Here's the updated file we used at the Maine meeting on June 23rd in Maine. We swapped the history and the district model guidelines, and cut some wordy slides.
Leading a Toastmasters club using a process oriented approachKumar Kolaganti
Leadership and Management skills are essential for running any organization, big or small, for-profit or not-for-profit. While Leadership skills focus on your soft-skills so you know how to figure out the right thing to do, management skills are more tactical and focus on how to do it right. With just leadership skills, you will figure out the right thing to do. With just management skills, you will learn how to do anything right. Every club officer must have both these type of skills in order to be successful. With both the leadership skills and management skills, you are ready to do the right thing in the right manner.
One of the important management skills is operations management that deals with processes in an organization. To run the club operations, methodically, smoothly and in an efficient manner, it is important to get our “act” (processes) together.
This presentation outlines what is a process and how using processes can potentially benefit a Toastmasters club’s execution of activities.
Contact me if you need an editable PPTX file.
The Rotary Alumni Global Service Award and Rotary Alumni Association of the Year Award are opportunities to recognize outstanding past participants in Rotary’s programs and scholarships. This webinar will allow you to learn about the criteria for each award and about the nomination process and timeline for 2018-19. District alumni chairs and regional Rotary Foundation coordinators, especially, will learn about their important roles in the nomination process.
Introducing OC Esports, The Next Generation Competitive Overclocking PlatformHWBOT
Introducting OC Esports (http://oc-esports.io), a new platform for competitive overclocking by the HWBOT team. This new platform brings overclocking to the next level by establishing the first concept of OC Season and an all-encompassing structure for online and live competitions.
In-bounds, out-bounds, orientation — oh my! This
presentation for new district chairs and club officers serves
as a great introduction and overview of administering Rotary Youth Exchange programs.
Rick Istead
D5360, Canada
Short-term exchanges have been growing in popularity
over the last several years. Learn more about how
these flexible, diverse, and fun programs can provide
unique opportunities to Youth Exchange programs in your
area.
Alonso Campoi
D4510, Brazil
Lebanon Racing Club - Business Management Senior Project Sandro Eid
The opening of our Business Management senior project's front pages - "Lebanon Racing Club", completed in June 2016 and consisting of an introduction, index, and abstract.
Credit: Sandro Eid
Samer Abou Saad
Khaled Sayegh
Reach out to more than 1500 participants and 150,000 employees across India through the 6th Edition of the Corporate SoccerFest to be held in June-July 2009 in Bombay, Delhi, Hydrebad, Calcutta, Banglore & Pune.
360 degree promotions will ensure an additional reach of 200,000 people across India.
Great marketing opportunity through a very popular sport organized in an unique and professional way.
Are you a Rotary or Rotaract Club interesting in forming an international partnership? Here's a guide on finding clubs available to partner with, and the steps needed for successful partnership.
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.
Leading a Toastmasters club using a process oriented approachKumar Kolaganti
Leadership and Management skills are essential for running any organization, big or small, for-profit or not-for-profit. While Leadership skills focus on your soft-skills so you know how to figure out the right thing to do, management skills are more tactical and focus on how to do it right. With just leadership skills, you will figure out the right thing to do. With just management skills, you will learn how to do anything right. Every club officer must have both these type of skills in order to be successful. With both the leadership skills and management skills, you are ready to do the right thing in the right manner.
One of the important management skills is operations management that deals with processes in an organization. To run the club operations, methodically, smoothly and in an efficient manner, it is important to get our “act” (processes) together.
This presentation outlines what is a process and how using processes can potentially benefit a Toastmasters club’s execution of activities.
Contact me if you need an editable PPTX file.
The Rotary Alumni Global Service Award and Rotary Alumni Association of the Year Award are opportunities to recognize outstanding past participants in Rotary’s programs and scholarships. This webinar will allow you to learn about the criteria for each award and about the nomination process and timeline for 2018-19. District alumni chairs and regional Rotary Foundation coordinators, especially, will learn about their important roles in the nomination process.
Introducing OC Esports, The Next Generation Competitive Overclocking PlatformHWBOT
Introducting OC Esports (http://oc-esports.io), a new platform for competitive overclocking by the HWBOT team. This new platform brings overclocking to the next level by establishing the first concept of OC Season and an all-encompassing structure for online and live competitions.
