e-BO Enterprises provides network design, security, and monitoring services for offshore wind farms. Their services include offshore network design and maintenance, flexible network architectures, internal and external security solutions, network services, high availability and business continuity plans, secure remote access, monitoring platforms, control rooms, and visualization of industrial monitoring applications.
GEOxyz is a Belgian company founded in 1999 that provides hydrographic surveying, geophysical investigations, and general offshore renewable energy support. It has over 70 employees across offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the UK, and Luxembourg. The company operates a fleet of 15 specialized vessels and provides services to clients in the offshore wind, dredging, renewable energy, construction, and government sectors. Some of its recent projects include cable route and scour protection monitoring in Belgian and UK offshore wind farms. It is currently working on projects in Portugal and Gemini offshore wind farm.
The document discusses growing algae on nitrate-rich wastewater from Cambridge Water to reduce nitrate levels. Laboratory experiments found that several marine algae species could grow using nutrients from diluted brine wastewater. Larger scale experiments in photobioreactors confirmed one marine species, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, could effectively use nutrients from the wastewater. Future work involves optimizing growth of polar algae species and developing an innovation facility to further explore algal bioremediation applications.
The bioremediation and photophysiology experiments in pilot PBRs with aim of mechanistic models development
--Alla Silkina, EnAlgae project, Swansea University, UK--
This document summarizes research being conducted on seaweed cultivation for bioenergy. It discusses a pilot project in Strangford Lough that is testing different cultivation systems for Laminaria digitata seaweed. The research aims to develop sustainable cultivation and harvesting protocols. It involves monitoring the environment, growth of seaweed, and exploring integrated multi-trophic aquaculture to diversify products and reduce risks. The goal is to better understand how to cultivate seaweed as a sustainable source of biomass for bioenergy.
e-BO Enterprises provides network design, security, and monitoring services for offshore wind farms. Their services include offshore network design and maintenance, flexible network architectures, internal and external security solutions, network services, high availability and business continuity plans, secure remote access, monitoring platforms, control rooms, and visualization of industrial monitoring applications.
GEOxyz is a Belgian company founded in 1999 that provides hydrographic surveying, geophysical investigations, and general offshore renewable energy support. It has over 70 employees across offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the UK, and Luxembourg. The company operates a fleet of 15 specialized vessels and provides services to clients in the offshore wind, dredging, renewable energy, construction, and government sectors. Some of its recent projects include cable route and scour protection monitoring in Belgian and UK offshore wind farms. It is currently working on projects in Portugal and Gemini offshore wind farm.
The document discusses growing algae on nitrate-rich wastewater from Cambridge Water to reduce nitrate levels. Laboratory experiments found that several marine algae species could grow using nutrients from diluted brine wastewater. Larger scale experiments in photobioreactors confirmed one marine species, Phaeodactylum tricornutum, could effectively use nutrients from the wastewater. Future work involves optimizing growth of polar algae species and developing an innovation facility to further explore algal bioremediation applications.
The bioremediation and photophysiology experiments in pilot PBRs with aim of mechanistic models development
--Alla Silkina, EnAlgae project, Swansea University, UK--
This document summarizes research being conducted on seaweed cultivation for bioenergy. It discusses a pilot project in Strangford Lough that is testing different cultivation systems for Laminaria digitata seaweed. The research aims to develop sustainable cultivation and harvesting protocols. It involves monitoring the environment, growth of seaweed, and exploring integrated multi-trophic aquaculture to diversify products and reduce risks. The goal is to better understand how to cultivate seaweed as a sustainable source of biomass for bioenergy.
This presentation will outline the innovative processes and techniques we are using to capture the data, information and knowledge surrounding Algae cultivation in NWE Europe with a view to developing sophisticated decision support tools. These tools will enable stakeholders to explore current activities and potential opportunities in their region and understand the economic, environmental and legislative issues surrounding the cultivation of algae for energy.
Geosynthetics are polymeric products used to solve civil engineering problems. They include woven geotextiles, nonwoven geotextiles, knitted geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, and more. Geosynthetics have applications in road construction, hydraulic works, port construction, coastal defenses, slope protection, waste disposal sites, retaining walls, reinforced soil works, drainage, and more. Specifications and test standards ensure geosynthetics meet requirements for applications like filtration, separation, reinforcement, drainage, and containment.
