DalaWorks aims to empower African entrepreneurs through two accelerator programs - Apps Lab and Media Lab. Apps Lab will train participants in app development and entrepreneurship over 4 months, providing skills, funding, and connections. Media Lab will train storytellers in digital media production to document the Apps Lab journey. Both programs aim to provide marketable skills and opportunities to launch startups and careers that create value for African markets.
The document outlines a program called projectcodeX that aims to train raw talent in Africa to become agile developers. It discusses:
- The exploding African tech sector and high demand for developers
- A 13-week pilot program where 18 students build real projects for companies to learn skills like agile development and test-driven coding
- Partnership opportunities for companies to sponsor developers, have projects built, and hire students
- A curriculum centered around building skills through hands-on projects for clients
- Outcomes like employment as developers locally or abroad or becoming entrepreneurs
- Metrics to track skills acquisition and job placements to measure the program's success
1 introduction to the intel challenge mena PotentialCom
A brief introduction to Intel, the Intel Global Challenge, the Intel Regional MENA Challenge; Understand Potential's role and support in this challenge
Nahdet El Mahrousa’s (NM) flagship program, Incubator of Early-stage Innovative Social Enterprises, has officially opened its 5th Round of incubation and the 2nd this year and we’re very excited for what’s to come!
Microsoft Bizspark Presentation - Digital Economy EventLee Stott
Presentation on Microsoft BizSpark for Nottingham University Digital Economy YES event for Biotech start-ups. visit www.bizspark.com for more details of BizSpark
In 2012, Lehigh University launched a new master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship. The cross disciplinary approach opened the door to graduate school education in technical entrepreneurship for students from all academic backgrounds, creating a melting pot of experience, skills and aspirations in the classroom. This one-year, 30-credit professional master’s program (M.Eng.) in technical entrepreneurship helps student entrepreneurs create, refine, and commercialize intellectual property through the licensing or launching of a new business. Students in the program learn by experiencing the idea-to-venture process in an educational environment that’s hard-wired to support the development of novel, innovative, and commercially-viable technologies. Attendees will hear about the types of students from the first cohort, the perspective of the faculty members responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum, and lessons learned.
The document outlines a program called projectcodeX that aims to train raw talent in Africa to become agile developers. It discusses:
- The exploding African tech sector and high demand for developers
- A 13-week pilot program where 18 students build real projects for companies to learn skills like agile development and test-driven coding
- Partnership opportunities for companies to sponsor developers, have projects built, and hire students
- A curriculum centered around building skills through hands-on projects for clients
- Outcomes like employment as developers locally or abroad or becoming entrepreneurs
- Metrics to track skills acquisition and job placements to measure the program's success
1 introduction to the intel challenge mena PotentialCom
A brief introduction to Intel, the Intel Global Challenge, the Intel Regional MENA Challenge; Understand Potential's role and support in this challenge
Nahdet El Mahrousa’s (NM) flagship program, Incubator of Early-stage Innovative Social Enterprises, has officially opened its 5th Round of incubation and the 2nd this year and we’re very excited for what’s to come!
Microsoft Bizspark Presentation - Digital Economy EventLee Stott
Presentation on Microsoft BizSpark for Nottingham University Digital Economy YES event for Biotech start-ups. visit www.bizspark.com for more details of BizSpark
In 2012, Lehigh University launched a new master’s degree in technical entrepreneurship. The cross disciplinary approach opened the door to graduate school education in technical entrepreneurship for students from all academic backgrounds, creating a melting pot of experience, skills and aspirations in the classroom. This one-year, 30-credit professional master’s program (M.Eng.) in technical entrepreneurship helps student entrepreneurs create, refine, and commercialize intellectual property through the licensing or launching of a new business. Students in the program learn by experiencing the idea-to-venture process in an educational environment that’s hard-wired to support the development of novel, innovative, and commercially-viable technologies. Attendees will hear about the types of students from the first cohort, the perspective of the faculty members responsible for developing and implementing the curriculum, and lessons learned.
The Girişim Fabrikası (Fit Startup Factory) is a technology accelerator program in Istanbul, Turkey that seeks to enable entrepreneurs to build sustainable, high-growth startups. It provides a 6-month program of training, mentoring, and resources to take ideas from concept to launch. The program has supported 18 startups so far, with companies employing 40 people and raising over 1.4 million Turkish Lira in angel investment.
