This document provides an overview of the Network Automation e-Academy, which was created to help build consensus and share knowledge around network orchestration, automation, and virtualization (OAV) among National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners. It describes the motivation for the academy based on a survey that found NRENs have varying levels of OAV adoption and skills. The academy provides training resources through an online portal, including terminology, architecture best practices, and examples of how different NREN architectures map to the reference architecture blueprint. Its goal is to facilitate collaboration and skills development around OAV implementation across the NREN community.
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme al 10è SIG-NOC Meeting, celebrat els dies 13 i 14 de novembre de 2019 a Praga.
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme dins la sessió BoF: "Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation: Focusing on the user" de la TNC21 Networking Conference de Géant el 25 de juny de 2021.
Presentation adapted from the ProSTEP symposium to present the concept and advances in the digitalization of the lifecyle with focus on task automation and reuse.
Nowadays, the digital transformation is affecting any task, activity, process that is done in any organization or even in our daily life activities. The edu-cation sector, considered as one of the leading sectors in terms of innovation through technology, is also facing a transformation in which digital technol-ogy is rapidly evolving. In this context, the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) phenomenon has gained a lot of attraction due to the capability of reaching thousands or even millions of students from all over the world. However, the activities related to MOOCs are not yet being evaluated or quantified as a driver of change. Since the creation of MOOCs requires sup-port and institutional commitment to deliver high-quality courses on tech-nology-based platforms, it seems reasonable to measure the degree of inno-vation in education through the definition of an indicator that collects the commitment of an institution or a person to this new environment of digital education. That is why, in this paper, authors present the definition of a novel indicator and several potential metrics to represent and quantify the degree of innovation in education in universities. Furthermore, a case study is conducted to evaluate 3 different metrics on 36 European universities in the context of the edX and Coursera platforms.
Presentation given as part of the 2018 OpenAIRE-FOSTER Open Access week webinar series. The tutorial is aimed at librarians and data support staff who are assisting researchers with Data Management Plans (DMPs). It reflects on recent trends and developments that will help in service delivery, including changing policies for DMPs, how funders review DMPs, new tools and international activities to make DMPs Open, machine-actionable and FAIR.
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme al 10è SIG-NOC Meeting, celebrat els dies 13 i 14 de novembre de 2019 a Praga.
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme dins la sessió BoF: "Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation: Focusing on the user" de la TNC21 Networking Conference de Géant el 25 de juny de 2021.
Presentation adapted from the ProSTEP symposium to present the concept and advances in the digitalization of the lifecyle with focus on task automation and reuse.
Nowadays, the digital transformation is affecting any task, activity, process that is done in any organization or even in our daily life activities. The edu-cation sector, considered as one of the leading sectors in terms of innovation through technology, is also facing a transformation in which digital technol-ogy is rapidly evolving. In this context, the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) phenomenon has gained a lot of attraction due to the capability of reaching thousands or even millions of students from all over the world. However, the activities related to MOOCs are not yet being evaluated or quantified as a driver of change. Since the creation of MOOCs requires sup-port and institutional commitment to deliver high-quality courses on tech-nology-based platforms, it seems reasonable to measure the degree of inno-vation in education through the definition of an indicator that collects the commitment of an institution or a person to this new environment of digital education. That is why, in this paper, authors present the definition of a novel indicator and several potential metrics to represent and quantify the degree of innovation in education in universities. Furthermore, a case study is conducted to evaluate 3 different metrics on 36 European universities in the context of the edX and Coursera platforms.
Presentation given as part of the 2018 OpenAIRE-FOSTER Open Access week webinar series. The tutorial is aimed at librarians and data support staff who are assisting researchers with Data Management Plans (DMPs). It reflects on recent trends and developments that will help in service delivery, including changing policies for DMPs, how funders review DMPs, new tools and international activities to make DMPs Open, machine-actionable and FAIR.
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme el 3 de març a Zagreb dins la 19a edició del "Service and Technology Forum", que ha tingut per objectiu actualitzar l'estat de les tasques realitzades pels diversos focus groups dins del grup "Evolució i desenvolupament de serveis de xarxa" (tasca 2) del paquet de treball de "Tecnologies i serveis de desenvolupament de xarxa" (WP6) del projecte GN4-3 sobre orquestració, automatització i virtualització.
