The document discusses environmental issues and sustainability efforts in Norway. It outlines some of the main global environmental threats including climate change and loss of biodiversity. It then discusses Norway's responses through legislation, agencies, certification programs, and support for cleantech innovation. Specific examples of sustainability programs in Norway are provided like the Eco-Lighthouse system, cities initiatives, and promising cleantech startups.
The document outlines Angers Loire Metropole's plan to create a climate action plan. It discusses measuring the area's carbon footprint, results which show residential and transportation sectors account for most emissions, and already implemented actions. A participatory process is proposed involving inhabitants, professionals, and councils to define new actions and monitor progress. Participation from local communities is seen as key to ensuring the climate plan's success.
Agroamerica has implemented several sustainability initiatives including protecting over 50,000 endangered iguanas, reforesting 450 hectares as nature reserves, capturing over 30,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually, and generating renewable energy from biogas and biomass. They have also invested in precision agriculture technology to reduce water usage by 20% while maintaining yields and implement sustainable practices across their supply chain with various certifications. Agroamerica aims to produce more while optimizing resource use and creating a sustainable future for generations to come.
Building a New Economy: Creating Value from WasteSteve Halls
An expert discusses building a new economy based on creating value from waste in Oman. Key points include:
- Rapid industrial growth in Sohar is increasing waste production which can be managed through transformation rather than disposal.
- Wastes like plastic, food, and e-waste can be transformed into valuable products and materials through approaches like integrated resource recovery (IR2).
- IR2 produces efficient transformation of wastes to generate energy and materials, treating wastes as resources. This prevents pollution while enhancing employment, income, and industry sustainability.
The company provides green energy solutions including biomass furnaces and boilers, biogas, and solar projects. It aims to deliver cost-effective and environmentally conscious energy solutions by assessing clients' needs, designing and implementing suitable systems, and reducing energy costs and environmental impact through long-term partnerships. The company has experience delivering projects across Africa and a team of experts in engineering, business, construction, and more. It offers steam supply contracts where clients pay only for the energy used on a monthly basis.
The document discusses environmental issues and sustainability efforts in Norway. It outlines some of the main global environmental threats including climate change and loss of biodiversity. It then discusses Norway's responses through legislation, agencies, certification programs, and support for cleantech innovation. Specific examples of sustainability programs in Norway are provided like the Eco-Lighthouse system, cities initiatives, and promising cleantech startups.
Climate change poses serious threats to the Philippines that will disproportionately impact the poor and vulnerable. The document discusses observed changes like rising temperatures and sea levels. While some responses have emerged, the Philippine government shares responsibility for environmental degradation through policies prioritizing private profits over people. Genuine solutions must recognize climate change's social and economic roots, and place the welfare of people and the environment above all other concerns.
Identity-Based Privacy (IBP) - Cloud Computing and Privacy ProtectionIgor Zboran
A new decentralized Identity-Based Privacy (IBP) trusted model built around OpenID Connect and User-Managed Access (UMA) standards. IBP model supports Privacy by Design (PbD) principles.
Why Identity and not Anonymity to preserve privacy? Easy, Anonymity does not overlap with Transparency, but Privacy does. Privacy hand in hand with Transparency, are the fundamental stones of the modern world.
The document outlines Angers Loire Metropole's plan to create a climate action plan. It discusses measuring the area's carbon footprint, results which show residential and transportation sectors account for most emissions, and already implemented actions. A participatory process is proposed involving inhabitants, professionals, and councils to define new actions and monitor progress. Participation from local communities is seen as key to ensuring the climate plan's success.
Agroamerica has implemented several sustainability initiatives including protecting over 50,000 endangered iguanas, reforesting 450 hectares as nature reserves, capturing over 30,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually, and generating renewable energy from biogas and biomass. They have also invested in precision agriculture technology to reduce water usage by 20% while maintaining yields and implement sustainable practices across their supply chain with various certifications. Agroamerica aims to produce more while optimizing resource use and creating a sustainable future for generations to come.
