What might the world be like when launching a personal satellite is as easy as launching your own blog or website or social network today? Find out the initial results of our 3-day massively multiplayer thought experiment!
Free Space: How to invent the future by playing in the Signtific LabJane McGonigal
When custom satellites are as easy to design and launch as your own website is today…
What will you study? What will you design? What will you make? Who will you collaborate with? How will your field change? How will daily life change? How will the world be different?
Here are the rules for playing the Free Space thought experiment.
Games as a platform for city-scale collaborationJane McGonigal
If you're a city manager, how can you get more creative help to achieve your city's most urgent goals? How can you get massively more people involved in tackling your city's toughest challenges? An alternate reality game may be the solution -- and it may be easier to pull off than you think.
Born to Play Games - a talk by Jane McGonigal about human destiny circa 2020 ADJane McGonigal
How games bring out the best in us, act as a gateway to real-life goals, change who we think we really are, and protect us from real harm, and give us actual superpowers.... and how we will play world-changing games in the future as a result.
Free Space: How to invent the future by playing in the Signtific LabJane McGonigal
When custom satellites are as easy to design and launch as your own website is today…
What will you study? What will you design? What will you make? Who will you collaborate with? How will your field change? How will daily life change? How will the world be different?
Here are the rules for playing the Free Space thought experiment.
Games as a platform for city-scale collaborationJane McGonigal
If you're a city manager, how can you get more creative help to achieve your city's most urgent goals? How can you get massively more people involved in tackling your city's toughest challenges? An alternate reality game may be the solution -- and it may be easier to pull off than you think.
Born to Play Games - a talk by Jane McGonigal about human destiny circa 2020 ADJane McGonigal
How games bring out the best in us, act as a gateway to real-life goals, change who we think we really are, and protect us from real harm, and give us actual superpowers.... and how we will play world-changing games in the future as a result.
Learning to Make Your Own Reality - IGDA Education Keynote 2009Jane McGonigal
What new kinds of games will we play in the future, and what key knowledge and skills will game developers need to invent them? Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that over the next decade, games will become a powerful interface for managing our real work, organizing society, and optimizing our real lives. Increasingly, she predicts, game developers will be charged with the task of making people happier, smarter, friendlier, greener, and healthier -- and hundreds of millions of new gamers will be playing together at home, at school, at work, and everywhere in between. The result? Game design and development expertise will become a sought-after talent in virtually every industry and field, from Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies. Indeed, the future is brighter for game developers than ever before. But making games that aim to improve our quality of life and to re-invent society as we know it will require a new set of design skills and content expertise beyond what we traditionally teach in game programs. In this keynote, you'll find out the top five design competencies (such as 'technology foresight' and the ability to generate and measure 'participation bandwidth') and the five most important subject areas (such as positive psychology and mass collaboration) for this new class of reality-changing game developers.
The key takeaway of this talk: We can live in any world we want but only if we teach the next generation of game developers what they need to know in order to imagine and make new and better realities.
How do we inspire and empower as many people as possible to become truly engaged in achieving their own positive health outcomes? This talk explores the power of games to change how we participate in our own health.
We don't need no stinkin' badges: How to re-invent reality without gamificationJane McGonigal
(Slides from Jane McGonigal at the Game Developers Conference 2011, Serious Games Summit, Gamification Day)
If you hate the term gamification, you're not alone: Plenty of game developers think gamification sounds cynical and opportunistic -- a way to motivate gamers to do something they' ordinarily avoid. Worse, many early adopters of gamification are creating mere shells of a game: game feedback systems stripped of any satisfying activity, meaning, story, or heart. But there is another way. What we need now is a more holistic and whole-hearted approach to using game design to transform reality. This presentation is an introduction to gameful design: how to infuse real life and real work with the true spirit, or emotional and social qualities, of gameplay. You'll learn a four-part gameful strategy that focuses on how to create the lasting positive impacts that games are famously good at generating: more positive emotions, stronger social relationships, a bigger sense of purpose, and meaningful mastery. As game desig! ners, we can do better than gamification. We owe reality more than some stinkin' achievement badges, or points, or leaderboards.
Reinventing Survival: A Keynote from ETech 2019Jane McGonigal
Can we invent the future and save the world, just by playing a game? Find out how forecasting games like the Institute for the Future's SUPERSTRUCT can help us harness participation bandwidth, solve hard problems, give more people work that actually matters, and turn us into Super Empowered Hopeful Individuals who are capable of re-inventing society,
3 billion hours gaming a week: Is it worth it?Jane McGonigal
We think of games as escapist – as helping us forget about real lives – rather than as adding to our real lives. We think of games as something we play to forget about our problems – not to help us solve real problems. We think of games as fundamentally separate from reality – and I am here to say that this is not only completely wrong, it’s actually the most dangerous idea we have about games today.
