Digital architecture refers to the design of complex systems that tightly integrate people, processes, and digital technology to deliver value. There is no single agreed upon definition, as it is a new concept. Experimentation is important when exploring new challenges like digital architecture, as defined by Tom Graves. The document discusses balancing demand and supply through service design and digital translation between different roles.
Digital Architecture - Modern Technologies in ArchitectureÇelik Nimani
In today's economy, technology is part of every single aspect of our life. Digital architecture uses computer aided design, programming, simulation and images to create virtual forms and physical structures. The same can be said to refer to other aspects of architecture that are defined by digital technologies.
The Digital Technology is making the enterprises to redefine their strategies and reinvent business models. The customer and market expectations are changing dynamically forcing the organizations to adopt “Agile” processes and systems to these changing business needs. “Developing Agile Digital Architecture’” is an important element for the organizations to succeed. The speaker will address the way the digital technologies are driving the businesses to change their services and operations, and how the organizations should develop the agile digital architectures. The session also covers building business, data, and application and technology architectures in an agile way and thereby meeting the changing business requirements and eventually delivering the business goals.
Digital Architecture, Architectural photography and the Impacts of social med...Ogbuagu Kelechi Uchamma
A Presentation on Digital architecture, Architecture photography and the Impacts of Social media to the architectural practice.
It is very helpful for both students and professionals. If you have a flair for architecture, this presentation would help you discover more about architecture especially in area of Architectural Photography and some software behind Building Information Modeling!
This presentation is also useful to the general public regardless of your profession. *KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!*
I really hope this was of great help to you.
Software-driven business models are shaping the business landscape in a big way. Unprecedented growth in technology has helped to create new generation ‘born-in-the-cloud’ business models. These business models have helped newly formed organizations to catch-up with, and often catapulted past, brick & mortar organizations in less than a decade.
‘Born-in-cloud’ business models are built on NextGen systems. NextGen systems are mass personalized, massively distributed, always on and self-adapting system of systems and have broken the boundary between physical and cyber world.
Software 4.0 is a framework for creating NextGen system. It enables mind-set change, develop people competencies, establishes right methodologies for innovation & speed.
Software 4.0 framework leverages nexus of following methodologies / initiatives –
Business Model Canvas for value promise
Design thinking
Hackathon
Modular Architecture
Agile-at-scale
CLM platform & Continuous Engineering
Machine Learning
Software 4.0 ensures NextGen systems are built in iterative, incremental, self-learning and cost-effective manner with superior quality.
[WSO2Con EU 2017] Digital Architecture: A Reference Architecture for a Digita...WSO2
Enterprise architects, CTOs, and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) are struggling to identify the correct digital architecture for their enterprise. In this slide deck, Asanka explores the business architecture as well as the technical architecture of an enterprise and the connection between them. He will share his experience to help you institute your digital architecture and build adaptive digital products and services for your consumers.
Building a Digital Enterprise: Learning from ExperienceAsanka Abeysinghe
Digital transformation, digital enterprise, and connected business – what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium, or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture? As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organizations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experiences from successful projects.
Digital Architecture - Modern Technologies in ArchitectureÇelik Nimani
In today's economy, technology is part of every single aspect of our life. Digital architecture uses computer aided design, programming, simulation and images to create virtual forms and physical structures. The same can be said to refer to other aspects of architecture that are defined by digital technologies.
The Digital Technology is making the enterprises to redefine their strategies and reinvent business models. The customer and market expectations are changing dynamically forcing the organizations to adopt “Agile” processes and systems to these changing business needs. “Developing Agile Digital Architecture’” is an important element for the organizations to succeed. The speaker will address the way the digital technologies are driving the businesses to change their services and operations, and how the organizations should develop the agile digital architectures. The session also covers building business, data, and application and technology architectures in an agile way and thereby meeting the changing business requirements and eventually delivering the business goals.
Digital Architecture, Architectural photography and the Impacts of social med...Ogbuagu Kelechi Uchamma
A Presentation on Digital architecture, Architecture photography and the Impacts of Social media to the architectural practice.
It is very helpful for both students and professionals. If you have a flair for architecture, this presentation would help you discover more about architecture especially in area of Architectural Photography and some software behind Building Information Modeling!
This presentation is also useful to the general public regardless of your profession. *KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!*
I really hope this was of great help to you.
Software-driven business models are shaping the business landscape in a big way. Unprecedented growth in technology has helped to create new generation ‘born-in-the-cloud’ business models. These business models have helped newly formed organizations to catch-up with, and often catapulted past, brick & mortar organizations in less than a decade.
