Collaboraction is an award-winning theatre collective that creates inspired and energizing theatrical experiences through a collection of artists. Their goal is to evolve entertainment by producing surprising and challenging work for audiences seeking non-traditional performances.
The Talk: Pondering Creativity
Bios: Ross Kimbarovsky is an experienced intellectual property lawyer with more than thirteen years of experience counseling U.S. and international clients in complex disputes involving a wide range of intellectual property issues, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, licensing and e-commerce. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and before the World Intellectual Property Organization. Ross emigrated with his family to the U.S. from Kiev, Ukraine. He holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Illinois.
Mike Samson has more than 20 years of experience in the creative field, as a senior manager, consultant and producer in both the publishing and film/television industries. He began his career as a Photo Editor at New York Magazine and his work in Hollywood includes numerous films such as Wall Street, Bull Durham, and Men in Black II, as well as television series, including New York Undercover and Third Watch. Mike has a BA in Mass Media from the University of Illinois and a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Kevin Keener, Keener Law, Copyright Ownership In The Land Of A Thousand AuthorsThe Chicago Convergence
The Talk: Rarely are creative works brought to the marketplace of ideas by one person alone. When several people start collaborating together on a single project, figuring out who owns the copyright can tend to be a little messy. This problem gets multiplied in the age of internet media where virtually anyone can publish content online and artists can collaborate together without ever meeting.
Bio: Kevin is an attorney in Chicago who focuses on trademark and copyright law. Prior to receiving his law degree from The Ohio State University, Kevin was a musician who played guitar in bands in both Cleveland and New York.
Bio: Part alchemist, part sherpa, part director and part producer, Jim is a trusted advisor and accomplished business leader. He brings a diverse set of lenses and perspectives to his work; focused on the union of brand offering and experience design.
Jim has a depth of real-world experience as an architectural and graphic designer, musician, artist, chef and passionate student of the remarkableness of life. This empowers him to bring a holistic, authentic and innovative flavor and tone to the development, evolution and revolution of brands and their expression. Paired with his design thinking, his ability to inspire people, to collaborate with organizations and to navigate the complexity of markets and business, Jim is able to dig deep into a company’s soul, galvanize its essence and communicate its true potential.
For over 30 years, Jim has helped businesses uncover their authenticity, generate the courage, create bold ideas and sustain the commitment to new, truly differentiating products, experiences and environments. His clients include Starbucks, the Tennis Corporation of America, Sears, Getty, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, AT&T, JDL Development Corporation, the Frank Russell Company, the Buona Companies, Florsheim, Exxon, Kraft, Tishman, Wendy’s, among many others.
About Spark: Spark helps businesses get at the essense of what makes them great.
The Talk: What’s happening at the street level during these tough times? What is the outlook amongst people who invest their own resources into creating organizations, jobs, and communities? Why and how are some companies actually thriving during this recession?
Raman Chadha will share some fascinating insights and trends that he is learning about through a series of interviews with people from Chicago’s entrepreneurial community – entrepreneurs, investors, and community leaders. He will also discuss why this primary market research is being undertaken and how it will be used.
We are witness to an underground creative community forming on the Internet, and they are becoming a force to be reckoned with. They're writers and inventors, photographers and designers, musicians and marketers. And there are sites where they can share their work with the world - from Wikipedia and Dell Idea Storm to iStockPhoto and Threadless.
Jane Hirt, Managing Editor, Chicago Tribune: The Talk: What do Millennials want in their news media anyway? And how has RedEye been able to turn a dead-tree medium into such a dramatic success with Chicago's electronic, mobile generation? Tribune managing editor Jane Hirt, formerly the founding editor of RedEye, reveals editorial lessons learned and the challenges that lie ahead.
The mobile space is today in its infancy. With the limitations of distribution, monetization, and technology leaving everyone with questions, it is truly a time for innovators as the American consumer discovers (and embraces) the “user experience” and how Hollywood broadcasters are trying to play catch-up to the booming global mobile marketplace
The Talk: Doug Siefken will describe Ambient Video Art as an emergent art movement. He will show ambient art examples conveying how video art combined with technology can be appreciated on the proliferation of digital canvasses. The depth of this art expression transcends both the temporal spectrum as well as the visual. Doug will explore how technology contributes to bridging art video and stills that combine with the environment to create a non-disruptive art form.
