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- Introduction of new iTeller and mTeller online and mobile banking solutions.
- Round table discussion for credit unions to share best practices.
- Compliance sessions on concentration risk and hot topics.
- Going paperless with digital archiving.
- Attracting younger generations of members through understanding their needs.
- Motivational speech on going beyond comfort zones and giving great customer service.
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- OASYS core data processing platform overview and sneak peek at future releases.
- iTeller and mTeller mobile and online banking solutions demonstrations.
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- Compliance sessions on concentration risk and hot topics.
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- Attracting younger generations of members.
- Motivational speech on stepping outside comfort zones.
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The MACPA 2013 Innovation Summit set new records for engagement on social media for a CPA conference. The summit had 338 attendees, reached over 200,000 people on social media, and generated over 1.8 million impressions. New technologies like Flybits and Conferences.io were used to create engagement among attendees. Sponsors were also highly engaged, with some receiving over 300 visits to their sponsored zones at the event. The success of the summit was due to an emphasis on social media promotion and training for attendees and sponsors, as well as sponsoring new "Road to the Cloud" curriculum for ongoing engagement throughout the year.
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The document provides an overview of sessions and topics at a CUtopia conference. Key sessions include:
- OASYS core data processing platform overview and sneak peek at future releases.
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- Going paperless with digital archiving.
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The document provides an overview of sessions and topics at a CUtopia conference. Key sessions include:
- OASYS core data processing platform overview and sneak peek at future releases.
- iTeller and mTeller mobile and online banking solutions demonstrations.
- Roundtable discussion for credit unions to share best practices.
- Compliance sessions on concentration risk and hot topics.
- Going paperless with digital archiving.
- Attracting younger generations of members.
- Motivational speech on stepping outside comfort zones.
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This report highlights top challenges, top skills, insights from the session and more.
These polls were integrated during a presentation on "The Future Ready CPA" where we covered the 5 C's - Context, Certainty, Capacity, Competency, and Core Purpose & Values.
We are living in “exponential times” where the size, scale and scope of change is incredible. That means there are incredible opportunities for those who can see through the fog of uncertainty and anticipate what’s next. The biggest opportunity is to harness the wisdom of our older generations with the fresh perspectives of the tech-savvy younger generations. The next generation of leaders is enthusiastically ready to have a seat at the table. The future is not created; the future is co- created. Let’s get to work!
“Everyone keeps telling accountants that they need to change their focus from the historic and the backward-looking, and to start being proactive and offering future-focused advice – but no one tells them how. The beauty of the Anticipatory Organization program is that it actually gives you a set of tools to harness the hard trends that are shaping the future, and use them to create new value for your firm and your clients.” - Daniel Hood, Editor-in-Chief of Accounting Today (when recognizing AOAF as a 2016 Top Product in Learning
The competency of “anticipation” actually includes a number of competencies included in many of the top companies of today.
Across these models, you'll see a common theme of “strategic thinking," "innovation" and “leading change."
Many of these organizations build (and validate) fantastic competency models and know what they want people to do.
The top five skills and competencies identified for CPAs, accounting and finance professionals are:
1. Strategic and critical thinking;
2. Communication;
3. Anticipating and serving evolving needs;
4. Inspiring and motivating others;
5. Collaboration and mobilizing consensus
The beauty of the Anticipatory Organization model is that it offers a clear process that makes highly-abstract leadership competencies attainable and trainable. Using nano-leanring in very short 3-4 minute single concept videos (imagine a series of shirt Ted Talks) with rapid application exercises to immediately apply the concepts to the job, and visual job aids to reinforce and remember the learning. Add a team implementation and collaboration guide and you can create a shared language and culture of being anticipatory and proactive.
If an organization wants to make "strategic thinking" or "innovation" a core competency, we can provide clear, trainable activities that can be targeted to a wide range of learners (from individual contributors to senior leadership). We provide the bridge between the competency model and the desired observable behaviors.
For more information visit www.blionline.org/ao or contact Tom Hood tom@blionline.org
Will your firm thrive or just survive? Anticipation - The critical competency...Tom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
Today, the world of professional education, and accordingly the accounting profession, is migrating toward a competencies-based learning approach. But what are the most critical competencies for practitioners and firms to thrive in today’s ever changing, fast paced business environment?
Research from the Business Learning Institute identified the Top 5 Competencies for CPAs, accounting and financial professionals as:
1. Strategic & Critical Thinking
2. Communication
3. Anticipating and serving evolving needs
4. Inspiring and motivating others
5. Collaboration and mobilizing consensus
In addition, research from CPA.COM shows that only 8% of CPAs are future ready. Future Ready is the Is the capacity to be ANTICIPATORY (aware, predictive and adaptive) of emerging technology and trends in business, demographics, and the social environment impacting your organization and industry.