In-bounds, out-bounds, orientation — oh my! This
presentation for new district chairs and club officers serves
as a great introduction and overview of administering Rotary Youth Exchange programs.
Rick Istead
D5360, Canada
Short-term exchanges have been growing in popularity
over the last several years. Learn more about how
these flexible, diverse, and fun programs can provide
unique opportunities to Youth Exchange programs in your
area.
Alonso Campoi
D4510, Brazil
Lebanon Racing Club - Business Management Senior Project Sandro Eid
The opening of our Business Management senior project's front pages - "Lebanon Racing Club", completed in June 2016 and consisting of an introduction, index, and abstract.
Credit: Sandro Eid
Samer Abou Saad
Khaled Sayegh
Reach out to more than 1500 participants and 150,000 employees across India through the 6th Edition of the Corporate SoccerFest to be held in June-July 2009 in Bombay, Delhi, Hydrebad, Calcutta, Banglore & Pune.
360 degree promotions will ensure an additional reach of 200,000 people across India.
Great marketing opportunity through a very popular sport organized in an unique and professional way.
Are you a Rotary or Rotaract Club interesting in forming an international partnership? Here's a guide on finding clubs available to partner with, and the steps needed for successful partnership.
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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/
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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
2. Agenda
∆ Introduction
∆ FIRST’s plan for transition
∆ Where does NE fit in?
∆ Questions and Concerns
∆ How to we use this to make NE
better?
∆ Moving forward
3. Town Hall Meetings
∆ Rules:
o No judging
o All comments and ideas are valued
o Remember FIRST values: Gracious Professionalism
Date Location Status
6/16/12 Middletown, RI Completed
6/23/12 Falmouth, ME Completed
7/21/12 New Britain, CT In-process
August 2012 Boston, MA In-process
Summer / Fall 2012 Worcester, MA Planned
Summer / Fall 2012 NH/ VT Planned
4. What is the District Model?
FRC District
Qualifying Qualifying
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship
∆ Replacement of current “Regional” events with
Qualifying Events and District Championship Event
∆ Advance from Qualifying Events to District
Championship Event to World Championship
6. What is the District Model?
2012 FRC Season
FRC Regionals
(US - 47 / Int’l - 5) Qualify, Register, or Wait List
FIRST in Michigan (FiM)
District State
Events Championship
(9) Qualify (1) Qualify
FIRST
Championship
Mid-Atlantic Robotics (MAR)
District District
Events Championship
(5) Qualify (1) Qualify
6
7. What is the District Model?
Even More Future FRC Seasons
FRC District
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship Qualify
FRC District
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship Qualify
FIRST
FRC District Championship
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship Qualify
FRC District
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship Qualify
7
8. What is the District Model?
Future FRC Season Growth
FRC District
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship
Super Regional
FRC District Championship
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship
FIRST
FRC District Championship
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship
Super Regional
Championship
FRC District
District
Qualifying District
Events
Events Championship
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9. What would a district model look like?
District Events District Championship
∆ $6500 for rookies, $5000 ∆ $4000 for event
for veterans ∆ Top X teams qualify
∆ Two district events ∆ Awards at districts allow
included you to compete at the
DCMP for the award,
∆ Additional events in even if robot does not
district for $X qualify
∆ Points accrue in two ∆ 30 teams advance to FRC
events for: Championship
o Qualifying Match o 5 Chairman's Award
Performance o 3 DCMP Winners
o Elimination Match o 1 / 2 Rookie All Star
Performance o 1 Engineering Inspiration
o Awards o Remainder recalculated
with DCMP Performance
10. Why District Model?
∆ Status quo in FRC business planning of adding 3 to 5 new FRC Regional
events each year is unsustainable
∆ Lower FRC event and FRC team costs
∆ Make the FRC Program delivery more efficient and effective
∆ Easier, less stressful for volunteers (especially FRC team mentors)
supporting the FRC Competition events with fewer competition days (2 vs. 3)
