Dirk Pilat from the OECD presented on the OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017. The presentation covered several topics:
1) Connectivity has grown but fiber network access is lagging in many countries.
2) Most firms are connected but few make effective use of advanced ICT technologies, and SMEs lag even further behind.
3) Too few workers have the necessary digital skills for today's technology-rich environment.
The presentation concluded with calls to ensure digital opportunities are available to all, strengthen connectivity and skills, review outdated policies, and develop strategic and coordinated national digital strategies.
Information Communication Technology
Malaysia's Digital Economy: ICT
Business Information and Business Intelligence
Growth Hacking Economy System Concept
No matter who wins the 2020 presidential election federal spending on infrastructure is likely to increase. 5G infrastructure investments will be part of that.
As wireless networks have improved over the years, they have been built to progressively more rigorous standards.
https://youtu.be/zjlS2AGRank
Cyber trust: cornerstone of a digital worldLeonardo
During Cybertech 2016 Andrea Biraghi, Security & Information Systems Division Managing Director, took part at the panel "Leader's Vision in the Cyber Era" presenting Leonardo's view on the cyber business
How IoT will change our world, and how to start building it - Digital Futures...Ovum
• Myths and hyperbole: Decoding some of the nonsense • How the Internet of things will change our world • Key challenges in building the Internet of things
Gary Barnett, Chief Analyst, Ovum
At ITASEC17, the first italian conference on Cyber Security, Giorgio Mosca, Strategy and Technology Director of Leonardo's Security & Information Systems Division presented the company's approach to the cyber business
Information Communication Technology
Malaysia's Digital Economy: ICT
Business Information and Business Intelligence
Growth Hacking Economy System Concept
No matter who wins the 2020 presidential election federal spending on infrastructure is likely to increase. 5G infrastructure investments will be part of that.
As wireless networks have improved over the years, they have been built to progressively more rigorous standards.
https://youtu.be/zjlS2AGRank
Cyber trust: cornerstone of a digital worldLeonardo
During Cybertech 2016 Andrea Biraghi, Security & Information Systems Division Managing Director, took part at the panel "Leader's Vision in the Cyber Era" presenting Leonardo's view on the cyber business
How IoT will change our world, and how to start building it - Digital Futures...Ovum
• Myths and hyperbole: Decoding some of the nonsense • How the Internet of things will change our world • Key challenges in building the Internet of things
Gary Barnett, Chief Analyst, Ovum
At ITASEC17, the first italian conference on Cyber Security, Giorgio Mosca, Strategy and Technology Director of Leonardo's Security & Information Systems Division presented the company's approach to the cyber business
By 2019, we will be staring at a Data Explosion like none before. Big Data Big Bang is around the corner. This presentation is a thought starter that aim to give an idea of things to come from Internet of things(IoT) to Internet of everything (IoE). Are companies ready to harness the power? Are data vendors equipped to take on this challenge? What do they need to start doing? How do they appease the sometimes conflicting needs of CIO versus the CMO? All this and more.
The TMT Value Chain: A Financial Perspective • How have the equity markets viewed TMT? • The impact of new business models • Ovum’s Mobile Subscriptions and Revenue Forecasts by Upin Dattani, Senior Financial Analyst, Ovum
The Cloud is Changing the tech land scape gloablly and within five years we will find it impacting all business whether they are traditional bricks and mortar type businesses or technology. it is going to be a fun ride
NEC Public Safety | NEC Airport Security Advances with Business Traveller NEC Public Safety
The airport experience is fast evolving with a host of technological innovation. Business Traveller cathes up with industry leaders in the airport technology, NEC Corporation to learn more.
Reach out at safety@nec.com.sg if you would like to learn more.
NEC Public Safety | NEC XON 2020 Vision by Walter LeeNEC Public Safety
2020 Vision - A Future Beyond Imagination
Walter Lee, Evangelist & Government Relations Director of NEC Global Safety Division shares the 2020 Vision during the annual NEC XON Summit 2019.
NEC XON is an annual invitation-only summit gathering C suite executives and other delegates from across Africa to expose them to how innovative technology can help improve the lives of Africans.
