MEMSI January 2018: Building a winning teamElaine Chen
This document provides advice on building an effective founding team for a startup. It discusses common reasons why startups fail, such as going it alone without a team. The key takeaways are to build a diverse team, figure out how team members will work together, and define clear roles and responsibilities. It also outlines the RACI model for assigning responsibilities and discusses how to make decisions, participate equitably, manage influence within the team, and work through conflicts. The document aims to help teams establish processes and norms to maximize their effectiveness.
MEMSI June 2018: Building a company: Equity, Fundraising and moreElaine Chen
In this session we discuss considerations when dividing up the founder equity between multiple founders. We then have a look at the current fundraising landscape for hardware startups, and discuss do's and don'ts.
The document discusses empowerment and provides guidance on empowering individuals and organizations. It defines empowerment as taking responsibility and working independently towards common goals while understanding the reasons for guidelines. Empowerment involves considering the impact of decisions on all stakeholders and making trade-offs, not giving unilateral decision-making power. The document recommends leaders transfer ownership of work to those executing it and create an environment where people want to be responsible. It lists benefits of empowerment such as increased motivation, productivity and innovation.
The document discusses how organizations can build resilience and remain relevant in the future. It suggests that organizations focus on changing resource allocations to achieve objectives, build in redundancies, simplify processes, and design systems to limit errors. Organizations are advised to regularly fail simply, map dependencies, encourage questioning, and build trust and sharing between employees. Real change requires permanently changing habits and tackling difficult issues. The overall message is that organizations need to adapt how they operate if they want to cope with an unpredictable future.
This document provides advice for entrepreneurs seeking investment from investors. It discusses common risks entrepreneurs face like failure and emotional challenges. It emphasizes the importance of learning, especially by getting hands-on experience. Sources of early funding include bootstrapping, friends/family, and customer payments. The document warns against common mistakes like unrealistic valuations and bluffing. It provides tips for fundraising including generating multiple ideas, sharing for feedback, and proving traction with paying customers. Overall, the document offers guidance on preparing a startup for investment through diligent planning and execution.
You Unstuck Creating a Culture of Risk Taking and InnovationKevin Carter
The document discusses keys to cultivating a culture of risk-taking and innovation. It outlines the "CSE" model to clarify vision, simplify paths, and execute plans. It also discusses analyzing leadership DNA types and living by the Kaizen concept of continuous incremental improvement. The document advocates challenging the status quo, taking risks, and providing exceptional value. It emphasizes matching structure to objectives, implementing people-friendly systems, and offering fanatical support.
5 steps to team leadership so-so to go-go-goKorrine Jones
A short presentation showcasing the 5 Essential Steps to Team Leadership, combining recent research into employee engagement with the Leadership Practices Inventory.
This document summarizes key differences between managing and coaching as leadership styles. It outlines five coaching principles: putting the team above individuals, not avoiding conflicts, being proactive rather than reactive, focusing on top performers and replicating their success across the team, and ensuring everyone adopts best practices. The document provides questions to evaluate these principles and help coach individuals and teams to higher performance.
MEMSI January 2018: Building a winning teamElaine Chen
This document provides advice on building an effective founding team for a startup. It discusses common reasons why startups fail, such as going it alone without a team. The key takeaways are to build a diverse team, figure out how team members will work together, and define clear roles and responsibilities. It also outlines the RACI model for assigning responsibilities and discusses how to make decisions, participate equitably, manage influence within the team, and work through conflicts. The document aims to help teams establish processes and norms to maximize their effectiveness.
MEMSI June 2018: Building a company: Equity, Fundraising and moreElaine Chen
In this session we discuss considerations when dividing up the founder equity between multiple founders. We then have a look at the current fundraising landscape for hardware startups, and discuss do's and don'ts.
The document discusses empowerment and provides guidance on empowering individuals and organizations. It defines empowerment as taking responsibility and working independently towards common goals while understanding the reasons for guidelines. Empowerment involves considering the impact of decisions on all stakeholders and making trade-offs, not giving unilateral decision-making power. The document recommends leaders transfer ownership of work to those executing it and create an environment where people want to be responsible. It lists benefits of empowerment such as increased motivation, productivity and innovation.
The document discusses how organizations can build resilience and remain relevant in the future. It suggests that organizations focus on changing resource allocations to achieve objectives, build in redundancies, simplify processes, and design systems to limit errors. Organizations are advised to regularly fail simply, map dependencies, encourage questioning, and build trust and sharing between employees. Real change requires permanently changing habits and tackling difficult issues. The overall message is that organizations need to adapt how they operate if they want to cope with an unpredictable future.
This document provides advice for entrepreneurs seeking investment from investors. It discusses common risks entrepreneurs face like failure and emotional challenges. It emphasizes the importance of learning, especially by getting hands-on experience. Sources of early funding include bootstrapping, friends/family, and customer payments. The document warns against common mistakes like unrealistic valuations and bluffing. It provides tips for fundraising including generating multiple ideas, sharing for feedback, and proving traction with paying customers. Overall, the document offers guidance on preparing a startup for investment through diligent planning and execution.
You Unstuck Creating a Culture of Risk Taking and InnovationKevin Carter
The document discusses keys to cultivating a culture of risk-taking and innovation. It outlines the "CSE" model to clarify vision, simplify paths, and execute plans. It also discusses analyzing leadership DNA types and living by the Kaizen concept of continuous incremental improvement. The document advocates challenging the status quo, taking risks, and providing exceptional value. It emphasizes matching structure to objectives, implementing people-friendly systems, and offering fanatical support.
