1) Public sector leaders face immense challenges from transitions like declining revenues, rising needs, and changing demands while also losing experienced workers to retirement.
2) They seek to increase resilience through productivity gains and innovation to adapt to these largely uncontrollable transitions with fewer resources.
3) Distributed networks that effectively link people, data, and decision makers are seen as key to enabling greater collaboration needed for resilience, productivity, and innovation.
Future Agenda are delighted to share this initial perspective on the future civic role of arts and arts organisations. The topic will be explored at a London event in June, hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The event is part of a wider enquiry by Calouste Gulbenkian into the future civic role of arts and comments are very welcome here on slideshare.
Future of doing good - Big Lottery Fund - May 2016Future Agenda
An initial perspective on the Future of Doing Good used as stimulus for a workshop with the Big Lottery Fund and invited guests & experts on 17 May 2016.
What: The Economic Outlook Forum Featuring Renowned Economist Dr. Michael Walden
Why: The purpose of this forum was for Chamber members and friends to receive timely information on the current performance and future predictions of our national, state, regional, and local economy.
How: This forum was divided into two segments. The first segment featured Dr. Walden's forecast for our national, state, and regional economy. The second segment featured Chamber President and CEO Aaron Nelson framing the mechanics of our regional economy and sharing the results of the Chamber's annual local economic conditions survey.
About the Critical Issues Series: The 2022 Critical Issues Series (formerly known as the Policy Series) includes quarterly forums that feature influential guest speakers who address timely topics for Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro related to the economy, economic development, public policy, and elections. The series is coordinated by The Chamber's Government Affairs Committee and presented by Chapel Hill Media Group, Durham Technical Community College, and ServPro of South Durham and Orange Counties with support from the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), which provides free and confidential business counseling.
Future Agenda - The world in 2025 - Opportunities for Lebanon - Beirut 03 06 15Future Agenda
This is the opening keynote for a conference on Rethinking the Lebanese Economy for 2025 taking place in Beirut on 3 June 2016. Drawing on global and regional insights from last year's workshops it provides views on three topics:
How the world will have changed by 2025
Questions that are being asked of the Middle East
Some potential opportunities for Lebanon.
We are not experts in the Middle East nor economic growth so have leaned on and built on the views of those we have met and connected with during the Future Agenda programme. We hope that we have represented your perspectives accurately.
Trends and Emerging Market Opportunities in Continuing Educationdorothydurkin
This report aims to aggregate and build upon recent SCPS research in an effort to recognize the evolving CE environment and idetnify trends that can provide dynamic insight on issues and opportunities affecting SCPS today
Future Agenda are delighted to share this initial perspective on the future civic role of arts and arts organisations. The topic will be explored at a London event in June, hosted by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The event is part of a wider enquiry by Calouste Gulbenkian into the future civic role of arts and comments are very welcome here on slideshare.
Future of doing good - Big Lottery Fund - May 2016Future Agenda
An initial perspective on the Future of Doing Good used as stimulus for a workshop with the Big Lottery Fund and invited guests & experts on 17 May 2016.
What: The Economic Outlook Forum Featuring Renowned Economist Dr. Michael Walden
Why: The purpose of this forum was for Chamber members and friends to receive timely information on the current performance and future predictions of our national, state, regional, and local economy.
How: This forum was divided into two segments. The first segment featured Dr. Walden's forecast for our national, state, and regional economy. The second segment featured Chamber President and CEO Aaron Nelson framing the mechanics of our regional economy and sharing the results of the Chamber's annual local economic conditions survey.
About the Critical Issues Series: The 2022 Critical Issues Series (formerly known as the Policy Series) includes quarterly forums that feature influential guest speakers who address timely topics for Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro related to the economy, economic development, public policy, and elections. The series is coordinated by The Chamber's Government Affairs Committee and presented by Chapel Hill Media Group, Durham Technical Community College, and ServPro of South Durham and Orange Counties with support from the Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC), which provides free and confidential business counseling.
