Richard Davies discussed delivering on the 3Ds of demand reduction, decarbonisation, and decentralization to address climate change, energy security, and peak oil. He noted that scientific projections show drastic action is needed within the next 100 months to alter behavior or face catastrophic consequences. Goals include reducing UK CO2 emissions to 118 million tonnes by 2050, comparable to levels in the 1850s. Transition towns were listed as grassroots community initiatives to address these challenges through local action.
Some types of studies require unblinded personnel at the site and a matching unblinded monitoring and study management team. This presentation provides a little background on blinding and then reviews best practices for unblinding.
Some types of studies require unblinded personnel at the site and a matching unblinded monitoring and study management team. This presentation provides a little background on blinding and then reviews best practices for unblinding.
Codes, Carbon and Construction: Opportunities for Wood in the 21st CenturyBCPFLA
Presentation by Peter Moonen—Sustainability Coordinator, Woodworks BC/Canadian Wood Council—to the Private Forest Landowners Association at their 18th annual forestry conference in Nanaimo, BC on June 20th, 2103.
Blake Lapthorn green breakfast with Dr. Barbara Hammond of the Osney Lock Hyd...Blake Morgan
On Wednesday 20 November 2013, Blake Lapthorn's climate change team hosted a green breakfast seminar. Guest Speaker Dr. Barbara Hammond, talked about the high profile and long awaited, first community owned micro hydro scheme on the upper Thames.
What is 1 tonne Carbon Dioxide? (CO2e) carbon footprint and embodied carbonCircular Ecology
You've probably heard of a carbon footprint, but what does it really mean, how do you connect with it and what really is 1 tonne of CO2e in real world perspective? This visual presentation explores these issues.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
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.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
13. Human induced Energy Peak
climate change + security + oil
14.
15. ‘The best scientific
projections indicate
that we have very
little time left -
indeed, less than one
hundred months - in
which to alter our
behaviour drastically.
Although I wish it
were otherwise, I fear
we have reached the
point when if we do
too little, too late to
tackle this problem,
the consequences
could be
catastrophic.’
16.
17. ‘Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope
with the demands in the future on water? Can
we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all
that, while mitigating and adapting to climate
change? And can we do all that in 21 years
time? That's when these things are going to
start hitting in a really big way. We need to act
now. We need investment in science and
technology, and all the other ways of treating
very seriously these major problems. 2030 is
not very far away.’
Professor Sir John Beddington 19th March 2009, London
19. "Regardless
of which route we
choose, the world's
current predicament
limits our maneuvering
room. We are
experiencing a
step-change in the growth
rate of energy demand
due to population growth
and economic
development, and Shell
estimates that after
2015 supplies of
easy-to-access oil
and gas will no
longer keep
up with
demand."
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008
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25. Climate Change Act Targets
• 1990 baseline of CO2 emissions was
approximately 590 million tons of CO2.
• An 80% reduction is based on the minimum
reductions necessary to avoid causing
catastrophic and permanent changes to the
climate
• 80% of 590m tons = 118 million tonnes.
• The UK level of CO2 emissions (1.76
tonnes/capita cf. ~10 tonnes today) hasn’t
been that low since…… when?
34. What energy rating does the UK’s
Government Department for Energy &
Climate Change recently refurbished
headquarters have?
