Issue 1 2023

New agreement supports Innovative’s growth as cloudmigration andmanagement experts. Innovative Solutions (Innovative), a leading provider of cloud services for growing businesses, announced that it has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). As a result of this collaboration, Innovative Solutions and AWS will tightly align their sales, marketing, and delivery teams to effectively accelerate the adoption of cloud services in the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) and startup industry segments with a key focus on software, fintech, life sciences, and retail industries. Innovative will enhance their customer’s cloud journey experience through managed services offerings as well as the company’s ability to support customers through the full digital transformation lifecycle; migration, modernization, data strategy, and machine learning (ML). “We’re thrilled to work with AWS on this remarkable opportunity,” said Justin Copie, CEO of Innovative. “This SCA helps us achieve our vision of helping every SMB customer become a technology company. The size and scale of this agreement, and how it will help us accelerate, is without precedent.” The agreement between Innovative and AWS drives key investments in several areas that address the growing demand for AWS products and services across Innovative’s base of 600+ SMB customers, as well as with new customers in US and Canada. Innovative will expand their migration and modernization practice, managed services offerings and build out new practices in data analytics and ML to support the advanced stages of its customers’ journey to the cloud. Innovative will also invest in the development and scale of its portfolio, listing the company’s solutions in AWS Marketplace to help SMB customers quickly procure and further accelerate migration to AWS. Separate from the agreement, to meet growing demand for cloud expertise and helping businesses achieve their objectives with technology, Innovative expects to hire more than 200 additional employees in the next four years. “Talent acquisition and growth is a central part of our strategy,” said Jaime Eisenhauer, Chief People Officer at Innovative. “We provide our customers with proven experts, so we have aligned both our recruiting and training programs to provide our services with the best talent in North America. It starts with a solid foundation, and every employee at Innovative – from administrative support to accounting to sales to the executive team – has earned an AWS certification. From there, we go deep with AWS Solutions Architects, DevOps engineers, and specialties that match the needs of our customers. Working at Innovative is like getting a graduate degree in the cloud.” Innovative Solutions Signs Strategic Agreement with AWS Looking Glass Labs Ltd. a leading Web3 platform specializing in immersive metaverse environments, play-to-earn tokenization and blockchain monetization strategies, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, House of Kibaa (“HoK”), has signif icantly advanced the development of its Pocket Dimension metaverse offering (the “Pocket Dimension”). Through the impending achievement of numerous avatarbased and architecture-related milestones, the Company expects to set a new standard for the metaverse industry. Pocket Dimension has already reached, and will soon also reach, several new thresholds for its digital world: • 10,000 unique generative avatars in ultra-high resolution via Unreal 5; • 12,000 unique generative Gutter Cat Gang avatars in ultrahigh resolution; • Holders own their metaverse to use and design as they so choose; • Holders of membership tokens are each entitled to receive a free metaverse; and • A generative avatar project with a spin-off live-action video series, GenZeroes. Previously, the Alpha Update of Pocket Dimension Alpha Update release in the fourth quarter of 2022 included the following upgrades for users: • 11 unique four-acre parcels of ultra-realistic land; • Two stock playable avatars; • Four NFT art galleries displaying stock artwork; • Non-player character host interactions; • Mini games; and • The Gutter Trap House in affiliation with the Gutter Cat Gang. The 2022 end-of-year update to Pocket Dimension currently in progress includes the following enhancements: • Ultra-high resolution art galleries to display a user’s NFTs from their connected wallet; • A larger collection of approximately 60 stock playable avatars; and • A patch manager for easier access to future updates (Windows build-only, at this time). In early 2023, HoK will be working to add Unity 4 and pixel streaming to Pocket Dimension. This addition is designed to enable Pocket Dimension to be available on virtually any device and bandwidth connection, which is expected to be a milestone for the metaverse industry. For a sample of the Pocket Dimension experience, please follow this link to view the Pocket Dimension Alpha Launch Cinematic Trailer: https://vimeo.com/779389633/1abc25dbe0.

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