‘Born-in-cloud’ business models are built on NextGen systems. NextGen systems are mass personalized, massively distributed, always on and self-adapting system of systems and have broken the boundary between physical and cyber world.
Software 4.0 is a framework for creating NextGen system. It enables mind-set change, develop people competencies, establishes right methodologies for innovation & speed.
Software 4.0 framework leverages nexus of following methodologies / initiatives –
Business Model Canvas for value promise
Design thinking
Hackathon
Modular Architecture
Agile-at-scale
CLM platform & Continuous Engineering
Machine Learning
Software 4.0 ensures NextGen systems are built in iterative, incremental, self-learning and cost-effective manner with superior quality.
[WSO2Con EU 2017] Digital Architecture: A Reference Architecture for a Digita...WSO2
Enterprise architects, CTOs, and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs) are struggling to identify the correct digital architecture for their enterprise. In this slide deck, Asanka explores the business architecture as well as the technical architecture of an enterprise and the connection between them. He will share his experience to help you institute your digital architecture and build adaptive digital products and services for your consumers.
Building a Digital Enterprise: Learning from ExperienceAsanka Abeysinghe
Digital transformation, digital enterprise, and connected business – what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium, or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture? As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organizations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experiences from successful projects.
This presentation outlines our vision on the D-Reader, the product our company develops. The product is focused on automated understanding of engineering drawings.
Innovating Humane Habitats in a Digital Era for a Sustainable Future.Digital Technology in Architectural Education and Profession .The significance of virtual Architecture is its emergence with the ability of computer-imaging technology to accurately simulate three-dimensional reality. The technique of simulating three-dimensional reality is known as virtual reality.
Parametric design:
Enables the exploration of alternative designs within a single representation using parameters and associative relationships to control geometric and constructive aspects of the design.
New developments in computational design as well as in digital fabrication are currently leading to a rethinking of architectural design, material science, engineering and fabrication.
The Shift Is Here: Artificial Intelligence is at Work for the Construction In...indus.ai
Technology solutions that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already reducing costs, managing risk, and increasing safety for the Construction Industry.
This eBook shows industry stakeholders how to take advantage of the benefits of AI – both now and in the future.
Social Innovations for Urban Sustainability: Towards Smarter CitiesAreej Al-Wabil
Seminar in DICE (Digital Design, Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise) in the joint program between Dublin University and PNU #DCUPNU on Nov 4, 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The emergence of virtual reality applications for architecture is becoming an integral part not just of presenting a design, but the BIM process too.
For many design-led industries, the biggest challenge is often convincing the client. By demonstrating the sensation of actually being inside a building prior to hand over makes VR a powerful tool for communicating design intent.
Download sample file from here https://www.applecoredesigns.co.uk/bimx-samples
Greater China’s Most Innovative Building Consulting and Engineering Services ...Stephen Au
MTECH Engineering Co.,Ltd. announced that the company is awarded the “Greater China’s Most Innovative Building Consulting and Engineering Services 2017″ presented by the international business magazines publisher Mediazone Group. Each year the Mediazone Group picks up the winners from an initial list of 11,000 international and local brands with a presence in Hong Kong.
Visualisation for the AEC Sector: Past, Present and Tomorrow… #COMIT2016Comit Projects Ltd
Presentation by Dr Max Mallia-Parfitt (COINS:FULCRO & Crossrail) at COMIT 2016: Digitally Building Britain, September 2016
More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/liveblog
WSO2Con ASIA 2016: Keynote: Building a Digital Enterprise: Learning from Expe...WSO2
Digital transformation, digital enterprise, and connected business – what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium, or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture? As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organizations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experiences from successful projects.
