Opportunities Through Product LicensingCeramics 2011
This document discusses product licensing as an opportunity for businesses to grow their brands. Licensing involves a contractual agreement where one business uses intellectual property like a brand name, patent, or design that is owned by another entity. The document outlines opportunities for businesses to become either a licensee, by working with a brand to create new products, or a licensor, by leveraging their own intellectual property to drive revenue. Key considerations for licensing include selecting the right product categories, partners, and commercial expectations.
The Journey to World Class Performance Ceramics 2011
The document discusses strategies that various companies have used to achieve world class performance. It provides examples of companies in different industries and their journeys towards excellence. Some common best ideas that emerged include establishing a compelling shared vision, focusing on continuous improvement of processes using tools like Lean and Six Sigma, developing a customer-centric culture, committing to environmental sustainability, and learning from other top-performing companies.
Water Footprinting - Reducing costs and safeguarding against future legislationCeramics 2011
The document discusses reducing a company's water footprint to lower costs and prepare for future water legislation. It notes that water supply is under threat from increasing demand and climate change, and that water abstraction, supply and discharge costs will rise. Legislators want users to pay the real cost of water they use to reduce consumption. A water footprint identifies how much water a company uses, directly and indirectly. Calculating a water footprint can help lower costs through identifying billing inaccuracies, leaks, and efficiency improvements, while enhancing regulatory compliance and sustainability credentials.
Government action to incentivise energy efficiency and deliver deregulationCeramics 2011
The document summarizes recent UK government actions to incentivize energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions through regulations and initiatives. It outlines the government's commitment to legally binding carbon budgets and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. It then describes several key policies and programs to encourage energy efficiency among businesses and industry, including the Climate Change Levy, Climate Change Agreements, EU Emissions Trading System, and CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. The document also discusses proposed regulatory simplification efforts and outlines new initiatives like the Renewable Heat Incentive to support energy intensive industries like ceramics.
David Manley, Hanson Building Products - Building a World Leading State of th...Ceramics 2011
Hanson UK is investing £50 million to build a new state-of-the-art brick factory in Leicestershire, England. The factory will be one of the most sustainable and efficient soft mud brick factories in Europe, utilizing techniques like water recycling, kiln heat recovery, and producing zero waste sent to landfill. It will have the potential to produce up to 200 million bricks per year to serve customers across the UK construction industry.
This document discusses signs that a customer's financial situation may be changing or deteriorating. It provides examples of warning signs to watch for, such as payment habits slowing, disputes increasing, or a company changing its name. The document also outlines steps to take in response, from increasing monitoring to suspending supplies. It categorizes customer financial situations as green (proceed with caution), amber (extreme caution), or red (stop and seek advice immediately). The goal is understanding customers fully and communicating internally so the right actions can be taken to manage risk.
Ceramic Manufacturing – Waste Reduction and Re-UseCeramics 2011
Steelite International has implemented several initiatives to reduce its environmental impact and increase sustainability. It installed a Lamella filtration system to recycle clay waste from its ceramic manufacturing process, reducing landfill waste by over 400 tonnes annually. Over 90% of the company's waste is now recycled. It also launched a "Made for Life" campaign to highlight the durability of its products and reduce the environmental impact of frequent replacement. Steelite plans to further reduce its energy consumption by 30% over the next five years while maintaining quality and conduct its largest ever energy survey to identify additional areas for improvement.
Opportunities Through Product LicensingCeramics 2011
This document discusses product licensing as an opportunity for businesses to grow their brands. Licensing involves a contractual agreement where one business uses intellectual property like a brand name, patent, or design that is owned by another entity. The document outlines opportunities for businesses to become either a licensee, by working with a brand to create new products, or a licensor, by leveraging their own intellectual property to drive revenue. Key considerations for licensing include selecting the right product categories, partners, and commercial expectations.
The Journey to World Class Performance Ceramics 2011
The document discusses strategies that various companies have used to achieve world class performance. It provides examples of companies in different industries and their journeys towards excellence. Some common best ideas that emerged include establishing a compelling shared vision, focusing on continuous improvement of processes using tools like Lean and Six Sigma, developing a customer-centric culture, committing to environmental sustainability, and learning from other top-performing companies.
Water Footprinting - Reducing costs and safeguarding against future legislationCeramics 2011
The document discusses reducing a company's water footprint to lower costs and prepare for future water legislation. It notes that water supply is under threat from increasing demand and climate change, and that water abstraction, supply and discharge costs will rise. Legislators want users to pay the real cost of water they use to reduce consumption. A water footprint identifies how much water a company uses, directly and indirectly. Calculating a water footprint can help lower costs through identifying billing inaccuracies, leaks, and efficiency improvements, while enhancing regulatory compliance and sustainability credentials.