This document discusses Salesforce.com's cloud computing model and higher education applications. It promotes Salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) tools for higher education institutions to manage recruitment, financial aid, student portals, and other functions. It highlights how the cloud-based model allows for faster updates, lower costs, and a 360-degree view of students. Testimonials are provided from various universities that use Salesforce.com applications.
This document provides information about the Diogenes Incubator and its services for innovative startups. It lists the strategic business services offered, including business planning, mentoring, coaching, marketing, networking, funding access, office space, and legal/accounting support. It highlights some successful startups that were facilitated by the incubator, with many products in international markets and patents. The document promotes Cyprus's growing entrepreneurship ecosystem, including business incubators, research centers, competitions, networking groups and funding schemes. It emphasizes the importance of passion, talking to customers, failing fast and getting traction for startups.
Ma Rs Presentation Communitech March 2010 D DuvalLisa Thompson
The document provides an overview of MaRS Business Services and its objectives to: 1) describe its key services and clients; 2) discuss how it engages the regional community to meet client needs; and 3) describe how peer networks can benefit clients. MaRS is a non-profit that connects entrepreneurs with business resources. It measures success through job and wealth creation. MaRS Advisory Services leverages a network of volunteer advisors from the community to provide comprehensive support to clients.
#CU12: Building technology capacity for NGO’s around the globe - Rebecca Masi...Connecting Up
Rebecca Masisak joined TechSoup Global in 2001 to launch and chart the growth of TechSoup Global's technology product donation program and social enterprise. After successfully establishing the program in North America, Rebecca developed an international expansion model, which today serves an international NGO audience in 36 countries. Under her leadership, TechSoup Global has distributed nearly 7 million software and hardware product donations, and enabled recipients to save more than US$2.2 billion for direct services. As Co-CEO, Rebecca has been instrumental in building TechSoup Global's capacity and reach to support the entire portfolio of TechSoup Global's programs for bringing products, information, human capacity, and resources to the communities who need them most. Rebecca speaks about social enterprise and global networks and was awarded the Full Circle Fund's prestigious Full Impact Award in Technology. She is a member of the Telecentre.org Foundation's Board of Trustees, a member of the Social Enterprise Institute's San Francisco Forum for Social Enterprise leaders, and she volunteers for the nonprofit organisation S.A.G.E. (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship).
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Özyeğin University runs an accelerator program called Girişim Fabrikası (Fit Startup Factory) to support tech entrepreneurs in Turkey. The program provides training, mentoring, funding, and resources to help entrepreneurs develop sustainable, high-growth startups. It seeks promising young founders and helps close gaps in their knowledge and networks. The 6-month program guides startups through developing and validating business models, creating prototypes, and bringing products to market. Since launching 18 months ago, the program has received over 700 applications, supported 74 participants, funded 10 startups, and helped create 40 new jobs.
Cape Town Activa was established in 2011 based on the model of Barcelona Activa from 1986. It aims to create an environment where entrepreneurs and job seekers can maximize their potential. It provides business skills training, programs, and connects users to a network of support organizations. Cape Town Activa operates physical hubs, an online portal, and engages stakeholders across education, government, and the private sector to develop Cape Town's entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The three Enterprise Innovation Networks The Irish Software Association (ISIN), Industry Research & Development Group (IRDG) and the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) EIN, all funded by Enterprise Ireland hosted a joint seminar on Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in the Dublin City Council offices on Wood Quay from 08.00am - 11.00am. There were 80 delegates in attendance and an additional 20 viewing the event online. The intention of this event was to focus on the need to Collaborate to Innovate for a successful future.
The Opening address was given by Mr Greg Treston from Enterprise Ireland. Greg is Head of Research & Innovation. There was then a short Introduction to each of the Enterprise Innovation Networks. Speakers included Paul Sweetman of ISIN, Denis Hayes of IRDG and Suzanne Purcell of CITA EIN. This was followed by presentation on Collaborating with Third Level Research Institutes by John Whelan, Trinity College Technology Transfer Office and Tom Flanagan, DIT Hothouse. Three case Studies followed. Case Study 1: Dr. Yvonne Traynor, Henkel Case. Study 2: Sean Giblin, Cylon Controls. Case Study 3: Anthony McCauley, Fujitsu
The document discusses crowdsourcing product development using online tools. It describes how companies can collaborate with customers and external experts to drive innovation. The session will evaluate various open innovation platforms and identify factors for successful external sourcing. Participants will learn how to build continuous input streams to identify new opportunities and trends. The presentation advocates engaging customers throughout the product development process and provides examples of how companies can implement crowdsourcing best practices.
