Social media as it relates to students with disabilities in post secondary ed...Joseph Doan
Social media usage is pervasive throughout almost every age group from pre-teen to senior citizens. As social media becomes a more ubiquitous part of everyday life, educators are discovering innovative ways to incorporate its use, and students have benefited from it. This presentation discusses how post-secondary education students with disabilities can also participate in and benefit from using social media tools and services like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed the Center’s latest findings on digital divides based a survey conducted from Sept. 29 to Nov. 6, 2016. The presentation was to the board of Feeding America. Rainie looked at differences tied to internet access, home broadband ownership, and smartphone ownership by several demographic measures, including household income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, age, and community type. He also discussed the Center’s research related to “digital readiness gaps” among technology users.
The Psychology of Social Media (Mozcon 2015)Buffer
Courtney Seiter dives into the science of why people post, share, and build relationships on social media and how to create an even more irresistible social media experience for your audience.
12 Small Businesses That Found Success on Social MediaHootsuite
After years of speaking with our small business customers to address the challenges and highlight successes of social media, patterns are beginning to form. We wanted to highlight the overlapping and individual social media goals of businesses industry-wide—not only to recognize their successes, but also to inspire others through examples. After all, 78% of consumers say that social messages from businesses influence their purchases. Here’s a presentation that showcases 12 small businesses who found success on social media.
A snapshot of internet, social media, and mobile use in every country in the world. This report is part of a suite of reports brought to you by We Are Social and Hootsuite - read the other reports for free at http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/presentations
Closing the Mobile App Quality Gap
Past Webinar
Archived (originally presented February 7th, 2013)
94% of companies today lack fundamental capabilities to validate end user success with mobile apps. Major gaps in mobile testing skills and tools have both surfaced the need for change and driven exciting innovation and opportunity.
This SOASTA webinar explores how test and development managers can take advantage of the mobile transformation to build world-class solutions that bridge testing gaps, compress delivery cycles and optimize app quality.
Industry veterans and SOASTA experts Fred Beringer and Jason Slater will explore:
The business impact of poor mobile quality
Areas to focus on quality processes for the greatest impact
The latest updates to SOASTA’s mobile platform
Heads Up Display to further accelerate test development
Validating what matters, from performance to partial images
Test automation that withstands operating system & device updates
Collecting real mobile user intelligence to complete the cycle
The mobile quality gaps won’t close without action.
What is WCAG 2 and why should we care?Russ Weakley
A presentation for IAG staff for the "Future is here" event on 6 May 20202. This presentation covers three topics - "What are our legal responsibilities around accessibility?", "What is WCAG?", and "What is inclusive design?"
Survey: Application Use & Challenges in Government IT InfrastructuresSolarWinds
A look at which applications government IT Pros are using, where applications are stored, how application problems are identified, how application performance issues are addressed, and more.
ADA Website Compliance: How to Start and Why it Matters Now3Play Media
Improve the accessibility and user experience of your website. </strong>In this session, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to plan, execute and maintain a successful accessibility strategy for your digital channels.
Upskilling: Adapting Humans At The Speed of DevOpsDevOps.com
The Software Delivery Leadership Forum (SDLF) is a series of open, online and interactive discussions focused on topics related to Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
On Episode 2, we’ll discuss The Humans of DevOps. Our featured speaker will kick us off with a thirty minute presentation to review their recently published Upskilling research report with an emphasis on data collected in the European market. We’ll discuss the implications this data has on hiring, managing, and growing high performing teams.
This will be followed by a live moderated forum discussion. Audience questions will be fielded by an expanded panel of thought leaders and practitioners, each of whom bring their own unique perspective and insights to the discussion.
With increased complaints and legal action for organisations of inaccessible websites (Coles, Peapod) and apps (Westpac), now is the time for all web and app Project Managers, Developers, UX/Designers, Content Producers, Business Analysts and Testers to be ‘baking in’ accessibility into processes and work practices.
This presentation will show that accessibility is everyone’s responsibility and it is not difficult to get started or find resources that will help you and your team produce a website, app or digital presence that works for everyone!