5 steps to team leadership so-so to go-go-goKorrine Jones
A short presentation showcasing the 5 Essential Steps to Team Leadership, combining recent research into employee engagement with the Leadership Practices Inventory.
This document summarizes key differences between managing and coaching as leadership styles. It outlines five coaching principles: putting the team above individuals, not avoiding conflicts, being proactive rather than reactive, focusing on top performers and replicating their success across the team, and ensuring everyone adopts best practices. The document provides questions to evaluate these principles and help coach individuals and teams to higher performance.
This document summarizes key leadership challenges and solutions discussed in Leadership in Action Sessions 6, 7, and 8, which were based on concepts from John Maxwell's 360 degree Leadership Principles. The challenges covered include dealing with frustration, managing multiple responsibilities, controlling ego, finding fulfillment in the middle, dealing with vision challenges from leading someone else's vision, and influencing others. Solutions provided focus on building relationships, adding value, identifying strengths, publicly affirming others, being flexible, focusing on duties over dreams, team success over individual glory, aligning with and championing visions, and becoming a leader that others can trust and respect.
Sean Curtis graduated from Villanova University in 1998 and has since worked in leadership roles at several technology companies focusing on digital media and streaming. He discusses the importance of never stopping learning, inventing and simplifying processes, raising the bar, serving customers, delivering through ambiguity, earning trust, thinking like an owner, and finding work-life balance. Curtis shares lessons learned from leading teams and encourages the audience to find fulfilling careers and maintain professional networks.
The document outlines 10 rules for unlocking leadership potential presented by Sara Stangel of Motorola Solutions Inc. The rules focus on knowing organizational rules and culture, assessing one's impact, building networks, managing work while leading people, acting like a leader, striving for excellence over perfection, collaboration, risk-taking and decision making, mentoring others, and enjoying the leadership journey. The presentation is based on a program by WOMEN Unlimited, Inc., an organization that develops women leaders in major corporations.
This document provides advice and questions for leadership. It suggests that leaders should have clear outcomes and objectives, continually seek development, respond thoughtfully rather than reacting, inspire followers with a compelling vision, set a high standard of ethics, and lead people rather than just manage assets. The overall message is that effective leadership requires focusing on growth, inspiration, and empowering others.
This document outlines the characteristics and strategies of an effective change agent. It defines a change agent as someone who assumes leadership to catalyze positive change in a group. Key characteristics include knowledge, skills, curiosity, motivation, and communication. The document then lists 10 strategies for successful change agents: having a clear goal; choosing to lead; finding leverage points; planting seeds; developing a network; maintaining optimism; being creative; doing honest assessments; cultivating credibility; and continually questioning the status quo. The overall message is that change agents must have a vision, find allies, try different approaches, and persist despite setbacks to implement lasting change.
In this two-part workshop, we first explore what makes a good founding team, and invite participants to reflect on what roles (hacker, hipster, hustler) they prefer and what skills they bring to the table. We further invite them to think about what they are passionate about. In the second part of the workshop, we explore the importance of defining clear roles and responsibilities, and go through Harvard University Professor Linda Hill's 5 key takeaways for good team process.
MSCSA President Kayley Schoonmaker
MSCSA Treasurer Matt Rubel
Whether you have one person on your student senate or twenty people, it is always good to have some knowledge about successful recruitment. Once we have them through the door, we need to keep them there. How do we retain our members? Join us as we share best practices!
To be strategic, leaders must anticipate changes, think critically, interpret information, make decisions, align stakeholders, and learn from successes and failures. Specifically, the document recommends scanning the periphery for game-changing information, challenging assumptions, seeking patterns in diverse data, balancing speed and rigor in decisions, understanding hidden agendas, and encouraging honest feedback through debriefs.
This document summarizes a discussion on diversity and inclusion. The topics covered include preparing for an economic recession by investing in employees, maintaining diversity and trust during organizational restructuring, and enabling all employees to feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work. Attendees discussed how diversity and inclusion are important both ethically and for business success, innovation, and resilience during difficult times. Speakers then provided insights into key aspects of building an inclusive workplace culture and strategies for addressing common challenges.
This document discusses the importance of teamwork and what makes an effective team. It notes that individuals working as a team can achieve more and help each other avoid mistakes. The key aspects of an effective team include having shared goals, clearly defined roles, positive relationships, and trust and conflict management. An effective team leader inspires and empowers members, recognizes their needs, and supports the team's decisions. Working as a team provides benefits like greater job satisfaction and performance compared to individual work.
This document summarizes an information session for prospective entrepreneurship majors and minors. It outlines the entrepreneurship program's focus on independent thinking, assessing opportunities, planning exploitation of opportunities, and obtaining necessary resources. The program prepares students to become independent entrepreneurs, family business leaders, corporate intrapreneurs, or business strategists. It highlights the program's faculty expertise, culture of dreaming big and not following crowds, and encouragement of combining entrepreneurship with other majors like marketing or finance. Students are advised this program isn't for just anyone and asks whether they want to change the world.
Will is an entrepreneurial family portrait focused on achieving results through clear goals and accountability. They provide focus and motivation to their team, pushing people to achieve their best while also being competitive and intolerant. To manage Will effectively, one should give them freedom and control to lead while establishing challenging goals, then take a hands-off approach but remain accessible to consult as needed.
Why do so many business leaders join a Vistage Peer Advisory Group? Simply put we make a real difference to our members lives. If you are a MD, CEO or business leader it can be lonely at the top, if you are looking for someone to help you solve your deepest business issues, Vistage could be for you.
We blend world class executive coaching and a unique peer group experience with our trademark issue processing in order to help you develop and grow.
