This document provides information about a 3-day digital technology conference called Africa Com taking place from November 13-15, 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference will feature presentations and discussions on various topics related to digital growth in Africa, including digital music, fibre optics, mobile networks, apps, infrastructure sharing, and regulations. There will also be networking events and an exhibition with representatives from the digital ecosystem in Africa. Several new elements have been added to the expanded 15th annual event.
The document advertises the 14th Annual AfricaCom World Series event taking place on November 9-10, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event will include five co-located events focused on topics such as fibre optics, telecoms, TV, and cloud services in Africa. It will feature over 150 speakers from operators, media brands, TV services, and vendors. Attendees will hear perspectives on advancing innovation and profitability for a digital Africa from leaders at MTN, Vodacom, Google, Multichoice, and other major African and global technology companies.
Apresentação frankia virtual power point12sandrozl
O documento apresenta a Frankia Virtual, a primeira empresa de franchising virtual do Brasil. Ela oferece franquias virtuais para empreendedores operarem vários modelos de negócios online, como e-commerce, marketing, compras coletivas e análise de risco de compra. O investimento inicial para uma franquia é de R$46.000,00 e o retorno é estimado entre 8 a 10 meses, com margem de lucro de 14% a 20%. A Frankia Virtual possui mais de 300 franqueados e atua em oito países.
Este documento fornece informações sobre um livro intitulado "Introdução à preservação digital – Conceitos, estratégias e actuais consensos" escrito por Miguel Ferreira em 2006. O livro discute conceitos fundamentais da preservação digital, estratégias e consensos atuais, fornecendo uma visão geral deste tópico emergente e complexo. O prefácio elogia a oportunidade e relevância do livro em mapear o território da preservação digital de forma simples mas rigorosa.
The document summarizes an eGovernment workshop presentation on connecting governments and citizens through digital technologies in Africa. It provides an overview of Ovum, a telecom research firm, mobile and internet penetration statistics in Africa, the concept of eGovernment, UN eGovernment rankings of African countries, barriers to eGovernment adoption, and examples of eGovernment initiatives including mobile-based services in countries like Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and tax collection partnerships between governments and mobile network operators.
LaçOs E Percursos LiteráRios Para Um BestiáRio BordalianoHome
O documento apresenta imagens de bestiários medievais, ilustrações de fábulas, e cerâmicas do Museu de Caldas da Rainha e da Fábrica Bordalo Pinheiro retratando várias criaturas como pássaros, insetos, répteis e animais fantásticos.
The document provides an overview of the Teraware Data Sanitization Platform software from ITRenew. The software allows for the total erasure of electronic data from hard drives and solid state drives to ensure compliance with data removal standards. It uses a single workflow to sanitize drives regardless of manufacturer or type. The software can process drives in racks or individually, and also enables remote data sanitization over a network. The Teraware workflow involves identifying devices, creating and running sanitization jobs, monitoring jobs, and generating reports once complete.
This document provides instructions for installing SAP HANA software using the SAP HANA unified installer. It includes information on software components, download locations, important SAP notes, hardware and software requirements, and the installation process. The installation involves preparing the system environment, running the installer, and post-installation configuration such as starting and stopping the database, backup, security settings, and automatic startup configuration.
The document advertises the 14th Annual AfricaCom World Series event taking place on November 9-10, 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event will include five co-located events focused on topics such as fibre optics, telecoms, TV, and cloud services in Africa. It will feature over 150 speakers from operators, media brands, TV services, and vendors. Attendees will hear perspectives on advancing innovation and profitability for a digital Africa from leaders at MTN, Vodacom, Google, Multichoice, and other major African and global technology companies.
Apresentação frankia virtual power point12sandrozl
O documento apresenta a Frankia Virtual, a primeira empresa de franchising virtual do Brasil. Ela oferece franquias virtuais para empreendedores operarem vários modelos de negócios online, como e-commerce, marketing, compras coletivas e análise de risco de compra. O investimento inicial para uma franquia é de R$46.000,00 e o retorno é estimado entre 8 a 10 meses, com margem de lucro de 14% a 20%. A Frankia Virtual possui mais de 300 franqueados e atua em oito países.