En concret, la presentació mostra la feina feta per trobar una terminologia comuna, una arquitectura de referència per a l'orquestració i automatització de serveis, un wiki on compartir la informació i uns casos d'ús, com ara la gestió de xarxes de campus. També explica els aspectes més complexos per trobar consens en l'automatització i orquestració de serveis de les xarxes acadèmiques i de recerca europees (NREN) i també a nivell multi-domini, ja que es troben en nivells de maduresa molt diversos.
Redes LTE Comunitárias no Brasil: Modelamento, Implantação e Manutenção Sustentáveis com base em Novos Paradigmas de Redes.
Projeto financiado pela FAPESP Processo: 18/23101-0
Resumo
Em relatório publicado pelo Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br) em 2018, em termos de acesso à Internet por banda larga no Brasil, há uma ampla desigualdade entre as classes econômicas A/B (maior) e D/E (menor), fato evidenciado nas análises entre as áreas urbanas e rural. Além de evidenciar que cerca de 34% dos brasileiros ainda não possuem acesso à Internet, o relatório também explica que o acesso à Internet é um catalisador de desenvolvimento social, econômico e tecnológico: fato consagrado em diversas pesquisas internacionais e enfatizado pela organização Internet Society. Redes sem fio comunitárias têm se tornado um meio sustentável de promover meios acessíveis de conexão à Internet,tanto em áreas rurais remotas quanto em regiões urbanas densas. Em sua ampla maioria, redes sem fio comunitárias adotam a tecnologia wifi, no entanto apenas recentemente, devido ao desenvolvimento de tecnologias de código livre e de baixo custo, o padrão Long-Term Evolution (LTE) começou a ser explorado para estes fins. Logo, não há conhecimento na literatura acadêmica de estudos que busquem utilizar e melhorar o padrão LTE aplicado à redes sem fio comunitárias. Nesse escopo, esta proposta busca trazer conceitos inovadores de novos paradigmas de redes, Redes Definidas por Software (Software Defined Networks -SDN) e Virtualização de Funções de Rede (Network Functions Virtualization - NFV), para o desenvolvimento de redes LTE comunitárias. Por meio de uma metodologia ágil de testes,conceitos de SDN e NFV serão aplicados no desenvolvimento de mecanismos que realizem o gerenciamento inteligente de recursos de redes LTE comunitárias visando desempenho eficiente e tolerância a falhas robusta, i.e., a sustentabilidade da rede. Todos estes estudos serão feitos tendo por base um levantamento de características de redes sem fio comunitárias em operação no Brasil proposto para o início do projeto. Ao final, a execução desta proposta irá produzir um material didático elucidando as formas de modelamento, implantação, e manutenção sustentável de uma rede LTE comunitária nos moldes dos estudos realizados por esta proposta (i.e., com todos os dados, avaliações, metodologias, e protótipos). Este material será utilizado como base de uma proposta de implantação de uma rede LTE comunitária no Brasil junto ao programa "Beyond the Net" da Internet Society.
Evento: https://www.lasse.ufpa.br/co5gam/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEb9oIAaPY
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
About the IETF: Presentation for the University of BotswanaInternet Society
Until now, the participation of Africans in IETF is almost inexistent. This has to change if Africa wants to be at the forefront of the development of the next standards of Internet Technology that will define the Internet of tomorrow.
Presentació de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC i membre del projecte GN4-3 de GÉANT, durant el "2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange", a Denver (EUA).
Opening Slides from ION Belfast by Chris Grundemann of the Internet Society. Introduces the Internet Society and the Deploy360 Programme that hosts the ION Conference Series.
Introduction – OPEN DEI Webinar "The role of the Reference Architectures in D...OPEN DEI
Introduction – OPEN DEI Webinar "The role of the Reference Architectures in Data-oriented Digital Platforms"
28 May 2020
Angelo Marguglio (Head of Smart Industry & Agri-food, Engineering)
GHD iConnect - our intranet for the futureMaree Courts
GHD's journey to build an intranet for the future. Moving from a legacy Lotus Notes platform to a brand new shiny SharePoint 2013 environment was an exciting undertaking.
| www.eudat.eu | The EGI-EUDAT collaboration started in March 2016 with the main goal to harmonise the two e-Infrastructures, including technical interoperability, authentication, authorisation and identity management, policy and operations. The main objective of this work is to provide end-users with a seamless access to an integrated infrastructure offering both EGI and EUDAT services and then, pairing data and high-throughput computing resources together.
