How to Personalize Luminate CRM and SalesforceBlackbaud
The document summarizes a presentation about extending and customizing Luminate CRM. It discusses how Luminate CRM is built on the Salesforce platform and provides flexibility through tools that allow customizing the user experience, creating new features and integrations, automating processes and tasks, and using the AppExchange. Specific examples are provided of how the organization customized Luminate CRM to track board membership and volunteer management processes. Attendees are encouraged that they too can learn to extend and build custom applications within Luminate CRM.
Keys to Success for Building a Sustainer ProgramBlackbaud
This document summarizes key points from a presentation on growing a sustainer donor program. Some main points include:
- Sustaining donors are very valuable due to their recurring donations which provide reliable annual revenue. They significantly outperform single gift donors in lifetime revenue and retention.
- Successful sustainer programs focus on long-term growth, educating staff, using long-term value metrics, and acquiring donors directly to recurring programs rather than converting single gift donors.
- Data shows sustainer donor populations and revenue are growing faster than single gift donors. Sustainer donors have higher retention rates, lifetime value, and represent over 50% of donors and revenue at some organizations.
npEXPERTS 2016: Philanthropy by the NumbersBlackbaud
This document contains statistics from various reports about the nonprofit sector. It discusses topics such as the percentage of nonprofits without strategic plans, the percentage of grants approved by different types of foundations, the percentage of constituents' email addresses nonprofits are missing, and projections for smartphone users by 2020. Throughout it emphasizes the importance of leadership, data, outcomes measurement, stewardship, and adapting to trends in digital engagement and fundraising.
The Constituent Engagement Journey: Growing Engagement, Loyalty, and Lifetime...Blackbaud
The Constituent Engagement Journey: Growing Engagement, Loyalty, and
Lifetime Value. Presented by Ken Kuhler, Interactive Strategy Manager, Blackbaud.
Ken will discuss how to apply next generation trend data to your multi‐channel,
multi‐generational fundraising and engagement efforts including practical tools
and techniques, and real‐world case studies.
Financial Edge NXT is a new cloud-based accounting software from Blackbaud that offers intuitive design, reliable technology, and fully integrated functionality. The presentation reviewed Blackbaud's vision for Financial Edge NXT, the product roadmap, and how customers can prepare for the transition. Key highlights include a phased release schedule for new features, an emphasis on ease of use and collaboration, and professional services to help customers analyze their data and plan their migration to the new software platform.
Communication and Social Media Measurement - tuesday 16-4-kpisSeb Maje
This document summarizes a presentation on communications and social media measurement. It discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) like share of voice, audience engagement, and share of conversation that are important to track. It also covers benchmarks to compare performance over time and against other campaigns. Finally, it examines how to measure influence, including through Klout, Kred, and identifying influential social media users. Building successful relationships with influencers requires being real, relevant, practical, patient, and actively engaging.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for a marketing communications manager position. It provides examples of KPIs, performance appraisal methods, and steps for creating a KPI system for this role. The document recommends that KPIs be clearly linked to strategy, answer important questions, and empower employees. It also warns against creating too many KPIs and notes that KPIs should change based on goals. Visitors are directed to an external website for additional KPI samples and materials.
The document summarizes a conference presentation on developing a framework for measuring the effectiveness of social media marketing communications. It reviews literature on social media marketing, metrics, and marketing performance measurement. Key points discussed include:
1) Social media enables more engagement and interaction between companies and customers
2) There is a need for new marketing performance metrics for social media given its interactive and collaborative nature
3) Effective social media metrics can be qualitative, quantitative, or financial in nature and should be tailored to a company's specific objectives and strategies.
How to Personalize Luminate CRM and SalesforceBlackbaud
The document summarizes a presentation about extending and customizing Luminate CRM. It discusses how Luminate CRM is built on the Salesforce platform and provides flexibility through tools that allow customizing the user experience, creating new features and integrations, automating processes and tasks, and using the AppExchange. Specific examples are provided of how the organization customized Luminate CRM to track board membership and volunteer management processes. Attendees are encouraged that they too can learn to extend and build custom applications within Luminate CRM.
Keys to Success for Building a Sustainer ProgramBlackbaud
This document summarizes key points from a presentation on growing a sustainer donor program. Some main points include:
- Sustaining donors are very valuable due to their recurring donations which provide reliable annual revenue. They significantly outperform single gift donors in lifetime revenue and retention.
