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For more information, please visit: http://people.cs.vt.edu/parang/ or contact parang at firstname at cs vt edu
EMBERS at 4 years: Experiences operating an Open Source Indicators Forecastin...Parang Saraf
Abstract: EMBERS is an anticipatory intelligence system forecasting population-level events in multiple countries of Latin America. A deployed system from 2012, EMBERS has been generating alerts 24x7 by ingesting a broad range of data sources including news, blogs, tweets, machine coded events, currency rates, and food prices. In this paper, we describe our experiences operating EMBERS continuously for nearly 4 years, with specific attention to the discoveries it has enabled, correct as well as missed forecasts, and lessons learnt from participating in a forecasting tournament including our perspectives on the limits of forecasting and ethical considerations.
For more information, please visit: http://people.cs.vt.edu/parang/ or contact parang at firstname at cs vt edu
The User Manual for the DRR Project Portal for Asia and the Pacific to guide users through the features. Step by step instructions on entering DRR project information is included.
Lesson 5. Crisis Mapping and Community Drillsgicait ait
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This module discussed three types of crisis mapping: Situational reporting, Damage assessment and Needs assessment.
Modelling an Enterprise Ecosystem for Digital Strategy - Craig Duncan, UNISDR...Milan Guenther (eda.c)
UNISDR is the United Nation’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Being a focal point within the UN system, the its mandate is to coordinate worldwide efforts in disaster preparedness and resilience. In this presentation, Craig (UNISDR) and Milan (eda.c) demonstrate how eda.c helped the agency achieving this mission by formulating a strategic enterprise design challenge, in order to maximise the organization’s positive impact on a complex environment of stakeholder activities and concerns. Using high-level design research and enterprise mapping, the design initiative directly informed strategic considerations. The resulting insights, service models and rendering prototypes helped all parties involved to formulate a sound digital strategy, which is currently being implemented across UNISDR’s activities, transforming its landscape of digital properties.
INIA- CISA: Análisis de las amenazas en la fauna silvestreEsri
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The User Manual for the DRR Project Portal for Asia and the Pacific to guide users through the features. Step by step instructions on entering DRR project information is included.
Lesson 5. Crisis Mapping and Community Drillsgicait ait
Crisis mapping is the real time gathering, display and analysis of data during a disaster, it is an important but challenging task.
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Modelling an Enterprise Ecosystem for Digital Strategy - Craig Duncan, UNISDR...Milan Guenther (eda.c)
UNISDR is the United Nation’s Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Being a focal point within the UN system, the its mandate is to coordinate worldwide efforts in disaster preparedness and resilience. In this presentation, Craig (UNISDR) and Milan (eda.c) demonstrate how eda.c helped the agency achieving this mission by formulating a strategic enterprise design challenge, in order to maximise the organization’s positive impact on a complex environment of stakeholder activities and concerns. Using high-level design research and enterprise mapping, the design initiative directly informed strategic considerations. The resulting insights, service models and rendering prototypes helped all parties involved to formulate a sound digital strategy, which is currently being implemented across UNISDR’s activities, transforming its landscape of digital properties.
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GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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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.
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Bob Boule
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
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People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
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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.
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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
27. Texas Wildfire Risk
Assessment Portal
Public Viewer
Professional Mitigation Planner
Fire Occurrence Explorer
Community & Home Assessment Editor
Mobile Browser
TxWRAP is the primary mechanism by which the Texas Forest Service is
creating awareness among the public, and arming state and local government
planners with information to support mitigation and prevention efforts.
28. Texas Wildfire Risk
Assessment Portal
Public Viewer
Professional Mitigation Planner
Fire Occurrence Explorer
Community & Home Assessment Editor
Mobile Browser
Tools for the public to explore fire risk information for the state, discover areas
that are prone to wildfires, identify the risk where they are living, and obtain
advice from TFS planning specialists on how to reduce their risk
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Assessment Portal
Public Viewer
Professional Mitigation Planner
Fire Occurrence Explorer
Community & Home Assessment Editor
Mobile Browser
Tools to support CWPP development by identifying project areas, interrogating
wildfire risk conditions and characteristics, and generating detailed risk summary
reports to support mitigation planning efforts
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Assessment Portal
Public Viewer
Professional Mitigation Planner
Fire Occurrence Explorer
Community & Home Assessment Editor
Mobile Browser
Tools are provided that facilitate the collection and input of community and
home assessment information. Mitigation planners can use TxWRAP to
validate data collected in the field and analyze characteristics for communities.
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40. Texas Wildfire Risk
Assessment Portal
Public Viewer
Professional Mitigation Planner
Fire Occurrence Explorer
Community & Home Assessment Editor
Mobile Browser
To aid mitigation staff in the field, a geo-mobile browser is available that
operates on smartphones and tablets. This app provides tools for field staff to
view key risk datasets in concert with current up-to-date fire locations
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and resource tracking
Comprehensive situational awareness for multiple
jurisdictions and audiences
Fire simulation, analysis & decision support for the
Incident Command Team
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50. Must address all phases of wildland
firefighting requirements:
Detection
Dispatching & resources
management
Response &
suppression tracking
ICS assignments &
reporting
Impact analysis &
damage assessment
Comprehensive incident tracking
during incident & after action
reporting
51. 1. Where are my incidents?
2. Where are my resources?
3. Where are my personnel?
56. Data Synchronization
Architecture
Data replication based
on transactional
architecture
Exchange of data
seamlessly between
users
Data synchronization
must occur in the
most severe
operational scenarios
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Geoprocessing services
Mobile web apps (geo-mobile)
Client side capabilities
GIS cloud computing
Social media integration
SaaS