The Talk: Content is the new currency in new media, especially in advertising circles. Predictions about the end of advertising as we know it feel as if they’re coming true. As the agency model shifts from interruptive bursts toward creating original content, some guidelines are beginning to appear. Advertisers and their agencies need to define content archetypes during this transitional period. Examples are already all over the interactive space.
A short journey: the past, present and future of media by Chris Bernard, Micr...The Chicago Convergence
Join Chris and David for a journey into the past, present and future of media. Starting with the (recent) past and one of the biggest milestones in digital media. The streaming of over 3200 hours of live and on demand content of the 2008 Olympics in the US via NBC. We’ll then take a look in the present and see how advances in digital imaging are going to have a profound influence on the social and community-driven experiences that are driving current revolutions on the Web. Finally, we’ll look at the convergence of technology through “ben': A prototype for Democracy in the 21st Century" that demonstrates what the future of media could look like when social-networking platforms, services and media converge.
Beyond Publishing: Legacy Ethnic Publishers Face the Future by Eric Easter, E...The Chicago Convergence
The Chicago New Media Summit, Sept 15-16, 2008. The Talk: Legacy magazine publishers are struggling with the digital world for reasons that might not always be so obvious. Minority publications have an even greater challenge.
But once they embrace that digital is not just a new publishing medium but a platform to reinvent the brand and “re-contextualize” a wealth of assets for a whole new audience, the opportunities are endless.
Let’s go beyond tactics and buzz words to talk about real conversations -- with real people and in real life -- for companies and organizations in the changing media landscape.
The Talk: This Session will explore how a company’s social media profile and tactics are now appearing in the search engine results with greater frequency. No longer is a company website the only asset that the search engines have to choose from, but now we are seeing results being pulled in from Facebook, Twitter, PR and videos. In addition to this, consumers are stating to use social sites as search engines
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
The Talk: Pondering Creativity
Bios: Ross Kimbarovsky is an experienced intellectual property lawyer with more than thirteen years of experience counseling U.S. and international clients in complex disputes involving a wide range of intellectual property issues, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, designs, licensing and e-commerce. He has represented clients in state and federal courts and before the World Intellectual Property Organization. Ross emigrated with his family to the U.S. from Kiev, Ukraine. He holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Illinois.
Mike Samson has more than 20 years of experience in the creative field, as a senior manager, consultant and producer in both the publishing and film/television industries. He began his career as a Photo Editor at New York Magazine and his work in Hollywood includes numerous films such as Wall Street, Bull Durham, and Men in Black II, as well as television series, including New York Undercover and Third Watch. Mike has a BA in Mass Media from the University of Illinois and a MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Kevin Keener, Keener Law, Copyright Ownership In The Land Of A Thousand AuthorsThe Chicago Convergence
The Talk: Rarely are creative works brought to the marketplace of ideas by one person alone. When several people start collaborating together on a single project, figuring out who owns the copyright can tend to be a little messy. This problem gets multiplied in the age of internet media where virtually anyone can publish content online and artists can collaborate together without ever meeting.
Bio: Kevin is an attorney in Chicago who focuses on trademark and copyright law. Prior to receiving his law degree from The Ohio State University, Kevin was a musician who played guitar in bands in both Cleveland and New York.
Bio: Part alchemist, part sherpa, part director and part producer, Jim is a trusted advisor and accomplished business leader. He brings a diverse set of lenses and perspectives to his work; focused on the union of brand offering and experience design.
Jim has a depth of real-world experience as an architectural and graphic designer, musician, artist, chef and passionate student of the remarkableness of life. This empowers him to bring a holistic, authentic and innovative flavor and tone to the development, evolution and revolution of brands and their expression. Paired with his design thinking, his ability to inspire people, to collaborate with organizations and to navigate the complexity of markets and business, Jim is able to dig deep into a company’s soul, galvanize its essence and communicate its true potential.