Reach out at safety@nec.com.sg if you would like to have more details.
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017: Setting the foundations for the digital tr...innovationoecd
The Digital Economy Outlook 2017 shows how Internet infrastructure and usage varies across countries and firms in the OECD area. It looks at policy implications of the digital transformation as well as a wide array of trends. Report available at http://oe.cd/deo2017 - See also the OECD Going Digital project: www.oecd.org/going-digital
By 2019, we will be staring at a Data Explosion like none before. Big Data Big Bang is around the corner. This presentation is a thought starter that aim to give an idea of things to come from Internet of things(IoT) to Internet of everything (IoE). Are companies ready to harness the power? Are data vendors equipped to take on this challenge? What do they need to start doing? How do they appease the sometimes conflicting needs of CIO versus the CMO? All this and more.
The TMT Value Chain: A Financial Perspective • How have the equity markets viewed TMT? • The impact of new business models • Ovum’s Mobile Subscriptions and Revenue Forecasts by Upin Dattani, Senior Financial Analyst, Ovum
The Cloud is Changing the tech land scape gloablly and within five years we will find it impacting all business whether they are traditional bricks and mortar type businesses or technology. it is going to be a fun ride
NEC Public Safety | NEC Airport Security Advances with Business Traveller NEC Public Safety
The airport experience is fast evolving with a host of technological innovation. Business Traveller cathes up with industry leaders in the airport technology, NEC Corporation to learn more.
Reach out at safety@nec.com.sg if you would like to learn more.
NEC Public Safety | NEC XON 2020 Vision by Walter LeeNEC Public Safety
2020 Vision - A Future Beyond Imagination
Walter Lee, Evangelist & Government Relations Director of NEC Global Safety Division shares the 2020 Vision during the annual NEC XON Summit 2019.
NEC XON is an annual invitation-only summit gathering C suite executives and other delegates from across Africa to expose them to how innovative technology can help improve the lives of Africans.
Reach out at safety@nec.com.sg if you would like to have more details.
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2017: Setting the foundations for the digital tr...innovationoecd
The Digital Economy Outlook 2017 shows how Internet infrastructure and usage varies across countries and firms in the OECD area. It looks at policy implications of the digital transformation as well as a wide array of trends. Report available at http://oe.cd/deo2017 - See also the OECD Going Digital project: www.oecd.org/going-digital
G20 “Digital Economy” Task Force Meeting - Andrew Wyckoffinnovationoecd
The OECD Background Report: “Key Issues for the Digital Transformation in the G20”. G20 “Digital Economy”
Task Force Meeting, 13 January 2017, Berlin, Germany
Presentación de Dirk Pilat, Director Adjunto de la Dirección de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de la OCDE en el 31º Encuentro de de la Economía Digital y las Telecomunicaciones: La realidad digital de España, celebrado en la UIMP en septiembre de 2017
Digital innovations -Empowering digital ecosystems and startups Soren Gigler
Presentation about the main programs of the Digital Innovation and Blockchain program at the European Commission to foster digital innovations, innovation ecosystems and enhance the access to finance for digital startups and scale-ups.
A flagship CTO event, this has grown into a platform for knowledge-sharing among peer groups steering ICT projects in e-delivery of health care, education and governance. This Forum echoes the Commonwealth's 2013 theme: The Road Ahead for Africa.
Growth has returned since the global financial crisis, how can it be made more inclusive?
Scene Setting: Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff, G20 Sherpa and Head of Inclusive Growth Initiative, OECD
Place and policy: how can cities lead inclusive growth?
Cities are at the forefront of efforts to achieve inclusive growth. What does the inclusive city of the 21st century look like? How can we narrow the gap between rich and poor communities? What role can housing play in promoting inclusive growth?
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD
Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Kurt Van Dender, Head of Unit, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
This session discussed key findings from recent work on the use of taxes to tackle climate change, including a preview of the upcoming OECD publication, Taxing Energy Use 2018, which measures the magnitude and coverage of energy and carbon taxes in 42 OECD and G20 countries and provides a first appreciation of changes in energy and carbon taxes over time.