Building a New Economy: Creating Value from WasteSteve Halls
An expert discusses building a new economy based on creating value from waste in Oman. Key points include:
- Rapid industrial growth in Sohar is increasing waste production which can be managed through transformation rather than disposal.
- Wastes like plastic, food, and e-waste can be transformed into valuable products and materials through approaches like integrated resource recovery (IR2).
- IR2 produces efficient transformation of wastes to generate energy and materials, treating wastes as resources. This prevents pollution while enhancing employment, income, and industry sustainability.
The company provides green energy solutions including biomass furnaces and boilers, biogas, and solar projects. It aims to deliver cost-effective and environmentally conscious energy solutions by assessing clients' needs, designing and implementing suitable systems, and reducing energy costs and environmental impact through long-term partnerships. The company has experience delivering projects across Africa and a team of experts in engineering, business, construction, and more. It offers steam supply contracts where clients pay only for the energy used on a monthly basis.
The document discusses environmental issues and sustainability efforts in Norway. It outlines some of the main global environmental threats including climate change and loss of biodiversity. It then discusses Norway's responses through legislation, agencies, certification programs, and support for cleantech innovation. Specific examples of sustainability programs in Norway are provided like the Eco-Lighthouse system, cities initiatives, and promising cleantech startups.
Climate change poses serious threats to the Philippines that will disproportionately impact the poor and vulnerable. The document discusses observed changes like rising temperatures and sea levels. While some responses have emerged, the Philippine government shares responsibility for environmental degradation through policies prioritizing private profits over people. Genuine solutions must recognize climate change's social and economic roots, and place the welfare of people and the environment above all other concerns.
Identity-Based Privacy (IBP) - Cloud Computing and Privacy ProtectionIgor Zboran
A new decentralized Identity-Based Privacy (IBP) trusted model built around OpenID Connect and User-Managed Access (UMA) standards. IBP model supports Privacy by Design (PbD) principles.
Why Identity and not Anonymity to preserve privacy? Easy, Anonymity does not overlap with Transparency, but Privacy does. Privacy hand in hand with Transparency, are the fundamental stones of the modern world.
This document provides an overview of a lecture on antimicrobial agents and biochemistry. It discusses the importance of microbes in life and disease. Major topics covered include the history of antimicrobials from ancient times to present day, with key discoveries like penicillin highlighted. Antimicrobials are classified based on their target organism and mechanisms of action. Principles of antimicrobial use include identifying the infective organism, determining antimicrobial susceptibility, considering host factors, and antimicrobial characteristics. Factors influencing treatment failure and appropriate use of combinations therapy are also summarized.
This document discusses identity-based privacy (IBP) as a lightweight alternative to existing privacy-preserving solutions like PKI, PGP, and IBE. IBP uses identity as an encryption key and stores user data in an encrypted format in the cloud without revealing encryption keys. Key benefits of IBP include usability without passwords/certificates, lost key prevention, and the cloud provider having zero knowledge of user data. Potential business opportunities for IBP include data storage, health records, big data, databases, email, and more.
The document provides an overview of insurance programs for wineries and vineyards, including business insurance, employee benefits, and personal insurance. It details the types of comprehensive business coverage available as well as benefits services to help retain employees. Personal insurance options are also described.
The document discusses the upcoming Rio+20 conference and issues surrounding the green economy and sustainable development. It outlines the history of international environmental agreements leading up to Rio+20 and examines debates around defining a green economy, transitioning to green sectors, and policy measures. It also discusses proposals for strengthening the institutional framework for sustainable development and critiques approaches that could compromise Rio principles or promote privatization of nature. Alternative proposals are presented for building people-centered sustainable economies.
This lecture discusses laboratory methods for determining antibiotic susceptibility, including disk diffusion tests, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) tests, and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) tests. Filter paper disks containing different antibiotic concentrations are applied to bacterial lawns to measure susceptibility. The MIC is the lowest concentration that inhibits growth, while the MBC kills bacteria. These methods help evaluate antibiotic effectiveness and monitor emerging resistance.