Future Agenda - The world in 2025 - Opportunities for Lebanon - Beirut 03 06 15Future Agenda
This is the opening keynote for a conference on Rethinking the Lebanese Economy for 2025 taking place in Beirut on 3 June 2016. Drawing on global and regional insights from last year's workshops it provides views on three topics:
How the world will have changed by 2025
Questions that are being asked of the Middle East
Some potential opportunities for Lebanon.
We are not experts in the Middle East nor economic growth so have leaned on and built on the views of those we have met and connected with during the Future Agenda programme. We hope that we have represented your perspectives accurately.
Trends and Emerging Market Opportunities in Continuing Educationdorothydurkin
This report aims to aggregate and build upon recent SCPS research in an effort to recognize the evolving CE environment and idetnify trends that can provide dynamic insight on issues and opportunities affecting SCPS today
The Future of Business London - 10 06 16Future Agenda
The Future of Business is one of the main areas of focus for the synthesis of the insights from last year's Future Agenda programme. This presentation is the opening keynote of a full day event in London on 10 June where views on some of the big global shifts for the next decade are being shared alongside more specific business related issues. This will then stimulate further debate and insights for sharing. If you have any views on the points in the pdf, do let us know and we can edit / agenda and update as we go
A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment . Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance. • Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefonica, Valero Energy, LEGO, and Proctor & Gamble • Shows businesses how to get beyond traditional business models to take better advantage of emerging opportunities • Coauthored by former CEO of SAP AG, the world's largest provider of enterprise software Filled with interviews with key executives, this book reveals the role of technology in driving and enabling changes to fundamental facets of a business. Companies around the world are innovating their business models with tremendous results. IT-Driven Business Models shows interested organizations how they can start the process.
A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment .
Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance.
• Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefonica, Valero Energy, LEGO, and Proctor & Gamble
• Shows businesses how to get beyond traditional business models to take better advantage of emerging opportunities
• Coauthored by former CEO of SAP AG, the world's largest provider of enterprise software
Filled with interviews with key executives, this book reveals the role of technology in driving and enabling changes to fundamental facets of a business. Companies around the world are innovating their business models with tremendous results. IT-Driven Business Models shows interested organizations how they can start the process.
Smarter Computing to Support 21st Century Governancejabenjamusibm
Amid fiscal restraint, government agencies around the world are transforming their
organizations to be more responsive to the challenges facing them. This
transformation is guided by four governance imperatives: (1) improving citizen and
business outcomes, (2) managing public resources effectively, (3) strengthening
safety and security, and (4) ensuring a sustainable environment. These imperatives
play out across all the domains of governance, including education, healthcare,
transportation, utilities, national defense, and public safety. The information
technology (IT) applications and operations that support these imperatives place
substantial workload demands on IT infrastructures. Traditional government IT
systems are built to handle a single workload in a single agency, but are unable to
handle the workloads effectively or efficiently, thus impeding a government agency’s
ability to deliver on its imperatives.
Government CIOs need guidance to help them transform their IT infrastructures
to deliver on these imperatives. Smarter Computing, a new approach to transform
IT infrastructures, is based on three fundamental capabilities: Designed for Data,
Tuned to the Task, and Managed in the Cloud. Smarter Computing enables IT
infrastructures to handle multiple types of data for advanced management and
analysis applications, by using IT components optimized to the workloads placed on
them, to support a variety of service creation and delivery models.
Meanwhile, leaders in every industry are adopting Smarter Computing to address
the challenges they face and opportunities presented by a Smarter Planet, and IBM
is helping some of them to implement the approach.
We are delighted to share our insights to date on the Future of Cities. This is being released before our upcoming event in Singapore on 14 July 2016, to be led by Anupam Yog and Patrick Harris.
Future Agenda would like to thank Haworth for their kind hosting of the event on the 14th and The Partners who are kindly helping us with logistics in advance. Material here is from an initial perspective written by Harry Rich, CEO RIBA and which has been built upon subsequently with conversations in Dubai, Christchurch NZ, Singapore and Beiruit.
More Future of Cities workshops are planned throughout 2016 for Los Angeles, Shanghai, London and Dubai.