Description of what Wennovation Hub Nigeria has to offer. Wennovation Hub- the Technology Start-Up Business Development Unit of LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited
The CRI has had success over 5 years in bridging the gap between innovation and commercialization for entrepreneurs in rural Alberta. It provides a one-stop-shop for innovator services including intellectual property assessment, prototype development, investor readiness training, mentoring, market analysis, and workshops. The CRI works with over 200 clients annually using a mixed staffing model and $2.4 million budget. It serves as the center of a regional innovation network spanning the Peace Country.
Ahmad Takatkah (@SinbadTheVC) and myself (@MRArrabi) gave this workshop at the IEEE event in Hashemite University on Oct 7, 2012. It covers tips & advice on how to launch your startup in Jordan.
The document discusses using open innovation and open technology search tools to identify solutions from external sources that can help companies out-innovate their competition. It emphasizes searching globally for unexpected solutions and partnerships from sources outside typical networks, including small companies, universities, research labs, and individuals. The goal is to gain access to external assets, competencies, and ideas that can help large organizations innovate and address changing customer needs in new ways.
The Innovation Partnership Program is a 4-day program delivered by X PRIZE Foundation and Singularity University aimed at helping large companies transition to more innovative, exponential organizations. The program exposes company executives to emerging technologies through presentations and teaches methods for leveraging crowdsourcing and incentive competitions to drive innovation. Participants work to develop concepts for prizes and tools their companies can use to solve problems more quickly and at lower cost. The goal is for companies to return with new approaches to drive breakthroughs.
The document outlines Anfield's services which are divided into 4 ecosystems: learning, social business, tools/apps, and BPO. It provides details on each ecosystem. The learning ecosystem includes customized online and classroom learning content. The social business ecosystem focuses on branded social media strategies and shareable media. The tools/apps ecosystem designs mobile and desktop experiences. And the BPO ecosystem offers business process outsourcing services like support desks and document management. The document introduces Anfield as an international company established in 2001 that specializes in creating, delivering, and strategizing quality content.
Organic Development of a Student Run Accelerator at University of Michiganthe nciia
The nearly exponential growth of the entrepreneurial community at University of Michigan (U-M) is largely attributed to the students themselves. In January 2008, U-M launched the Center for Entrepreneurship to support these students. Through these and other similar efforts, students of like mind on a campus of nearly 40,000, can network, share ideas and pursue their passions. By January 2009, seven students actively involved in their own ventures joined together to find ways to share resources and ideas to accelerate the launch of their ventures.This resulted in the launch of a student run business accelerator, TechArb (techarb.org), in the Summer of 2009. The seven founders secured real estate in downtown Ann Arbor and invited 30 entrepreneurial-minded students, representing seven companies in the music, technology, and biotech industries. This paper discusses the genesis and results of the first U-M student accelerator.
Social media is increasingly prevalent in both personal and professional lives. Over half of UK adults use social networks, and nearly all employees use social media for work. While many organizations block social media access, fewer will do so in the future. Social media allows for new forms of collaboration and value creation through crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, social customer care, and open leadership. Adopting social practices can improve knowledge sharing, problem solving, innovation, and employee engagement. Organizations that embrace social media may see benefits like new products and revenue, better business outcomes, and lower employee turnover.
Using Social Networking to Complement Business Incubators and Career CentersWesley Schwalje
We see IT as an important enabler for regional development, and we have worked with global technology leaders such as Intel and Microsoft to deepen the impact of regional development programs leveraging technology. We see social networking as a valuable channel to facilitate regional communication, information sharing, and collaboration.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
The Girişim Fabrikası (Fit Startup Factory) is a technology accelerator program in Istanbul, Turkey that seeks to enable entrepreneurs to build sustainable, high-growth startups. It provides a 6-month program of training, mentoring, and resources to take ideas from concept to launch. The program has supported 18 startups so far, with companies employing 40 people and raising over 1.4 million Turkish Lira in angel investment.