If you are looking to grow your business then don't delay. Find out what joining the a Vistage group could do for you.
Vistage provides private advisory groups for business owners, executives, and medical doctors to get impartial advice and honest answers from peers in other industries. Members meet monthly where an experienced chair facilitates discussions to help members solve problems, evaluate opportunities, and work on strategic and operational issues. Through this confidential forum, members are able to draw on the diverse experience of other executives to develop solutions for their own businesses and gain perspective on tough decisions.
O documento apresenta duas fotógrafas renomadas: Deborah Turbeville, nascida em 1932 nos EUA e conhecida por suas composições estranhas e atemporais, trabalhou para revistas de moda como a Vogue; e Toni Frissell, nascida em 1908 em Nova York e pioneira do jornalismo fotográfico, focou sua carreira em retratar celebridades e mulheres esportistas para a Sports Illustrated.
La rubéola se transmite a través de gotas de secreciones de la nariz y la garganta de personas infectadas, y puede transmitirse hasta un año después de la infección inicial a través de la orina y otras secreciones. La vacuna contra la rubéola es importante para prevenir posibles daños al feto si una mujer no inmunizada contrae la enfermedad durante el embarazo. La vacunación de niñas y mujeres en edad fértil que no son inmunes ayuda a reducir el riesgo de brotes.
This document discusses rethinking tech hiring by focusing on being nice rather than on technical skills. It advocates for screening based on performance profiles rather than coding tests. Hiring should reflect company culture and allow people to surprise you with their potential rather than assume most are average. Interviews should consider a person's work reflections rather than coding on a whiteboard. The goal is opening opportunities by moving past biases.
This document summarizes key leadership challenges and solutions discussed in Leadership in Action Sessions 6, 7, and 8, which were based on concepts from John Maxwell's 360 degree Leadership Principles. The challenges covered include dealing with frustration, managing multiple responsibilities, controlling ego, finding fulfillment in the middle, dealing with vision challenges from leading someone else's vision, and influencing others. Solutions provided focus on building relationships, adding value, identifying strengths, publicly affirming others, being flexible, focusing on duties over dreams, team success over individual glory, aligning with and championing visions, and becoming a leader that others can trust and respect.
Sean Curtis graduated from Villanova University in 1998 and has since worked in leadership roles at several technology companies focusing on digital media and streaming. He discusses the importance of never stopping learning, inventing and simplifying processes, raising the bar, serving customers, delivering through ambiguity, earning trust, thinking like an owner, and finding work-life balance. Curtis shares lessons learned from leading teams and encourages the audience to find fulfilling careers and maintain professional networks.
The document outlines 10 rules for unlocking leadership potential presented by Sara Stangel of Motorola Solutions Inc. The rules focus on knowing organizational rules and culture, assessing one's impact, building networks, managing work while leading people, acting like a leader, striving for excellence over perfection, collaboration, risk-taking and decision making, mentoring others, and enjoying the leadership journey. The presentation is based on a program by WOMEN Unlimited, Inc., an organization that develops women leaders in major corporations.
This document provides advice and questions for leadership. It suggests that leaders should have clear outcomes and objectives, continually seek development, respond thoughtfully rather than reacting, inspire followers with a compelling vision, set a high standard of ethics, and lead people rather than just manage assets. The overall message is that effective leadership requires focusing on growth, inspiration, and empowering others.
This document outlines the characteristics and strategies of an effective change agent. It defines a change agent as someone who assumes leadership to catalyze positive change in a group. Key characteristics include knowledge, skills, curiosity, motivation, and communication. The document then lists 10 strategies for successful change agents: having a clear goal; choosing to lead; finding leverage points; planting seeds; developing a network; maintaining optimism; being creative; doing honest assessments; cultivating credibility; and continually questioning the status quo. The overall message is that change agents must have a vision, find allies, try different approaches, and persist despite setbacks to implement lasting change.
In this two-part workshop, we first explore what makes a good founding team, and invite participants to reflect on what roles (hacker, hipster, hustler) they prefer and what skills they bring to the table. We further invite them to think about what they are passionate about. In the second part of the workshop, we explore the importance of defining clear roles and responsibilities, and go through Harvard University Professor Linda Hill's 5 key takeaways for good team process.
MSCSA President Kayley Schoonmaker
MSCSA Treasurer Matt Rubel
Whether you have one person on your student senate or twenty people, it is always good to have some knowledge about successful recruitment. Once we have them through the door, we need to keep them there. How do we retain our members? Join us as we share best practices!
To be strategic, leaders must anticipate changes, think critically, interpret information, make decisions, align stakeholders, and learn from successes and failures. Specifically, the document recommends scanning the periphery for game-changing information, challenging assumptions, seeking patterns in diverse data, balancing speed and rigor in decisions, understanding hidden agendas, and encouraging honest feedback through debriefs.
This document summarizes a discussion on diversity and inclusion. The topics covered include preparing for an economic recession by investing in employees, maintaining diversity and trust during organizational restructuring, and enabling all employees to feel comfortable bringing their full selves to work. Attendees discussed how diversity and inclusion are important both ethically and for business success, innovation, and resilience during difficult times. Speakers then provided insights into key aspects of building an inclusive workplace culture and strategies for addressing common challenges.
This document discusses the importance of teamwork and what makes an effective team. It notes that individuals working as a team can achieve more and help each other avoid mistakes. The key aspects of an effective team include having shared goals, clearly defined roles, positive relationships, and trust and conflict management. An effective team leader inspires and empowers members, recognizes their needs, and supports the team's decisions. Working as a team provides benefits like greater job satisfaction and performance compared to individual work.