Comments very welcome.
Cities have long birthed advances in the sciences, arts, human rights, business and government. Millions of people have moved to cities for better lives or services unavailable elsewhere.
But as cities grow, so are problems stemming from stretched transportation, energy and water infrastructure.
Future of Ageing - Insights from Discussions Building on an initial perspecti...Future Agenda
Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective by an initial perspective on the future of ageing by Prof. Laura Carstensen, Ken Smith and Dominika Jaworski at Stanford Center on Longevity. This includes insights from events already completed building on the starting point for the global future agenda futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
HealthMap.org: Aggregation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Dise...Forum One
Clark Freifeld, co-creator of HealthMap.org, discusses the potential of his Google Map mashup of publically-available RSS feeds (and tools like it) for improving the early reporting of infections diseases around the world. More information at http://ow.ly/oYll . Contact: Suzanne Rainey / srainey@ForumOne.com .
Providing timely, location enabled information to responders and citizens is critical in managing major emergencies such as bushfires. In major recent events (Canberra 2003, Victoria 2009), traditional communication technologies and methods could not cope sufficiently with the magnitude of the event. More recently and abroad (notably the Haiti Earthquake) Web 2.0 technologies are proving to be invaluable enhancements to traditional information management practices, helping save property and lives.
The Future of Business London - 10 06 16Future Agenda
The Future of Business is one of the main areas of focus for the synthesis of the insights from last year's Future Agenda programme. This presentation is the opening keynote of a full day event in London on 10 June where views on some of the big global shifts for the next decade are being shared alongside more specific business related issues. This will then stimulate further debate and insights for sharing. If you have any views on the points in the pdf, do let us know and we can edit / agenda and update as we go
A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment . Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance. • Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefonica, Valero Energy, LEGO, and Proctor & Gamble • Shows businesses how to get beyond traditional business models to take better advantage of emerging opportunities • Coauthored by former CEO of SAP AG, the world's largest provider of enterprise software Filled with interviews with key executives, this book reveals the role of technology in driving and enabling changes to fundamental facets of a business. Companies around the world are innovating their business models with tremendous results. IT-Driven Business Models shows interested organizations how they can start the process.
A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment .
Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance.
• Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefonica, Valero Energy, LEGO, and Proctor & Gamble
• Shows businesses how to get beyond traditional business models to take better advantage of emerging opportunities
• Coauthored by former CEO of SAP AG, the world's largest provider of enterprise software
Filled with interviews with key executives, this book reveals the role of technology in driving and enabling changes to fundamental facets of a business. Companies around the world are innovating their business models with tremendous results. IT-Driven Business Models shows interested organizations how they can start the process.
Smarter Computing to Support 21st Century Governancejabenjamusibm
Amid fiscal restraint, government agencies around the world are transforming their
organizations to be more responsive to the challenges facing them. This
transformation is guided by four governance imperatives: (1) improving citizen and
business outcomes, (2) managing public resources effectively, (3) strengthening
safety and security, and (4) ensuring a sustainable environment. These imperatives
play out across all the domains of governance, including education, healthcare,
transportation, utilities, national defense, and public safety. The information
technology (IT) applications and operations that support these imperatives place
substantial workload demands on IT infrastructures. Traditional government IT
systems are built to handle a single workload in a single agency, but are unable to
handle the workloads effectively or efficiently, thus impeding a government agency’s
ability to deliver on its imperatives.
Government CIOs need guidance to help them transform their IT infrastructures
to deliver on these imperatives. Smarter Computing, a new approach to transform
IT infrastructures, is based on three fundamental capabilities: Designed for Data,
Tuned to the Task, and Managed in the Cloud. Smarter Computing enables IT
infrastructures to handle multiple types of data for advanced management and
analysis applications, by using IT components optimized to the workloads placed on
them, to support a variety of service creation and delivery models.
Meanwhile, leaders in every industry are adopting Smarter Computing to address
the challenges they face and opportunities presented by a Smarter Planet, and IBM
is helping some of them to implement the approach.