A key pillar of ensuring the integrity of the global financial system is to ensure that information is available to tax authorities’ to enable them to administer their domestic tax laws. The OECD’s work in this area is conducted through the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.
The Global Forum is responsible for ensuring a rapid implementation of the standards of exchange of information on request (EOIR) and the automatic exchange of financial account information (AEOI). Importantly, each of these standards includes requirements to maintain beneficial ownership information. Mr. Housden and Mr. Auerbach will give an overview of the standards, the review processes that are in place and the results so far.
The Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project also includes key actions that include exchange of information as well as the elimination of harmful tax practices and mutual agreement procedures to ensure that tax treaties are applied consistent with their intents and purposes. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS, which now counts more than 100 member jurisdictions, conducts peer reviews of the implementation of BEPS action items on exchange of tax rulings, country-by-country reporting, harmful preferential tax regimes and the efficiency of mutual agreement procedures. Also, an important tool for BEPS implementation is the BEPS Multilateral Instrument (MLI), which allows signatories to quickly update its treaties to conform with BEPS tax treaty related measures. Mr. Pross will provide an overview of the BEPS implementation phase and its results so far. Ms. Chatel and Mr. Evers will focus on the importance and impact of the MLI which has been signed by close to 70 jurisdictions and which is currently under ratification in many of them.
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Implementation
Sophie Chatel, Head of the Tax Treaties Unit, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Maikel Evers, Tax Treaties Advisor, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
Achim Pross, Head of International Cooperation and Tax Administration Division, Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD
The Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project also includes key actions, notably exchange of information as well as the elimination of harmful tax practices and mutual agreement procedures to ensure that tax treaties are applied in accordance with their intents and purposes. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS, which now counts more than 100 member jurisdictions, conducts peer reviews of the implementation of BEPS action items on exchange of tax rulings, country-by-country reporting, harmful preferential tax regimes and the efficiency of mutual agreement procedures. Also, an important tool for BEPS implementation is the BEPS Multilateral Instrument (MLI), which allows signatories to quickly update its treaties to conform with BEPS tax treaty related measures. This session will provide an overview of the BEPS implementation phase and its results so far including a focus on the importance and impact of the MLI which has been signed by close to 70 jurisdictions and which is currently under ratification in many of them.
Teaching for truth – The role of education policy in public trust
Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General, OECD
These days, virality seems privileged over quality in the distribution of news with truth and fact losing currency in decision making and democratic choices. Assertions which “feel right” but have no basis in fact seem to be accepted as valid on the grounds that they challenge elites and vested interests. Algorithms that sort us into groups of like-minded individuals create echo chambers that amplify our views, leave us uninformed of opposing arguments, and polarise our societies. Those algorithms are not a design flaw. They are the heart of why social media work.
In this context, what can countries do to foster trust, as a fundamental prerequisite for social and economic well-being, for enhancing social cohesion and strengthening resilience, and for maintaining security and order in our societies? OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) shows that education strengthens the cognitive and analytical capacities needed to develop, maintain, and (perhaps) restore trust in both close relationships as well as in anonymous others. It does so both directly, through building and reinforcing literacy and numeracy in individuals, and indirectly, through facilitating habits and reinforcing behaviours such as reading and writing at home and at work. Education and trust are thus fundamentally intertwined and dependent on each other.
What’s the role of trade in inclusive growth?
Ken Ash, Director, Trade and Agriculture, OECD
Public scepticism about trade has grown in many countries, as one part of a wider backlash against globalisation. We need to acknowledge that frustration with ‘the system’ has its roots in some genuine problems. At the same time, we need to acknowledge that trade has helped to improve lives around the world. OECD analysis supports a much more integrated approach to policy making, moving each of us beyond our comfortable silos. Why does trade matter today - or does it - and how can trade contribute to more inclusive growth?
Investing in climate, investing in growth // World Energy Outlook – How can we meet climate, energy access and air quality goals?
