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The document discusses the Periodic Reporting Exercise in support of implementing the 5Cs Strategic Objectives of the World Heritage Convention. It provides background on the establishment of the 5Cs - Credibility, Conservation, Capacity-Building, Communication, and Communities.
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The document discusses the Periodic Reporting exercise in support of implementing the 5Cs Strategic Objectives of the World Heritage Convention. It provides background on the establishment of the 5Cs - Credibility, Conservation, Capacity-building, Communication, and Communities. The Periodic Reporting exercise helps achieve the 5Cs by strengthening the credibility of the World Heritage list, enhancing conservation of properties, improving capacity and awareness, and increasing community involvement. It serves as both an opportunity and tool to monitor conservation and identify needs and challenges facing World Heritage implementation.
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The document summarizes an international exhibition and forum called ECOTECH that will take place from April 26-29, 2016 at Crocus Expo in Moscow, Russia. The exhibition is being organized with support from the Russian government and will focus on developing green economy and sustainable practices. It will include an exhibition space, business programs, presentations, and awards. The goal is to facilitate dialogue around environmental issues in Russia and promote green technology and solutions. Over 400 companies and 20,000 visitors are expected to participate.
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DISCLAIMER
The ideas and opinions expressed in the above presentations are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the documents do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city of area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
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Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to send you the latest information letter on the Moscow Urban Forum!
The Moscow Urban Forum is an international conference on city development, urbanism and associated disciplines. As a discussion platform the Forum provides an opportunity for a dialogue as equals between experts, investors and potential partners interested in the implementation of various projects related to the development of Moscow’s infrastructure.
The key theme of the 2013 Forum is "Megacities: Success Beyond the Centre". The Forum will take place on December 5-6 in the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall. Also a City Festival will be organized on December 7 as a part of the Forum.
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Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
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This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
Codeless Generative AI Pipelines
(GenAI with Milvus)
https://ml.dssconf.pl/user.html#!/lecture/DSSML24-041a/rate
Discover the potential of real-time streaming in the context of GenAI as we delve into the intricacies of Apache NiFi and its capabilities. Learn how this tool can significantly simplify the data engineering workflow for GenAI applications, allowing you to focus on the creative aspects rather than the technical complexities. I will guide you through practical examples and use cases, showing the impact of automation on prompt building. From data ingestion to transformation and delivery, witness how Apache NiFi streamlines the entire pipeline, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free experience.
Timothy Spann
https://www.youtube.com/@FLaNK-Stack
https://medium.com/@tspann
https://www.datainmotion.dev/
milvus, unstructured data, vector database, zilliz, cloud, vectors, python, deep learning, generative ai, genai, nifi, kafka, flink, streaming, iot, edge
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
ViewShift: Hassle-free Dynamic Policy Enforcement for Every Data LakeWalaa Eldin Moustafa
Dynamic policy enforcement is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s world where data privacy and compliance is a top priority for companies, individuals, and regulators alike. In these slides, we discuss how LinkedIn implements a powerful dynamic policy enforcement engine, called ViewShift, and integrates it within its data lake. We show the query engine architecture and how catalog implementations can automatically route table resolutions to compliance-enforcing SQL views. Such views have a set of very interesting properties: (1) They are auto-generated from declarative data annotations. (2) They respect user-level consent and preferences (3) They are context-aware, encoding a different set of transformations for different use cases (4) They are portable; while the SQL logic is only implemented in one SQL dialect, it is accessible in all engines.
#SQL #Views #Privacy #Compliance #DataLake
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
The Ipsos - AI - Monitor 2024 Report.pdfSocial Samosa
According to Ipsos AI Monitor's 2024 report, 65% Indians said that products and services using AI have profoundly changed their daily life in the past 3-5 years.
End-to-end pipeline agility - Berlin Buzzwords 2024Lars Albertsson
We describe how we achieve high change agility in data engineering by eliminating the fear of breaking downstream data pipelines through end-to-end pipeline testing, and by using schema metaprogramming to safely eliminate boilerplate involved in changes that affect whole pipelines.
