The document discusses Microsoft's AI and data science platform and process. The platform includes services like Machine Learning, Cognitive Services, Bot Framework, and Azure Search. It also describes the team data science process of defining objectives, acquiring and understanding data, modeling, deployment, and customer acceptance. Additionally, it distinguishes between the roles of data scientists and AI developers.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group February 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
By 2020, companies who effectively master Artificial Intelligence (AI) will steal $1.2 trillion per year from those that don’t, according to Gartner. Through AI, marketers can leverage amplified reasoning, understanding and interacting to deepen customer relationships. Discover how Microsoft can help you build these relationships.
Rich Web Apps presentation for UPA-DC UserFocus conference. Includes ideas for UX professionals to work more effectively with developers to create apps that users will love.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group June 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Microsoft Office 365 offers so many ways to work remotely and from mobile devices. Don’t stop at simply giving email and document access.
Make it easy to get connected to communicate, collaborate and coordinate while enforcing a sound BYOD policy.
The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation as-a-ServiceChristian Buckley
Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for social collaboration. Organizations around the world are struggling to understand which tool to use when -- but this is the wrong premise. In this session, we'll discuss the broader concept of 'conversation as a service' and how Microsoft Teams, Outlook Groups, Yammer, and SharePoint all fit together -- and show you how to get the most out of all of them.
Business aspects of social software and collaboration Ed Brill
Web 2.0, social software, blogs, wikis, instant messaging. New tools and new ways of approaching communication and coordination among customers, suppliers, and partners. Software to help companies share information has been around for more than 15 years. How do the new tools intersect with existing ones? How can you best leverage new technologies for faster time-to-market and increased customer satisfaction? What is the role of security in an increasingly open supply-chain communication system? We'll examine these questions and talk about current and future technologies and trends.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group February 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
By 2020, companies who effectively master Artificial Intelligence (AI) will steal $1.2 trillion per year from those that don’t, according to Gartner. Through AI, marketers can leverage amplified reasoning, understanding and interacting to deepen customer relationships. Discover how Microsoft can help you build these relationships.
Rich Web Apps presentation for UPA-DC UserFocus conference. Includes ideas for UX professionals to work more effectively with developers to create apps that users will love.
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group June 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Microsoft Office 365 offers so many ways to work remotely and from mobile devices. Don’t stop at simply giving email and document access.
Make it easy to get connected to communicate, collaborate and coordinate while enforcing a sound BYOD policy.
The Nuts and Bolts of Teams, Groups and Conversation as-a-ServiceChristian Buckley
Within Office 365, we have multiple methods for social collaboration. Organizations around the world are struggling to understand which tool to use when -- but this is the wrong premise. In this session, we'll discuss the broader concept of 'conversation as a service' and how Microsoft Teams, Outlook Groups, Yammer, and SharePoint all fit together -- and show you how to get the most out of all of them.
Business aspects of social software and collaboration Ed Brill
Web 2.0, social software, blogs, wikis, instant messaging. New tools and new ways of approaching communication and coordination among customers, suppliers, and partners. Software to help companies share information has been around for more than 15 years. How do the new tools intersect with existing ones? How can you best leverage new technologies for faster time-to-market and increased customer satisfaction? What is the role of security in an increasingly open supply-chain communication system? We'll examine these questions and talk about current and future technologies and trends.
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
An initial pitch for MirrorZen. Is being released as a study for VentureWoods. The presentation gives a preliminary glimpse into the possibilities of MirrorZen. MirrorZen is far from being complete or even mature. MirrorZen has been a challenge and we are upping our efforts to do justice to the concept.
The contents of the file is copyright MirrorZen Software and unathorized copying, publishing, modifying is denied.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
How to Better Leverage SharePoint through Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Presentation given at the Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand on May 1st, 2018. This session walks through some of the latest updates on SharePoint, discusses the changes happening within the collaboration space, makes a case for Microsoft's architectural decisions around Office 365 Groups and the Microsoft Graph, and how Teams can provide a powerful and flexible collaboration solution that complements SharePoint to meet most enterprise collaboration scenarios.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Community Platform: Choosing the Right One Satya S
How will you go about selecting the best platform out there in the market? Are you selecting a product that has features which can really be utilized? Do you really require the host of features offered by the social networking tools? Get answers to all these questions and much more.
Practical Tips on Designing an effective Digital Workplace #m365vconfKanwal Khipple
Attend this session to better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy. Along-side, learning practical tips on how to build your own digital workplace, Kanwal will also share lessons learned on content strategy, migration strategy, brand strategy as well as governance strategy for your SharePoint sites.
