Investors historically sit through pitches and evaluate early stage startups on three primary metrics: 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling presentations, and 3) a strong team. Steve Blank, the Godfather of the Lean Startup movement said in his Customer Development Manifesto: “There’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.”
What has been missing is a common language to communicate objectives and data that investors and entrepreneurs can use to communicate startup readiness.
Fortunately, the principles developed in the Lean Startup movement can be utilized to help entrepreneurs assess their Investor Readiness Level in a way that allows them to demonstrate “evidence” of their readiness. In this session, Max Green and Heath Naquin, both of the IC2 Institute, will share this new method for entrepreneurs to gauge their own investor readiness using the principles of Steve Blank's Investment Readiness Level and LeanLaunchpad.
Entrepreneurs attending this session will learn a valuable approach helping their start-up team prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors “evidence” that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model.
Heath Naquin serves as Executive Director for the SW I-Corps Node at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Managing Director for a multi-university NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) the Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics. Heath was a founding member of three different start-up business initiatives across sectors. He has helped companies raise more than $30 Million in funding from private and government sources.
Heath actively works on international commercialization initiatives and efforts focusing on industry collaboration, new project development and deployment along with building linkages between industry, government, academia and the venture capital community. Heath has worked in more than 20 countries on international commercialization and entrepreneurship initiatives in countries such as Colombia, Jordan, Iraq, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Armenia, and Turkey. Heath has extensive experience with the NSF, EPA and NIH SBIR programs as an active commercial reviewer for many years. Heath also currently serves as Faculty for the Concordia University Executive MBA program.
WeWork provides small businesses, startups, and freelancers with beautiful workspace, inspiring community, and meaningful services. With weekly events, personalized support, flexibility, and access to thousands of like-minded entrepreneurs around the world - WeWork is the perfect place to grow your business in 2015.
The WeWork Congress location sits in the heart of downtown Austin at 6th St. and Congress Ave. To learn more about joining the community, email joinus@wework.com or call 855.593.9675.
Investors historically sit through pitches and evaluate early stage startups on three primary metrics: 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling presentations, and 3) a strong team. Steve Blank, the Godfather of the Lean Startup movement said in his Customer Development Manifesto: “There’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress.”
What has been missing is a common language to communicate objectives and data that investors and entrepreneurs can use to communicate startup readiness.
Fortunately, the principles developed in the Lean Startup movement can be utilized to help entrepreneurs assess their Investor Readiness Level in a way that allows them to demonstrate “evidence” of their readiness. In this session, Max Green and Heath Naquin, both of the IC2 Institute, will share this new method for entrepreneurs to gauge their own investor readiness using the principles of Steve Blank's Investment Readiness Level and LeanLaunchpad.
Entrepreneurs attending this session will learn a valuable approach helping their start-up team prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors “evidence” that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model.
Heath Naquin serves as Executive Director for the SW I-Corps Node at The University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Managing Director for a multi-university NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) the Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics. Heath was a founding member of three different start-up business initiatives across sectors. He has helped companies raise more than $30 Million in funding from private and government sources.
Heath actively works on international commercialization initiatives and efforts focusing on industry collaboration, new project development and deployment along with building linkages between industry, government, academia and the venture capital community. Heath has worked in more than 20 countries on international commercialization and entrepreneurship initiatives in countries such as Colombia, Jordan, Iraq, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Armenia, and Turkey. Heath has extensive experience with the NSF, EPA and NIH SBIR programs as an active commercial reviewer for many years. Heath also currently serves as Faculty for the Concordia University Executive MBA program.
WeWork provides small businesses, startups, and freelancers with beautiful workspace, inspiring community, and meaningful services. With weekly events, personalized support, flexibility, and access to thousands of like-minded entrepreneurs around the world - WeWork is the perfect place to grow your business in 2015.
The WeWork Congress location sits in the heart of downtown Austin at 6th St. and Congress Ave. To learn more about joining the community, email joinus@wework.com or call 855.593.9675.