Check out this brief introduction of Scrum, the Agile Software Development Framework. This is just a high level introduction that is why there are only 10 slides. Please like and share if you find it useful.
This document discusses cloud computing and privacy protection. It describes various cloud computing models including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. While cloud computing provides benefits like reduced costs, it also raises issues around security and privacy. The document proposes an identity-based encryption and identity management model using technologies like OAuth2 and OpenID Connect to help address privacy concerns when using cloud computing.
Pilot Course Opening Session. University of Girona, 8th May 2017.
Expert exploratory session 1: Planning and engaging communities for low-carbon development and climate change.
Ragnhild Hammer, Arendal (Norway)
The document discusses the relationship between economic activity and the environment. It outlines various global and local environmental issues caused by industry, population growth, and consumption. It then summarizes different historical approaches to addressing environmental problems and introduces the concept of sustainable development. The remainder of the document provides an overview of ISO 14001 as a voluntary standard for environmental management systems, including its benefits and global adoption.
Mediterranean gas and energy week 2021 - Iman HillIOGP
Iman Hill, Executive Director, IOGP
Presentation for Keynote speech.
19 January 2021
Speech: https://www.iogp.org/blog/news/iman-hill-gives-keynote-speech-at-mediterranean-gas-energy-week-2021/
This document discusses industrial symbiosis, which is a circular economy approach where companies collaborate and exchange materials, energy, water, and byproducts in an effort to achieve resource efficiency. It provides examples of companies engaging in industrial symbiosis through the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) model, which connects over 15,000 companies. Industrial symbiosis has led to eco-innovation, cost savings, new revenue streams, and reductions in waste and carbon emissions. The European Commission recognizes industrial symbiosis as a key driver of green growth and innovation.
This presentation was presented in 'The Lahore Project' Monthly Discussion Forum on Environment, introducing the scope of the sector, key concepts, issues and strategies for a sustainable urban ecology by Rafia Kamal, on 21st Aug.2013 at Dabistan-e-Iqbal, (2-S, Gulberg II) Lahore.
The circular economy aims to reduce waste by designing products to be more durable, reusable, and recyclable. It is guided by principles like recycling, reusing, remanufacturing, and reducing. The circular economy has been codified through several EU directives and policies over the decades aiming to establish recycling targets and strategies for waste prevention. Key elements of a circular economy include eco-design, industrial symbiosis, sustainable sourcing, urban mining, and innovation to enable resource efficiency. The circular economy supports several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals related to responsible consumption, climate action, clean water, and reduced inequality. However, the circular economy's full potential as an economic model and exponential vision is still being defined and
What is 1 tonne Carbon Dioxide? (CO2e) carbon footprint and embodied carbonCircular Ecology
This document discusses perspectives on a single tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions. It provides context on CO2e and sustainable development. It then examines what can be produced with 1 tonne of CO2e emissions from different perspectives: transport (distances traveled by various modes), food (amounts of various foods, drinks), and materials (amounts of various materials). The document emphasizes that reducing embodied carbon through design and material choices does not necessarily increase costs. It promotes using influence in design, specification, purchasing, and disposal to reduce CO2e emissions.
This document provides an overview of a lecture on antimicrobial agents and biochemistry. It discusses the importance of microbes in life and disease. Major topics covered include the history of antimicrobials from ancient times to present day, with key discoveries like penicillin highlighted. Antimicrobials are classified based on their target organism and mechanisms of action. Principles of antimicrobial use include identifying the infective organism, determining antimicrobial susceptibility, considering host factors, and antimicrobial characteristics. Factors influencing treatment failure and appropriate use of combinations therapy are also summarized.
