SharePoint Saturday Boston - Presentation on understanding Enterprise Social tools and Yammer and a couple of aspects that can bring value to the business.
Visual tools and innovation games - Half-day workshop - SPFest DC - April 2015Ruven Gotz
Getting all stakeholders on the same page is a crucial element to a successful project. In this workshop we cover techniques for eliciting stakeholder goals and pain points, and how to capture and share requirements in visual ways that short circuit and accelerate the usual process.
Enterprise social-what is the real value to the business - SPFest DC - April ...Ruven Gotz
Learn about real-world reasons to use Enterprise Social Tools like Yammer. This presentation is about how social tools can help to set the stage for Frictionless Collaboration.
Presentation with fellow MVP Jussi Mori (@jussimori) from Peaches Industries at the European SharePoint Conference (#ESPC16) in Vienna, Austria on the topic of gamification.
Keynote given at the Digital Workplace Conferences held in Auckland, New Zealand (May 2017) and Sydney, Australia (August 2017). In this presentation, I share 4 ingredients required for lasting organizational change, and make the case for identifying change agents or "champions" within the digital workplace to implement real change.
This is a true story about aligning technology and business teams. Clarity on three areas: customer demand, transparency, and communication are presented.
Visual tools and innovation games - Half-day workshop - SPFest DC - April 2015Ruven Gotz
Getting all stakeholders on the same page is a crucial element to a successful project. In this workshop we cover techniques for eliciting stakeholder goals and pain points, and how to capture and share requirements in visual ways that short circuit and accelerate the usual process.
Enterprise social-what is the real value to the business - SPFest DC - April ...Ruven Gotz
Learn about real-world reasons to use Enterprise Social Tools like Yammer. This presentation is about how social tools can help to set the stage for Frictionless Collaboration.
Presentation with fellow MVP Jussi Mori (@jussimori) from Peaches Industries at the European SharePoint Conference (#ESPC16) in Vienna, Austria on the topic of gamification.
Keynote given at the Digital Workplace Conferences held in Auckland, New Zealand (May 2017) and Sydney, Australia (August 2017). In this presentation, I share 4 ingredients required for lasting organizational change, and make the case for identifying change agents or "champions" within the digital workplace to implement real change.
This is a true story about aligning technology and business teams. Clarity on three areas: customer demand, transparency, and communication are presented.
7 things about intranets I learnt the hard waySam Marshall
Being an intranet manager can be demanding, and there isn't always someone else to learn from in your organisation. Based on 15 years as an intranet manager / consultant, I share some experiences of where things can go wrong, and how to avoid them:
* Disappearing Stakeholders
* Change comes from leadership not data
* Too much personalization
* When your intranet should look like your org chart
* Forgetting the late-adopters
* Over-zealous Governance
* trying to change everything at once
The Power of Enterprise Social and Gamification to Boost User AdoptionChristian Buckley
While enterprise social collaboration is something talked about and recognized within the industry, the idea of utilizing Gamification is still widely misunderstood. When you talk about Gamification, you might think about Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (PBL) within your application or intranet, with the goal of driving user engagement through the roof. This scenario is only partly true. The fact is, adding simple Gamification elements to your environment might have a positive short-term effect on user engagement metrics, but these tools may only appeal to a small sub-set of your users – and even then, will not likely provide lasting improvement.
In this presentation by Microsoft MVPs Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Jussi Mori (@JussiMori), we look beyond PBLs and help you to envision how enterprise social and strategic use of Gamification can provide lasting value and increase end user engagement within your environment. We will examine the core drivers of successful enterprise collaboration, discuss the factors that motivate people, and share real-world scenarios of how you can apply these principles within your own organization to drive user engagement and adoption. Specifically, we will provide customer examples where Gamification was implemented successfully, and show you how this could be adapted to improve productivity and efficiency in SharePoint and Office 365.
