A presentation given to 400 business students and professors in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 19 2013. It covers: CSR definitions, trends now and in the future, company case studies, the business case for CSR and sustainability and the issues of the future. Looks at Marks & Spencer, Unilever, Siemens, General Electric company
Enlightened businesses are seeking to future-proof themselves over the long term by aiming to decouple business growth from increasing environmental and social damage, eliminate negative impacts, or even generate restorative/net-positive impacts. Others are going even further, innovating entirely new resilient ways of working, and exploiting the opportunities in global trade around solutions that tackle pollution, congestion, resource scarcity and other international challenges.
The purpose of this report is to highlight actions that large firms have taken to transform their business models towards sustainability.
A presentation given to 400 business students and professors in Guadalajara, Mexico on September 19 2013. It covers: CSR definitions, trends now and in the future, company case studies, the business case for CSR and sustainability and the issues of the future. Looks at Marks & Spencer, Unilever, Siemens, General Electric company
Enlightened businesses are seeking to future-proof themselves over the long term by aiming to decouple business growth from increasing environmental and social damage, eliminate negative impacts, or even generate restorative/net-positive impacts. Others are going even further, innovating entirely new resilient ways of working, and exploiting the opportunities in global trade around solutions that tackle pollution, congestion, resource scarcity and other international challenges.
The purpose of this report is to highlight actions that large firms have taken to transform their business models towards sustainability.
Sustainability corporate social responsibility (ss)Trevor Shelton
ECOFLO's Sustainabiltiy Committee presents "Corporate Environmental Responsibility". The first session exploring the three pillars of sustainability (Planet, People, and Profits) and our internal and external expectations to be stewards of the environment.
In this presentation, given to 30 Next Gen members of AFBN, I spoke about the need (and opportunity) for Next Generation leaders to retool themselves and their family businesses.
I had the privilege of giving a talk on Green Innovation to students from the National University of Singapore, where I summed up some thoughts that my team and I have had over the years we have had in this space.
workshop at International Program Green Sustainable Economy at UCN Aalborg, 2013. Contribution from Hogeschool Utrecht, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
A Practical Guide to Sustainability in MeetingsEIBTM
Tamara Kennedy-Hill from GMIC outlines best practice steps that can be taken to make events more sustainable. These steps can be delivered using the framework APEX/ASTM.
Business Tools for Transformation: A Sustainability SWOT and Creating a Step-...Sustainable Brands
How does WRI's sSWOT tool help drive action and collaboration that gets companies to go beyond incremental innovation? What types of partnerships does a company need to help fully utilize the strengths of sSWOT? How is sSWOT related to systems innovation and Forum for the Future's step change exercise?
Environmental Product Stewardship in Emerging and Transitioning MarketsAntea Group
Product Stewardship is an environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the products' life cycle, including end of life management. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability to affect the full life cycle environmental impacts of the product. This is most often the producer of the product, though all within the product chain of commerce have roles. This presentation covers EPS drivers and regulations, then takes a deeper look at what this looks like in emerging and transitioning economies in countries like India, South Africa, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.
Business Case for Sustainability Presentation Laura Dunkley
Building the Business Case for Sustainability - Challenges, Identify the Decision Makers, Hierarchy of Business Needs, Reasons Sustainability Initiatives are not Adopted, Success Stories, Resource Links
Circulor Economy – How to Shift "Value Creation" through "Sustainability"-Pet...Simba Events
CSR Leadership World 2014 committee, Simba Events, concentrates to bring the whole system from global network to review and exam CSR issues with 360 angle to discover the earnest ways toward a sustainable economy future!
2014全球企业社会责任领袖峰会组委会-上海辛巴商务咨询有限公司,致力于打造一个整合全球CSR体系资源力量,用360度的全视角审视及检测当前及未来的CSR发展议题,共同找到通往可持续发展的商业未来的最佳路径!
Sustainability – as a conceptual framework for the organization of priorities and allocation of resources – provides a unique platform for reducing costs, identifying and managing risk, enhancing brand, and driving innovation. No other business priority offers as rich a set of benefits over time - benefits that create, enhance and preserve lasting value for all stakeholders.