This document summarizes an information session for prospective entrepreneurship majors and minors. It outlines the entrepreneurship program's focus on independent thinking, assessing opportunities, planning exploitation of opportunities, and obtaining necessary resources. The program prepares students to become independent entrepreneurs, family business leaders, corporate intrapreneurs, or business strategists. It highlights the program's faculty expertise, culture of dreaming big and not following crowds, and encouragement of combining entrepreneurship with other majors like marketing or finance. Students are advised this program isn't for just anyone and asks whether they want to change the world.
Will is an entrepreneurial family portrait focused on achieving results through clear goals and accountability. They provide focus and motivation to their team, pushing people to achieve their best while also being competitive and intolerant. To manage Will effectively, one should give them freedom and control to lead while establishing challenging goals, then take a hands-off approach but remain accessible to consult as needed.
Why do so many business leaders join a Vistage Peer Advisory Group? Simply put we make a real difference to our members lives. If you are a MD, CEO or business leader it can be lonely at the top, if you are looking for someone to help you solve your deepest business issues, Vistage could be for you.
We blend world class executive coaching and a unique peer group experience with our trademark issue processing in order to help you develop and grow.
If you are looking to grow your business then don't delay. Find out what joining the a Vistage group could do for you.
Vistage provides private advisory groups for business owners, executives, and medical doctors to get impartial advice and honest answers from peers in other industries. Members meet monthly where an experienced chair facilitates discussions to help members solve problems, evaluate opportunities, and work on strategic and operational issues. Through this confidential forum, members are able to draw on the diverse experience of other executives to develop solutions for their own businesses and gain perspective on tough decisions.
O documento apresenta duas fotógrafas renomadas: Deborah Turbeville, nascida em 1932 nos EUA e conhecida por suas composições estranhas e atemporais, trabalhou para revistas de moda como a Vogue; e Toni Frissell, nascida em 1908 em Nova York e pioneira do jornalismo fotográfico, focou sua carreira em retratar celebridades e mulheres esportistas para a Sports Illustrated.
La rubéola se transmite a través de gotas de secreciones de la nariz y la garganta de personas infectadas, y puede transmitirse hasta un año después de la infección inicial a través de la orina y otras secreciones. La vacuna contra la rubéola es importante para prevenir posibles daños al feto si una mujer no inmunizada contrae la enfermedad durante el embarazo. La vacunación de niñas y mujeres en edad fértil que no son inmunes ayuda a reducir el riesgo de brotes.
This document discusses rethinking tech hiring by focusing on being nice rather than on technical skills. It advocates for screening based on performance profiles rather than coding tests. Hiring should reflect company culture and allow people to surprise you with their potential rather than assume most are average. Interviews should consider a person's work reflections rather than coding on a whiteboard. The goal is opening opportunities by moving past biases.
This study compared trabeculectomy outcomes between phakic eyes that previously underwent clear-corneal phacoemulsification (n=63) and eyes that did not have prior surgery (n=108). The trabeculectomy failure rate after a mean follow up of 13.4 months was 31.7% for pseudophakic eyes and 42.6% for control eyes, a difference that was not statistically significant (p=0.107). The study concluded that clear corneal phacoemulsification does not appear to negatively impact subsequent trabeculectomy outcomes, though the study had limitations including a small sample size and retrospective design.
IIRSI 2016 will provide opportunity to seek expert’s views and opinions on advancements and new devices used in the treatments. This will help in training and education of new devices and methods of treatments. IIRSI has always received a support from Optical, Bio Medical and Pharmacy Industry
This document discusses open source licenses. It explains that open source licenses determine how software can be used, reused, and distributed. There are three main types of open source licenses: permissive licenses that require credit but few other obligations; weak copyleft licenses that require modifications and derivatives to be openly licensed; and strong copyleft licenses that require all software linked or distributed with the licensed software to also be open source. The document advises readers to carefully understand the license for their software project to avoid legal risks and ensure their goals are met.
El documento describe cuatro tipos principales de señales de tránsito: señales preventivas (fondo amarillo) que advierten de condiciones peligrosas, señales reglamentarias (anillos y líneas rojas) que indican limitaciones, prohibiciones y restricciones, señales informativas (fondo azul) que guían a los usuarios y proporcionan información, y señales de piso (amarillas o blancas) que marcan carriles y direcciones.
El documento trata sobre varios temas relacionados con el medio ambiente como el calentamiento global, ecocidio y casos específicos en México. Explica que el calentamiento global se debe principalmente a las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero producidas por el ser humano y sus actividades. Define ecocidio como la destrucción masiva de ecosistemas de forma deliberada y proporciona ejemplos de contaminación y destrucción de manglares en México.
Shay Howe's talk from Future Insights Live 2014 in Las Vegas: "Nowadays, our options are endless and as designers and developers we can build any website or application we wish. By settling constraints, we force ourselves to be more productive. Within this session, Shay will dive into different constraints and their benefits to building websites."
Miss his talk? Join us at a future show: www.futureofwebdesign.com. Sign up for our newsletter at futureinsights.com and get 15% off your next conference.
Want to see more from Shay Howe? Visit his educational site at http://learn.shayhowe.com/
Presentation to the Association Executive Institute in Vancouver, British Columbia sharing tools, techniques, resources, and thoughts for positively impacting nonprofit associations in North America.