10 steps to salvation: Creating digital governance that worksKate Thomas
For organisations to succeed in the digital age, they need to adopt new frameworks and ways of working. The key to doing this is to dust off and turn inside-out existing governance frameworks, reinvigorating them with more nimble ways of working. Governance is no longer a separate policy or individual decision maker. It is everyone working in digital. It is every digital touch point and policy. It is the digital strategy, the customer strategy, the media strategy, the KPI framework, analytics, and SEO.
Twenty-first century governance is the supportive mesh of digital success.
Presented 01 Oct 2014 at Confab Europe Barcelona
http://confabevents.com/events/europe/program/10-steps-to-salvation-creating-digital-governance-that-works
Creating and Managing High Performing Virtual TeamsVersature
Versature Vice President of Marketing shares her thoughts on enabling and managing a dispersed team. Through technological breakthroughs and changes in modern corporate culture and benefits, more and more teams are opting to work remotely. How do you manage a team that may never actually meet face-to-face? How do you keep everyone on track, engaged, and motivated? Learn about this and more!
Unleashing the Full Potential of People, Teams and SOLVAY, presented by Bruce...Patrick Van Renterghem
Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens (then SVP, Global Head Agile Working, Digital HR, People Analytics, and HR Director Excellence Center at Solvay) presented the digital workplace environment of Solvay #DWA19 #presentation #digitalworkplace #huapii
UJA Fed NY Series: Staffing Beyond the Accidental TechieLisa Colton
Lisa Colton's presentation to synagogues within the UJA Federation of New York catchment area on accidental techies and maturing your staffing for success in the connected age.
Mobility solutions have become business-critical. In this presentation, Beezy CMO and Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley breaks down the key trends of the mobility movement, and discusses how enterprises need to stay one step ahead with their technology in order to keep employees engaged and motivated.
Tidying up with Marie Kondo is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Marie Kondo has developed a simple method to help declutter and organise your home. Inspired by this KonMari Method of tidying up, we will explore how to apply similar steps in experience design.
Design systems are the key to keeping digital properties organised so that changes and updates can be made seamlessly. When a design system is set up properly, creating new features and templates can happen fairly quickly. This allows us, as designers, to focus on solving user needs and creating an overall better user experience instead of spending our time on mundane tasks of re-creating patterns and modules.
Planning your Digital Workplace: A Systems-Based Planning ApproachChristian Buckley
When deploying a “Digital Workplace,” where do you begin? What is needed is an iterative, strategic, and systems-based approach of identifying core challenges at the team and company level, working with key stakeholders to identify appropriate strategies, building a solution using a scalable, repeatable, and sustainable change model. This approach drives stakeholder engagement, and ensures a more holistic solution that aligns with the needs of the business at every level. In this presentation, we walk through a systems-based planning approach for Enterprise Collaboration. Topics will include:
--Engaging leaders in a systems analysis, identifying high-priority needs and challenges
--Outlining a set of targeted and strategic actions based on common customer scenarios
--Developing an implementation plan to support successful operational and improvement strategies
The intent of this presentation is to help organizations incorporate systems-based planning into their Digital Workplace planning processes, using real-world customer examples, and to receive tips on how to fold these best practices into their own strategies.
SharePoint "Moneyball" - The Art and Science of Winning the SharePoint Metric...Susan Hanley
Measurement is not just about looking for a bottom-line result to justify investments. It’s also a tool to provide feedback about where the organization is along the road to successfully leveraging investments in SharePoint and the business outcomes it provides. At every stage in the development of your solution, metrics provide a valuable means for focusing attention on desired behaviors and results. This presentation showcases a practical and realistic framework for SharePoint metrics based on real world examples and successes.
A presentation Brian Kardell in OpenUI appealing to the possibility of the group taking up efforts toward defining how we can use real world usage data in the process of standardization, and why we should.
When a crisis strikes and everything changes, its time to lead your employees in the right direction. You can do this by implementing simple actionable solutions to your company. Here are some of our suggestions!
Digitalize your documents here: https://deftpdf.com
The Value of Tribal Knowledge and Strategies to Increase AdoptionKanwal Khipple
Description: Organizations are investing in enterprise social networks at an alarming rate. To gain the benefits of improving employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing requires you to look beyond technology deployment. Attend this session to learn how social tools can play a critical role, what strategies that can help drive organizational change. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand #esn adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives. As part of this session, we’ll also look at a customer case study on how Yammer is continuing to transform a global organization.