The major players of the industry that have been featured in this latest edition of green energy providers will also continue to play their part in it.
Sustainability corporate social responsibility (ss)Trevor Shelton
ECOFLO's Sustainabiltiy Committee presents "Corporate Environmental Responsibility". The first session exploring the three pillars of sustainability (Planet, People, and Profits) and our internal and external expectations to be stewards of the environment.
In this presentation, given to 30 Next Gen members of AFBN, I spoke about the need (and opportunity) for Next Generation leaders to retool themselves and their family businesses.
I had the privilege of giving a talk on Green Innovation to students from the National University of Singapore, where I summed up some thoughts that my team and I have had over the years we have had in this space.
workshop at International Program Green Sustainable Economy at UCN Aalborg, 2013. Contribution from Hogeschool Utrecht, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
A Practical Guide to Sustainability in MeetingsEIBTM
Tamara Kennedy-Hill from GMIC outlines best practice steps that can be taken to make events more sustainable. These steps can be delivered using the framework APEX/ASTM.
Business Tools for Transformation: A Sustainability SWOT and Creating a Step-...Sustainable Brands
How does WRI's sSWOT tool help drive action and collaboration that gets companies to go beyond incremental innovation? What types of partnerships does a company need to help fully utilize the strengths of sSWOT? How is sSWOT related to systems innovation and Forum for the Future's step change exercise?
Environmental Product Stewardship in Emerging and Transitioning MarketsAntea Group
Product Stewardship is an environmental management strategy that means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing the product's environmental impact throughout all stages of the products' life cycle, including end of life management. The greatest responsibility lies with whoever has the most ability to affect the full life cycle environmental impacts of the product. This is most often the producer of the product, though all within the product chain of commerce have roles. This presentation covers EPS drivers and regulations, then takes a deeper look at what this looks like in emerging and transitioning economies in countries like India, South Africa, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.
Business Case for Sustainability Presentation Laura Dunkley
Building the Business Case for Sustainability - Challenges, Identify the Decision Makers, Hierarchy of Business Needs, Reasons Sustainability Initiatives are not Adopted, Success Stories, Resource Links
Circulor Economy – How to Shift "Value Creation" through "Sustainability"-Pet...Simba Events
CSR Leadership World 2014 committee, Simba Events, concentrates to bring the whole system from global network to review and exam CSR issues with 360 angle to discover the earnest ways toward a sustainable economy future!
2014全球企业社会责任领袖峰会组委会-上海辛巴商务咨询有限公司,致力于打造一个整合全球CSR体系资源力量,用360度的全视角审视及检测当前及未来的CSR发展议题,共同找到通往可持续发展的商业未来的最佳路径!
Sustainability – as a conceptual framework for the organization of priorities and allocation of resources – provides a unique platform for reducing costs, identifying and managing risk, enhancing brand, and driving innovation. No other business priority offers as rich a set of benefits over time - benefits that create, enhance and preserve lasting value for all stakeholders.
The major players of the industry that have been featured in this latest edition of green energy providers will also continue to play their part in it.
Dr. Adam J.T. Hand., P.E., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, delivers a presentation on sustainability best practices for the asphalt pavement industry. Presentation delivered on Nov. 6, 2019 at the California Asphalt Pavement Association Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference in Sacramento, Calif.
or sustainability leaders, innovation is key to meeting human needs within planetary limits. They know that many existing business models are predicated on the assumption that natural and social capital are in virtually limitless supply, and that mispriced resources and other market distortions make some models more competitive than they would otherwise be.
Building systemic climate resilience in citiesOECDregions
Climate shocks can have drastic impacts across social, economic and environmental systems.
Adopting a “systems approach” is therefore essential to help promote cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary collaboration in the process of policy making.
The systems approach to climate shocks is even more relevant to cities, as they are places of concern due to the increased exposure to risk, but are also places of opportunities and solution.
APM webinar hosted by the Scotland Network on 14 May 2024.