7 steps to Strengths-Based Personal and Professional DevelopmentBeckie Jorgensen
The document outlines a 7-step process for strengths-based personal and professional development. The steps include identifying talents, gaining appreciation for gifts, managing weaknesses, discovering how talents relate to core values, learning life skills, applying talents to work, and living out one's purpose. Focusing on strengths is recommended as people who do so are more likely to be engaged in their work and report an excellent quality of life.
2015Mar28 - Developing willpower for true success - Vivekananda Institute of ...viswanadham vangapally
2015Mar28 - Developing Willpower for True Success - One week programme on Effective Life Management conducted by Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad.
This was the last day of the programme, and I had an opportunity to present a ppt on the subject. Due to some technical problem, the live audio recording of the session, could not be made. It is regretted. The ppt is being uploaded. I have drawn from many sources and am grateful.
You are most welcome to give your valuable comments on the compilation / collection I have made: viswam.vangaplly@gmail.com
Understanding key principles of leadership can make your charter school organization great in the way that matters most: ensuring that children are prepared for success in college, work and life.
This document discusses leadership excellence and provides definitions, strategies, and tips for effective leadership. It defines leadership as guiding, having authority and administration, and being effective, skilled, and taking initiative. Some key strategies discussed for leadership include leading oneself through self-awareness, having a clear purpose, vision, and values as an "on-purpose" person, designing an effective organizational structure, ensuring the right people are in the right jobs, and demonstrating a passionate commitment to work. John Wooden's leadership tips of listening, caring, being prepared, and more are also summarized.
Keynote presentation by Margaret Sumption at the American Hospital Association marketing executives covference in New York City on April 4,2013. "The Reluctant Customer" focuses on how marketing and PR executives serving member hospitals and their representatives can improve success and increase satisfaction. Three steps are discussed: "Stop Begging," "Frame Your Argument," and "Execute, Evaluate, and Proclaim."
The document discusses establishing a private Facebook group called "SCOREJAX - Achieve Your Business Dream Community" to allow people who attend Achieve Your Business Dream workshops to network and communicate with presenters, providing instructions for joining the private group. It also provides an overview of SCORE as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping small businesses through education and mentorship, as well as information on upcoming workshops and online resources available through SCORE.
The thought process of the entrepreneur varies from a normal person to an extent that it functions differently. Learn about the difference, the role creativity plays, what motivates an entrepreneur and the process of transitioning from Idea to Business opportunity!
Also get an insight why business fail, so that you can avoid those mistakes and how to start a business with low investment.
Insights for career professionals seeking to prepare themselves, prepare their families, leave their jobs and build the ultimate startups.
Insights from world-class VCs, angel investors, entrepreneurs, researchers and attorneys including: Brad Feld (co-founder of Techstars), Peter Wilkins (Hyde Park Angels), Hank Barry (former CEO of Napster), Howard Tullman (1871) and many others make this the ultimate guide for someone wanting to leave their corporate life behind and launch a startup.
Creativity is a core competence of organizations. Good leaders strive to use creativity
to improve capacity, manage change and overcome adversity. This seminar will
not only arm you with change management strategies, but also examine ways to
solve problems and create growth opportunities. New and seasoned leaders seek
novel approaches to move teams through adversity, strengthen commitment and
performance, and encourage creative problem solving. Join us at BEYA 2013 as
experienced leaders share ways to creatively impact and influence positive change
and support their people.
At the end of this seminar participants will be able to:
a) Examine specific creative leadership strategies
b) Explore ways to help teams stay inspired and committed
c) Identify specific tools and examples of how obstacles and change can be stepping
stones for great opportunities
d) Examine how to motivate teams through change and retain valuable talent
e) Examine top qualities of creative leadership
Learning Outcomes: Help seasoned and emerging leaders manage challenges
more effectively and improve creative problem solving capacity
Creative Problem Solving - Six Thinking Hats and Other Tools by CTRAndre Hannemann Harris
The thinking process is like a kayak with two paddles: One is CREATIVE Thinking while the other represents CRITICAL Thinking.
Six Thinking Hats, introduced in 1985 by Edward DeBono, is an effective tool for decision making and problem solving that uses both sides of your brain.
Culture Transformation Resources, LLC (CTR) provides a fresh look at Creative Problem Solving and Six Thinking Hats in this training presentation.
There are many Benefits of using Six Thinking Hats, including, it helps:
- Provide a common language
- Maximize productive collaboration
- Diversity of thought while using more of our brains
- Consider issues, challenges, decisions and opportunities systematically
- Remove ego (reduce confrontation)
- Save time
- Focus (one thing at a time)
- Think clearly and objectively
- Create, evaluate & implement action plans
- Achieve significant and meaningful results
- Make meetings more productive in less time
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Silicon Catalyst presents Ryan Howard on Protecting Yourself as a Startup Fou...lpchao
Silicon Catalyst, the startup incubator and accelerator for semiconductor solutions, is proud to present serial entrepreneur and startup founder Ryan Howard for a seminar on how startup founders can protect themselves when building their company. The event was held at Wilson Sonsini in Palo Alto, California on September 21, 2016.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Ryan Howard shares some of the common pitfalls many founders face when ramping up a new company. He offers tips for how to mitigate these risks and pitfalls as well as best practices on building a cohesive team and board. Ryan also shares pointers on early stage funding and selecting corporate counsel.
The document discusses how to find one's voice and lead effectively. It describes how most people are unfulfilled at work due to a lack of involvement in organizational goals. It also discusses discovering one's voice through four types of intelligence and expressing one's voice through developing vision, discipline, passion and conscience. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of empowering others and creating alignment around shared goals and values to lead successfully.
