This presentation describes how holding a hackathon can help bring employees together, reinforce company values, and produce lasting ideas - and even products!
Continuously Deploying Culture: Scaling Culture at Etsy - Velocity Europe 2012Patrick McDonnell
There was a time not long ago when Etsy was laden with barriers, silos, broken communication, and noncooperation. This talk will focus on the various stages of Etsy's cultural development from the early days to present. We will tell of how Etsy overcame numerous challenges and built a strong company culture while continuing to scale.
Essential Tools for Product Managers and Marketers (Oct 2011)Jesse Gant
A refresh of the tools and resources (research/analysis, social monitoring, A/B testing, wireframing, SEO/SEM, etc.) that every Product Manager and Marketer should use or at least know about.
AGILE2016 Conference Top 10 Presented by SynerzipSynerzip
Fresh from #Agile2016, Check out @Synerzip Top 10 #Takeaways by @HemantElhence @vinayakj. The latest development methods, technologies, tools, leadership principles, management philosophies, policies and processes fresh from AGILE2016 - the world's largest conference for Agile methodology.
Agile2016 Top 12 -
1. Lean UX
2. Modern Agile
3. Lean UX Toolkit
4. Agile is Mindset
5. DevOps Antipatterns
6. Lean Startup Subsumed
7. Design Thinking
8. #NoEstimates
9. Roles Not Personas
10. Architecture/ Architect
11. Visual Test Automation
12. Scaling Agile
About Synerzip -
Synerzip offers in-depth expertise in Agile software product development to venture funded small/mid-sized software companies focused on social media, mobile, big data analytics, cloud and enterprise software. It was established in 2004 and is based in the United States, with its software development center in India. Synerzip works as a co-development partner for venture-backed software companies in their growth phase. Following Agile practices, it seamlessly dovetails with each client’s engineering team helping them scale up, in a flexible, capital-efficient and frictionless manner.
Your company’s annual user conference: Boon or Bust for UX?Mary Raven
Slides from a Panel discussion that I proposed and moderated at the 2016 Boston User Experience Professional's Association Conference (UXPA). Other panelists were: Serena Doyle, Joanne Hubbard, Chauncey Wilson
Want to build your own startup or software consulting company, but don't know how to get started? Join McGill Alumni Alex Dergachev and Suzanne Kennedy for a talk on taking the entrepreneurship path and getting your business up and running. We'll discuss the pros and cons of consulting vs. doing a startup, the benefits of open source, how to succeed financially, and how to get involved in Montreal's tech community.
Alex and Suzanne graduated from McGill University in 2007 and started Evolving Web, a company specializing in open source web development. Over the last five years, Evolving Web has used frameworks including Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Backbone.js and has built enterprise-level projects for clients like McGill University, Travelocity and A&E Television Networks.
Continuously Deploying Culture: Scaling Culture at Etsy - Velocity Europe 2012Patrick McDonnell
There was a time not long ago when Etsy was laden with barriers, silos, broken communication, and noncooperation. This talk will focus on the various stages of Etsy's cultural development from the early days to present. We will tell of how Etsy overcame numerous challenges and built a strong company culture while continuing to scale.
Essential Tools for Product Managers and Marketers (Oct 2011)Jesse Gant
A refresh of the tools and resources (research/analysis, social monitoring, A/B testing, wireframing, SEO/SEM, etc.) that every Product Manager and Marketer should use or at least know about.
AGILE2016 Conference Top 10 Presented by SynerzipSynerzip
Fresh from #Agile2016, Check out @Synerzip Top 10 #Takeaways by @HemantElhence @vinayakj. The latest development methods, technologies, tools, leadership principles, management philosophies, policies and processes fresh from AGILE2016 - the world's largest conference for Agile methodology.