To define the roadmap of this collaboration, EGI and EUDAT selected a set of relevant user communities who are already collaborating with both infrastructures. These user communities are able to bring requirements and help assign the right priorities to each of them. In this way, the integration activity has been driven by the end users from the start. The identified user communities are relevant European Research infrastructure in the field of Earth Science (EPOS and ICOS), Bioinformatics (BBMRI and ELIXIR) and Space Physics (EISCAT-3D).
The first outcome of this activity has been the definition of a universal use case that covers the user needs with respect the integration of the two infrastructures previously identified. This use case permits a user of either e-infrastructure to instantiate a VM on the EGI Cloud Federation for the execution of a computational job consuming data preserved onto EUDAT resources. The results of such analysis can be staged back to EUDAT storages, and if needed, allocated with Permanent identifiers (PIDs) for future use. To implement all the steps of this use case the following integration activities between the two infrastructures has to be fulfilled: (1) harmonisation between the authentication and authorisation model, (2) definition and implementation of the interfaces between the involved EGI and EUDAT services.
The first phase of the implementation of this use case has been demonstrated at the EGI Community Forum 2015 (Bari, IT). In addition, two pilot use cases (EPOS and ICOS) have been selected to drive the implementation and validate the results.
The Future Internet PPP and the CONCORD Project, Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL President, European Parliament, 3rd Innovation Summit, OPEN DAYS, October 11th, 2011
Presentació a càrrec de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC, duta a terme el 3 de març a Zagreb dins la 19a edició del "Service and Technology Forum", que ha tingut per objectiu actualitzar l'estat de les tasques realitzades pels diversos focus groups dins del grup "Evolució i desenvolupament de serveis de xarxa" (tasca 2) del paquet de treball de "Tecnologies i serveis de desenvolupament de xarxa" (WP6) del projecte GN4-3 sobre orquestració, automatització i virtualització.
En concret, la presentació mostra la feina feta per trobar una terminologia comuna, una arquitectura de referència per a l'orquestració i automatització de serveis, un wiki on compartir la informació i uns casos d'ús, com ara la gestió de xarxes de campus. També explica els aspectes més complexos per trobar consens en l'automatització i orquestració de serveis de les xarxes acadèmiques i de recerca europees (NREN) i també a nivell multi-domini, ja que es troben en nivells de maduresa molt diversos.
Redes LTE Comunitárias no Brasil: Modelamento, Implantação e Manutenção Sustentáveis com base em Novos Paradigmas de Redes.
Projeto financiado pela FAPESP Processo: 18/23101-0
Resumo
Em relatório publicado pelo Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br) em 2018, em termos de acesso à Internet por banda larga no Brasil, há uma ampla desigualdade entre as classes econômicas A/B (maior) e D/E (menor), fato evidenciado nas análises entre as áreas urbanas e rural. Além de evidenciar que cerca de 34% dos brasileiros ainda não possuem acesso à Internet, o relatório também explica que o acesso à Internet é um catalisador de desenvolvimento social, econômico e tecnológico: fato consagrado em diversas pesquisas internacionais e enfatizado pela organização Internet Society. Redes sem fio comunitárias têm se tornado um meio sustentável de promover meios acessíveis de conexão à Internet,tanto em áreas rurais remotas quanto em regiões urbanas densas. Em sua ampla maioria, redes sem fio comunitárias adotam a tecnologia wifi, no entanto apenas recentemente, devido ao desenvolvimento de tecnologias de código livre e de baixo custo, o padrão Long-Term Evolution (LTE) começou a ser explorado para estes fins. Logo, não há conhecimento na literatura acadêmica de estudos que busquem utilizar e melhorar o padrão LTE aplicado à redes sem fio comunitárias. Nesse escopo, esta proposta busca trazer conceitos inovadores de novos paradigmas de redes, Redes Definidas por Software (Software Defined Networks -SDN) e Virtualização de Funções de Rede (Network Functions Virtualization - NFV), para o desenvolvimento de redes LTE comunitárias. Por meio de uma metodologia ágil de testes,conceitos de SDN e NFV serão aplicados no desenvolvimento de mecanismos que realizem o gerenciamento inteligente de recursos de redes LTE comunitárias visando desempenho eficiente e tolerância a falhas robusta, i.e., a sustentabilidade da rede. Todos estes estudos serão feitos tendo por base um levantamento de características de redes sem fio comunitárias em operação no Brasil proposto para o início do projeto. Ao final, a execução desta proposta irá produzir um material didático elucidando as formas de modelamento, implantação, e manutenção sustentável de uma rede LTE comunitária nos moldes dos estudos realizados por esta proposta (i.e., com todos os dados, avaliações, metodologias, e protótipos). Este material será utilizado como base de uma proposta de implantação de uma rede LTE comunitária no Brasil junto ao programa "Beyond the Net" da Internet Society.