Este documento fornece informações sobre um livro intitulado "Introdução à preservação digital – Conceitos, estratégias e actuais consensos" escrito por Miguel Ferreira em 2006. O livro discute conceitos fundamentais da preservação digital, estratégias e consensos atuais, fornecendo uma visão geral deste tópico emergente e complexo. O prefácio elogia a oportunidade e relevância do livro em mapear o território da preservação digital de forma simples mas rigorosa.
The document summarizes an eGovernment workshop presentation on connecting governments and citizens through digital technologies in Africa. It provides an overview of Ovum, a telecom research firm, mobile and internet penetration statistics in Africa, the concept of eGovernment, UN eGovernment rankings of African countries, barriers to eGovernment adoption, and examples of eGovernment initiatives including mobile-based services in countries like Senegal, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and tax collection partnerships between governments and mobile network operators.
LaçOs E Percursos LiteráRios Para Um BestiáRio BordalianoHome
O documento apresenta imagens de bestiários medievais, ilustrações de fábulas, e cerâmicas do Museu de Caldas da Rainha e da Fábrica Bordalo Pinheiro retratando várias criaturas como pássaros, insetos, répteis e animais fantásticos.
The document provides an overview of the Teraware Data Sanitization Platform software from ITRenew. The software allows for the total erasure of electronic data from hard drives and solid state drives to ensure compliance with data removal standards. It uses a single workflow to sanitize drives regardless of manufacturer or type. The software can process drives in racks or individually, and also enables remote data sanitization over a network. The Teraware workflow involves identifying devices, creating and running sanitization jobs, monitoring jobs, and generating reports once complete.
This document provides instructions for installing SAP HANA software using the SAP HANA unified installer. It includes information on software components, download locations, important SAP notes, hardware and software requirements, and the installation process. The installation involves preparing the system environment, running the installer, and post-installation configuration such as starting and stopping the database, backup, security settings, and automatic startup configuration.
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.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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).
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
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.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
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.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
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).
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
This presentation delves into the development of a system designed to mimic Galileo's Open Service signal using software-defined radio (SDR) technology. We'll begin with a foundational overview of both Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and the intricacies of digital signal processing.
The presentation culminates in a live demonstration. We'll showcase the manipulation of Galileo's Open Service pilot signal, simulating an attack on various software and hardware systems. This practical demonstration serves to highlight the potential consequences of unaddressed vulnerabilities, emphasizing the importance of offensive security practices in safeguarding critical infrastructure.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
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.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
2024 State of Marketing Report – by HubspotMarius Sescu
https://www.hubspot.com/state-of-marketing
· Scaling relationships and proving ROI
· Social media is the place for search, sales, and service
· Authentic influencer partnerships fuel brand growth
· The strongest connections happen via call, click, chat, and camera.
· Time saved with AI leads to more creative work
· Seeking: A single source of truth
· TLDR; Get on social, try AI, and align your systems.
· More human marketing, powered by robots
ChatGPT is a revolutionary addition to the world since its introduction in 2022. A big shift in the sector of information gathering and processing happened because of this chatbot. What is the story of ChatGPT? How is the bot responding to prompts and generating contents? Swipe through these slides prepared by Expeed Software, a web development company regarding the development and technical intricacies of ChatGPT!
Product Design Trends in 2024 | Teenage EngineeringsPixeldarts
The realm of product design is a constantly changing environment where technology and style intersect. Every year introduces fresh challenges and exciting trends that mold the future of this captivating art form. In this piece, we delve into the significant trends set to influence the look and functionality of product design in the year 2024.
How Race, Age and Gender Shape Attitudes Towards Mental HealthThinkNow
Mental health has been in the news quite a bit lately. Dozens of U.S. states are currently suing Meta for contributing to the youth mental health crisis by inserting addictive features into their products, while the U.S. Surgeon General is touring the nation to bring awareness to the growing epidemic of loneliness and isolation. The country has endured periods of low national morale, such as in the 1970s when high inflation and the energy crisis worsened public sentiment following the Vietnam War. The current mood, however, feels different. Gallup recently reported that national mental health is at an all-time low, with few bright spots to lift spirits.
