How do you see the future of oracles and data on blockchain? Adan Sanchez de Pedro presents Witnet and their solution to the oracle problem at D1Conf.
These slides are courtesy of Adan Sanchez de Pedro, Witnet Foundation
With smartphones and SaaS (Software as a Service), we end up giving all of our personal data to large corporations such as Google and Facebook, getting in return some inexpensive service (Facebook's service costs roughly USD6 per person per year). What if instead we had personal clouds to store our data and make more of it? What are the other parts we can decentralize and make more in service of the people? This is why we gathered for a full day in Brussels' FOSDEM in Decentralized Internet Devroom.
Presentation given in Helsinki, Finland (at Microsoft Flux) on the upcoming crypto regulations in the EU, and Finland in particular, where even harder regulations are proposed to the Parliament. These regulations may very likely threaten the adaption of new technologies applied and developed especially by young startups, such as blockchain technology, Internet-of-Things, artificial intelligence (AI) and a range of modern token-based ecosystems.
The Next Tsunami AI Blockchain IOT and Our Swarm Evolutionary Singularitytheodorekristiniak
The Next Tsunami AI Blockchain IOT and Our Swarm Evolutionary Singularity. AI is going to change everything? Wrong! AI changed already everything! But… Did we forgot our human swarm intelligence evolutionary nature?
Why do NFTs influence the spread of businesses throughout Metaverses?Next Earth
NextEarth.io. Find out why NFTs had effectively encouraged expansion of businesses.
Transparent Digital Land Purchasing Platform.
Join NextEarth.io.
BUY LAND BEFORE OTHERS!
D1Conf 2018 | xDai Chain:Decentralized Insurance & the Benefits of the Stable...D1Conf
xDai is a new network created by POA Network in which Dai, a stablecoin, is the native currency of that chain. POA and Etherisc have joined forces to showcase how decentralized insurance DApps can be used on xDai, with the additional benefits of much faster transactions without the price volatility. Igor Barinov and Dmitry Savitsky presented the results of this joint effort at D1Conf.
These slides are courtesy of Igor Barinov, POA Network and Dmitry Savitsky, Etherisc
With smartphones and SaaS (Software as a Service), we end up giving all of our personal data to large corporations such as Google and Facebook, getting in return some inexpensive service (Facebook's service costs roughly USD6 per person per year). What if instead we had personal clouds to store our data and make more of it? What are the other parts we can decentralize and make more in service of the people? This is why we gathered for a full day in Brussels' FOSDEM in Decentralized Internet Devroom.
Presentation given in Helsinki, Finland (at Microsoft Flux) on the upcoming crypto regulations in the EU, and Finland in particular, where even harder regulations are proposed to the Parliament. These regulations may very likely threaten the adaption of new technologies applied and developed especially by young startups, such as blockchain technology, Internet-of-Things, artificial intelligence (AI) and a range of modern token-based ecosystems.
The Next Tsunami AI Blockchain IOT and Our Swarm Evolutionary Singularitytheodorekristiniak
The Next Tsunami AI Blockchain IOT and Our Swarm Evolutionary Singularity. AI is going to change everything? Wrong! AI changed already everything! But… Did we forgot our human swarm intelligence evolutionary nature?
Why do NFTs influence the spread of businesses throughout Metaverses?Next Earth
NextEarth.io. Find out why NFTs had effectively encouraged expansion of businesses.
Transparent Digital Land Purchasing Platform.
Join NextEarth.io.
BUY LAND BEFORE OTHERS!
D1Conf 2018 | xDai Chain:Decentralized Insurance & the Benefits of the Stable...D1Conf
xDai is a new network created by POA Network in which Dai, a stablecoin, is the native currency of that chain. POA and Etherisc have joined forces to showcase how decentralized insurance DApps can be used on xDai, with the additional benefits of much faster transactions without the price volatility. Igor Barinov and Dmitry Savitsky presented the results of this joint effort at D1Conf.
These slides are courtesy of Igor Barinov, POA Network and Dmitry Savitsky, Etherisc
D1Conf 2018 | DAOs as Infrastructure for Product Lines | Joel Martinez & Alpe...D1Conf
During this session at D1Conf, Joel Martinez of HurricaneGuard and Alpen Sheth of Etherisc talked about how DAOs are suited for maintaining insurance products in a fair, transparent and inclusive way providing the common management functionality for underwriters, administrators, operators, and regulators across the value chain. They also shared how the HurricaneGuard team is exploring the Aragon’s DAO framework to build supporting infrastructure for their products that includes registries as well as upgrade, arbitration, and reporting schemes.
These slides are courtesy of Joel Martinez, HurricaneGuard and Alpen Sheth, Etherisc
D1Conf 2018 |Working with Regulatory Bodies: Lessons Learned from the FCA San...D1Conf
Working with regulatory bodies has its specific challenges. Luis Novella and David Ambrose shared lessons learned by VIVAT Group during the FCA Sandbox project.
