The document outlines the timeline of EU support for cluster excellence from 2005-2014. It discusses the formation of groups like the High-Level Advisory Group on Clusters and the European Cluster Policy Group between 2005-2011. It then introduces the European Cluster Excellence Programme which will provide €1 million each in 2014 and 2017 to strengthen management capabilities of European cluster organizations and improve their services to SMEs through co-funding. The overall goal is to boost cluster excellence in Europe.
Presentation by Jan Pieter Lingen, Netherlands, at the SIGMA conference of the network of Supreme Audit Institutions of EU Candidate and Potential Candidate countries and the European Court of Auditors. This conference was hosted by the Turkish Court of Accounts, it took place in Ankara on 8-9 November 2016.
Presentation by Klaus Goetz, University of Munich, Germany, at the SIGMA conference of the network of Supreme Audit Institutions of EU Candidate and Potential Candidate countries and the European Court of Auditors. This conference was hosted by the Turkish Court of Accounts, it took place in Ankara on 8-9 November 2016.
Presentation by Jan Pieter Lingen, Netherlands, at the SIGMA conference of the network of Supreme Audit Institutions of EU Candidate and Potential Candidate countries and the European Court of Auditors. This conference was hosted by the Turkish Court of Accounts, it took place in Ankara on 8-9 November 2016.
Presentation by Klaus Goetz, University of Munich, Germany, at the SIGMA conference of the network of Supreme Audit Institutions of EU Candidate and Potential Candidate countries and the European Court of Auditors. This conference was hosted by the Turkish Court of Accounts, it took place in Ankara on 8-9 November 2016.
Agency for Innovation and European Cooperation (AIEC NGO)Jan Šašek
Non-governmental agency (AIEC NGO) aims to contribute to the development not only of Slovakia, but also of the whole region of Central & South East Europe by the realization of non-profit oriented projects addressing AIEC Vision:
Vision of AIEC is Central & South East Europe region as the region with:
- well developed infrastructure as the base for economic growth
- growing ratio of Knowledge based economy
- highly innovative enterprises focusing on providing of services and products with High Value Added
- friendly, simple, transparent and supportive frameworks for entrepreneurship activities
- to be the best region to live, work, study and do the business.
Tangible Results from IMP³rove – Insights on Innovation Management in EuropeIMP³rove Academy
The IMP³rove project, short for Improving Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact project, was initiated to accelerate Europe’s global competitiveness through innovation.
Please visit https://www.improve-innovation.eu/our-insights to get more insights and studies on innovation management topic.
European policy for energy efficiency in SMEsmms-3E
Comparative study of European policy for energy efficiency in SMEs, with focus on bottom-up policy measures for process energy improvements in small manufacturing companies
IGNITE your....European Funding Opportunities
Presenter – Alan Scrase, centre manager of SETsquared at the University of Southampton, will present about
“The new SME instrument”
Horizon 2020 provides easy access to € 2.8 Billion to SMEs to fill the gaps in funding for early-stage, Research and Innovation SMEs and accelerating the exploitation of innovations.
The new SME instrument will be a simpler and more easily accessible funding scheme for SMEs, where projects will be selected through a bottom-up approach within a given societal challenge or enabling technology of H2020.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
3. Timeline
High-level advisory
Group on Clusters
European Cluster
Policy Group
European Cluster Alliance
European Cluster Observatory
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4. And the Future…
High-level advisory
Group on Clusters
European Cluster
Policy Group
European Cluster Alliance
European Cluster Observatory
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9. The European Cluster
Excellence Programme
Invest in Cluster Excellence
The objective is to strengthen the management
capabilities of European cluster organisations
• First call for proposals Q1 2014 for 30 months, €1M
• Second call for proposals Q1 2017 for 30 months, €1M
• Co-funding from Structural Funds is envisaged
Aimed at improving their management and
market analysis capacities to help them provide
top quality services to SMEs.
The European Cluster Excellence Programme The objective is to strengthen the management capabilities of European cluster organisations in view to develop more world class clusters in Europe that are able to offer excellent support services to European SMEs. The action will be addressed to consortia of cluster organisations from COSME participating countries engaged into strategic collaboration around a joint industrial project or other business activities addressing specific challenges. The action will help the involved cluster organisations to improve their management and market analysis capacities as well as to provide top quality services to local SMEs on specific topics including the integration of creativity into business, the development of international activities, the use of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), and the adoption of resource-efficiency practices. First call for proposals Q1 2014 for 30 months, 1M. Second call for proposals Q1 2017 for 30 months, 1M. Co-funding from Structural funds can/should be envisaged by the future applicants to be able to engage more cluster organisations into the proposals.
The European Cluster Excellence Programme The objective is to strengthen the management capabilities of European cluster organisations in view to develop more world class clusters in Europe that are able to offer excellent support services to European SMEs. The action will be addressed to consortia of cluster organisations from COSME participating countries engaged into strategic collaboration around a joint industrial project or other business activities addressing specific challenges. The action will help the involved cluster organisations to improve their management and market analysis capacities as well as to provide top quality services to local SMEs on specific topics including the integration of creativity into business, the development of international activities, the use of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), and the adoption of resource-efficiency practices. First call for proposals Q1 2014 for 30 months, 1M. Second call for proposals Q1 2017 for 30 months, 1M. Co-funding from Structural funds can/should be envisaged by the future applicants to be able to engage more cluster organisations into the proposals.