The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group April 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Top 20 Office and Office 365 Productivity Features You Need to KnowChristian Buckley
Most people understand the core capabilities in Micrfosoft Office and Office 365: they can log in, access email, upload documents, join in discussions. But are there features that go largely unused, but which can help you unlock personal or team productivity? This presentation walks through the Top 20 Office and Office 365 productivity features that can help your end users get the most out of the and related Microsoft Office functionality.
Presentation given at the Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on May 2nd, 2018 outlining the "secret sauce" in a successful marketing strategy, whether that of an organizational or an individual, and focusing on building a brand.
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Expe...Thomas Maeder
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Experience with out of the box capabilities of SharePoint Online
Masterclass SharePoint modern vs classic
Building Dynamic Applications on both Office 365 and On-PremChristian Buckley
One of the major concerns of organizations investigating or upgrading to Office 365 is whether the solutions they've come to rely on with SharePoint on prem can be duplicated online without code. From workflow and forms to branding and personalization, this webinar demonstrated techniques and solutions that can be used on SharePoint Online and on prem, enabling rich and dynamic functionality regardless of your environment.
Presented by GTconsult co-founder and COO Craig Tarr, with Office 365 MVP Christian Buckley
Key Takeaways:
--Understand some of the key differences between SharePoint online and on prem
--Learn how powerful solutions, such as project hubs, shopping carts, information roll-ups and other solutions can be built without code
--Pick up some great tips and tricks to make your end users more productive
Viva Topics uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. SharePoint Syntex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.
Attend this session to learn more about how Viva Topics, topic pages and how knowledge center can transform knowledge in your organization.
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on July 7th, 2012. While you do lose some of the context without the narrative, hopefully you'll find some of this useful.
Microsoft Convergence DayOne: Leveraging SharePoint within Your Dynamics GP W...Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD
Presentation April 9, 2011 at DayOne of Microsoft Convergence in Atlanta by Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD, BroadPoint Technologies, John Dooley, Microsoft, and John Herbstritt, BroadPoint Technologies.
Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
20 M365 Productivity Tips That You've Probably Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
Sometimes you attend sessions that cover deep and complex topics that require a lot of attention, thought, and work on the part of the attendee… and then there is this one. Presented April 28th, 2021 as part of the M365 Virtual Marathon event.
In this fun and informative session, Microsoft MVP+RD Christian Buckley will present some of his favorite Microsoft 365 Productivity tips. The tips shared will focus on personal productivity, spanning the entire M365 platform (Yammer, SharePoint Online, Office ProPlus, etc).
Attendees should walk away with two or three gems that could change the way they work on a daily basis.
An initial pitch for MirrorZen. Is being released as a study for VentureWoods. The presentation gives a preliminary glimpse into the possibilities of MirrorZen. MirrorZen is far from being complete or even mature. MirrorZen has been a challenge and we are upping our efforts to do justice to the concept.
The contents of the file is copyright MirrorZen Software and unathorized copying, publishing, modifying is denied.
Extending Collaboration with SharePoint and Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Webinar presented on July 11th, 2018 for the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community that walks through the latest updates on SharePoint and Microsoft's messaging around "intelligent communications," and the role of Microsoft Teams alongside existing and future SharePoint infrastructure. Great guidance for people wondering how SharePoint and Teams should coincide.
How to Better Leverage SharePoint through Microsoft TeamsChristian Buckley
Presentation given at the Digital Workplace Conference New Zealand on May 1st, 2018. This session walks through some of the latest updates on SharePoint, discusses the changes happening within the collaboration space, makes a case for Microsoft's architectural decisions around Office 365 Groups and the Microsoft Graph, and how Teams can provide a powerful and flexible collaboration solution that complements SharePoint to meet most enterprise collaboration scenarios.
Microsoft Search is looking to bring the search experiences across all Microsoft 365 services together into a single unified experience. Attend this session to learn how the experience impacts your users, how you can configure it as well as scenarios where you should customize it.
Community Platform: Choosing the Right One Satya S
How will you go about selecting the best platform out there in the market? Are you selecting a product that has features which can really be utilized? Do you really require the host of features offered by the social networking tools? Get answers to all these questions and much more.
Practical Tips on Designing an effective Digital Workplace #m365vconfKanwal Khipple
Attend this session to better understand how you can build your digital hub powered by SharePoint Online. We’ll dive into how Hub Sites, Communication and broader team sites can support with your digital workplace strategy. Along-side, learning practical tips on how to build your own digital workplace, Kanwal will also share lessons learned on content strategy, migration strategy, brand strategy as well as governance strategy for your SharePoint sites.
