The importance and current status of CCS in South Africa - Brendan Beck, Sout...Global CCS Institute
This is a presentation delivered by Brendan Beck, Manager at the South Africa Centre for CCS, at the Institute’s COP 17 side event, held on November 30. The presentation reviews South Africa’s electricity sector and projected growth, as well as why South Africa has chosen to pursue CCS as a climate change mitigation option.
Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery: Stimulus Funding OpportunitiesAlliance To Save Energy
February 2. 2009 -- Policy makers and others have come to understand the power of energy efficiency implementation as an economic development tool and stimulus. The result is likely billions in clean energy investments by the federal government that will be utilized by state and local governments, non-profit energy organizations, and others. In her presentation, Kateri focused on the efforts of the Alliance to Save Energy and others to grow energy efficiency implementation programs – buildings, products, and services – and deliver greater economic vitality to the nation.
Nikolasi shares Tonga Power’s progress in “Reducing Tonga’s vulnerability to oil price shocks, and achieve an increase in quality access to modern energy services in an environmentally sustainable manner”. The Tonga power network, consists of the Tongatapu, Vava’u, Ha’apai and Eua islands, is presented as a case study, with the 10 year roadmap referenced in regard to the further integration of renewable technologies.
1E Enables Bovis Lend Lease UK to meet One Third of its Energy Reduction Target in Just 10 months! Sustainability is a guiding principle at Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s leading project management and construction companies. As part of a wider commitment to becoming a more sustainable organization, Bovis Lend Lease in the UK is committed to continually minimizing the adverse impact of its carbon emissions. As part of that drive, the company deployed NightWatchman ® - a PC Power Management solution from 1E across a PC estate of 3,000 users across Europe.
New Kerala Jan 31, 2009 Sensex Gains 750 Points Amid Uncertain Global MarketsJagannadham Thunuguntla
These are occasional spurts; the overall market sentiment is very much bearish as there are no encouraging signs across the globe said Jagannadham Thunuguntla, head of the capital markets arm and director of India’s fourth largest share brokerage firm, the Delhi-based SMC Group.
The importance and current status of CCS in South Africa - Brendan Beck, Sout...Global CCS Institute
This is a presentation delivered by Brendan Beck, Manager at the South Africa Centre for CCS, at the Institute’s COP 17 side event, held on November 30. The presentation reviews South Africa’s electricity sector and projected growth, as well as why South Africa has chosen to pursue CCS as a climate change mitigation option.
Energy Efficiency and Economic Recovery: Stimulus Funding OpportunitiesAlliance To Save Energy
February 2. 2009 -- Policy makers and others have come to understand the power of energy efficiency implementation as an economic development tool and stimulus. The result is likely billions in clean energy investments by the federal government that will be utilized by state and local governments, non-profit energy organizations, and others. In her presentation, Kateri focused on the efforts of the Alliance to Save Energy and others to grow energy efficiency implementation programs – buildings, products, and services – and deliver greater economic vitality to the nation.
Nikolasi shares Tonga Power’s progress in “Reducing Tonga’s vulnerability to oil price shocks, and achieve an increase in quality access to modern energy services in an environmentally sustainable manner”. The Tonga power network, consists of the Tongatapu, Vava’u, Ha’apai and Eua islands, is presented as a case study, with the 10 year roadmap referenced in regard to the further integration of renewable technologies.
1E Enables Bovis Lend Lease UK to meet One Third of its Energy Reduction Target in Just 10 months! Sustainability is a guiding principle at Bovis Lend Lease, one of the world’s leading project management and construction companies. As part of a wider commitment to becoming a more sustainable organization, Bovis Lend Lease in the UK is committed to continually minimizing the adverse impact of its carbon emissions. As part of that drive, the company deployed NightWatchman ® - a PC Power Management solution from 1E across a PC estate of 3,000 users across Europe.
New Kerala Jan 31, 2009 Sensex Gains 750 Points Amid Uncertain Global MarketsJagannadham Thunuguntla
These are occasional spurts; the overall market sentiment is very much bearish as there are no encouraging signs across the globe said Jagannadham Thunuguntla, head of the capital markets arm and director of India’s fourth largest share brokerage firm, the Delhi-based SMC Group.
Renewable Energy : The United Kingdom ApproachGavin Harper
A presentation by Gavin D. J. Harper, B.R.A.S.S. Cardiff University, for European Sustainable Energy Week, at an event hosted in Vilnius, European Capital of Culture 2009 by A.T.E.I.K www.ateik.info on the 12th February 2009.