- Successful sustainer programs focus on long-term growth, educating staff, using long-term value metrics, and acquiring donors directly to recurring programs rather than converting single gift donors.
- Data shows sustainer donor populations and revenue are growing faster than single gift donors. Sustainer donors have higher retention rates, lifetime value, and represent over 50% of donors and revenue at some organizations.
npEXPERTS 2016: Philanthropy by the NumbersBlackbaud
This document contains statistics from various reports about the nonprofit sector. It discusses topics such as the percentage of nonprofits without strategic plans, the percentage of grants approved by different types of foundations, the percentage of constituents' email addresses nonprofits are missing, and projections for smartphone users by 2020. Throughout it emphasizes the importance of leadership, data, outcomes measurement, stewardship, and adapting to trends in digital engagement and fundraising.
The Constituent Engagement Journey: Growing Engagement, Loyalty, and Lifetime...Blackbaud
The Constituent Engagement Journey: Growing Engagement, Loyalty, and
Lifetime Value. Presented by Ken Kuhler, Interactive Strategy Manager, Blackbaud.
Ken will discuss how to apply next generation trend data to your multi‐channel,
multi‐generational fundraising and engagement efforts including practical tools
and techniques, and real‐world case studies.
Financial Edge NXT is a new cloud-based accounting software from Blackbaud that offers intuitive design, reliable technology, and fully integrated functionality. The presentation reviewed Blackbaud's vision for Financial Edge NXT, the product roadmap, and how customers can prepare for the transition. Key highlights include a phased release schedule for new features, an emphasis on ease of use and collaboration, and professional services to help customers analyze their data and plan their migration to the new software platform.
Communication and Social Media Measurement - tuesday 16-4-kpisSeb Maje
This document summarizes a presentation on communications and social media measurement. It discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) like share of voice, audience engagement, and share of conversation that are important to track. It also covers benchmarks to compare performance over time and against other campaigns. Finally, it examines how to measure influence, including through Klout, Kred, and identifying influential social media users. Building successful relationships with influencers requires being real, relevant, practical, patient, and actively engaging.
This document discusses key performance indicators (KPIs) for a marketing communications manager position. It provides examples of KPIs, performance appraisal methods, and steps for creating a KPI system for this role. The document recommends that KPIs be clearly linked to strategy, answer important questions, and empower employees. It also warns against creating too many KPIs and notes that KPIs should change based on goals. Visitors are directed to an external website for additional KPI samples and materials.
The document summarizes a conference presentation on developing a framework for measuring the effectiveness of social media marketing communications. It reviews literature on social media marketing, metrics, and marketing performance measurement. Key points discussed include:
1) Social media enables more engagement and interaction between companies and customers
2) There is a need for new marketing performance metrics for social media given its interactive and collaborative nature
3) Effective social media metrics can be qualitative, quantitative, or financial in nature and should be tailored to a company's specific objectives and strategies.
Philanthropy by the Numbers: The story behind the statsBlackbaud
In our latest edition of npEXPERTS, top thought leaders from across the industry share their perspective on the latest trends and what's next for the social good industry.
5 Tips for Fundraising in an Election YearBlackbaud
This document provides 6 tips for nonprofit fundraising during an election year. The tips emphasize retaining existing donors and reinstating lapsed donors, assessing the climate to build acquisition and reinstatement strategies based on 2016 fundraising aggression and consumer confidence heading into fall, aligning advocacy and fundraising teams internally towards shared goals, rallying advocates around the cause and galvanizing supporters through opt-ins, segmentation, and personalized outreach, paying attention to donors' political engagement especially for major donors and issues related to the election year's debates, and downloading a full report for more nonprofit insight during the election season.
Anatomy of the Perfect Private School Landing PageBlackbaud
This document discusses the anatomy and design of effective private school landing pages. It outlines seven principles of conversion-centered design for landing pages, including encapsulation, contrast, directional cues, whitespace, urgency, social proof, and testing. The document provides examples of landing pages from Darlington School and Proctor Academy that improved their conversion and lead generation rates. It highlights how tailored content and nurturing prospects at different stages of inquiry can increase applications, visits, and enrollment.
