The document discusses crowdfunding in the Arab world. It notes that the Arab world has potential for startups due to its large youth population and wealthy individuals. Crowdfunding allows small contributions from many people to fund projects. It provides statistics showing that 42% of crowdfunding contributions to the Arab world come from Arab expats, and 77% of transactions are cross-country. Tips are provided for promoting a successful crowdfunding campaign, including getting feedback before launching, setting reward tiers, and using social media to spread the word. An overview of the crowdfunding process is also given.
The document discusses the benefits of version control systems including maintaining history, comparing differences between versions, managing branches, and enabling teamwork. It outlines types of version control systems like centralized and distributed, describes features of the popular distributed version control system Git including its open source nature, speed, and support for any workflow. The document also mentions similar services to Git and version control systems tailored for enterprises, and provides resources for further reading on advanced Git features and using version control effectively.
زمستان 92 جشنواره وب ایران سال ششم خود را سپری کرد. در این گزارش مروری بر کنفرانس وب و موبایل ایران، اختتامیه جشنواره نرم افزار های موبایل و جشنواره وب ایران خواهیم داشت.
The document summarizes the conventions used in a rock/post-hardcore music video. It discusses how the video focuses on the band's performance to make them the central focus, as is typical of the genre. It also includes a narrative element to portray the singer telling a story to the viewer. Character costumes are used deliberately, with the main character dressed similarly to the singer to represent him as a "puppet". Symbolism through clothing is also employed, such as the use of hats to represent humanity or transformation into something inhuman. Ambiguity is maintained about the specific supernatural identity of one character, following the conventions of the song itself.
The music video follows conventions of the rock/post-hardcore genre. It focuses on the band's performance and image through most shots being of the singer Dale Stow looking directly at the audience. A narrative was also included to portray the singer telling a story to the spectator. Band member Will Willis was dressed similarly to Dale as he was used as a puppet to portray Dale's story in the song. Red eyes were used to portray something as evil, leaving it ambiguous as to what type of monster Will was transformed into, following the conventions of the vague song.
This document provides instructions for encrypting a spreadsheet with a password in Microsoft Excel. It involves creating a new spreadsheet, saving it, clicking the File tab, selecting Encrypt with Password from the Permissions menu, entering a password twice, and confirming the file is encrypted with a password before continuing to work. It notes the importance of remembering the password as it cannot be recovered if forgotten.
گزارش رسمی کانون کارآفرینی ایران از برگزاری اختتامیه ششمین جشنواره وب ایران و جشنواره نرم افزارهای موبایل ایران
به همراه کنفرانس وب و موبایل ایران که در تاریخ 30 بهمن و 1 اسفند 1392 در سالن شهید قندی وزارت ارتباطات و فناوری اطلاعات برگزار شد.
The document discusses crowdfunding in the Arab world. It notes that the Arab world has potential for startups due to its large youth population and wealthy individuals. Crowdfunding allows small contributions from many people to fund projects. It provides statistics showing that 42% of crowdfunding contributions to the Arab world come from Arab expats, and 77% of transactions are cross-country. Tips are provided for promoting a successful crowdfunding campaign, including getting feedback before launching, setting reward tiers, and using social media to spread the word. An overview of the crowdfunding process is also given.
The document discusses the benefits of version control systems including maintaining history, comparing differences between versions, managing branches, and enabling teamwork. It outlines types of version control systems like centralized and distributed, describes features of the popular distributed version control system Git including its open source nature, speed, and support for any workflow. The document also mentions similar services to Git and version control systems tailored for enterprises, and provides resources for further reading on advanced Git features and using version control effectively.
زمستان 92 جشنواره وب ایران سال ششم خود را سپری کرد. در این گزارش مروری بر کنفرانس وب و موبایل ایران، اختتامیه جشنواره نرم افزار های موبایل و جشنواره وب ایران خواهیم داشت.
The document summarizes the conventions used in a rock/post-hardcore music video. It discusses how the video focuses on the band's performance to make them the central focus, as is typical of the genre. It also includes a narrative element to portray the singer telling a story to the viewer. Character costumes are used deliberately, with the main character dressed similarly to the singer to represent him as a "puppet". Symbolism through clothing is also employed, such as the use of hats to represent humanity or transformation into something inhuman. Ambiguity is maintained about the specific supernatural identity of one character, following the conventions of the song itself.
