YouthBuild 2013 (U.S. Dept of Labor) Presenation#CareerGravity
The U.S. Department of Labor holds training events each year to help train its grantees in various skills. I've been invited to speak on social media on several occasions, including the YouthBuild 2013 event in Boston. I presented What is #CareerGravity; an introduction to the new landscape for job seeking and talent management. Just as social media has fundamentally changed online marketing, it has also transformed the job market. This presentation provides a high level overview of exactly what those transformations are and how job seekers can leverage them.
NORCAT Hot Topics - Social Media and Online Marketing featuring Stuart MacDonaldNORCAT
The NORCAT Hot Topics series engages leading thinkers from around the world to share their insights ith our entrepreneurial and innovation community on topics that are relevant now and in the future.
Understanding your market, the latest trends, and what others are doing is difficult even on the best of days! This event will focus on helping you understand the latest trends in social media and online marketing and what you need to be thinking about to grow your brand awareness and build your markets.
This presentation was prepared for a talk I was asked to give in 2014 at an International Conference on 'Glocal' (global + local) Education.
I showcased some examples of using technology and the Internet in my marketing lectures.
How to rock the social interwebz - Karen Schulman DupuisNORCAT
"How to Rock the Social Interwebz" featuring Karen Schulman Dupuis (Manager, Business Development, ICT Venture Services Group).
Using social media to build your brand, your business, your life -- can be chaotic and overwhelming! Understanding the latest trends in social media and knowing what works for you and your business can be a difficult task. Every year social media substantially increases its presence within businesses, organizations, and thought leaders.
So why is it important to stay up-to-date, and understand the latest online social media trends, tools, and applications? For many start-ups this is what you need to be thinking about to grow your brand awareness and build your markets!
Is social media just a fad, or a pervasive and powerful tool that will forever change the way companies connect and engage with their key audiences? This presentation was delivered to a women's business executives club in Houston.
YouthBuild 2013 (U.S. Dept of Labor) Presenation#CareerGravity
The U.S. Department of Labor holds training events each year to help train its grantees in various skills. I've been invited to speak on social media on several occasions, including the YouthBuild 2013 event in Boston. I presented What is #CareerGravity; an introduction to the new landscape for job seeking and talent management. Just as social media has fundamentally changed online marketing, it has also transformed the job market. This presentation provides a high level overview of exactly what those transformations are and how job seekers can leverage them.
NORCAT Hot Topics - Social Media and Online Marketing featuring Stuart MacDonaldNORCAT
The NORCAT Hot Topics series engages leading thinkers from around the world to share their insights ith our entrepreneurial and innovation community on topics that are relevant now and in the future.
Understanding your market, the latest trends, and what others are doing is difficult even on the best of days! This event will focus on helping you understand the latest trends in social media and online marketing and what you need to be thinking about to grow your brand awareness and build your markets.
This presentation was prepared for a talk I was asked to give in 2014 at an International Conference on 'Glocal' (global + local) Education.
I showcased some examples of using technology and the Internet in my marketing lectures.
How to rock the social interwebz - Karen Schulman DupuisNORCAT
"How to Rock the Social Interwebz" featuring Karen Schulman Dupuis (Manager, Business Development, ICT Venture Services Group).
Using social media to build your brand, your business, your life -- can be chaotic and overwhelming! Understanding the latest trends in social media and knowing what works for you and your business can be a difficult task. Every year social media substantially increases its presence within businesses, organizations, and thought leaders.
So why is it important to stay up-to-date, and understand the latest online social media trends, tools, and applications? For many start-ups this is what you need to be thinking about to grow your brand awareness and build your markets!
Is social media just a fad, or a pervasive and powerful tool that will forever change the way companies connect and engage with their key audiences? This presentation was delivered to a women's business executives club in Houston.
When Social Media Become Unsociable (PodCamp Toronto)David Bradfield
What do you do when social media become unsociable? This presentation provides an overview of the challenges companies and people encounter online. It also provides general tips (listen, engage, create, interact, measure) for managing a negative shift in the tone of the conversations that surround us online.
Leadership: a body without a head, a web without a spidermore like people
As usual, some of these slides will mean nothing if you're not hearing me narrate and ask questions along the way, but this was a Birkbeck College session about thinking of leadership as a collective, rather than individual concept. Bits of complexity, social media and self-organised networks stuff in there too... and Slideshare didn't like some of my fonts... c'est la vie!
2009 MSU Fall Extension Conference Social Media Presentationnatalieebigscott
Presented by Natalie Ebig Scott, Laura Probyn, Michelle Lavra and Beth Stuever on October 14, 2009 for MSU Extension staff members interested in getting engaged in social media.
Here's the pictures from the presentation
http://www.nmc.org/preso/7271
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4055876635/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4056617620/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4055876775/in/photostream/
Getting started with Twitter for businessBill Powell
Tuesday, September 8
2009 Lexington Chamber of Commerce Fall Business Resource Roundtable schedule kicks off with discussion on TWITTER led by Bill Powell of The Serif Group
Twitter is the micro-blogging phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. However, few people understand how to use it effectively and its full potential.