Here are the key points I would highlight in telling the story of ROI with Raiser's Edge NXT:
1. Consolidate disparate systems and vendors onto one integrated platform, reducing total cost of ownership.
2. Eliminate ongoing IT maintenance costs like server hardware refreshes, backups, downtime expenses with a fully hosted cloud solution.
3. Leverage built-in data enrichment tools to identify more donors, increase response rates, and reduce mail costs.
4. Utilize online fundraising and marketing automation tools to drive more ongoing annual revenue.
5. Quantify potential increased identification of major donors and associated increased major gift revenue.
6. Obtain a cost quote from your Blackbaud
The document summarizes a school's viral video success story about announcing a snow day. It describes how the school created a parody video of "Let It Go" featuring the head of school to announce a snow day. The clever and timely video went viral globally with over 3.7 million YouTube views. Key to its success was capturing people's interest with something unique and shareable at the right moment. While going viral is hard to predict or replicate, the school believes it is still worth trying creative ideas to engage their community and increase online attention, even if large-scale virality is not achieved.
What You Should be Doing with Master Schedule but May Not Know Blackbaud
This document provides tips and instructions for using the Master Schedule feature in Blackbaud's Education Edge software. It discusses creating classes and sections, setting scheduling rules to connect classes, loading students into homeroom classes, generating student schedules, saving scheduling scenarios for different points in time, finding courses to fill holes in a student's schedule, tracking schedule changes, and some extra tips for finding free teachers and rooms and viewing student schedules. The key steps covered are creating classes and sections based on target numbers, setting up scheduling rules to connect courses, loading students into homeroom classes, generating and saving student schedules, and tracking any schedule changes over time.
During this presentation, Kristen Power discusses trends in financial aid and affordability. She examines who is currently receiving financial aid, noting that applicants come from a wider range of incomes than in the past. She also analyzes how tuition growth has outpaced income growth, challenging affordability. Finally, she considers strategies like diversifying financial aid funding sources and articulating a school's broader benefits to address affordability issues.
The Ripple Effect of Successful ImplementationBlackbaud
This document discusses implementing a new school administration simulation. Participants are asked to name their school, identify hurdles like faculty technology ability, weaknesses like parent/student communication, and how features could help. They must also address scenarios like a student in academic jeopardy, a student missing class due to stomach issues, and resistant veteran teachers. Participants are asked what new tool the school should implement and when based on those affected.
Using Hacks to Create Consistent and Awesome Video Content for Your Admission...Blackbaud
This document provides tips for using video effectively in college admissions. It recommends starting small with narrow focuses like answering frequently asked questions or showing campus facilities. Constraints like using readily available equipment like phones and GoPros can help get started easily. Crowdsourcing footage from students and alumni helps show a human side. Data from views can show what content is helpful for audiences. The overall message is that video can help build emotional connections if it focuses on people over promotions and tells the school's story in an authentic way.
The document discusses the changing dynamics of families applying for financial aid. It notes that applicant families now have higher incomes and net worth. These "new financial aid families" are more assertive, entrepreneurial, and accustomed to influence over decisions. This is reshaping how schools provide financial aid. Schools must reshape policies, budgets, and communications to meet the needs of these evolving applicant families and increase participation in the financial aid process.
This document discusses advocacy marketing strategies for higher education institutions. It outlines Babson College's brand campaign to define entrepreneurship and engage its community of alumni, faculty, staff and students in advocacy. The campaign aims to increase brand awareness, engagement and adoption of Babson's mission of entrepreneurship education. It emphasizes telling genuine human stories through alumni to spread its brand message via word-of-mouth, the most powerful form of marketing.
Introduction to Inbound Marketing for Independent SchoolsBlackbaud
This document provides an introduction to inbound marketing for independent schools. It discusses defining target audiences through personas, identifying keywords for SEO, creating content to attract prospective students and parents, using calls to action and forms to convert visitors, and developing email nurturing streams to close leads. The presentation provides examples for how Proctor Academy implements these inbound strategies, and discusses challenges schools may face with content creation, data management, and institutional agility.
Turning your newly enrolled families into annual fund donors Blackbaud
This document outlines strategies for increasing participation in annual fundraising from newly enrolled families at schools. It recommends a team approach between admissions and development staff to welcome new families, educate them about the importance of the annual fund, and turn them into first-year donors. Key tactics include providing information about the annual fund at admissions events and orientations, emphasizing the importance of participation from all families, and using multiple channels like mail, email and phone to ask new families to donate. Progress should be regularly tracked and reported to continue engaging new families throughout their first year.