Speakers: Chris Drysdale and Peter Huggett
An interactive session discussing how Project Managers can identify mental health symptoms, provide tools to help themselves and others, plus also increase the capabilities of the Project Management function. This webinar was held on 14 May 2024.
The covid-19 pandemic led to concerns about a worsening of mental health & wellbeing across the world and increased awareness in both society and the workplace. This webinar looks to advise the benefits of having a Mental Health First Aid function in the workplace whilst also providing tools and techniques that can be readily used and applied to yourself and colleagues. Additionally, there are wider benefits to Project Management which will be proposed and discussed.
Making communications land - Are they received and understood as intended? webinar
Thursday 2 May 2024
A joint webinar created by the APM Enabling Change and APM People Interest Networks, this is the third of our three part series on Making Communications Land.
presented by
Ian Cribbes, Director, IMC&T Ltd
@cribbesheet
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/making-communications-land-are-they-received-and-understood-as-intended-webinar/
Content description:
How do we ensure that what we have communicated was received and understood as we intended and how do we course correct if it has not.
APM Welcome
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Professor Adam Boddison OBE, Chief Executive Officer, APM
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
APM welcome from CEO
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Projecting for the Future: Harmonising Energy and Environment
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Graham Winch, Professor of Project Management, Alliance Manchester Business School
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
APM launched Projecting the Future in June 2019 to debate the challenges and opportunities for the profession, building on the 2017 Future of Project Management exercise conducted by Arup and University College London. This presentation provides the initial results from this third phase of reflection on the future of our profession.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
New to Nuclear - Transition into nuclear from other sectors
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Elaine Falconer, Head of Profession for Project Management, Jacobs
and
Karen Williams, Project Manager, Jacobs
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
In this session, Jacobs shared insights and learning from its ‘New to Nuclear’ programme designed to support mid-career and lateral entrants whose existing skills and expertise can be utilised in the nuclear sector.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Tell us what to do, not how to do it
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Alan Livingstone, Project Delivery Lead, UK&I Water Sector, Stantec
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
How the Stantec Project Management Framework provides our PMs with the flexibility to deliver projects of varying complexity, across a variety of different sectors, within a Global Organisation.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
The Future is Fractional
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Karen Frith, Founder & Managing Partner, Greenlight Partners
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
Discovering the transformational impact of working with fractional experts. Learning how businesses and professionals are embracing fractional roles and how they’re redefining work structures for optimal agility and efficiency.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Lessons learned across projects
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Barney Harle, Head of Major Projects, Manchester City Council
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
What are my key takeaways from working on a vast array of projects including the recent 30+ low carbon and decarbonisation schemes at Manchester City Council?
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Agile Adaptability: Navigating Project Management in a Dynamic World
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Nathan Lumb, Partners Project Manager, GEIC
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
This presentation delved into the vital role adaptability plays in modern project management.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Inclusive Practices in Project Management: Leveraging Digital Frameworks for Diverse Minds
Tuesday 30 April 2024
APM North West Network Conference, Synergies Across Sectors
Presented by:
Caroline Keep, PhD researcher Digitization in Education Organisation, University of Central Lancaster
Conference overview:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/apm-north-west-branch-conference/
Content description:
This talk aimed to provide actionable insights and strategies for embedding inclusivity into the fabric of project management, thereby unlocking the new dimensions of productivity and innovation in the digital sphere.
The main conference objective was to promote the Project Management profession with interaction between project practitioners, APM Corporate members, current project management students, academia and all who have an interest in projects.
Leadership - the project professionals secret weapon
Wednesday 24 April 2024
APM East of England Network
Presented by:
Chris MacLeod
Keep up to date with the APM East of England Network:
https://www.apm.org.uk/community/east-of-england-network/
Content description:
“I’m a Project Manager”.
That’s often what we tell family, friends and peers when asked what we do. But is it really a fair description? It may well be our role title, but it probably doesn’t convey a lot of what we actually do.
This presentation and discussion is about going beyond the frameworks, processes and stereotypes associated with project management and exploring the leadership roles we all in fact perform.