Bill Powell of The Serif Group uses Twitter and other on-line social networking sites for several of his agency’s clients. He will lead the discussion and talk about the importance of listening while you’re using social media. He will also introduce some on-line tools and tips on how to use Twitter effectively, and discuss why it is important to be in touch with what people are saying about your company and industry. Powell said, “The greatest reason to be a part of social media is the ability to monitor how people define your brand and industry.”
When Social Media Become Unsociable (PodCamp Toronto)David Bradfield
What do you do when social media become unsociable? This presentation provides an overview of the challenges companies and people encounter online. It also provides general tips (listen, engage, create, interact, measure) for managing a negative shift in the tone of the conversations that surround us online.
Leadership: a body without a head, a web without a spidermore like people
As usual, some of these slides will mean nothing if you're not hearing me narrate and ask questions along the way, but this was a Birkbeck College session about thinking of leadership as a collective, rather than individual concept. Bits of complexity, social media and self-organised networks stuff in there too... and Slideshare didn't like some of my fonts... c'est la vie!
2009 MSU Fall Extension Conference Social Media Presentationnatalieebigscott
Presented by Natalie Ebig Scott, Laura Probyn, Michelle Lavra and Beth Stuever on October 14, 2009 for MSU Extension staff members interested in getting engaged in social media.
Here's the pictures from the presentation
http://www.nmc.org/preso/7271
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4055876635/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4056617620/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4055876775/in/photostream/
Getting started with Twitter for businessBill Powell
Tuesday, September 8
2009 Lexington Chamber of Commerce Fall Business Resource Roundtable schedule kicks off with discussion on TWITTER led by Bill Powell of The Serif Group
Twitter is the micro-blogging phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. However, few people understand how to use it effectively and its full potential.
Bill Powell of The Serif Group uses Twitter and other on-line social networking sites for several of his agency’s clients. He will lead the discussion and talk about the importance of listening while you’re using social media. He will also introduce some on-line tools and tips on how to use Twitter effectively, and discuss why it is important to be in touch with what people are saying about your company and industry. Powell said, “The greatest reason to be a part of social media is the ability to monitor how people define your brand and industry.”
Presentation to the Councillor 10 event on 4 Feb 2010 on how councillors can provide leadership to encourage change within councils, with a sprinkling of 2.0 goodness.
Continuous (Production) Integration: Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring wit...jnewland
Feature: Ruby on Rails Application Monitoring with Cucumber
In order to ensure continuous application availability
A developer should be able to assert the behavior of production apps
From the outside in
Without using antiquated monitoring tools
To protect revenue
"This webinar is part of the TechSoup Online Digital Storytelling Event September 30-October 21. For further details about the event activities and the many ways you can participate, please visit the event homepage. Consider participating in the two other webinars in this series:
Tools for Digital Storytelling: September 30, 9am
How to Create a Digital Story: October 1, 9am
"
This short slide show talks about our "born digital" students, why they are different and the challenges they face in the online, virtual world. Who will help them navigate this new frontier?
Originally presented to leadership educators at the LEAD365 Student Leadership conference in Orlando, Florida in 2016. This session discusses issues of resiliency, authenticity, and the effects of social media on the development of young adults.
The annotated slides from a webinar I presented for http://www.pkids.org about social media and public health . Links to the recording archive are listed in the first slide notes.
Raising Children in a Digital Age for West Auckland Vineyard ChurchBex Lewis
On 1st October, I'll be coming to West Auckland Vineyard Church for the afternoon, along with some local organisations keen to engage, and speaking about Raising Children in a Digital Age.
Think Digital is a description of capability required for organisations looking to move to a model of operating that is comfortable with change, able to act quickly and decisively, and technology-aware.
Presentation to Learning Pool 'Hit the North' event in Sheffield in November 2010. All about how L&D folk should see organisational change as an opportunity to position themselves as the best channel for internal comms and cultural change messages using social tech.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
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.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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.
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.
8. How I reached local government
A-Levels: English Lit, History, RE
Degree: Politics
NatWest: Ugh
University of Cambridge: Computers, yay!
9. How I reached local government
A-Levels: English Lit, History, RE
Degree: Politics
NatWest: Ugh
University of Cambridge: Computers, yay!
By 2004, I reached King’s Lynn
10. 5 years (and a blog)
later...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/downingstreet/
3045344571/
16. The importance of in-between
“2010 is going to be a performance – not an experience
– competition. That’s why I said the other day that I
think people who are connected are going to get all the
rewards this year. It’s going to be about making things
happen, and that means you need an in-between.”
James Gardner, CTO, DWP
http://bankervision.typepad.com/bankervision/2010/01/the-in-betweeners.html