Agenda:
1. Social Maturity – present how social enterprise networks have changed over the course of the past decade (atlassian, give, newsgator, sp2010, yammer)
2. Creating a Collaborative / Social Environment – what are some of the top ways organizations are changing the traditional collaboration model and the risks involved.
3. Enable business value – scenarios and opportunities to create business value
4. Change Mgmt models – what training, governance and adoption strategies work and where your organization fits.
7 things about intranets I learnt the hard waySam Marshall
Being an intranet manager can be demanding, and there isn't always someone else to learn from in your organisation. Based on 15 years as an intranet manager / consultant, I share some experiences of where things can go wrong, and how to avoid them:
* Disappearing Stakeholders
* Change comes from leadership not data
* Too much personalization
* When your intranet should look like your org chart
* Forgetting the late-adopters
* Over-zealous Governance
* trying to change everything at once
The Power of Enterprise Social and Gamification to Boost User AdoptionChristian Buckley
While enterprise social collaboration is something talked about and recognized within the industry, the idea of utilizing Gamification is still widely misunderstood. When you talk about Gamification, you might think about Points, Badges, and Leaderboards (PBL) within your application or intranet, with the goal of driving user engagement through the roof. This scenario is only partly true. The fact is, adding simple Gamification elements to your environment might have a positive short-term effect on user engagement metrics, but these tools may only appeal to a small sub-set of your users – and even then, will not likely provide lasting improvement.
In this presentation by Microsoft MVPs Christian Buckley (@buckleyplanet) and Jussi Mori (@JussiMori), we look beyond PBLs and help you to envision how enterprise social and strategic use of Gamification can provide lasting value and increase end user engagement within your environment. We will examine the core drivers of successful enterprise collaboration, discuss the factors that motivate people, and share real-world scenarios of how you can apply these principles within your own organization to drive user engagement and adoption. Specifically, we will provide customer examples where Gamification was implemented successfully, and show you how this could be adapted to improve productivity and efficiency in SharePoint and Office 365.
10 steps to salvation: Creating digital governance that worksKate Thomas
For organisations to succeed in the digital age, they need to adopt new frameworks and ways of working. The key to doing this is to dust off and turn inside-out existing governance frameworks, reinvigorating them with more nimble ways of working. Governance is no longer a separate policy or individual decision maker. It is everyone working in digital. It is every digital touch point and policy. It is the digital strategy, the customer strategy, the media strategy, the KPI framework, analytics, and SEO.
Twenty-first century governance is the supportive mesh of digital success.
Presented 01 Oct 2014 at Confab Europe Barcelona
http://confabevents.com/events/europe/program/10-steps-to-salvation-creating-digital-governance-that-works
Creating and Managing High Performing Virtual TeamsVersature
Versature Vice President of Marketing shares her thoughts on enabling and managing a dispersed team. Through technological breakthroughs and changes in modern corporate culture and benefits, more and more teams are opting to work remotely. How do you manage a team that may never actually meet face-to-face? How do you keep everyone on track, engaged, and motivated? Learn about this and more!
Unleashing the Full Potential of People, Teams and SOLVAY, presented by Bruce...Patrick Van Renterghem
Bruce Fecheyr-Lippens (then SVP, Global Head Agile Working, Digital HR, People Analytics, and HR Director Excellence Center at Solvay) presented the digital workplace environment of Solvay #DWA19 #presentation #digitalworkplace #huapii
UJA Fed NY Series: Staffing Beyond the Accidental TechieLisa Colton
Lisa Colton's presentation to synagogues within the UJA Federation of New York catchment area on accidental techies and maturing your staffing for success in the connected age.
Mobility solutions have become business-critical. In this presentation, Beezy CMO and Microsoft MVP Christian Buckley breaks down the key trends of the mobility movement, and discusses how enterprises need to stay one step ahead with their technology in order to keep employees engaged and motivated.