To better understand how Americans are feeling and their attitudes towards mental health in general, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey of 1,500 respondents and found some interesting differences among ethnic, age and gender groups.
Technology
For example, 52% agree that technology and social media have a negative impact on mental health, but when broken out by race, 61% of Whites felt technology had a negative effect, and only 48% of Hispanics thought it did.
While technology has helped us keep in touch with friends and family in faraway places, it appears to have degraded our ability to connect in person. Staying connected online is a double-edged sword since the same news feed that brings us pictures of the grandkids and fluffy kittens also feeds us news about the wars in Israel and Ukraine, the dysfunction in Washington, the latest mass shooting and the climate crisis.
Hispanics may have a built-in defense against the isolation technology breeds, owing to their large, multigenerational households, strong social support systems, and tendency to use social media to stay connected with relatives abroad.
Age and Gender
When asked how individuals rate their mental health, men rate it higher than women by 11 percentage points, and Baby Boomers rank it highest at 83%, saying it’s good or excellent vs. 57% of Gen Z saying the same.
Gen Z spends the most amount of time on social media, so the notion that social media negatively affects mental health appears to be correlated. Unfortunately, Gen Z is also the generation that’s least comfortable discussing mental health concerns with healthcare professionals. Only 40% of them state they’re comfortable discussing their issues with a professional compared to 60% of Millennials and 65% of Boomers.
Race Affects Attitudes
As seen in previous research conducted by ThinkNow, Asian Americans lag other groups when it comes to awareness of mental health issues. Twenty-four percent of Asian Americans believe that having a mental health issue is a sign of weakness compared to the 16% average for all groups. Asians are also considerably less likely to be aware of mental health services in their communities (42% vs. 55%) and most likely to seek out information on social media (51% vs. 35%).
AI Trends in Creative Operations 2024 by Artwork Flow.pdfmarketingartwork
Creative operations teams expect increased AI use in 2024. Currently, over half of tasks are not AI-enabled, but this is expected to decrease in the coming year. ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool currently. Business leaders are more actively exploring AI benefits than individual contributors. Most respondents do not believe AI will impact workforce size in 2024. However, some inhibitions still exist around AI accuracy and lack of understanding. Creatives primarily want to use AI to save time on mundane tasks and boost productivity.
Organizational culture includes values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits that influence employee behaviors and how people interpret those behaviors. It is important because culture can help or hinder a company's success. Some key aspects of Netflix's culture that help it achieve results include hiring smartly so every position has stars, focusing on attitude over just aptitude, and having a strict policy against peacocks, whiners, and jerks.
PEPSICO Presentation to CAGNY Conference Feb 2024Neil Kimberley
PepsiCo provided a safe harbor statement noting that any forward-looking statements are based on currently available information and are subject to risks and uncertainties. It also provided information on non-GAAP measures and directing readers to its website for disclosure and reconciliation. The document then discussed PepsiCo's business overview, including that it is a global beverage and convenient food company with iconic brands, $91 billion in net revenue in 2023, and nearly $14 billion in core operating profit. It operates through a divisional structure with a focus on local consumers.
Content Methodology: A Best Practices Report (Webinar)contently
This document provides an overview of content methodology best practices. It defines content methodology as establishing objectives, KPIs, and a culture of continuous learning and iteration. An effective methodology focuses on connecting with audiences, creating optimal content, and optimizing processes. It also discusses why a methodology is needed due to the competitive landscape, proliferation of channels, and opportunities for improvement. Components of an effective methodology include defining objectives and KPIs, audience analysis, identifying opportunities, and evaluating resources. The document concludes with recommendations around creating a content plan, testing and optimizing content over 90 days.
How to Prepare For a Successful Job Search for 2024Albert Qian
The document provides guidance on preparing a job search for 2024. It discusses the state of the job market, focusing on growth in AI and healthcare but also continued layoffs. It recommends figuring out what you want to do by researching interests and skills, then conducting informational interviews. The job search should involve building a personal brand on LinkedIn, actively applying to jobs, tailoring resumes and interviews, maintaining job hunting as a habit, and continuing self-improvement. Once hired, the document advises setting new goals and keeping skills and networking active in case of future opportunities.