and more local travel
∆ Maintain FRC as a financially viable FIRST Program
∆ Cost effective, scalable FRC Competition event structure more consistent
with other FIRST Program competition event structures
∆ Quality remains high and very little change observed
o Two biggest cost savings
Lower venue cost
Lower production (A/V) cost, same number of screens
o Same size pits
o Same exact FRC field
o Practice field
o No change in rules
o No change in awards/medals
11. Why District Model?
FIRST’s Roll-Out Plan
Strategic Vision
Transition the current FRC Competition Event structure from a mix of
Traditional FRC Regional events, Flex events, and a District/State
Championship pilot to a structure consisting of only District Events,
leading to a State or Region Championship, within the next 4 years (FY
2012 – FY 2015) or sooner in states and/or regions, when and where it is
appropriate to convert to a District Event structure without breaking the
current FRC Competition Event structure.
Objectives
∆ 45 to 50 State and/or Region Championships with the appropriate number of district events, as
determined locally to support current FRC teams and future FRC team growth
∆ Cost effective, scalable FRC Competition structure
∆ Maintain FRC as a financially viable FIRST Program
∆ Provide the opportunity for more students to participate in the FRC Program
∆ Provide more robot play time while driving the overall cost to get in the game down
∆ Offer a cost effective, high quality FIRST experience for the FRC Competition event
∆ Ensure fairness for all FRC team participants
∆ Integral part of an overall scalable FIRST Programs Competition Event structure to carry FRC into
the future
∆ Easier, less stressful for volunteers supporting the FRC Competition events, while training FRC
volunteers to take on more local ownership, planning, and execution of FRC Competition events
12. Where does NE fit in? (The Past)
∆ Nov 2011: Introductory Meeting with FIRST HQ & NE
Mentors, Volunteers, and Key Players
∆ Jan – May 2012:
o NE FIRST Committee formed, split into two subcommittees
(Field Ops and Organization)
o Organization: Filed for non-profit status
o Field Ops: Brainstormed on how to improve Rules
Supplemental
o Organization-wide
Launched nefirst.org
Met with other district committees in process
Reviewed all documentation from FiM and MAR
Interviewed FiM and MAR mentors, students, and volunteers
Created simulations to predict effects of districts in NE
13. Where does NE fit in?
The Present The Future
∆ Town Hall Meetings ∆ Year 0
∆ Meetings with sponsors o Scout sites
∆ Agree as a committee o Pick committees for
District Events
to the district format for
o Pick committee for
New England District Championship
∆ Reroute regional ∆ Year 1
fundraising through NE o Roll out the District
FIRST Model in New England
o Reiterate and Evaluate
as necessary
14. Questions and Concerns
∆ “Fundraising and securing travel in such a short
window is expensive and a hassle.”
∆ “I don’t want to play the same teams over and over”
∆ “We really enjoy traveling to other regions and don’t
want to have to give it up”
∆ “I feel like the excitement of FIRST will be smaller if we
go to districts”
∆ “I’m scared that we won’t be able to reach as many
students if we move to a district model.”
15. How can NE benefit from districts?
∆ More matches, more matches, more matches
∆ Less vacation days
∆ Centralized organization to assist in:
o Fundraising
o Travel Reservations
o Growth and Sustainability
∆ Qualification is based on merit
∆ Greater sense of community
o More affordable for teams: lower cost (2 district events for same FRC registration)
Lower threshold for new teams
Make it more sustainable for returning teams
o More accessible: more events/closer to home (multiple FRC events across region)
Reduced travel costs
Improves access to local FRC competitions for families, schools, local government,
businesses and media
o More rewarding & more ROI: play more (2 events/team, 10 – 12 rounds/event)
Allow teams to fix technical problems and continue playing
17. NE FIRST’s Promises
∆ We will work in the best interest of the teams.
∆ We will keep everyone informed and involved.
∆ We will treat everyone with Gracious
Professionalism.
∆ We will consider every idea.
∆ We will evaluate and iterate.
∆ We will do everything we can to create the
best environment for our students to succeed.
18. Moving Forward
∆ Email
o jboucher@nefirst.org, msperber@nefirst.org
∆ Web
o www.nefirst.org
∆ Social Media
o Twitter, Facebook, etc – see nefirst.org for links