Agile2016 Top 12 -
1. Lean UX
2. Modern Agile
3. Lean UX Toolkit
4. Agile is Mindset
5. DevOps Antipatterns
6. Lean Startup Subsumed
7. Design Thinking
8. #NoEstimates
9. Roles Not Personas
10. Architecture/ Architect
11. Visual Test Automation
12. Scaling Agile
About Synerzip -
Synerzip offers in-depth expertise in Agile software product development to venture funded small/mid-sized software companies focused on social media, mobile, big data analytics, cloud and enterprise software. It was established in 2004 and is based in the United States, with its software development center in India. Synerzip works as a co-development partner for venture-backed software companies in their growth phase. Following Agile practices, it seamlessly dovetails with each client’s engineering team helping them scale up, in a flexible, capital-efficient and frictionless manner.
Your company’s annual user conference: Boon or Bust for UX?Mary Raven
Slides from a Panel discussion that I proposed and moderated at the 2016 Boston User Experience Professional's Association Conference (UXPA). Other panelists were: Serena Doyle, Joanne Hubbard, Chauncey Wilson
Want to build your own startup or software consulting company, but don't know how to get started? Join McGill Alumni Alex Dergachev and Suzanne Kennedy for a talk on taking the entrepreneurship path and getting your business up and running. We'll discuss the pros and cons of consulting vs. doing a startup, the benefits of open source, how to succeed financially, and how to get involved in Montreal's tech community.
Alex and Suzanne graduated from McGill University in 2007 and started Evolving Web, a company specializing in open source web development. Over the last five years, Evolving Web has used frameworks including Ruby on Rails, Drupal, and Backbone.js and has built enterprise-level projects for clients like McGill University, Travelocity and A&E Television Networks.
This presentation was given at the CISED's June social enterprise breakfast on June 23rd, 2011. It presents the work done on Causeway's social enterprises and the supports we can now offer to other SE's in Ottawa.
Social Return on Investment - a powerful tool for Project ManagersMinney org Ltd
SROI (Social Return on Investment) demonstrates value for money and can be used both for the business case and for making decisions about go/no go and direction during implementation of a project.
But more than this, it also creates and drives benefits just by measuring.
SROI puts a value on soft benefits. All is explained!
Interested in holding a successful hackathon? From the Land-Grant University standpoint, hackathons are all about the learning, discovery, and engagement mission. This presentation shares insights from experience gained over several years hosting hackathons in an academic library environment. Presented March 8, 2016, at the Computers in Libraries 2016 conference in Washington DC.
Hackathon for Social Good - Information packageHATCH! PROGRAM
Hackathon for Social Good is a 48 hour coding competition to seeking for application and innovation that address social challenges.
2 days of Hackathon: October 24, 25, 2015
Social Return on Investment (SROI) - a framework for Benefits ManagementMinney org Ltd
The Social Return on Investment (SROI) process and framework is a robust structure for forecasting or evaluating services and projects where the direct financial return isn’t immediately obvious.
Not-for-Profit organisations use it to demonstrate the value they create in terms of health, wellbeing, and the environment. For example, keeping people healthy requires investment up front; the resources that would have been spent on this population because they needed hospital care can be balanced out as a return on that investment.
Increasingly commercial and for-profit organisations use SROI to measure the longer-term impact of their change programmes.
This presentation gives an overview of SROI, and then illustrates with a number of case studies in health and social care.
SROI - Moving the conversation from cost to value - SiMPACTCesToronto
Presented by SiMPACT Strategy Group's SROI Team Lead Anne Miller on June 11, this presentation offers a quick overview of the Social Return on Investment methodology and how it is being used to communicate the value of social change.
What Is Social Return On Investment (SROI) And How Do You Apply It?Rizwan Tayabali
For many of those who are looking to start up a social enterprise, the framework of Social Return on Investment (SROI) could prove to be crucial in both understanding and presenting our social impacts in economic terms. Anything that helps raise funding and support has to be worth taking seriously, so here's a short overview of
SROI.
National Hackathon - Problem StatementsZaki Haider
These problem statements were taken from sector specialists and government officials. There are also some solutions suggestions, which should not stipulate your innovation but rather energize it.
"National Hackathon" is a part of "National Mobile Application Awareness Development and Capacity Building Program" by the Information & Communication Division, Ministry of Post, Telecommunication & Information Technology, Bangladesh.