This document discusses Salesforce.com's cloud computing model and higher education applications. It promotes Salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) tools for higher education institutions to manage recruitment, financial aid, student portals, and other functions. It highlights how the cloud-based model allows for faster updates, lower costs, and a 360-degree view of students. Testimonials are provided from various universities that use Salesforce.com applications.
This document provides information about the Diogenes Incubator and its services for innovative startups. It lists the strategic business services offered, including business planning, mentoring, coaching, marketing, networking, funding access, office space, and legal/accounting support. It highlights some successful startups that were facilitated by the incubator, with many products in international markets and patents. The document promotes Cyprus's growing entrepreneurship ecosystem, including business incubators, research centers, competitions, networking groups and funding schemes. It emphasizes the importance of passion, talking to customers, failing fast and getting traction for startups.
Ma Rs Presentation Communitech March 2010 D DuvalLisa Thompson
The document provides an overview of MaRS Business Services and its objectives to: 1) describe its key services and clients; 2) discuss how it engages the regional community to meet client needs; and 3) describe how peer networks can benefit clients. MaRS is a non-profit that connects entrepreneurs with business resources. It measures success through job and wealth creation. MaRS Advisory Services leverages a network of volunteer advisors from the community to provide comprehensive support to clients.
#CU12: Building technology capacity for NGO’s around the globe - Rebecca Masi...Connecting Up
Rebecca Masisak joined TechSoup Global in 2001 to launch and chart the growth of TechSoup Global's technology product donation program and social enterprise. After successfully establishing the program in North America, Rebecca developed an international expansion model, which today serves an international NGO audience in 36 countries. Under her leadership, TechSoup Global has distributed nearly 7 million software and hardware product donations, and enabled recipients to save more than US$2.2 billion for direct services. As Co-CEO, Rebecca has been instrumental in building TechSoup Global's capacity and reach to support the entire portfolio of TechSoup Global's programs for bringing products, information, human capacity, and resources to the communities who need them most. Rebecca speaks about social enterprise and global networks and was awarded the Full Circle Fund's prestigious Full Impact Award in Technology. She is a member of the Telecentre.org Foundation's Board of Trustees, a member of the Social Enterprise Institute's San Francisco Forum for Social Enterprise leaders, and she volunteers for the nonprofit organisation S.A.G.E. (Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship).
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Özyeğin University runs an accelerator program called Girişim Fabrikası (Fit Startup Factory) to support tech entrepreneurs in Turkey. The program provides training, mentoring, funding, and resources to help entrepreneurs develop sustainable, high-growth startups. It seeks promising young founders and helps close gaps in their knowledge and networks. The 6-month program guides startups through developing and validating business models, creating prototypes, and bringing products to market. Since launching 18 months ago, the program has received over 700 applications, supported 74 participants, funded 10 startups, and helped create 40 new jobs.
Cape Town Activa was established in 2011 based on the model of Barcelona Activa from 1986. It aims to create an environment where entrepreneurs and job seekers can maximize their potential. It provides business skills training, programs, and connects users to a network of support organizations. Cape Town Activa operates physical hubs, an online portal, and engages stakeholders across education, government, and the private sector to develop Cape Town's entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The three Enterprise Innovation Networks The Irish Software Association (ISIN), Industry Research & Development Group (IRDG) and the Construction IT Alliance (CITA) EIN, all funded by Enterprise Ireland hosted a joint seminar on Tuesday 23rd October 2012 in the Dublin City Council offices on Wood Quay from 08.00am - 11.00am. There were 80 delegates in attendance and an additional 20 viewing the event online. The intention of this event was to focus on the need to Collaborate to Innovate for a successful future.
