1. A two-day awareness workshop was held in New Delhi to discuss progress made under the World Bank funded Hydrology Project Phase 2 (HP2) and possibilities for future extensions.
2. Significant progress was presented on developing real-time data acquisition systems for surface water management in various states as well as real-time water quality monitoring in the Ganga basin. Aquifer mapping pilots were also discussed.
3. There was discussion of the need to extend the tools and systems developed under HP2 across India to improve water resources management and reduce disputes. States expressed interest in participating in future phases to develop their own information systems.
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
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- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
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We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
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.
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.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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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.
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This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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And...
Speakers:
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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:
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JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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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.
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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
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The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Monitoring Java Application Security with JDK Tools and JFR Events
Overview of workshop
1. 1
Awareness Workshop on "Integrated Water Resources Management - Applications Developed
under Hydrology Project – II
The meeting was held on 28 and 29 January at the Lalit Hotel, New Delhi and attended by
stakeholders in the World Bank funded Hydrology Project Phase 2 as well as other State agencies
interested in perhaps participating in any future extensions of the Hydrology Project.
The initial session included welcoming addresses from the Ministry of Water Resources and the
World Bank, and outlines of the two day event planned for the participants. The Secretary, MoWR
explained the purpose of the Hydrology Project, and how the objectives aligned with National Water
Policy and the Policy on Data Dissemination, and other initiatives. The World Bank representative
stressed the fundamental nature of the Hydrology Project, stressing that for the Bank water is a
unifying lens for looking at development, and knowledge of water resources is essential to good
management. He further explained that the World Bank is very happy to consider participation in
future phases of this work.
Technical sessions opened with presentations concerning real-time (RT) data acquisition systems – an
area of significant progress made under HP2.
The Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) representative described the extensive system being
installed to support their real-time management system developed through a “Decision Support
System” (DSS) consultancy. He stressed that equivalent systems in the west actually have much more
extensive data acquisition systems to support such sophisticated management, so there is still a lot
that could be done to make further improvements. The benefit of the new system was illustrated by
the management of the flood in 2013 when the Sutlej River carried as much runoff in the year as in
1998 which caused heavy human, livestock and agricultural losses. In 2013 the damage was
negligible. It was also stressed that the RT-DSS models have potential to save lives. With an
illustration of early information of the 2013 Uttarakhand storm which might have allowed
management measures to mitigate actual losses. He also advocated installation of similar systems
elsewhere in India to optimise performance of expensive system assets such as reservoirs.
The Maharashtra Surface Water real-time system was also described, and this also supports a DSS for
improved reservoir operation.
The representative of the Central Pollution Control Board described the real-time water quality
monitoring system (RT-WQMS) established with ten monitoring locations in the Ganga basin. He
started with early attempts to monitor water quality conditions through programmes in 1992-95 and
1998 which though costly, were unsuccessful. This time things are much more promising, and were
briefly demonstrated. The installed RT-WQMS can measure 10 parameters in real time. Two
examples were cited where benefits have already been derived – management of water quality for
the Maha Kumbh Mela at Allahbad. During the Mela paper mills and distilleries were closed in
advance to reduce the level of colour-inducing pollutants in the river which had earlier created
problems. The point was also made about the management of periodically high ammonia levels at the
Wazirabad intake for New Delhi water supply. There were some maintenance issues with the
equipment – algae accumulation on sensors and persistence of foggy days in North India sometimes
meaning solar power top-up of batteries is not sufficient. But these are being addressed with the
suppliers. For future projects, CPCB is considering procuring data rather than equipment to make
sure of supplier involvement in proper maintenance of such systems.
2. 2
In comments following the session, the Chairman, CWC stressed the importance of such real-time
data systems for proper flood management as well as efficient water management.
The post-lunch session on the first day focused on groundwater. A representative of the Central
Groundwater Board (CGWB) gave an overview of the work being undertaken under HP2 on the
“aquifer mapping pilot project”. The project seeks to examine effective ways of developing
information for management of groundwater and mapping of aquifers. The pilots are being carried
out in six zones (each area approximately 500 sq km) across India.
The representative of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) – consultant to CGWB –
explained the geophysical methods being tried and the results obtained in the pilot areas. These
were shown to be detailed images of sub-surface geology through interpretation to provide
seemingly accurate and detailed knowledge of the aquifers largely obtained through heli-borne
survey. He also claimed that the cost – while high – was actually much cheaper than alternative
means of acquiring this information.
The development of data management systems under HP2 was also described by a CGWB
representative. He reported the work to be 70% complete, and will provide a comprehensive data
management and interpretation system for users connected to the data-base through the web – thus
meaning users do not need elaborate software or hardware to make full use of the new system, and
the system can be easily extended to serve all users across India.
Representatives from the US Geological Survey (USGS) contributed their experience in similar aquifer
mapping work and groundwater modelling in the US. The presentations explained what could be
achieved in terms of improving understanding of groundwater systems leading to improved resource
management.
