Koichi Tagawa, SONY; Chairman, NFC Forum
Chairman Koichi Tagawa-san kicks of the NFC Forum Spotlight for Developers in San Francisco with an update on the NFC industry.
Koichi Tagawa, SONY; Chairman, NFC Forum
Chairman Koichi Tagawa-san kicks of the NFC Forum Spotlight for Developers in San Francisco with an update on the NFC industry.
Webinar Wednesday: Launching & Managing A Successful Kickstarter/Indiegogo Pr...Vegan Mainstream
Over the last year over 38 vegan individuals and business have flocked to sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo as a way to get their fans, followers and passionate donors to show their support their professional aspirations with a financial donation. These funds have launched successful movies, TV series, product lines and food trucks. So, what’s the secret? Well you have to join the webinar to find out! We are interviewing the people behind some of the most successful business funding raising projects and sharing their secrets with you.
The story of where the idea for Makerble came from and how Matt Kepple got there.
See you on Makerble!
http://makerble.launchrock.com
NEXT VIDEO:
Matt talks to ideas consultant Mathias Vestergaard about innovation culture:
http://youtu.be/YYNBztGuty4
- awards
- networking
- funding
- saving
- consulting
- rejection
- iterations
- advisors
- market research
Raise funds for your business idea(s) using crowdfundingOmololu Consulting
Presentation was made during the lean startup event in Shanghai on Oct 26, 2016 organized by Omololu Consulting. It shows how companies can raise funds and why crowdfunding is the best option for startups & small business. See www.omololuconsulting.com/pages/crowd for more
Our first Child's i Foundation meetup. We shared a bit about us, our ambitions and our todo list.
If you want to join one of our sessions: http://www.meetup.com/childsifoundation
NFC Forum Technology Roadmap Webinar SlidesNFC Forum
Explore the pivotal roles played by Special Interest Group Chairs, Working Group Chairs, and Committee Chairs as they delve deeper into the intricacies of ongoing work streams and the significant progress shaping the industry’s trajectory over the next 2-5 years. Stay at the forefront of NFC technology development, standardization, and implementation.
NFC technology has the power to transform the healthcare industry. During this first webinar of 2023, thought leaders from Grapheal, STMicroelectronics, and Northwestern University share the innovative and inspiring ways they’re using NFC technology to positively impact lifestyle and quality of life in healthcare.
Hear from a panel of experts from Huawei, Infineon, NuCurrent, NXP, Panthronics, STMicroelectronics and Zebra Technologies as they come together to discuss the rapidly emerging NFC wireless charging technology and share new, unpublicized, real-world use cases. Get all your questions answered during the Q&A portion of the webinar. This power-packed panel will be moderated by Dinesh Kithany, Chief Analyst, Wired & Wireless Technologies Ltd (WAWT).
NFC technology has arrived in the mainstream. Many people associate contactless with payment or the replacement of a QR code. But there are many more interesting applications, especially when NFC and security are combined. We will illustrate this with practical use case examples from around the world from diverse industry verticals, such as anti-counterfeiting, home healthcare and enterprise access control, while also highlighting some of the challenges of deploying NFC at scale into fixed infrastructure.
Having led some of the largest implementations in the world, we are excited to be joined by HID Global and Cubic Transportation Systems for this presentation.
Key takeaways from this presentation will be to gain:
-A better understanding of how NFC technology is streamlining operations
-Insights into how NFC technology is improving the user experience
-Firsthand information from use case examples on the challenges and success of global NFC deployments including Digital Wallets
Paul Meyer, Executive Founder and President of the The Commons Project Foundation shares insights on the importance of good data to ensure good health.
Webinar Wednesday: Launching & Managing A Successful Kickstarter/Indiegogo Pr...Vegan Mainstream
Over the last year over 38 vegan individuals and business have flocked to sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo as a way to get their fans, followers and passionate donors to show their support their professional aspirations with a financial donation. These funds have launched successful movies, TV series, product lines and food trucks. So, what’s the secret? Well you have to join the webinar to find out! We are interviewing the people behind some of the most successful business funding raising projects and sharing their secrets with you.
The story of where the idea for Makerble came from and how Matt Kepple got there.
See you on Makerble!
http://makerble.launchrock.com
NEXT VIDEO:
Matt talks to ideas consultant Mathias Vestergaard about innovation culture:
http://youtu.be/YYNBztGuty4
- awards
- networking
- funding
- saving
- consulting
- rejection
- iterations
- advisors
- market research
Raise funds for your business idea(s) using crowdfundingOmololu Consulting
Presentation was made during the lean startup event in Shanghai on Oct 26, 2016 organized by Omololu Consulting. It shows how companies can raise funds and why crowdfunding is the best option for startups & small business. See www.omololuconsulting.com/pages/crowd for more
Our first Child's i Foundation meetup. We shared a bit about us, our ambitions and our todo list.
If you want to join one of our sessions: http://www.meetup.com/childsifoundation
NFC Forum Technology Roadmap Webinar SlidesNFC Forum
Explore the pivotal roles played by Special Interest Group Chairs, Working Group Chairs, and Committee Chairs as they delve deeper into the intricacies of ongoing work streams and the significant progress shaping the industry’s trajectory over the next 2-5 years. Stay at the forefront of NFC technology development, standardization, and implementation.