These slides are courtesy of Luis Novella and David Ambrose, VIVAT Group
D1Conf 2018 |Insurance Risk Tokenization on Blockchain | Theo Freybote, tenSigmaD1Conf
At D1Conf, Theo Freybote of tenSigma presented the rationale for tokenising risks and the associated mechanics and explained how risk tokenisation can open up funding channels for a myriad of decentralised insurance applications, especially those based on smart contracts and novel risk categories.
These slides are courtesy of Theo Freybote, tenSigma
To be able to compete with traditional insurance players, decentralized risk carriers need to be able to trustlessly invest capital in a way that generates interest. There are a number of exciting possibilities and proposals being created within the blockchain world that would allow an entity’s assets to earn a stable, predictable return whilst retaining enough liquidity to allow the entity to meet its liabilities. During his talk at D1Conf, Reinis Melbardis of Nexus Mutual explored the characteristics, risk profiles, and challenges of the nascent asset classes being built on-chain by the open financial ecosystem and explained how to assess their suitability to act as investment assets for a decentralized risk carrier.
These slides are courtesy of Reinis Melbardis, Nexus Mutual
D1Conf 2018 | Exploring Insurance Primitives for Blockchain | Matt Tyndall, C...D1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf 2018, Matt explained why emerging decentralized trading protocols, token standards, and other open finance instruments can be the foundations for a parallel financial infrastructure on Ethereum. He also shared how these findings helped ConsenSys in development of Asekuro, a protocol for facilitating the distribution of insurance products.
These slides are courtesy of Matt Tyndall, ConsenSys
D1Conf 2018 |Generalized Mining and the Third-Party Economy | Jake Brukhman, ...D1Conf
At D1Conf 2018, Jake Brukhman of CoinFund explained decentralized networks and how they incentivize third-party supply-side participants to provide services to decentralized networks in exchange for tokens.
These slides are courtesy of Jake Brukhman, CoinFund
Cellphones are naturally connected to the digital world, so it’s easy to derive why cellphone insurance is a line of business to support with a fully digital infrastructure. The Protchain team shares it’s vision of digital decentralized insurance that will leverage the blockchain to disrupt the high-growth market of cellphone insurance.
These slides are courtesy of Jonathan Staude and Eugene Dylko, Protchain
D1Conf 2018 | Business Process Modeling and Execution in Ethereum | Casey Kuh...D1Conf
In this talk, Monax’s Casey Kuhlman and Jan H. Scheufen outlined how Monax leveraged key features of Hyperledger Burrow to develop and deliver the very first generic business process engine written entirely in Solidity. The combination of an open source BPM engine and Hyperledger Burrow's permissioned EVM blockchain offers a vast range of possibilities for business users seeking to implement and scale out blockchain use cases. The talk is a combination of demo and technical overview highlighting the design, rapid prototyping, and deployment of selected use cases.
These slides are courtesy of Casey Kuhlman and Jan Hendrik Scheufen, Monax
D1Conf 2018 | Blockchain Use Cases for Agriculture & Agriculture Insurance | ...D1Conf
Learn how Agroapps, a company dedicated to providing sustainable ICT solutions that help modern farming and agriculture, uses the blockchain technology and smart contracts, in current and under development Agricultural Farm Management Information Systems and Agricultural Insurance Information Systems.
Stavros Tekes and Gregory Mygdakos, AgroApps
D1Conf 2018 | The Opportunities of Blockchain for Inclusive Insurance | Michi...D1Conf
During his session at D1Conf, Michiel Berende introduced participants to the inclusive insurance and unveil the opportunities blockchain offers to the sector. Michiel focused on how agricultural index insurance solutions based on blockchain can help small-scale farmers in emerging economies to be protected against the risks they are facing nowadays.
These slides are courtesy of Michiel Berende, Etherisc
D1Conf 2018 | Decentralizing Social Security | Fabian Raetz, AsureNetworkD1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf, Fabian spoke about how the blockchain technology offers the potential to establish cost-efficient and tamper-proof decentralized social security systems. To highlight the current challenges of such systems, Asure has implemented the German statutory pension system on the Ethereum blockchain. Fabian presented the results and experiences they had developed within the scope of this project focusing on the things current the decentralized insurance and decentralized social security ecosystem lacks. He also provided an outlook on how the prototype would eventually scale for millions of people.
These slides are courtesy of Fabian Raetz, AsureNetwork
D1Conf 2018 | A Decentralised Mutual for the Ethereum Community | Hugh Karp, ...D1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf, Hugh Karp of Nexus Mutual focused on several important points:
- How various aspects of an insurance company can be decentralized and automated with the help of smart contracts.
