This document summarizes a summit for senior leaders on advancing women in technology careers. The summit aims to have leaders hear from thought leaders on the top issues affecting women, learn how to enact change, and set goals to champion progress. Speakers will discuss the gaps in women pursuing technical careers and the "leaky pipeline" problem, unconscious bias and how it can be addressed, and the "Missing 33%" of women in higher levels of leadership. The event aims to have attendees set personal, company, and industry-wide goals to help close the gender gap through awareness and action.
We know culture plays a key role in any organization. What role does it play in healthcare? Not speaking up and being safe is a significant issue for safe patient care. This presentation outlines why.
Slides from the talk that Helen Bevan gave at London Women's Leadership Network on 8th March 2017 on the occasion of International Women's Day #womenlead
Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce in a Customer Service Environment - S...Adecco Staffing, USA
This is the powerpoint deck for our September 2014 webinar. To view the webinar on demand, navigate to: http://www.slideshare.net/AdeccoUSA/webinar-managing-a-multigenerational-workforce-in-customer-service
Managing multiple generations in the workplace is no easy task; add a customer service environment to the mix and you've definitely got your work cut out for you.
Watch our webinar to get expert advice and tips for how to manage all the generations in the world of fast-paced customer service.
Our webinar features industry leaders Bruce Tulgan, Lauren Griffin, Wendy Slayton, and Kristen Leverone.
We know culture plays a key role in any organization. What role does it play in healthcare? Not speaking up and being safe is a significant issue for safe patient care. This presentation outlines why.
Slides from the talk that Helen Bevan gave at London Women's Leadership Network on 8th March 2017 on the occasion of International Women's Day #womenlead
Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce in a Customer Service Environment - S...Adecco Staffing, USA
This is the powerpoint deck for our September 2014 webinar. To view the webinar on demand, navigate to: http://www.slideshare.net/AdeccoUSA/webinar-managing-a-multigenerational-workforce-in-customer-service
Managing multiple generations in the workplace is no easy task; add a customer service environment to the mix and you've definitely got your work cut out for you.
Watch our webinar to get expert advice and tips for how to manage all the generations in the world of fast-paced customer service.
Our webinar features industry leaders Bruce Tulgan, Lauren Griffin, Wendy Slayton, and Kristen Leverone.
Leading Learning in VUCA Times: How Does a Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguo...Human Capital Media
Join Sean Kavanagh, CEO of the Ariel Group, as he shares findings and recommendations from an industry study that explores the changing face of learning strategy. Given a 24/7, global, technology-infused, ever-changing business context, this study asks some hard questions: Are we lowering our standards by leveraging technology to teach things like communication and leadership? How do we create good learning in a cross-generational environment where millennials and boomers co-exist but many not always cohabitate well? Do we need to integrate learning fully into workflow, so that it is less time away from the daily happenings of the job?
Building and Managing a Successful TeamPaul Mueller
This workshop discusses many aspects of leadership and management, from building a strong team through team/career and project management. In the beginning we discuss various leadership topics, such as team dynamics and decision types.
I was privileged to be a senior leader in the product development team at Spotify from 2013 until 2016. I joined the company right after the adoption of the now well-known "Spotify Model." As a Tribe Lead and then Alliance Lead, I helped in the models' evolution as the company grew to over 800 developers across five offices on two continents.
My time at Spotify was instructive in many ways, and since leaving, I have adopted the lessons I learned as a CTO in multiple companies.
While the squads/chapters/tribes/guilds model as a method for scaling agile development is what people focus on, the ideas and values that inspired that model are valuable and applicable across a wide range of organizations.
I share those ideas and values in this talk—their application at Spotify and how I have applied them in different organizations since.
Becoming an Agile Manager (bay scrum, 10.24.13)Ron Lichty
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of leading agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
The Key to Great Teams: Understanding the Human Operating SystemAtlassian
How do organizations become adaptive, agile, and resilient? What fosters trust and makes people feel safe to speak their minds? Stefan Knecht from it-economics – a 2016 Best Workplaces in Germany award recipient – say the master key lies in a social operating system used for over 300,000 years: the human operating system (OS H). Recent findings from behavioral, cognitive, and organizational sciences help us understand parts of this system – like what makes humans tick and how groups successfully form and perform. This talk will explain the idea behind OS H and teach you how you can employ the concept in your own organization to build trust, resiliency, adaptivity, etc. Come away with a solid understanding of social needs and the company dynamics you can help create to meet these needs. Even the best tools and technology will only get you part of the way to building world-class teams.