NFC technology has the power to transform the healthcare industry. During this first webinar of 2023, thought leaders from Grapheal, STMicroelectronics, and Northwestern University share the innovative and inspiring ways they’re using NFC technology to positively impact lifestyle and quality of life in healthcare.
Hear from a panel of experts from Huawei, Infineon, NuCurrent, NXP, Panthronics, STMicroelectronics and Zebra Technologies as they come together to discuss the rapidly emerging NFC wireless charging technology and share new, unpublicized, real-world use cases. Get all your questions answered during the Q&A portion of the webinar. This power-packed panel will be moderated by Dinesh Kithany, Chief Analyst, Wired & Wireless Technologies Ltd (WAWT).
NFC technology has arrived in the mainstream. Many people associate contactless with payment or the replacement of a QR code. But there are many more interesting applications, especially when NFC and security are combined. We will illustrate this with practical use case examples from around the world from diverse industry verticals, such as anti-counterfeiting, home healthcare and enterprise access control, while also highlighting some of the challenges of deploying NFC at scale into fixed infrastructure.
Having led some of the largest implementations in the world, we are excited to be joined by HID Global and Cubic Transportation Systems for this presentation.
Key takeaways from this presentation will be to gain:
-A better understanding of how NFC technology is streamlining operations
-Insights into how NFC technology is improving the user experience
-Firsthand information from use case examples on the challenges and success of global NFC deployments including Digital Wallets
Paul Meyer, Executive Founder and President of the The Commons Project Foundation shares insights on the importance of good data to ensure good health.
New Use Case presented by Joseph Spears, Pharmacy Operations Advisor at CVS Health. Learn the strides CVS is taking to simplify prescription orders for those who are visually impaired by leveraging technology.
Presented by Dr. John Rogers, Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics at Northwestern University. Dr. Rogers has published more than 800 papers, and is an inventor on over 100 patents and patent applications, more than 70 of which are licensed or in active use by large companies and startups that he has co-founded.
ABI Research NFC Consumer Experience Survey ResultsNFC Forum
Discover the 2022 ABI Research NFC Consumer Experience Survey Results presented by Phil Sealy and Andrew Zignani, of ABI Research. The goal of the survey was to provide a greater understanding of consumer adoption, familiarity, and experiences with Near-Field Communication (NFC)/contactless technology at both a global and regional level.
Learn what’s new with the NFC Forum Certification Program and hear firsthand from DEKRA Testing and Certification, S.A.U. an Authorized Test Lab to see how they leverage the NFC Forum Certification Program to provide excellence and ensure interoperability to their customers.
Connecting the Unconnected: The Unique Power of NFC in IoT Data AcquisitionNFC Forum
The NFC Forum Executive Director, Mike McCamon presented at the 5th IoT Global Innovation Forum, held on July 28-29, 2021. The session addressed Connecting the Unconnected: The Unique Power of NFC in IoT Data Acquisition.
NFC Services on Smartphone with Calypso presented by Calypso Networks Association. Calypso is an open contactless ticketing standard for the transport world built on values of openness, security and interoperability, managed by the CNA association.
Management and Use of Identities in Mobility and Transport Powered by NFC Tec...NFC Forum
This session is focused on using NFC technology when deploying eID in MaaS application. NFC technology provides users an intuitive, touchless and convenient interface to onboard and use eID within MaaS applications.
An online survey, developed within NFC Forum, in 6 languages, with a set of 23+ questions, a filter to ensure respondents have used NFC for other User Cases than Payment & Transport was held. This presentation unveils the survey's 1700+ responses.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
2. What did we make?
Raised £240K in 6 weeks
Secured VC funding
3. Chronological
Oct 2012 -Turned 30 & quit day job as Founder/MD at PrimaryT, began
prototyping ring
Jan 2013 – Began marketing/raising funds for NFC Ring project
Mar 2013 – Raised funds from VC
Apr 2013 – Began implementing marketing / application to KS
Aug 2013 – Launched crowd funded campaign
Oct 2013 – Got funds through and began production
To present – Fulfilling orders
4. Were we successful?
Raised £240K in 4 weeks
Secured VC funding
Sold 15k rings
Successful pre-order since Crowd funding
However....
Started shipping 5 months late
Burnt through all crowd-sourced funds
5. Platform options
Indiegogo – Easy to get onto, lots of vapor, has referal scheme
Kickstarter – Lots of prep work to get onto, confident
consumers, difficult handling messages
Bitcoinstarter – Bitcoin only funding
SelfStarter – Higher initial bar, keep all funds
6. Dragons
Lots of communication w/ backers required.
Lose a % of all fees raised
VAT fees unavoidable
Hard to operate behind closed doors
Success as a double edged sword
7. Unicorns
Strong & vocal community
Very fast iteration / feedback
Lateness is expected
Press and Media attention
R&D Funds
8. Preparing
£20k in marketing prep PRIOR to K/S
£10k in Videos
£5k in Prototypes (All open source)
£5k in Source code (All open source)
9. Things we learned
Our factory were saying yes to everything despite not knowing what they were
doing.
What you get as a prototype is not what you get from a production run.
NFC Crowd-funders like Open source
NFC Crowd-funders will engage with a community
The NFC community helps each other out (big help from NFC Forum members
who will remain anonymous)