The music video follows conventions of the rock/post-hardcore genre. It focuses on the band's performance and image through most shots being of the singer Dale Stow looking directly at the audience. A narrative was also included to portray the singer telling a story to the spectator. Band member Will Willis was dressed similarly to Dale as he was used as a puppet to portray Dale's story in the song. Red eyes were used to portray something as evil, leaving it ambiguous as to what type of monster Will was transformed into, following the conventions of the vague song.
This document provides instructions for encrypting a spreadsheet with a password in Microsoft Excel. It involves creating a new spreadsheet, saving it, clicking the File tab, selecting Encrypt with Password from the Permissions menu, entering a password twice, and confirming the file is encrypted with a password before continuing to work. It notes the importance of remembering the password as it cannot be recovered if forgotten.
گزارش رسمی کانون کارآفرینی ایران از برگزاری اختتامیه ششمین جشنواره وب ایران و جشنواره نرم افزارهای موبایل ایران
به همراه کنفرانس وب و موبایل ایران که در تاریخ 30 بهمن و 1 اسفند 1392 در سالن شهید قندی وزارت ارتباطات و فناوری اطلاعات برگزار شد.
This document discusses what to look for in a co-founder for a startup. It recommends finding a co-founder with complementary skills and backgrounds to your own, and who shares your goals, values, and vision. Key traits for founders include being level-headed, having fluid intelligence, integrity, vision, mutual respect, strong communication skills, a willingness to take risks, and resilience. Successful founders develop their strengths, know their weaknesses, and retain talent by aligning missions.
Giordano Scalzo introduces himself as an iOS developer and provides a swift introduction to the Swift programming language. He demonstrates various Swift features through code examples, including functions, closures, classes, structs, enums, generics, and operator overloading. He also discusses unit testing support in Swift through XCTest and Quick. To conclude, he proposes coding a reverse polish notation calculator to demonstrate applying these Swift concepts.
کانون کارآفرینان صنعتی کشور با بهرهگیری از الگوهای موفق جهانی و پی بردن به اهمیت نگاه اکوسیستمی به مقوله کارآفرینی،
نسبت به مطالعه وضعیت آن در کشور اقدام نموده است. نتیجه حاصل از مطالعه وضعیت اکوسیستم کارآفرینی در ایران، میتواند نقشه
راهی را برای کانون و دیگر بازیگران این عرصه ترسیم نماید.
The document discusses technology infrastructure considerations for startups. It recommends leveraging cloud infrastructure for scalability and flexibility. It emphasizes using open source tools for continuous integration to automate building, testing and deploying code. This helps ensure quality and allows fast iterations. The document also stresses choosing a lean technology stack that solves the problem without overengineering. Following these principles can allow startups to move 10x faster, better and cheaper than larger corporations.
This document provides an overview of entrepreneurship ecosystems in Iran. It begins with background information on entrepreneurship ecosystems and definitions. It then examines the various players within Iran's entrepreneurship ecosystems, including government organizations, educational institutions, media, financing centers, non-governmental organizations, incubators and accelerators, and entrepreneurship events. The document also analyzes entrepreneurship ecosystems in four major cities in Iran and identifies challenges. Key challenges include a lack of communication between players, few success stories, too many policymaking organizations, inefficient entrepreneurship education, and an inability to identify real entrepreneurs. The document concludes by calling for players to work to overcome these challenges.
در سال گذشته اتفاقات زیادی در حوزه استارتاپ ها در ایران رخ داد. یکی از مهمترین رویدادها که در این زمینه برگزار میشود استارتاپ ویکند می باشد که توانست در شهرهای بزرگ و کوچک ایران برگزار شود. در این ارائه نگاهی به سالی که گذشت می اندازیم
Personal branding is defining how you present yourself to the world through a unique combination of skills and experiences. It involves marketing yourself and your career as a brand to set yourself apart from others, create value in your niche, and build your network. Effective personal branding is based on authenticity, differentiation, and delivering exceptional value. It requires researching your current brand, defining your desired brand, and creating an action plan with the needed resources to maintain your brand over time.
The document discusses personal branding and provides guidance on how to develop and promote a personal brand. It defines personal branding as people's perception of you and your value. It recommends determining your vision, values, skills, and differentiators. It also suggests managing your online and offline profiles for consistency and using the "4 C's" of clarity, consistency, constancy, and commitment when developing your brand. Finally, it provides examples of ways to promote your brand through networking, volunteering, and maintaining an online presence.
This document discusses creating interactive online communities. It begins with an introduction to the presenter and agenda. It then explains how brand interaction is changing from one-way communication to two-way engagement through social media. The presentation covers different types of online communities, case studies of successful communities, and key metrics for a successful community including great content, thought leadership, recurring visitors through fresh content, and monetization or motivation of the community. It concludes with tips for getting started such as defining objectives and innovating for the community.