Find more at: www.nationalappsbd.com
Learn how to prepare your startup for impact investment from friends and family, angels or institutional investors---learn about social return (SROI), environmental return (EROI) and financial return (ROI). Presented by mentors Sean Murphy and Chris Baker in Zimbabwe as part of the U.S. State Department Professional Fellows Program.
Harnessing the power of the Web to Reinvent Management.
The Management 2.0 Hackathon, a joint collaborative effort by the MIX, Saba, and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, was inspired by hacakathons in the world of software development. A management hackathon is a short, intense, coordinated effort to develop useful hacks—innovative ideas or solutions—that can be implemented by organizations to overcome barriers to progress and innovation.
For the Management 2.0 Hackathon, we wanted to discover what pathologies were holding backing Management 1.0 today, what principles of the Web could inspire Management 2.0, and where companies are already applying these principles successfully. The process would culminate in the development of management hacks, designed to be practical experiments and practices that any organization could apply today.
More than 900 progressive management practitioners and technologists from around the world joined this hands-on effort—sharing perspectives, contributing ideas, and generating hacks.
It was a massive collaborative effort that yielded some very compelling results.
Refer to: http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/management-20-hackathon-using-inspiration-web-hack-management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
How to Organize a Great Hackathon with the Hackathon CanvasMichel Duchateau
The Hackathon Canvas is a visual and strategic tool for hackathon organizers.
It's used as a dashboard during the organization process to start, design, prepare, communicate and debrief easily.
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DOWNLOAD : http://hackathoncanvas.co
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The 7 blocks help you to cover the main topics to organize your hackathon and avoid typical pitfalls. Each block contains the right questions and real examples to guide you.
This is a guideline on How to use the Hackathon Canvas.
Centric Software Architects Bill Klos, Shawn Wallace, and Morgan Howard explain what a hackathon is, how it benefits companies, and how to start one. They've hosted three hackathons for Centric technologists.
Corporate hackathons provide a great way to inspire your team. They can also promote creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking!
Hackathons are technology-driven and primarily about software — hence the software-centric element in the definition. A Hackathon is very demanding on participants — it requires not only great technical and coding skills but also ideation and presentation skills.
Participants are asked to come up with great ideas, formulate a prototype and prioritize wisely; then self-organize and execute — do quick research, prepare resources, write code, reuse existing components and systems and finally prepare a presentation — all in time-boxed scenario. The Hackathon may be focusing on known problems or business opportunities or technologies (stated upfront) or it could be open to any ideas with no particular constraints.
This presentation was given at the CISED's June social enterprise breakfast on June 23rd, 2011. It presents the work done on Causeway's social enterprises and the supports we can now offer to other SE's in Ottawa.
Social Return on Investment - a powerful tool for Project ManagersMinney org Ltd
SROI (Social Return on Investment) demonstrates value for money and can be used both for the business case and for making decisions about go/no go and direction during implementation of a project.
But more than this, it also creates and drives benefits just by measuring.
SROI puts a value on soft benefits. All is explained!
Interested in holding a successful hackathon? From the Land-Grant University standpoint, hackathons are all about the learning, discovery, and engagement mission. This presentation shares insights from experience gained over several years hosting hackathons in an academic library environment. Presented March 8, 2016, at the Computers in Libraries 2016 conference in Washington DC.
Hackathon for Social Good - Information packageHATCH! PROGRAM
Hackathon for Social Good is a 48 hour coding competition to seeking for application and innovation that address social challenges.
2 days of Hackathon: October 24, 25, 2015
Social Return on Investment (SROI) - a framework for Benefits ManagementMinney org Ltd
The Social Return on Investment (SROI) process and framework is a robust structure for forecasting or evaluating services and projects where the direct financial return isn’t immediately obvious.
Not-for-Profit organisations use it to demonstrate the value they create in terms of health, wellbeing, and the environment. For example, keeping people healthy requires investment up front; the resources that would have been spent on this population because they needed hospital care can be balanced out as a return on that investment.
Increasingly commercial and for-profit organisations use SROI to measure the longer-term impact of their change programmes.