Why is it a dangerous idea? Because the biggest obstacle to industry growth is the perception that games are a waste of time. Meanwhile, the biggest source of criticism of videogames is that they are addicting and a distraction from what really matters: real life.
The great challenge for the next decade of games is to battle this perception – AND to do a better job of making games that clearly and powerfully connect with our real lives.
Design Intersections: How Games Can Help Us Solve the World's Biggest ProblemsJane McGonigal
Game design can be a platform for re-inventing reality and designing our future. Presented on March 18, 2010 at the Design Intersections Symposium on Disruptive Effects, at the University of Minnesota.
Games for Innovation: A Five Year ForecastJane McGonigal
Games provoke powerful positive emotions -- like curiosity, optimism, determination, and a desire to achieve something extraordinary. What if we could bring those same emotions to the workplace? to innovation? to customer relationships? This five-year forecast looks at the opportunity to invent new work practices and business solutions that engage customers, consumers and employees as effectively as a good game.
Games for Health: 2012 Keynote: A Crash Course in Getting SuperBetterJane McGonigal
Games can increase four kinds of resilience: Mental, Physical, Emotional, and Social. With increased resilience, we can bounce back faster from injury or illness, and experience greater well-being and life satisfaction.
Games as a Platform for Innovation - Financial Times Global Investment SeriesJane McGonigal
A view into how and why online games are becoming the most important platform for collaboration and innovation, and how games optimize human ability and harness the power of collective intelligence to solve real-world problems -- with a special focus on Canadian firms and the Canadian game development industry.
Learning to Make Your Own Reality - IGDA Education Keynote 2009Jane McGonigal
What new kinds of games will we play in the future, and what key knowledge and skills will game developers need to invent them? Futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that over the next decade, games will become a powerful interface for managing our real work, organizing society, and optimizing our real lives. Increasingly, she predicts, game developers will be charged with the task of making people happier, smarter, friendlier, greener, and healthier -- and hundreds of millions of new gamers will be playing together at home, at school, at work, and everywhere in between. The result? Game design and development expertise will become a sought-after talent in virtually every industry and field, from Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies. Indeed, the future is brighter for game developers than ever before. But making games that aim to improve our quality of life and to re-invent society as we know it will require a new set of design skills and content expertise beyond what we traditionally teach in game programs. In this keynote, you'll find out the top five design competencies (such as 'technology foresight' and the ability to generate and measure 'participation bandwidth') and the five most important subject areas (such as positive psychology and mass collaboration) for this new class of reality-changing game developers.
The key takeaway of this talk: We can live in any world we want but only if we teach the next generation of game developers what they need to know in order to imagine and make new and better realities.
How do we inspire and empower as many people as possible to become truly engaged in achieving their own positive health outcomes? This talk explores the power of games to change how we participate in our own health.
We don't need no stinkin' badges: How to re-invent reality without gamificationJane McGonigal
(Slides from Jane McGonigal at the Game Developers Conference 2011, Serious Games Summit, Gamification Day)
If you hate the term gamification, you're not alone: Plenty of game developers think gamification sounds cynical and opportunistic -- a way to motivate gamers to do something they' ordinarily avoid. Worse, many early adopters of gamification are creating mere shells of a game: game feedback systems stripped of any satisfying activity, meaning, story, or heart. But there is another way. What we need now is a more holistic and whole-hearted approach to using game design to transform reality. This presentation is an introduction to gameful design: how to infuse real life and real work with the true spirit, or emotional and social qualities, of gameplay. You'll learn a four-part gameful strategy that focuses on how to create the lasting positive impacts that games are famously good at generating: more positive emotions, stronger social relationships, a bigger sense of purpose, and meaningful mastery. As game desig! ners, we can do better than gamification. We owe reality more than some stinkin' achievement badges, or points, or leaderboards.
Reinventing Survival: A Keynote from ETech 2019Jane McGonigal
Can we invent the future and save the world, just by playing a game? Find out how forecasting games like the Institute for the Future's SUPERSTRUCT can help us harness participation bandwidth, solve hard problems, give more people work that actually matters, and turn us into Super Empowered Hopeful Individuals who are capable of re-inventing society,
3 billion hours gaming a week: Is it worth it?Jane McGonigal
We think of games as escapist – as helping us forget about real lives – rather than as adding to our real lives. We think of games as something we play to forget about our problems – not to help us solve real problems. We think of games as fundamentally separate from reality – and I am here to say that this is not only completely wrong, it’s actually the most dangerous idea we have about games today.