A report by thenetworkone and Kurio.
The contributing experts and agencies are (in an alphabetical order): Sylwia Rytel, Social Media Supervisor, 180heartbeats + JUNG v MATT (PL), Sharlene Jenner, Vice President - Director of Engagement Strategy, Abelson Taylor (USA), Alex Casanovas, Digital Director, Atrevia (ES), Dora Beilin, Senior Social Strategist, Barrett Hoffher (USA), Min Seo, Campaign Director, Brand New Agency (KR), Deshé M. Gully, Associate Strategist, Day One Agency (USA), Francesca Trevisan, Strategist, Different (IT), Trevor Crossman, CX and Digital Transformation Director; Olivia Hussey, Strategic Planner; Simi Srinarula, Social Media Manager, The Hallway (AUS), James Hebbert, Managing Director, Hylink (CN / UK), Mundy Álvarez, Planning Director; Pedro Rojas, Social Media Manager; Pancho González, CCO, Inbrax (CH), Oana Oprea, Head of Digital Planning, Jam Session Agency (RO), Amy Bottrill, Social Account Director, Launch (UK), Gaby Arriaga, Founder, Leonardo1452 (MX), Shantesh S Row, Creative Director, Liwa (UAE), Rajesh Mehta, Chief Strategy Officer; Dhruv Gaur, Digital Planning Lead; Leonie Mergulhao, Account Supervisor - Social Media & PR, Medulla (IN), Aurelija Plioplytė, Head of Digital & Social, Not Perfect (LI), Daiana Khaidargaliyeva, Account Manager, Osaka Labs (UK / USA), Stefanie Söhnchen, Vice President Digital, PIABO Communications (DE), Elisabeth Winiartati, Managing Consultant, Head of Global Integrated Communications; Lydia Aprina, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Nita Prabowo, Account Manager, Integrated Marketing and Communications; Okhi, Web Developer, PNTR Group (ID), Kei Obusan, Insights Director; Daffi Ranandi, Insights Manager, Radarr (SG), Gautam Reghunath, Co-founder & CEO, Talented (IN), Donagh Humphreys, Head of Social and Digital Innovation, THINKHOUSE (IRE), Sarah Yim, Strategy Director, Zulu Alpha Kilo (CA).
Trends In Paid Search: Navigating The Digital Landscape In 2024Search Engine Journal
The search marketing landscape is evolving rapidly with new technologies, and professionals, like you, rely on innovative paid search strategies to meet changing demands.
It’s important that you’re ready to implement new strategies in 2024.
Check this out and learn the top trends in paid search advertising that are expected to gain traction, so you can drive higher ROI more efficiently in 2024.
You’ll learn:
- The latest trends in AI and automation, and what this means for an evolving paid search ecosystem.
- New developments in privacy and data regulation.
- Emerging ad formats that are expected to make an impact next year.
Watch Sreekant Lanka from iQuanti and Irina Klein from OneMain Financial as they dive into the future of paid search and explore the trends, strategies, and technologies that will shape the search marketing landscape.
If you’re looking to assess your paid search strategy and design an industry-aligned plan for 2024, then this webinar is for you.
5 Public speaking tips from TED - Visualized summarySpeakerHub
From their humble beginnings in 1984, TED has grown into the world’s most powerful amplifier for speakers and thought-leaders to share their ideas. They have over 2,400 filmed talks (not including the 30,000+ TEDx videos) freely available online, and have hosted over 17,500 events around the world.
With over one billion views in a year, it’s no wonder that so many speakers are looking to TED for ideas on how to share their message more effectively.
The article “5 Public-Speaking Tips TED Gives Its Speakers”, by Carmine Gallo for Forbes, gives speakers five practical ways to connect with their audience, and effectively share their ideas on stage.
Whether you are gearing up to get on a TED stage yourself, or just want to master the skills that so many of their speakers possess, these tips and quotes from Chris Anderson, the TED Talks Curator, will encourage you to make the most impactful impression on your audience.