The document summarizes a Zeetex seminar that took place on January 23rd, 2014 in Kortrijk, Belgium. The objective of Zeetex is to create a platform for developing innovative textile products for marine and maritime applications. There are four themes: safety, fishing/aquaculture, protection, and shipbuilding/sailing. Zeetex aims to detect opportunities for innovation, stimulate textile product development, and help connect companies, but does not provide direct funding. Services include free materials testing and assistance with partnerships, funding searches, and project proposals. The partners involved are Flanders Maritime Cluster, UP-tex, Aquimer, and Centexbel.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mikaël Laurent on the uses of textiles during oil spills. It discusses how Cedre, the Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution in France, provides technical expertise on textiles for oil spill response. The presentation outlines the main uses of textiles for containing, collecting, and cleaning up oil. It also describes the principles of France's organization for oil spill response at sea and on land, and notes the specific market for oil spill response equipment.
The document discusses tidal energy and DEME Blue Energy's involvement in the sector. It describes tidal energy resources and the two main technologies used: tidal barrages and tidal currents. Tidal barrages use basins that fill and empty with tides, while tidal currents involve turbines that capture the kinetic energy of tidal flows. DEME Blue Energy supports the development of tidal energy projects, including providing services for promotion, financing, and developing more advanced tidal turbine technologies to harness tidal energy on a commercial scale.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
This presentation will outline the innovative processes and techniques we are using to capture the data, information and knowledge surrounding Algae cultivation in NWE Europe with a view to developing sophisticated decision support tools. These tools will enable stakeholders to explore current activities and potential opportunities in their region and understand the economic, environmental and legislative issues surrounding the cultivation of algae for energy.
Geosynthetics are polymeric products used to solve civil engineering problems. They include woven geotextiles, nonwoven geotextiles, knitted geotextiles, geogrids, geonets, geomembranes, and more. Geosynthetics have applications in road construction, hydraulic works, port construction, coastal defenses, slope protection, waste disposal sites, retaining walls, reinforced soil works, drainage, and more. Specifications and test standards ensure geosynthetics meet requirements for applications like filtration, separation, reinforcement, drainage, and containment.
The document summarizes a Zeetex seminar that took place on January 23rd, 2014 in Kortrijk, Belgium. The objective of Zeetex is to create a platform for developing innovative textile products for marine and maritime applications. There are four themes: safety, fishing/aquaculture, protection, and shipbuilding/sailing. Zeetex aims to detect opportunities for innovation, stimulate textile product development, and help connect companies, but does not provide direct funding. Services include free materials testing and assistance with partnerships, funding searches, and project proposals. The partners involved are Flanders Maritime Cluster, UP-tex, Aquimer, and Centexbel.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Mikaël Laurent on the uses of textiles during oil spills. It discusses how Cedre, the Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution in France, provides technical expertise on textiles for oil spill response. The presentation outlines the main uses of textiles for containing, collecting, and cleaning up oil. It also describes the principles of France's organization for oil spill response at sea and on land, and notes the specific market for oil spill response equipment.
The document discusses tidal energy and DEME Blue Energy's involvement in the sector. It describes tidal energy resources and the two main technologies used: tidal barrages and tidal currents. Tidal barrages use basins that fill and empty with tides, while tidal currents involve turbines that capture the kinetic energy of tidal flows. DEME Blue Energy supports the development of tidal energy projects, including providing services for promotion, financing, and developing more advanced tidal turbine technologies to harness tidal energy on a commercial scale.
"NATO Hackathon Winner: AI-Powered Drug Search", Taras KlobaFwdays
This is a session that details how PostgreSQL's features and Azure AI Services can be effectively used to significantly enhance the search functionality in any application.
In this session, we'll share insights on how we used PostgreSQL to facilitate precise searches across multiple fields in our mobile application. The techniques include using LIKE and ILIKE operators and integrating a trigram-based search to handle potential misspellings, thereby increasing the search accuracy.
We'll also discuss how the azure_ai extension on PostgreSQL databases in Azure and Azure AI Services were utilized to create vectors from user input, a feature beneficial when users wish to find specific items based on text prompts. While our application's case study involves a drug search, the techniques and principles shared in this session can be adapted to improve search functionality in a wide range of applications. Join us to learn how PostgreSQL and Azure AI can be harnessed to enhance your application's search capability.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 2 – CoE RolesDianaGray10
In this session, we will review the players involved in the CoE and how each role impacts opportunities.