Upskilling: Adapting Humans At The Speed of DevOpsDevOps.com
The Software Delivery Leadership Forum (SDLF) is a series of open, online and interactive discussions focused on topics related to Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. On Episode 1, we’ll discuss The Humans of DevOps. Our featured speaker will kick us off with a thirty minute presentation to review their recently published Upskilling research report, and the implications the data has on hiring, managing, and growing high performing teams.
This will be followed by a live moderated forum discussion. Audience questions will be fielded by an expanded panel of thought leaders and practitioners, each of whom bring their own unique perspective and insights to the discussion.
Selling Your SEO Value Proposition to Corporate Decision MakersKeith Goode
One of the biggest challenges for in-house SEO professionals is getting corporate buy-in for technical SEO requests, SEO campaigns, and other programs that can help with the optimization of the search experience. In this presentation, Keith Goode, Chief SEO Evangelist for seoClarity, discusses how to measure and evaluate the specific costs and benefits for your value propositions ... and what to do if you fail to convince your corporate decision-makers.
This presentation was given on April 20, 2015 at Pubcon Austin in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Business and Conference Center.
Social media as it relates to students with disabilities in post secondary ed...Joseph Doan
Social media usage is pervasive throughout almost every age group from pre-teen to senior citizens. As social media becomes a more ubiquitous part of everyday life, educators are discovering innovative ways to incorporate its use, and students have benefited from it. This presentation discusses how post-secondary education students with disabilities can also participate in and benefit from using social media tools and services like blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life.
Lee Rainie, director of Internet, Science and Technology research at the Pew Research Center, discussed the Center’s latest findings on digital divides based a survey conducted from Sept. 29 to Nov. 6, 2016. The presentation was to the board of Feeding America. Rainie looked at differences tied to internet access, home broadband ownership, and smartphone ownership by several demographic measures, including household income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, age, and community type. He also discussed the Center’s research related to “digital readiness gaps” among technology users.
The Psychology of Social Media (Mozcon 2015)Buffer
Courtney Seiter dives into the science of why people post, share, and build relationships on social media and how to create an even more irresistible social media experience for your audience.
12 Small Businesses That Found Success on Social MediaHootsuite
After years of speaking with our small business customers to address the challenges and highlight successes of social media, patterns are beginning to form. We wanted to highlight the overlapping and individual social media goals of businesses industry-wide—not only to recognize their successes, but also to inspire others through examples. After all, 78% of consumers say that social messages from businesses influence their purchases. Here’s a presentation that showcases 12 small businesses who found success on social media.
A snapshot of internet, social media, and mobile use in every country in the world. This report is part of a suite of reports brought to you by We Are Social and Hootsuite - read the other reports for free at http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/presentations
Closing the Mobile App Quality Gap
Past Webinar
Archived (originally presented February 7th, 2013)
94% of companies today lack fundamental capabilities to validate end user success with mobile apps. Major gaps in mobile testing skills and tools have both surfaced the need for change and driven exciting innovation and opportunity.
This SOASTA webinar explores how test and development managers can take advantage of the mobile transformation to build world-class solutions that bridge testing gaps, compress delivery cycles and optimize app quality.
Industry veterans and SOASTA experts Fred Beringer and Jason Slater will explore:
The business impact of poor mobile quality
Areas to focus on quality processes for the greatest impact
The latest updates to SOASTA’s mobile platform
Heads Up Display to further accelerate test development
Validating what matters, from performance to partial images
Test automation that withstands operating system & device updates
Collecting real mobile user intelligence to complete the cycle
The mobile quality gaps won’t close without action.
What is WCAG 2 and why should we care?Russ Weakley
A presentation for IAG staff for the "Future is here" event on 6 May 20202. This presentation covers three topics - "What are our legal responsibilities around accessibility?", "What is WCAG?", and "What is inclusive design?"
Survey: Application Use & Challenges in Government IT InfrastructuresSolarWinds
A look at which applications government IT Pros are using, where applications are stored, how application problems are identified, how application performance issues are addressed, and more.
ADA Website Compliance: How to Start and Why it Matters Now3Play Media
Improve the accessibility and user experience of your website. </strong>In this session, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to plan, execute and maintain a successful accessibility strategy for your digital channels.