See the full article and more summaries like this on SpeakerHub here: https://speakerhub.com/blog/5-presentation-tips-ted-gives-its-speakers
See the original article on Forbes here:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2016/05/06/5-public-speaking-tips-ted-gives-its-speakers/&refURL=&referrer=#5c07a8221d9b
ChatGPT and the Future of Work - Clark Boyd Clark Boyd
Everyone is in agreement that ChatGPT (and other generative AI tools) will shape the future of work. Yet there is little consensus on exactly how, when, and to what extent this technology will change our world.
Businesses that extract maximum value from ChatGPT will use it as a collaborative tool for everything from brainstorming to technical maintenance.
For individuals, now is the time to pinpoint the skills the future professional will need to thrive in the AI age.
Check out this presentation to understand what ChatGPT is, how it will shape the future of work, and how you can prepare to take advantage.
The document provides career advice for getting into the tech field, including:
- Doing projects and internships in college to build a portfolio.
- Learning about different roles and technologies through industry research.
- Contributing to open source projects to build experience and network.
- Developing a personal brand through a website and social media presence.
- Networking through events, communities, and finding a mentor.
- Practicing interviews through mock interviews and whiteboarding coding questions.
Google's Just Not That Into You: Understanding Core Updates & Search IntentLily Ray
1. Core updates from Google periodically change how its algorithms assess and rank websites and pages. This can impact rankings through shifts in user intent, site quality issues being caught up to, world events influencing queries, and overhauls to search like the E-A-T framework.
2. There are many possible user intents beyond just transactional, navigational and informational. Identifying intent shifts is important during core updates. Sites may need to optimize for new intents through different content types and sections.
3. Responding effectively to core updates requires analyzing "before and after" data to understand changes, identifying new intents or page types, and ensuring content matches appropriate intents across video, images, knowledge graphs and more.
A brief introduction to DataScience with explaining of the concepts, algorithms, machine learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, clustering, statistics, data preprocessing, real-world applications etc.
It's part of a Data Science Corner Campaign where I will be discussing the fundamentals of DataScience, AIML, Statistics etc.
Time Management & Productivity - Best PracticesVit Horky
Here's my presentation on by proven best practices how to manage your work time effectively and how to improve your productivity. It includes practical tips and how to use tools such as Slack, Google Apps, Hubspot, Google Calendar, Gmail and others.
The six step guide to practical project managementMindGenius
The six step guide to practical project management
If you think managing projects is too difficult, think again.
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basics – to make it quicker and easier, without sacrificing
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CTICC, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
digital ecosystem, to share visions, to build partnerships and to
AfricaCom has accompanied the development of the continent’s develop attractive services that will fit the needs of customers.
digital sector since the start of mobile telephony 15 years New with an extra day, the programme includes eye-opening
ago. Now the market is going through a game-changing time. keynotes, engaging focus sessions, three co-located conferences,
Penetration levels and access to broadband services are vastly compelling workshops, more interactive panels and expertise from
improving, and consumers and enterprises are now demanding a much wider range of digital experts.
more innovative services to suit their changing needs. In this new
environment, telecom operators are competing with brands and Enjoy the debates, engage in the networking and be inspired by
stakeholders bringing new business models. the leading minds in Digital Africa!