Stefan Knecht, Manager, it-economics GmbH
12 Take Aways - Managing the UnmanageableRon Lichty
Twelve Take Aways: Managing the Unmanageable. We'll look at 12 best practices that make programming managers great but take most managers years to discover. Expect an interactive session.
About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either.
About half of managers never get any training in managing. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some general management training. But little to none of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams.
The struggle to manage programmers and programming teams motivated years of weekend breakfasts for Ron and Mickey, during which they traded insights - on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - the kinds of stuff they’d wished they'd had when they started managing.
Sharing insights and best practices with each other for a decade led them to realize they wanted to share what they had learned. And that led to spending eight years of free time writing their Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. To their own hard-won experience, they added the best of the treasure troves they'd each collected of rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom from their peers and programming manager thought leaders around the world.
Reviewers have repeatedly compared Managing the Unmanageable to The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the classics on software development challenges.
About Ron:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in managing software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A | Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, MediaBrands, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams.
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last 5 years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew to VP Eng, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VPE roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty
These are the slides (including the exercises) from a 1-day workshop I designed, which covered a range of skills and tools to help managers cope with an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
The new era of change and transformationHelen Bevan
The slides that Helen Bevan presented at #LIIPSforum2016 25th November 2016. The event is organised by the Leicestershire Improvement, Innovation and Patient Safety Unit of the University of Leicester
Keynote address for #SGZA 2015 "Unlikely Heroes"
Can Agility Change the World? Bridging the Digital Divide with Agile Training
At codeX we’re developing a breakthrough education model to address the skills shortage and the digital divide, using our experience training agile teams.
We believe in changing the future, and this is a story about what we’ve learnt about agility, diversity and making real change.
Evaluation pal program monitoring and evaluation technologyCesToronto
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will discuss his work to develop an automated program monitoring and evaluation technology, called Evaluation Pal. He launched Evaluation Pal in 2011, then in 2012, pilot tested it for an evaluation of the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition which was submitted to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Soon after, MaRS' Social Innovation Generation accepted it into their incubator program.
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will provide a tour of the tool, and use the Green Infrastructure Ontario case study to demonstrate how automated data collection can be used in the program evaluation process. This presentation will also provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using technology to aid program evaluation.
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12Ron Lichty
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Strength in Numbers: Improving from the Bottom-UpKaiNexus
A webinar by Mark Graban - July 27, 2017
Amongst other topics:
In this webinar, you'll learn:
Where your best ideas for improvement come from
Why bottom-up improvement is a critical component of an improvement culture
The ROI of engaging everyone in improvement
How to engage more staff in improvement
How to keep up with all of those new ideas
"People over Process" slides that are about coming back to the heart of Agile: People!
Intro - People over Process.
Agile = Culture. Whole Agile.
Focus on People: Vulnerability, Authentic Connection, Safety & Trust (VAST)
People-centric organizations (Laloux Culture Model)
People-centric Change
We’re In a Leadership Development Crisis – Now What?
According to the 2015 annual survey by Deloitte, only 18 percent of organizations hold their leaders accountable for identifying and developing successors. Does this ring true with your organization? In this upcoming spotlight webinar, Howard Prager, president of Advance Learning Group, will share what learning leaders can do to make impactful succession planning programs and where dollars should be invested to achieve the greatest return.
During this spotlight webinar attendee will hear:
What the problem is with leadership development.
Where you can get the biggest bang for your investment growing your leaders.
What the best organizations do to deliver effective leadership development.
How you can grow your talent to be the leaders your organization needs.
Human connectedness and meaningful conversations - how coaching boosts the su...Greatness Coaching
8 traits of a coach/leader enabling inclusion, diversity, agility and collaboration:
1. Authentic and humble
2. Holistic listener
3. Learner of the leader’s Greatness
4. Non-judgmental thinking-partner
5. Comfortable with not knowing, with failure, trusting process
6. Empathetic, yet detached from outcome
7. Courageous feedback-provider
8. Supportive challenger
Gender balance on Boards. Is it Different for Girls?Jane Wilson
Evidence is increasingly showing that a gender balanced Board is more effective and that the Woman Effect has a positive impact on profit. What is the current problem wth Boards, and how can prospective Board members and organisations change this imbalance at the top?