Upskilling: Adapting Humans At The Speed of DevOpsDevOps.com
The Software Delivery Leadership Forum (SDLF) is a series of open, online and interactive discussions focused on topics related to Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
On Episode 2, we’ll discuss The Humans of DevOps. Our featured speaker will kick us off with a thirty minute presentation to review their recently published Upskilling research report with an emphasis on data collected in the European market. We’ll discuss the implications this data has on hiring, managing, and growing high performing teams.
This will be followed by a live moderated forum discussion. Audience questions will be fielded by an expanded panel of thought leaders and practitioners, each of whom bring their own unique perspective and insights to the discussion.
With increased complaints and legal action for organisations of inaccessible websites (Coles, Peapod) and apps (Westpac), now is the time for all web and app Project Managers, Developers, UX/Designers, Content Producers, Business Analysts and Testers to be ‘baking in’ accessibility into processes and work practices.
This presentation will show that accessibility is everyone’s responsibility and it is not difficult to get started or find resources that will help you and your team produce a website, app or digital presence that works for everyone!
Upskilling: Adapting Humans At The Speed of DevOpsDevOps.com
The Software Delivery Leadership Forum (SDLF) is a series of open, online and interactive discussions focused on topics related to Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. On Episode 1, we’ll discuss The Humans of DevOps. Our featured speaker will kick us off with a thirty minute presentation to review their recently published Upskilling research report, and the implications the data has on hiring, managing, and growing high performing teams.
This will be followed by a live moderated forum discussion. Audience questions will be fielded by an expanded panel of thought leaders and practitioners, each of whom bring their own unique perspective and insights to the discussion.
Selling Your SEO Value Proposition to Corporate Decision MakersKeith Goode
One of the biggest challenges for in-house SEO professionals is getting corporate buy-in for technical SEO requests, SEO campaigns, and other programs that can help with the optimization of the search experience. In this presentation, Keith Goode, Chief SEO Evangelist for seoClarity, discusses how to measure and evaluate the specific costs and benefits for your value propositions ... and what to do if you fail to convince your corporate decision-makers.
This presentation was given on April 20, 2015 at Pubcon Austin in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Business and Conference Center.
Accessibility Standards and Testing Techniques: Be Inclusive or Be Left BehindTechWell
While Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accessibility for a wider spectrum of users—including the blind—and their interfaces is being required by law across more jurisdictions, testing for it remains limited, naïve, and too late. The consequences of staying ignorant include increased exposure to litigation, penalties, and loss of contracts and revenue. Join David Best, Sandy Feldman, and Rob Harvie to learn why accessibility is now becoming a valued, integral part of the design process and much different from usability of twenty years ago. Ensure compliance for your organization and clients by familiarizing yourself with the regional and international standards and their criteria, and find out what testing tools and inclusive design practices you can use. Take away an understanding of the three core guidelines for accessibility; components of authoring tools, web content, and user agent accessibility for mobile, web browsers, and media players—and understand their impact on assistive technologies.
Closing the Mobile App Quality Gap
Past Webinar
Archived (originally presented February 7th, 2013)
94% of companies today lack fundamental capabilities to validate end user success with mobile apps. Major gaps in mobile testing skills and tools have both surfaced the need for change and driven exciting innovation and opportunity.
This SOASTA webinar explores how test and development managers can take advantage of the mobile transformation to build world-class solutions that bridge testing gaps, compress delivery cycles and optimize app quality.
Industry veterans and SOASTA experts Fred Beringer and Jason Slater will explore:
The business impact of poor mobile quality
Areas to focus on quality processes for the greatest impact
The latest updates to SOASTA’s mobile platform
Heads Up Display to further accelerate test development
Validating what matters, from performance to partial images
Test automation that withstands operating system & device updates
Collecting real mobile user intelligence to complete the cycle
The mobile quality gaps won’t close without action.
• How do individuals with disabilities interact with and use the web? Understanding how assistive technologies work.
• Understanding your legal requirements - Section 508, Section 504, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other state, U.S., and international laws
• Evaluating web site accessibility - automated tools, user testing, using screen readers, and understanding the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
ATAGTR2017 SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web contentAgile Testing Alliance
The presentation on SPEAKING EYE for differently abled people to see the web content was done during #ATAGTR2017, one of the largest global testing conference. All copyright belongs to the author.
