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Forbes
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
How The Impact Lounge Is Pioneering Storytelling For Go
The Impact Lounge is a traveling creative hub that brings together filmmakers, foundations, and ... More brands to tell stories that don't just raise awareness—but spark action. The Impact Lounge Every year, billions of dollars are poured into social causes—through grants, programs, and policy change. But despite all that effort, the deeper challenge remains: how do you shift culture? How do you change hearts, not just headlines? That's where storytelling comes in. Because while data can inform us, only stories can move us. This is the belief driving The Impact Lounge, a traveling creative hub that brings together filmmakers, foundations, and brands to tell stories that don't just raise awareness—but spark action. The Impact Lounge isn't a single venue—it's a traveling stage. One that has already appeared at places like Cannes, Sundance, and the Lumen Awards. This year, it expands to Climate Week in New York, with one day at the United Nations and multiple days at the Javits Center. The format is immersive and intentional—built to foster connection, inspire action, and elevate the storytellers too often left out of mainstream film circles. Whether it's a young Indigenous filmmaker in Georgia or a conservationist director working in Morocco, The Impact Lounge is designed to give them a platform—and the network to support their vision. In a time when outrage is easy and attention is fleeting, The Impact Lounge offers a different kind of power: empathy, imagination, and the belief that the right story can become the spark that changes everything. At the heart of it is Heather Mason, who spent 20 years in the world of philanthropy—while quietly carrying a love for film she never let go of. 'I wanted to bring those together,' she says, 'and really see the alchemy of the fact that films truly can move mountains when it comes to narrative and culture change.' After two decades working inside foundations, Mason began to ask a different kind of question. What if these powerful institutions stopped thinking of film as a communications tool—and started seeing it as a cultural investment? Her long-term dream is as daring as it is logical: foundations acting as studios. Not just funding a few passion projects each year, but backing entire slates of impact-driven films, just like Hollywood. 'Wouldn't it be incredible,' Mason says, 'if foundations... became studios, either on their own or as a consortium… to do slates of 10, 20, 40, 100 films a year... and create that marketplace for impact film?' In this vision, the ecosystem is already there: NGOs doing the work on the ground, foundations funding them, and filmmakers ready to craft meaningful stories—but struggling for support. The Impact Lounge becomes the place where all those threads are woven together, where narratives are born, and where change begins. Heather Mason, Founder The Impact Lounge Brands Have a Role to Play While many of the early backers of The Impact Lounge have been forward-thinking foundations like Omidyar Network, MacArthur Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and the National Geographic Society, Mason believes this is only half the story. The future, she argues, must include brands—not just as funders, but as active participants in cultural change. 'Corporations... touch employees, touch all sorts of people, you can't leave them out,' she says. 'If you leave that out, you're leaving everything out.' She points to American Express as one example of what's possible when brands commit to storytelling with depth. Years ago, AmEx produced a short documentary called Spent: Looking for Change , which explored the lives of everyday Americans locked out of the traditional banking system. It told the story of the unbanked and underbanked—nearly 70 million Americans—who rely on payday loans and check-cashing services to survive, often paying far more in fees than they would with access to a basic checking account. The film was raw, heartfelt, and illuminating. 'I'd love to bring that back,' Mason says. 'It's still so relevant.' Through The Impact Lounge's platform—whether at major festivals or its own curated events—projects like Spent can find renewed life and reach new audiences hungry for meaningful, purpose-driven content. The Empathy Machine That's Been Left Behind At the heart of everything Mason does is a deep belief in storytelling as the most powerful—and too often overlooked—tool for change. 'The empathy machine is being left to the side,' she says. 'It's too easy to rely on guilt and shame. But if you actually want the outcome... storytelling is how you get there.' 'Guilt and shame won't change us. But wonder might. Film has the power to inspire—to bring beauty, hope, and possibility into our lives. And that's what moves people.' That's the quiet power of The Impact Lounge. It's not trying to lecture. It's not trying to go viral. It's trying to spark something deeper—by giving the right stories a place to be heard, and the right people the tools to tell them.