We are delighted to share our insights to date on the Future of Cities. This is being released before our upcoming event in Singapore on 14 July 2016, to be led by Anupam Yog and Patrick Harris.
Future Agenda would like to thank Haworth for their kind hosting of the event on the 14th and The Partners who are kindly helping us with logistics in advance. Material here is from an initial perspective written by Harry Rich, CEO RIBA and which has been built upon subsequently with conversations in Dubai, Christchurch NZ, Singapore and Beiruit.
More Future of Cities workshops are planned throughout 2016 for Los Angeles, Shanghai, London and Dubai.
Comments very welcome.
Cities have long birthed advances in the sciences, arts, human rights, business and government. Millions of people have moved to cities for better lives or services unavailable elsewhere.
But as cities grow, so are problems stemming from stretched transportation, energy and water infrastructure.
Future of Ageing - Insights from Discussions Building on an initial perspecti...Future Agenda
Insights from Discussions Building on an Initial Perspective by an initial perspective on the future of ageing by Prof. Laura Carstensen, Ken Smith and Dominika Jaworski at Stanford Center on Longevity. This includes insights from events already completed building on the starting point for the global future agenda futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
HealthMap.org: Aggregation of Online Media Reports for Global Infectious Dise...Forum One
Clark Freifeld, co-creator of HealthMap.org, discusses the potential of his Google Map mashup of publically-available RSS feeds (and tools like it) for improving the early reporting of infections diseases around the world. More information at http://ow.ly/oYll . Contact: Suzanne Rainey / srainey@ForumOne.com .
Providing timely, location enabled information to responders and citizens is critical in managing major emergencies such as bushfires. In major recent events (Canberra 2003, Victoria 2009), traditional communication technologies and methods could not cope sufficiently with the magnitude of the event. More recently and abroad (notably the Haiti Earthquake) Web 2.0 technologies are proving to be invaluable enhancements to traditional information management practices, helping save property and lives.
Disruptive trends shaping the business landscape Singapore - 21 Aug 2019Future Agenda
Future Business Trends
How will global trends disrupt business in the next decade?
Ahead of the first of three speeches / workshops in Singapore over the next few months, this is an overview of some of the key potential drivers of change for businesses.
After some up-front context on foresight it addresses four major area of potential disruption
• The Future Consumer
• Purpose of the Company
• Digital Business
• Future Organisation
If you would like more detail on any of these issues or to know more about the workshops, do not hesitate to get in touch.
Future Risk - Emerging global and corporate challenges 05 02 17Future Agenda
Over the past few months we have been running a number of workshops focused on helping organisations to identify and develop responses to emerging global and corporate risks. Working with companies, government agencies and advisory groups, we have been interrogating the insights from the Future Agenda programme to highlight those issues that provide the greatest potential challenge and also could have the most significant impact going forward. At a time when growing uncertainty and ambiguity are top of mind for many, we thought a brief summary of the most frequent topics being explored may be of wider interest.
In this summary we have therefore highlighted ten key global risks and ten key corporate risks that multiple organisations are seeing as high priority / impact for the next decade:
Ten Global Risks
• Accelerating displacement and the increase in migration
• Air pollution increasing in many urban environments
• A new world order driven by changing interests and relationships
• Broader cyber terrorism moving from the virtual to physical world
• Closing the inequality gap and balance equity and autonomy
• Flooded cities as the most visible impact of climate change
• Global pandemics stressing public health systems
• Key resource constraints driven by economic and political tensions
• Rising youth unemployment creating a lost generation
• Spiraling debt as a precursor to another major financial crisis
Ten Corporate Risks
• Continuous proof of loyalty to consumers required from brands
• Declining government influence as cities, networks and multinationals lead
• Full cost and having to account and pay for the true impact of activities
• Interconnected systems and the IoT increasing business vulnerability
• Managing data risk driving the need for greater security
• Regulation changing rapidly in its reach, its character and its focus
• Speed to scale accelerating and proving more disruptive impact
• Truth and illusion shifting view of what is credible and why
• The human touch being increasingly important in a digital world
• The rise of machines as AI and automation are both threat and opportunity
While not the same top issues for every organisation, these hopefully help to provide useful insight and context. More detailed information on many of these is available on the future agenda website www.futureagenda.org
Corporate reputation is an intangible asset amounting to up to 70% of an organisation’s market capitalisation. Recent evolutions in the business environment and social communications have made stakeholder engagement an essential part of the strategy of responsible and successful organisations in order to maintain this capital. But research shows that most engagement efforts in multinational or multi-services companies are kept in silos and uncoordinated across business units or departments.
