Chicago has been chosen as a finalist to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. As part of its bid, Chicago promised to host the "Greenest Olympics Yet" but the bid has no binding environmental standards. A city resolution is proposed to mandate that the Olympic Village achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest standard. This would demonstrate the city's commitment to green building and hosting environmentally friendly Olympics. The resolution details that buildings account for a large portion of carbon emissions and energy costs, and green buildings provide health and cost savings through efficiency. The Olympic Village would consist of towers to be converted to condos after the games.
Sports Social Media and Marketing - Running Conference Melb 090417Nick Gonios
Presenting this at the recent Running Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Objective was to communicate sports social media and marketing activities from around the world and how they could be applied to running communities.
Sports Social Media and Marketing - Running Conference Melb 090417Nick Gonios
Presenting this at the recent Running Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Objective was to communicate sports social media and marketing activities from around the world and how they could be applied to running communities.
The Impact of Weather on Retail Sales in Spring 2009 and the 2009 Hurricane S...Paul Walsh
Investor presentation given on March 24, 2009 to Global Hunter Securities clients. Primer on the influence of weather on consumer spending and retail sales and the outlook for the balance of spring 2009 and an initial outlook at the 2009 Hurricane season.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Are you starting a new, non-profit organization, and you're looking for funding and a grant writer? Start here, and then contact me.
(For residents of Orange County, CA.)
Understanding Your Audience and Optimizing Revenue Streams
A key to increasing revenue potential is by understanding your audience and figuring out what payment and alternative payment methods fit to each unique experience. This session will help you uncover insights, like defining which goods or incentives to use, knowing where to place the call-to-action, understanding users in order to best direct payment and alternative payment methods, and how to optimize and continually test placements and payment providers against detailed user demographics - to know how and where offers are most effective and productive.
Ian Swanson
Co Founder and CEO, Sometrics
www.sometrics.com
I'm looking for a cofounder for YCombinator Winter 2010. If you are interested email: yc.w10.founder@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter: @YCW10
There are over 1 million paper cutters on desks across America. Unfortunately, the software for these devices is uniformly terrible. This creates a tremendous opportunity for innovation.
Authentic Advocacy, Cause Marketing, Digital, Social Media, Swarms, Case StudiesMediaSauce
This is the presentation that was delivered by MediaSauce on February 19th at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library in the Clowes Auditorium. It covers Cause Marketing as a whole and the integration of digital and social media with it. The focus of this presentation is demonstrating practices and case studies of how businesses and non-profits worked together to change the world. The presentation also showcases how both can increase awareness about their products as well as cause.
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.
The Impact of Weather on Retail Sales in Spring 2009 and the 2009 Hurricane S...Paul Walsh
Investor presentation given on March 24, 2009 to Global Hunter Securities clients. Primer on the influence of weather on consumer spending and retail sales and the outlook for the balance of spring 2009 and an initial outlook at the 2009 Hurricane season.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
Are you starting a new, non-profit organization, and you're looking for funding and a grant writer? Start here, and then contact me.
(For residents of Orange County, CA.)
Understanding Your Audience and Optimizing Revenue Streams
A key to increasing revenue potential is by understanding your audience and figuring out what payment and alternative payment methods fit to each unique experience. This session will help you uncover insights, like defining which goods or incentives to use, knowing where to place the call-to-action, understanding users in order to best direct payment and alternative payment methods, and how to optimize and continually test placements and payment providers against detailed user demographics - to know how and where offers are most effective and productive.
Ian Swanson
Co Founder and CEO, Sometrics
www.sometrics.com
I'm looking for a cofounder for YCombinator Winter 2010. If you are interested email: yc.w10.founder@gmail.com or follow me on Twitter: @YCW10
There are over 1 million paper cutters on desks across America. Unfortunately, the software for these devices is uniformly terrible. This creates a tremendous opportunity for innovation.
Authentic Advocacy, Cause Marketing, Digital, Social Media, Swarms, Case StudiesMediaSauce
This is the presentation that was delivered by MediaSauce on February 19th at the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library in the Clowes Auditorium. It covers Cause Marketing as a whole and the integration of digital and social media with it. The focus of this presentation is demonstrating practices and case studies of how businesses and non-profits worked together to change the world. The presentation also showcases how both can increase awareness about their products as well as cause.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4
Fact Sheet
1. Support the City Resolution Mandating LEED Certification (Platinum
Level) for Chicago’s Potential Olympic Village
THE ISSUE:
• Chicago has been chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games
o As part of it’s widely‐publicized bid for the games, the Chicago Olympic Committee
promised to host the “Greenest Olympics Yet”
Yet, the bid has ZERO binding or concrete green standards to back up this
claim
The City Council must “LEED” the way with the Olympic Village!
THE SOLUTION:
• A City Resolution mandating LEED Certification at the highest possible level for the
Olympic Village – Platinum Level
o This would be a clear and crucial public statement to the Olympic Committee, and
the World, that this Council takes seriously the goal of hosting the Greenest
Olympics Ever
Why Green Building?
The Environment
• Buildings are one of the heaviest consumers of natural resources
• In Chicago alone, buildings are responsible for 70% OF THE CITY’S CARBON
DIOXIDE EMISSIONS
Cost Savings
• This country’s 4.8 million commercial buildings spend $107.9 Billion per
year on energy costs
o 30% of that cost (or $32.37 Billion) is due to inefficient technologies
Green buildings have much lower operating costs because of
energy and water conservation
Improved Occupant Health
• Green Buildings are proven to result in reductions of disease, allergies, and
asthma
Olympic Village Details:
• Current Plan Alternating series of 8‐ and 16‐story towers on the current Michael Reese
Hospital grounds on the City’s south side
o The buildings will be converted to private condominiums following the games
• The resolution would draw upon the internationally‐recognized & well‐established
Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) system
o But, would also take advantage of the “Chicago Standard”, 46 different practices &
technologies derived from LEED that Mayor Daley has singled out as most fitting for
Chicago buildings