A. A? (the best)
B. C?
C. F?
D. G? (the worst)
37. Below is a list of full members of the Low Carbon Communities Network
Dorchester Carbon Project
Full Members: Tarvin Environment Group Low Carbon Hook Norton
Bristol Natural History Consortium Community North West Low Impact Living
Transition Leicester Woking Local Action 21 Household Energy Services
Forget Going Green Winchester Action on Climate Change Crediton Climate Action
Low Carbon Headington Rea Valley Environmental Network Groundwork South West
The Converging World A Safe Climate National Energy Action
Transition Wem West Wales Eco Centre Sustainable Haringay
Carbon Rationing Action Groups Bovey Climate Action Action on Climate Change Tattenhall
Crucorney Energy Group Vale Royal Environment Network
Blacklawton Village Hall Comrie Development Trust Bollington Carbon Revolution
Footloose Community Arts Sticky Exhibits Carbon Rationing Action Groups
Whittington and Fisherwick Environment Group Cambridge Carbon Footprint Groundwork Lancashire and West Wigan
Rural Community Action Nottinghamshire Warwickshire Rural Community Council Climate Outreach and Information Network
Climate Durham Wiltshire World Changers Yougen
Transition Stratford Rural Community Action Nottinghamshire Stretton Climate Care
Hyde Farm Climate Action Network Cheshire Community Action
Tiverton Village Hall Harrow Agenda 21 Little Leigh Environment Group
Change is Coming Ibstock Does Climate Change
Test Valley Energy Initiative Ecodyfi
Sancreed Village Hall Purton
Transition Helston LESS
CPRE Kent Ouse Valley Energy Services
Low Carbon Lymm Sustainable Redland
Transition Oxford Suscom
Sustainable Youlgrave Sustainable Blacon
Womens Environment Network Transition Chesterfield
Climate Friendly Bradford on Avon Llanidloes Energy Solutions
Sustainable Wenlock Cheshire and Warrington Low Carbon
Sustainable Charlbury Communities
38. Associate Members:
Sawdays Publishing
Warrington Borough Council
Eastleigh Borough Council
North Wiltshire District Council
Herefordshire Council
Shropshire Council
Cheshire East Borough Council
Centre for Sustainable Energy
Fellow Travellers
Permaculture Association
Keep Scotland Beautiful (Going Carbon Neutral
in Stirling)
Aston University
Sandbag
Association for Environmentally Conscious
Building
Lakehouse
Cheshire West and Chester Council
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local
Authorities Energy Partnership
Action for Sustainable Living
University of Gloucestershire
Sustainable Energy Solutions
Scottish Environmental Technology Network
Advantage Projects
Renew
Low Carbon Economy
Amee
Low Carbon Diary
Nick Harrison
Eco Promotion
Marches Energy Agency
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42. List of Transition Towns in England:
Totnes, England Liverpool South
Penwith, England Norwich, England Belsize, London
Ivybridge, England Tring High Wycombe
Falmouth, England Crediton Lancaster
Moretonhampstead, England South Petherton Bassingbourn, England
Lewes, England Chichester Leamington Spa, England
Stroud, England Berkhamsted Sevenoaks, England
Ashburton, England Coventry Chesterfield, England
Ottery St. Mary, England Bungay Sheffield, England
Bristol, England Mersea Island Woodbridge, England
Brixton, England Maidenhead Kirkbymoorside, England
Forest Row, England Ladock & Grampound Road Downham Market, England
Mayfield, England Leek Dorking, England
Glastonbury, England Horsham Castle Ward, Bedford, England
Lostwithiel, England Exmouth Redland, Bristol England
Forest of Dean, England Buxton Newent, England
Nottingham, England Tynedale Oxford, England
Wrington, England Dorchester Thornbury, England
Brighton&Hove, England New Forest Farnham, England
Market Harborough, England Stafford Diss, England
West Kirby, England Chester Wigan, England
Whitstable, England Cambridge Ashtead, England
Marsden & Slaithwaite, England Hereford Helston and District, England
Frome, England Buxton Downton, England
Brampton, England Kingston-upon-Thames Wivenhoe, Essex
Isle of Wight, England Taunton Malvern Hills, Worcs, England
Seaton, England Langport
Bath, England Sidmouth
Exeter, England York
Isle of Man (technically a self-governing UK Crown Louth
dependency and therefore not part of the UK) Ely + many many more in
Canterbury, England Sampford Peverell
Wolverton Tunbridge Wells the formative stages
Leicester Hastings
Westcliff-on-Sea Newton Abbot
Isles of Scilly
43. Global Action Plan - Ecoteams
EcoTeams are groups of six to
eight people who each represent
their household.
They meet once a month for five
months, and are provided with a set of
resources to enable them to discuss
topics such as the environmental
issues of waste and shopping, energy,
transport and water.
44.
45. The Guardian, in partnership with Green Communities from the Energy Saving Trust
55. Helpful? Or may confuse the message which we want to get across?
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63.
64. “What we think, or what
we know, or what we
believe is, in the end, of
little consequence. The
only consequence is what
we do.” John Ruskin
65. “Make no little plans. They
have no magic to stir
men's blood... Make big
plans; aim high in hope
and work.”
Daniel Hudson Burnham
1846-1912
“Search all the parks in all
your cities; you'll find no
statues of committees.”
David Ogilvy
1911-1999