Together this group of skills and competencies have been researched with a leading global futurist who has put together an innovative learning system, the Anticipatory Organization: Accounting and Finance Edition which is being used to transform firm cultures to build and enhance proactive business advisor skills.
Most of us wish we had the power to predict future trends, and would benefit by learning tactics to do so. Daniel Burrus is one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and innovation experts and the featured keynoter speaker at this year’s DCPA16. He is globally recognized for his exceptional 30+ year record of accurately predicting how technological, social, and business forces converge to create untapped opportunities.
Joey Havens, Executive Partner at Horne, LLP (A top 50 CPA Firm) discusses how he has used the Anticipatory Organization as a foundational learning system throughout his firm. He is requiring his whole firm of 400+ professionals to take this and running collaboration sessions by practice areas to create group learning and a shared language around anticipatory thinking that is being applied inside the firm and outside with clients.
This presentation is from the July 20th, 2016 webcast by CPA.COM. CPA.com President and CEO, Erik Asgeirsson as he discusses the critical Anticipatory competency with Daniel Burrus, HORNE LLP executive partner Joey Havens and the CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs and the Business Learning Institute, Tom Hood.
For more information http://www.blionline.org/ao
You will learn:
Why anticipation is the critical competency for today's accounting and finance professionals
The difference between hard trends and soft trends
Why it is important to identify trend types
Use cases of how these skills are being used in the profession
How this learning system can be used as a foundational skill set to help CPAs and accounting professionals be more proactive business advisors.
It May be Time to Reinvent Your Firm - CPAFMA National Practice Management Co...Tom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
The document discusses the need for CPA firms to reinvent themselves through innovation. It notes that while most firms see the need for innovation, few have identified clear innovation priorities or developed an innovative culture. The document provides strategies for firms to develop an innovation mindset, including understanding trends, prioritizing innovation initiatives, and cultivating skills like strategic thinking. It emphasizes that innovation must be a firm-wide, continuous effort to develop new offerings that create value for both existing and new clients.
Recent research says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency--how to accurately anticipate the future. The key to success in this fast-changing environment is to learn how to move from being reactive to proactive and flip from crisis manager to an opportunity manager. Tom will show how to explore new value added services and position their practices for success in a rapidly changing world.
Recent research from the AICPA says that the business environment for CPAs and their clients will be characterized by “unprecedented, massive and highly accelerated change” through 2025. To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency–how to accurately anticipate the future. This session will show how to anticipate these trends and move from being a crisis manager to an opportunity manager. At the end of the session participants will set actionable steps to elevate and accelerate their organization’s strategy.
VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity and describes the fast-arriving future we are living in. This inspirational session will talk about how leadership, culture, and talent management are changing in these exponential times. Participants thru an exercise to leave with a person action plan.
Learning Objective:
Understand emerging trends and issues facing business and CPA Profession.
Learn about how leadership is changing to lead change in rapidly changing times.
Develop an action plan to take back and apply the principles learned.
The #1 reason clients leave their CPAs is that they are receiving service instead of proactive advice. Tom will show how firms are exploring new value added services and position their practices for success in a rapidly changing world. He will discuss the major "shift change" and the trends shaping business today and give participants a framework to provide more proactive services and strategic advice and a plan to get started. But these services require new skills and approaches which is a big opportunity for firm HR and Learning Leaders.
Presentation to AGN International in San Diego #NARM16 for Managing Partners in MAP Track
How to Accelerate Growth, Innovation, and High Performance for CPAs, Account...Tom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
The # 1 challenge facing CPAs, Accounting and Finance Professionals is 'not enough time' who creates the equivalent of a gravitational pull of the past when it comes to changing their mindsets and thinking. How will we go from a historical perspective to a more future-focused, from rearview mirror to windshield and from being reactive to proactive?
Our latest research from the Business Learning Institute sows the critical competencies that will make a difference have not changed in the past seven years. What has changed is the gravitational pull has gotten worse as we enter what Josh Bersin calls the age of the 'overwhelmed employee'.
What we need is a new approach to learning these critical competencies. A blended approach that uses nano-learning nuggets (very short 2-3 minute single-concept videos), rapid application templates to apply each concept to the business, and a series of job aids and performance support tools to turn the learning into immediate on the job application. This is our award-winning Anticipatory Organization learning system by Burrus Research. In about one third of the time as traditional CPE, CPAs and accounting and finance professionals can learn the critical competencies of:
Anticipation; Strategic Thinking; External Awareness; Vision; Continuous Learning; Innovation ;Creativity; Problem Solving; Prioritization; Business Acumen; Decisiveness; Influencing/Persuading; Emotional Intelligence; Consensus Building; Collaboration; Inspiration; Risk Management; and Communication.