This presentation gives an overview of SROI, and then illustrates with a number of case studies in health and social care.
SROI - Moving the conversation from cost to value - SiMPACTCesToronto
Presented by SiMPACT Strategy Group's SROI Team Lead Anne Miller on June 11, this presentation offers a quick overview of the Social Return on Investment methodology and how it is being used to communicate the value of social change.
What Is Social Return On Investment (SROI) And How Do You Apply It?Rizwan Tayabali
For many of those who are looking to start up a social enterprise, the framework of Social Return on Investment (SROI) could prove to be crucial in both understanding and presenting our social impacts in economic terms. Anything that helps raise funding and support has to be worth taking seriously, so here's a short overview of
SROI.
National Hackathon - Problem StatementsZaki Haider
These problem statements were taken from sector specialists and government officials. There are also some solutions suggestions, which should not stipulate your innovation but rather energize it.
"National Hackathon" is a part of "National Mobile Application Awareness Development and Capacity Building Program" by the Information & Communication Division, Ministry of Post, Telecommunication & Information Technology, Bangladesh.
Find more at: www.nationalappsbd.com
Learn how to prepare your startup for impact investment from friends and family, angels or institutional investors---learn about social return (SROI), environmental return (EROI) and financial return (ROI). Presented by mentors Sean Murphy and Chris Baker in Zimbabwe as part of the U.S. State Department Professional Fellows Program.
Harnessing the power of the Web to Reinvent Management.
The Management 2.0 Hackathon, a joint collaborative effort by the MIX, Saba, and the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, was inspired by hacakathons in the world of software development. A management hackathon is a short, intense, coordinated effort to develop useful hacks—innovative ideas or solutions—that can be implemented by organizations to overcome barriers to progress and innovation.
For the Management 2.0 Hackathon, we wanted to discover what pathologies were holding backing Management 1.0 today, what principles of the Web could inspire Management 2.0, and where companies are already applying these principles successfully. The process would culminate in the development of management hacks, designed to be practical experiments and practices that any organization could apply today.
More than 900 progressive management practitioners and technologists from around the world joined this hands-on effort—sharing perspectives, contributing ideas, and generating hacks.
It was a massive collaborative effort that yielded some very compelling results.
Refer to: http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/management-20-hackathon-using-inspiration-web-hack-management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
How to Organize a Great Hackathon with the Hackathon CanvasMichel Duchateau
The Hackathon Canvas is a visual and strategic tool for hackathon organizers.
It's used as a dashboard during the organization process to start, design, prepare, communicate and debrief easily.
#####################################################################
DOWNLOAD : http://hackathoncanvas.co
#####################################################################
The 7 blocks help you to cover the main topics to organize your hackathon and avoid typical pitfalls. Each block contains the right questions and real examples to guide you.
This is a guideline on How to use the Hackathon Canvas.
Centric Software Architects Bill Klos, Shawn Wallace, and Morgan Howard explain what a hackathon is, how it benefits companies, and how to start one. They've hosted three hackathons for Centric technologists.
Corporate hackathons provide a great way to inspire your team. They can also promote creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking!
Hackathons are technology-driven and primarily about software — hence the software-centric element in the definition. A Hackathon is very demanding on participants — it requires not only great technical and coding skills but also ideation and presentation skills.
Participants are asked to come up with great ideas, formulate a prototype and prioritize wisely; then self-organize and execute — do quick research, prepare resources, write code, reuse existing components and systems and finally prepare a presentation — all in time-boxed scenario. The Hackathon may be focusing on known problems or business opportunities or technologies (stated upfront) or it could be open to any ideas with no particular constraints.
HWTrek brief in SF Hardware Meetup 201401lucaswang
An introduction of HWTrek, the platform to match creators and supply chain experts to give realistic production resources. Targeting digital electronics innovation and help them to deliver their dream on time
This is a presentation I am presenting to a computer science class, highlighting how to get involved in open source, and the steps I took to get me to where I am.