EFactor.com - Social media for entrepreneursDavid Mullings
The document discusses lessons learned from social media and entrepreneurship. It provides tips for building an audience and authority on social media through creating engaging content for target demographics. The document also emphasizes focusing on conversations to leverage social media and positioning oneself as a thought leader. It shares the vision of being a role model and helping finance startups in developing countries.
New Business Development And Thought Leadershipfourburkhardts
1. The document discusses using online tools like blogs, social media, and content marketing to establish thought leadership and build reputation with target audiences, rather than relying on traditional media.
2. It emphasizes identifying the target audience, researching their online habits, and creating useful, relevant content for them.
3. Following guidelines like FINRA rules is also discussed to ensure compliance when using tools to support new business development online.
This document discusses strategies for recruitment agencies to promote their brands through public relations efforts. It recommends establishing thought leadership through press conferences, surveys, and written reports. It provides examples of how one agency, Antal, gained global brand recognition through a simple quarterly hiring survey distributed by their consultants. It also emphasizes the importance of social media platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter to regularly promote the brand and engage with clients, candidates, and potential employees. Regular newsletters, awards, and leveraging PR opportunities are also suggested to help drip feed the brand to various markets.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world, with over 1.5 billion users. There are over 150 million blogs on the internet and 900,000 new blog posts are created daily. 80% of companies plan to use LinkedIn to find employees this year. Social media provides a level playing field for businesses to connect with customers. Influencers need to stay informed to advise followers and companies should engage with influencers by providing early access and attending events.
This document provides tips for marketing on a small budget. It recommends spending 5-10% of your budget to maintain or grow your market share. Key tactics discussed include developing an online presence through websites and social media, pursuing public relations opportunities, engaging in community outreach, and finding low-cost sponsorship and advertising options. Measurement of results is important to demonstrate return on investment and make the case for increased spending if needed.
Unleashing the potential of untapped marketsDave Osh
Explore and Identify Untapped Markets to Grow Profitability and Market Share. This presentation was given on 13 March 2013 in the Management World Forum 2013 in Singapore. The presentation discusses:
How to discover untapped markets
How to diversify and expand core services to new countries or regions
How to develop new segments and products for untapped markets
How to achieve success, mitigate risks and avoid failures of penetrating into untapped markets.
Social Media Is Not Internet MarketingChris Hewitt
Social Media is an obnoxiously hot topic. We have all listened, watched, and read about this ‘gotta have it’ new Internet trend and how it is revolutionizing the way in which businesses reach their target markets.
Determined not to be left behind (many of us still traumatized from slow Internet adoption in the 90’s), business professionals are eager to learn how Internet tools such Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, etc. can be leveraged to drive business value and elevate brand awareness. However, as the topic of Social Media is so broad, the majority of marketing professionals are approaching Social Media as another component of their Internet Marketing strategy. What we don’t get is that Social Media is NOT Internet Marketing.
This is a ‘true confessions’ session where I - an ‘old school’ Internet marketer - shares my own struggles with this realization, the social media mistakes I've made (and contributed to), and how we can learn from those experiences to build relevant, value-added social dialogues to engage our prospects and customers.
This presentation covers:
- The Social Media Gold Rush
- Why there isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the rush
- My top five Social Media Blunders
- How to find your authentic Voice and how it evolves into Strategy
This document provides guidance on different job hunting strategies, including leveraging one's personal network, direct applications to companies, working with headhunters/recruiters, and online job ads. It discusses how to organize one's network on platforms like LinkedIn, prepare a cover letter tailored for networking contacts. Direct applications involve researching target companies using models like CAVACTM to map competitors, clients, vendors, associations. Other tips include crafting a "pain letter" that demonstrates how one can address a company's challenges, and conducting informal interviews to gather company insights. Different types of search firms like contingency, retained, and container firms are outlined. Overall, the document offers a variety of strategies and templates to help job seekers effectively
This document provides information on different job hunting strategies and tactics, including leveraging your personal network, direct applications to target companies, working with headhunters, and online job ads. It focuses on using your network to find opportunities, with tips on organizing your contacts, preparing a cover letter template, and conducting informational interviews. Direct applications are also covered, with advice on defining target companies, researching them, identifying contacts, and customizing application materials for each opportunity.