The school’s guide to modern design trends corwin bermudezBlackbaud
This document discusses modern design trends for websites. It notes that modern trends are built for responsive design and create the best user experience across all screen sizes. Responsive, clean designs are viewed more favorably by search engines and have faster conversions on mobile. Modern trends emphasize simplicity, organization, and maximizing usability. They also allow for customization to convey an organization's unique identity. The document advises keeping designs updated and engaging to stay relevant and attract visitors. It provides examples of modern design techniques like large design elements, long scrolling sites, minimalism, photography, and storytelling layouts.
The document discusses tips for cleaning up a Raiser's Edge database, including establishing security and standardizing data entry procedures. It reviews tools in Raiser's Edge like global add/change/delete options, duplicate record management, and table cleanup. Additional tips include importing data, converting pledges to recurring gifts, and using the non-constituent merge utility.
Maintaining a Healthy Database in The Education EdgeBlackbaud
The document provides tips and best practices for maintaining a healthy database in The Education Edge software. It recommends establishing policies and procedures for database management, configuring security and business rules, integrating records between modules, managing duplicate records, and utilizing cleanup and maintenance tools. Regularly running reports and integrating data with The Raiser's Edge are also emphasized for database health.
Building Report Cards and Transcripts in The Education EdgeBlackbaud
The document provides an overview of building report cards and transcripts in The Education Edge. It discusses standard functionality for report cards and transcripts in the Mail module, best practices for managing grading information, and tips for customizing templates. Formatting options, filters, and previewing capabilities are demonstrated. Additional knowledgebase articles on printing GPAs, running performance calculations, and adding logos are referenced.
Data Extraction Tips for The Education Edge Blackbaud
The document provides tips for using various data extraction modules in The Education Edge, including queries, exports, reports, and dashboards. It discusses how to build successful queries, use the export module, understand the different report types, and organize queries, exports, and reports. Additional resources from the Blackbaud Knowledgebase are also listed to help users master data extraction.
Budget management in the financial edge (m packard uc15)Blackbaud
The document discusses budget management in The Financial Edge software. It outlines questions to consider about how to structure budgets, such as whether to budget by account, account segment, or project. It also addresses distributing budgets periodically or to specific managers. The document then reviews business rules for the general ledger, distributions, importing data, and accounts payable. Finally, it discusses creating, manipulating, and incorporating budgets into reporting within The Financial Edge.
Nxt next generation of finance and fundraising (m packard uc15)Blackbaud
Financial Edge NXT is a new cloud-based fundraising and accounting platform from Blackbaud that integrates Financial Edge and Raiser's Edge on a single platform. It offers subscription-based access from any device with an internet connection. Key features include easy migration of existing data, continuous updates, and reduced IT costs. The platform provides role-based access, data enrichment and analytics tools, and fundraising tools including online fundraising, email marketing, and crowdfunding. It aims to give nonprofits everything they need to strengthen relationships with donors, gain actionable insights, and drive fundraising through various channels.
Codeless Generative AI Pipelines
(GenAI with Milvus)
https://ml.dssconf.pl/user.html#!/lecture/DSSML24-041a/rate
Discover the potential of real-time streaming in the context of GenAI as we delve into the intricacies of Apache NiFi and its capabilities. Learn how this tool can significantly simplify the data engineering workflow for GenAI applications, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects rather than the technical complexities. I will guide you through practical examples and use cases, showing the impact of automation on prompt building. From data ingestion to transformation and delivery, witness how Apache NiFi streamlines the entire pipeline, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free experience.
Timothy Spann
https://www.youtube.com/@FLaNK-Stack
https://medium.com/@tspann
https://www.datainmotion.dev/
milvus, unstructured data, vector database, zilliz, cloud, vectors, python, deep learning, generative ai, genai, nifi, kafka, flink, streaming, iot, edge
Philanthropy by the Numbers: The story behind the statsBlackbaud
In our latest edition of npEXPERTS, top thought leaders from across the industry share their perspective on the latest trends and what's next for the social good industry.