The Microsoft 365 Collaboration Conference
Microsoft 365 Toronto User Group April 2021Kanwal Khipple
Speaker 1: Kanwal Khipple
Kanwal Khipple, Founder and CEO of 2toLead, passion lies in continuing to push for user experience innovation when redesigning digital workplace for many of the top Fortune 100 companies in the world. Kanwal has been recognized as an Microsoft 365 MVP by Microsoft (2009 to 2020).
Session 1: Latest Microsoft 365 Announcements
Attend this session to hear about recent Microsoft 365 product feature changes that are impacting organizations today. If you are leveraging Microsoft 365 to improve productivity then feel free to ask questions.
Schedule:
5:30pm – Introductions and Q&A
6:00pm – Session 1
6:45pm – Closing
Top 20 Office and Office 365 Productivity Features You Need to KnowChristian Buckley
Most people understand the core capabilities in Micrfosoft Office and Office 365: they can log in, access email, upload documents, join in discussions. But are there features that go largely unused, but which can help you unlock personal or team productivity? This presentation walks through the Top 20 Office and Office 365 productivity features that can help your end users get the most out of the and related Microsoft Office functionality.
Presentation given at the Digital Workplace Conference in Auckland, New Zealand on May 2nd, 2018 outlining the "secret sauce" in a successful marketing strategy, whether that of an organizational or an individual, and focusing on building a brand.
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Expe...Thomas Maeder
Everything you need to know to create a modern Intranet/Digital Employee Experience with out of the box capabilities of SharePoint Online
Masterclass SharePoint modern vs classic
Building Dynamic Applications on both Office 365 and On-PremChristian Buckley
One of the major concerns of organizations investigating or upgrading to Office 365 is whether the solutions they've come to rely on with SharePoint on prem can be duplicated online without code. From workflow and forms to branding and personalization, this webinar demonstrated techniques and solutions that can be used on SharePoint Online and on prem, enabling rich and dynamic functionality regardless of your environment.
Presented by GTconsult co-founder and COO Craig Tarr, with Office 365 MVP Christian Buckley
Key Takeaways:
--Understand some of the key differences between SharePoint online and on prem
--Learn how powerful solutions, such as project hubs, shopping carts, information roll-ups and other solutions can be built without code
--Pick up some great tips and tricks to make your end users more productive
Viva Topics uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. SharePoint Syntex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.
Attend this session to learn more about how Viva Topics, topic pages and how knowledge center can transform knowledge in your organization.
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on July 7th, 2012. While you do lose some of the context without the narrative, hopefully you'll find some of this useful.
Microsoft Convergence DayOne: Leveraging SharePoint within Your Dynamics GP W...Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD
Presentation April 9, 2011 at DayOne of Microsoft Convergence in Atlanta by Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD, BroadPoint Technologies, John Dooley, Microsoft, and John Herbstritt, BroadPoint Technologies.
Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
BI: new of the buzz words that everyone is talking about but what is it? How can it be used to make a impact in my organization? How do I get started? In this session, we will talk about it and show you a live example in Office 365's SharePoint Online.
Objectives/Outcomes: In this session, participants will learn:
1. What is BI
2. What is Microsoft's Power BI
3. Case Studies
4. How can I get it
SPT 104 Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Fest Denver 2016
SPT 104 - Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365
Brian Culver, MCM - Invited Speaker
Companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. Power BI allows companies to manipulate and study a variety of data points, gain actionable insights and share their insights. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites let users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
SPS Utah 2016 - Unlock your big data with analytics and BI on Office 365Brian Culver
SharePoint Saturday Utah has begun with a great crowd. I presented my session "Unlock your Big Data with Analytics and BI on Office 365" which is a Level 200 class. In my session I discuss how companies have huge amounts of data waiting to be explored. With Azure HDInsights (Microsoft's Hadoop cluster solution in partnership with Nortonworks) you can realize the value of your data. With Microsoft Excel 2013 and Office 365, you have a complete platform for BI solutions and services. PowerPivot, Power View, Power Query, Power Map and Power BI Sites empowers users analyze and make decisions using structured and unstructured data.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Learn to setup and configure HDInsights on Microsoft Azure.