Have a great idea for a business pitch? Here are nine steps that will take you from concept to investor-ready, from Texas Venture Labs at The University of Texas at Austin.
Modernized Technology Landscaping Slideshare EzassiVirginia Bush
An overview of a modernized approach to technology scouting inclusive of significant differentiating factors, utilizing technology scouting automation tools and software. Identifying how to solve for technology scouting pain points: Identifying emerging technology, use as a startup incubator, disruptive technology identifier, automated vendor sourcing tool, SME and crowdsourcing discovery... to name a few.
Building Startups: the "3rd co-founder model"eFounders
Among the myriad of types of structures breeding startups (incubators, accelerators, etc.), a new successful model has emerged: the startup studio. Brand new, this model is already controversial, as show the announced IPO of Rocket Internet. Here is how we see the startup studio model: as being a 3rd co-founder. You can reed the full version on our blog: http://efounders.co/blog/startup-studio-the-3rd-co-founder-model/
Entrepreneurship 101: Commercializing University / Hospital TechnologiesMaRS Discovery District
Speaker: Tom Corr, DBA, MBA, ADipC, Director of Commercialization, IT and Communications, at Innovations at the University of Toronto
An audio presentation can be accessed by going to
http://www.marsdd.com/ent101
and clicking on the October 17, 2006 session:
"Entrepreneurship 101 - An Introduction to Commercializing University/Hospital Technologies"
The Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network brings you its next workshop in our winter series. This webinar will bring together a variety of experts who can offer organisations the support they need to successfully scale up and commercialise.
Once an aspect of metamaterials technology has been identified with the potential in a particular application, there is a need to look to scale up the production to develop demonstrators and prototypes. This activity is often associated with a start-up or SME since the technology is brought in from research. The needs of these small enterprises in progressing, from this first step to commercialisation, can include a variety of services offered from academia to investors. Very often investors will only be interested in further steps to commercialise or upscale.
This webinar will bring together a variety of experts who can offer organisations the support they need to successfully scale up and commercialise. This includes modelling services from academia; advanced manufacturing scale up from catapults and academia; innovation funding and investor access from Government-funded organisations; early-stage design expertise to ensure capture of best product and application, to name just a few.
Laicos is a technology Startup Studio led by Ryan Negri and Kyle Matthews. With 20 years combined operational and startup experience, Negri and Matthews want to shape the up-and-coming startup ecosystem of Tampa, Florida, developing their own ideas to create a new tech hub of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A “Startup Studio” is a structure whose aim is to repeatedly build products into companies. Thanks to its infrastructure and resources, a startup studio increase a product’s chance of success and optimize its creation and growth.
The difference between incubators/accelerators and Startup Studios is the vested human capital involved around an idea. At the core of the startups studio model are dedicated teams helping business ideas develop into beautiful products and successful companies.
Laicos’ flagship inaugural product, Fuse, is a social media management platform for the consumers and power users, with a simple price model and a clean and attractive UI. In addition, Laicos is developing four additional products: BusFinder, currently in beta version, an app utilizing data from the Tampa Public Transportation System; $1Market, to offer many different services to users for $1 dollar/mo, Order to Seat, for fans to order food to their seat while at a stadium or arena, and FoodStops, a food truck tracking app for consumers and marketing platform for vendors. In 20I7, we plan to work with other founders to help turn their ideas into reality.
Accelerating Success: A Study of Seed AcceleratorsGustav Larsson
A presentation of our bachelor thesis conducted at Chalmers University of Technology on the subject of accelerators. Learn more at acceleratorstudy.com.
Slash - the Startup Studio Playbook (13 dec2018)Slash
New models for collaboration emerge between corporates, startups and investors.
In his keynote at the Asia Startup Summit, Slash CEO Andries De Vos shares how Slash (www.slash.co) has developed a startup studio model which can be applicable to corporates, investors and entrepreneurs.