Government action to incentivise energy efficiency and deliver deregulationCeramics 2011
The document summarizes recent UK government actions to incentivize energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions through regulations and initiatives. It outlines the government's commitment to legally binding carbon budgets and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. It then describes several key policies and programs to encourage energy efficiency among businesses and industry, including the Climate Change Levy, Climate Change Agreements, EU Emissions Trading System, and CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme. The document also discusses proposed regulatory simplification efforts and outlines new initiatives like the Renewable Heat Incentive to support energy intensive industries like ceramics.
David Manley, Hanson Building Products - Building a World Leading State of th...Ceramics 2011
Hanson UK is investing £50 million to build a new state-of-the-art brick factory in Leicestershire, England. The factory will be one of the most sustainable and efficient soft mud brick factories in Europe, utilizing techniques like water recycling, kiln heat recovery, and producing zero waste sent to landfill. It will have the potential to produce up to 200 million bricks per year to serve customers across the UK construction industry.
This document discusses signs that a customer's financial situation may be changing or deteriorating. It provides examples of warning signs to watch for, such as payment habits slowing, disputes increasing, or a company changing its name. The document also outlines steps to take in response, from increasing monitoring to suspending supplies. It categorizes customer financial situations as green (proceed with caution), amber (extreme caution), or red (stop and seek advice immediately). The goal is understanding customers fully and communicating internally so the right actions can be taken to manage risk.
Ceramic Manufacturing – Waste Reduction and Re-UseCeramics 2011
Steelite International has implemented several initiatives to reduce its environmental impact and increase sustainability. It installed a Lamella filtration system to recycle clay waste from its ceramic manufacturing process, reducing landfill waste by over 400 tonnes annually. Over 90% of the company's waste is now recycled. It also launched a "Made for Life" campaign to highlight the durability of its products and reduce the environmental impact of frequent replacement. Steelite plans to further reduce its energy consumption by 30% over the next five years while maintaining quality and conduct its largest ever energy survey to identify additional areas for improvement.
Plan A – the Marks and Spencer ApproachCeramics 2011
Plan A outlines goals from 2010 to 2015 for a company to become more sustainable and socially responsible. The goals include becoming carbon neutral in operations by 2012, reducing energy consumption by 35% by 2015, sending no waste to landfill and recycling 20 million clothing items per year. Additional goals are to ensure raw materials don't contribute to deforestation, help suppliers provide fair wages, and promote active lifestyles for customers and employees. The plan aims to make sustainability how the company does business overall.
Ian Watts, Marsh Trade Credit Practice - Credit InsuranceCeramics 2011
The document discusses credit insurance and issues related to credit in the supply chain. It provides information on understanding supplier credit and creditworthiness, negotiating payment terms, and assessing receivables. Trends in the credit insurance market are also summarized, including increasing competition, downward pressure on rates, and improved risk management and data sharing.
David Beardsworth, BCC and John Fifer, SKM Enviros - Greener CeramicsCeramics 2011
The document discusses the Carbon Trust's Accelerator Programme for the brick sector in 2010. It identifies several potential areas for carbon reduction projects, including using low-carbon fuels, improving clay preparation and firing processes, capturing waste heat, and developing more efficient kilns. Industry stakeholders voted on the proposed ideas and agreed on 5 challenge areas for funding, such as using biomass combustion or capturing waste heat. The next steps outlined submitting proposals and selecting projects for the selected technologies.
Andrew van Zwanenberg, Marks & Spencer - Ceramics and Retailing: The formula ...Ceramics 2011
Andrew van Zwanenberg has worked on both the manufacturing and retail sides of the ceramics industry. He supplies various major retailers including Debenhams, M&S, and Next. In this presentation, he discusses the priorities and needs of retailers from a supplier's perspective. He emphasizes that suppliers need to give retailers a reason to buy their products by offering unique, exciting, and exclusive products that customers will want. Innovation is key to driving customer traffic and sales. Suppliers are assessed based on product differentiation, margins, delivery, and how they can help retailers reduce risks and maximize commercial opportunities.
Tony Cotton, Johnson Tiles - Cost Effective Use of Heat RecoveryCeramics 2011
Johnson Tiles is one of the UK's largest tile manufacturers. To save energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint, they installed a heat recovery system on one of their roller kilns in 2008. This system recovers heat from the kiln exhaust and uses it to preheat the kiln's combustion air, saving over £83,000 and 4 million kWh of gas per year. Johnson Tiles has also found other innovative ways to reuse waste heat from their manufacturing processes.