Governing for Greatness - Dr. James Goenner & Jason Sarsfield, National Charter Schools Institute (North Carolina Charter Schools Conference, 7/31/2014)
Building enduring leadership - Creating a LegacyMirza Yawar Baig
This document discusses creating a legacy and aligning organizational and individual goals. It emphasizes shifting from a consumption mindset of "what can I get" to a contribution mindset of "what can I do." The document outlines several components of creating a strong organizational culture and legacy, including having a clear sense of identity and purpose. It discusses the importance of strategic focus, focusing on quality and people, and enduring leadership. It provides methods for defining an organization's core values and "covenant" or purpose for existing. The document also addresses measuring and reinforcing cultural moments and managing the anxiety that can come with cultural change initiatives.
This document is an excerpt from a book about leadership strengths. It provides an overview of the book, explaining that it focuses on 40 personal strengths leaders need to overcome challenges. Each chapter includes insights and quotes on a specific strength. The summary emphasizes that strengths are behavioral patterns developed through life experiences, and can continue to be strengthened. It encourages leaders to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses to improve leadership skills.
Building Reliability - The Realities of ObservabilityAll Things Open
Presented at the ATO RTP Meetup
Presented by Jeremy Proffit, Director of DevSecOps & SRE for Customer Care and Communications, Ally
Title: Building Reliability - The Realities of Observability
Abstract: Join me as we discuss true observability, learn what works and what doesn't. We'll not only discuss dashboards, monitoring and alerting, but how these can be built by automation or included in your IAC modules. We'll talk about how to properly alert staff based on priority to keep your staff and yourself sane. And even discuss architecture and how it impacts reliably and why serverless isn't always the best at being reliable.
Presented at the ATO RTP Meetup
Presented by Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona
Title: Modern Database Best Practices
Abstract: There are now more Database choices available for developers than ever before - there are general purpose databases and specialized databases, single node and distributed databases, Open Source, Proprietary databases and databases available exclusively in the cloud. In this presentation we will cover the best practices of choosing database(s) for your applications, best practices as it comes to application development as well as managing those databases to achieve best possible performance, security, availability at the lowest cost.
All Things Open 2023
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Deb Bryant - Open Source Initiative, Patrick Masson - Apereo Foundation, Stephen Jacobs - Rochester Institute of Technology, Ruth Suehle - SAS, & Greg Wallace - FreeBSD Foundation
Title: Open Source and Public Policy
Abstract: New regulations in the software industry and adjacent areas such as AI, open science, open data, and open education are on the rise around the world. Cyber Security, societal impact of AI, data and privacy are paramount issues for legislators globally. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic drove collaborative development to unprecedented levels and took Open Source software, open research, open content and data from mainstream to main stage, creating tension between public benefit and citizen safety and security as legislators struggle to find a balance between open collaboration and protecting citizens.
Historically, the open source software community and foundations supporting its work have not engaged in policy discussions. Moving forward, thoughtful development of these important public policies whilst not harming our complex ecosystems requires an understanding of how our ecosystem operates. Ensuring stakeholders without historic benefit of representation in those discussions becomes paramount to that end.
Please join our open discussion with open policy stakeholders working constructively on current open policy topics. Our panelists will provide a view into how oss foundations and other open domain allies are now rising to this new challenge as well as seizing the opportunity to influence positive changes to the public’s benefit.
Topics: Public Policy, Open Science, Open Education, current legislation in the US and EU, US interest in OSS sustainability, intro to the Open Policy Alliance
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Weaving Microservices into a Unified GraphQL Schema with graph-quilt - Ashpak...All Things Open
This document summarizes a presentation about graph-quilt, an open source GraphQL orchestrator library. It discusses the challenges of building a GraphQL orchestrator to unify data from multiple services. Graph-quilt addresses this by allowing services to register their GraphQL schemas and composing them into a unified schema. It also supports features like remote schema extensions, authorization, and adapting existing REST APIs. The presenters believe graph-quilt provides a flexible way to build GraphQL gateways and help more clients adopt GraphQL.
The State of Passwordless Auth on the Web - Phil NashAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Phil Nash - Sonar
Title: The State of Passwordless Auth on the Web
Abstract: Can we get rid of passwords yet? They make for a poor user experience and users are notoriously bad with them. The advent of WebAuthn has brought a passwordless world closer, but where do we really stand?
In this talk we'll explore the current user experience of WebAuthn and the requirements a user has to fulfil to authenticate without a password. We'll also explore the fallbacks and safeguards we can use to make the password experience better and more secure. By the end of the session you'll have a vision of how authentication could look in the future and a blueprint for how to build the best auth experience today.
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Total ReDoS: The dangers of regex in JavaScriptAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Phil Nash - Sonar
Title: Total ReDoS: The dangers of regex in JavaScript
Abstract: Regular expressions are complicated and can be hard to learn. On top of that, they can also be a security risk; writing the wrong pattern can open your application up to denial of service attacks. One token out of place and you invite in the dreaded ReDoS.
But how can a regular expression cause this? In this talk we’ll track down the patterns that can cause this trouble, explain why they are an issue and propose ways to fix them now and avoid them in the future. Together we’ll demystify these powerful search patterns and keep your application safe from expressions that behave in a way that is anything but regular.
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What Does Real World Mass Adoption of Decentralized Tech Look Like?All Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Karl Mozurkewich - Storj
Title: What Does Real World Mass Adoption of Decentralized Tech Look Like?