You’ve figured out your value prop and you’ve got a great product under development. Now what? How can you develop a roadmap to build a company? Venture Capitalists often qualify deals as being a “feature”, a “product” or a “company”. Which do you have and how will you get where you want to go? This presentation addresses how to think about designing your product as a foundational element of your business. This includes thinking beyond UX and Architecture to Whole Product, Ecosystems, and Strategic partners. It also focuses on formulating how to design your go-to-market strategy and business model into your product (with a modular architecture, distinctive packaging and a frictionless approach).
The 3 Key Barriers Keeping Companies from Deploying Data Products Dataiku
Getting from raw data to deploying data-driven solutions requires technology, data, and people. All of which exist. So why aren’t we seeing more truly data-driven companies: what's missing and why? During Strata Hadoop World Singapore 2015, Pauline Brown, Director of Marketing at Dataiku, explains how lack of collaboration is what is keeping companies from building and deploying data products effectively. Learn more about Dataiku and Data Science Studio: www.dataiku.com
Ever asked why great engineers prefer working for certain companies? Or why certain companies are more admired than others? In this lecture I will share few ingredients of the strong engineering culture and why technologists prefer working for one company than for another.
Have a great idea for a business pitch? Here are nine steps that will take you from concept to investor-ready, from Texas Venture Labs at The University of Texas at Austin.
Modernized Technology Landscaping Slideshare EzassiVirginia Bush
An overview of a modernized approach to technology scouting inclusive of significant differentiating factors, utilizing technology scouting automation tools and software. Identifying how to solve for technology scouting pain points: Identifying emerging technology, use as a startup incubator, disruptive technology identifier, automated vendor sourcing tool, SME and crowdsourcing discovery... to name a few.
Building Startups: the "3rd co-founder model"eFounders
Among the myriad of types of structures breeding startups (incubators, accelerators, etc.), a new successful model has emerged: the startup studio. Brand new, this model is already controversial, as show the announced IPO of Rocket Internet. Here is how we see the startup studio model: as being a 3rd co-founder. You can reed the full version on our blog: http://efounders.co/blog/startup-studio-the-3rd-co-founder-model/
Entrepreneurship 101: Commercializing University / Hospital TechnologiesMaRS Discovery District
Speaker: Tom Corr, DBA, MBA, ADipC, Director of Commercialization, IT and Communications, at Innovations at the University of Toronto
An audio presentation can be accessed by going to
http://www.marsdd.com/ent101
and clicking on the October 17, 2006 session:
"Entrepreneurship 101 - An Introduction to Commercializing University/Hospital Technologies"
The Commercialising Metamaterials Innovation Network brings you its next workshop in our winter series. This webinar will bring together a variety of experts who can offer organisations the support they need to successfully scale up and commercialise.
Once an aspect of metamaterials technology has been identified with the potential in a particular application, there is a need to look to scale up the production to develop demonstrators and prototypes. This activity is often associated with a start-up or SME since the technology is brought in from research. The needs of these small enterprises in progressing, from this first step to commercialisation, can include a variety of services offered from academia to investors. Very often investors will only be interested in further steps to commercialise or upscale.
This webinar will bring together a variety of experts who can offer organisations the support they need to successfully scale up and commercialise. This includes modelling services from academia; advanced manufacturing scale up from catapults and academia; innovation funding and investor access from Government-funded organisations; early-stage design expertise to ensure capture of best product and application, to name just a few.
Laicos is a technology Startup Studio led by Ryan Negri and Kyle Matthews. With 20 years combined operational and startup experience, Negri and Matthews want to shape the up-and-coming startup ecosystem of Tampa, Florida, developing their own ideas to create a new tech hub of innovation and entrepreneurship.
A “Startup Studio” is a structure whose aim is to repeatedly build products into companies. Thanks to its infrastructure and resources, a startup studio increase a product’s chance of success and optimize its creation and growth.
The difference between incubators/accelerators and Startup Studios is the vested human capital involved around an idea. At the core of the startups studio model are dedicated teams helping business ideas develop into beautiful products and successful companies.