In summary, the Chairman, CGWB welcomed the contributions and discussions but also stressed that
there was no singly universal panacea for these problems – heli-borne surveys, for example, could not
be flown over urbanised or sensitive areas, so need for multi-pronged approaches.
The morning session on the second day had a surface water focus.
Work under HP2 to develop a DSS Planning Tool was explained with reference to the application of
the tool in Kerala. The NIH representative explained the objectives of tool development, while the
Kerala representative provided examples of use of the tools to allow effective interaction with
planners to quantify impact of alternative development strategies. These had led not only to
progressing projects but also to rejecting proposed projects as unlikely to have the benefits being
sought. The use of these tools is now being extended from the pilot basin to the rest of the State,
and all proposed projects will be examined for impact using the software.
A representative of Central Water Commission (CWC) described work under HP2 to develop a web-
based data management system for surface water for all States and central agencies. This software
will update and replace software developed under HP1, but will be centrally managed so users will
not require to manage their own software and hardware for data management, data verification and
data analysis.
Another representative for CWC presented progress on developing hydrological design aids under
HP2. These will allow uniformity of analysis in preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR) for water
resources development projects (which have to be reviewed by CWC) and also allow data used for
DPR preparation too be shared with the reviewer making original analysis as well as checking much
simpler. Development of the HDA tools is well advanced.
3. 3
Chairman CWC added a comment that HDA can be a lot of help to CWC but it will also require a lot of
training to make its use effective. CWC will need training modules to reduce complications in its
working. The experience of USGS can be utilized and attention may be focussed onto web enabled
services through cloud based servers.
A presentation was made by the representative of Himachal Pradesh on the achievements of that
State as a new partner in Hydrology Project 2. He stressed the need for good coordination and high
level support for project implementation, and praised the support and advice provided by Central
Agencies and earlier partners of Hydrology Project in support of the planning and implementation of
the project. One issue flagged for the future was that staff of the line Department (Irrigation and
Public Health Department) were not (in general) interested in posting to the new sections responsible
for operating the networks and data management system developed.
A representative of Karnataka Water Resources Department explained the work they had done under
HP2 to improve real-time delivery of data to their data centre, and how such data were disseminated
and used for prompt response. Web-sites with up-to-date rainfall and reservoir level data were
demonstrated.
A scientist from NIH presented a purpose-driven study undertaken under HP2 to investigate reservoir
sedimentation in the important Bhakra Reservoir on the Sutlej River. He contrasted various methods
of monitoring sediment transport and sedimentation accumulation in the reservoir.
In summarising the session, the Chairman, CWC stated that the outputs of HP2 are changing CWC and
good for the future. A key issue is how the organisation can nurture and replicate the improvements
that have been made. It will be important to extend the impact of the Hydrology Project across all
States in India.
In parallel with the morning session, there was an additional groundwater session to present in detail
the work of the pilot aquifer mapping projects.
The next presentation was on the evolution of the Murray-Darling basin management practices in
Australia since year 1863 onwards with the help of progressive development of important legislation
and policy at critical times (and in response to environmental crisis). Points made included
observations that Australia had similar State / National rules concerning responsibility for water
management, and there were complications arising from water rights being tied to ownership of the
farm land. Allowing these to be de-linked and water rights sold separately introduced water trading
(the buying and selling of tradable water rights) has allowed greater flexibility in water and land
management.
In the afternoon session there was discussion of what is needed after Hydrology Project Phase 2.
A “vision for surface water” was presented for CWC. This included the spread of software tools
developed under HP2 to all States in India, with effective coordination in their use through CWC.
Further perceived needs included standardisation of hydrometric equipment (following use of HP1
and HP2 standardisation of specifications), and integration of databases allowing effective data
dissemination. The potential role of tools to improve reliability of data through appropriate
validation and data sharing might lead to reduction in inter-State water disputes, and management of
resources through river basin approach. A National Water Informatics Centre dealing with
management of the hydrological database was also advocated.
In the “vision for groundwater” presented on behalf of the CGWB the shift from “groundwater
development” to “groundwater management” was underlined. Much of this would be through the
4. 4
NAQUIM programme (being piloted under HP2) developing appropriate information for local
management of groundwater.
The concluding part of the session was an invitation to comment from participants.
Representatives of Jharkhand stressed their keenness with a presentation called Intent of Jharkhand
beyond HP - to participate in any future Hydrology Project programme to develop information
sources to allow them to properly respond to requests for access and use of water resources. They
further requested for all the data by all agencies already involved in HP-II to exchange so that they
can easily join HP-3. The also enquired about funding to execute GW recharge structures in response
the secretary said the fund can be collected from MGNREGA and CGWB can send the design for GW
recharge structures.
The West Bengal representative also expressed a strong desire to participate in future programmes.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Engineer citing the special case of the State asked the central government
to help his state in joining HP-3.
The World Bank Task Leader commented that HP-3 will be a joint decision by all agencies and
government and WB. The Secretary, MoWR in summing up requested those wishing for future phases
of the Hydrology Project to inform in writing the World Bank as well as the Ministry, and also stressed
his opinion that “data sharing is good for us all”.