This document describes some of the engagement guidelines provided by the AA1000 and GRI assurance standards and how following these guidelines with an appropriate collaborative, full circle platform can help:
* identify important stakeholders and groups ;
* map them and their opinions on the organisation’s strategic issues ;
* engage them appropriately and monitor impacts.
in a natural continuous improvement cycle to help respond to short term events in the context of a long term communication and corporate reputation management strategy.
It also describes engagement in the context of crisis management and social media to show how detecting earlier warning signals both enhances the organisation’s ability to contain the crisis and lowers the cost at which this is done.
On the streets, on social networks and at the ballot box, people are voicing their discontent. They are worried about the environment. They are demanding social equality. They are advocating for better living and working conditions. And they are reacting to perceived institutional injustices. In short, they are angry at their leaders and they are making sure their voices are heard. This is not about a handful of radicals shouting from the wilderness. What we are witnessing is a massive shift in the ‘middle’. Indeed, the voices on the fringes of these issues largely remain shrill and extreme. What is changing is the quiet chorus of voices that make up the middle ground (i.e., the average voter).
For many governments, this upswelling of discontent could not be happening at a worse time. Public budgets are highly constrained (either by debt or by borrowing limits). Technologies are rapidly changing. New risks are emerging. And planning is becoming infinitely more complex. The pace of response from governments is proving to be inadequate.
Report | McKinsey Global Institute by:
James Manyika and Richard Dobbs are directors of the McKinsey Global Institute, where Michael Chui is a principal; Jacques Bughin is a director in McKinsey’s Brussels office; Peter Bisson is a director in the Stamford office.
A Strategy Framework For the Risk Assessment And Mitigation For Large E-Gover...ijmvsc
Globally, e-Government has become an effective tool for civic transformation. In the recent years eGovernment development gained significant momentum despite the financial crisis that crippled the world economy. For most of the governments, the crisis was a wakeup call to become more transparent
and efficient. In addition, there is a growing demand for governments to transform from traditional agency/department centric approach to “Citizen-Centric” approach. This transformation is expected to enhance the quality of life of citizens in terms of greater convenience in availing government services. Eventually this would result in higher levels of citizen satisfaction and improved trust in government.
A Strategy Framework For the Risk Assessment And Mitigation For Large E-Gover...ijmvsc
Globally, e-Government has become an effective tool for civic transformation. In the recent years eGovernment development gained significant momentum despite the financial crisis that crippled the world economy. For most of the governments, the crisis was a wakeup call to become more transparent
and efficient. In addition, there is a growing demand for governments to transform from traditional agency/department centric approach to “Citizen-Centric” approach. This transformation is expected to enhance the quality of life of citizens in terms of greater convenience in availing government services. Eventually this would result in higher levels of citizen satisfaction and improved trust in government
A Strategy Framework For the Risk Assessment And Mitigation For Large E-Gover...ijmvsc
Globally, e-Government has become an effective tool for civic transformation. In the recent years eGovernment development gained significant momentum despite the financial crisis that crippled the world economy. For most of the governments, the crisis was a wakeup call to become more transparent and efficient. In addition, there is a growing demand for governments to transform from traditional agency/department centric approach to “Citizen-Centric” approach. This transformation is expected to enhance the quality of life of citizens in terms of greater convenience in availing government services. Eventually this would result in higher levels of citizen satisfaction and improved trust in government. However, projects of such scale and complexity, faces numerous roadblocks which eventually hamper its potential to deliver the intended benefits to the citizens. The success of these programmes calls for strategic direction, policy making and greater coordination among multiple agencies, following a uniform approach in achieving the vision. This necessitates a strategic framework comprehensive enough to visualize and enable the leaders in addressing the potential roadblocks or resistance. This report presents the outcome of a research to define a strategic framework that models the opposing and propelling forces dormant during a project time. This would help the strategic decision makers to visualize each project as a whole and take quick decisions in the areas that need additional thrust, to ensure that the initiatives achieve the envisaged goals.