Laicos’ flagship inaugural product, Fuse, is a social media management platform for the consumers and power users, with a simple price model and a clean and attractive UI. In addition, Laicos is developing four additional products: BusFinder, currently in beta version, an app utilizing data from the Tampa Public Transportation System; $1Market, to offer many different services to users for $1 dollar/mo, Order to Seat, for fans to order food to their seat while at a stadium or arena, and FoodStops, a food truck tracking app for consumers and marketing platform for vendors. In 20I7, we plan to work with other founders to help turn their ideas into reality.
Accelerating Success: A Study of Seed AcceleratorsGustav Larsson
A presentation of our bachelor thesis conducted at Chalmers University of Technology on the subject of accelerators. Learn more at acceleratorstudy.com.
Slash - the Startup Studio Playbook (13 dec2018)Slash
New models for collaboration emerge between corporates, startups and investors.
In his keynote at the Asia Startup Summit, Slash CEO Andries De Vos shares how Slash (www.slash.co) has developed a startup studio model which can be applicable to corporates, investors and entrepreneurs.
You’ve figured out your value prop and you’ve got a great product under development. Now what? How can you develop a roadmap to build a company? Venture Capitalists often qualify deals as being a “feature”, a “product” or a “company”. Which do you have and how will you get where you want to go? This presentation addresses how to think about designing your product as a foundational element of your business. This includes thinking beyond UX and Architecture to Whole Product, Ecosystems, and Strategic partners. It also focuses on formulating how to design your go-to-market strategy and business model into your product (with a modular architecture, distinctive packaging and a frictionless approach).
The 3 Key Barriers Keeping Companies from Deploying Data Products Dataiku
Getting from raw data to deploying data-driven solutions requires technology, data, and people. All of which exist. So why aren’t we seeing more truly data-driven companies: what's missing and why? During Strata Hadoop World Singapore 2015, Pauline Brown, Director of Marketing at Dataiku, explains how lack of collaboration is what is keeping companies from building and deploying data products effectively. Learn more about Dataiku and Data Science Studio: www.dataiku.com
Ever asked why great engineers prefer working for certain companies? Or why certain companies are more admired than others? In this lecture I will share few ingredients of the strong engineering culture and why technologists prefer working for one company than for another.
Presentation to MoMo London - February 2014John Spindler
How the London Accelerator & Seed Investment Scene is looking in 2014
( Get to the end and you will find lots of links to who is investing in W 2014? )
UX STRAT 2018 | Flying Blind On a Rocket Cycle: Pioneering Experience Centere...Joe Lamantia
After Oracle acquired Endeca, we all had to figure out what to do next. This case study describes building a learning-driven strategy capability to guide an adventurous product development group focused on the new domains of big data analytics and machine intelligence. I’ll share the outcomes of our efforts to launch new products chartered directly around customer experience value; outline the methods, tools, and perspectives that powered product discovery and strategic planning; share a framework and patterns for identifying and understanding emerging domains; and review the application of this toolkit to new situations.
There are many models for engaging in corporate venturing and innovation. But how can we expand the models we think of when we think of "strategic partnerships"? And what practices can we engage in so these initiatives aren't conducted as isolated engagements but as ones that can centrally influence the business? Drawing on lessons learned and experiences from PARC today, CEO Steve Hoover will share cases and specific innovation practices we can engage in, particularly for moving ideation to impact, optimizing for timing especially under uncertainty, and for influencing the entire organization.
PARC presented this talk during the "Innovation Storytelling: Nurturing The Seeds of Innovation, Case Study Illustrations" segment at the IBF Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering conference on February 7, 2012.
Attended by corporate investors, new business development executives, venture capitalists, private equity investors, mergers & acquisition executives, institutional investors, technology transfer experts, licensing executives, investment bankers, corporate counsel, as well as CTOs, CIOs, CEOs and CFOs of emerging growth companies, this annual International Business Forum event shares strategies to gain a competitive advantage through corporate venturing and innovation initiatives. Over two days, attendees will have an opportunity to share B2B alliance models, investment approaches, strategies to capture technology innovation from external sources, and insights on ways to enhance their corporate venturing initiatives.