Tidying up with Marie Kondo is a phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Marie Kondo has developed a simple method to help declutter and organise your home. Inspired by this KonMari Method of tidying up, we will explore how to apply similar steps in experience design.
Design systems are the key to keeping digital properties organised so that changes and updates can be made seamlessly. When a design system is set up properly, creating new features and templates can happen fairly quickly. This allows us, as designers, to focus on solving user needs and creating an overall better user experience instead of spending our time on mundane tasks of re-creating patterns and modules.
Planning your Digital Workplace: A Systems-Based Planning ApproachChristian Buckley
When deploying a “Digital Workplace,” where do you begin? What is needed is an iterative, strategic, and systems-based approach of identifying core challenges at the team and company level, working with key stakeholders to identify appropriate strategies, building a solution using a scalable, repeatable, and sustainable change model. This approach drives stakeholder engagement, and ensures a more holistic solution that aligns with the needs of the business at every level. In this presentation, we walk through a systems-based planning approach for Enterprise Collaboration. Topics will include:
--Engaging leaders in a systems analysis, identifying high-priority needs and challenges
--Outlining a set of targeted and strategic actions based on common customer scenarios
--Developing an implementation plan to support successful operational and improvement strategies
The intent of this presentation is to help organizations incorporate systems-based planning into their Digital Workplace planning processes, using real-world customer examples, and to receive tips on how to fold these best practices into their own strategies.
SharePoint "Moneyball" - The Art and Science of Winning the SharePoint Metric...Susan Hanley
Measurement is not just about looking for a bottom-line result to justify investments. It’s also a tool to provide feedback about where the organization is along the road to successfully leveraging investments in SharePoint and the business outcomes it provides. At every stage in the development of your solution, metrics provide a valuable means for focusing attention on desired behaviors and results. This presentation showcases a practical and realistic framework for SharePoint metrics based on real world examples and successes.
A presentation Brian Kardell in OpenUI appealing to the possibility of the group taking up efforts toward defining how we can use real world usage data in the process of standardization, and why we should.
When a crisis strikes and everything changes, its time to lead your employees in the right direction. You can do this by implementing simple actionable solutions to your company. Here are some of our suggestions!
Digitalize your documents here: https://deftpdf.com
The Value of Tribal Knowledge and Strategies to Increase AdoptionKanwal Khipple
Description: Organizations are investing in enterprise social networks at an alarming rate. To gain the benefits of improving employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing requires you to look beyond technology deployment. Attend this session to learn how social tools can play a critical role, what strategies that can help drive organizational change. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand #esn adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives. As part of this session, we’ll also look at a customer case study on how Yammer is continuing to transform a global organization.
Agenda:
1. Social Maturity – present how social enterprise networks have changed over the course of the past decade (atlassian, give, newsgator, sp2010, yammer)
2. Creating a Collaborative / Social Environment – what are some of the top ways organizations are changing the traditional collaboration model and the risks involved.
3. Enable business value – scenarios and opportunities to create business value
4. Change Mgmt models – what training, governance and adoption strategies work and where your organization fits.
The Value of Tribal Knowledge and Strategies to Increase AdoptionKanwal Khipple
Organizations are investing in enterprise social networks at an alarming rate. To gain the benefits of improving employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing requires you to look beyond technology deployment. Attend this session to learn how social tools can play a critical role, what strategies that can help drive organizational change. This session will help IT architecture and infrastructure personnel understand #esn adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives. As part of this session, we’ll also look at a customer case study on how Yammer is continuing to transform a global organization.
Agenda:
1. Social Maturity – present how social enterprise networks have changed over the course of the past decade (atlassian, give, newsgator, sp2010, yammer)
2. Creating a Collaborative / Social Environment – what are some of the top ways organizations are changing the traditional collaboration model and the risks involved.