The Opening address was given by Mr Greg Treston from Enterprise Ireland. Greg is Head of Research & Innovation. There was then a short Introduction to each of the Enterprise Innovation Networks. Speakers included Paul Sweetman of ISIN, Denis Hayes of IRDG and Suzanne Purcell of CITA EIN. This was followed by presentation on Collaborating with Third Level Research Institutes by John Whelan, Trinity College Technology Transfer Office and Tom Flanagan, DIT Hothouse. Three case Studies followed. Case Study 1: Dr. Yvonne Traynor, Henkel Case. Study 2: Sean Giblin, Cylon Controls. Case Study 3: Anthony McCauley, Fujitsu
The document discusses crowdsourcing product development using online tools. It describes how companies can collaborate with customers and external experts to drive innovation. The session will evaluate various open innovation platforms and identify factors for successful external sourcing. Participants will learn how to build continuous input streams to identify new opportunities and trends. The presentation advocates engaging customers throughout the product development process and provides examples of how companies can implement crowdsourcing best practices.
Description of what Wennovation Hub Nigeria has to offer. Wennovation Hub- the Technology Start-Up Business Development Unit of LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited
The CRI has had success over 5 years in bridging the gap between innovation and commercialization for entrepreneurs in rural Alberta. It provides a one-stop-shop for innovator services including intellectual property assessment, prototype development, investor readiness training, mentoring, market analysis, and workshops. The CRI works with over 200 clients annually using a mixed staffing model and $2.4 million budget. It serves as the center of a regional innovation network spanning the Peace Country.
Ahmad Takatkah (@SinbadTheVC) and myself (@MRArrabi) gave this workshop at the IEEE event in Hashemite University on Oct 7, 2012. It covers tips & advice on how to launch your startup in Jordan.
The document discusses using open innovation and open technology search tools to identify solutions from external sources that can help companies out-innovate their competition. It emphasizes searching globally for unexpected solutions and partnerships from sources outside typical networks, including small companies, universities, research labs, and individuals. The goal is to gain access to external assets, competencies, and ideas that can help large organizations innovate and address changing customer needs in new ways.
The Innovation Partnership Program is a 4-day program delivered by X PRIZE Foundation and Singularity University aimed at helping large companies transition to more innovative, exponential organizations. The program exposes company executives to emerging technologies through presentations and teaches methods for leveraging crowdsourcing and incentive competitions to drive innovation. Participants work to develop concepts for prizes and tools their companies can use to solve problems more quickly and at lower cost. The goal is for companies to return with new approaches to drive breakthroughs.
The document outlines Anfield's services which are divided into 4 ecosystems: learning, social business, tools/apps, and BPO. It provides details on each ecosystem. The learning ecosystem includes customized online and classroom learning content. The social business ecosystem focuses on branded social media strategies and shareable media. The tools/apps ecosystem designs mobile and desktop experiences. And the BPO ecosystem offers business process outsourcing services like support desks and document management. The document introduces Anfield as an international company established in 2001 that specializes in creating, delivering, and strategizing quality content.
Organic Development of a Student Run Accelerator at University of Michiganthe nciia
The nearly exponential growth of the entrepreneurial community at University of Michigan (U-M) is largely attributed to the students themselves. In January 2008, U-M launched the Center for Entrepreneurship to support these students. Through these and other similar efforts, students of like mind on a campus of nearly 40,000, can network, share ideas and pursue their passions. By January 2009, seven students actively involved in their own ventures joined together to find ways to share resources and ideas to accelerate the launch of their ventures.This resulted in the launch of a student run business accelerator, TechArb (techarb.org), in the Summer of 2009. The seven founders secured real estate in downtown Ann Arbor and invited 30 entrepreneurial-minded students, representing seven companies in the music, technology, and biotech industries. This paper discusses the genesis and results of the first U-M student accelerator.
Social media is increasingly prevalent in both personal and professional lives. Over half of UK adults use social networks, and nearly all employees use social media for work. While many organizations block social media access, fewer will do so in the future. Social media allows for new forms of collaboration and value creation through crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, social customer care, and open leadership. Adopting social practices can improve knowledge sharing, problem solving, innovation, and employee engagement. Organizations that embrace social media may see benefits like new products and revenue, better business outcomes, and lower employee turnover.