El concierto del Hollywood Bowl fue la actuación de bienvenida de The Doors para los fanáticos de Los Ángeles. Este concierto había sido copatrocinado por una estación de radio Top 40 local, "KHJ", que anteriormente se había negado a tocar la música de The Doors cuando el grupo todavía estaba en un nivel clandestino. El concierto se agotó: los 18,000 asientos se agotaron y los fanáticos de Los Ángeles estaban listos y esperando a The Doors.
Técnicamente, el concierto estuvo bien equipado para una gran audiencia y arena, ya que el grupo había usado 52 amplificadores para producir 7000 vatios de potencia en un escenario de 96 pies de ancho. Antes del comienzo del concierto, The Doors habían salido a cenar con Mick Jagger y el productor de Rolling Stone, Jimmy Miller, lo que habría agregado algo de presión por parte de Morrison al ver que Mick y Jimmy se sentaron justo al frente. Steppenwolf abrió el concierto y luego fue seguido por The Chamber Brothers, quienes dieron una excelente actuación y fueron bien recibidos por su audiencia.
Musicalmente, Ray Robbie y John tocaron bien y el canto de Jim estaba en plena forma, sin embargo, la multitud no pareció responder con mucha emoción. The Doors abrieron con "When The Music's Over", que quizás no fue la mejor opción dado que esta epopeya de 13 minutos probablemente se prolongó demasiado para una audiencia que en su mayor parte estaba demasiado lejos para disfrutar de este concierto. No fue hasta la mitad del concierto cuando The Doors tocaron "Light My Fire" que el público respondió con algo más de entusiasmo. El público estaba esperando algo dramático, algo teatral, algo que posiblemente cumpliera su deseo interno de sensacionalismo: lo más teatral que Jim había hecho fue actuar como si le estuvieran disparando arrojándose al escenario durante "The Unknown". Soldier", que se había convertido prácticamente en un acto estándar que Morrison incluiría en la mayoría de sus actuaciones.
Harvey Perr de Los Angeles Free Press capturó el sentimiento y el ambiente de la actuación, que se muestra con fuerza cuando uno ve ahora el video de este concierto "The Doors: Live At The Hollywood Bowl":
"Creo que querían temperamento, la tensión que surge cuando un artista tiene un sano antagonismo hacia los elementos naturales de la atmósfera. Cuando las luces no se apagaron en un momento, no querían que Morrison se mantuviera calmado y continuara. cantando. En el fondo, querían que él se fuera del escenario. Y si no regresaba, podrían haber gritado pidiendo reembolsos y habrían estado satisfechos. Pero todo salió bien, demasiado bien. Y la inquietud se instaló. Y el impacto de "Light My Fire" (a pesar de las bengalas que se encendían y arrojaban al azar) o "The Unknown Soldier" o "When The Music Is Over" se disipaba, porque no estábamos escuchando palabras de muerte y pasión y amor y violencia; éramos espectadores de un deporte en el que nada de importancia crucial afectaba nuestra existencia. Era un buen esp
Tech programs post pandemic tech to go and lending programsBrian Pichman
We learned a lot in the first few months of 2020 as the world shifted to provide more digital and online services and provide cleaner and safer in-person interactions. Through all these lessons learned, join Brian Pichman as he highlights some of the fun interactive virtual services in this new era of providing services to the public. We will cover some of the best tech tips for technology lending programs and things that patrons and users can do while away from your library. At the end of this workshop, pandemic or not, you’ll be able to provide greater services and resources to your patrons, regardless of their physical location and being as safe as possible to deliver these services.
Open World Forum - The Agile and Open Source WayAlexis Monville
Slides from Open World Forum 2013 (#OWF13)
The Agile and Open Source Way is the book for everyone who wants to scale agile in multiple distributed teams. This book will also help you to collaborate upstream with Open Source projects.
Whether you want to improve interactions with other teams inside or outside your company, or just interested in scaling from more than one team, you will find in this publication the information you need, illustrated by a real case.
http://www.the-agile-and-open-source-way.com/
Dropbox: Building Business Through Lean Startup PrinciplesVishal Kumar
A Deck by Drew Houston from Dropbox explaining how Dropbox incorporated Lean Startup Principles in building their company. A great primer on how dropbox executed their startup.