2. Understand how to use Excel for BI capabilities.
3. Build a BI Dashboard in Office365.
M365VM - Project Cortex: AI Powered Knowledge Network for the EnterpriseJoel Oleson
Project Cortex: AI Powered Knowledge Network
What is Project Cortex? In this session we’ll deconstruct the new Microsoft Knowledge Network and dive into new demos just published by Microsoft. The more you understand AI the more you can understand the power of machine learning and machine teaching for business process automation for tagging, workstreams, digital transformation unlocking new scenarios never before available. AI for the masses. Democratizing AI. AI for the people!
How IBM is Creating a Foundation for Cloud InnovationCCG
IBM is making waves in the Cloud Innovation. At our Data Analytics Meetup, Tom Ericsson, explores the transformation that IBM has taken with its recent announcement of moving from Bluemix to Cloud.
ChatGPT and not only: how can you use the power of Generative AI at scaleMaxim Salnikov
Join this session to get all the answers about how ChatGPT and other LLM models can be applied to your current or future project. We'll start by putting in order all the terms - OpenAI, GPT-3, ChatGPT, Codex, Dall-E, etc. - and explain why Microsoft and Azure are often mentioned in this context. Then, we'll go through the main capabilities of the Azure OpenAI and respective usecases that might inspire you to either optimize your product or build a completely new one.
Using sharepoint to solve business problems #spsnairobi2014Amos Wachanga
Using sharepoint to solve business problems #spsnairobi2014. This presentation was done by Amos Wachanga of Techno Brain Ltd at Sharepoint Saturday Nairobi event on 18th Oct 2014, held at Techno Brain HQ in Nairobi, Kenya.
The presentation creates a business scenario at start, then introduces Sharepoint and mentions some key features that would solve identified business problems, and finally using the case study and examples, ties it all down through a typical solution creation for the business scenario.
Microsoft Teams Governance and AutomationJoel Oleson
Manually deploying Microsoft Teams is overwhelming. Using Teams Templates, SharePoint Online, and Power Automate we will build and discuss how to best create a self service Microsoft Teams provisioning process. How do we handle approval and management? Templates? Flow creation?
Essa apresentação mostra como iniciar o processo de certificação em Azure, além de algumas ferramentas a utilizar. Saiba mais em https://www.meetup.com/pt-BR/Azure-Certification
Create a single source of truth
The starting point for building a data-driven culture is establishing a single source of truth. We make this easy with Power BI, a modern BI cloud service that connects to all of your data, wherever it lives, in the cloud or on premises, Microsoft or non-Microsoft. It delivers insights to you in any way, anywhere, from mobile to web, as well as embedded in apps, both first party and third party. Office 365 further extends this with versions that allow you to quickly look at differences, auditing and roll back, allowing you to confidently manage the single version of truth.
Analyze & visualize data
The next step is to make it easy to analyze and explore data, then share it out seamlessly. Here we deliver the industry leading analyst tool with Excel, which allows you to ask questions at the pace of your business transformation, in a tool you use daily. Sometimes it's easier for us to spot trends and outliers when data is presented visually. Power BI makes visualization simple and easy. Sometimes we want both. Power BI integrates natively with Excel, so users can easily dive deeper into visualizations from Excel and vice-versa. Together with Visio, you can visualize complex process flows directly into Power BI.
Run your business in real time with live dashboards
All of the visualizations and dashboards you create in Power BI, Excel, and Visio can be programmed to update in real-time, so that you can react to opportunities and threats as soon as they appear.
Put insights at the center of teamwork
Lastly, with the growing importance of teamwork in the modern workplace it’s critical that teams can collaborate on data in real-time. Power BI and Excel both integrate natively with Teams and Office 365, making it easier to create consensus based on data.
Conclusion
All of these capabilities add up to better, faster decision-making – a 2017 study by Forrester found that with Microsoft 365 E5 employees make decisions in 18% less time – think about how much faster your business could move with decisions made in hours or days rather than weeks.
Age of Exploration: How to Achieve Enterprise-Wide DiscoveryInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dr. Robin Bloor and IBM Information Management
Live Webcast Nov. 19, 2013
Watch the archive: https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=7808847&rKey=73cc8052da2d9962
The bigger data volumes get, the wider the range of sources available, the more companies need to secure a strategic view of their information assets. This is no small challenge for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is access to the growing array of valuable data sets available. Today's most innovative companies are using creative solutions to ride the information wave.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to hear veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor, as he explains how the unbridled growth of data and information systems requires a holistic approach to information access. He will be briefed by Mark Myers and Scott Parker of IBM, who will showcase the company’s InfoSphere Data Explorer product, a solution aimed squarely at the need to gain a cohesive view of enterprise data, wherever it may be. Myers and Parker will discuss how Data Explorer can help organizations to get more from their SharePoint investments, enabling them to deliver information to front-line employees regardless of where it is managed.