If organizations are serious about retaining and growing their female talent, it’s about more than offering flexible work solutions. Clearbird Coaching will discuss whether the traditional linear career model is the only way for females to progress and whether companies are ready for the culture shift around leadership traits and capabilities.
In this webinar, you’ll learn what’s really happening for women in the mid-career phase and what organizations can do to help their female talent to continue to navigate their career forward.
Leading Learning in VUCA Times: How Does a Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguo...Human Capital Media
Join Sean Kavanagh, CEO of the Ariel Group, as he shares findings and recommendations from an industry study that explores the changing face of learning strategy. Given a 24/7, global, technology-infused, ever-changing business context, this study asks some hard questions: Are we lowering our standards by leveraging technology to teach things like communication and leadership? How do we create good learning in a cross-generational environment where millennials and boomers co-exist but many not always cohabitate well? Do we need to integrate learning fully into workflow, so that it is less time away from the daily happenings of the job?
Building and Managing a Successful TeamPaul Mueller
This workshop discusses many aspects of leadership and management, from building a strong team through team/career and project management. In the beginning we discuss various leadership topics, such as team dynamics and decision types.
I was privileged to be a senior leader in the product development team at Spotify from 2013 until 2016. I joined the company right after the adoption of the now well-known "Spotify Model." As a Tribe Lead and then Alliance Lead, I helped in the models' evolution as the company grew to over 800 developers across five offices on two continents.
My time at Spotify was instructive in many ways, and since leaving, I have adopted the lessons I learned as a CTO in multiple companies.
While the squads/chapters/tribes/guilds model as a method for scaling agile development is what people focus on, the ideas and values that inspired that model are valuable and applicable across a wide range of organizations.
I share those ideas and values in this talk—their application at Spotify and how I have applied them in different organizations since.
Becoming an Agile Manager (bay scrum, 10.24.13)Ron Lichty
A common misconception about agile is that managers are unnecessary. After all, agile is based on self-organizing teams. If the teams organize themselves, what do managers do?
Unfortunately, most scrum training plays into that. Think about it: how many trainers or coaches have you seen sketch the structure of a scrum team with a drawing that includes a manager? While there's always a scrum master and a product owner, the core team and maybe some stakeholders, have you ever seen a manager in that drawing?
This misconception can be a problem all around: A frequently cited barrier to agile adoption is managers who don't know what to do when their teams become self-managing. When they're not included in training, how would they (or anyone else, for that matter) know how to characterize their role. At the same time, organizations often lay down expectations of managers, some compatible with agile, some not.
Agile has clearly shifted the old roles and responsibilities. Managers bent on command-and-control are clearly a barrier to agile adoption. But managers who take a hands-off approach or are treading water in a sea of ambiguity will almost certainly stymie adoption, as well.
Ron Lichty believes (and so do a lot of leading agile thought leaders) that managers have critical roles to play in enabling success, both of transitions to agile and of agile itself. This session is about those roles.
The Key to Great Teams: Understanding the Human Operating SystemAtlassian
How do organizations become adaptive, agile, and resilient? What fosters trust and makes people feel safe to speak their minds? Stefan Knecht from it-economics – a 2016 Best Workplaces in Germany award recipient – say the master key lies in a social operating system used for over 300,000 years: the human operating system (OS H). Recent findings from behavioral, cognitive, and organizational sciences help us understand parts of this system – like what makes humans tick and how groups successfully form and perform. This talk will explain the idea behind OS H and teach you how you can employ the concept in your own organization to build trust, resiliency, adaptivity, etc. Come away with a solid understanding of social needs and the company dynamics you can help create to meet these needs. Even the best tools and technology will only get you part of the way to building world-class teams.
Stefan Knecht, Manager, it-economics GmbH
12 Take Aways - Managing the UnmanageableRon Lichty
Twelve Take Aways: Managing the Unmanageable. We'll look at 12 best practices that make programming managers great but take most managers years to discover. Expect an interactive session.
About 95 percent of programming managers had no management training before being tapped to manage. Ron Lichty and his co-author Mickey W. Mantle, both former programmers, didn't either.
About half of managers never get any training in managing. Ron and Mickey were lucky enough to work for companies like Apple and Pixar that provided some general management training. But little to none of it was specific to managing programmers, or to managing programming teams.
The struggle to manage programmers and programming teams motivated years of weekend breakfasts for Ron and Mickey, during which they traded insights - on the challenges they faced - and solutions they had used and seen - the kinds of stuff they’d wished they'd had when they started managing.