Globe and Mail
25-03-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Coveo Now a Shopify Premier Technology Partner - Fuel Revenue Growth with Enterprise AI-Search, Product Discovery and Generative Experiences
Join Coveo and Shopify for live demos at SHOPTALK, March 25-27 in Las Vegas . Visit the Coveo booth #1744 (next to the Impact Lounge) to see how AI-Relevance can transform Shopify businesses. LAS VEGAS and MONTREAL , March 25, 2025 /CNW/ - Today, at SHOPTALK, Coveo (TSX: CVO), the market leader in AI-Relevance — delivering AI-search, generative, and business-aware relevance at every point-of-experience, announced that Coveo is now a Shopify Premier Technology Partner and Coveo AI Search and Product Discovery for Shopify is now officially available for access in the Shopify App Store. Enterprises can now improve the customer experience and drive profitable growth with the industry-leading ecommerce platform from Shopify and best-in-class AI-search and product discovery from Coveo. "The alliance between Coveo and Shopify represents a synergy of two powerful platforms, designed to fuel the future of commerce growth," said Peter Curran , GM of Commerce at Coveo. "As Shopify expands its enterprise capabilities, it needs a powerful, adaptable solution to meet the growing complexities of large catalogs and operations. Coveo equips Shopify merchants with proven AI models that go beyond enhancing product discovery — optimizing operational efficiency and driving measurable impact across every touchpoint." Drive measurable, profitable growth with leading AI-search and product discovery, personalized for every shopper intent Coveo is a recognized leader in the e-commerce industry, trusted by numerous B2B and B2C enterprises for its AI-search, merchandising, personalization, and generative answering solutions. In 2024, Gartner® recognized Coveo as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery. 1 With Coveo AI added to Shopify storefronts, brands gain powerful, multi-layered AI-search that transforms product discovery, adapts to intent in real-time, and increases conversion and revenue per visit. Empowered merchandising lets merchandisers fine-tune search, product listings, and recommendations, layer business rules on top of AI, and see detailed reporting. By implementing Coveo, Shopify merchants can transform their business with: Multi-layered AI-Search Industry-leading AI-search: Relevant shopper experiences with predictive query suggestions, personalized 1:1 results, partial part # match, fitment and cross-reference lookups, powered by sophisticated AI and semantics. 1-1 Personalization: Search and suggestions that adapt in real-time within a session aligning with each shopper's intent – whether returning customers or anonymous visitors. Enriched and Personalized Product Discovery Recommendations: Highly relevant product and content recommendations dynamically adjusted in-session based on real-time shopper behavior and intent cues, using deep learning models. Indexing: Unified indexing that enables effortless product discovery, regardless of catalog complexity such as customer specific pricing and entitlements. Supporting any scale, over 40 million products and 100 million pieces of content. Generative Experiences: Guided advisory experiences educating customers on products relevant to them and putting retailers' expert content to work in the discovery journey. Empowered Merchandising Scalable AI Foundation: Relevant product discovery that can be easily tuned by merchants with an intuitive UI for layering and scheduling business rules on top of sophisticated AI models. Transparent Ranking Insights: Detailed visibility on product ranking factors with extensive reporting on the performance of search and product discovery. "Shopify's leading commerce technology and strong partner ecosystem empowers merchants to create bespoke solutions for every phase of their commerce journey," said Ritu Khanna , Vice President of Partnerships at Shopify. "We're thrilled to enable Coveo's AI-powered search, product discovery, and generative experience capabilities to more businesses on Shopify." Getting started is simple with flexible integration options. Link the Coveo license with the Shopify store to access best-in-class AI-search and product discovery, plus even more functionality — including GenAI answering — through the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform TM. Install Coveo for Shopify, available for exclusive access now. Watch Coveo for Shopify in action. About Coveo Coveo brings superior AI-Relevance to every point-of-experience and agents, transforming how enterprises connect with their customers and employees to maximize business outcomes. Relevance is about moving from persona to person, the degree to which the enterprise-wide content, products, recommendations, and advice presented to a person online aligns easily with their context, needs, preferences, behavior and intent, setting the competitive experience gold standard. Every person's journey is unique, and only AI can solve the complexity of tailoring experiences across massive, diverse audiences and large volumes and variety of content and products. Our Coveo AI-Relevance Platform™ ️enables enterprises to deliver hyper-personalization at every point-of-experience, unifying all their data securely, with the highest level of contextual and prescriptive accuracy while simultaneously optimizing business outcomes. Coveo brings AI-Relevance to the digital experiences of many of the world's premier and most innovative brands, serving millions of people across billions of interactions. What we believe is bold: Digital is table stakes, Relevance is not. It's the only way to win in the digital age. The Coveo