3. Enable business value – scenarios and opportunities to create business value
4. Change Mgmt models – what training, governance and adoption strategies work and where your organization fits.
Managers, responsible for leading change in organizations are struggling to adapt. Many are failing. Individual workers need and deserve better support to be productive. This talk addresses how to use a Lean DevOps philosophy to influence change to salvage ITOps reputations.
How Social Media is Enabling Individuals and OrganizationsKemp Edmonds
This presentation was first given to the "Growing of Giants" conference in May of 2013. Growing of Giants is an offshoot of the Entrepreneur Organization's Program that meets annually to learn, grow and build their businesses.
Finding Business Value in Enterprise SocialJoel Oleson
Many IT departments jump into the technology before really finding business value. You have to know what business problems you are trying to solve first. In enterprise social different departments and organizations have different needs, but all equally understand the need for engagement. providing platform alone will not succeed.
Three Secrets of Agile Leadership: From Working Hard to Working SmartPeter Stevens
Updated Version. Keynote Talk at Agile Business Day 2020. Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets and three tips to apply agility for more impact in your life and work.
SPSMontreal - Practical SharePoint IA + Bonus: Social in the EnterpriseRuven Gotz
At SharePoint Saturday Montreal (Feb 2014), I presented about the use of visual tools for Information Architecture (IA). Then, in the last 20 minutes, I did a 'bonus talk' about the value of social in the enterprise.
This presentation explains a bit about what enterprise social is and is not, and then spends the bulk of the time showing two key use-cases that drive value for business.
Enterprise Social Journey with Yammer by Joel OlesonJoel Oleson
Where are you in your social journey? In this session we explore the social maturity spectrum and look at business value and avoiding mistakes along that path. Enterprise social networks are poised to transform business and understanding how they work can lead to real success in transparency, agility, and more...
Business Value in Enterprise Social - SharePoint Fest 2014Joel Oleson
So much to do and plan! In this session we'll break it down. SharePoint 2013, Yammer and Office 365 product families bring new capabilities for content sharing, finding, organizing, and authoring. They also create new challenges. The move to the cloud and the integration of SharePoint with the enterprise social network with yammer, and have made this release so profound and disruptive to the business. In this session we'll dig into planning and strategy for social architectures around both business process and the technologies to help ensure compliance and success. Social enterprise technology is transformative and will lead to more agile business when used correctly, but a disaster and chaos when not used properly.
INNOVATION ROOTS | Webinar | Three Secrets of Agile Leaders | Peter StevensInnovation Roots
Overview:
Agility as a movement started with software developers uncovering better ways of doing what they do. Today that movement is driving even business leaders to rethink how they lead their organizations. What does it mean to "be" agile? How can agility be applied to leading organizations? Where do successful agile leaders start? Three stories, three secrets, and three tips to apply agility to your life and work and unlock your potential as an executive or a manager.
Learning Objectives:
1. Connect agility at the personal, the team and the organizational level
2. Experience how the same challenges that led to poor performance in software development 30 years ago still plague the management of most organizations today.
3. Learn 3 simple techniques to unlock the potential of management.
4. Learn the key concepts and principles of Personal Agility
Two techniques to help you survive as a Product Owner. First, learn how to deal with seagull stakeholders. Second, learn how to easily and mathematically determine the complexity of your user stories and pare them down for your development team.
HCI Webinar: Changing a Company Culture, One Technological Performance Module...Cornerstone OnDemand
Sometimes the best systems aren’t all in place when it comes to talent management. Processes may need improvement and people likely want more support, but a knowledge gap and lack of experience in change management blocks companies from adopting the finest practices and implementing helpful technology. Success, as seen by leaders, is achieved by doing what works best for the business. Top managers take on the constant task of determining how to make each process more efficient and improve what’s needed to maximize productivity.
Visual tools and innovation games workshop - spscbus - aug 2014Ruven Gotz
A 'meta' presentation about metadata - tools you can use to explain metadata, taxonomy and content types to your stakeholders. Presented at SharePoint Saturday Columbus (SPSCBUS), Aug 23, 2014 [DOWNLOAD THE FULL DECK TO GET SPEAKER'S NOTES]
Visual Tools and Innovation Games - Workshop - SPS Chicago Suburbs - May 2014Ruven Gotz
Presented at SharePoint Saturday Chicago Suburbs, May 2014 by Ruven Gotz and Michelle Caldwell.