Experience Design for the IoT | Tim Scanlon - 2016 Tongji Design Week Keynote Tim Scanlon
This is one of 2 presentations Tim Scanlon presented in Shanghai during the Fall of 2016. Every autumn, the Tongji University College of Design and Innovation organizes a small, highly interactive conference on design research and design education titled “Emerging Practices” (EPC). Since the first EPC in 2012, this has become an annual forum for debates on such themes as new practices, values, and approaches arising in design and design education; open design; influences on
developing practices; DesignX; and design activism. The main theme of EPC this year is “Design in Complexity.” It will continue and expand the conversation initiated by the DesignX Manifesto in 2014. This conversation developed further in a
two-day DesignX workshop hosted by Tongji University in 2015. The first DesignX Manifesto articulated the nature of working in and with complex sociotechnical systems, attempting to explore the framework for designers to address such issues. The follow-up DesignX workshop explored the
principles of working with such systems, highlighted the importance and difficulty of implementing solutions to DesignX problems. The workshop focused on several valuable cases. It sparked a lively discussion that we will continue this year
https://graphisoft.sharefile.com/share?cmd=d&id=sc918c9aa871477b8#/view/sc918c9aa871477b8?_k=mac511
Seminar: Documentation from BIM - Tips for GBP Submission to BD
Co-organized by: Graphisoft / HKIBIM / IVE BIM Centre
Speaker: Peter Koncz - M. Arch, MHKIBIM, MbSHK, GRAPHISOFT Registered Consultant, Business Development Manager, GRAPHISOFT Asia Ltd.
Biography:
Mr Peter Koncz is an architect and Registered Consultant based in Hong Kong. His main responsibilities are marketing GRAPHISOFT products and helping the prospect and existing clientele with the introduction and implementation of BIM technology. As a member of HKIBIM and BuildingSmart HK, he is committed to the idea of an open BIM environment in Hong Kong. Before his career at GRAPHISOFT, he has worked in architecture in Brasil and Hungary, where the use of BIM is widely established, so he has totally 8 years of relevant experience.
Outline:
With ARCHICAD, you create a 3D Building Information Model — all the necessary documentation and images are created automatically. New, priority based junctions, intelligent building materials ensure correct graphical representation of elements and materials in sections, surfaces in 3D views, and thermal properties throughout the building energy evaluations. ARCHICAD’s powerful view setting possibilities, its unique drawing handling, together with the integrated publishing capabilities ensure that printing or saving the various drawing sets of a project won‘t require extra time and will be derived from the same Building Information Model.
Date & Time: 4-May 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theather LT-01, IVE(Morrison Hill)
Note: The seminar will be conducted in English.
For more information about GRAPHISOFT in Hong Kong: http://www.graphisoft.com.hk
For any enquiry, please contact Mr. Peter Koncz at pkoncz@graphisoft.com
Presentation by Phil Jackson at the 2017 COMIT Annual Conference 'Mobilising Digital Assets', to be held at The Building Centre in London on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th of May 2017.
More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/live-blog-comit2017
Attracting, retaining and getting the best from your architectsTetradian Consulting
Meetup sessions at x:pand Melbourne and x:pand Sydney, October 2015
(hosted by x:pand and Australasian Architecture Network)
The Australasian Architecture Network has hosted a number of recent meet ups aimed at educating talented people across a range of new technologies and technical areas. This time we’re looking at something much more important, the people. In particular it will focus on how you can get the best from the Architects in your business and how they can deliver the best results to you.
It will look at the age old debate which always exists in this field between art and science, the creative vs. the coder. What types of projects require what types of people and how do you get the best results from such a diverse range of individuals.
This presentation outlines our vision on the D-Reader, the product our company develops. The product is focused on automated understanding of engineering drawings.
Innovating Humane Habitats in a Digital Era for a Sustainable Future.Digital Technology in Architectural Education and Profession .The significance of virtual Architecture is its emergence with the ability of computer-imaging technology to accurately simulate three-dimensional reality. The technique of simulating three-dimensional reality is known as virtual reality.
Parametric design:
Enables the exploration of alternative designs within a single representation using parameters and associative relationships to control geometric and constructive aspects of the design.
New developments in computational design as well as in digital fabrication are currently leading to a rethinking of architectural design, material science, engineering and fabrication.
The Shift Is Here: Artificial Intelligence is at Work for the Construction In...indus.ai
Technology solutions that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already reducing costs, managing risk, and increasing safety for the Construction Industry.
This eBook shows industry stakeholders how to take advantage of the benefits of AI – both now and in the future.
Social Innovations for Urban Sustainability: Towards Smarter CitiesAreej Al-Wabil
Seminar in DICE (Digital Design, Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise) in the joint program between Dublin University and PNU #DCUPNU on Nov 4, 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The emergence of virtual reality applications for architecture is becoming an integral part not just of presenting a design, but the BIM process too.
For many design-led industries, the biggest challenge is often convincing the client. By demonstrating the sensation of actually being inside a building prior to hand over makes VR a powerful tool for communicating design intent.