This document discusses what to look for in a co-founder for a startup. It recommends finding a co-founder with complementary skills and backgrounds to your own, and who shares your goals, values, and vision. Key traits for founders include being level-headed, having fluid intelligence, integrity, vision, mutual respect, strong communication skills, a willingness to take risks, and resilience. Successful founders develop their strengths, know their weaknesses, and retain talent by aligning missions.
Giordano Scalzo introduces himself as an iOS developer and provides a swift introduction to the Swift programming language. He demonstrates various Swift features through code examples, including functions, closures, classes, structs, enums, generics, and operator overloading. He also discusses unit testing support in Swift through XCTest and Quick. To conclude, he proposes coding a reverse polish notation calculator to demonstrate applying these Swift concepts.
کانون کارآفرینان صنعتی کشور با بهرهگیری از الگوهای موفق جهانی و پی بردن به اهمیت نگاه اکوسیستمی به مقوله کارآفرینی،
نسبت به مطالعه وضعیت آن در کشور اقدام نموده است. نتیجه حاصل از مطالعه وضعیت اکوسیستم کارآفرینی در ایران، میتواند نقشه
راهی را برای کانون و دیگر بازیگران این عرصه ترسیم نماید.
The document discusses technology infrastructure considerations for startups. It recommends leveraging cloud infrastructure for scalability and flexibility. It emphasizes using open source tools for continuous integration to automate building, testing and deploying code. This helps ensure quality and allows fast iterations. The document also stresses choosing a lean technology stack that solves the problem without overengineering. Following these principles can allow startups to move 10x faster, better and cheaper than larger corporations.
This document provides an overview of entrepreneurship ecosystems in Iran. It begins with background information on entrepreneurship ecosystems and definitions. It then examines the various players within Iran's entrepreneurship ecosystems, including government organizations, educational institutions, media, financing centers, non-governmental organizations, incubators and accelerators, and entrepreneurship events. The document also analyzes entrepreneurship ecosystems in four major cities in Iran and identifies challenges. Key challenges include a lack of communication between players, few success stories, too many policymaking organizations, inefficient entrepreneurship education, and an inability to identify real entrepreneurs. The document concludes by calling for players to work to overcome these challenges.
در سال گذشته اتفاقات زیادی در حوزه استارتاپ ها در ایران رخ داد. یکی از مهمترین رویدادها که در این زمینه برگزار میشود استارتاپ ویکند می باشد که توانست در شهرهای بزرگ و کوچک ایران برگزار شود. در این ارائه نگاهی به سالی که گذشت می اندازیم
Personal branding is defining how you present yourself to the world through a unique combination of skills and experiences. It involves marketing yourself and your career as a brand to set yourself apart from others, create value in your niche, and build your network. Effective personal branding is based on authenticity, differentiation, and delivering exceptional value. It requires researching your current brand, defining your desired brand, and creating an action plan with the needed resources to maintain your brand over time.
The document discusses personal branding and provides guidance on how to develop and promote a personal brand. It defines personal branding as people's perception of you and your value. It recommends determining your vision, values, skills, and differentiators. It also suggests managing your online and offline profiles for consistency and using the "4 C's" of clarity, consistency, constancy, and commitment when developing your brand. Finally, it provides examples of ways to promote your brand through networking, volunteering, and maintaining an online presence.
This document discusses creating interactive online communities. It begins with an introduction to the presenter and agenda. It then explains how brand interaction is changing from one-way communication to two-way engagement through social media. The presentation covers different types of online communities, case studies of successful communities, and key metrics for a successful community including great content, thought leadership, recurring visitors through fresh content, and monetization or motivation of the community. It concludes with tips for getting started such as defining objectives and innovating for the community.
EFactor.com - Social media for entrepreneursDavid Mullings
The document discusses lessons learned from social media and entrepreneurship. It provides tips for building an audience and authority on social media through creating engaging content for target demographics. The document also emphasizes focusing on conversations to leverage social media and positioning oneself as a thought leader. It shares the vision of being a role model and helping finance startups in developing countries.
New Business Development And Thought Leadershipfourburkhardts
1. The document discusses using online tools like blogs, social media, and content marketing to establish thought leadership and build reputation with target audiences, rather than relying on traditional media.
2. It emphasizes identifying the target audience, researching their online habits, and creating useful, relevant content for them.
3. Following guidelines like FINRA rules is also discussed to ensure compliance when using tools to support new business development online.