Learn and experience new tools and techniques that help you get shared understanding with your stakeholders. Without shared understanding, your chances of a successful delivery are very low.
Metadata taxonomy and content types oh my - SPTechCon - April 2014Ruven Gotz
A 'meta' presentation about metadata - tools you can use to explain metadata to your stakeholders. Presented at SPTechCon, April 24, 2014 [DOWNLOAD THE FULL DECK TO GET SPEAKER'S NOTES]
Visual tools and innovation games workshop - SPTechCon - Apr 2014Ruven Gotz
Half-day workshop presented by Michelle Caldwell and Ruven Gotz on getting to shared understand and better requirements for your SharePoint projects through the use of Visual Tools (such as mind mapping, wireframing, and card sorting) and Gamestorming (also called Innovation Games)
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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/
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
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
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.
32. Give people a way
to stay in the loop
How do we allow people who
are not co-located the ability to
remain connected?
Hint: It’s not just about
technology
38. Summary of Story 1
• Bring dispersed workers together virtually
• Build the foundation for “continuing
conversations”
• Value: Remain engaged with your immediate
and wider team
• How:
• Asynchronous, broadcast tools
• By Working Out Loud
52. Collaborate
or Work
Alone
KM
System
Has anyone
ever worked
with Product X
in situation Y?
@Sue did
last year
@Bill
was the
tech
lead on
that
Here’s a
link to
the spec,
call me if
you have
questions
Just what
I need to
solve this
53. Summary of Story 2
• What’s in the KM system is not always easy to find
• Not all the good stuff gets into the KM system
• Social tools make this fast and easy to do
Value: Rapid access to the information I need from
the people who know.
60. Let’s look at why it’s NOT fb
ca.linkedin.com/in/alanlepo
Used with permission from: Alan Lepofsky - VP & Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
62. The Value of Planning & Governance
How can you get ready for Enterprise Social?
63. If we build it, they will come…
• Don’t over-think this
• Don’t over plan
• Don’t put in too many rules
• Don’t kill it before it starts
64. Have we learned NOTHING, people?
• The SharePoint Wild-
West was a mess.
• Let’s not do this all
over again!
65. Not to discount YOUR success
Yammer can grow virally on it’s
own
66. Don’t kill it, but plan and be ready!
•What is your business purpose?
•What are your use-cases for the application of social
•What are your terms of service and governance
rules?
•Who is going to enforce the rules and set the tone?
•How will you engage your leadership?
Value: Achieve a business focused result
https://about.yammer.com/success/
There are many obstacles that get in the way of ‘frictionless collaboration’
Our environment is fragmented: we keep stuff on the C or X drive, in email, in SharePoint and now, in Yammer
What tool do I use – should I create a blog or a wiki in SharePoint, or use Yammer
Yammer can store files, what do I do about that?
I’m excited about the change that is just ahead.
Microsoft is creating an environment of much more ‘frictionless’ collab
Is this what we’re talking about for enterprise social?
NO: This is personal social, and as far as companies are involved it falls under part of digital marketing
The part in common is that we are using virtual networks of people to share information
How do ENTERPRISES use these social tools?
A brand, an organization is engaging with their customers on social media
Sell you something directly
Engage more fully with their product
But… engagement is really a synonym for “getting you to buy more, at some point”
Finding potential candidates to hire…
Finding who’s who at your target customers
LinkedIn excels at these tasks
It’s been six months since these two friends met up… How’s the conversation go?
Hey man, how are you?
Good, good! You?
Oh yeah, good – Busy!
Yeah, me too – really busy!
So, what’s new?
Awe, not much, how about you?
You know, same old same-old…
I’ve learned an interesting lesson from being part of the SharePoint community and being on Facebook.
Many of us are on FB, but I think this experience is a bit different from most people…
I have a fairly large community of people who I consider to be friends, but whom I only see occasionally.