Neil Deakin, Future Route - Credit EnabledCeramics 2011
There is a gap between how businesses want to be assessed for credit and how credit providers make credit decisions. Businesses want to be judged on their current individual circumstances and provide trusted internal information, while credit providers rely on general past performance data. CreditPal helps address this gap by connecting businesses' accounting software to generate up-to-date encrypted management accounts and financial information. This allows businesses to demonstrate their creditworthiness to preferred providers and maintain control over what information is shared.
Brian Standbridge, Ideal Standard - Opportunities with Robotics and Factory A...Ceramics 2011
The document summarizes the evolution of Ideal Standard International's manufacturing site in Armitage, Rugeley, UK from a traditional multi-level casting facility using plaster moulds to a fully automated single-level plant with 100% robotic production processes. Key changes included installing new pressure casting equipment, integrating robotics for demoulding and finishing, implementing a continuous 24/7 production model, and focusing on strategies for highest productivity, lowest material usage, tightest process control, and reducing the carbon footprint and cost to compete with Chinese imports. These changes led to significant improvements in safety, quality, lead times, inventory levels, and reductions in energy usage and waste.
Professor Bill Lee, Imperial College - Diversification in Advanced CeramicsCeramics 2011
The document discusses the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC) at Imperial College London and opportunities for industry collaboration. CASC works with UK academics and has partnerships with several companies. It provides funding, equipment, and expertise in ceramics research areas like bioceramics and materials for energy and defense. The center recently added new faculty and resources and holds meetings and training to support the UK ceramics community. Industry can join CASC's consortium for access to facilities and researchers or pursue other national and European funding.
Geoff hollington - The Importance of DesignCeramics 2011
The document discusses the importance of design in various contexts. Designers are described as joined-up thinkers and collaborators who work across disciplines. Examples are given of designers contributing to products from office furniture to cameras. The document also discusses the importance of design in addressing healthcare-associated infections, noting the huge economic and social costs of such infections. It argues that good design requires input from diverse stakeholders including scientists, medical professionals, manufacturers and users.
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!
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
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.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
"$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.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
Plan A – the Marks and Spencer ApproachCeramics 2011
Plan A outlines goals from 2010 to 2015 for a company to become more sustainable and socially responsible. The goals include becoming carbon neutral in operations by 2012, reducing energy consumption by 35% by 2015, sending no waste to landfill and recycling 20 million clothing items per year. Additional goals are to ensure raw materials don't contribute to deforestation, help suppliers provide fair wages, and promote active lifestyles for customers and employees. The plan aims to make sustainability how the company does business overall.
Ian Watts, Marsh Trade Credit Practice - Credit InsuranceCeramics 2011
The document discusses credit insurance and issues related to credit in the supply chain. It provides information on understanding supplier credit and creditworthiness, negotiating payment terms, and assessing receivables. Trends in the credit insurance market are also summarized, including increasing competition, downward pressure on rates, and improved risk management and data sharing.
David Beardsworth, BCC and John Fifer, SKM Enviros - Greener CeramicsCeramics 2011
The document discusses the Carbon Trust's Accelerator Programme for the brick sector in 2010. It identifies several potential areas for carbon reduction projects, including using low-carbon fuels, improving clay preparation and firing processes, capturing waste heat, and developing more efficient kilns. Industry stakeholders voted on the proposed ideas and agreed on 5 challenge areas for funding, such as using biomass combustion or capturing waste heat. The next steps outlined submitting proposals and selecting projects for the selected technologies.
Andrew van Zwanenberg, Marks & Spencer - Ceramics and Retailing: The formula ...Ceramics 2011
Andrew van Zwanenberg has worked on both the manufacturing and retail sides of the ceramics industry. He supplies various major retailers including Debenhams, M&S, and Next. In this presentation, he discusses the priorities and needs of retailers from a supplier's perspective. He emphasizes that suppliers need to give retailers a reason to buy their products by offering unique, exciting, and exclusive products that customers will want. Innovation is key to driving customer traffic and sales. Suppliers are assessed based on product differentiation, margins, delivery, and how they can help retailers reduce risks and maximize commercial opportunities.
Tony Cotton, Johnson Tiles - Cost Effective Use of Heat RecoveryCeramics 2011
Johnson Tiles is one of the UK's largest tile manufacturers. To save energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint, they installed a heat recovery system on one of their roller kilns in 2008. This system recovers heat from the kiln exhaust and uses it to preheat the kiln's combustion air, saving over £83,000 and 4 million kWh of gas per year. Johnson Tiles has also found other innovative ways to reuse waste heat from their manufacturing processes.