Download sample file from here https://www.applecoredesigns.co.uk/bimx-samples
Greater China’s Most Innovative Building Consulting and Engineering Services ...Stephen Au
MTECH Engineering Co.,Ltd. announced that the company is awarded the “Greater China’s Most Innovative Building Consulting and Engineering Services 2017″ presented by the international business magazines publisher Mediazone Group. Each year the Mediazone Group picks up the winners from an initial list of 11,000 international and local brands with a presence in Hong Kong.
Visualisation for the AEC Sector: Past, Present and Tomorrow… #COMIT2016Comit Projects Ltd
Presentation by Dr Max Mallia-Parfitt (COINS:FULCRO & Crossrail) at COMIT 2016: Digitally Building Britain, September 2016
More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/liveblog
WSO2Con ASIA 2016: Keynote: Building a Digital Enterprise: Learning from Expe...WSO2
Digital transformation, digital enterprise, and connected business – what does this all mean for each industry vertical? How does one innovate in critical strategies? What does the reference architecture look like for a small, medium, or larger enterprise? How does an organization implement such an architecture? As an avid technology partner, WSO2 has helped many organizations in their journey to build the right digital enterprise capabilities that create better customer and internal user experiences. This session will answer the above questions and share our own experiences from successful projects.
Experience Design for the IoT | Tim Scanlon - 2016 Tongji Design Week Keynote Tim Scanlon
This is one of 2 presentations Tim Scanlon presented in Shanghai during the Fall of 2016. Every autumn, the Tongji University College of Design and Innovation organizes a small, highly interactive conference on design research and design education titled “Emerging Practices” (EPC). Since the first EPC in 2012, this has become an annual forum for debates on such themes as new practices, values, and approaches arising in design and design education; open design; influences on
developing practices; DesignX; and design activism. The main theme of EPC this year is “Design in Complexity.” It will continue and expand the conversation initiated by the DesignX Manifesto in 2014. This conversation developed further in a
two-day DesignX workshop hosted by Tongji University in 2015. The first DesignX Manifesto articulated the nature of working in and with complex sociotechnical systems, attempting to explore the framework for designers to address such issues. The follow-up DesignX workshop explored the
principles of working with such systems, highlighted the importance and difficulty of implementing solutions to DesignX problems. The workshop focused on several valuable cases. It sparked a lively discussion that we will continue this year
https://graphisoft.sharefile.com/share?cmd=d&id=sc918c9aa871477b8#/view/sc918c9aa871477b8?_k=mac511
Seminar: Documentation from BIM - Tips for GBP Submission to BD
Co-organized by: Graphisoft / HKIBIM / IVE BIM Centre
Speaker: Peter Koncz - M. Arch, MHKIBIM, MbSHK, GRAPHISOFT Registered Consultant, Business Development Manager, GRAPHISOFT Asia Ltd.
Biography:
Mr Peter Koncz is an architect and Registered Consultant based in Hong Kong. His main responsibilities are marketing GRAPHISOFT products and helping the prospect and existing clientele with the introduction and implementation of BIM technology. As a member of HKIBIM and BuildingSmart HK, he is committed to the idea of an open BIM environment in Hong Kong. Before his career at GRAPHISOFT, he has worked in architecture in Brasil and Hungary, where the use of BIM is widely established, so he has totally 8 years of relevant experience.
Outline:
With ARCHICAD, you create a 3D Building Information Model — all the necessary documentation and images are created automatically. New, priority based junctions, intelligent building materials ensure correct graphical representation of elements and materials in sections, surfaces in 3D views, and thermal properties throughout the building energy evaluations. ARCHICAD’s powerful view setting possibilities, its unique drawing handling, together with the integrated publishing capabilities ensure that printing or saving the various drawing sets of a project won‘t require extra time and will be derived from the same Building Information Model.
Date & Time: 4-May 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Lecture Theather LT-01, IVE(Morrison Hill)
Note: The seminar will be conducted in English.
For more information about GRAPHISOFT in Hong Kong: http://www.graphisoft.com.hk
For any enquiry, please contact Mr. Peter Koncz at pkoncz@graphisoft.com
Presentation by Phil Jackson at the 2017 COMIT Annual Conference 'Mobilising Digital Assets', to be held at The Building Centre in London on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th of May 2017.
More information: http://www.comit.org.uk/live-blog-comit2017
Attracting, retaining and getting the best from your architectsTetradian Consulting
Meetup sessions at x:pand Melbourne and x:pand Sydney, October 2015
(hosted by x:pand and Australasian Architecture Network)
The Australasian Architecture Network has hosted a number of recent meet ups aimed at educating talented people across a range of new technologies and technical areas. This time we’re looking at something much more important, the people. In particular it will focus on how you can get the best from the Architects in your business and how they can deliver the best results to you.
