Organisations that embrace the move towards personalised technology can create more opportunities for collaboration and find new ways to grow the business.
Chris Byers @rchrisbyers FORMSTACK
In any workplace, people need belonging, affirmation and meaning. But organization values and employees sense of purpose are even more critical for increasingly virtual teams. Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack, a 32-person company with 11 remote workers (including Chris), will explore why purpose is so important for distributed workers and will talk about how that’s played out at Formstack.
David Yee EDITORIALLY
Engineering teams commonly use group chat for shared communication. But it’s not limited to developers at all and can be super-useful for any team. David Yee, Co-Founder of Editorially (and author of numerous chat-bots, both useful and pointless), will talk about how his companies have used group chat and a surprising benefit to it for distributed teams.
أكثر الأنشطة شعبية على الانترنت في منطقة الشرق الأوسط، تتصدر دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة القائمة العالمية لانتشار الهواتف الذكية، استخدام وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية خلال شهر رمضان، نظرة إقليمية على تقرير التنافسية العالمية للمنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي.
يشمل ايضاً نظرة على اجد البحوث: عودة الأجهزة اللوحية والهواتف الذكية إلى غرفة المعيشة،الكشف عن العادات الرقمية للشباب الكيني، تطور سلوكيات مالكي الهواتف النقالة، القانون الفيتنامي الجديد لفرض الرقابة على الانترنت والجهود المبذولة لربط كل سكان العالم عبر الإنترنت.
Chris Byers @rchrisbyers FORMSTACK
In any workplace, people need belonging, affirmation and meaning. But organization values and employees sense of purpose are even more critical for increasingly virtual teams. Chris Byers, CEO of Formstack, a 32-person company with 11 remote workers (including Chris), will explore why purpose is so important for distributed workers and will talk about how that’s played out at Formstack.
David Yee EDITORIALLY
Engineering teams commonly use group chat for shared communication. But it’s not limited to developers at all and can be super-useful for any team. David Yee, Co-Founder of Editorially (and author of numerous chat-bots, both useful and pointless), will talk about how his companies have used group chat and a surprising benefit to it for distributed teams.
أكثر الأنشطة شعبية على الانترنت في منطقة الشرق الأوسط، تتصدر دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة القائمة العالمية لانتشار الهواتف الذكية، استخدام وسائل الإعلام الاجتماعية خلال شهر رمضان، نظرة إقليمية على تقرير التنافسية العالمية للمنتدى الاقتصادي العالمي.
يشمل ايضاً نظرة على اجد البحوث: عودة الأجهزة اللوحية والهواتف الذكية إلى غرفة المعيشة،الكشف عن العادات الرقمية للشباب الكيني، تطور سلوكيات مالكي الهواتف النقالة، القانون الفيتنامي الجديد لفرض الرقابة على الانترنت والجهود المبذولة لربط كل سكان العالم عبر الإنترنت.
Building the local library coalition every library - pala 2016 - 18 october 16EveryLibrary
Presented at PaLA 2016: Coalitions are the way things get done in the political world. In this break out, EveryLibrary executive director John Chrastka will take participants through a "power mapping" exercise to help you differentiate between sponsors and partners, and identify potential coalition members to advance your funding request to the voters or through local government funding partners. https://www.palibraries.org/page/2016ConfPrelimInfo
Australian Government,
Corporate and NGO
partnerships establish
The Dandelion Program
to deliver social and
economic benefits for
workers with Autism
Spectrum Disorder and all
Australians
Building the local library coalition every library - pala 2016 - 18 october 16EveryLibrary
Presented at PaLA 2016: Coalitions are the way things get done in the political world. In this break out, EveryLibrary executive director John Chrastka will take participants through a "power mapping" exercise to help you differentiate between sponsors and partners, and identify potential coalition members to advance your funding request to the voters or through local government funding partners. https://www.palibraries.org/page/2016ConfPrelimInfo
Australian Government,
Corporate and NGO
partnerships establish
The Dandelion Program
to deliver social and
economic benefits for
workers with Autism
Spectrum Disorder and all
Australians
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...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.