Topics covered:
• What roles are essential?
• What place in the automation journey does each role play?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
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.
Keywords: AI, Containeres, Kubernetes, Cloud Native
Event Link: https://meine.doag.org/events/cloudland/2024/agenda/#agendaId.4211
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
From Natural Language to Structured Solr Queries using LLMsSease
This talk draws on experimentation to enable AI applications with Solr. One important use case is to use AI for better accessibility and discoverability of the data: while User eXperience techniques, lexical search improvements, and data harmonization can take organizations to a good level of accessibility, a structural (or “cognitive” gap) remains between the data user needs and the data producer constraints.
That is where AI – and most importantly, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model techniques – could make a difference. This natural language, conversational engine could facilitate access and usage of the data leveraging the semantics of any data source.
The objective of the presentation is to propose a technical approach and a way forward to achieve this goal.
The key concept is to enable users to express their search queries in natural language, which the LLM then enriches, interprets, and translates into structured queries based on the Solr index’s metadata.
This approach leverages the LLM’s ability to understand the nuances of natural language and the structure of documents within Apache Solr.
The LLM acts as an intermediary agent, offering a transparent experience to users automatically and potentially uncovering relevant documents that conventional search methods might overlook. The presentation will include the results of this experimental work, lessons learned, best practices, and the scope of future work that should improve the approach and make it production-ready.
Lee Barnes - Path to Becoming an Effective Test Automation Engineer.pdfleebarnesutopia
So… you want to become a Test Automation Engineer (or hire and develop one)? While there’s quite a bit of information available about important technical and tool skills to master, there’s not enough discussion around the path to becoming an effective Test Automation Engineer that knows how to add VALUE. In my experience this had led to a proliferation of engineers who are proficient with tools and building frameworks but have skill and knowledge gaps, especially in software testing, that reduce the value they deliver with test automation.
In this talk, Lee will share his lessons learned from over 30 years of working with, and mentoring, hundreds of Test Automation Engineers. Whether you’re looking to get started in test automation or just want to improve your trade, this talk will give you a solid foundation and roadmap for ensuring your test automation efforts continuously add value. This talk is equally valuable for both aspiring Test Automation Engineers and those managing them! All attendees will take away a set of key foundational knowledge and a high-level learning path for leveling up test automation skills and ensuring they add value to their organizations.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
"$10 thousand per minute of downtime: architecture, queues, streaming and fin...Fwdays
Direct losses from downtime in 1 minute = $5-$10 thousand dollars. Reputation is priceless.
As part of the talk, we will consider the architectural strategies necessary for the development of highly loaded fintech solutions. We will focus on using queues and streaming to efficiently work and manage large amounts of data in real-time and to minimize latency.
We will focus special attention on the architectural patterns used in the design of the fintech system, microservices and event-driven architecture, which ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and consistency of the entire system.
Discover the Unseen: Tailored Recommendation of Unwatched ContentScyllaDB
The session shares how JioCinema approaches ""watch discounting."" This capability ensures that if a user watched a certain amount of a show/movie, the platform no longer recommends that particular content to the user. Flawless operation of this feature promotes the discover of new content, improving the overall user experience.
JioCinema is an Indian over-the-top media streaming service owned by Viacom18.
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
"Frontline Battles with DDoS: Best practices and Lessons Learned", Igor IvaniukFwdays
At this talk we will discuss DDoS protection tools and best practices, discuss network architectures and what AWS has to offer. Also, we will look into one of the largest DDoS attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure that happened in February 2022. We'll see, what techniques helped to keep the web resources available for Ukrainians and how AWS improved DDoS protection for all customers based on Ukraine experience
Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat's TipsScyllaDB
ScyllaDB monitoring provides a lot of useful information. But sometimes it’s not easy to find the root of the problem if something is wrong or even estimate the remaining capacity by the load on the cluster. This talk shares our team's practical tips on: 1) How to find the root of the problem by metrics if ScyllaDB is slow 2) How to interpret the load and plan capacity for the future 3) Compaction strategies and how to choose the right one 4) Important metrics which aren’t available in the default monitoring setup.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.