For over 30 years, Jim has helped businesses uncover their authenticity, generate the courage, create bold ideas and sustain the commitment to new, truly differentiating products, experiences and environments. His clients include Starbucks, the Tennis Corporation of America, Sears, Getty, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, AT&T, JDL Development Corporation, the Frank Russell Company, the Buona Companies, Florsheim, Exxon, Kraft, Tishman, Wendy’s, among many others.
About Spark: Spark helps businesses get at the essense of what makes them great.
The Talk: What’s happening at the street level during these tough times? What is the outlook amongst people who invest their own resources into creating organizations, jobs, and communities? Why and how are some companies actually thriving during this recession?
Raman Chadha will share some fascinating insights and trends that he is learning about through a series of interviews with people from Chicago’s entrepreneurial community – entrepreneurs, investors, and community leaders. He will also discuss why this primary market research is being undertaken and how it will be used.
We are witness to an underground creative community forming on the Internet, and they are becoming a force to be reckoned with. They're writers and inventors, photographers and designers, musicians and marketers. And there are sites where they can share their work with the world - from Wikipedia and Dell Idea Storm to iStockPhoto and Threadless.
Jane Hirt, Managing Editor, Chicago Tribune: The Talk: What do Millennials want in their news media anyway? And how has RedEye been able to turn a dead-tree medium into such a dramatic success with Chicago's electronic, mobile generation? Tribune managing editor Jane Hirt, formerly the founding editor of RedEye, reveals editorial lessons learned and the challenges that lie ahead.
The mobile space is today in its infancy. With the limitations of distribution, monetization, and technology leaving everyone with questions, it is truly a time for innovators as the American consumer discovers (and embraces) the “user experience” and how Hollywood broadcasters are trying to play catch-up to the booming global mobile marketplace
The Talk: Doug Siefken will describe Ambient Video Art as an emergent art movement. He will show ambient art examples conveying how video art combined with technology can be appreciated on the proliferation of digital canvasses. The depth of this art expression transcends both the temporal spectrum as well as the visual. Doug will explore how technology contributes to bridging art video and stills that combine with the environment to create a non-disruptive art form.
The Talk: Content is the new currency in new media, especially in advertising circles. Predictions about the end of advertising as we know it feel as if they’re coming true. As the agency model shifts from interruptive bursts toward creating original content, some guidelines are beginning to appear. Advertisers and their agencies need to define content archetypes during this transitional period. Examples are already all over the interactive space.
A short journey: the past, present and future of media by Chris Bernard, Micr...The Chicago Convergence
Join Chris and David for a journey into the past, present and future of media. Starting with the (recent) past and one of the biggest milestones in digital media. The streaming of over 3200 hours of live and on demand content of the 2008 Olympics in the US via NBC. We’ll then take a look in the present and see how advances in digital imaging are going to have a profound influence on the social and community-driven experiences that are driving current revolutions on the Web. Finally, we’ll look at the convergence of technology through “ben': A prototype for Democracy in the 21st Century" that demonstrates what the future of media could look like when social-networking platforms, services and media converge.
Beyond Publishing: Legacy Ethnic Publishers Face the Future by Eric Easter, E...The Chicago Convergence
The Chicago New Media Summit, Sept 15-16, 2008. The Talk: Legacy magazine publishers are struggling with the digital world for reasons that might not always be so obvious. Minority publications have an even greater challenge.
But once they embrace that digital is not just a new publishing medium but a platform to reinvent the brand and “re-contextualize” a wealth of assets for a whole new audience, the opportunities are endless.
Let’s go beyond tactics and buzz words to talk about real conversations -- with real people and in real life -- for companies and organizations in the changing media landscape.
The Talk: This Session will explore how a company’s social media profile and tactics are now appearing in the search engine results with greater frequency. No longer is a company website the only asset that the search engines have to choose from, but now we are seeing results being pulled in from Facebook, Twitter, PR and videos. In addition to this, consumers are stating to use social sites as search engines
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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.
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...
Dated: A Cautionary Tale for Facebook Users by Jurgen Hooper, Collaboraction
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