This document discusses identity-based privacy (IBP) as a lightweight alternative to existing privacy-preserving solutions like PKI, PGP, and IBE. IBP uses identity as an encryption key and stores user data in an encrypted format in the cloud without revealing encryption keys. Key benefits of IBP include usability without passwords/certificates, lost key prevention, and the cloud provider having zero knowledge of user data. Potential business opportunities for IBP include data storage, health records, big data, databases, email, and more.
The document provides an overview of insurance programs for wineries and vineyards, including business insurance, employee benefits, and personal insurance. It details the types of comprehensive business coverage available as well as benefits services to help retain employees. Personal insurance options are also described.
The document discusses the upcoming Rio+20 conference and issues surrounding the green economy and sustainable development. It outlines the history of international environmental agreements leading up to Rio+20 and examines debates around defining a green economy, transitioning to green sectors, and policy measures. It also discusses proposals for strengthening the institutional framework for sustainable development and critiques approaches that could compromise Rio principles or promote privatization of nature. Alternative proposals are presented for building people-centered sustainable economies.
This lecture discusses laboratory methods for determining antibiotic susceptibility, including disk diffusion tests, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) tests, and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) tests. Filter paper disks containing different antibiotic concentrations are applied to bacterial lawns to measure susceptibility. The MIC is the lowest concentration that inhibits growth, while the MBC kills bacteria. These methods help evaluate antibiotic effectiveness and monitor emerging resistance.
Check out this brief introduction of Scrum, the Agile Software Development Framework. This is just a high level introduction that is why there are only 10 slides. Please like and share if you find it useful.
This document discusses cloud computing and privacy protection. It describes various cloud computing models including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. While cloud computing provides benefits like reduced costs, it also raises issues around security and privacy. The document proposes an identity-based encryption and identity management model using technologies like OAuth2 and OpenID Connect to help address privacy concerns when using cloud computing.
Pilot Course Opening Session. University of Girona, 8th May 2017.
Expert exploratory session 1: Planning and engaging communities for low-carbon development and climate change.
Ragnhild Hammer, Arendal (Norway)
The document discusses the relationship between economic activity and the environment. It outlines various global and local environmental issues caused by industry, population growth, and consumption. It then summarizes different historical approaches to addressing environmental problems and introduces the concept of sustainable development. The remainder of the document provides an overview of ISO 14001 as a voluntary standard for environmental management systems, including its benefits and global adoption.
Mediterranean gas and energy week 2021 - Iman HillIOGP
Iman Hill, Executive Director, IOGP
Presentation for Keynote speech.
19 January 2021
Speech: https://www.iogp.org/blog/news/iman-hill-gives-keynote-speech-at-mediterranean-gas-energy-week-2021/
This document discusses industrial symbiosis, which is a circular economy approach where companies collaborate and exchange materials, energy, water, and byproducts in an effort to achieve resource efficiency. It provides examples of companies engaging in industrial symbiosis through the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) model, which connects over 15,000 companies. Industrial symbiosis has led to eco-innovation, cost savings, new revenue streams, and reductions in waste and carbon emissions. The European Commission recognizes industrial symbiosis as a key driver of green growth and innovation.
This presentation was presented in 'The Lahore Project' Monthly Discussion Forum on Environment, introducing the scope of the sector, key concepts, issues and strategies for a sustainable urban ecology by Rafia Kamal, on 21st Aug.2013 at Dabistan-e-Iqbal, (2-S, Gulberg II) Lahore.
The circular economy aims to reduce waste by designing products to be more durable, reusable, and recyclable. It is guided by principles like recycling, reusing, remanufacturing, and reducing. The circular economy has been codified through several EU directives and policies over the decades aiming to establish recycling targets and strategies for waste prevention. Key elements of a circular economy include eco-design, industrial symbiosis, sustainable sourcing, urban mining, and innovation to enable resource efficiency. The circular economy supports several of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals related to responsible consumption, climate action, clean water, and reduced inequality. However, the circular economy's full potential as an economic model and exponential vision is still being defined and
What is 1 tonne Carbon Dioxide? (CO2e) carbon footprint and embodied carbonCircular Ecology
This document discusses perspectives on a single tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions. It provides context on CO2e and sustainable development. It then examines what can be produced with 1 tonne of CO2e emissions from different perspectives: transport (distances traveled by various modes), food (amounts of various foods, drinks), and materials (amounts of various materials). The document emphasizes that reducing embodied carbon through design and material choices does not necessarily increase costs. It promotes using influence in design, specification, purchasing, and disposal to reduce CO2e emissions.