AI-Relevance Platform™ is ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certified, SOC2 compliant, HIPAA compatible, with a 99.999% SLA available. We are a Salesforce ISV Partner, an SAP Endorsed Ⓡ App, an Adobe Gold Partner, MACH Alliance member, Optimizely Partner, Shopify Premier Partner, and a Genesys AppFoundry Ⓡ ISV Partner. Coveo is a trademark of Coveo Solutions Inc. Stay up to date on the latest Coveo news and content by subscribing to the Coveo blog, and following Coveo on LinkedIn and YouTube. Forward-Looking Information This press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking information"). This forward-looking information is identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "may", "would", "should", "could", "might", "will", "achieve", "occur", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "plan", "foresee", "believe", "continue", "target", "opportunity", "strategy", "scheduled", "outlook", "forecast", "projection", or "prospect", the negative of these terms and similar terminology, including references to assumptions, although not all forward-looking information contains these terms and phrases. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management's expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events or circumstances. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, estimates, and assumptions that we considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such statements are made. Although the forward-looking information contained herein is based upon what we believe are reasonable assumptions, actual results may vary from the forward-looking information contained herein. Moreover, forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to macro-economic uncertainties and the risk factors described under "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recently filed Annual Information Form available under our profile on SEDAR+ at There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, prospective investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only as of the date made. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. Although we have attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other risk factors not presently known to us or that we presently believe are not material that could also cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking information. Except as required by law, we do not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. _________________________ 1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery, Mike Lowndes, Aditya Vasudevan, Sandy Shen, Noam Dorros, 13 May 2024. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Coveo Now a Shopify Premier Technology Partner - Fuel Revenue Growth with Enterprise AI-Search, Product Discovery and Generative Experiences
Join Coveo and Shopify for live demos at SHOPTALK, March 25-27 in Las Vegas. Visit the Coveo booth #1744 (next to the Impact Lounge) to see how AI-Relevance can transform Shopify businesses. LAS VEGAS and MONTREAL, March 25, 2025 /CNW/ - Today, at SHOPTALK, Coveo (TSX: CVO), the market leader in AI-Relevance — delivering AI-search, generative, and business-aware relevance at every point-of-experience, announced that Coveo is now a Shopify Premier Technology Partner and Coveo AI Search and Product Discovery for Shopify is now officially available for access in the Shopify App Store. Enterprises can now improve the customer experience and drive profitable growth with the industry-leading ecommerce platform from Shopify and best-in-class AI-search and product discovery from Coveo. "The alliance between Coveo and Shopify represents a synergy of two powerful platforms, designed to fuel the future of commerce growth," said Peter Curran, GM of Commerce at Coveo. "As Shopify expands its enterprise capabilities, it needs a powerful, adaptable solution to meet the growing complexities of large catalogs and operations. Coveo equips Shopify merchants with proven AI models that go beyond enhancing product discovery — optimizing operational efficiency and driving measurable impact across every touchpoint." Drive measurable, profitable growth with leading AI-search and product discovery, personalized for every shopper intent Coveo is a recognized leader in the e-commerce industry, trusted by numerous B2B and B2C enterprises for its AI-search, merchandising, personalization, and generative answering solutions. In 2024, Gartner® recognized Coveo as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery.1 With Coveo AI added to Shopify storefronts, brands gain powerful, multi-layered AI-search that transforms product discovery, adapts to intent in real-time, and increases conversion and revenue per visit. Empowered merchandising lets merchandisers fine-tune search, product listings, and recommendations, layer business rules on top of AI, and see detailed reporting. By implementing Coveo, Shopify merchants can transform their business with: Multi-layered AI-Search Industry-leading AI-search: Relevant shopper experiences with predictive query suggestions, personalized 1:1 results, partial part # match, fitment and cross-reference lookups, powered by sophisticated AI and semantics. 