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Sometimes when you are starting on an idea for a project you dont know where or how to start. This is a tried and tested strategy that gets you going. From inspiration to organization, tools to knowledge, all you need to know to build the next great app.
Data privacy and processing of Personal Data is fundamental to the B2B Direct Marketing industry and the core principles of proportionality and consent set by GDPR are not new, having first been introduced in EU Directive 1995.
With 20 years of data compliance experience, Rhetorik’s B2B technology data Research Director and DPO will highlight key steps, considerations and processes to successfully evolve policies to comply with GDPR, using Rhetorik as an example.
Specifically, the seminar will show how a well-executed Legitimate Interest Assessment and policy will be key to successful and compliant B2B direct marketing campaigns.
What do Azure, AWS, IBM, and Dell EMC ECS have in common? All are leveraging Nasuni UniFS® for scalable file storage and cross-site synchronisation. Nasuni offers the first global file system designed for private and public cloud object storage, so it scales without the limits of legacy controller-based file systems. Learn how Nasuni consolidates distributed file servers and NAS, enables high-speed file collaboration across any number of locations, improves file recovery points and times, simplifies DR, and accelerates business growth. All while reducing costs up to 60% compared to traditional file infrastructure.
SD-WAN is a new and exciting opportunity to transform enterprises costly and rigid MPLS-based wide area networks (WAN). It promises to make the WAN more affordable and agile, boost capacity, and improve resiliency. But, SD-WAN goes far beyond replacing MPLS. It can optimize global connectivity, streamline network security, and seamlessly integrate cloud resources and mobile users into simple coherent network.
As part of the National Theatre’s move to the cloud, the Operations Team looked to see what else they could do differently. Talking about embracing the change, George Tunnicliffe speaks about the culture, maximising the benefits of the change and creating a new delivery model for the team. With real-world examples and some of those lessons learned, this talk is part story, part informational and all actual about doing things differently and learning along the way!
Most organisations are already working towards GDPR compliance. Due to different situations including lack of awareness, availability of funds, scarcity of experienced Data Protection specialists, high work load, etc. some companies will not be ready by the deadline of 25th May 2018.
During our session we will cover some of the key questions facing businesses who are not certain they will be prepared in time.
Join us to discuss these and your own questions with Rogelio Aguilar, Sungard AS Data Protection Sr Consultant
Modern business runs in the cloud, however traditional WAN routers weren't made for that. Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect is primed for the cloud. In fact it is the industry leading SD-WAN solution that is freeing businesses from their dependency on routers
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the elasticity and utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premise, to deliver high-performance, availability and cost-effective infrastructure services. This session will explore what makes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure different in how it is architected and the benefits this delivers to customers wanting to consume IaaS right through to Oracle's growing Cloud Platform and Software service portfolio that run on this Infrastructure. We will also highlight examples of customer deployments and migrations, of both new and existing applications, to the Oracle Cloud Platform.
Session freeze, poor quality voice services, random disconnects and long haul networks that slow user productivity. Chances are your branch users think your network sucks and sadly, more often than not, they are right.
SD-WAN is a super hot industry topic, promising to make all of these problems go away but be warned not all SD-WAN solutions are equal.
Join cloudDNA Co-founder Al Taylor for this fast paced, fact packed lunchtime session to learn what makes a good SD-WAN solution, what features should you look for, what improvements you should expect and who's doing it in the real world.
Splunk’s machine learning framework mixed with Splunk’s Event Management capabilities gives operations teams the opportunity to proactively act and automate on an event before it becomes an IT outage. This session will detail and demonstrate how to predict a health score of your business service, proactively take action based on those predictions and publish to your collaborative messaging and automation solutions.
Lean Analytics is a set of rules to make data science more streamlined and productive. It touches on many aspects of what a data scientist should be and how a data science project should be defined to be successful. During this presentation Richard will present where data science projects go wrong, how you should think of data science projects, what constitutes success in data science and how you can measure progress. This session will be loaded with terms, stories and descriptions of project successes and failures. If you're wondering whether you're getting value out of data science, how to get more value out of it and even whether you need it then this talk is for you!