The ports of Bremen have taken steps to improve their environmental sustainability and reduce their carbon footprint. This includes using modern technologies to minimize noise and water pollution, improving energy efficiency, generating solar power, encouraging cycling to work, expanding renewable energy sources, and analyzing their CO2 emissions. Where port construction destroys habitats, Bremenports creates equivalent natural areas as compensation, such as converting farmland into wet grasslands to attract birds. Through these measures and international cooperation, Bremen aims to safeguard its ports' future viability while reducing climate-damaging emissions and energy consumption.
The document discusses a research project called ORION that aims to develop a small-scale automated system for anaerobic digestion of organic wastes from agro-food industries. It describes the challenges of organic waste management and disposal costs for food companies. The ORION project involves building 650-liter prototype digesters to process food waste on-site and produce biogas, addressing the high costs and environmental impacts of traditional organic waste treatment. Details are provided on the types of digesters developed, including a biphasic system with temperature control and mixing mechanisms to efficiently break down organic matter into biogas.
Lafarge Tarmac is a leading UK construction materials and services company that aims to provide sustainable solutions. They have a comprehensive approach to sustainability that covers responsible sourcing, energy and carbon management, environmental protection, and stakeholder engagement. They offer various sustainable products like aggregates with recycled content, asphalt with recycled materials, self-compacting concrete, and low carbon cement. Lafarge Tarmac is committed to engaging with customers to deliver sustainable construction projects through material selection and design considerations.
The document provides an introduction to the Bright Green Forssa Region, which aims to be an attractive eco-region by 2025. It highlights the region's strengths in environmental business and research, including its location in southern Finland and expertise in areas like recycling, biogas production, and renewable energy. The top business areas are described as environment and energy, green logistics, well-being, and technology. The region's universities and companies are leaders in pioneering recycling and renewable energy projects. The goal is to further develop the bioeconomy and make the Forssa region a global leader in environmental technologies and sustainable development.
Östen Ekengren, Vice General Manager, IVL The Swedish Environmental Research ...Nordic Innovation
This document presents Smart City Sweden, a platform for promoting sustainable city solutions based on Swedish expertise and experience. It summarizes Sweden's strengths in areas like innovation, system solutions, eco-governance, and engaged citizens. Examples of sustainable practices in Stockholm like Hammarby Sjöstad are highlighted. Key sectors covered include water/wastewater treatment, biogas production, electric mobility, waste management, district heating/cooling, and their related value chains. The goal is to establish Sweden as an innovation cluster and spread solutions internationally. Business opportunities include technical visits, match-making, pre-studies and quotes.
This document summarizes Ricoh's approach to sustainability and remanufacturing. It discusses Ricoh's goals of reducing environmental impact by 30% by 2030 and 87.5% by 2050 compared to 2000 levels through an eco-centric culture and technical innovation. Ricoh aims for zero waste to landfill and obtains 50% of materials from recycled or reused sources by 2050. The company focuses on resource conservation through remanufacturing used products and parts in its "Comet Circle" process to keep resources in use longer. Ricoh's Telford, UK site has achieved zero waste to landfill status since 2002 through rigorous segregation and finding markets for all waste materials.
BREEAM and Environmental Assessment Methods Amanda Gallagher EASLARRen Net
This document summarizes a presentation on sustainable communities and environmental assessment methods. It defines sustainability and discusses why it is important through examples of ecological footprints. It then describes tools like BREEAM for assessing the sustainability of buildings and communities. BREEAM evaluates categories like energy, water, materials, waste and more. Projects can achieve ratings of Passing, Good, Very Good, Excellent and Outstanding. BREEAM is now used for projects in Ireland and the document provides a case study of a brewery that achieved BREEAM Outstanding. BREEAM Communities and GreenPrint standards enable the sustainable assessment of entire developments and communities.