Sharing insights and best practices with each other for a decade led them to realize they wanted to share what they had learned. And that led to spending eight years of free time writing their Addison Wesley book, Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams, http://www.ManagingTheUnmanageable.net. To their own hard-won experience, they added the best of the treasure troves they'd each collected of rules of thumb and nuggets of wisdom from their peers and programming manager thought leaders around the world.
Reviewers have repeatedly compared Managing the Unmanageable to The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware, the classics on software development challenges.
About Ron:
Ron Lichty has been managing and, more recently, consulting in managing software development and product organizations for over 25 years at companies like Apple Computer, Fujitsu, Charles Schwab, Avenue A | Razorfish, Forensic Logic, Stanford, Check Point, MediaBrands, and dozens of startups of all sizes. Before that, as a programmer, he coded compiler code generators, was awarded patents for compression and security algorithms he designed and coded for embedded microcontroller devices, wrote two widely used programming texts, and developed the computer animation demo that Apple used to launch and sell a next-generation line of PCs. He has mostly managed development teams and organizations, but also product managers, project managers, testers, designers, … pretty much everyone on product teams.
The primary focus of his consulting practice, these last 5 years, has mirrored what he did as a manager: untangling the knots in software development. His career grew to VP Eng, VP Product and CTO roles.
As Ron Lichty Consulting, he takes on fractional Interim VPE roles, trains teams in scrum, transitions teams to agile, trains managers in managing software people and teams, and advises organizations and coaches teams to make their software development “hum.” http://www.ronlichty
These are the slides (including the exercises) from a 1-day workshop I designed, which covered a range of skills and tools to help managers cope with an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
The new era of change and transformationHelen Bevan
The slides that Helen Bevan presented at #LIIPSforum2016 25th November 2016. The event is organised by the Leicestershire Improvement, Innovation and Patient Safety Unit of the University of Leicester
Keynote address for #SGZA 2015 "Unlikely Heroes"
Can Agility Change the World? Bridging the Digital Divide with Agile Training
At codeX we’re developing a breakthrough education model to address the skills shortage and the digital divide, using our experience training agile teams.
We believe in changing the future, and this is a story about what we’ve learnt about agility, diversity and making real change.
Evaluation pal program monitoring and evaluation technologyCesToronto
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will discuss his work to develop an automated program monitoring and evaluation technology, called Evaluation Pal. He launched Evaluation Pal in 2011, then in 2012, pilot tested it for an evaluation of the Green Infrastructure Ontario Coalition which was submitted to the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Soon after, MaRS' Social Innovation Generation accepted it into their incubator program.
In this session, Dr. Cugelman will provide a tour of the tool, and use the Green Infrastructure Ontario case study to demonstrate how automated data collection can be used in the program evaluation process. This presentation will also provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities of using technology to aid program evaluation.
AIPMM talk - chaos to clarity: managing the unmanageable, ron lichty, 12.7.12Ron Lichty
Good software management:
⁃ How to recognize it when you see it
⁃ How to encourage it
⁃ How to encourage senior management to encourage it
⁃ How to collaborate with it effectively
What does good software development management look like?
How do good programming managers motivate their teams?
What are programming managers bedeviled by?
How are programming managers tormented by product managers?
What are the forces that cause discord between product and software development managers?
What can be done about feature creep and late changing requirements?
Why do so many parts of organizations expect feature requirements to change but not delivery schedules?
What are objectives shared between programming managers and product managers that could encourage collaboration?
What would happen if programming managers and product managers formed mutual admiration societies with each other?
Strength in Numbers: Improving from the Bottom-UpKaiNexus
A webinar by Mark Graban - July 27, 2017
Amongst other topics:
In this webinar, you'll learn:
Where your best ideas for improvement come from
Why bottom-up improvement is a critical component of an improvement culture
The ROI of engaging everyone in improvement
How to engage more staff in improvement
How to keep up with all of those new ideas
"People over Process" slides that are about coming back to the heart of Agile: People!
Intro - People over Process.
Agile = Culture. Whole Agile.
Focus on People: Vulnerability, Authentic Connection, Safety & Trust (VAST)
People-centric organizations (Laloux Culture Model)
People-centric Change
We’re In a Leadership Development Crisis – Now What?
According to the 2015 annual survey by Deloitte, only 18 percent of organizations hold their leaders accountable for identifying and developing successors. Does this ring true with your organization? In this upcoming spotlight webinar, Howard Prager, president of Advance Learning Group, will share what learning leaders can do to make impactful succession planning programs and where dollars should be invested to achieve the greatest return.