Timur Guel, Senior Energy Analyst, Energy Demand Outlook Division, International Energy Agency
Energy is fundamental for the achievement of many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Three of them are directly related to the production and use of energy: to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services by 2030 (SDG 7); to substantially reduce the air pollution which causes deaths and illness (SDG 3.9); and to take effective action to combat climate change (SDG 13). The IEA’s new Sustainable Development Scenario, published for the first time in the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2017, integrates all these goals at the same time with the objective to set out an energy sector pathway that leads to a cleaner and more inclusive energy future. This session will discuss some of the scenario’s main findings, and what they imply for the energy sector and for energy policymakers.
Budget transparency brings many benefits for citizens and for society, but putting it into practice can sometimes appear as a daunting task.
This session will highlight the Budget Transparency Toolkit - developed by the OECD with the participation of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) Network - and the practical steps that it provides for supporting openness, integrity and accountability in public financial management. Furthermore, it will shine a spotlight on the specific role that parliaments have in ensuring budget transparency, highlighting emerging good practices. It will be followed by a discussion on measuring budget transparency in parliaments.
While proposing and implementing the budget are the legal duty of the executive, strengthening the involvement and participation of citizens and civil society can increase responsiveness, efficiency, impact and trust. Heightened citizen engagement also reduces opportunities for corruption and strengthens the culture of open democracy.
This session will use country examples to identify the opportunities for participative approaches across the budget cycle and highlight some of the key challenges and questions for debate.
Integrating immigrants and their children is a major policy concern for many OECD countries. Immigrants represent a sizeable segment of our population: more than one in five persons in the OECD is either foreign-born or native-born with at least one immigrant parent - and this share is expected to grow further. Yet, the outcomes of immigrants lag behind those with native-born parents in all major areas of integration, including the labour market, education, and social inclusion. In addition, immigrants tend to gather in urban and capital city-regions: two-thirds of the foreign-born population in the OECD live in urban areas on average, while asylum seekers seem to be more evenly distributed. Tackling barriers to integration is essential to ensure social cohesion and the acceptance of further immigration by the host country population. Achieving it needs to adopt a territorial approach to take into account the variety of local situations and build appropriate coordination mechanisms with local governments, in charge of 40% of public spending and 60% of public investment on average in the OECD.
This session will draw on key lessons from the OECD’s work on integration and summarise the main challenges and good policy practices to support the lasting integration of immigrants and their children. It will provide parliamentarians with facts and evidence on integration outcomes, as well as a number of good practice policy approaches. It will focus on the specific integration challenges faced by persons who migrate for family reasons – the single most important motive for migration in OECD countries – and on good practices to manage integration at the local level.
The OECD is examining how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. This work, and specifically a new report “Preventing Ageing Unequally” (to be released on 18 October), will take a life-course perspective, showing how inequalities in education, health, employment and income interact, and can result in large lifetime disparities across different groups. This discussion will focus on a policy agenda for more inclusive ageing to prevent, mitigate and cope with inequalities and ensure a better retirement for all, with policies coordinated across family, education, employment, social ministries and agencies.
Session by Gabriela Ramos, Chief of Staff, G20 Sherpa and Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General, OECD
Among the myriad challenges facing our economies, few pose greater obstacles to better economic performance than the productivity slowdown and the rise in inequalities. Are they influencing each other? OECD work on the productivity-inclusiveness nexus, presented at the 2016 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, sets out what we know about the interactions between productivity and inclusiveness, identifies knowledge gaps, and charts win-win policies that boost productivity and tackle inequality.
Despite advances in business and technological transformations, we can no longer assume that they will automatically lead to better economic performance and stronger productivity growth. And there is no guarantee that the benefits of higher levels of growth, or higher levels of productivity in certain sectors, will be shared across the population as a whole. This session will explore how policy makers can adopt a broader, more inclusive approach to productivity growth – one that considers how to expand the productive assets of an economy by investing in individuals’ skills and providing an environment where enterprises have a fair chance to succeed, including in lagging regions, generating strong and sustainable growth and opportunities for all.
Session by Rolf Alter, Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD
Effective international rules and standards have proven to be beneficial for a sustainable world economy and shared well-being. International organisations play a key role in developing such rules and understanding how they operate and engage with stakeholders is important for ensuring their effectiveness.
