The handicraft sector is the largest decentralised and unorganised sector of the Indian economy, and is amongst India’s largest foreign exchange earners.
Since I work with craftsmen in rural India, the applicability of mobile innovation, and the changes it could bring in my field about seem almost limitless.
Mobile app that leverages Short Message Service (SMS) to deliver customized dosage reminders to patients in rural India to provide accurate medical records to medical practitioners.
She hacksatx study hall product roadmapSheHacksATX
Creating and maintaining a product requires a lot of planning, strategy and collaboration.
The following slides were shared at Capital Factory August 30th, 2014 for attendees of SheHacksATX Study Hall.
Mobile app that leverages Short Message Service (SMS) to deliver customized dosage reminders to patients in rural India to provide accurate medical records to medical practitioners.
She hacksatx study hall product roadmapSheHacksATX
Creating and maintaining a product requires a lot of planning, strategy and collaboration.
The following slides were shared at Capital Factory August 30th, 2014 for attendees of SheHacksATX Study Hall.
Offshoring Drafting in the Philippines for Landscape BusinessesShah Turner
An introduction to the opportunities of offshore drafting in the Philippines for small to mid-sized landscape firms. Presented by Shah Turner owner at Pitch Box
Pitch Box provides packaged design services "on demand" to landscape contractors to help them design and win more projects. In this video Shah shares his journey toward building an offshore team to service Pitch Box Customers, and presents opportunities, including costs, for those interested in working with his team, to take advantage of.
#MaraLive - And... How to bring a good news story to the media ETEA15Andre Van Kets
From 29 Sep to 5 Oct 2015, HerdTracker (www.discoverafrica.com/herdtracker) hosted the world's first live web broadcast of the great migration's river crossings in the Masai Mara Kenya.
Using Periscope, HerdTracker showcased Kenya's most sought after tourism spectacle to the world, in real-time.
This "world first" was picked up by CNN and hundreds of other media and publishers including TIME.com, Discovery Channel, the Telegraph and many more.
This presentation first makes a case for doing "Big Content" media campaigns. In part two, a day after the streaming safari broadcasts ended, Andre Van Kets gives a quick summary of the #MaraLive campaign outcomes on 6 October 2015 at eTourism Africa's #ETEA15 Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
I presented this as an introductory overview to 200+ audience of MBA and undergrad students as well as faculty. It covers the skills needed to build a career in digital marketing.
Digital marketing is first and foremost 'marketing', it is then digital. It is important to note that digital marketing is also about data and analysis.
Therefore, there are specific skills folks need to have to get into a digital marketing career and succeed.
Offshoring Drafting in the Philippines for Landscape BusinessesShah Turner
An introduction to the opportunities of offshore drafting in the Philippines for small to mid-sized landscape firms. Presented by Shah Turner owner at Pitch Box
Pitch Box provides packaged design services "on demand" to landscape contractors to help them design and win more projects. In this video Shah shares his journey toward building an offshore team to service Pitch Box Customers, and presents opportunities, including costs, for those interested in working with his team, to take advantage of.
#MaraLive - And... How to bring a good news story to the media ETEA15Andre Van Kets
From 29 Sep to 5 Oct 2015, HerdTracker (www.discoverafrica.com/herdtracker) hosted the world's first live web broadcast of the great migration's river crossings in the Masai Mara Kenya.
Using Periscope, HerdTracker showcased Kenya's most sought after tourism spectacle to the world, in real-time.
This "world first" was picked up by CNN and hundreds of other media and publishers including TIME.com, Discovery Channel, the Telegraph and many more.
This presentation first makes a case for doing "Big Content" media campaigns. In part two, a day after the streaming safari broadcasts ended, Andre Van Kets gives a quick summary of the #MaraLive campaign outcomes on 6 October 2015 at eTourism Africa's #ETEA15 Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
I presented this as an introductory overview to 200+ audience of MBA and undergrad students as well as faculty. It covers the skills needed to build a career in digital marketing.
Digital marketing is first and foremost 'marketing', it is then digital. It is important to note that digital marketing is also about data and analysis.
Therefore, there are specific skills folks need to have to get into a digital marketing career and succeed.
Sameer S. Kanabargi is a mechanical engineer and a social entrepreneur and an innovator, designs and develops products that are eco-friendly and use renewable energy.
The art of spinning, weaving, knitting and crochet of wool is centuries old in the Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India. Kullu Karishma is making continuous efforts to keep the traditional spectrum of weaves and knitting techniques alive while providing a sustainable future for the rural community.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
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.
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
Dive into the world of Website Designing and Developing with Pixlogix! Looking to create a stunning online presence? Look no further! Our comprehensive checklist covers everything you need to know to craft a website that stands out. From user-friendly design to seamless functionality, we've got you covered. Don't miss out on this invaluable resource! Check out our checklist now at Pixlogix and start your journey towards a captivating online presence today.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
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.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
2. This is Jessore - a remote village, in West
Bengal, also known as village of
Kumbhakars (Potters)
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3. Mina Kumbhakar, one of the potters, he makes beautiful
terrcotta pots. He works only for 3 months in a year. “We
make these products on order basis. Mostly orders are
erratic and the city buyers unreliable.”
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4. “My family is part of my production team
Visits to Delhi and Calcutta help me get some new
orders while also enabling me to buy new things.”
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5. “I had taken loan from the money lender to complete
a large order 2 years ago. I am still trying to repay it
as we had 50% rejection.”
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6. “This is my existing system of selling my
products…”
1 2 3
I sell in the local market &
I design my own supply to a few stores in Participate in Dilli Haat &
products Kolkata & Delhi Surajkund mela annually
7. What if…
Mina Kumbhakar had better opportunities to sell ?
He could earn more during the year?
He could be better trained?
9. DESIGN + TRAINING
Design development + training inputs
MARKETING
New marketing activities will help Mina to
HELPING increase his sales and profits.
Mina
PRODUCTION
His production increases and so does his
regular flow of income.
SUPPORT NETWORK
Newer alliances, better technology to sustain
his business.
10. Framework
The Power of Mobile Information
Mina Wants Information
• in his language + ability to make decisions
• about different SHGʼs (self help groups)
• about grameen banks and schemes.
• about their craft and the related materials
• about other artisans in their vicinity
11. Framework
The Power of Mobile Information
Mobile database
Available on SMS
• Database of • Database of Skills • Quality Standards
Artisans
• Training • Ordering, Software • Financing needs
Undertaken
12. Design
skill development
Information on training institutes and government initiatives
Type of Training
How can you attend
Date / Fee if any
Available on SMS
14. Capacity building
Currently Mina works for 3
months in a year
October + November + December = Total Pots
1000
15. Capacity building
We can gradually increase the total
number months by another 3
months and so on
Oct, Nov, Total Period
Jul, Aug,
Sept + Dec +6 months = Total Pots
2000
16. Capacity building
Mina Kumbhakar Can we also make him a
resource ?
when he is not making pots he is
teaching his craft
Mina updates his availability
and skill level regularly on his
cell phone, so that he can get
relevant work when he is free.
17. Marketing
Linkages - India and overseas
Stores - requirements
Fairs - dates and participation info
Exhibitions - dates and participation info
Available on SMS
18. The handicraft sector
SUPPORT
requires sustained support
to strengthen it’s needs and
enable it to deliver.
NETWORK
A need based approach is
the key to integrated
development where the
artisan is involved in each
stage of intervention.
A ground level mechanism
needs to be created to
provide single point
approach in providing
solutions and support