Digital Transformation of cities is now possible and is leading to smart cities where citizens are fully involved, together with infrastructure operators and city administration.
Infrastructure operators bring to the table technologies that help bridging the existing gap within stakeholders in megacities.
In the end, managing ecosystems are a unique chance for cities to offer a seamless userexperience to their inhabitants.
Conference done at INSTITUT VEOLIA in December 2017.
Can Customers’ Voice disrupt Utilities?Alain Staron
Actual governance for Public Infrastructures Operations Management lets very little room for innovation, due to very strict requirements specifications, and long term contracts. This is not compatible with short cycles in Digital Innovation. And it prevents from taking into account customer feedback at appropriate pace.
That lets plenty of space for startups that can occupy the room in the value chain, in between individual, not organized, customers, and centralized operators who have little motivation to take into account their feedback.
This is Disruption by the book, not only of the operator, but possibly of the Public authority itself. One possibility to overcome this problem is to create alternatives by capitalizing on, and catalyzing Ecosystems.
World Disrupt Forum, October 2018, Paris
Can Customers’ Voice disrupt Utilities?Alain Staron
Actual governance for Public Infrastructures Operations Management lets very little room for innovation, due to very strict requirements specifications, and long term contracts. This is not compatible with short cycles in Digital Innovation. And it prevents from taking into account customer feedback at appropriate pace.
That lets plenty of space for startups that can occupy the room in the value chain, in between individual, not organized, customers, and centralized operators who have little motivation to take into account their feedback.
This is Disruption by the book, not only of the operator, but possibly of the Public authority itself. One possibility to overcome this problem is to create alternatives by capitalizing on, and catalyzing Ecosystems.
World Disrupt Forum, October 2018, Paris
Cites are the primary source of carbon emissions but also can offer critical solutions to climate change. But rapidly redesigning cities perhaps one of greatest challenges. We share why we think startups are well positioned to play a major role in reimagining cities.
Smart cities | Smarter citizens Vienna - 25 Nov 2014 lrTim Jones
A keynote at the Zero Emission Cities Conference in Vienna focused on shifts in focus of smart cities. Key contrast is made between what is being embedded in city infrastructures to make them more intelligent and efficient vs. how people in cities can use, share and interpret data to make more intelligent decisions.
Talk is split into three parts:
What we say about the future of cities from the first Future Agenda programme in 2010
An overview of some of the key developments and collaborations that have taken place since
Some key questions that we see are being asked about citizen engagement that we will explore in the second future agenda programme in 2015
Imagine living in a city where technology is skilfully embedded into most of your daily things from cars to chairs to streetlights, garbage truck so on and so forth.
SmartCity enablement Company in India providing smartcity enablement, smartcity checklist, smartcity planning, Open source ERP, Web Development, SEO, Digital Marketing services and enterprise mobile Applications, COTS products, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM
IoT is changing the way cities are run till recently .With real data analysis IoT can make city more resilient and sustainable. We at Vogelkop Design helps to find solutions for sustainable ways and means to do so. Attached presentation would give you glimpse of how IoT is changing the scenario.
To know more about how we can help to incorporate IoT solutions for built spaces as well as city planning , please send your queries to vogelkopdesigns@gmail.com
How Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines are d...Alain Staron
September 2018 at CTTC, Barcelona: discussing how progress in IOT, AI and Autonomous Machine is changing the operations in utilities.
It starts with better efficiency, and ends with disruption of incumbents.
Cites are the primary source of carbon emissions but also can offer critical solutions to climate change. But rapidly redesigning cities perhaps one of greatest challenges. We share why we think startups are well positioned to play a major role in reimagining cities.
Smart cities | Smarter citizens Vienna - 25 Nov 2014 lrTim Jones
A keynote at the Zero Emission Cities Conference in Vienna focused on shifts in focus of smart cities. Key contrast is made between what is being embedded in city infrastructures to make them more intelligent and efficient vs. how people in cities can use, share and interpret data to make more intelligent decisions.
Talk is split into three parts:
What we say about the future of cities from the first Future Agenda programme in 2010
An overview of some of the key developments and collaborations that have taken place since
Some key questions that we see are being asked about citizen engagement that we will explore in the second future agenda programme in 2015
Imagine living in a city where technology is skilfully embedded into most of your daily things from cars to chairs to streetlights, garbage truck so on and so forth.
SmartCity enablement Company in India providing smartcity enablement, smartcity checklist, smartcity planning, Open source ERP, Web Development, SEO, Digital Marketing services and enterprise mobile Applications, COTS products, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM
IoT is changing the way cities are run till recently .With real data analysis IoT can make city more resilient and sustainable. We at Vogelkop Design helps to find solutions for sustainable ways and means to do so. Attached presentation would give you glimpse of how IoT is changing the scenario.
To know more about how we can help to incorporate IoT solutions for built spaces as well as city planning , please send your queries to vogelkopdesigns@gmail.com
How Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Machines are d...Alain Staron
September 2018 at CTTC, Barcelona: discussing how progress in IOT, AI and Autonomous Machine is changing the operations in utilities.
It starts with better efficiency, and ends with disruption of incumbents.
Discover the Leonard yearbook 2021-2022: "The decisive decade". Interviews with our programme managers, trends in the future of cities and territories, focus on innovative project leaders: you will find many ideas and solutions from the Leonard network to implement and succeed in the environmental transition. Do not miss the new cartography of the best start-ups in the contech.
Discover the Leonard yearbook 2021-2022: "A decisive decade". Interviews with our programme managers, trends in the future of cities and territories, focus on innovative project leaders: you will find many ideas and solutions from the Leonard network to implement and succeed in the environmental transition. Do not miss the new cartography of the best start-ups in the contech.
Smart City : innovative strategy for sustainable developmentIsam Shahrour
Presentation by Isam Shahrour of the role of Smart Cities in the sustainable development. Conference IPEEC « Energy and Environmental Protection », Hebron, October 2013
Cities future outlook and digital cities by Marco Moretti - A2A Smart City Pr...EIT Climate-KIC
Cities future outlook and digital cities: the public utility contribution in the digital and green field presented by Marco Moretti - A2A Smart City President | CIO A2A Group at the Climate Innovation Summit in Milan, 2017.
Presentation hold during EIP Water Conference in Porto, as part of the Porto Water Innovation Week in Session 8b “The good old sewage works is now your community resource factory”
Since 2018, the VOICE SUMMIT brings together voice technology professionals and industry players (Amazon, Samsung, Microsoft, Salesforce, ...) once a year in North America. This event is one of the largest conference dedicated to voice technologies in the world.
The second edition, held in July 2019 at New Jersey Institute of Technology, brought together 5,000 participants from 26 different countries. The Voice community was again gathered to share the latest innovations, best practices, feedback on different use cases (Smart city, Healthcare, Automotive, Travel, Retail ...).
Urban Voice hosted the Smart City session 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM - Wed Jul 24, 2019
Designing Smart Cities for Positive Impact:
Voice perspectives for the smart city and return on experience in designing and developing the first voice application for a French city.
The Sustainable Cities Eco Report is a supplement by The Sunday Telegraph. The September 2013 edition includes features by Wintech Ltd and examines the role of the facade engineer in sustainability and construction.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
42. Thirst in the world
Water availability (in 000’s m3 per person per year)
<1.0 = Scarcity
1.1 - 2 = Stress
2.1 - 5 = Vulnerability
5.1 - 10 = Medium
10.1 - 20 = OK
>20 = No problem