Author and presenter : Nadeeka Samanthi Wijewantha
Drive your fundraising success webinar may 2014Brandon Fix
Drive your fundraising success with strategy, smart technology and better data. A webinar presented by 2Dialog & Third Sector Labs on May 18, 2014.
Presented by Chris Goodman of 2Dialog and Brandon Fix of Third Sector Labs
In this talk, you will learn how to identify the most common WCAG 2 failures using a screen reader and browser extensions, and the best way to fix them through good practices and semantic development.
Similar to Social media accessibility: where are we today? (20)
Integrating accessibility in the organization's web development lifecycleAccessibilitéWeb
Web accessibility standards introduce inclusion concerns for people with disabilities that disrupt traditional patterns within organizations. These standards challenge development practices that are often considered to be tried and true. Introducing these guidelines to a web development team leads to changes in practices that may jeopardize a project's profitability. While accessibility principles are generally not difficult to implement, the amount of details to consider while doing so is significant and therefore, the risks of falling into certain traps abound. Based on a theoretical workflow model anyone can relate to, this training session will explain how Web accessibility, unlike other Web-related practices, is characterized by the fact that it influences every aspect of the web development lifecycle. This means that accessibility is not just another specialist the project manager needs to squeeze in the traditional process. Rather, web accessibility requires every member of the team to understand the requirements that may affect the work they do in order to ensure that proper decisions are being made at the best possible time in the project. The training session will conclude with a distribution of WCAG 2.0's success criteria, based on the responsibilities each individual holds within the development team. Sharing these requirements between team members will ensure the success of the accessibility goals in all phases of production.
WCAG 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation three years ago. Now various public administrations around the globe wanting to ensure the accessibility of their digital communications strategies and online presence, are preparing to adopt WCAG as their accessibility standard. However, history shows us that accessibility experts have raised countless heated debates on how to best implement these guidelines. If field experts cannot agree on the most effective interpretations, how can we expect regular Web project stakeholders, who are not accessibility specialists, to agree on a common understanding or interpretation? It is already hard enough for organizations to implement the various success criteria of WCAG 2.0 on a single website; how much more difficult does this become when the goal is to do so across every website an organization owns? How can an organization make their websites consistently accessible to people with disabilities and aging populations, when no one agrees on what must be done and how it should be done? But what if there was a way to build a common general understanding of the intentions behind these success criteria? Wouldn’t this help in implementing WCAG 2.0 more consistently? This training session will demonstrate how accessibility standards can be broken down into a series of requirements that ensure all stakeholders in a Web project, regardless of their level of expertise with the accessibility guidelines, come up with similar interpretations and more importantly, implementations so everyone manages to get along when the time comes to understand and implement WCAG 2.0.
Cette activité interactive présente une analyse sommaire de la convivialité et de l’accessibilité de divers sites Web. Au terme d’un bref survol théorique, vous découvrirez les choses à faire et à ne pas faire pour garantir le succès de votre stratégie de rédaction de contenus sur le Web. Afin de supporter la présentation, certains sites seront analysés en direct sur place. Que votre site soit informationnel ou transactionnel, qu’il soit ludique ou qu’il supporte une marque, soumettez-le-nous et il pourrait fait l’objet d’une évaluation durant l’atelier!
Cette activité interactive présente une analyse sommaire de l’utilisabilité et de l’accessibilité des sites Web des différents partis politiques fédéraux en lice pour les élections fédérales 2011. Vous découvrirez les choses à faire et à ne pas faire pour garantir le succès de votre présence en ligne. Nous vous présenterons également un peu de théorie sur les deux sujets. Que votre site soit informationnel ou transactionnel, qu’il soit ludique ou un support à votre marque, soumettez-le-nous, il pourrait être retenu pour évaluation durant la clinique. Souhaiteriez-vous faire évaluer VOTRE site ? Info : http://www.accessibiliteweb.com/fr/accessibilite/conferences/clinique-d-ergonomie-et-d-accessibilite-en-direct-2011.html
Participation à un panel intitulé « Est-ce que c’est vrai que ci, que ça ? » pour lancer la journée du SEO camp à Montréal. L’objectif de ce support matériel était d’établir les rapports de correspondance existants entre les pratiques d’optimisation pour les moteurs de recherche (SEO) et l’accessibilité du Web.