The Anticipatory Organization can support an entire cultural shift for an organization or team with the added implementation guide and collaboration tools. See more at http://www.blionline.org/ao
Our new MBA Express is another option to create or add a series of critical success skills to your technical training portfolio in on-site, on-line and on-demand learning formats. http://blionline.org/featured/8-hour-mba/
We believe we need new approaches and new tools to break the pull of the past and the inertia from 'overwhelmed employees'. These exciting new learning formats are one step in this direction.
Accounting Today Editor, Daniel Hood said this after selecting the Anticipatory Organization as a Top Product for 2016 in the Learning Category, “Everyone keeps telling accountants that they need to change their focus from the historic and the backward-looking, and to start being proactive and offering future-focused advice – but no one tells them how. The beauty of the Anticipatory Organization program is that it actually gives you a set of tools to harness the hard trends that are shaping the future, and use them to create new value for your firm and your clients.”
What does innovation look like in a CPA Firm? How are leading CPA firms creating a culture of innovation?
We are in a fast-paced world where growth/change is exponential not incremental. The CPA profession has been late adopters of change and “anticipation” is a missing skill set for many CPAs. We will soon be living in a world where global competition and automation will be performing basic accounting tasks currently being performed in our firms today. Tom Hood, Executive Director of the MACPA will lead a discussion on where accounting firms
fit into a rapidly changing world. Hood, along with Jim Powers, CEO of Crowe Horwath LLP and Bill Balhoff, Managing Director of Postlethwaite & Netterville will explore how firms can maintain their competitive edge through inNEWvation.
The CPA Vision 2011 is the report from the AICPA from a project to create a comprehensive grassroots vision for the future of the CPA Profession. The first profession to ever create a vision for itself. Using a volunteer team of CPAs and State CPA Society executives aided by a team from the AICPA and led by Jeannie Patton in 1997-1998.
MACPA Spring 2016 Professional Issues Update - Business & Industry EditionTom Hood, CPA,CITP,CGMA
What are the latest trends and issues facing the CPA profession? What is the future of finance and accounting in an age of exponential change? What is the future of the profession and what is the MACPA doing about it?
Tom Hood, the second most influential person in the CPA Profession and CEO of the Maryland Association of CPAs attempts to answer these questions and offer his perspective in this special update for MACPA members only focusing on CPAs in business industry, government and NFP.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Tom Hood on the changing landscape of the accounting profession and opportunities for career growth. It notes that technology is driving major changes in the industry, requiring accountants to become more adaptive to emerging trends. However, it also argues that demand for accounting services remains strong, with accounting job growth projected to be faster than average. It encourages embracing digital skills, anticipating changes, collaborating, lifelong learning, and focusing on the future to take advantage of new opportunities in advisory services and leadership roles in the evolving profession.
State of Accounting for Linked-in Influencer Series #MyIndustry
Big Waves of Change, Oceans of Opportunity
These big waves of change are the result of a “perfect storm” of sorts -- the convergence of three “hard trends” of exponential technological innovation, the demographic shift as baby boomers retire, and globalization. Key challenges facing accounting and finance professionals are automation and digital transformation, succession and talent shortages, a “brain drain” as experienced people retire, business model changes, and the increasingly VUCA world (that’s volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) in which we find ourselves.
Several recent studies (from WEF, Oxford, McKinsey and MIT) report that accounting, auditing and tax are among the occupations most at risk for complete automation within the next 20 years.
As a result, the accounting and finance profession is rapidly approaching what Andy Grove, retired CEO of Intel Corporation, described as a “strategic inflection point,” -- “a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change. That change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end.” This is where there are two major pathways: doing business as usual, or embracing and adapting to the new. At the moment these are fairly close together, but they will soon diverge into a growing gap between growth and success, or entropy and decline.
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn
To take advantage of these oceans of opportunity, accounting and finance professionals will need to learn how to ride these big waves or risk being crushed by their frequency and force. The critical thing to know is that what got you here, won’t get you there. Business as usual simply won’t work.
Here are six ways to learn how to ride these big waves of change now and in the future:
1. Embrace digital: Learn how to elevate and accelerate your job using technology and to race with the machines, not against them.
2. Anticipate: Learn the critical competency of anticipation. Only those who constantly try to anticipate change will survive when change happens.
3. Collaborate: The collaboration curve is quickly replacing the experience curve. Who you know is replacing what you know.
4. Learning is the next competitive advantage: As Fast Company editor Robert Safian wrote, “the most important skill is the ability to acquire new skills.”
5. Protect the core: When everything is changing, it is important to know what should not change. Purpose and values for individuals and organizations should serve as that anchor or grounding.
6. Make time for the future. Your time and those of your people will be your number one challenge, and nothing will change if you are overwhelmed and too busy.
The hard trends are forming these big waves of disruption and change. Surf's Up - Are you ready?
What are the Top Competencies (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities) needed by CPAs, Accounting and Finance Professionals today?