This document outlines a vision for making Shropshire a sustainable county by 2020. It proposes reducing average per person carbon emissions from 9 tons to 6 tons through increased use of low-carbon energy, more efficient homes and appliances, eco-friendly transportation options, and public transport. Specific initiatives suggested include developing Shropshire as a leader in microgeneration, achieving net zero carbon new construction, establishing a low carbon community network, and creating green jobs in renewable energy and low-carbon industries. The document calls for bold and ambitious action to make Shropshire a pioneer in sustainability.
Fujitsu has implemented several green logistics initiatives to reduce its environmental impact, including measuring and reducing transport-related CO2 emissions. It formed a green logistics committee in 2006 to enhance partnerships and promote reductions across procurement, product transport, delivery, and recovery. Fujitsu is meeting Japan's revised energy conservation law and tracking greenhouse gas emissions. It works to optimize packaging, storage and transportation through activities like modal shifting and joint projects with logistics partners. Fujitsu also employs an environmental management system to structure its environmental activities.
For more information about the Informed Cities initiative visit http://informed-cities.iclei-europe.org or join us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/InformedCities
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
FREE A4 Cyber Security Awareness Posters-Social Engineering part 3Data Hops
Free A4 downloadable and printable Cyber Security, Social Engineering Safety and security Training Posters . Promote security awareness in the home or workplace. Lock them Out From training providers datahops.com
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
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Predictive maintenance is a proactive approach that anticipates equipment failures before they happen. At the forefront of this innovative strategy is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which brings unprecedented precision and efficiency. AI in predictive maintenance is transforming industries by reducing downtime, minimizing costs, and enhancing productivity.
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An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
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GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
This presentation provides valuable insights into effective cost-saving techniques on AWS. Learn how to optimize your AWS resources by rightsizing, increasing elasticity, picking the right storage class, and choosing the best pricing model. Additionally, discover essential governance mechanisms to ensure continuous cost efficiency. Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, this presentation provides clear and practical tips to help you reduce your cloud costs and get the most out of your budget.
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This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
2. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Main Global Environmental Threats
(and business opportunities?)
• Climate Changes
– Adaption
• Tourism
• Energy supply
• Loss of Biological Diversity
– Conservation measures
• The Convention on Biological Diversity
• Chemical Pollution
– Toxic substances
• Reach
3. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Possible Responses on
Environmental Threats
• Sustainable Consumption a
• Energy Efficiency
• Natural Resource Protection
• Sustainable Communities
4. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer Global Conventions
• Convention on Biodiversity
• Cartagena-protocol
• Ramsar Convention
• Washington Convention
• Convention on World heritage
• Climate Convention
• Kyoto Protocol
• Montreal Protocol (ozon)
• Basel Convention
• Stockholm Convention
• Aarhus Convention
5. International Bodies, Standards and
Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer Guidlines
• UNEP
• Global Compact
– Human Rights
– Labour
– Environmnet
– Anti Corruption
• ISO 14001, (ISO 26000)
• World Wildlife Fund
– Env. guidelines
6. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Responses to Environmental
Degradation
Consumer Behaviour
– Environmental friendly products
• Planning and Conservation Measures
– National parks, nature reserves
• National and International Regulations
• Industrial Inovation
– Green economy
• Renewable energy
7. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Environmental Legislation in Norway
• The Pollution Act
– Strong legislation developes business advantages
• The Planning and Building Act
– Spatial planning
• The Working Environment Act
– The working force is Norway’s most valuable asset
• The Accounting Act
– Up to now, not satisfactory
8. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Norwegian Environmental Agegencies
and Directorates
• Climate and Pollution Agency (Klif)
• Enova
– Energy
• Transnova
• Transport
• Directorate for Nature Management (DN)
9. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Highlights of Clean-tech in Norway
• Cleantech Investment
• 8 world class research centres for renewable energy
• Enova and Transnova
• Hydrogen Use for Vehicles
• Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate
• Cleantech Expansion
• Renewable Energy Corporation
• Incentives to Create a Demand for Renewable
Energy
• Creation of Foreign Partnerships
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Universities
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Governments Industry
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NGOs and
Organizations
Dialogue and project co-operation
11. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
The Environmental Toolbox
• Certification schemes
– ISO 14001, ISO 26000, EMAS, BS
– The EcoLighthouse (Norway)
– EPCE (Poland)
• Reporting Systems
– GRI
12. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
The EcoLighthouse System
Environmental analyses
3rd part certification
Recertification every 3rd
year
One set of general
requirements
More than 70 sets of different The mayor of Trondheim, Rita Ottervik handed out 15
business & industry certificates - 9. June 2009.