Some I see 5, 6 times a year, others only once or twice, and some even less often.
That I was working on a project in Vancouver
Who I spent time with at SharePoint Saturday New York
That my daughter graduated from University
Seb, you’re looking good!
You were out for a good 10 days there with that cold…
Yeah, feeling ton’s better.
Hey, I see you’ve been travelling to Vancouver a whole lot. Do you like it? I was thinking of heading out there on a vacation with the family… Congrats on your daughter’s grad – you must be proud… and hey, your eye looks great, can’t tell you had that problem
We have a foundation for conversation that picks up from FB as if it never left off…
Why does facebook add so much value to these situations?
AND: How does this apply to the enterprise?
We are not physically close to each other
Even if we’re not a continent apart, we are not necessarily close enough to see each other every day, or even every week
We have something in-common that brings us together…
It can be family, it can be military unit, it can be sports club… but we have something.
For me, it’s the SharePoint community
We care about each other and about what’s happening in the lives of others.
So, that’s Facebook… the question is how do similar tools translate to the enterprise?
I work on a team where people are located across the country from each other, or are on-site at clients
In your org it can be different reasons: different branches. Departments in other provinces or countries
Or even just a large building where you don’t actually interact face-to-face that much
Solving problems for customers (or balancing the books, or making sales, or whatever your cause may be)
We work together – we want to succeed and we are engaged with each other (or, at least, we want to be)
Being dispersed, yet needing to work together in some ways presents a problem… a problem that’s’ not addressed by email and instant message
Let’s look at our modes of communication
Email – Narrow: Discussions are lost, no one else has visibility
Lync – Narrow: same as email (but immediate and synchronous
Webinar/Conf call: Broad reach, but usually mostly one-way
Social – Tools like yammer allow for asynchronous, broad communication
The thing that’s new that social tools bring is to broaden communication.
The stuff you post is highly visible, searchable, and available to be interacted with…
But the tools to enable this are just TECHNOLOGY
It leads to a new way of working.
Implementing a new technology will not, alone, provide value.
There needs to be a cultural shift in the way people work together.
It’s called “Working out Loud”
Definition of WOL is that your work is visible to others – they can see what you’ve done and how you’ve done it.
In many ways, SharePoint enables this side of things
The bigger, trickier, culture changing component is narrating your work.
The essential ingredient is “In order to help others”. It’s not about your lunch, or what you think of your boss.
It’s info that can potentially help another person
Making your work visible - Fundamental
Making your work better – others see it and provide feedback
Leading with generosity – Contribute, it’s not about self promotion
Building a social network – Expand your interactions beyond peers and immediate reports/supervisors
Making it all purposeful – Having a goal in mind helps prevent this from becoming a time-suck
Bring the team together virtually…
We know what we’re all working on.
We can offer help when needed
We feel comfortable asking for help
The boss is aware of her team, and doesn’t require as much status update work
Before my next story, I want to take a detour into Microsoft’s messaging about the social enterprise
Jack Welch: If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
You have a difficult problem to solve
With your team, and individually, you come up with some really great ideas…
Compile and deliver an awesome result
And, it gets files for future reference and re-use
I mean… it goes into a KM system of some type
We’ll come back to this at the end.
Another quick detour from the stories…
Is it facebook for the enterprise
It LOOKS pretty darn close!
There are companies that have been virally infected with the free version of Yammer. It just grew on its own, and it has been successful. But this is not the same as enterprise success.
Downside: “Don’t mention Yammer” story
SharePoint and Yammer are better together
SharePoint is good at document management with metadata and workflow and policy and permissions
And SharePoint has contact lists and calendars and task lists
Yammer doesn’t do any of that
SharePoint is not great at discussions, forums, microblogging, easy communication
Realize it’s a cyclical process, not a destination.
Careful planning and planning to execute is important
Capacity to DELIVER new ideas on rapid cycles
ENGAGE people at multiple levels
Uses “signals” from exchange, yammer, SharePoint postings
From, pretty good, but with obstacles.
To “Frictionless” collaboration