- How to design incentives structures that ensure outside work is provided in a coordinated way.
- How to adjust the incentive design to protect against attacks
These slides are courtesy of Hugh Karp, Nexus Mutual
D1Conf 2018 | Building alternative insurance value chains on blockchain | Ris...D1Conf
Risto has extensive experience in building online insurance broker as well as developing technology for the insurance industry. In this talk, he simplifies insurance to very granular level to help you understand how insurance actually works and provides the solution to how we can re-build it using blockchain and tokens.
These slides are courtesy of Risto Rossar, Black Insurance
D1Conf 2018 |The incumbents view: how is the insurance industry using blockch...D1Conf
Welcome Magdalena Ramada Sarasola. She is a Director at Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology and leads the firm’s insurance-focused R&D efforts around insurtech and blockchain technology. At D1Conf 2018, she talked about the innovation and strategic consulting for the insurance industry, especially around blockchain/distributed ledger technologies, emerging risks and markets, and insurtech.
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/
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.
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
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
D1Conf 2018 | DAOs as Infrastructure for Product Lines | Joel Martinez & Alpe...D1Conf
During this session at D1Conf, Joel Martinez of HurricaneGuard and Alpen Sheth of Etherisc talked about how DAOs are suited for maintaining insurance products in a fair, transparent and inclusive way providing the common management functionality for underwriters, administrators, operators, and regulators across the value chain. They also shared how the HurricaneGuard team is exploring the Aragon’s DAO framework to build supporting infrastructure for their products that includes registries as well as upgrade, arbitration, and reporting schemes.
These slides are courtesy of Joel Martinez, HurricaneGuard and Alpen Sheth, Etherisc
D1Conf 2018 |Working with Regulatory Bodies: Lessons Learned from the FCA San...D1Conf
Working with regulatory bodies has its specific challenges. Luis Novella and David Ambrose shared lessons learned by VIVAT Group during the FCA Sandbox project.
These slides are courtesy of Luis Novella and David Ambrose, VIVAT Group
D1Conf 2018 |Insurance Risk Tokenization on Blockchain | Theo Freybote, tenSigmaD1Conf
At D1Conf, Theo Freybote of tenSigma presented the rationale for tokenising risks and the associated mechanics and explained how risk tokenisation can open up funding channels for a myriad of decentralised insurance applications, especially those based on smart contracts and novel risk categories.
These slides are courtesy of Theo Freybote, tenSigma
To be able to compete with traditional insurance players, decentralized risk carriers need to be able to trustlessly invest capital in a way that generates interest. There are a number of exciting possibilities and proposals being created within the blockchain world that would allow an entity’s assets to earn a stable, predictable return whilst retaining enough liquidity to allow the entity to meet its liabilities. During his talk at D1Conf, Reinis Melbardis of Nexus Mutual explored the characteristics, risk profiles, and challenges of the nascent asset classes being built on-chain by the open financial ecosystem and explained how to assess their suitability to act as investment assets for a decentralized risk carrier.
These slides are courtesy of Reinis Melbardis, Nexus Mutual
D1Conf 2018 | Exploring Insurance Primitives for Blockchain | Matt Tyndall, C...D1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf 2018, Matt explained why emerging decentralized trading protocols, token standards, and other open finance instruments can be the foundations for a parallel financial infrastructure on Ethereum. He also shared how these findings helped ConsenSys in development of Asekuro, a protocol for facilitating the distribution of insurance products.
These slides are courtesy of Matt Tyndall, ConsenSys
D1Conf 2018 |Generalized Mining and the Third-Party Economy | Jake Brukhman, ...D1Conf
At D1Conf 2018, Jake Brukhman of CoinFund explained decentralized networks and how they incentivize third-party supply-side participants to provide services to decentralized networks in exchange for tokens.
These slides are courtesy of Jake Brukhman, CoinFund
Cellphones are naturally connected to the digital world, so it’s easy to derive why cellphone insurance is a line of business to support with a fully digital infrastructure. The Protchain team shares it’s vision of digital decentralized insurance that will leverage the blockchain to disrupt the high-growth market of cellphone insurance.
These slides are courtesy of Jonathan Staude and Eugene Dylko, Protchain
D1Conf 2018 | Business Process Modeling and Execution in Ethereum | Casey Kuh...D1Conf
In this talk, Monax’s Casey Kuhlman and Jan H. Scheufen outlined how Monax leveraged key features of Hyperledger Burrow to develop and deliver the very first generic business process engine written entirely in Solidity. The combination of an open source BPM engine and Hyperledger Burrow's permissioned EVM blockchain offers a vast range of possibilities for business users seeking to implement and scale out blockchain use cases. The talk is a combination of demo and technical overview highlighting the design, rapid prototyping, and deployment of selected use cases.