To shed light on international standard setting, this presentation will illustrate recent OECD work collecting, comparing and assessing the practices of 50 international organisations on their governance arrangements, operational modalities, use of quality management disciplines and co-operation efforts. Looking at different types of organisations, our work identifies avenues for making their legal and policy instruments more effective, inclusive and relevant, in an effort to address the current discontent with globalisation arising from fragmented rules of the game. Recognising the challenges of monitoring and evaluating the implementation and impact of international standards and guidelines, transparency, flexibility, focus and co-operation are vital to ensuring complementarity.
Session by Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Chair, Development Assistance Committee, OECD
The world has come a long way: poverty is three times lower than in 1970 and economic prosperity is on the rise. But there is still much to be done, in particular in focussing on the lowest income countries, and ensuring that financing and international efforts are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The system of Official Development Assistance (ODA) offers a consistent basis for donors to provide support and is a key part of the international development architecture, measuring the financial efforts of participating nations and working towards an overall aim of consistent contributions. The OECD collates the statistics and members’ activities are reviewed by their peers on a periodic basis, providing accountability and ensuring efforts are well placed.
In a world of ever constrained budgets, nations must continue to provide the finance to back up their commitments to delivering on the SDGs. But the financing must be sustainable and must seek to maximise the opportunities in both the public and private sectors. This presentation will focus on how the Development Assistance Committee and ODA systems are reforming to ensure they remain relevant and fit for purpose in this ever-changing development landscape.
Session by Catherine Mann, Chief Economist, G20 Finance Deputy and Special Counsellor to the Secretary-General, OECD
The global economy remains in a low-growth trap with world GDP stuck in 2016 at around 3%, well-below the long-run average for the fifth consecutive year. Disappointing growth outcomes have led to weak consumption and investment, sustaining a vicious cycle of poor productivity improvements and further growth disappointments. Weak investment accounts for a large share of this poor productivity performance with capital spending in the OECD barely above the pre-crisis peak and well below the trajectory of past recoveries. Most strikingly, investment has not responded to the exceptionally low interest rates brought about by monetary policy.
Increases in investment are needed to push economies onto a higher growth path and this calls for decisive policy actions. During this presentation, OECD’s Chief Economist will share insights into how fiscal initiatives and structural reforms can lead to higher growth without compromising debt sustainability.
Session by Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General, OECD
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines not just what students know in science, reading and mathematics, but what they can do with what they know. Results from PISA allow policy makers around the world to set policy targets against measurable goals achieved by other education systems, and learn from policies and practices applied elsewhere. Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills will present an overview of the PISA 2015 results for science and students’ attitudes towards learning science, including their expectations of working in science-related careers. The presentation will also examine how performance and equity have evolved across PISA-participating countries and economies, and provide insights on education policies that can help to foster improvements in equity and outcomes.
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
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
De-mystifying Zero to One: Design Informed Techniques for Greenfield Innovati...
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1. GLOBAL PARLIAMENTARY NETWORK,
PARIS 11 OCTOBER 2017
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challenge existing policies
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• Foster more effective use of advanced digital technologies
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• Strengthen skills for all workers and citizens.
• Review legacy frameworks
• Embrace the potential of digital innovation, but mitigate
social cost.
• Address digital risks strategically.
• Develop whole-of-government digital strategies and foster
effective cooperation across countries.
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13. GOING DIGITAL
Making the Transformation Work
for Growth and Well-being
Understand the digital transformation and its impacts on
the economy and society
Provide policymakers with the tools needed to develop a
forward-looking, whole-of-government policy response
Help overcome the gap between technology and policy
development
WHAT’S NEXT?
14. Digital Economy Outlook 2017
OECD i-library
www.oecd-ilibrary.org
Twitter
@OECDinnovation
OECD Science, Technology and Innovation
www.oecd.org/sti/ieconomy/
OECD Broadband Portal
www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/oecdbroadbandportal.htm
OECD Going Digital project:
http://oe.cd/goingdigital
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