Evento: https://www.lasse.ufpa.br/co5gam/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEb9oIAaPY
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
About the IETF: Presentation for the University of BotswanaInternet Society
Until now, the participation of Africans in IETF is almost inexistent. This has to change if Africa wants to be at the forefront of the development of the next standards of Internet Technology that will define the Internet of tomorrow.
Presentació de Maria Isabel Gandia, cap de Comunicacions del CSUC i membre del projecte GN4-3 de GÉANT, durant el "2022 Internet2 Technology Exchange", a Denver (EUA).
Opening Slides from ION Belfast by Chris Grundemann of the Internet Society. Introduces the Internet Society and the Deploy360 Programme that hosts the ION Conference Series.
Introduction – OPEN DEI Webinar "The role of the Reference Architectures in D...OPEN DEI
Introduction – OPEN DEI Webinar "The role of the Reference Architectures in Data-oriented Digital Platforms"
28 May 2020
Angelo Marguglio (Head of Smart Industry & Agri-food, Engineering)
GHD iConnect - our intranet for the futureMaree Courts
GHD's journey to build an intranet for the future. Moving from a legacy Lotus Notes platform to a brand new shiny SharePoint 2013 environment was an exciting undertaking.
| www.eudat.eu | The EGI-EUDAT collaboration started in March 2016 with the main goal to harmonise the two e-Infrastructures, including technical interoperability, authentication, authorisation and identity management, policy and operations. The main objective of this work is to provide end-users with a seamless access to an integrated infrastructure offering both EGI and EUDAT services and then, pairing data and high-throughput computing resources together.
To define the roadmap of this collaboration, EGI and EUDAT selected a set of relevant user communities who are already collaborating with both infrastructures. These user communities are able to bring requirements and help assign the right priorities to each of them. In this way, the integration activity has been driven by the end users from the start. The identified user communities are relevant European Research infrastructure in the field of Earth Science (EPOS and ICOS), Bioinformatics (BBMRI and ELIXIR) and Space Physics (EISCAT-3D).
The first outcome of this activity has been the definition of a universal use case that covers the user needs with respect the integration of the two infrastructures previously identified. This use case permits a user of either e-infrastructure to instantiate a VM on the EGI Cloud Federation for the execution of a computational job consuming data preserved onto EUDAT resources. The results of such analysis can be staged back to EUDAT storages, and if needed, allocated with Permanent identifiers (PIDs) for future use. To implement all the steps of this use case the following integration activities between the two infrastructures has to be fulfilled: (1) harmonisation between the authentication and authorisation model, (2) definition and implementation of the interfaces between the involved EGI and EUDAT services.
The first phase of the implementation of this use case has been demonstrated at the EGI Community Forum 2015 (Bari, IT). In addition, two pilot use cases (EPOS and ICOS) have been selected to drive the implementation and validate the results.
The Future Internet PPP and the CONCORD Project, Alvaro Oliveira, ENoLL President, European Parliament, 3rd Innovation Summit, OPEN DAYS, October 11th, 2011
Activitat de formació, impartida pel CSUC, per sensibilitzar de la importància de fer una bona gestió de les dades de recerca i, sobretot, de la necessitat de publicar les dades seguint els principis FAIR (trobables, accessibles, interoperables i reutilitzables).
Presentació a càrrec de Clara Llebot, tècnica de curació de dades, al 18è congrés International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). En són coautors la Mireia Alcalá, tècnica de recursos d'informació, i en Lluís Anglada, assessor de ciència oberta del CSUC.
Activitat de formació, impartida pel CSUC, per sensibilitzar de la importància de fer una bona gestió de les dades de recerca, començant per la generació de plans de gestió de dades.