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AfricApps is a brand new and exciting addition to AfricaCom run AfricaCast returns for a second year as Africa’s most
for developers by developers. It is bringing together the growing SPEAKERS INCLUDE: exciting broadcasting conference. It will be bringing SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
community of Sub-Sahara’s mobile app developers to exchange ideas together a mixture of the key local content players as well
about how the create market leading apps and learn how they can Simone Brunozzi as the major international broadcasters. Alex Okosi, Senior Vice
bring to market the next Angry Birds. Technology President, General Manager
Evangelist, Amazon Key case studies will also come from new media, cable Viacom International Media
This will be given in the form of informal presentations and workshops, Andy Volk, VP companies and OTT players who are beginning to innovate Networks
as well as a Mobile Apps Dragons Den, where the key Venture Developer Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sivan Pillay
Capitalists will discuss what they look for from a successful App. Mxit Managing Director, Africa
Peter Vesterbacka Major issues being discussed and debated include Endemol
Key issues to be discussed include
• Creating discoverable apps Mighty Eagle • Assessing the Role of Triple Play in Africa Archie Sethaelo
• Marketing your apps to the African markets Rovio • What is the Pay TV Opportunity in Sub-Saharan Africa General Manager, Broadcasting
• Successful monetization models John Holdsworth • Examining Multinational Broadcasters Africa Strategy SABC
• Choosing the correct payment platform CEO, Appchat • Best-of-Breed Pay TV Strategies George Twumasi, CEO
• Who to partner with to maximise success Toby Kurien • The Genesis of OTT Models in Africa Africa Broadcast Networks
Independent Android Mike Aldridge, Broadcast
This will all be discussed in an informal relaxed setting, with day one Developer These discussions will be in the format of interactive case
Manager, Cape Town TV
of the agenda culminating in a beer and pizza evening! studies and panel discussions.
14th-15th November 2012
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ENSURING SUCCESS: Don’t forget to submit your entries and bag yourself an
African Digital Oscar – deadline for entries
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7th September 2012.
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See www.AfricaComAwards.com for details.
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ICT is the primary driver for growth in Africa’s economy – be it
major corporations, small & medium enterprises, or individual SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
entrepreneurs, ICT is the business enabler across all industries.
Ferdie Lochner,
Ferdie Lochner
The Enterprise ICT Africa conference is designed to deliver to
Head: IT Finance
Head: IT Finance
enterprise CIOs and IT Directors the most up-to-date information
& Administration --
& Administration
on how to improve their companies’ ICT strategies including:
Information Systems
Information Systems
and Technology, City
and Technology
• Cloud in Africa: What Does Cloud Mean for Enterprises
of Cape Cape Town
City of Town
• Cloud in Africa: CIO Case Studies
• Data centres CamilleVan Niekerk
Riaan Mendler,
• Mobilising the Workforce: Challenges & Opportunities Principal Analyst –
CIO
• Improving Connectivity for African Enterprises McGregor BFA
Enterprise Verticals,
• Applications for the Next Generation Informa for Financial
(Bureau Telecoms &
• The Future of ICT for the Enterprise Media
Analysis)
• New models of integrating technology, business process Gaston Mbala
Kim Andersen,
engineering and project management Principal, CxO
IT Director
• Case studies from finance/banking, public sector, oil & gas Televisão Pública
Advisors, Advisor,
and more Angola
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MONDAY 12TH & TUESDAY 13TH NOVEMBER
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Monday 12th November 2012
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@AFRICA COM
NETWORKING PARTY
South Africa
AFRICA Tuesday 13th November 2012
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Billboard Digital Music Africa
NEW! Monday 12th – Tuesday 13th November 2012 For more than 110 years, Billboard has served entertainment to look at issues such as naming
CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa the global entertainment industry, evolving to rights, tour finance, the live experience in Africa;
become the primary source of information on how artists can benefit and the impact of digital
ENSURING SUCCESS: trends and innovation in music. The inaugural marketing and social networking.
Billboard Digital Music Africa will bring together
EVOLVING ICT FOR THE key players from Africa and around the world THE BUSINESS OF MUSIC
AFRICAN ENTERPRISE to start the discussion on how to enable the Covering the business, legal and technological
entertainment industry in Africa to be more issues affecting record companies, music
www.ftthcouncilafrica.com relevant, more profitable, more measurable, more
international, more legitimate and more talented.
publishing, talent management and changes
brought by the move to digital, PROs will discuss
The diverse continent of Africa has over the operators as well as consultancies, financial rights management and how data will be used
last few years shown remarkable growth in the organisations, analysts and researchers focused on TECHNOLOGY AND CONTENT IN AFRICA for accurate payment to writers and producers.