Using Social Networking to Complement Business Incubators and Career CentersWesley Schwalje
We see IT as an important enabler for regional development, and we have worked with global technology leaders such as Intel and Microsoft to deepen the impact of regional development programs leveraging technology. We see social networking as a valuable channel to facilitate regional communication, information sharing, and collaboration.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Skybuffer AI: Advanced Conversational and Generative AI Solution on SAP Busin...Tatiana Kojar
Skybuffer AI, built on the robust SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), is the latest and most advanced version of our AI development, reaffirming our commitment to delivering top-tier AI solutions. Skybuffer AI harnesses all the innovative capabilities of the SAP BTP in the AI domain, from Conversational AI to cutting-edge Generative AI and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It also helps SAP customers safeguard their investments into SAP Conversational AI and ensure a seamless, one-click transition to SAP Business AI.
With Skybuffer AI, various AI models can be integrated into a single communication channel such as Microsoft Teams. This integration empowers business users with insights drawn from SAP backend systems, enterprise documents, and the expansive knowledge of Generative AI. And the best part of it is that it is all managed through our intuitive no-code Action Server interface, requiring no extensive coding knowledge and making the advanced AI accessible to more users.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
2. MISSION
Empower a new group of entrepreneurs to
develop applications, software products, and
companies that create direct and tangible
value for African markets.
Arm them with technical and business
skills, support them in a culture of creation
and entrepreneurialism, connect them with
opportunities to help them develop
themselves and their ventures.
2
3. OPPORTUNITY
Corporate Partners* Community Partners
Teachers Mentors
Employers Resources
Clients Internships
International
Partners
*Corporate Partners TBD; these are just possible examples 3
5. DALAWORKS APPS
Program Outcomes
• 4 months of training in app development • Demo Day: pitch app to community
• Shared office space @ Bandwidth Barn, • Reverse job fair: employers come to meet
RLabs participants
• Services: broadband, hosting, legal, • Work for our AppFactory
software
• Work for DalaWorks in subsequent
• Workshops and classes geared programs
specifically to app development AND
entrepreneurship: web development, user
• Links to international programs, e.g.
learning Python at Hackbright Academy in
experience design, pitching, etc.
San Francisco; become a Hackstar at
• Extensive mentor network TechStars; intern at Seedcamp in London
• International partner resources
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6. INPUTS AND OUTPUTS
Community partner
organizations provide
basic training and filter e.g.
dedicated participants
y
Become an Jobs International
Earn revenue entrepreneur (Local startups, companies,
opportunities,
from apps (potential seed funding
DW App Factory,
from RLabs)
DalaWorks itself) internships
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7. PARTNERS AND INVESTORS
Contributions Benefits
• Three cycle accelerator • On the ground market
investment/sponsorship intelligence on innovation in
• Scholarships Africa
• Equipment • PR, Branding, social media
• Mentors, teachers, and advisors • Branded apps, app challenges
• Sales and marketing channels • Startup ecosystem development
for developers and producers • Acquisition targets (IP, talent)
• Early mover, long-term
association with innovation
• Building South African skills;
developing new talent
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8. PARTNERS*
South Africa International
• Silicon Cape • Hackbright Academy
• Bandwidth Barn/CITI • TechStars
• RLabs • Seedcamp
• Mxit • 500 Startups
• Microsoft • Omidyar Foundation
• MTN • Endeavor South Africa
• eNCA • Unreasonable Institute
• Blackberry • Bloomberg
• Google/Android • BLKSHP
• Girls Who Code
• Wesgro
• Technology Innovation Agency • NCWIT
• Department of Trade and Investment • Women Moving Millions
• Investing in Women Initiative of Calvert
• SAA Foundation
• Virgin Atlantic • Cherie Blair Foundation
• Lawyer • Goldman Sachs 500 women
• Accountant
*Corporate Partners TBD; these are just possible examples 8
9. MENTORS
South Africa International
• Andy Volk, Mxit VP Developer Relations • Christian Fernandez & David Phillips,
• Marlon Parker, RLabs CEO Hackbright Academy Founders
• Chris Vermeulen, Bandwidth Barn CEO • David Cohen, TechStars Founder & CEO
• Andrea Bohmert, Knife Capital MD • Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp CEO
• Zulfiq Isaacs, Liquid Thought CEO • Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group
• Anita Nel, InnovUS, Stellenbosch University • Michael A. Jackson, early-stage investor
• Johanna Kollar, Google Startup Support • Roger Ehrenberg, IA Ventures