During this spotlight webinar attendee will hear:
What the problem is with leadership development.
Where you can get the biggest bang for your investment growing your leaders.
What the best organizations do to deliver effective leadership development.
How you can grow your talent to be the leaders your organization needs.
Human connectedness and meaningful conversations - how coaching boosts the su...Greatness Coaching
8 traits of a coach/leader enabling inclusion, diversity, agility and collaboration:
1. Authentic and humble
2. Holistic listener
3. Learner of the leader’s Greatness
4. Non-judgmental thinking-partner
5. Comfortable with not knowing, with failure, trusting process
6. Empathetic, yet detached from outcome
7. Courageous feedback-provider
8. Supportive challenger
Gender balance on Boards. Is it Different for Girls?Jane Wilson
Evidence is increasingly showing that a gender balanced Board is more effective and that the Woman Effect has a positive impact on profit. What is the current problem wth Boards, and how can prospective Board members and organisations change this imbalance at the top?
If organizations are serious about retaining and growing their female talent, it’s about more than offering flexible work solutions. Clearbird Coaching will discuss whether the traditional linear career model is the only way for females to progress and whether companies are ready for the culture shift around leadership traits and capabilities.
In this webinar, you’ll learn what’s really happening for women in the mid-career phase and what organizations can do to help their female talent to continue to navigate their career forward.
Leadership is no longer a top-down intervention but a working culture that businesses must adopt to flourish. With a potential shortage of 40 million high-skilled workers by 2020 (Mckinsey, June 2012), increasing competition for top talent and a growing crisis regarding the lack of future leaders, it’s time to take hold of the leadership crisis. This presentation from LEO's Chief Strategy Officer Piers Lea covers:
-The challenges of leadership within today’s diverse workplace
-Benefits of growing leadership skills throughout an organisation
-What technology enabled leadership development looks like
-The large scale blend that can make it happen
-The power of accreditation and external/ industry thought leadership
Systemic Changes to Address Biases in Performance Management - Dave D'Oyen (S...SocialHRCamp
9 in 10 Human Resources leaders believe performance reviews do not provide accurate information. This statistic is as worrying as the minority of men and women – 24% and 15% respectively – who had confidence in the performance review process. The very construct of performance reviews leaves great room for biases to be activated that have a detrimental effect on Black employees and women – it limits their opportunities for advancement. In this session, I will share systemic changes that make the process fairer and hopefully restore the confidence being lost by human resources practitioners and employees.
The importance of women in organizational effectiveness cannot be overemphasised. Nonetheless, women are underrepresented in senior leadership positions in business today. Therefore, it is critical that you begin questioning and shifting the culture to ensure that your executive teams include women who can make critical decisions.
What role does your company's culture play in ensuring women succeed and grow in their positions? What are the most critical leadership skills for the next generation of female leaders?
In this deck, you'll find insights and actionable strategies to keep your organisational female leadership pipeline strong.
You will also learn:
• How to create a culture conducive to female retention and leadership
• How your company and its culture can empower women
• The most essential leadership competencies for emerging female leaders
• Unique and effective approach to women's leadership development
Session 4 Benefits and limitations of mentoring programs: AWARDCGIAR
The purpose of the Diversity and Inclusion Conference is to draw attention to the areas where there is still room for improvement with respect to (gender) diversity and inclusion, and to find ways together to work on these improvements both in research and in the workplace.
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Your Digital Identity Travels With You in Web3 Sandy Carter
Your identity travels with you….it is your wallet, your healthcare data, your education records, KYC and more. In the future digital identity is going to become much more important than it is today. It will be used in all sorts of apps we can’t even imagine now. It’s extremely important this ownership rights power is in the hands of users and not in the hands of governments or corporations.
Tips for women and girls on their Tech Careers -- with stories from Lowe's, PointSource, Girls Who Code, WITI, Prudential, Flatiron School, Barbarian Group, Social Media Today, Achieve Institute, and more!
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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.
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing Days
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Sandy Carter
General Manager, Cloud Ecosystem
and Developers
IBM Corporation
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WHY A SENIOR LEADERSHIP SUMMIT?