Presentació a càrrec de Mireia Alcalá (CSUC). La presentació s'emmarca dins el taller "Com pot ajudar la gestió de les dades de recerca a posar en pràctica la ciència oberta?".
El taller va ser organitzat per la UVic-UCC des de la Biblioteca i l'OTRI i relitza una introducció a la ciència oberta i a la gestió de dades de recerca.
Participació de Mireia Alcalá, tècnica líder en Curació de Dades al CSUC, a la jornada de REBIUN-ANECA sobre l'avaluació de la recerca a les biblioteques universitàries i científiques espanyoles.
Presentació a càrrec de Patrícia Sanpera, directora de la Biblioteca – Centre de Documentació de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona, a la Jornada CCUC 2023.
Presentació a càrrec de Sara Guasteví, responsable de la Biblioteca de l'Espai de Documentació i Recerca del Museu de la Música de Barcelona - L'Auditori, a la Jornada CCUC 2023.
Presentació a càrrec de Maribel Giner, directora - gerent de la Biblioteca Pública Arús, i David Domènech, bibliotecari de la Biblioteca Pública Arús, a la Jornada CCUC 2023.
Presentació de Núria Nevado, cap de Secció d'Informació i Documentació del Departament d'Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural, a la Jornada CCUC 2023.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
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• GÉANT’s vision is to ensure equal network access for all
scientists across Europe to the research infrastructures and
the e-infrastructure resources available to them
• A part of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme
• GÉANT 2020 Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA)
• 40 partners, 500 contributors
• 50 M users
• GN4-3 started 1 Jan 2019 as a 4 year project
GÉANT Project
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• Most of the work known so far is single-domain and domain-specific.
• It was first necessary to understand the current situation for OAV
adoption in the community.
• A period of consensus building at the start of GN4-3 was required.
• It started with an NREN OAV survey to:
• Learn about strategy/actions of each NREN related to OAV.
• Explore if there are common OAV use cases, ideas, and issues.
• Recognise possible areas of collaboration among NRENs and GÉANT.
• Determine possible future work in WP6 (or other WPs) that could be of
benefit to as many partners as possible for identified use case(s).
Investigation of OAV in the GÉANT community
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OAV Survey (Orchestration, Automation, Virtualisation) - Sections
Existing Network and Services Support Platforms
Current OAV Use Cases and Services
OAV Challenges and Priorities
Future OAV Use Cases and Services
How can the GÉANT Community / the GÉANT Project help?
*https://www.geant.org/Projects/GEANT_Project_GN4-3/GN43_deliverables/D6-2_Automation-and-Orchestration-of-Services-in-the-GEANT-Community.pdf
Automation
61%
Virtualization
31%
Orchestration
8%
WHAT WORK IS
IMPLEMENTED FIRST
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Common pain points
• Manpower - number, skill, expertise
• Brownfield - existing systems, hard to make changes in production, CI CD
• Priorities - existing systems; continuous operations vs. new development
• Time - split between the operations and R&D
• Cost - additional people, additional software, software replacement
• Limitations of the proprietary solutions
NREN consultation clearly showed:
• That there is a diversity of perspectives
• NRENs are at varying stages of OAV concerning
implementation / experience
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Survey Results: Skills needed for OAV and whether people in
NRENs have them
• Software development skills
• Software development and
networking skills (unicorns?)
• Additional personnel
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Survey Results: Concerns by NOC teams around increased
automation
Concerns more widely reported are related to:
• Automating failures due to mistakes / inadequate software / reduced troubleshooting
capabilities
• Lack of ability for tailor-made services / lack of flexibility
• Lack of appropriate employee skills / need for training / lots of required effort to setup
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GÉANT Potential Contribution
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Providing data model(s)
Providing methodology
GEANT should organize workshop & training
Developing software
Providing tools/automation repository
Other ways - provide practice guide
Other ways - Demonstrate technology in a working/real/use
case /production environment
Other ways - need OAV architecture blueprint combined with
API
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Collaborative approach to OAV in the GÉANT Community
Strong need for collaboration and exchange of knowledge and expertise
Knowledge as a gap
We speak different languages
A generally accepted architecture blueprint needed
NRENs are willing to share experiences and learn from others
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Training:
The Need for OAV Training
Survey
implied many
NRENs need
knowledge
Many NRENs
not really
started yet
Tailored
training for
R&E
networks
Examples
grounded in
R&E
By the
community
for the
Community
Powered by:
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The Introductory Line (General Overview)
• OAV Introduction
• OAV Architecture Requirements for NRENs
• The OAV Architecture Blueprint
• Introduction to CI/CD
• Introduction to data modelling, data formats and protocols
• Introduction to API
• Introduction to Engagement Management
• Introduction to Party Management
• Introduction to Core Commerce Management
• Introduction to Production
• Introduction to Automation
• Introduction to Configuration Management
• Introduction to Orchestration
• Introduction to Intelligence Management
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The Open Digital Architecture “Introductory Pack”
• OAV Architecture Requirements for NRENs
• The OAV Architecture Blueprint
• Introduction to Engagement Management
• Introduction to Party Management
• Introduction to Core Commerce Management
• Introduction to Production
• Introduction to Intelligence Management
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Open Window to the Trainers
• By video conference on the first Tuesday every month.
