The new transportation bill will focus more on performance and accountability. Here is the presentation I made at the FHWA Pavement Preservation Expert Task Group meeting in Oklahoma City on May 4.
Title: Creating a Safer System Through State Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Campaigns
Track: Prosper
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: Hear about approaches used by North Carolina and Florida to develop, launch, and evaluate combined education and enforcement campaigns aimed at reducing pedestrian and bicyclists injuries and deaths.
Presenters:
Presenter: Laura Sandt Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Co-Presenter: Lauren Blackburn North Carolina DOT
Co-Presenter: Lucas Cruse University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research
Co-Presenter: Billy Hattaway Florida DOT
Title: Creating a Safer System Through State Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Campaigns
Track: Prosper
Format: 90 minute panel
Abstract: Hear about approaches used by North Carolina and Florida to develop, launch, and evaluate combined education and enforcement campaigns aimed at reducing pedestrian and bicyclists injuries and deaths.
Presenters:
Presenter: Laura Sandt Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Co-Presenter: Lauren Blackburn North Carolina DOT
Co-Presenter: Lucas Cruse University of South Florida, Center for Urban Transportation Research
Co-Presenter: Billy Hattaway Florida DOT
How can a health trust foster evidence-baced practice? The presentation gives an overview on how a norwegian health trust, in a region with 400 000 inhabitants, systematically works to get new knowledge into practice.
mWater: Using data to improve piped water servicesJohn Feighery
Presentation by Brian Jensen at Colorado WASH Symposium 2020, on the use of the free mWater platform for improving water service delivery. Includes case study from the USAID Haiti Water and Sanitation Project, implemented by Development Alternatives International (DAI) and mWater.
Increasing need to demonstrate the value and outcomes of homelessness policie...FEANTSA
Presentation given by Nicholas Pleace from the University of York, UK at the FEANTSA/HABITACT seminar "Tackling homelessness as a social investment for the future: Looking at the bigger picture", 12th June 2013, Amsterdam
Collaborate Effectively to Transform Clinical TrialsVeeva Systems
View slides from Veeva's plenary session at ExL's 8th Trial Master File Summit to:
• Learn opportunities to transform trial execution through greater TMF collaboration
• Explore innovative ways to enhance collaboration by automating the exchange of TMF data between sponsors, CROs, and sites
• Learn how to gain and leverage continuous visibility of clinical data exchange to improve oversight, compliance, and decision-making
Howard White - Evidence informed policy making - 26 June 2017OECD Governance
Presentation by Howard White, Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Collaboration, at the event on Governing better through evidence-informed policy making, 26-27 June 2017. For further information please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/evidence-informed-policy-making.htm
Molly Irwin - Evidence informed policy making - 27 June 2017OECD Governance
Presentation by Molly Irwin, Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor, at the event on Governing better through evidence-informed policy making, 26-27 June 2017. The event was organised by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance in cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Campbell Collaboration and the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA). For further information please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/evidence-informed-policy-making.htm
The Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI)IFPRI-WEAI
Hazel Malapit of IFPRI talks about the development of the A-WEAI: what modifications were tested and why, some key findings from the second pilot, and the rationale for which changes were ultimately adopted.
OECD joint network on the fiscal sustainability of health systems - Ivor BEAZ...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ivor BEAZLEY, OECD, at the 13th Annual Meeting of OECD-Asian Senior Budget Officials held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 14-15 December 2017
How can a health trust foster evidence-baced practice? The presentation gives an overview on how a norwegian health trust, in a region with 400 000 inhabitants, systematically works to get new knowledge into practice.
mWater: Using data to improve piped water servicesJohn Feighery
Presentation by Brian Jensen at Colorado WASH Symposium 2020, on the use of the free mWater platform for improving water service delivery. Includes case study from the USAID Haiti Water and Sanitation Project, implemented by Development Alternatives International (DAI) and mWater.
Increasing need to demonstrate the value and outcomes of homelessness policie...FEANTSA
Presentation given by Nicholas Pleace from the University of York, UK at the FEANTSA/HABITACT seminar "Tackling homelessness as a social investment for the future: Looking at the bigger picture", 12th June 2013, Amsterdam
Collaborate Effectively to Transform Clinical TrialsVeeva Systems
View slides from Veeva's plenary session at ExL's 8th Trial Master File Summit to:
• Learn opportunities to transform trial execution through greater TMF collaboration
• Explore innovative ways to enhance collaboration by automating the exchange of TMF data between sponsors, CROs, and sites
• Learn how to gain and leverage continuous visibility of clinical data exchange to improve oversight, compliance, and decision-making
Howard White - Evidence informed policy making - 26 June 2017OECD Governance
Presentation by Howard White, Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Collaboration, at the event on Governing better through evidence-informed policy making, 26-27 June 2017. For further information please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/evidence-informed-policy-making.htm
Molly Irwin - Evidence informed policy making - 27 June 2017OECD Governance
Presentation by Molly Irwin, Chief Evaluation Officer, U.S. Department of Labor, at the event on Governing better through evidence-informed policy making, 26-27 June 2017. The event was organised by the OECD Directorate for Public Governance in cooperation with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Campbell Collaboration and the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA). For further information please see http://www.oecd.org/gov/evidence-informed-policy-making.htm
The Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI)IFPRI-WEAI
Hazel Malapit of IFPRI talks about the development of the A-WEAI: what modifications were tested and why, some key findings from the second pilot, and the rationale for which changes were ultimately adopted.
OECD joint network on the fiscal sustainability of health systems - Ivor BEAZ...OECD Governance
This presentation was made by Ivor BEAZLEY, OECD, at the 13th Annual Meeting of OECD-Asian Senior Budget Officials held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 14-15 December 2017
Tuesday 28 June, W3 - Sector self regulation and improvement - David Simmondslgconf11
This session will focus on the early lessons emerging from the implementation of the sector owned approach to self regulation and improvement – with a particular emphasis on the practicalities and benefits to be gained from sharing and comparing key performance data and the contribution peer challenge and support can make to improvement, in this case in regard to children’s services.
Speakers:
Liz Railton, Director of Children’s Services Self-Regulation, LGG
George Garlick, Chief Executive, Durham County Council
Janette Karklins, Director of Children’s Services, Bracknell Forest Council
Chair: Cllr Jill Shortland, Vice Chairman, LG Group Improvement Programme Board
Max sumo and maxeva train the trainer meetingFriso Metz
Presentation on MaxSumo and MaxEva, used during a train the trainer meeting for EPOMM. MaxSumo is a tool for planning, monitoring and evaluating mobility management porjects. MaxEva is a database for MM evaluations.
The presentation is about the working of both tools.
Performance Measurement for Local GovernmentsRavikant Joshi
This PPT was delivered Based on Local Government Financial Management Series- UN-HABITAT in 'Local Government Budgeting and Financial Management Course', December 16 - 20 2008 Khartoum, Sudan
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.
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
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.