It will look at the age old debate which always exists in this field between art and science, the creative vs. the coder. What types of projects require what types of people and how do you get the best results from such a diverse range of individuals.
The Future of Work - 7 Most Disruptive and Emerging PracticesAfzal Ibrahim
Automation, advanced manufacturing, AI, and the shift to e-commerce are dramatically changing the number and nature of jobs around the world. New industries, new skills, and new economies are on the rise. AI and robotics are upending the conventional work, and more interestingly, On the internet, everything is for hire via high adoption of sharing economy. Universities and academic institutions are reorienting to new practices. A brief reflection on the future work, jobs, and technology by exploring the most disruptive and emerging practices
Deze presentatie is gegeven aan de Open Universiteit te Amsterdam bij het afscheidv van prof. Lex Bijlsma. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van enterprise architectuur, het gebruik van ArchiMate en de noodzaak om eerst te denken en dan pas te doen
Travelocity staged an infomration and training week for the employees in the Curtomer Experience Group. This presentation is a high-level primer about IA, its origins and its practice
Ai revolution for human capital for individuals 2nd feb 2018Liew Wei Da Andrew
The world is crazy about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Whether you are for it or against it – there’s no doubt that AI will change our lives. To educate ourselves about AI, some questions which we should ask are:
Is AI an assistive tool or a substitutive tool?
What are the life hacks for an individual to adapt to this new world?
What are the possibilities for the individuals in the world of AI?
This talk will reveal facts and possibilities about AI to create hope and awareness for the society that we live in. There's no time for ignorance. Have the courage to find out and learn.
PDF, audio, and voiceover are now available on designintechreport.wordpress.com
Today’s most beloved technology products and services balance design and engineering in a way that perfectly blends form and function. Businesses started by designers have created billions of dollars of value, are raising billions in capital, and VC firms increasingly see the importance of design. The third annual Design in Tech Report examines how design trends are revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. This report covers related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity × business, and the rise of computational design.
It my pleasure to be with you all today – thanks to my host for the opportunity to speak with you all today.
Host: Leonard Walletzky <qwalletz@fi.muni.cz> (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardwalletzky/) +420 549 49 7690
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUvbsmwAAAAJ&hl=cs
Katrina Motkova (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateřina-moťková-mba-a964a3175/en/?originalSubdomain=cz)
Speaker: Jim Spohrer <spohrer@gmail.com> (https://www.linkedin.com/in/spohrer/) +1-408-829-3112
I am Jim Spohrer, a retired Apple and IBM Executive, and currently a UIDP Senior Fellow, on the Board of Directors of ISSIP and ServCollab.
I am retired, meaning my primary activities are family-oriented – families are the oldest and most important type of service systems
I volunteer to help non-profits, mentor students, professionals, and retiree (some in retirement communities where the average age is 85) on AI & service science
My hobbies are hiking, reading, programming, and building my AI digital twin and humanoid robots for maintaining farms and farming equipment.
My hobbies are also trying to understand as much as I can about the system called the universe and mult-verse, and robots to rapidly rebuild civilization including themselves from scratch.
2001 - Nonzero: The Logic of Human Desitiny (Wright) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_Destiny
2015 - Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology - https://www.amazon.com/Geek-Heresy-Rescuing-Social-Technology/dp/161039528X
2021 - Humankind: A Hopeful History (Bregman) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History
Humankind - https://www.amazon.com/Humankind-Hopeful-History-Rutger-Bregman/dp/0316418536
Humankind Book Review - https://service-science.info/archives/5654
2022 - Service in the AI Era: Science, Logic, and Architecture Perspectives (2022) by Spohrer, Maglio, Vargo, Warg - https://www.amazon.com/Service-AI-Era-Architecture-Perspectives/dp/1637423039
2023 - Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity-Centered (2023) by Don Norman - https://www.amazon.com/Design-Better-World-Meaningful-Sustainable/dp/0262047950/
Show me the money - The Value of Cost Transparency in Complex SystemsPaddy Baxter
This was my deck from the 2017 IT Architects Conference in Dublin in which I explain why I think cost transparency in complex systems it a big ticket issue that we need to address.