The presentation looks at renewable energy in the UK, looking at past policy on the national level, room for policy improvements, and innovative policy development on the regional and local levels, culminating with an introduction to Zero Carbon Britain, www.zerocarbonbritain.co.uk a radical roadmap for a clean energy future for the United Kingdom.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
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.
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.
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:
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/
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
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.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
5. quot;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.quot;
Jeroen van der Veer, CEO Shell
28th January 2008
6.
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9. Fuels used in E generation/Mtoe
Fuel 2003 2007
Coal 31.6 31.9
Oil 0.7 0.8
Gas 24.5 27.5
Nuclear 20.0 14.0
Hydro 0.2 0.4
Other renewables 0.4 0.6
Net imports 0.2 0.4
10. EU 20/20/20 by 2020
• UK Target = 15% of all energy from renewables by
2020 (cf 1.5% currently)
• Suggested that to meet this some 36% of electricity
will come from wind by 2020 (onshore & offshore)
• ~36% of Electricity = 123,120,000,000 kWh/annum
• Or 46,849 MW of wind needed by 2020 (BWEA say
33,000 MW)
• Equal to 15,000 x 3MW turbines
• 3,750 MW/annum
• 1,250 x 3MW turbines/annum
• Or 5 per day (weekends off!) for the next 12 years
• 2007 saw UK deliver 450 MW (need a 9 fold increase
in rate of deployment compared with last year)
11. DEMAND REDUCTION
The heart of the matter
• In 2003 final consumption of E was 336,218GWh
• In 2007 final consumption of E was 341,945GWh
• Up 1.7% or 5,727GWh
• All wind projects (on and offshore) in 2007
generated some 5,274GWh of E
• This was just 92% of the extra electricity we
used over 48 months ending 2007
• Simplistically we are collectively squandering the
efforts to DECARBONISE because we are failing
to reduce DEMAND
12. We’re seeking to deliver
on the 3Ds:
Demand Reduction
Decarbonisation
Decentralisation
13. To Address: Climate Change + Energy Security
= The Same Actions
+ Finite Fossil Fuel
14. To help: deliver on the UK’s
commitment to the climate change
challenge, whilst helping to ensure that
there is a sustainable, secure and
affordable supply of
energy for everyone.
We aim to contribute to these goals in
ways that strengthen the economic
capability, social capital and reputation
of the areas in which we work.
15. With some principles:
1. We don’t seek to duplicate existing
effective activity
2. Seek to develop activity, product &
service which meet an unmet need
(vacuum test)
3. Aim to inject some regional & sub-
regional vision
4. We like portfolio funding (£1 = £5)
5. Don’t like ‘dominant’ contracts (Need to
pass the ‘honest broker’ test)
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20. East Midlands
population: 4.4 million
CO2 : 41 million tonnes
Nigeria
population: 140 million
CO2 : 52 million tonnes
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38. East Midlands
& Sustainable Energy
LEADERSHIP!
‘If the leader hath no vision the people
will perish’ Proverbs 29:18
57. What is it?
• £1 million grant scheme (50/50
capital and revenue)
• 2 year pilot programme : Apr ’08 –
Mar ’10
• partnership between SC and MEA
funded via RRZ and AWM
• an evolution of Low Carbon
Communities for Business
• URSUS report
58. Where?
Inside, or serving, the
Zone- feasibility and
capital grants
Staffordshire and
Shropshire- feasibility
alone
59. Initial contact with SME Registers with RE:think
Energy Efficiency alone - Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Exit ineligible or Renewables alone
Insufficient potential
Exit Energy Assessment Business Link review
Sufficient potential
Full application form SC credit reference check
Not awarded grant Appraisal presented to board awarded grant
Exit
72. LAEP/MEA Summary
1. MEA should never duplicate existing effective sustainable energy
and climate change activity within Nottingham & Derbyshire.
2. MEA seeks to establish over a 24 month period (April 2009 – March
2011) and aims for a team of 10 full time staff operating out of two
centres.
3. Target gross income at the end of the initial business plan period
will be £500k
4. It is the intention of MEA’s operation in the East Midlands to move
away from a subscription based service for projects to the model
operating in the West Midlands, whereby there is no core funding
for MEA from any source. All funding is for the delivery of projects.
This intent includes the subscriptions for the Campaign and core
services for support through the LAEP
5. MEA will focus on Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire over the initial 24
month period, but if no obvious mechanism for delivering similar
activity emerges from other localities within the East Midlands
region then MEA may move to provide services over the whole
region, given that this maintains or enhances the capability within
Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire.
81. Best Practice
• Whittington & Fisherwick
Environment Group
• Staffs County Council
• MEA
• Post project
– Ban unfilled cavity wall
– 2 new communities
86. “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