5 Tips for Fundraising in an Election YearBlackbaud
This document provides 6 tips for nonprofit fundraising during an election year. The tips emphasize retaining existing donors and reinstating lapsed donors, assessing the climate to build acquisition and reinstatement strategies based on 2016 fundraising aggression and consumer confidence heading into fall, aligning advocacy and fundraising teams internally towards shared goals, rallying advocates around the cause and galvanizing supporters through opt-ins, segmentation, and personalized outreach, paying attention to donors' political engagement especially for major donors and issues related to the election year's debates, and downloading a full report for more nonprofit insight during the election season.
Anatomy of the Perfect Private School Landing PageBlackbaud
This document discusses the anatomy and design of effective private school landing pages. It outlines seven principles of conversion-centered design for landing pages, including encapsulation, contrast, directional cues, whitespace, urgency, social proof, and testing. The document provides examples of landing pages from Darlington School and Proctor Academy that improved their conversion and lead generation rates. It highlights how tailored content and nurturing prospects at different stages of inquiry can increase applications, visits, and enrollment.
Here are the key points I would highlight in telling the story of ROI with Raiser's Edge NXT:
1. Consolidate disparate systems and vendors onto one integrated platform, reducing total cost of ownership.
2. Eliminate ongoing IT maintenance costs like server hardware refreshes, backups, downtime expenses with a fully hosted cloud solution.
3. Leverage built-in data enrichment tools to identify more donors, increase response rates, and reduce mail costs.
4. Utilize online fundraising and marketing automation tools to drive more ongoing annual revenue.
5. Quantify potential increased identification of major donors and associated increased major gift revenue.
6. Obtain a cost quote from your Blackbaud
The document summarizes a school's viral video success story about announcing a snow day. It describes how the school created a parody video of "Let It Go" featuring the head of school to announce a snow day. The clever and timely video went viral globally with over 3.7 million YouTube views. Key to its success was capturing people's interest with something unique and shareable at the right moment. While going viral is hard to predict or replicate, the school believes it is still worth trying creative ideas to engage their community and increase online attention, even if large-scale virality is not achieved.
What You Should be Doing with Master Schedule but May Not Know Blackbaud
This document provides tips and instructions for using the Master Schedule feature in Blackbaud's Education Edge software. It discusses creating classes and sections, setting scheduling rules to connect classes, loading students into homeroom classes, generating student schedules, saving scheduling scenarios for different points in time, finding courses to fill holes in a student's schedule, tracking schedule changes, and some extra tips for finding free teachers and rooms and viewing student schedules. The key steps covered are creating classes and sections based on target numbers, setting up scheduling rules to connect courses, loading students into homeroom classes, generating and saving student schedules, and tracking any schedule changes over time.
During this presentation, Kristen Power discusses trends in financial aid and affordability. She examines who is currently receiving financial aid, noting that applicants come from a wider range of incomes than in the past. She also analyzes how tuition growth has outpaced income growth, challenging affordability. Finally, she considers strategies like diversifying financial aid funding sources and articulating a school's broader benefits to address affordability issues.
The Ripple Effect of Successful ImplementationBlackbaud
This document discusses implementing a new school administration simulation. Participants are asked to name their school, identify hurdles like faculty technology ability, weaknesses like parent/student communication, and how features could help. They must also address scenarios like a student in academic jeopardy, a student missing class due to stomach issues, and resistant veteran teachers. Participants are asked what new tool the school should implement and when based on those affected.
Using Hacks to Create Consistent and Awesome Video Content for Your Admission...Blackbaud
This document provides tips for using video effectively in college admissions. It recommends starting small with narrow focuses like answering frequently asked questions or showing campus facilities. Constraints like using readily available equipment like phones and GoPros can help get started easily. Crowdsourcing footage from students and alumni helps show a human side. Data from views can show what content is helpful for audiences. The overall message is that video can help build emotional connections if it focuses on people over promotions and tells the school's story in an authentic way.
The document discusses the changing dynamics of families applying for financial aid. It notes that applicant families now have higher incomes and net worth. These "new financial aid families" are more assertive, entrepreneurial, and accustomed to influence over decisions. This is reshaping how schools provide financial aid. Schools must reshape policies, budgets, and communications to meet the needs of these evolving applicant families and increase participation in the financial aid process.
This document discusses advocacy marketing strategies for higher education institutions. It outlines Babson College's brand campaign to define entrepreneurship and engage its community of alumni, faculty, staff and students in advocacy. The campaign aims to increase brand awareness, engagement and adoption of Babson's mission of entrepreneurship education. It emphasizes telling genuine human stories through alumni to spread its brand message via word-of-mouth, the most powerful form of marketing.