Learn the tips and tricks to Win (or Lose) a Hackathon, from someone who's done both, many times! Whether you have an idea for a mobile app, a web site or service, these tips will help you avoid common pitfalls and be successful!
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/
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.
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.
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.
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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Empowering NextGen Mobility via Large Action Model Infrastructure (LAMI): pav...
How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
1. Boca Raton IBM Cloud
Technologies Meetup
February 16, 2016
Welcome!
2. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
• What is a Hackathon?
• Types of Hackathons
• Hackathon Examples and Success Stories
• How Can a Hackathon Benefit Your Company?
• Planning a Hackathon
3. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
What is a Hackathon?
A hackathon…is an event in which computer programmers and others
involved in software development and hardware development,
including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers,
collaborate intensively on software projects. (Wikipedia)
However…
Hackathons are not just for startups or tech companies!
In fact, they do not even need to be technology-oriented!
4. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Types of Hackathons
• Academic (e.g. University)
• Specific application type (e.g. Mobile)
• Specific language, API, or framework (e.g. Bluemix)
• Cause or purpose (e.g. Code4GoodPBC)
• Tribute or memorial
• Demographic group
• Internal company hackathon – used by all kinds of companies!
• Business process hackathon
• Developing a single application (e.g. Facebook)
• Innovative economic development
• For beginners (e.g. CodeDay)
• General (no restrictions)
6. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Hackathon Examples
• British Airways – In-flight “Innovation Lab In the Sky” Hackathon
• Venue: Eleven hour long airplane flight (SFO->LHR) – with no WiFi!
• Mission: “to brainstorm, productize, and pitch their solutions to the world’s
shortage of great programmers”
• Outcome: Presented three ideas at DNA Conference in London
7. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Code4GoodPBC (March 28-29, 2015) – Cause-Based Hackathon
• Sponsors
• Quantum Foundation, Modernizing Medicine
• Purpose
• Find technology-based solutions for real social problems in Palm Beach County
• Need-based presentations from five PBC nonprofit organizations
• Venue
• Florida Atlantic University’s Tech Runway
• Outcomes
• Three winners (Team Tech Garage, Food Share PBC, Form Ninja)
• Team Tech Garage app funded for further development
www.code4goodpbc.org
8. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Florida Polytechnic (March 28-29, 2015) – Academic Hackathon Video
• Sponsors
• IBM, Lenovo, Flagship Solutions Group
• Purpose
• Design and build interesting and unique apps that solve common problems
using IBM Bluemix and Raspberry Pi (optional)
• Real-world experience in teamwork and HW/SW development
• Venue
• Florida Polytechnic University (Lakeland, FL)
• Outcomes
• Three winners: Travel Mate, Pizza Button, SAT Prep
• Lessons Learned
• Allow more time before event for training, getting users comfortable with tools
9. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
FAU (February 24-25, 2016) – Academic Hackathon (Website)
• Sponsors
• IBM, Flagship Solutions Group
• Purpose
• Design and build IoT HW/SW apps to improve students’ “Study Fitness”
• Use IBM Bluemix and Raspberry Pi, TI MSP430, or Arduino devices
• Real-world experience in teamwork and HW/SW development
• Venue
• Florida Atlantic University
• Outcomes
• TBD
• Winners are invited to present their ideas at our next Meetup
10. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Hackathon Success Stories
• Facebook
• Hackathons since 2007
• Warby Parker
• “Bookmark” feature
• PhoneGap (aka Apache Cordova)
• Began as a project at iPhoneDevCamp in 2008
• Developed into a product by Nitobi Software
• Nitobi Software purchased by Apache in 2011
• Also the basis for IBM MobileFirst (formerly Worklight)
11. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Facebook Hackathons
• First “official” hackathon held in 2007
• “…one of the most exciting opportunities people here have to make a major impact in
a short amount of time”
• Facebook’s methodology:
• Internal hackathon “every six weeks or so”
• Internal wiki for cross-functional communications
• Their two rules:
• You have to work on something outside of your day job
• If it’s your first hackathon, you have to hack (no spectators)
• Post-hackathon prototype forum a week later (allows time for fine tuning)
• Hackathons are responsible for: Video, the Like button, Chat, Hip Hop for PHP, Tagging
in comments, and Timeline
• Campus Hackathons since 2010
• Winners flown to Facebook HQ for final competition
(www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/stay-focused-and-keep-hacking/10150842676418920)
12. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Warby Parker Hackathons
• First hackathon held in 2013
• Internal focus
• Yielded six projects that were worth implementing
• Found they had to reassign people to have a good talent mix in each team
• Added “mini-challenges” to add spice
• Found people loved the chance to work with coworkers they don’t usually
interact with
• 2015 Hackathon
• Brought together 100 summer interns in NYC
• Mission: solving a technology issue for three non-profits
• Winner: riseUP app to help homeless shelters and kitchens in NYC
13. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
How Can a Hackathon Benefit Your Company?