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.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Organisations that embrace the move towards personalised technology can create more
opportunities for collaboration and find new ways to grow the business. Lisa Kelly reports
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The convergence of mobility, cloud, big data and security is not only driving a
digital revolution, it is fundamentally changing the way we can work. Workers will
increasingly bring their own knowledge, their social circles, digital footprints and
identity to work, along with their own devices.
As this trend develops, organisations are likely to evolve from bring your own
device (BYOD) strategies to a ‘bring yourself’ approach that puts people first.
However, organisations are moving at different paces. Many IT chiefs are
enthusiastic about the business benefits of mobility and cloud and the
efficiencies they bring. Gatwick Airport, for example, is no longer issuing
BlackBerry devices to employees, but is allowing staff to use their own devices
under a modernisation programme built on cloud-based technology.
BYOD chimes well with the move to mobile and cloud technology. But it is also
a vote winner with employees, who can bring in their preferred devices rather
than being restricted to standard issue corporate devices.
The spectre of insecurity still frightens many organisations, however, and
concerns over security risks and data leaks persist.
Acceptable use policies and software such as mobile device management
systems can help to mitigate these risks, but some organisations are more risk
averse than others or have more exacting compliance regimes.
Public sector organisations have not encouraged BYOD schemes, for example,
but even this is starting to change. New guidance on end-user devices and
security by CESG, the information security arm of GCHQ, demonstrates a
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softening towards employees using their own devices at work – within the
parameters of tight security rules.
CESG’s End User Devices Security and Configuration Guidance policy says that
devices must be managed by the employing organisation throughout their life,
and recommends 12 security controls that need to be considered.
Dave Aron, Gartner fellow in the analyst’s CIO research group, says that
nevertheless a revolution is taking place with the combination of new
technologies.
“Mobile, big data, social media and cloud are in a collision to create massive
opportunities and threats. The internet of things is coming down the line and
everything will be talking – not just mobile devices. Digital will become broader
and deeper,” he says.
Changing attitudes
As this transformation gathers pace, Aron says the division between personal
and professional life will blur. This has consequences for organisations that do
not provide technologies that can match the experience of technologies used by
employees outside of work.
“If you want to be an organisation that attracts good candidates and motivated
individuals, you need to think about your digital design,” he says.
People want to work in more mobile-oriented companies where they can share
information whenever they need, to do their job effectively, Aron adds.
“There is the temptation to say we have an entitled digital generation and you
have to make everything happy for them, but work is work. However, this is an
opportunity to bring innovative digital minds into organisations and fresh pairs of
eyes to see what works well,” says Aron.
Many organisations assume things should stay the way they always have been,
he says. But bringing in a different perspective can change attitudes.
“Today, there is a sense that the only limitation is our imagination. There are so
many different ways of doing things, and new technologies and mavericks are
pushing the envelope,” he says.
Aron foresees a future where employers might hire teams of workers, with their
own equipment and expertise, rather than recruiting individuals.
“It can be argued that HR is a failed experiment and that organisations should
hire preferred teams – where the organisation has a relationship with a team,
not an individual,” he says. “It’s not a case of bringing your own smartphone to
work, but bringing your own team.”
While this may be blue-sky thinking, it highlights what is already becoming
possible. Working outside an organisation used to be a cold and lonely
experience in terms of available technologies, facilities and collaboration.
“Today, mobile and cloud means anyone outside an organisation could have a
potentially better environment than the corporate environment,” says Aron.
As the move to personalised technology accelerates, organisations will need to
reinvent themselves or risk losing the best people and customers. This means
organisations should look at their assets and services and rethink what they can
do with them.
“Mobile, big data,
social media
and cloud are in
a collision to
create massive
opportunities and
threats”
Dave Aron, fellow, CIO
research group, Gartner
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“It is about becoming bimodal and being able to change and move fast and
quickly: refactoring from staid and steady into something that becomes a source
of collective advantage and being able to do things another way,” explains Aron.
Clive Longbottom, founder of analyst group Quocirca, says many organisations
are still wrestling with the security aspects of BYOD.