Abstract: We delve into the transformative potential of decentralized technology. Beginning with a brief overview of the rise of centralization with the advent of the internet and the counter-shift marked by blockchain we explore the intrinsic characteristics of decentralized and distributed systems, such as trustless operations, peer-to-peer networks, and enterprise application scalability. Various sectors, including finance, supply chains, media and entertainment, data science and cloud infrastructure are on the brink of disruption. The societal implications are vast, with the potential for greater individual empowerment, a greener planet and more viable resource utilization, but concerns about data security persist.
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Presented by Anastasia Lalamentik - Kaleido
Title: How to Write & Deploy a Smart Contract
Abstract: In this talk, Anastasia Lalamentik, Full Stack Engineer at Kaleido, will walk through how Ethereum smart contracts work and go over related concepts like gas fees, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the block explorer, and the Solidity programming language. This is vital to anyone who wants to build a blockchain app and is a great introduction to blockchain technology for newcomers to the space.
By the end of the talk, attendees will better understand how to:
- Write a simple smart contract
- Deploy their smart contract to an Ethereum test network through the latest tools like Hardhat and the MetaMask wallet
- Test interactions with their deployed smart contract and ensure that everything is working properly
Additionally, participants will get to interact with Anastasia's deployed smart contract at the end of the talk. Anastasia’s past talks have attracted and have been attended by a diverse group of participants with a range of experience in the space.
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Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows, Apache Kafka and TensorFlowAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Paul Brebner - Instaclustr (by Spot by NetApp)
Title: Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows, Apache Kafka and TensorFlow
Abstract: In this talk we’ll build a Drone delivery application, and then use it to do some Machine Learning “on the fly”.
In the 1st part of the talk, we'll build a real-time Drone Delivery demonstration application using a combination of two open-source technologies: Uber’s Cadence (for stateful, scheduled, long-running workflows), and Apache Kafka (for fast streaming data).
With up to 2,000 (simulated) drones and deliveries in progress at once this application generates a vast flow of spatio-temporal data.
In the 2nd part of the talk, we'll use this platform to explore Machine Learning (ML) over streaming and drifting Kafka data with TensorFlow to try and predict which shops will be busy in advance.
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Presented at the All Things Open 2023 Inclusion and Diversity in Open Source Event
Presented by Efraim Marquez-Arreaza - Red Hat
Title: DEI Challenges and Success
Abstract: In today's world, many companies and organizations have Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) communities. Red Hat Unidos is a DEI community focused on advocating for the Hispanic/Latine community. In this talk, we would like to share our challenges and success during the past 4-years and plans for the future.
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Presented by Lydia Cupery - HubSpot
Title: Scaling Web Applications with Background Jobs: Takeaways from Generating a Huge PDF
Abstract: Do you need to perform time-consuming or CPU-intensive processes in your web application but are concerned about performance? That’s where background jobs come in. By offloading resource-intensive tasks to separate worker processes, you can improve the scalability of your web application.
In this talk, I'll share my experience of using background jobs to scale our web application. I'll discuss the challenges my team faced that led us to adopt background jobs. Then, I'll share practical tips on how to design background jobs for CPU-intensive or time-consuming processes, such as generating huge PDFs and batch emailing. I'll wrap up by going over the performance and cost tradeoffs of background jobs.
I'll use Typescript, Express, and Heroku as examples in this talk, but the concepts and best practices that I'll share are applicable to other languages and tools.
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Presented by Robert Aboukhalil - CZI
Title: Supercharging tutorials with WebAssembly
Abstract: sandbox.bio is a free platform that features interactive command-line tutorials for bioinformatics. This talk is a deep-dive into how sandbox.bio was built, with a focus on how WebAssembly enabled bringing command-line tools like awk and grep to the web. Although these tools were originally written in C/C++, they all run directly in the browser, thanks to WebAssembly! And since the computations run on each user's computer, this makes the application highly scalable and cost-effective.
Along the way, I'll discuss how WebAssembly works and how to get started using it in your own applications. The talk will also cover more advanced WebAssembly features such as threads and SIMD, and will end with a discussion of WebAssembly's benefits and pitfalls (it's a powerful technology, but it's not always the right tool!).
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Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by K.S. Bhaskar - YottaDB LLC
Title: Using SQL to Find Needles in Haystacks
Abstract: Database journal files capture every update to a database. A database of a few hundred GB can generate GBs worth of journal files every minute at busy times. Troubleshooting and forensices, especially of rare and intermittent problems, such as which process made what update and when, is an exercise of finding needles in haystacks. A similar problem exists with syslogs. A solution is to load the journal files and syslogs into a database, and use SQL to query the database. Bhaskar will present and demonstrate this with a 100% FOSS stack.
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Configuration Security as a Game of Pursuit InterceptAll Things Open
The document discusses configuration security as a game of pursuit-evasion and intercept. It was presented by Wes Widner, Principal Engineer at Automox. The document includes a JSON policy snippet with an ID, statement, actions, effects, resources, and principal allowing the GetObject action on all objects in an S3 bucket for all principals. It has page numbers at the bottom indicating it is from a larger presentation.
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Carol Huang & Mike Fix - Stripe
Title: Scaling an Open Source Sponsorship Program
Abstract: We already know this: the open-source ecosystem needs further monetary investment from the companies that benefit most from it. Likewise, companies say they want to participate in these initiatives, but find it hard to dedicate resources to open source funding when there isn’t a clear ROI.
This talk discusses how the Open Source Program Office at Stripe built a scalable, sustainable open source sponsorship model that aligns internal company incentives with those of open source maintainers and the community at large. We go over the unique “platformization” of our OSPO that allowed us to create multiple funding models, such as BYOB (Bring Your Own Budget), and share lessons learned from this experience as well as other OSPOs.