What you will take away from this session
Learn how to make your data science projects successful
Evaluate how to track progress and report on the efficacy of data science solutions
Understand the role of engineering and data scientists
Understand your options for processes and software
Blockchain is one of the most popular talking points in the IT industry today, with thousands of technical proofs, use-cases and experiments being planned and delivered to show the value of this technology. For all of this, when asked about production deployments of blockchain for the real enterprises of today, most of the proponents of this value will demur when it comes to talking production. Bridging this gap between science experiment and an enterprise quality platform for the modern business requires a great deal of work, much of which is done by the growing community of vendors who are collaborating to deliver not just the technical requirement and use-case solutions for blockchain, but also the practical tools to use blockchain in a meaningful way within a business. join this session to hear about the 5 key qualities that any practically usable enterprise blockchain will need to deliver and how the collaboration of enterprise vendors is making the practical use of Blockchain a reality for organisations in 2018.
In order to move past the hype and achieve the full potential of machine learning, data scientists and software developers need to work more closely together towards their common goal of delivering well-architected, data-driven applications. Every industry is in the process of being transformed by software and data. It is in the collaboration between data scientists and software developers where the real value can be found by creating integrated data workflows that benefit from the unique knowledge and skillsets of each discipline.
In the coming era of widespread automation, self-learning machines, and improving AI, there will be changes in cybersecurity. Dave Palmer, Director of Technology, will discuss how AI will have a profound impact on our future internet; including how it can further enable digital criminals, and what we can do about it as defenders.
Linde Healthcare launched a new digital valve for hospital gas cylinders. The valve informed clinicians the amount of time that a cylinder had left to deliver gas. Rather than using a new cylinder in case it ran out, the existing inventory could be used more efficiently. Customers were somewhat sceptical of the full value, until… This case study shows how a lean start-up approach can be used to identify incremental business value within a healthcare environment, and deliver a tracking and monitoring solution customers value.
Despite the increased use of two-factor authentication, single sign-on, and biometrics, passwords are still the most common form of authentication. In the first analyst report on Enterprise Password Management (EPM), Forrester acknowledged the password problem and the risks that they present to businesses.
In this talk, we will look at why employees still use weak passwords despite knowing the risks and provide guidance for security and IT professionals on keeping password costs and risks under control, without losing employee buy-in.
Established in 1999 Secon Cyber have a long standing experience of providing class leading cyber security solutions to customers ranging from small to large enterprises.
We continuously strive to innovate and develop solutions to enable our customers and partners to work, play and live safely in the connected world. As part of this commitment we have developed our own Managed Detection and Response Service.
In this session David King will discuss the benefits of an MDR service over a traditional MSSP or SIEM solution.
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Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
2. 1. Microsoft AI and DS Platform Vision.
2. The Team Data Science Process
3. Data Scientists and AI Developers
4. The Microsoft AI and DS Platform
1. Machine Learning Services
2. Cognitive Services
3. Bot Framework
4. Azure Search
5. Data Science Virtual Machine
Agenda
3.
4. Microsoft AI and Data Science is a
Process and a Platform to perform
advanced analytics from start to finish
5.
6. The types of Advanced Analytics
Source: Gartner (October 2014)
7.
8. The Team
Data Science
Process
• Define Objectives
• Identify Data SourcesBusiness Understanding
• Ingest Data
• Explore Data
• Update Data
Data Acquisition and
Understanding
• Feature Selection
• Create and Train ModelModeling
• OperationalizeDeployment
• Testing and Validation
• Handoff
• Re-train and re-score
Customer Acceptance
14. Build once, publish across platforms and drive discoverability
Open source SDKs make it possible
to bring your bot to life in minutes
Connect your bot to any or all of the
top conversational experiences to
reach >1B users
Make your bot discoverable via Bing,
Cortana and other Microsoft surfaces
15. Azure Search
Simplify search-index management
Set up and scale out easily
Integrate data seamlessly
Powerful, guaranteed performance
Sophisticated search
Connects business goals to the
application
Fast time to market
Backed by Microsoft Azure
20. The Microsoft
AI & Data Science
Platform
Azure Machine Learning Services
Cognitive Services
Bot Framework
Azure Search
Data Science Virtual Machine
21. The Team
Data Science
Process
• Define Objectives
• Identify Data SourcesBusiness Understanding
• Ingest Data
• Explore Data
• Update Data
Data Acquisition and
Understanding
• Feature Selection
• Create and Train ModelModeling
• OperationalizeDeployment
• Testing and Validation
• Handoff
• Re-train and re-score
Customer Acceptance
23. Classified as Microsoft General
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