“Instead of embracing new technologies and BYOD, many organisations are
banning it, but users in 40% of organisations are using sites such as DropBox
and Google Drive, even though they have been banned,” he says.
Social networking
Organisations that embrace the idea of Bring Yourself, rather than restricting it,
open up opportunities for collaboration and to grow the business, he suggests.
“With Bring Yourself, you have an army of people and can look at the social
aspect of technologies. For example, if you have 1,000 employees and 50% are
on Twitter or Facebook and they have 100 contacts each – that’s 50,000 people
you suddenly have access to,” Longbottom says.
“Organisations can spend a lot of money on buying databases and doing a
campaign, but with Bring Yourself, it’s possible to test a campaign with the
Tom Baker, CIO at Norfolk County Council, is excited about
the opportunities that technologies such as big data and
cloud create to allow people to work in better connected
and more innovative ways that put citizens first.
The local authority is working with HP, Vodafone and
Microsoft on the Digital Norfolk Ambition project to
transform working life at the council. The project will save
£10m over five years, while meeting security parameters and
compliance standards and maintaining the integrity of data.
HP and the council will create a cloud-based information
hub to deliver public services in Norfolk, enabling public
sector agencies to collaborate to solve social problems,
improve education standards and help to create a
knowledge economy.
“Large-scale collaboration between public services based
on integrity and trust identity technologies means people
can access data and systems in other people’s networks,”
says Baker.
This vision concurs with the Public Services Network – a
UK government programme to unify the provision of
network infrastructure across the public sector. It aims to
create an interconnected network of networks, which will
cut costs by 20%, increase efficiency and introduce better
working practices.
At Norfolk, people will be able to choose their own devices
to enable better collaboration; for example, council social
workers and NHS employees will become more joined up
and coordinated in their work with citizens. Workers will be
able to choose different devices from HP, such as tablets
or laptops, to best suit their needs.
“There is a huge amount of integration necessary and the
need to bring information and data together and to link
and match data. We need to join up public services in the
future,” says Baker.
He believes people need to be put first. “We will be able to
build services around the person and use the evidence
base to justify decisions and doing things differently. It will
mean it is easier to intervene to prevent something going
wrong, which is worse for the citizen and costs more
money,” says Baker.
He believes this approach will bring about a seismic
change in public services.
“It is vital and necessary to approach public services from
a citizen perspective,” Baker says.
The transformation will help with social challenges such as
a rapidly ageing population. Baker believes his role as a
CIO is to underpin technologies and the ability for people to
use information to have meaningful interactions.
“It is a wonderful opportunity to bring together practitioners
and exchange information securely – and put the citizen
first,” he says.
Council’s joined-up approach puts the citizen first
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contacts your employees already have. If only 10% agree, that’s 500 people and
campaigns can go viral,” he says.
Bring Yourself opens up other business opportunities, adds Longbottom. “If
there’s a problem with a product, they can be proactive in making people aware
and recalling it to show they are doing as much as they can; or they could offer
discounts to employees and friends, which is good for their reputation. It can be
a win-win,” he says.
But it is important to implement a code of conduct. Aim to work with employees
and get them to work alongside what you’re doing, he suggests.
Roy Illsley, principal analyst at Ovum, says the convergence of mobility, cloud, big
data and security has shifted the way people can interact and get things done.
“These technologies and 4G connectivity mean that people can bypass the
corporate network and change the way we work. It is now possible to provide
innovation at the point where it needs to be provided – at the frontline – allowing
people to do what they need to do,” says Illsley.
Instead of being defined and limited by technologies, people are free to work
more productively.
“A salesman with an iPad can get a web app to show a potential customer
information in a simple way. You can access the data you need through apps to
do the job you need to do in a more flexible and productive way,” says Illsley.
He believes the power of using apps to manipulate data will change the way
organisations do things and interact and create massive opportunities as
information is shared in more meaningful ways.
“Organisations can focus on a top-down approach and put people and
processes first; so employees can make connections and find better ways of
working,” he says.
“It is now possible
to provide
innovation at the
point where it
needs to be
provided – at the
frontline – allowing
people to do what
they need to do”
Roy Illsley, principal
analyst, Ovum
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