Why IT needs more IT Architects (IASA style)Paddy Baxter
This is a deck I presented to IT leaders in the public sector. In it I explain the IASA definition of IT Architect and how in-house tech leaders can deliver substantially to their teams, IT and their whole organisation by focusing on the skills IASA defines as required for a high performing IT architect.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
3. digital architecture
What is digital architecture?
I don’t know … that’s the honest answer … there is no “industry
definition”. Best I can do is say that it is fractal and recursive. That
seems to be the way nature manages complexity. But seeing as
we don’t know we need a way to explore what it might be. That’s
where experimentation comes in …
4. Q. Why experimenting?
A. It’s the best approach for this kind of challenge.
Tom Graves covers it really well. http://weblog.tetradian.com/
Bottom line - if you want to be a business anarchist you have
come to the right place!
6. My intro – who and what am I?
1. In terms of my career I’ve worked on both sides of the fence – the supply side and the demand side but pretty much always in the change space. I’m never
happy with the status quo. Here’s a quick run though of my career …
2. BBC – setup and operated enterprise MS Mail system for 8000 users – then spent 6 months skiing in France!
3. Joined ARI to work in retail systems – Channel Tunnel and Bangkok – focused on system implementation and adoption.
4. Time to specialise – jumped to supply side – Digital Professional Services. 6 great years – e-mail/Exchange world domination with Tony Redmond & co. Ireland,
US, Switzerland, Belgium and Australia. Deep into Microsoft world.
5. After returning from Oz I spent some time with SureSkills and then went back to HP to work as an infrastructure architect on a big financial services outsourcing
project.
6. I could resist no longer – 6 years with Microsoft as both a consultant and a Technical Account Manager.
7. Supply side blues – needed to move to the middle – EY as an architecture consultant. But too much of a disruptor for Big 4
8. Building a new business now in Digital Architecture … early days but going well.
9. Last but not least – I’m more than a tech architect – for example I’m an ENFJ …. More on that later!
8. Art Science?
IT Architecture
“The art or science of designing and delivering
valuable technology strategies.”
What is Digital Architecture? Let’s start at the start …
1. Are there any good definitions of architecture out there? The IASA definition is pretty good.
1. The “art or science” …. what does this phrase actually mean? You see it in lots of things. Let’s explore.
9. Holism ReductionismArchitecture?
Holism vs. Reductionism
Holism: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
Architecture[edit]
Architecture is often argued by design academics and those practicing in design to be a holistic enterprise.[19] Used in this context, holism tends to imply
an all-inclusive design perspective. This trait is considered exclusive to architecture, distinct from other professions involved in design projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism#cite_note-19
Holm, Ivar (2006). Ideas and Beliefs in Architecture: How attitudes, orientations, and underlying assumptions shape the built environment. Oslo School of
Architecture and Design. ISBN 82-547-0174-1.
14. Art Science
Is there
demand for
Digital
Architecture?
Silicon
Computer
Software
Mainframe
Server
Internet
Mobile
Data
Social
Cloud
AI
Systems
Solutions
Enterprises
Services
Apps
Network
Business
Models
22. Service - A definition according to ITIL®
"A means of delivering value to customers by facilitating
outcomes customers want to achieve without the ownership of
specific costs and risks. "
48. Woodworth Personal Data Sheet
The Rorschach inkblot test
Thematic Apperception Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
The True Colors (personality) Test
16PF Questionnaire (16PF)
The EQSQ Test
The Personality and Preference Inventory (PAPI)
The Strength Deployment Inventory
etc. etc.
In this talk I will provide some experiments that you can use to help you practice and create digital architecture.
What is digital architecture?
I don’t know … that’s the honest answer … there is no “industry definition”. Best I can do is say that it is fractal and recursive. That seems to be the way nature manages complexity. But seeing as we don’t know we need a way to explore what it might be. That’s where experimentation comes in …
Why experimenting? It’s the best approach for this kind of challenge.
Tom Graves covers it really well.
Bottom line - if you want to be a business anarchist you have come to he right place!
My intro – who and what am I?
In terms of my career I’ve worked on both sides of the fence – the supply side and the demand side but pretty much always in the change space. I’m never happy with the status quo. Here’s a quick run though of my career …
BBC – setup and operated enterprise MS Mail system for 8000 users – then spent 6 months skiing in France!
Joined ARI to work in retail systems – Channel Tunnel and Bangkok – focused on system implementation and adoption.
Time to specialise – jumped to supply side – Digital Professional Services. 6 great years – e-mail/Exchange world domination with Tony Redmond & co. Ireland, US, Switzerland, Belgium and Australia. Deep into Microsoft world.