The Business Learning Institute shares its latest research and correlates it with other leading global research (Conference Board, AICPA, CGMA, IFAC, CPA Canada, Burrus Research, Bersin by Deloitte). These skills were identified and then surveyed across over 1,000 finance and accounting professionals to identify the top five skills needed today.
In our survey work at the Business Learning Institute (http://www.blionline.org) we found that the top five skills ranked by survey respondents covered 75% or everyone's top five list, providing a great starting point for skills development and targeting in talent development.
1. Strategic and Critical Thinking
2. Communication
3. Anticipating and serving evolving needs
4. Inspiring and motivating others
5. Collaboration and mobilizing consensus
BLI also developed a framework, called The Bounce to describe the career trajectory of today's finance and accounting professional. The Bounce is the natural career trajectory for accounting and finance professionals. It talks about the process of acquiring technical mastery in the early career and beginning to supplement wit the critical skills (competencies) needed for long-term success. BLI has been leading the training and development of accounting and finance with these ‘success skills’ for eighteen years.
The Business Learning Institute (BLI) is the largest talent development and and learning provider to CPAs, accounting and finance professionals in the US. We bring our leading approach to ‘success skills’ and competency-based curriculums to the leading organizations, public companies and CPA firms all over North America.
We tend to think of “innovation” in terms of new technology – gadgets, hardware, new apps, and software. But true innovation more often comes in the form of new business models, workflows, service offerings, and office and staffing patterns. This session will center on those innovations that are significantly impacting our firms and our clients. You never know where innovation might sprout!
This session was produced for the DCPA15 Conference in Las Vegas.
A recent HBR special edition headline said "Got to war for talent", but how. BLI has developed a guidance and a six step process to give you new weapons to win in the war for talent.
Our Magnetic Firm framework outlines the critical elements of a magnetic culture and our six step Talent and Leadership Development framework show you how to develop a winning career and curriculum aligned to your overall firm strategy and objectives.
This presentation was developed and presented for the Digital CPA Conference in December #DCPA15
The Business Learning Institute can help you build your magnetic firm framework and strategic learning plan - contact us at http://www.blionline.org
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providers
MACPA 2013 Innovation Summit - Press Conference
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21. MACPA Innovation Summit
- Innovating the Way Sage Participates
• We recognize cloud and mobility are important advancements that are changing
the way CPAs do business and we are excited to be sharing some of Sage s
latest cloud and mobile solutions at the Innovation Summit.
• However, technology is just one piece of the puzzle. At the end of the day, how
CPAs engage with their clients and the overall value they bring plays an even
more critical role in their success.
• Our involvement in the MACPA Innovation Summit is focused on those two pillars:
engagement and value, and we will be focused on those topics in our booth and
during all of our speaking slots.
• Sage is also proud to be the social media sponsor of the Summit and we ll be
bringing some of Sage s leading social media gurus to engage with attendees
( Tweet Treats are coming to reward some of the most active tweeters at the
conference!). For anyone that isn t up and running yet, we ll be helping get you
there through our two Twitter sessions, Twitter 101 and 201, as well as through
hands-on one-on-one workshops.
• As the profession changes to position themselves for success in the changing
business environment, Sage will ensure we re changing as well to support them
because we truly believe CPAs play an important role in a businesses success.
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on every zone you own. And if you want friends to come
back for more, you’ll definitely make an impact
with services.
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The city’s most visited
commercial junction and
public square.
Jane Smith created the Toronto City Square zone.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013
Bike Event Promo
Toronto City Square
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Toronto City Square
Toronto City Square
Bike Event Promo
A quick video that shows
you clips of performances
and events happening
this summer.
Bike Event Promo
Bike Event Promo Metro Station Finder
City Square
Event Listings
@TorontoSquare @CityTourism Past Events
Movies in the Square City Street Style City Square Dogathon
The city’s most visited
commercial junction and
public square.
Jane Smith created a Video service.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013
Jane Smith created a Twitter service.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013
Jane Smith created a Speed Dial service.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013
Jane Smith created an Album service.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013
Jane Smith created a Website service.
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THE USER EXPERIENCE
TORONTO
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Toronto City Square
Toronto City Square
Bike Event Promo
City Square
Event Listings
CityTourism
Metro Station
Finder
@TorontoSquare
Past Events
Toronto City Square
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35. FEEDBACK AND
ADMINISTRATION VIA THE
MANAGEMENT CONSOLE
3
Zones Friends Messagessearch for your zones, services, and friends...
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ONLINE USERS
TOTAL VIEWS
Activities Reviews
17
4.5 RATING
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Toronto City Square
Bike Event Promo Metro Station Finder
City Square
Event Listings
The city’s most visited
commercial junction and
public square.
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Damyan Petkov launched the Video service.
TODAY | WEDNESDAY MAY 5, 2013
Dianna Chu launched the Twitter service.
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