This document discusses strategies for recruitment agencies to promote their brands through public relations efforts. It recommends establishing thought leadership through press conferences, surveys, and written reports. It provides examples of how one agency, Antal, gained global brand recognition through a simple quarterly hiring survey distributed by their consultants. It also emphasizes the importance of social media platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, Facebook, and Twitter to regularly promote the brand and engage with clients, candidates, and potential employees. Regular newsletters, awards, and leveraging PR opportunities are also suggested to help drip feed the brand to various markets.
If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world, with over 1.5 billion users. There are over 150 million blogs on the internet and 900,000 new blog posts are created daily. 80% of companies plan to use LinkedIn to find employees this year. Social media provides a level playing field for businesses to connect with customers. Influencers need to stay informed to advise followers and companies should engage with influencers by providing early access and attending events.
This document provides tips for marketing on a small budget. It recommends spending 5-10% of your budget to maintain or grow your market share. Key tactics discussed include developing an online presence through websites and social media, pursuing public relations opportunities, engaging in community outreach, and finding low-cost sponsorship and advertising options. Measurement of results is important to demonstrate return on investment and make the case for increased spending if needed.
Unleashing the potential of untapped marketsDave Osh
Explore and Identify Untapped Markets to Grow Profitability and Market Share. This presentation was given on 13 March 2013 in the Management World Forum 2013 in Singapore. The presentation discusses:
How to discover untapped markets
How to diversify and expand core services to new countries or regions
How to develop new segments and products for untapped markets
How to achieve success, mitigate risks and avoid failures of penetrating into untapped markets.
Social Media Is Not Internet MarketingChris Hewitt
Social Media is an obnoxiously hot topic. We have all listened, watched, and read about this ‘gotta have it’ new Internet trend and how it is revolutionizing the way in which businesses reach their target markets.
Determined not to be left behind (many of us still traumatized from slow Internet adoption in the 90’s), business professionals are eager to learn how Internet tools such Facebook, Twitter, blogs, YouTube, etc. can be leveraged to drive business value and elevate brand awareness. However, as the topic of Social Media is so broad, the majority of marketing professionals are approaching Social Media as another component of their Internet Marketing strategy. What we don’t get is that Social Media is NOT Internet Marketing.
This is a ‘true confessions’ session where I - an ‘old school’ Internet marketer - shares my own struggles with this realization, the social media mistakes I've made (and contributed to), and how we can learn from those experiences to build relevant, value-added social dialogues to engage our prospects and customers.
This presentation covers:
- The Social Media Gold Rush
- Why there isn’t a pot of gold at the end of the rush
- My top five Social Media Blunders
- How to find your authentic Voice and how it evolves into Strategy
This document provides guidance on different job hunting strategies, including leveraging one's personal network, direct applications to companies, working with headhunters/recruiters, and online job ads. It discusses how to organize one's network on platforms like LinkedIn, prepare a cover letter tailored for networking contacts. Direct applications involve researching target companies using models like CAVACTM to map competitors, clients, vendors, associations. Other tips include crafting a "pain letter" that demonstrates how one can address a company's challenges, and conducting informal interviews to gather company insights. Different types of search firms like contingency, retained, and container firms are outlined. Overall, the document offers a variety of strategies and templates to help job seekers effectively
This document provides information on different job hunting strategies and tactics, including leveraging your personal network, direct applications to target companies, working with headhunters, and online job ads. It focuses on using your network to find opportunities, with tips on organizing your contacts, preparing a cover letter template, and conducting informational interviews. Direct applications are also covered, with advice on defining target companies, researching them, identifying contacts, and customizing application materials for each opportunity.
The document discusses social media marketing and how it differs from traditional marketing. Some key points made include:
- Social media marketing uses social networks, online communities, blogs and other online media for marketing, sales, PR and customer service.
- While traditional marketing pushes information out, social media marketing focuses on building relationships and engaging customers through content, community and conversation.
- Marketers need to listen to what customers are saying online and contribute valuable content while having clear objectives and a plan for different social media platforms.
- A case study shows how a credit union used social media like Twitter and Facebook to engage customers and gain publicity.
The document discusses social media marketing and how it differs from traditional marketing. Some key points are:
- Social media marketing uses social networks, blogs, communities for marketing, sales and customer service while reaching more potential customers faster than traditional methods.
- Companies need to engage customers on the platforms they use like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube rather than just doing one-way advertising.
- The objectives of social media marketing should be to build relationships and trust so customers become advocates by sharing their positive experiences.
- Marketing requires listening to customers, contributing valuable content, and having a clear plan to build relationships over time through conversation and interaction on various social media channels.