Comme ce fut le cas en 2008, le lancement de la campagne fédérale 2011 marque l'invitation à valider si les partis politiques officiels, soucieux de rejoindre l’ensemble du bassin électoral canadien, ont appris des erreurs du passé et ont fait l’effort d’appliquer les standards d’accessibilité qu’impose le gouvernement à l’ensemble de ses ministères et organismes.
Cette année encore, la réponse est non! Pire, si on compare les résultats de cette année avec ceux de 2008, on constate même une importante dégradation comparativement aux résultats obtenus à la précédente évaluation. Les analyses réalisées sur les pages d’accueil des sites des cinq principaux partis politiques fédéraux démontrent le manque de sensibilité face aux besoins d'adaptation des personnes handicapées sur le Web et la faiblesse du niveau d’accessibilité des contenus qui y sont proposés.
Selon la plus récente enquête de Statistiques Canada, les personnes handicapées comptent pour 4,4 millions de citoyens, soit 14,3 % de la population canadienne. Afin de profiter comme tous les canadiens et canadiennes de leurs droits les plus fondamentaux de participation citoyenne, les personnes handicapées éprouvent des besoins d'adaptation qu'il s'avère nécessaires de combler.
Lorsqu'on songe que les erreurs d'accessibilité identifiées sur les sites Web des partis politiques représentent les bonnes pratiques les plus élémentaires en matière de développement Web, il y a lieu de penser que nous sommes encore bien loins du jour où les prétendants au pouvoir atteindront leurs objectifs à rejoindre l'ensemble de la population.
Peut-on espérer que les différents partis, dont celui-là même qui était au pouvoir au moment de l’adoption des standards gouvernementaux d’accessibilité, recevront cette année le message? À quand un réel effort d'inclusion des citoyens pour vendre leurs projets de société à tous et toutes, incluant les personnes handicapées?
En conclusion, nous constatons à nouveau que la prise en compte des personnes handicapées sur le Web se fait encore attendre et ce, même des gouvernements qui travaillent pourtant d’arrache-pied pour assurer un accès équitable aux technologies de l’information et des communications aux personnes margnalisées par celles-ci. Nous encourageons toute initiative qui peut transformer ce portrait en faisant appel à la bonne volonté de ceux et celles qui tentent à venir chercher nos votes.
Nous vous donnons rendez-vous à la prochaine campagne électorale (fédérale ou provinciale) pour constater si des progrès significatifs seront accomplis d'ici là du point de vue de l’accessibilité. En espérant de tout cœur que la prochaine fois, la tendance ne se maintienne pas...
À l’instar des grandes administrations publiques du globe, le gouvernement du Québec est en voie d’adopter des standards obligatoires pour assurer l’accessibilité des contenus Web des ministères et des organismes pour les citoyens handicapés ou vieillissants.
L’adoption de ces standards pave la voie à des recours légaux pour certains citoyens qui, incapables d’accéder à l’information rendue publique parce qu’elle n’est pas adaptée à leurs réalités, font appel à la Charte des Droits et Libertés et divers autres mécanismes pour faire valoir leur droits.
Bon an mal an, à travers le monde, de nombreuses poursuites judiciaires sont intentées contre des organisations qui proposent à leurs clientèles des sites Web non accessibles et qui du coup, entretiennent la problématique d’exclusion fondée sur le handicap. Le cas le plus récent oppose Donna Jodhan au gouvernement fédéral canadien. Cette poursuite fait actuellement couler beaucoup de pixels sur le Web et beaucoup d’encre dans les milieux associatifs de personnes handicapées.
Les gouvernements de plusieurs pays, incluant les pays membres de Nations-Unies ou de l’union Européenne ont déjà pris des mesures pour rendre leurs sites Web accessibles aux personnes handicapées. Le gouvernement fédéral canadien tarde à agir, malgré que les ajustements minimaux qui s’imposent soient à la fois faciles à mettre en œuvre et relativement peu coûteux.