In 2012, Lehigh University launched a new master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship. The cross disciplinary approach opened the door to graduate school education in technical entrepreneurship for students from all academic backgrounds, creating a melting pot of experience, skills and aspirations in the classroom. This one-year, 30-credit professional master’s program (M.Eng.) in technical entrepreneurship helps student entrepreneurs create, refine, and commercialize intellectual property through the licensing or launching of a new business. Students in the program learn by experiencing the idea-to-venture process in an educational environment that’s hard-wired to support the development of novel, innovative, and commercially-viable technologies. Attendees will hear about the types of students from the first cohort, the perspective of the faculty members responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum, and lessons learned.
Women in Innovation - My Innovation: describing what I am applying forKTN
The award is for innovators looking to scale up and grow their innovative company or to carry out an innovative project. In this workshop, we will discuss how to:
- Scope the project that you are looking to get funded
- Present your value proposition
- Describe it in the context of your ambitions to grow and scale your business
- Articulate the benefits you will gain from the non-financial support available
Best Practices for Scaling Data Science Across the OrganizationChasity Gibson
Effective data science in the enterprise is about aligning the right model, data, and infrastructure with the right outcomes. Most organizations today struggle to unlock the potential of data science to enhance decision-making and drive business value.
Join Forrester and Anaconda for a webinar to learn best practices for scaling data science across your entire organization. Guest speaker Kjell Carlsson, a Forrester Senior Analyst, and Peter Wang, Anaconda CTO, will share their unique perspectives on how to tackle five key challenges facing organizations today:
- Identifying, defining, and prioritizing valuable problems
- Building the right teams
- Leveraging the proper tools and platforms
- Iterating and deploying effectively
- Reaching end-users to generate value
DAN Brand Accelerator: Client Pitch KeynoteJason Newport
Here is the Brand Accelerator pitch deck I began using to pitch current clients more than two years ago. I refined as we advanced through each phase once clients had signed on and we adjusted as necessary. I pitched this to more than twenty clients, all household brand names -- an converted each of them. Not a single brand declined to move forward.
Using Deep Learning to Derive 3D Cities from Satellite ImageryAstraea, Inc.
Detection and reconstruction of 3D buildings in urban areas has been a hot topic of research due to its many applications, including 3D population density studies, emergency planning, and building value estimation. Standard approaches to extract building footprint and measure building height rely on either aerial or space borne point cloud data, which in many areas is unavailable. In contrast, high resolution satellite imagery has become more readily available in recent years, and could provide enough information to estimate a building’s height. Recent successes of deep learning on semantic segmentation have shown that convolutional neural networks can be effective tools at extracting 2D building footprints. Using a digital surface model derived using FOSS and LiDAR data as ground truth, this study goes a step further by employing state of the art deep learning architectures such as U-net to infer both building footprints and estimated building heights in one pass from a single satellite image. This application of open deep learning frameworks can bring the benefits of 3D cities to a larger portion of the world.
RasterFrames: Enabling Global-Scale Geospatial Machine LearningAstraea, Inc.
RasterFrames™, a proposed LocationTech project, brings the power of Spark SQL and Spark ML to the analysis of global-scale geospatial-temporal raster data. Employing the rich geospatial primitives of LocationTech GeoTrellis and GeoMesa, RasterFrames provides scientists, data scientists and software developers with a unified data and compute model for building image processing pipelines for ETL, data-product creation, statistical analysis, supervised & unsupervised machine learning, and deep learning. Data scientists particularly benefit from the DataFrame-centric entrypoint into big data geospatial analytics.
This talk will introduce RasterFrames, explaining the need it fulfills, the capabilities it provides, and context for determining if RasterFrames is right for the problems you're trying to solve.
By Simeon Fitch
Machine Learning, FOSS, and open data to map deforestation trends in the Braz...Astraea, Inc.