A quick poll on agility in changing pipelines from end to end indicated a huge span in capabilities. For the question "How long time does it take for all downstream pipelines to be adapted to an upstream change," the median response was 6 months, but some respondents could do it in less than a day. When quantitative data engineering differences between the best and worst are measured, the span is often 100x-1000x, sometimes even more.
A long time ago, we suffered at Spotify from fear of changing pipelines due to not knowing what the impact might be downstream. We made plans for a technical solution to test pipelines end-to-end to mitigate that fear, but the effort failed for cultural reasons. We eventually solved this challenge, but in a different context. In this presentation we will describe how we test full pipelines effectively by manipulating workflow orchestration, which enables us to make changes in pipelines without fear of breaking downstream.
Making schema changes that affect many jobs also involves a lot of toil and boilerplate. Using schema-on-read mitigates some of it, but has drawbacks since it makes it more difficult to detect errors early. We will describe how we have rejected this tradeoff by applying schema metaprogramming, eliminating boilerplate but keeping the protection of static typing, thereby further improving agility to quickly modify data pipelines without fear.
State of Artificial intelligence Report 2023kuntobimo2016
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary field of science and engineering whose goal is to create intelligent machines.
We believe that AI will be a force multiplier on technological progress in our increasingly digital, data-driven world. This is because everything around us today, ranging from culture to consumer products, is a product of intelligence.
The State of AI Report is now in its sixth year. Consider this report as a compilation of the most interesting things we’ve seen with a goal of triggering an informed conversation about the state of AI and its implication for the future.
We consider the following key dimensions in our report:
Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
Industry: Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Safety: Identifying and mitigating catastrophic risks that highly-capable future AI systems could pose to us.
Predictions: What we believe will happen in the next 12 months and a 2022 performance review to keep us honest.
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CONCEPT
of the International forum
“Nature management and conservation of the world's
cultural and natural heritage”
within the framework of the commemorative activities for the 50th anniversary of the
1972 Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage (2022, Saint Petersburg)
The year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Convention concerning the
Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, one of the most effective and
widely recognised international instruments developed under the auspices of UNESCO.
For half a century, the Convention has been compiling the World Heritage List, a list of the
world's most outstanding cultural and natural sites that are of universal value and require
special protection.
The issues of ensuring a balance between rational nature management,
environmental safety and conservation of natural heritage are in the focus of attention of
the scientific community and are inextricably linked with the need for the state to
participate in the regulation of these processes. One of the effective ways of solving the
problem could be the creation of a unified modular approach to environmental
management based on national interests in terms of sustainable use of resources and
preservation of cultural and natural heritage. The development of basic research, the
introduction of advanced scientific developments and the rational use of the planet's natural
resources will all contribute to this objective.
The International Forum on Natural Management and Conservation of World
Natural Heritage (hereinafter referred to as the Forum) is organised by the Russian
Federation as part of the celebration events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the 1972
Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, to
discuss a wide range of issues relating to the development of cooperation for the sake of
progress with regard to conservation of the World Natural Heritage.
The working languages of the Forum are Russian and English.
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I. Organizing Committee and list of activities for the preparation and holding of
the Forum
Organizers of the Forum:
Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO (hereinafter – the
Commission).
Federal State-Funded Educational Institution of Higher Professional
Education “Saint-Petersburg mining university” (hereinafter – Mining
university).
International competence centre for mining-engineering education under the
auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter – UNESCO Centre).
Directorate of Sports and Social Projects (hereinafter – Directorate).
Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D.S.
Likhachev (hereinafter – Institute of Heritage).
List of activities in preparation and holding of the Forum:
concept preparation;
programme development;
involvement of international and national experts;
organisation and implementation of a campaign to attract participants;
preparation of information materials and resources;
Evaluation of results and summing up .
Outcome of the Forum - a declaration will be considered on the need for an
international expert group to propose principles of environmental management in the
context of cultural and natural heritage conservation.
II. Participants, experts and support staff,
III. involved in the organization and conduct of the Forum
Participants :
–foreign participants - representatives of governments, academic and business
communities, World Heritage sites from CIS countries and countries friendly to
Russia.
–Russian participants from government, academic and business communities, World
Heritage sites in Russia;
Experts :
– International experts.
– Russian experts.
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Support staff:
– Assistants.
– Temporary staff.
– Volunteers.