Introduction to Inbound Marketing for Independent SchoolsBlackbaud
This document provides an introduction to inbound marketing for independent schools. It discusses defining target audiences through personas, identifying keywords for SEO, creating content to attract prospective students and parents, using calls to action and forms to convert visitors, and developing email nurturing streams to close leads. The presentation provides examples for how Proctor Academy implements these inbound strategies, and discusses challenges schools may face with content creation, data management, and institutional agility.
Turning your newly enrolled families into annual fund donors Blackbaud
This document outlines strategies for increasing participation in annual fundraising from newly enrolled families at schools. It recommends a team approach between admissions and development staff to welcome new families, educate them about the importance of the annual fund, and turn them into first-year donors. Key tactics include providing information about the annual fund at admissions events and orientations, emphasizing the importance of participation from all families, and using multiple channels like mail, email and phone to ask new families to donate. Progress should be regularly tracked and reported to continue engaging new families throughout their first year.
The school’s guide to modern design trends corwin bermudezBlackbaud
This document discusses modern design trends for websites. It notes that modern trends are built for responsive design and create the best user experience across all screen sizes. Responsive, clean designs are viewed more favorably by search engines and have faster conversions on mobile. Modern trends emphasize simplicity, organization, and maximizing usability. They also allow for customization to convey an organization's unique identity. The document advises keeping designs updated and engaging to stay relevant and attract visitors. It provides examples of modern design techniques like large design elements, long scrolling sites, minimalism, photography, and storytelling layouts.
The document discusses tips for cleaning up a Raiser's Edge database, including establishing security and standardizing data entry procedures. It reviews tools in Raiser's Edge like global add/change/delete options, duplicate record management, and table cleanup. Additional tips include importing data, converting pledges to recurring gifts, and using the non-constituent merge utility.
Maintaining a Healthy Database in The Education EdgeBlackbaud
The document provides tips and best practices for maintaining a healthy database in The Education Edge software. It recommends establishing policies and procedures for database management, configuring security and business rules, integrating records between modules, managing duplicate records, and utilizing cleanup and maintenance tools. Regularly running reports and integrating data with The Raiser's Edge are also emphasized for database health.
Building Report Cards and Transcripts in The Education EdgeBlackbaud
The document provides an overview of building report cards and transcripts in The Education Edge. It discusses standard functionality for report cards and transcripts in the Mail module, best practices for managing grading information, and tips for customizing templates. Formatting options, filters, and previewing capabilities are demonstrated. Additional knowledgebase articles on printing GPAs, running performance calculations, and adding logos are referenced.
Data Extraction Tips for The Education Edge Blackbaud
The document provides tips for using various data extraction modules in The Education Edge, including queries, exports, reports, and dashboards. It discusses how to build successful queries, use the export module, understand the different report types, and organize queries, exports, and reports. Additional resources from the Blackbaud Knowledgebase are also listed to help users master data extraction.
Budget management in the financial edge (m packard uc15)Blackbaud
The document discusses budget management in The Financial Edge software. It outlines questions to consider about how to structure budgets, such as whether to budget by account, account segment, or project. It also addresses distributing budgets periodically or to specific managers. The document then reviews business rules for the general ledger, distributions, importing data, and accounts payable. Finally, it discusses creating, manipulating, and incorporating budgets into reporting within The Financial Edge.
Nxt next generation of finance and fundraising (m packard uc15)Blackbaud
Financial Edge NXT is a new cloud-based fundraising and accounting platform from Blackbaud that integrates Financial Edge and Raiser's Edge on a single platform. It offers subscription-based access from any device with an internet connection. Key features include easy migration of existing data, continuous updates, and reduced IT costs. The platform provides role-based access, data enrichment and analytics tools, and fundraising tools including online fundraising, email marketing, and crowdfunding. It aims to give nonprofits everything they need to strengthen relationships with donors, gain actionable insights, and drive fundraising through various channels.
Codeless Generative AI Pipelines
(GenAI with Milvus)
https://ml.dssconf.pl/user.html#!/lecture/DSSML24-041a/rate
Discover the potential of real-time streaming in the context of GenAI as we delve into the intricacies of Apache NiFi and its capabilities. Learn how this tool can significantly simplify the data engineering workflow for GenAI applications, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects rather than the technical complexities. I will guide you through practical examples and use cases, showing the impact of automation on prompt building. From data ingestion to transformation and delivery, witness how Apache NiFi streamlines the entire pipeline, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free experience.