Neil Deakin, Future Route - Credit EnabledCeramics 2011
There is a gap between how businesses want to be assessed for credit and how credit providers make credit decisions. Businesses want to be judged on their current individual circumstances and provide trusted internal information, while credit providers rely on general past performance data. CreditPal helps address this gap by connecting businesses' accounting software to generate up-to-date encrypted management accounts and financial information. This allows businesses to demonstrate their creditworthiness to preferred providers and maintain control over what information is shared.
Brian Standbridge, Ideal Standard - Opportunities with Robotics and Factory A...Ceramics 2011
The document summarizes the evolution of Ideal Standard International's manufacturing site in Armitage, Rugeley, UK from a traditional multi-level casting facility using plaster moulds to a fully automated single-level plant with 100% robotic production processes. Key changes included installing new pressure casting equipment, integrating robotics for demoulding and finishing, implementing a continuous 24/7 production model, and focusing on strategies for highest productivity, lowest material usage, tightest process control, and reducing the carbon footprint and cost to compete with Chinese imports. These changes led to significant improvements in safety, quality, lead times, inventory levels, and reductions in energy usage and waste.
Professor Bill Lee, Imperial College - Diversification in Advanced CeramicsCeramics 2011
The document discusses the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC) at Imperial College London and opportunities for industry collaboration. CASC works with UK academics and has partnerships with several companies. It provides funding, equipment, and expertise in ceramics research areas like bioceramics and materials for energy and defense. The center recently added new faculty and resources and holds meetings and training to support the UK ceramics community. Industry can join CASC's consortium for access to facilities and researchers or pursue other national and European funding.
Geoff hollington - The Importance of DesignCeramics 2011
The document discusses the importance of design in various contexts. Designers are described as joined-up thinkers and collaborators who work across disciplines. Examples are given of designers contributing to products from office furniture to cameras. The document also discusses the importance of design in addressing healthcare-associated infections, noting the huge economic and social costs of such infections. It argues that good design requires input from diverse stakeholders including scientists, medical professionals, manufacturers and users.
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!
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
inQuba Webinar Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr Graham HillLizaNolte
HERE IS YOUR WEBINAR CONTENT! 'Mastering Customer Journey Management with Dr. Graham Hill'. We hope you find the webinar recording both insightful and enjoyable.
In this webinar, we explored essential aspects of Customer Journey Management and personalization. Here’s a summary of the key insights and topics discussed:
Key Takeaways:
Understanding the Customer Journey: Dr. Hill emphasized the importance of mapping and understanding the complete customer journey to identify touchpoints and opportunities for improvement.
Personalization Strategies: We discussed how to leverage data and insights to create personalized experiences that resonate with customers.
Technology Integration: Insights were shared on how inQuba’s advanced technology can streamline customer interactions and drive operational efficiency.
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.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
"$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.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Introducing BoxLang : A new JVM language for productivity and modularity!Ortus Solutions, Corp
Just like life, our code must adapt to the ever changing world we live in. From one day coding for the web, to the next for our tablets or APIs or for running serverless applications. Multi-runtime development is the future of coding, the future is to be dynamic. Let us introduce you to BoxLang.
Dynamic. Modular. Productive.
BoxLang redefines development with its dynamic nature, empowering developers to craft expressive and functional code effortlessly. Its modular architecture prioritizes flexibility, allowing for seamless integration into existing ecosystems.
Interoperability at its Core
With 100% interoperability with Java, BoxLang seamlessly bridges the gap between traditional and modern development paradigms, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and collaboration.
Multi-Runtime
From the tiny 2m operating system binary to running on our pure Java web server, CommandBox, Jakarta EE, AWS Lambda, Microsoft Functions, Web Assembly, Android and more. BoxLang has been designed to enhance and adapt according to it's runnable runtime.
The Fusion of Modernity and Tradition
Experience the fusion of modern features inspired by CFML, Node, Ruby, Kotlin, Java, and Clojure, combined with the familiarity of Java bytecode compilation, making BoxLang a language of choice for forward-thinking developers.
Empowering Transition with Transpiler Support
Transitioning from CFML to BoxLang is seamless with our JIT transpiler, facilitating smooth migration and preserving existing code investments.
Unlocking Creativity with IDE Tools
Unleash your creativity with powerful IDE tools tailored for BoxLang, providing an intuitive development experience and streamlining your workflow. Join us as we embark on a journey to redefine JVM development. Welcome to the era of BoxLang.
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.
QA or the Highway - Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend appl...zjhamm304
These are the slides for the presentation, "Component Testing: Bridging the gap between frontend applications" that was presented at QA or the Highway 2024 in Columbus, OH by Zachary Hamm.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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