• Tony Ruiters, Business Connexion Chairman • Andrew Barr, Institutional Venture Partners
• Ellie Hagopian, Skyrove CEO • Paul Singh, 500 Startups
• Brent Beshore, AdVentures CEO
• Irving Fain, Crowdtwist CEO
• Kathryn Minshew, The Muse CEO
• Andres Barreto, Onswipe Co-Founder
• Kevin Prentiss, Red Rover CEO
• Caren Maio, Nestio CEO
• Rachel Sklar, Change the Ratio
• Ben Lerer, Thrillist CEO
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10. PROGRAM STRUCTURE
• Basic Training • Build apps
• Develop pitches
• Choose projects • Testing and adjusting
• Prepare for Demo Day
• Entrepreneurship • Mentor sessions and
• Reverse job fair
workshops events
Month 1 Month 2 Months 3-4 Month 5 Month 6
•Continue support for
• Review applications
entrepreneurs
• Interview candidates
• Job placement
• Plan events,
• International
mentoring workshops
placements
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11. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
Target Value
Financial
Market Proposition
Intensive training in app building
Apps and startups focused App revenue share, government
and entrepreneurship, exchanges
on South Africa, Africa, esp. sources, corporate partners,
with top international
targeting feature phones private investors
accelerators
Cape Town
formerly Startups focused on African
market (starts in February Seed funding, entrepreneurs in Angel investors
2013) residence, local mentors (up to $100k for variable equity)
Cape Town
Business coaching and
Globally scalable startups mentoring, completed business R100,000 ($12k) for 20% equity
plan
Sandton, Johannesburg
World Bank InfoDev, SA
Incubator and education for Training and accreditation in
government & membership dues
mobile entrepreneurs mobile technologies
(R1000-1500/month)
Tshwane, Gauteng
Social entrepreneurs and Networking and community Membership dues, paid events,
independent workers building crowdfunding
Johannesburg
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12. TEAM
Philip Kiracofe Elizabeth Gould
Advisor & Mentor Managing Director
• 18 years experience with startups • 10 years experience in media and production
• Rare Medium Ventures Incubator (1999) • Senior Producer at Bloomberg TV covering
• Partner in Horizen Ventures, early stage startups and venture capital
fund in India (2004) • Executive Producer of documentary series
• Advisor and mentor to Cape Town on TechStars, leading global accelerator
startups (2011) • Studied economic development at University
• Based in Cape Town and NYC of Cape Town
• Based in Cape Town and NYC
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13. DW APPS ANNUAL BUDGET
Staff $155,000
Rent & Utilities $17,400
Events & Marketing $67,500
Legal & Admin $37,000
Travel $20,000
Total Operating Expenses $296,900
Total Seed Investments (Equity) $375,000
* 10 investments per class, 1.5 classes per year
* Four program commitment ($2 M total fund)
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15. PARTNER: THE BARN
• Host to program: premier tech
education space in South Africa
• Facilities: co-working space,
computer labs, broadband
• Mentorship: other members of
space (BlackBerry Apps Lab,
CITI, Silicon Cape,
entrepreneurs, service
providers
• Events: workshops, panels,
networking events, classes
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16. PARTNER: RLABS
• Feeder to program: attracts
and develops talent, filtering
their participants with
marketable and scalable ideas
• Facilities: another home for
entrepreneurs to work
• Springboard for potential
expansion to other RLabs
locations
• Seed Fund for companies
graduating from program
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17. PARTNER: MXIT
• Mxit Developers are DW
teachers
• Mxit Executives are DW
mentors
• Mxit App Store: scaling in 2013
• Cost to develop an app:
• Average Revenue per app:
• More stats: coming from Andy
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18. FOCUS ON WOMEN
Consumption Labor Force
Worldwide, 2/3 of new mobile subscribers
in the next 5 years will be women.
Re-investment Corporate Governance
19. AFRICA’S RAPID STARTUP GROWTH
35 TECH HUBS IN 13 COUNTRIES
South Africa:
map by since February 2012 19
20. THE AFRICAN CONSUMER IS RISING
• 35% growth in consumer spending by 2015
• 221 million new consumers by 2015
• % of Africans with clean drinking water: 61
• % of Africans with mobile phones: 66
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22. TEAM
Elizabeth Gould, Managing Director
As Executive Producer of the TechStars documentary series, Elizabeth knows the inner workings of the
program in a way few others could. She spent more than 18 months documenting the entire process of
the first New York program, from conception through six months after Demo Day. Beyond learning the
intricacies of the program itself, Elizabeth also got to know the tensions, challenges, and stresses of
the program from all sides: entrepreneurs, directors, mentors, and investors. In regular interviews with
all the actors, she got to understand the different perceptions of the same situation (i.e. mentor
meetings, team tensions, pivots, team progress or lack thereof) in a way that is completely unique.