Monitoring deforestation across the globe is important for understanding macro-scale impacts on carbon sequestration and climate change. We trained a land cover machine learning model to monitor forest changes anywhere in the world. Our effort combines Apache Spark’s distributed machine learning, raster operations from LocationTech GeoTrellis, and the newly open-sourced RasterFrames library. RasterFrames let us apply GeoTrellis raster operations within Spark SQL, thereby homogenizing imagery queries and streamlining feature engineering. Using approximately 2,000 hand-labelled sites scattered across every continent and coarse resolution (500-m) surface reflectance products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellites, our model achieves an estimated accuracy of 95%, a user’s accuracy (recall) of 79%, and a producer’s accuracy (precision) of 95%. We scored this model on the State of Mato Grosso in Brazil, which has seen intense deforestation over the past several decades. We mapped and visualized forest change in Mato Grosso over the past 17 years.
By Jason Brown and Courtney Whalen
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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.
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...
2018 IEEE WIE Presentation - Dr. Kimberly Scott
1. IEEE WIE Forum USA East 2018
Seeking Opportunities for Innovation and
Professional Growth? Try a Tech Startup!
Kim Scott, Co-founder and VP of Data Science, Astraea, Inc.
www.astraea.earth kim@astraea.earth @AstraeaInc
4. 4
“…like trying to solve a very complicated puzzle with
1000's of pieces but without access to the picture on the
front of the puzzle box.”
Brendan Richardson, Co-founder and CEO of Astraea, Inc.
5. What is a Startup?
The Engineer/Tech enthusiast perspective
• A startup is a temporary organization created to rapidly solve a
difficult problem – and then figure out a sustainable business
model
• Find a big problem, and solve it:
– Create innovative product, service, or platform
– Fill a major gap in the market
– Disrupt the industry
• Designed to grow and scale rapidly
• Requires a good deal of seed funding:
– Usually financed by investors (Angel, Venture Capital)
– High uncertainty/risk, potentially high reward
5
”…there is a common thread connecting most startups…a mission or goal to
disrupt, change, or enhance, the traditional mindset of whatever industry
they’re in.”
- Mark Winokur, Founder and CEO of Workforce First Aid and Safety
6. Startup Innovation:
From ideas to results
6
Who can turn ideas
into results?
▪ Creative problem solving:
– Start from scratch
– Design experiments
– Rapidly iterate and learn
▪ Build solutions:
– Design architecture
– Use cutting-edge
technologies
– Leverage software, data
and analytics
▪ Push boundaries:
– Face the unknown
– Try things that have never
been done before
– Be undeterred by
uncertainty
9. Next Machine Learning Frontier:
Earth Observation Data
9
600+ active EO Satellites
50+ Tb per day
200+ Petabytes
300X in next 5 years
>1000 planned EO Satellites
10. Astraea’s Founding Team
10
Brendan Richardson
Chief Executive
Officer
Co-Founder, PsiKick
Dir. P.E., Investure
General Partner, Vision
Capital
Adjunct Professor,
University of Virginia
Daniel Bailey
Chief Technical
Officer
Director of Commercial
Analytics, Elder
Research
Founder/CEO, DBRI
Combat Intelligence
Officer, US Army
Fluent in Arabic
Active Top Secret
Matt Eldridge
VP Engineering
Data Scientist, CCRI
Sr. Technical Mgr
Fulcrum
Principal Res.
Engineer, BAE
Systems
M.S. Applied Physics
Johns Hopkins
Active Top Secret
Simeon H.K. Fitch
VP R&D
Dir. of SW
Architecture, Elder
Research
Founder, Mustard Seed
Research Eng, SWRI
Technical Staff, DSA
Recipient of two R&D
100 Awards
Kim Scott, PhD
VP Data Science
Data Scientist, UVA
Health System
Data Scientist, Elder
Research
Post-Doc, NRAO
Post-Doc, UPenn
PhD Astronomy, UMass
11. Pixels to Insight: The Challenge
11
Produce
Pixels
Provision
Cluster
Ingest &
Store Data
Create AI
Models
Deploy
Models
Insight
Satellite
Operators
Prep &
Fuse Data
?