https://wiki.geant.org/display/NETDEV/OAV+Training+Portal
Introduction to the OAV work done in the GÉANT project for the NRENs and the community
Orchestration and Automation are needed to make a smarter use of resources:
Enable faster service delivery / decrease delivery time
Reduce the number of human errors
Decrease the amount of manual work
Lower the costs of service delivery
Ensure configuration consistency
Provide better reporting
Increase efficiency
Increase configuration uniformity and consistency
The subtask aims to promote wider adoption of general OAV principles within the NREN community.
Recursos humanos, experiencia y habilidades
Reducir la brecha de la automatización entre las NREN
Q21. What kind of skills do you consider that people in your organisation should have to approach orchestration, automation and virtualization? Do you consider that people in your organisation have the right skills? If not, what is missing?
Q22. Does your network engineering / Network Operations Centre (NOC) team have specific concerns around a movement towards increased automation? If so, what are they?
How can the GÉANT project assist you in your journey towards greater automation and orchestration of your services? Which of the following would you find useful:
a) providing data model(s)
b) providing methodology
c) providing training (please specify the topic)
d) developing software (please specify which)
e) providing a tool(s) / automation repository
f) or other ways (please specify)
As we saw before, knowledge was mentioned as a gap in the survey, and we want to do something about it. We want to facilitate a knowledge transfer instead of having a knowledge gap. On the other hand, many NRENs have not really started automating yet. If you Google “network automation training”, more than 250 milion entries will show you that there is a lot of material out there. Many tools, platforms, programming languages, concepts like data formats and data modelling... There are excellent courses, but it’s easy to get lost. That’s why we planned to prepare a training focused on the research and education community, with external references that can be useful for us and examples that can be closer to our use cases.
It’s a training by the community for the community. And we have done it in collaboration with the GÉANT Learning and Development Team, using the e-Academy platform and Moodle.
We already mentioned in the first video that this training has been prepared thinking about the organisations in the research and education environment, and that we are using the TMForum ODA architecture as a functional blueprint. This training as a whole is structured in several big blocks or modules that try to include all the necessary content for network engineers, managers and researchers to have a full view of the concepts needed to succeed in the journey to OAV. Each block or module contains several learning units.
The first block is the Introduction, and you are now listening to the first learning unit. After the Introduction learning units, network engineers and systems engineers are recommended to follow the path through DevOps and the TMForum ODA functional blocks, starting with decoupling and integration. This way, you will see how Infrastructure needs to be treated as machine-readable Code (IaC) in order to be able to automate, follow DevOps principles, etc.
For a more theoretical approach to standards, the blocks on the right are a less technical and less operational option. The examples on use cases from NRENs’ concepts are relevant to any profile, to understand how organisations in the environment have applied the OAV concepts.
However, as in the world of OAV there are several protocols, tools, formats and programming languages, we have taken a phased approach to the training, where each phase adds more information to the concepts from the previous one, but where there is an overview of the whole OAV world from the start.
We have prepared a phased approach to the training. The metro map lets you choose your path and follow the learning units that are more relevant for you.
There are 11 learning units and 6 documents published so far.
These are your trainers. A group of 18 people from several NRENs around Europe that have experience in OAV and can help you with the first steps of this journey to OAV. From university professors to network engineers and from managers to developers.
and we will have one hour per month for Questions and answers, like an open window to the trainers every first Tuesday, every month.