La conférence consiste à faire l’état des lieux sur la question et, en se basant sur les cas les plus importants des 10 dernières années et proposer une marche à suivre dans un contexte québécois et canadien pour favoriser l’inclusion de tous et toutes sur le Web, tout en s’évitant les ennuis.
Successfully Integrating Accessibility in your Organization’s Web Development...AccessibilitéWeb
Web accessibility standards introduce inclusion concerns for people with disabilities that disrupt traditional patterns within organizations attempting to incorporate them into their web development lifecycle. These standards challenge development practices that are more often than not considered to be tried and true. Introducing these new guidelines to a web development team leads to changes in practices that may jeopardize a project's profitability. While accessibility principles are not difficult to implement, the amount of details to consider while doing so is significant and therefore, the risks of falling into certain pitfalls abound.
Les standards d’accessibilité introduisent des préoccupations qui bouleversent les habitudes de développement au sein des organisations qui entreprennent de les mettre en œuvre. Ces standards remettent en question des pratiques souvent jugées optimales et éprouvées, ce qui entraîne d’importants changements, susceptibles de mettre en péril la rentabilité d’une production de site Web. Dans le cadre de cette présentation, le conférencier expliquera en quoi les standards gouvernementaux d’accessibilité SGQRI 008 introduisent une pratique qui, contrairement aux autres pratiques liées au Web, est d’abord et avant tout caractérisée par sa transversalité. Puisque les principes de l’accessibilité touchent tous les intervenants d’une chaîne de production, il importe d’éviter certains pièges et de répartir l’ensemble de ces responsabilités entre les différents spécialistes afin d’en assurer la réussite dans toutes les phases d’une production.
Au cours des sept dernières années, l’équipe d’AccessibilitéWeb a réalisé plus de 850 audits, basé sur différents standards d’accessibilité et ce, sur des centaines de sites Web publics ou privés. De ce vaste chantier d’évaluation se sont dégagées de très lourdes tendances en ce qui concerne les barrières rencontrées par les personnes handicapées sur le Web. Dans cet atelier de 90 minutes, le conférencier propose de partager avec l’audience de ParisWeb le résultat de cette vaste expérience d’évaluations et, au-delà des grilles techniques et des standards, propose d’amener les participants à développer des automatismes favorisant une saine application des principes élémentaires de l’accessibilité dans leur production Web.
Présentation d'une étude de cas développée dans le cadre de la refonte du site Web du groupe québécois de travail sur les normes et standards en technologies de l'information pour l'apprentissage, l'éducation et la formation (GTN-Québec), où la mise en accessibilité constituait un enjeu de réalisation majeur. Le conférencier propose dans cette mini-conférence un retour sur l'expérience de développement, les stratégies employées et les gains réalisés suite à l'application d'un ensemble de meilleures pratiques favorisant l'accessibilité des contenus pour les personnes handicapées et vieillissantes.
Les standards d’accessibilité des contenus Web pour les personnes handicapées bouleversent de nombreuses habitudes au sein des organisations qui entreprennent de les intégrer à leurs pratiques de développement Web. Les exigences de ces standards remettent en question des pratiques souvent jusque-là jugées adéquates, éprouvées et optimales.
La volonté d’intégrer ces nouvelles préoccupations de qualité au sein d’une équipe de production entraîne parfois des changements susceptibles de déstabiliser la rentabilité d'une production de site Web. Bien que les principes appliqués dans la pratique d'accessibilité ne soient pas difficiles à mettre en œuvre, grands sont les risques de tomber dans certains pièges.
Dans le cadre de cette présentation, le conférencier propose un modèle théorique de chaîne de production Web et explique en quoi l'accessibilité est une pratique qui, contrairement aux autres pratiques liées au Web, est transversale et dont les principes touchent toutes les spécialisations du Web, allant de l'analyse au contrôle qualité. En se basant sur le modèle théorique proposé, un découpage de WCAG 2.0 sera proposé en fonction des responsabilités des différents intervenants, afin de faciliter l'intégration de la pratique dans une chaîne de production Web.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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.
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.
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).
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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.
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.
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:
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
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