12. Pixels to Insight: The Challenge
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Provision
Cluster
Ingest &
Store Data
Create AI
Models
Deploy
Models
InsightPrep &
Fuse Data
Data Sourcing and Pre-processing
Big Data Computing / Dev Ops
Data Dimensionality
Data Science, Remote Sensing & GIS Expertise
Deployment Chasm
Timeliness & Delivery
Produce
Pixels
Production
Algorithm
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13. Pixels to Insight: Our Solution
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Produce
Pixels
Provision
Cluster
Ingest &
Store Data
Create AI
Models
Deploy
Models
Insight
Satellite
Operators
Prep &
Fuse Data
?
14. Astraea earthAI
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The first integrated AI platform for big geospatial data
• Includes analytics-ready satellite data
• Provides push-button super computing
• Enables greater access for non-experts
• Decreases time to deployment
• Build custom decision support tools
Data Sourcing and Pre-processing
Big Data Computing / Dev Ops
Data Dimensionality
Data Science, Remote Sensing & GIS Expertise
Deployment Chasm
Timeliness & Delivery
15. Technical Team
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Courtney Whalen
Data Scientist
Jason Brown
Sr Data Scientist
Tom Schroeder
Dir. Cloud Comp.
Ben Guseman
Sr SW Engineer
Eric Culbertson
Data Scientist
Billy Hunt
UI/UX Developer
Simeon H.K. Fitch
VP R&D
Kim Scott, PhD
VP Data Science
Matt Eldridge
VP Engineering
Phil Varner
Sr SW Engineer
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Tracking Growth of Renewable Energy
Locating Solar Rooftop Opportunities
Controlled Burn Site Characterization
The Nature Conservancy
Monitoring Boreal Forest Loss and Degradation
17. Platform Development Cycle
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Build solutions
for clients
Define new
features for
earthAI platform
QA testing and
feedback
Develop features
for platform
Increase compute
performance
Convert code to
map-based visual
programming
18. Astraea earthAI
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The first integrated AI platform for big geospatial data
• Includes analytics-ready satellite data
• Provides push-button super computing
• Enables greater access for non-experts
• Decreases time to deployment
• Build custom decision support tools
Astraea earthAI Beta Release
Q1 2019
Wanna try?
info.astraea.earth
20. Startups = Opportunities
• To survive the first few years, a startup
must:
– Continuously demonstrate ability to execute
on vision
– Determine product-market fit
– Get user adoption
– Generate revenue
• And must do this with limited resources:
– Big problem + boundless solution space =
innovation
– Many roles to fill + small number of people =
professional growth and advancement
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21. Opportunities for professional
development and advancement
• Get exposure to a broad range of skills (technical and soft
skills)
• Gain expertise in some of the latest technologies and
methods
• Work on a project from start to finish, and contribute at
every phase in its lifecycle
• Interact with top leadership and learn about the business
side of things
• Take on managerial and leadership roles in a short period
of time
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Career Advancement
22. For the Entrepreneur, a Sampling of
Every Business Unit…
• Give pitches and demos for
investors
• Business development
• Marketing/outreach
• Hiring
• Develop strategic roadmap for R&D
projects and platform development
• Create and manage tactical plan
for data science activities
• Project management
• Manage and mentor data scientists
• Design machine learning solutions
• QA testing for platform
• Build training examples and
tutorials for platform
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Business
Development
R&D
Marketing
Production
Strategy
23. Summary
• Startups are:
– Business ventures out to solve big problems
– Looking to disrupt business as usual
– Designed for rapid growth
• Startups need people like you to get from
vision to execution
• Can be a rewarding environment:
– Build something completely new
– Fast-pace, quick returnssi
– Team work, learn from peers
– Accelerate career goalsonal career
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24. Interested? Astraea is Hiring!
careers@astraea.earth
• Director of Business Development
• Product Manager
• Data Engineer
• Data Scientist
• Remote Sensing Scientist
• Front-End Software Developer
• Front-End Software Architect
• Full-Stack Software Engineer
• Cloud Devops Engineer
• Lead QA Engineer
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