After returning from Oz I spent some time with SureSkills and then went back to HP to work as an infrastructure architect on a big financial services outsourcing project.
I could resist no longer – 6 years with Microsoft as both a consultant and a Technical Account Manager.
Supply side blues – needed to move to the middle – EY as an architecture consultant. But too much of a disruptor for Big 4
Building a new business now in Digital Architecture … early days but going well.
Last but not least – I’m more than a tech architect – for example I’m an ENFJ …. More on that later!
What is digital architecture? Here are some ideas …
What is Digital Architecture?
0. Let’s start at the start. Are there any good definitions of architecture out there? How about the IASA definition?
1. The art or science etc. …. What does this phrase actually mean? You see it in lots of things. Let’s explore.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Architecture[edit]
Architecture is often argued by design academics and those practicing in design to be a holistic enterprise.[19] Used in this context, holism tends to imply an all-inclusive design perspective. This trait is considered exclusive to architecture, distinct from other professions involved in design projects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism#cite_note-19
Holm, Ivar (2006). Ideas and Beliefs in Architecture: How attitudes, orientations, and underlying assumptions shape the built environment. Oslo School of Architecture and Design. ISBN 82-547-0174-1.
Another key pattern. What is strategy? How to make sure demand and supply are balanced into some kind of …. Equilibrium. Is that a good definition of a good system? A good design? A good strategy? A good architecture?
Last but not least – a human perspective … OK – totally reductionist but that’s what we do isn’t it!
Left Brain, Right Brain. Using both?
I like this one the most as I think it is the essence of architecture.
So that’s a deep dive in what architecture is. So what about Digital Architecture?
Let’s look at the science/supply/reductionist side first. What do we have here?
So what is the purpose of Digital Architecture?
Using digital technology to build value delivering, sustainable …
Systems
Solutions
Services
Apps
Business Models
Enterprises
So in summary. I’m saying that Digital Architecture is building sustainable, value generating systems using tech.
Is there demand for this right now?
Before we can answer the demand question we first need to dive a littler deeper into what we mean by Digital Architecture. This is an area that can cause confusion.
So … the word architecture can be both a
A verb – the practice of architecture?
A noun – the product of architecture?
It’s fairly obvious that architecture as a discipline has value. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446) anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi
So we can see that it has existed as a profession for a long time.
Is that fair enough?
What about Digital Architecture?
The whole area is still pretty immature to be honest. The fact that I’m having to spend time covering it in this talk is proof of that. But that’s what I can kind of get away with coming up with my own definition to add to the others that are out there But suffice to say we have lots of maturing approaches to digital architecture (and this includes enterprise, IT, infrastructure, system, solution, data etc) – led by John Zachman’s ontology and TOGAF.
But what about architecture the noun? What is that and is there demand for digital architects can build????
As a futurist this is a question you’ve got to ask every day.
Has a tool ever been created before it’s time???? It’s a question technologists must continue to ask. The Newton anyone? Motorola ROKR, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Kin, Amazon Fire Phone???
Digital Architecture – the noun
But … in your world …
Is there pressure from your customers for more technology? Is their Windows laptop, MS Office, SAP etc. just not enough anymore.
How are you doing with that pressure? Are your existing processes working?
What did Einstein say about madness again???
It’s time to change.
OK. I’ve said it before but I need to say it again. There is a catch.
We don’t have a full blueprint yet for digital architecture.
Some are emerging but they apply best to start-ups
What about the rest of us?
Can we change? Is it possible?
The best way to deal with a lot of unknown unknowns – experiment, sense, respond, adjust, experiment again.
5 Experiments in Digital Architecture
Keep them small
Expect to fail
Fail fast
If you don’t learn from your failures it is a complete failure (as opposed to a partial failure!)
Make sure you have built in a feedback loop
Make the most of the dynamic nature of software
Think Services not Solutions.
Waterfall has led us to focus on day 1 only. This was fine when we were building systems designed to last a long time with low change expectations. And that worked as long as everyone took that approach.
But the market has changed. Companies are starting to figure out how to change fast, and use technology to meet customer needs cheaper and more quickly.
Big Waterfalls are dead. They need to replaced by Agile/Lots of little waterfalls.
Build services not solutions. (And this is not just advice for IT systems – it’s what the whole company will need to do – see Amazon …)
AKA API, Micro-service, Team etc. etc.
What is a service?