Elizabeth has a deep and longstanding passion for economic development, specifically in Africa and
South Africa, which she studied at U.C. Berkeley. She spent a year at the University of Cape Town
studying political economy in the developing world and South Africa specifically, and another six
months traveling in sub-Saharan Africa. She wrote her honors thesis on a microfinance project in a
township outside Cape Town, positing that economic empowerment brings unforeseen social benefits.
It is for this reason that she believes so strongly in the power of accelerator programs to help
entrepreneurs gain the skills to build businesses, communities, and whole economies.
Elizabeth’s experiences in Africa and other emerging economies gave her a global outlook that led to
her graduate work at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and her
subsequent career as a journalist at NBC and Bloomberg TV. In addition to her in-depth series and
specials, she has produced interviews with the top global leaders of our time, including Bill Gates, Bill
Clinton, Warren Buffett,and George Soros. Her recent work has focused on technology and innovation
as well as sustainability and clean energy. She is excited to move to Cape Town and improve her
surfing.
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23. TEAM
Philip Kiracofe, Director
Since arriving in NYC in 1994, Mr. Kiracofe has been deeply immersed in technology, real estate, and
entrepreneurial ventures. He has co-founded or led a diverse range of companies including a pioneer
online grocery service company, an India-based venture capital fund, the first large-scale social
networking site, and a NY-based property development firm.
In 2009, he founded Horizen Partners to incubate far-reaching projects based on the foundations of
innovation, adventure and sustainability. Current projects include Horizen Ventures (early stage VC),
Mountain Bike Haiti (social venture promoting adventure tourism), Stik.com (Facebook-integrated
referrals) and Failure Club (a collaboration with Morgan Spurlock where members pursue ambitious
dream projects). He has advised South African start-ups and is now raising a new venture fund in Cape
Town.
In his free time, Philip’s interests range from adventure and endurance events (he has climbed Mt
Kilimanjaro, completed Ironman triathlon and Comrades Marathon) to charitable pursuits (Carnegie Hall
Notables, Service Space). He sits on the Board of Directors for the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce
and has served as President of the Manhattan Association of Realtors.
Philip attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he studied Computer Science and
Behavioral Science. He currently splits his time between Manhattan and Cape Town.
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26. DALAWORKS MEDIA
Train a new generation of digital
storytellers in the editorial, creative and
technical skills needed to conceive,
develop, and execute a complex video
series: documenting the journey of the app
entrepreneurs through the program.
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27. DW PRODUCERS GET
Program Outcomes
• 6 months of training in digital media and
documentary production--learn by doing • Marketable skills in digital video
production and storytelling
• Pre-production: production planning,
project management, budgeting • Production Reel
• Production: cameras, lighting, audio, • Credit on full scale documentary
composition, interviews, video techniques production
• Post-Production: media management, • Connections to local and international
logging, story production, writing, editing, production companies and networks
graphics • Mentor next generation of producers
• Continuous feedback with local and
international mentors
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28. PROGRAM STRUCTURE
APPS
• Basic Training • Build apps • Develop pitches
• Choose projects • Testing and adjusting • Prepare for Demo Day
• Entrepreneurship • Mentor sessions and • Post-program preps &
workshops events reverse job fair
Month 1 Month 2 Months 3-4 Month 5 Month 6
• Basic camera and • Documenting APPS program
• Final editing and
production training • Media management and logging, story production finishing processes
• Assigning roles • Editing graphics production • Mastering for
• Production planning distribution
• Feedback from international mentors
MEDIA
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29. DW MEDIA BUDGET - in process
Staff $50,000
Equipment $75,000
Facilities $60,000
Legal & Admin $50,000
Total Operating Expenses $235,000
Total Seed Investments (Equity) $375,000
* 10 investments per class, 1.5 classes per year
* Four program commitment ($2 M total fund)
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