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Build Developer Experience Teams for Open SourceAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Arundeep Nagaraj - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Title: Build Developer Experience Teams for Open Source
Abstract: Open Source has become the default strategy for many IT organizations and Enterprises. However, the constant challenge with Open Source leaders of these organizations has been -
How is my product's developer experience?
Is this the right metric to track?
How can I scale my team to support our products better?
How can I add automation to scale redundant workflows?
If my product involves working with developers, how can I scale to the complexity of the requests and reduce Engineering bandwidth?
The challenges within support of open source products continues to magnify depending on the end user persona whether they are consumers or contributors to your product. Consumers utilize your product, SDK's and API's and are blocked with using it or run into issues, whereas contributors are advanced users of your software that understands the codebase to provide a meaningful contribution back to the product.
The answer to the above is to look at Open Source support as a first-class citizen of your corporate support strategy. To employ the right level of developer focused support as opposed to traditional infrastructure based support is key to scale to the amount of developers using your product. Supporting customers in the open involves more than pure support - building customer / developer experiences (DX) in the open (across platforms and communities) that pivots over the ability of your product's users or developers to be focused on the end-to-end value add. This helps with your active developer growth and retention of users.
Key Takeaways:
- IT leaders of Open Source will learn to employ strategies to build a DX team that engages on multiple platforms
- Work on identifying accurate metrics for product and organization
- Innovate on platforms such as Discord to build a bot and a dashboard
- Ability to leverage customer feedback and iterate over the customer success flywheel
- Distinguish between DX and Developer Advocacy (DA)
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Presented by Danny McCormick - Google
Title: Deploying Models at Scale with Apache Beam
Abstract: Apache Beam is an open source tool for building distributed scalable data pipelines. This talk will explore how Beam can be used to perform common machine learning tasks, with a heavy focus on running inference at scale. The talk will include a demo component showing how Beam can be used to deploy and update models efficiently on both CPUs and GPUs for inference workloads.
An attendee can expect to leave this talk with a high level understanding of Beam, the challenges of deploying models at scale, and the ability to use Beam to easily parallelize their inference workloads.
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Sudo – Giving access while staying in controlAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Peter Czanik - One Identity
Title: Sudo – Giving access while staying in control
Abstract: Sudo is used by millions to control and log administrator access to systems, but using the default configuration only, there are plenty of blind spots. Using the latest features in sudo let you watch some previously blind spots and control access to them. Here are four major new features, which arrived since the 1.9.0 release, allowing you see your blind spots:
- configuring a working directory or chroot within sudo often makes full shell access redundant
- JSON-formatted logs give you more details on events and are easier to act on
- relays in sudo_logsrvd make session recording collection more secure and reliable
- you can log and control sub-commands executed by the command run through sudo
Let us take a closer look at each of these.
Previously, there were quite a few situations where you had to give users full shell access through sudo. Typical examples include when you need to run a command from a given directory, or running commands in a chroot environment. You can now configure the working directory or the chroot directory and give access only to the command the user really needs.
Logging is a central role of sudo, to see who did what on the system. Using JSON-formatted log messages gives you even more information about events. What is even more: structured logs are easier to act on. Setting up alerting for suspicious events is much easier when you have a single parser to configure for any kind of sudo logs. You can collect sudo logs not only by local syslog, but also by using sudo_logsrvd, the same application used to collect session recordings.
Speaking of session recordings: instead of using a single central server, you can now have multiple levels of sudo_logsrvd relays between the client and the final destination. This allows session collection even if the central server is unavailable, providing you with additional security. It also makes your network configuration simpler.
Finally, you can log sub-commands executed from the command started through sudo. You can see commands started from a shell. No more unnoticed shell access from text editors. Best of all: you can also intercept sub-commands.
These are just a few of the most prominent features helping you to watch and control previous blind spots on your systems. See these and other possibilities in action in some live demos during our presentation.
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Fortifying the Future: Tackling Security Challenges in AI/ML ApplicationsAll Things Open
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Presented by Christine Abernathy - F5, Inc.
Title: Fortifying the Future: Tackling Security Challenges in AI/ML Applications
Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications continue to surge, it is crucial to be aware of and address the security risks associated with these technologies. In this talk, Christine will explore AI/ML failure modes, threats, and mitigation strategies. She will guide you through the fundamentals of ML models then introduce you to key security challenges such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, model stealing, and membership inference attacks, using real-world examples to demonstrate their potential impact.
Christine will also discuss privacy and ethical considerations in ML, touching upon techniques like federated learning and shedding light on the current regulatory landscape surrounding security risks. If you are developing AI/ML applications or incorporating AI/ML components into your technology stack, check out this talk. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of the current AI/ML security landscape and a toolkit to help you address these risks, enabling you to build safer, more secure, and privacy-aware applications.
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Securing Cloud Resources Deployed with Control Planes on Kubernetes using Gov...All Things Open
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Presented by Carlos Santana - AWS
Title: Securing Cloud Resources Deployed with Control Planes on Kubernetes using Governance and Policy as Code
Abstract: Are you concerned about the security of your cloud resources deployed on Kubernetes? Are you struggling to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while managing your cloud infrastructure? If yes, then this talk is for you!
We will discuss how to secure cloud resources deployed with Crossplane on Kubernetes using Governance and Policy as Code. We will explore how to leverage Governance and Policy as Code tools like Rego, Kyverno, and OPA to ensure security and compliance.
By the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of the challenges associated with securing cloud resources deployed with Crossplane or ACK on Kubernetes, the importance of Governance and Policy as Code in ensuring security and compliance, and why it is critical to use open source and open standards in these technologies.
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Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
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OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
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