This document provides 7 tips for cost-conscious marketing. It recommends using a combination of online and offline marketing as the most effective approach. Tip 1 is to create an emotional appeal in marketing since people buy based on emotion. Tip 2 is to effectively manage your customer list. Tip 3 is to leverage free media such as Facebook, which has over 400 million users not just under age 25. Tip 4 is to optimize your website to be easily found online. Tip 5 is to engage prospects with high quality, colorful marketing. Tip 6 is to build alliances with other businesses for cooperative advertising. Tip 7 is to take advantage of free marketing resources available online.
This document provides 10 tips for online networking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The tips include having an organized online presence on websites and social media, creating useful content for target clients, participating in online discussions, building a professional network, helping others in the network, using events strategically, and consistently repeating networking activities over time. The goal is to expand one's network and influence in order to generate more business referrals and opportunities for SMEs.
This document discusses content marketing strategies for franchise sales. It recommends segmenting target audiences and developing audience profiles. It outlines a three stage sales process: discovery, lead, and sales ready lead. It advises using different content like blogs, reports, and webinars at each stage to influence prospects. The key point is that compelling stories must be told to stand out from competitors and connect with audiences on an emotional level. Metrics like website traffic, lead capture, and prospect conversion should be tracked.
Inspiring people to travel: How to become a big online brandJose L. Truchado
The document discusses how to build a successful online travel brand for Iran. It recommends developing different travel route themes that showcase Iran's history and culture to inspire tourists. It emphasizes the importance of having a user-friendly website that is constantly evolving, engaging, search engine optimized, and focuses on providing good value. It also stresses having a flexible approach, good online presence, positive reviews, and distributing quality content across multiple marketing channels like SEO, email, social media, and public relations.
This document discusses personal branding and provides tips for developing an effective personal brand. It emphasizes that personal branding is about how you present your professional image online through platforms like LinkedIn, blogs, and social media. It recommends following a 5-step process: define your personal brand's DNA, develop a mission statement, conduct a SWOT analysis, define your online touchpoints, and promote your brand consistently across social media. The document also provides a checklist for building an effective personal brand, including developing a brand mission, elevator pitch, understanding your niche market and competition, creating consistent online profiles and content strategy, and having an effective tagline.
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This document contains the slides from a presentation given by Rouzbeh H. Pasha at the 3rd Iran Web and Mobile Conference. The presentation emphasized building online services that can be accessed from anywhere and delight users regardless of their physical location, and highlighted the importance of taking risks to innovate rather than guaranteeing failure by not trying. The final slide thanked the audience and identified Rouzbeh H. Pasha as the founder of CARVANRO.com.
Oliver Kempkens discusses trends in customer experience for 2015. Key trends include companies restructuring voice of customer programs to rely less on surveys and more on targeted feedback and analytics. Customer journey mapping will also increase to better understand the customer experience. Companies will also blend more customer data to anticipate needs and improve experiences. There will be a focus on embedding customer experience into product development and combining methodologies like design thinking to improve processes.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against developing mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
Jonas Lilienthal gave a presentation at the 3rd Iran Web and Mobile Conference held at the International exhibition center of university of Shahid Beheshti about the key factors (Factor P) of personality, passion, and persistence that are important for entrepreneurs. The presentation discussed how an entrepreneur's life is shaped by the overall composition of these factors rather than any single part alone, and used metaphors like rivers to represent life and entrepreneurship.
The document discusses assessing technical debt by evaluating a company's people, infrastructure, processes, technology, and product. It provides questions an investor could ask to evaluate gaps in these areas and consider how well the company can address technical debt. Key questions focus on architecture, development processes, team skills, software stacks, security, scalability, and product features to understand how the technology is structured and how well it can meet business needs.
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The document discusses reasons why ideas and products fail and provides suggestions for improving the design process. It states that ideas and products often fail because their value is not communicated to users, and marketing, business models, and usability are sometimes poor. To address this, it recommends designing with user values in mind, getting user feedback early in the process, brainstorming many ideas, and focusing on communicating the value of designs to potential users. The overall message is that understanding people and their needs should be a central part of the design process in order to create successful ideas and products.
Entrepreneurs often make mistakes like focusing on money too early, expanding their business too quickly without being ready, and focusing too much on customers and features instead of selling. Other common mistakes include trying to make the first product perfect instead of releasing early, keeping the business secret for too long, giving up too easily when facing challenges, and failing to properly explain and market the business. The key is to learn from mistakes and never give up on the overall vision.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
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.
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).
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!
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.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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.
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
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.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
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.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
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.
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