deployment of fibre optic network infrastructure the fibre communications sector. African start-ups, streaming sites, investors and
and is rapidly developing with the implementation digital experts will join Stephen Newton, CEO CREATING ARTIST BRANDS BEYOND MUSIC
of state-of-the-art optical fibre technologies. We will consider deployments from sub-marine, of Billboard Africa to discuss how the Internet, Colin Gayle, chairman of Billboard Africa will
Never has the timing been more ideal for a fibre national long distance, metro and access mobile and social media – and the data that be joined by advertising companies, consumer
focused conference aimed at Africa, with a special deployments, as well as vertical markets impacts- digital platforms can provide - will shape the brands, mobile handset makers and media
focus on Africa’s unique conditions. As the industry advertising, healthcare, education, machine-to- music industry and enable artists to succeed in owners to explore how artists can expand
is emerging, more issues are becoming apparent machine communications. Africa. internationally, overcoming cultural, language
and effective dialogue and sharing of information and economic barriers. An international keynote
is critical to ensure a sustainable future for fibre We welcome you to visit telecom operators, LIVE EVENTS, TOURING AND FESTIVALS IN will give a first hand account of how to build a
optic deployment on the continent. discuss technology trends, and most important, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA dynamic, global brand, through cross-channel
the sustainability of fibre networks in Africa. Come African festival organisers, promoters, media partnerships and innovation.
The Conference will cover a variety of topics learn from experienced global companies and hear owners and sponsors will join Billboard’s head
aimed at the telecoms sector and policy-makers, from officials from around the world about the of content & programming for touring and live To register see back page.
Ministries, local, provincial and national government strategies they will use to give their countries the
leaders as well Competition authorities and FTTX advantage.
broadband strategy decision makers.
Attendees should include all stakeholders with
The FTTH Council Africa is a not for profit,
INDEPENDENT, organisation established in the
PRE-EVENT Tuesday 13th November 2012
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a vested interest in fibre related networks or
applications and services, property management
latter parts of 2010 and sister organisation to the
FTTH Council Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, FIBRE OPTICS
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WIMAX Tuesday 13th November 2012
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As the fundamental passive carrier of all your
network data, the optical fibre is one of the most
applications to ensure longevity of network
performance
OPERATORS
important elements of a telecommunications • Be aware of the latest innovations in optical
network. The optical fibre you install today fibre technology and associated next
is expected to perform for 25 years or more. generation optical fibers
SUMMIT
HOSTED BY Therefore deciding which fibre to use is a highly
Who should attend?
important decision that determines the future
Engineers and managers responsible for
performance of your network.
network planning and design, fibre optic
www.wimaxforum.org At the end of this seminar, the attendee is
specifications and cable procurement
In 2011 the WiMAX Forum hosted its first WiMAX Africa 2012 will again bring together expected to: How to register your FREE pass
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representatives from 18 WiMAX operators, to cooperative relationships. The event will systems and network design dedicated Corning Optical Fibre Seminar page or
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Attendees were treated to a full program strategies involved in operating a profitable optical fibre for different telecommunications cof/2012events/
including speakers from WiMAX operators, WiMAX network in Africa.
equipment and solutions vendors, members of 09:00 Opening and Logistics 13:10 Optical Fibre for Long Haul and Metropolitan
Network
the African investment community and WiMAX 9:05 Introduction to Corning Dr. Merrion Edwards
Forum staff. Ian Davis
14:30 Introduction to Transmission Systems
9:30 Introduction to Fibre Optics TBD (Ekinops)
For more information www.wimaxforum.org or Alessandra Rocha, New Market Development Dr. Jabulani Dhliwayo
& PR Coordinator Alessandra.Rocha@wimaxforum.org 10:15 Video “A Day of Glass” and Break 15:15 Tea Break
10:30 Introduction to the Importance Of Optical 15:30 Fibre for Premises Networks
Fiber Coatings in Telecommunications – Vanesa Diaz
Olaf Storaasli (DSM)
16:00 Fibre for Access Network
11:15 Introduction to Fibre Optic Cable Vanesa Diaz
Pieter Viljoen (CBI Electric)
In partnership 16:30 Africa Market Update
with 12:00 Introduction to International Standards Dr. Jabulani Dhliwayo
Ian Davis
Research 12:30 Lunch Break 16:50 Wrap-up
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