1-1 Personalization: Search and suggestions that adapt in real-time within a session aligning with each shopper's intent – whether returning customers or anonymous visitors. Enriched and Personalized Product Discovery Recommendations: Highly relevant product and content recommendations dynamically adjusted in-session based on real-time shopper behavior and intent cues, using deep learning models. Indexing: Unified indexing that enables effortless product discovery, regardless of catalog complexity such as customer specific pricing and entitlements. Supporting any scale, over 40 million products and 100 million pieces of content. Generative Experiences: Guided advisory experiences educating customers on products relevant to them and putting retailers' expert content to work in the discovery journey. Empowered Merchandising Scalable AI Foundation: Relevant product discovery that can be easily tuned by merchants with an intuitive UI for layering and scheduling business rules on top of sophisticated AI models. Transparent Ranking Insights: Detailed visibility on product ranking factors with extensive reporting on the performance of search and product discovery. "Shopify's leading commerce technology and strong partner ecosystem empowers merchants to create bespoke solutions for every phase of their commerce journey," said Ritu Khanna, Vice President of Partnerships at Shopify. "We're thrilled to enable Coveo's AI-powered search, product discovery, and generative experience capabilities to more businesses on Shopify." Getting started is simple with flexible integration options. Link the Coveo license with the Shopify store to access best-in-class AI-search and product discovery, plus even more functionality — including GenAI answering — through the Coveo AI-Relevance PlatformTM. Install Coveo for Shopify, available for exclusive access now. Watch Coveo for Shopify in action. About CoveoCoveo brings superior AI-Relevance to every point-of-experience and agents, transforming how enterprises connect with their customers and employees to maximize business outcomes. Relevance is about moving from persona to person, the degree to which the enterprise-wide content, products, recommendations, and advice presented to a person online aligns easily with their context, needs, preferences, behavior and intent, setting the competitive experience gold standard. Every person's journey is unique, and only AI can solve the complexity of tailoring experiences across massive, diverse audiences and large volumes and variety of content and products. Our Coveo AI-Relevance Platform™ ️enables enterprises to deliver hyper-personalization at every point-of-experience, unifying all their data securely, with the highest level of contextual and prescriptive accuracy while simultaneously optimizing business outcomes. Coveo brings AI-Relevance to the digital experiences of many of the world's premier and most innovative brands, serving millions of people across billions of interactions. What we believe is bold: Digital is table stakes, Relevance is not. It's the only way to win in the digital age. The Coveo AI-Relevance Platform™ is ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certified, SOC2 compliant, HIPAA compatible, with a 99.999% SLA available. We are a Salesforce ISV Partner, an SAP EndorsedⓇ App, an Adobe Gold Partner, MACH Alliance member, Optimizely Partner, Shopify Premier Partner, and a Genesys AppFoundryⓇ ISV Partner. Coveo is a trademark of Coveo Solutions Inc. Stay up to date on the latest Coveo news and content by subscribing to the Coveo blog, and following Coveo on LinkedIn and YouTube. Forward-Looking Information This press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws (collectively, "forward-looking information"). This forward-looking information is identified by the use of terms and phrases such as "may", "would", "should", "could", "might", "will", "achieve", "occur", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate", "plan", "foresee", "believe", "continue", "target", "opportunity", "strategy", "scheduled", "outlook", "forecast", "projection", or "prospect", the negative of these terms and similar terminology, including references to assumptions, although not all forward-looking information contains these terms and phrases. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, intentions, projections, or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Statements containing forward-looking information are not historical facts but instead represent management's expectations, estimates, and projections regarding future events or circumstances. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, estimates, and assumptions that we considered appropriate and reasonable as of the date such statements are made. Although the forward-looking information contained herein is based upon what we believe are reasonable assumptions, actual results may vary from the forward-looking information contained herein. Moreover, forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including but not limited to macro-economic uncertainties and the risk factors described under "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recently filed Annual Information Form available under our profile on SEDAR+ at There can be no assurance that such forward-looking information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such information. Accordingly, prospective investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which speaks only as of the date made. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. Although we have attempted to identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other risk factors not presently known to us or that we presently believe are not material that could also cause actual results or future events to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking information. Except as required by law, we do not assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events._________________________1 Gartner, Magic Quadrant™ for Search and Product Discovery, Mike Lowndes, Aditya Vasudevan, Sandy Shen, Noam Dorros, 13 May 2024. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Coveo Solutions Inc. View original content to download multimedia: Sign in to access your portfolio