requirements
13. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
EcoLighthouse Requirements
1.General
2. Working conditions
3. Procurement
4. Energy
5. Transport
6. Waste
7. Emissions to air and water
8. Aesthetics
14. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
GRI
The Concept of the Global Reporting Initiative
To meet the needs of
the present, without
compromising the ability of
future generations to meet
their own needs.
17. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
The Environmental Toolbox (Cont.)
• Environmental Labels
– The Nordic Swan
• CO2 Emission calculators
– MISA – for Cities
– Statsbygg – for buildings
– EPCE - multipurpose
18. Mega-Events as a vehicle for Change
The First ”Green” Games
The Environmental Legacy
from
Lillehammer ’94
19. Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
The Legacy from Lillehammer
“The Best Winter Games Ever»
The Third Dimesion
International legacy
• Environmental Analyses as a Pre-requisite for
Bid-Cities
• Third Dimension - IOC 100 Anniversary
Celebration Paris 1994
• IOC World Conferences on Sport and
Environment
National Business Opportunities
• - Green tourism
- Glør (Waste company)
• - Ensis (Env. Surveilance System)
20. Examples on Environmental Projects
Green tourism, Øyer 1992 - 94
• Focal areas
– Waste
– Energy consumption
– Information
– Environmental audits
• 2008- Sustainable tourism is the official
Norwegian policy on tourism
26. Examples on Clean-tech Clusters in
Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Norway
• Green Business Norway
– 32 members
• Environment & Energy
Technology
• Environment & Energy
related products and
services
• Waste and recycling
• Service enterprises
• Other
www.greenbusiness.no
• Maritime Clean-tech
• Etc
(GBNN – From
environment to CSR)
27. 25 most promising Nordic Clean-tech
Lillehammer miljø
Environment Lillehammer
Innovations -2012
Norwegian
• Aquiloz, www.aquiloz.com
Aquiloz is developing the next generation of wind power
prediction and trading information system
• Carbatt, www.carbatt.no
Carbatt offer a solution to power electric vehicles based on a
new unique nano-cell solid-state battery
• Norsetek, www.norsetek.no
Using Norsetek’s innovative concept wind turbine rotors can
be built significantly lighter and larger than today.
• Re-Turn, www.re-turn.no
Re-Turn produces solvent-free coatings and gel coats in PUR
and epoxy, reinforced with carbon nano-tubes.
• ZEG Power, www.zegpower.com
With an efficiency of about 80-90% and integrated CO2 capture
the ZEG-technology represents a truly revolutionary energy
technology concept
Editor's Notes
Sustainability allows us to look at the long term impacts of our business, and to find ways to operate our business so that it produces economic, social and environmental value in addition to financial value. Sustainability also gives us a chance to explore how to create value for shareholders and all of our other stakeholders. By adding sustainability into our integrated management framework, we are able to create more value, for more people over a long period of time.
Two positions – City of Lillemhammer and Ministry of environment