These slides are courtesy of Casey Kuhlman and Jan Hendrik Scheufen, Monax
D1Conf 2018 | Blockchain Use Cases for Agriculture & Agriculture Insurance | ...D1Conf
Learn how Agroapps, a company dedicated to providing sustainable ICT solutions that help modern farming and agriculture, uses the blockchain technology and smart contracts, in current and under development Agricultural Farm Management Information Systems and Agricultural Insurance Information Systems.
Stavros Tekes and Gregory Mygdakos, AgroApps
D1Conf 2018 | The Opportunities of Blockchain for Inclusive Insurance | Michi...D1Conf
During his session at D1Conf, Michiel Berende introduced participants to the inclusive insurance and unveil the opportunities blockchain offers to the sector. Michiel focused on how agricultural index insurance solutions based on blockchain can help small-scale farmers in emerging economies to be protected against the risks they are facing nowadays.
These slides are courtesy of Michiel Berende, Etherisc
D1Conf 2018 | Decentralizing Social Security | Fabian Raetz, AsureNetworkD1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf, Fabian spoke about how the blockchain technology offers the potential to establish cost-efficient and tamper-proof decentralized social security systems. To highlight the current challenges of such systems, Asure has implemented the German statutory pension system on the Ethereum blockchain. Fabian presented the results and experiences they had developed within the scope of this project focusing on the things current the decentralized insurance and decentralized social security ecosystem lacks. He also provided an outlook on how the prototype would eventually scale for millions of people.
These slides are courtesy of Fabian Raetz, AsureNetwork
D1Conf 2018 | A Decentralised Mutual for the Ethereum Community | Hugh Karp, ...D1Conf
During his talk at D1Conf, Hugh Karp of Nexus Mutual focused on several important points:
- How various aspects of an insurance company can be decentralized and automated with the help of smart contracts.
- How to design incentives structures that ensure outside work is provided in a coordinated way.
- How to adjust the incentive design to protect against attacks
These slides are courtesy of Hugh Karp, Nexus Mutual
D1Conf 2018 | Building alternative insurance value chains on blockchain | Ris...D1Conf
Risto has extensive experience in building online insurance broker as well as developing technology for the insurance industry. In this talk, he simplifies insurance to very granular level to help you understand how insurance actually works and provides the solution to how we can re-build it using blockchain and tokens.
These slides are courtesy of Risto Rossar, Black Insurance
D1Conf 2018 |The incumbents view: how is the insurance industry using blockch...D1Conf
Welcome Magdalena Ramada Sarasola. She is a Director at Willis Towers Watson’s Insurance Consulting and Technology and leads the firm’s insurance-focused R&D efforts around insurtech and blockchain technology. At D1Conf 2018, she talked about the innovation and strategic consulting for the insurance industry, especially around blockchain/distributed ledger technologies, emerging risks and markets, and insurtech.
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/
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.
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
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
6. Let’s build the future
together.🐦 @witnet_io
📧 adan@witnet.io
Editor's Notes
Point 1:
Without external data, smart contracts are just toys.
Smart contract platforms are deterministic by definition, so they are totally isolated from the rest of the world.
These platforms and the apps built atop them can deliver on their promises and have a significant impact on society only if they are capable of connecting to the rest of the world.
Point 2:
Data must be consumed in a trustless way. Otherwise, using a smart contract is pointless.
Output of contracts depends on input data. No matter how decentralized the execution environment is. If you aim for true tamper and censor resistance, you also need to feed information trustlessly.
Centralized oracles are single points of failure as they can be corrupted, hacked, taken down, etc.
Is easy for data sources to target centralized oracles and feed fake data.
Centralized data brokerage is just incompatible with smart contracts. Pairing those together doesn’t make any sense for purposes other than PoCs.
Point 3:
Witnet solves the so-called “oracle problem”.
Witnet is a decentralized network of nodes who earn wit tokens in exchange for retrieving, aggregating and delivering data from online data sources into smart contracts.
It is a totally trustless solution whose security model is based on schelling schemes and other incentive mechanisms that ensure that a majority of nodes abide by the protocol and broker the data in an honest way.
For the first time, smart contracts in Ethereum and other platforms are going to be able to have data retrieved from multiple data sources, normalized, aggregated and reported back to them without having to trust single points of failure.
Point 4:
Once we have fully functional decentralized oracle networks providing real world data to smart contracts and triggering physical consequences, nothing will prevent people from going full P2P on insurance, betting, etc.
Specially in insurance, anyone is going to get the chance to take other people's risk, have others take theirs or even pool risk into self-managed mutual insurance DAOs.
This is a life-changing opportunity, specially for people without access to "formal" insurance.
The true impact of smart contracts on business, society and peoples’ life is about to get real.
We don’t want to this journey alone. We’d love to hear your ideas and needs.
Come find me later or reach out to us on Twitter @witnet_io or email adan@witnet.foundation.