– Representatives of an advisory organisation providing methodological support in
the planning and preparation of the Forum.
IV. Place, venue and dates of the Forumа
Place – the City of Saint-Petersburg.
Venue – Mining university, MFC “Gorny”.
Duration of the Forum – 4 days (including days of arrival and departure):
– Day 1 - arrival of participants.
– Day 2 - opening ceremony of the Forum, plenary sessions, breakout sessions.
– Day 3 – Breakout sessions, field trips to the world heritage sites, gala dinner
(subject to agreement).
– Day 4 – departure of participants (some participants move to Kazan).
Place – the City of Kazan.
Duration of the Forum – 5 days (including days of arrival and departure).
V. Topics for plenary sessions and breakout sessions
Main theme of the Forum –Nature management and conservation of the world's
cultural and natural heritage.
Topics for plenary sessions:
Responsible environmental management as a necessary element for the
preservation of the world's cultural and natural heritage.
Anthropogenic impacts: pros and cons for Natural World Heritage sites.
Topics for breakout sessions:
Mineral resources as a cultural and natural heritage site.
Features of management of World Heritage sites in different countries.
Ecology and Environmental Management in the Context of Conservation of World
Heritage Sites.
Compensatory conservation programmes for the conservation of natural World
Heritage sites.
Economic justification for the protection of natural heritage objects in the
implementation of investment projects.
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Development of new technologies for the conservation of World Heritage sites.
Responsible tourism as a factor in the conservation of World Heritage sites.
Impact of geodynamic processes on the conservation of World Heritage sites.
Digitalisation of World Heritage Sites.
VI. . Commitments of the Organizers and sources of funding
The Russian side will provide 400 grants to cover the travel, accommodation and
meals of participants during the days of the Forum:
–200 grants for participants from CIS countries and countries friendly to Russia at
the expense of the budget of the Russian Federation.
–200 grants for Russian participants at the expense of the UNESCO Centre and the
Mining university.
The grant includes:
covering the cost of air travel from the capital or the nearest city of residence of
the participant to St. Petersburg and back;
air travel from St. Petersburg to Kazan, from Kazan to the capital (or the nearest
city) of the country of residence for 20 Forum participants;
accommodation in the hotel of MFC "Gorny" for the entire period of the Forum;
three meals a day during the entire period of the Forum (including a gala dinner);
health insurance that includes measures related to COVID-19.
The list of grantees will be determined after the registration to the Forum.
The Russian and international experts will be reimbursed from the budget of the
Russian Federation for their air travel to and from the Russian Federation, as well as the
costs of domestic air travel provided for by the programme, an honorarium, three meals a
day and accommodation for the duration of the Forum.
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VII. Forum programme details
Day 1
0:00-23:59 Arrival of participants in St Petersburg
Day 2
07:30-8:30 Breakfast
08:00-9:30 Registration
09:30-10:30 Opening ceremony
10:30-11:00
Media scrum
Coffee-break
11:00-12:30 Plenary session 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Plenary session 2
15:30-16:00 Coffee-break
16:00-18:00 Breakout sessions
18:00-19:30 Dinner
Day 3
07:30-9:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:30 Breakout sessions
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break
11:00-12:30 Breakout sessions
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-19:00 Visit to World Heritage sites
19:00-23:00 Gala dinner
Day 4
0:00-23:59 Departure of participants from St Petersburg
0:00-23:59 Arrival of participants in Kazan
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Continuation of the Forum programme in Kazan
Day 5
11:00-14:00 Ceremony
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-18:00 Ceremony
18:00-21:00 Evening cultural programme
Day 6
10:00-11:30 Opening of the Forum and plenary session
11:30-12:00 Coffee-break
12:00-14:00 Group work
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-17:30 Group work
17:30-18:00 Coffee-break
18:00-22:00 A visit to the Kazan Kremlin
Day 7
10:00-11:00 Plenary session
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break
11:30-14:00 Group work
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-21:00 Cultural programme in Sviyazhsk
Day 8
10:00-12:00 Plenary session and summing up of the Forum
12:00-12:30 Coffee-break
12:30-19:00 Visit to Bulgar
19:00-21:00 Gala dinner
Day 9
0:00-23:59 Departure of participants