One of the best service framework – ITIL – even if seen as an ITOps tool only. BUT IT ISN’T!!
It’s a whole big bunch of processes (verbs) for digital architecture.
“Noun” as a service. Give me a suggestion and see if I can describe it as a service.
So what about service as the noun?
How do you start to model and design things as services?
Let me give you some tools.
https://strategyzer.com/
Here’s tool no. 1 – don’t just use it for businesses. You can use it for anything – a service, a team, yourself.
https://strategyzer.com/
Here’s an example for an enterprise architecture team/function which reports to the CIO (customer no. 1).
It’s quick an easy to do and it will get you thinking in a completely different way.
Another great model is Tom Grave’s enterprise canvas. It has some added layers that the BMC does not include – in particular the control layer. You can use this as a check list to see if you are doing everything you need to do to deliver a great service (personally, for you team, for your department, for company .. If you are the CEO … )
They are fractal and recursive. They work everywhere!
Why do we need maturity models?
1. Is there a thing as too much functionality?
Why does this happen?
The beauty contest procurement battle?
He who has most features at the lowest price wins.
When I worked with Microsoft this was one of the biggest challenges. The products were overflowing with functionality but the users struggled to make use of it all.
Maturity models can help you avoid this.
As a quick aside – if we compare Word to Medium we see 2 totally different approaches in action. One has more features that you could ever use. Those other has laser focused on the features it thinks are the most important. The only thing it doesn’t do is expose new features dynamically as it watches how you interact with it … maybe that will come?
My favourite source of maturity models is the IVI (www.ivi.ie). They have the IT-CMF.
Diving deeper here is one capability that is dear to my heart. Enterprise Architecture Management. It’s not perfect of course but I have used it in anger and it works.
There are 8 building blocks and behind each building block is a set of questions, practices, outcomes and metrics.
This is the summary.
Otherwise known as “SHOW ME THE MONEY”!!!!!
Value can be hard to measure but cost is something we can and should be able to do.
I don’t know about you but for much of my career I left the money conversation to the project manager. It made me feel pure!
But we i.e. IT guys, are paying for this now. Big time. How do we pay? We get outsourced because the business doesn’t like us. They think we are expensive and slow.
To be honest I found this world of TBM a little bit by accident. I was trying to find “one model to rule them all”. I had dug though TOGAF and Zachman but most of what I found was either incomplete or more focused on the verb not the noun i.e. the model.
So what did I find?
The Apptio TBM Unified Model.
The magic is in the apportioning of cost between layers. That is NOT easy as it requires a completely different way for costs to be managed. 99 times out of a 100 you’ll be constrained by an existing financial management structure that ties you to CAPEX oriented yearly investment cycles that are based on business cases that do a really bad job of estimating the cost of a service, resulting in a whole range of operational issues, and often ultimately resulting in major reputational damage for the IT team within an organisation.
This is a good place to start.
The book is worth a look.
I know. From money to emotional intelligence. That’s some switch!
But this is doubly important –
To practice successful architecture you must be somewhat good at this. You MUST. IASA calls it human dynamics. It’s a core pillar.
But in digital architecture, the people in the system must be taken into account. This is deep integration of tech into our lives and we can’t do it without understanding human behaviour.
OK. It’s much, much, much more complex that this – an infinite spectrum between 2 extremes to be honest – and this is only 1 vector by which you could categorise someone. There are hundreds if not thousands more. BUT, we must have all experienced situations where people are talking the same language but very little data is getting across either way.
The path to emotional intelligence lies in self-awareness. Only by understanding your own biases will you start to be able to understand other peoples. There are lots of ways to work on this. E.g Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Flourishing – Maureen Gaffney, etc.
And there are personality tests – for the reductionists among us
There is plenty of help out there.
My favourite one. It’s free, quick and very positive. And a bit of fun. The key though is self-awareness and not to put your colleagues in a box!
I’ve got a lot of people to do the test (as an experiment!) just to see:
What they tested to compared to my own guess?
Did they agree with the general description?
Did their partner/close relatives agree with the general description??
What did I learn?
It’s hard to guess
There are lots of surprises
Some buy it
Some don’t
We’ve done the micro. We also need to start thinking about the macro. Org designs … Hierarchical org designs will not work well in the digital age. Too slow. To constrained.
New approaches are arriving. For example holocracy.
Check out Spotify too – tribes, squads, chapters and guilds.
Org Design
I’ll close on that thought. Thank you for your time. I hope you found it interesting.