Horizon Scan: ICT and the future of financial servicesEricsson
A new research report from Ericsson and Imperial College London provides a broad horizon scan of the impacts of ICT on services for money, banking, insurance and risk.
Rising to the New Challenges of Transactional Services in the Public SectorCapgemini
Companies and government agencies alike are moving their activities online.
The rising curve of online service delivery adoption has raised expectations of service levels. Yet many transactions in the public sector are often still provided by systems that were not intended, designed and built to support the exponential user and data growth.
Subsequently, the rise of online service delivery not only requires new investment but also adds new risks in making these systems secure for an online world with its increasing levels of cyber crime. Both the private and the public sectors are under pressure to reduce the costs associated with delivery of transactional services.
But since our last paper on the topic was published, three significant trends have emerged:
- The increased urgency to reduce fraud and non-compliance
- The changing nature of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services strategies moving away from pure cost reduction to transformational outsourcing
- The rapid rise of Cloud technology, with dramatic changes to delivery models
Read our paper to learn more about how government can learn from the private sector in order to tackle these issues.
The paper addresses causes of complexity and gives guidelines how to deal with them in a goal and future oriented way, that brings the business back in control and empowers customers, employees and partners. The approach is illustrated by examples from the public, financial and health sector.
See also: http://theiland.posthaven.com/
Note: Republication of a paper from 2011.
Four technology super trends and their impact on banking: digital society, big data, everithing joins up, integrity and security.
Customer: convinience, safety, personalization
Vision 2015 - Geheimdienste Global verknüpfenMarc Manthey
Ein aus dem Jahre 2008 stammendes Dokument, das auf einem offiziellen Webserver der amerikanischem Geheimdienste liegt, beschreibt als Zielsetzung für das Jahr 2015 ein global vernetztes Geheimdienstunternehmen. Es handelt sich um einen Leitfaden für ein neues Handlungskonzept und eine stärkere Zusammenführung aller US-Dienste in diesen einen zentralen Dienst.
http://www.internet-law.de/2013/07/amerikanische-uberwachungsstrategien-ganz-offiziell.html
Venturing into the new era of infrastructure for AustraliaEdward Chan
Here at Hadron Group, we have had many conversations about how recent events have permanently impacted the way we live, work and interact, and what this means for the infrastructure sector. This document – “Venturing Into the New Era of Infrastructure”- investigates the emerging and accelerating trends that we are seeing across Australia, and the impacts of these trends on the infrastructure sector.
We advocate for all levels of government to act now to maximise the benefits of these changes. Government should consider its role in facilitating these trends, assist businesses and workers to gradually shift to meet these new demands, and harness the potential in them to create a better lifestyle for Australia.
In an increasingly fast-changing and interconnected world, fostering resilience to withstand unexpected shocks is becoming more important. Bringing together leading figures from governments, businesses, and resilience experts, The Urban Resilience Summit served as a platform for dialogue on how to build robust and resilient cities.
The Urban Resilience Summit: Innovation, Investment, Collaboration (Executive...The Rockefeller Foundation
In an increasingly fast-changing and interconnected world, fostering resilience to withstand unexpected shocks is becoming more important. The effects of the financial crisis in 2008 still linger today. More recently, natural disasters of historic proportions in Asia and the re-emergence of geopolitical turmoil in Eastern Europe and the Middle East highlight the need for more resilient societies. Building more robust and resilient cities is key, and was the subject of The Economist Events’ Urban Resilience Summit held in Singapore on December 3rd.
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/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.