Timothy Spann
https://www.youtube.com/@FLaNK-Stack
https://medium.com/@tspann
https://www.datainmotion.dev/
milvus, unstructured data, vector database, zilliz, cloud, vectors, python, deep learning, generative ai, genai, nifi, kafka, flink, streaming, iot, edge
Orchestrating the Future: Navigating Today's Data Workflow Challenges with Ai...Kaxil Naik
Navigating today's data landscape isn't just about managing workflows; it's about strategically propelling your business forward. Apache Airflow has stood out as the benchmark in this arena, driving data orchestration forward since its early days. As we dive into the complexities of our current data-rich environment, where the sheer volume of information and its timely, accurate processing are crucial for AI and ML applications, the role of Airflow has never been more critical.
In my journey as the Senior Engineering Director and a pivotal member of Apache Airflow's Project Management Committee (PMC), I've witnessed Airflow transform data handling, making agility and insight the norm in an ever-evolving digital space. At Astronomer, our collaboration with leading AI & ML teams worldwide has not only tested but also proven Airflow's mettle in delivering data reliably and efficiently—data that now powers not just insights but core business functions.
This session is a deep dive into the essence of Airflow's success. We'll trace its evolution from a budding project to the backbone of data orchestration it is today, constantly adapting to meet the next wave of data challenges, including those brought on by Generative AI. It's this forward-thinking adaptability that keeps Airflow at the forefront of innovation, ready for whatever comes next.
The ever-growing demands of AI and ML applications have ushered in an era where sophisticated data management isn't a luxury—it's a necessity. Airflow's innate flexibility and scalability are what makes it indispensable in managing the intricate workflows of today, especially those involving Large Language Models (LLMs).
This talk isn't just a rundown of Airflow's features; it's about harnessing these capabilities to turn your data workflows into a strategic asset. Together, we'll explore how Airflow remains at the cutting edge of data orchestration, ensuring your organization is not just keeping pace but setting the pace in a data-driven future.
Session in https://budapestdata.hu/2024/04/kaxil-naik-astronomer-io/ | https://dataml24.sessionize.com/session/667627
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
STATATHON: Unleashing the Power of Statistics in a 48-Hour Knowledge Extravag...sameer shah
"Join us for STATATHON, a dynamic 2-day event dedicated to exploring statistical knowledge and its real-world applications. From theory to practice, participants engage in intensive learning sessions, workshops, and challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of statistical methodologies and their significance in various fields."
End-to-end pipeline agility - Berlin Buzzwords 2024Lars Albertsson
We describe how we achieve high change agility in data engineering by eliminating the fear of breaking downstream data pipelines through end-to-end pipeline testing, and by using schema metaprogramming to safely eliminate boilerplate involved in changes that affect whole pipelines.
A quick poll on agility in changing pipelines from end to end indicated a huge span in capabilities. For the question "How long time does it take for all downstream pipelines to be adapted to an upstream change," the median response was 6 months, but some respondents could do it in less than a day. When quantitative data engineering differences between the best and worst are measured, the span is often 100x-1000x, sometimes even more.
A long time ago, we suffered at Spotify from fear of changing pipelines due to not knowing what the impact might be downstream. We made plans for a technical solution to test pipelines end-to-end to mitigate that fear, but the effort failed for cultural reasons. We eventually solved this challenge, but in a different context. In this presentation we will describe how we test full pipelines effectively by manipulating workflow orchestration, which enables us to make changes in pipelines without fear of breaking downstream.
Making schema changes that affect many jobs also involves a lot of toil and boilerplate. Using schema-on-read mitigates some of it, but has drawbacks since it makes it more difficult to detect errors early. We will describe how we have rejected this tradeoff by applying schema metaprogramming, eliminating boilerplate but keeping the protection of static typing, thereby further improving agility to quickly modify data pipelines without fear.
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This webinar will explore cutting-edge, less familiar but powerful experimentation methodologies which address well-known limitations of standard A/B Testing. Designed for data and product leaders, this session aims to inspire the embrace of innovative approaches and provide insights into the frontiers of experimentation!
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