to react faster and get ahead of an event proactively.” Various security platforms Dataminr’s information is provided in a variety of platforms, from a web-based dashboard to a mobile app or notification via email. The system can be integrated with a company’s workflow, and the software interfaces with various security platforms, such as physical security information management (PSIM) systems. Another corporate use for Dataminr is in public relations, where social media could be a source of misinformation or rumors about an issue or event Dataminr addresses all regulatory and legal concerns, and it is GDPR-compliant. However, privacy is generally not a big concern because Twitter data is posted publicly, and Dataminr gleans information related to a specific event, not a specific Twitter user’s individual data. “Over the past couple of years, we have grown the security vertical,” says Twombly. “The market is receptive to the value of social media as a tool for users tasked with responding in a comprehensive way to a range of issues.”The company’s services are useful across the full range of vertical markets in the security industry Public safety and security In addition to security and public safety applications, Dataminr also provides services to financial companies and even media outlets. In fact, the 9-year-old company started in finance, where stock or currency traders were able to leverage breaking news notifications to make decisions faster. In the media vertical, Dataminr provides information to 500 newsrooms globally. Public safety and security uses have evolved, and Twombly currently spearheads the company’s work in corporate security, calling on his experience in the security world. Another corporate use for Dataminr is in public relations, where social media could be a source of misinformation or rumors about an issue or event.Customers can customise the kind of information they want to receive, and Dataminr algorithms use the full publicly available data set of Twitter Tracking Twitter posts enables a company to get ahead of an evolving story and help to shape the narrative. Twombly says Dataminr has “deep and broad relationships” with corporate customers and delivers information that can possibly be used by multiple departments in an organisation. The company’s services are useful across the full range of vertical markets in the security industry, from transportation to major industrials to financial services to energy. In the education vertical, major universities are customers, as are local school districts. Customers can customise the kind of information they want to receive, and Dataminr algorithms use the full publicly available data set of Twitter. Twombly says the company’s software is constantly evolving and being fine-tuned in response to changing needs. Dataminr is a “strategic partner” of the social media giant and works closely with them on product development, he adds.