Why is it a dangerous idea? Because the biggest obstacle to industry growth is the perception that games are a waste of time. Meanwhile, the biggest source of criticism of videogames is that they are addicting and a distraction from what really matters: real life.
The great challenge for the next decade of games is to battle this perception – AND to do a better job of making games that clearly and powerfully connect with our real lives.
Design Intersections: How Games Can Help Us Solve the World's Biggest ProblemsJane McGonigal
Game design can be a platform for re-inventing reality and designing our future. Presented on March 18, 2010 at the Design Intersections Symposium on Disruptive Effects, at the University of Minnesota.
Games for Innovation: A Five Year ForecastJane McGonigal
Games provoke powerful positive emotions -- like curiosity, optimism, determination, and a desire to achieve something extraordinary. What if we could bring those same emotions to the workplace? to innovation? to customer relationships? This five-year forecast looks at the opportunity to invent new work practices and business solutions that engage customers, consumers and employees as effectively as a good game.
Games for Health: 2012 Keynote: A Crash Course in Getting SuperBetterJane McGonigal
Games can increase four kinds of resilience: Mental, Physical, Emotional, and Social. With increased resilience, we can bounce back faster from injury or illness, and experience greater well-being and life satisfaction.
Games as a Platform for Innovation - Financial Times Global Investment SeriesJane McGonigal
A view into how and why online games are becoming the most important platform for collaboration and innovation, and how games optimize human ability and harness the power of collective intelligence to solve real-world problems -- with a special focus on Canadian firms and the Canadian game development industry.
The Power of Resilience - and how to get it through gameplayJane McGonigal
Games make us more resilient: able to become stronger in the face of challenges, rather than weaker. Find out how to harness the power of resilience through game design for work, innovation, and relationship building in this Blackberry DevCon 2011 featured talk by Jane McGonigal.
V Congreso Internacional de Educared - Games to make the futureJane McGonigal
Games can help us make a better future and change the real world -- by harnessing our collaboration superpowers and collective intelligence skills to solve real problems. A keynote by Jane McGonigal, Director of Game Research & Development, Institute for the Future
Epic Win - Why Gaming is the Future of LearningJane McGonigal
Why doesn't the real world seem more like an online game? In the best-designed games, our human experience is perfectly optimized: we have important work to do, we're surrounded by potential collaborators, and we learn quickly and in a low-risk environment. When we're playing a good online game, we get constant useful feedback, we turbo-charge the neurochemistry that makes challenge fun, and we feel an insatiable curiosity about the world around us. None of this is by accident. In fact, game developers have spent three decades figuring out how to make us happier and more collaborative, how to make learning more fun and social, and how to satisfy our hunger for meaning and success. And all of these game-world insights can be applied directly to amplify and augment the way we teach, learn, and do research in the real world. In this talk, you'll learn how online game methods and mechanics can transform our learning communities - and help re-invent higher education as we know it.
Dr. McGonigal is the Director of Game Research & Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.
Game Studies Download 2009 - Top 10 Research FindingsJane McGonigal
Ian Bogost, Mia Consalvo, and Jane McGonigal present a curated list of the top 10 most interesting, surprising, and useful findings from game studies research over the past year. Presented at the 2009 Game Developers Conference
Reality is Broken: GDC08 Rant by Jane McGonigalJane McGonigal
As game designers, we own more emotional bandwidth, we occupy more brain cycles, and we make more people happy than any other platform or content in the world. Reality is fundamentally broken, and we have a responsibility as game designers to fix it. We have a responsibility as the smartest people in the world, the people who understand how to make systems that make people feel engaged, successful, happy, and completely alive, and we have the knowledge and the power to invent systems that make reality work better. We have the responsibility to take what we’ve learned as an industry over the past 30 years and start making everyday life more like our games.
The Game Studies Download is compiled annually by Jane McGonigal, Ian Bogost, and Mia Consalvo for the Game Developers Conference.
It's a summary of the top ten research findings from academic game studies from the previous calendar year.
Our main criteria for selecting studies is simple: the direct relevance of the researchers' insights to the future innovation of game design and development.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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.
9. Etech’s modus operandi
You are a SUPER-CHALLENGING crowd:
>450 ANTAGONISM (“I disagree!”)
>200 ADAPTATION (“a different take”)
>350 INVESTIGATION (“explain it!”)