• Cross-functional cooperation on common goals
• “See the status quo though fresh eyes”
• A time to hone a new skill or learn a new technology
• Build an ecosystem of people knowledgeable in a technology
• Employment opportunities – “your chance to shine”
• Foster company values: working hard, working fast, working
intensely, working in a team – “afterglow” effect
• Fun team building experience with an element of serendipity
• Teams have no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, no layers of decision-
making – “move fast and break things”
• Produce lasting ideas, and even products!
14. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Planning a Hackathon
• Decide on the type
• Internal-only vs. open
• Technology or business process orientation
• For your own benefit or to help a cause
• If technology-oriented, what technologies?
• What are the judging metrics?
• What are the prizes/rewards?
• Decide on theme/purpose
• Is there a problem you are looking to solve?
• Decide on duration
• One long slog, or spread out over time
15. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Planning a Hackathon
• Location
• Off-site is best to avoid distractions
• Site safety and security
• Controlled access, especially at night
• Collaborative environment
• Whiteboards and team rooms
• Quiet areas for concentration (and naps)
• Provide round-the-clock meals, snacks, and drinks
• Infrastructure
• GOOD WiFi, adequate power, access to printers
• Large flat areas (walls), Post-its, and Sharpies are vital!
16. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Planning a Hackathon
• Day-of-Hackathon Agenda
• Sign-ins
• Introductions
• Orientation and Ground Rules
• Start the fun!
• Join the fun
• Organizers and leaders should participate
• Include some fun challenges and entertainments
• Secure the area during “down times”
• Late-night security
17. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Planning a Hackathon
• End-of-Hackathon Agenda
• Give several hours’ notice of “pens down” time
• Set aside a quite place for final presentation pitch rehearsals
• Assign presentation slots to teams, get presentation names
• When Hackathon “Hack Time” is Over
• Allow some time for people to “freshen up” before presentations
• Show list of teams and presentations
• Hackathon Team Presentations
• Limit the pitches to a fixed (and enforced) time limit
• Keep it moving, minimal time between pitches
• Final Judging and Awards
18. How Hackathons Help Companies Innovate
Flagship Hackathon – Coming Soon!
• Come and Build a Mobile App, from Concept to Prototype!
• Bring a Team…
• Bring an Idea…
• Leave With a Mobile App Based on IBM Cloud Technologies!
• MobileFirst, Bluemix, Cloudant, Ustream, SoftLayer, Watson…and more!
• Developer training and assistance will be provided
• Free developer accounts will be provided
• Date TBD
• If you are interested, reply to the Meetup group or to
edj@flagshipsg.com
19. Boca Raton IBM Cloud Technologies Meetup
February 16, 2016
Upcoming Meetups
• Tuesday, March 15, in Cendyn Spaces at 6PM
• Presentations by winners of the 2016 FAU Bluemix Hackathon
• Tuesday, April 19, in Cendyn Spaces at 6PM
• IBM Watson presentation by Demian Codignotto
20. Boca Raton IBM Cloud
Technologies Meetup
January 26, 2016
Thanks for coming!