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Hear about the Top 3 topics affecting women in
the industry today
Learn from Thought Leaders and Experts
Engage and take action on the opportunity for
change
Execute – goals for yourself, for your company,
and for PBWC
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ACTION ORIENTED
Little progress in women’s progression in 20 years
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• Over 50% drop in the number of
Women in Technical curriculum
• Unconscious Bias can affect hiring,
evaluations and promotions
• 33% Gap - Are women being
mentored in an incomplete way?
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ENGAGE AND TAKE ACTION
• 1 Personal Goal
• 1 Goal for you to Champion
at your Company
• 1 Goal for PBWC to drive
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AGENDA
TED-type talks followed by table discussion and actions
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2:40 pm:
3:25 pm:
4:10 pm:
Gaps in Women / Girls in Technology
Elizabeth Caudle, East Coast Regional Director, Girls Who Code
The Unconscious Bias
Shariq Yosufzai, VP, Global Diversity, Chevron Corporation
The Missing 33%
Usha Pillai Wade, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, Leading Women
4:50 pm: Inspirational Address
Kevin Hall, Best Selling Author, Speaker, Coach & Business Consultant
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Gaps in Women/Girls in Technology
Elizabeth Caudle
East Coast Regional Director
Girls Who Code
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Getting Girls Interested in Tech
• Update CS Curriculum
• Expose girls to CS from a young age
• Build a community of young women
interested in tech
• Normalize women as tech professionals in the
media
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Retaining Women in Tech
• Build communities of women in technical
careers
• Engage male allies
• Develop a culture of mentorship and
sponsorship
• Highlight the contributions of female
contributions to tech
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A Thought Experiment
Q: Are these table tops the same size and shape?
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A: Yes
This illusion was created by Roger Shepard, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University
Your brain cannot always be trusted to tell the truth.
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What is Unconscious Bias?
Unconscious bias refers to errors in judgment that cause people to make choices
that unwittingly favor one group over another.
Unconscious Bias:
• is a normal part of decision-making
• is created and reinforced by our environments and experiences
• is how our unconscious minds fills in gaps when faced with incomplete data
• often occurs when decisions are being made quickly, with too much
information to process thoroughly
• can influence everything from product decisions to interactions between
coworkers
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Impacts of Unconscious Bias
• We must learn how unconscious bias can affect our perceptions, decisions,
and interactions
• Areas where unconscious bias can play an important role:
- Hiring
- Performance evaluations
- Promotions
• We must raise awareness about unconscious bias and take action to reduce it
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Case Study: Unconscious Bias in Orchestral Auditions
• Top 5 U.S. orchestras were about 10%
female in the early 1970’s
• Blind auditions became an industry
standard in the late 70’s and early 1980’s
• By the mid-1990’s the Top 5 orchestras
were composed of approximately 30%
female
• The use of screens make women 50%
more likely to advance to audition finals
to compete for orchestra positions
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From Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on
Female Musicians, by Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse
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Global Case Study: ‘Blind’ Job Selections
Philippines
Singapore
United
Kingdom
Texas
California
Honduras
Germany
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Key Messages
• Unconscious biases are universal
Everyone has them to some extent, regardless of their background
It does not mean that a person is racist, sexist, ageist, etc.
• Individuals can harbor biases against their own group
Superiority or inferiority
Can harbor biases that contradict their consciously-held beliefs
• Most common unconscious biases
Gender and ethnicity
Shown by researchers to affect decision-making in HR processes
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Key Messages
• Unconscious bias is not specific to the U.S.
It appears wherever there are majority and identifiable minority groups
• Awareness can reduce the effects of unconscious bias
However, some biases are deeply rooted and can be difficult to eliminate
Post-process evaluations may be useful in identifying this type of bias
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What can you do to mitigate unconscious bias?
• Determine your own unconscious biases
Take Implicit Association Test (IAT) online from Harvard University
Encourage your peers and direct reports to do the same
• Begin every decision-making processes with education
Inform decision-makers are the role unconscious bias may play in the process
Use Verna Myers TED Talk on Unconscious Bias to educate colleagues
• Use specific criteria to evaluate all candidates equally
and fairly
Criteria should be skills and performance-based
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What can you do to mitigate unconscious bias?
• Are you evaluating candidates from an “outsider’s”
perspective?
Would they agree with your logic?
• Are you selecting people with similar backgrounds and
experiences as you?
Why are you rejecting people who are different?
Are you using skills and performance-based criteria?
WE MUST COMMIT TO CHANGE!
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ENGAGE AND TAKE ACTION
• 1 Personal Goal
• 1 Goal for you to Champion
at your Company
• 1 Goal for PBWC to drive
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