“I provide leadership focused on delivering projects and change for organisations”
APM Project Management Awards - Hints and tips for a winning award entry webinar
Thursday 18 April 2024
The APM Awards overview and the resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/apm-awards/
Content description:
Ahead of the APM Awards 2024, find out from our expert panel what elements make a winning APM Award entry.
Learn how to choose the category best suited to you or your company.
Answers provided to those all-important questions:
-What importance does the criteria hold?
-What are the judging panel looking for?
-How should I structure my entry?
-What additional evidence is acceptable?
-What will give my entry an edge?
X hashtag: #APMawards
The Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme webinar
Wednesday 17 April 2024
APM North West Network
Presented by:
Katie Rowlands
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-vyrnwy-aqueduct-modernisation-programme-webinar/
Content description:
Spotlight on the Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme and the challenges facing a large project within Cheshire.
The Vyrnwy Aqueduct Modernisation Programme is one of United Utilities largest projects focused on the modernisation of three 42” aqueducts that carry clean drinking water across the North West.
This webinar covered the Vyrnwy project and an insight into the project challenges that face a live project within the Cheshire area.
APM event hosted by the London Network on 10 April 2024.
Speaker: Nick Fewings, MD of Ngagementworks
In March 2022, Nick Fewings, Ngagementworks, MD of Ngagementworks, published Team Lead Succeed, based on his 30+years of both leading operational and project teams, and subsequently facilitating team development around the world.
It has become a best seller, with a 96% 5-star review rating, and has been read on 5 of the 7 continents.
In this interactive session, Nick will share learning from Team Lead Succeed that can be applied immediately and make a positive difference to your teamwork.
Nick will share the importance of knowing both WHO is in your team and also HOW effective your teamwork is.
Only 10% of teams achieve high-performance, with 50% being average and 40% dysfunctional.
In this session, delivered by award-winning conference speaker Nick Fewings, and author of best-seller Team Lead Succeed, Nick will share his 30+ years of leading teams and facilitating team development.
Nick has profiled 1,000 of individuals and worked with 100s of teams.
Those attending will benefit from understanding;
Why many projects fail to achieve their goals.
Not relying on just measuring KPIs.
The importance of knowing WHO is in your team, both from a behavioural and technical skills aspect.
The 16 areas of high-performance teamwork, and their importance.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/team-lead-succeed-helping-you-and-your-team-achieve-high-performance-teamwork-2/
Currently Knowledge Transfer Subject Matter Expert (Commercial) in the UKDT PMO on the Peru Reconstruction Plan. Stuart has more than 25 years’ track record of commercial and contract management experience working across both public and private sector projects, as well as more than 20 years’ experience in the development and delivery of professional training. As well as working for Gleeds in the UK and Peru, Stuart has also worked in China for Gleeds and has supported people development in Gleeds’ offices in Egypt and Poland. Stuart has been well placed to support the adoption of the NEC and UK Cost Management best practice in Peru – he was Chair of the RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM) initiative and was heavily involved in the creation of the RICS Black Book Guidance (best practice in cost management).
APM event hosted by the Midlands Network on 11 April 2024.
Speaker: Carole Osterweil
Data is power. AI changes everything.
If the claims about both are true, how can we ensure we use data and AI well? And what does it mean for the very things which make us human - our feelings?
In this workshop Carole will draw on material from her ground-breaking book, Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do to answer both questions.
“We like to think our decision making is completely rational. However, once there's an element of uncertainty, conscious assessments are only part of the story. Two other inputs, both subconscious and driven by our innate need to survive, have a big impact.
One, automatic reactions driven by cognitive biases, gets plenty of airtime.
The other input, our raw visceral emotions might be scary to talk about and less understood - but that’s not a reason to pretend they don’t exist!”
This interactive workshop will draw on material from Carole’s book, Neuroscience for Project Success: why people behave as they do, published by APM in 2022.
You’ll come away with:
a clear understanding of how the human brain works.
a framework that:
explains ‘why people behave as they do’.
makes it easier to talk about feelings in a matter-of-fact way (so that they become part of your conscious data set)
new insights into yourself and your projects in a world that’s often characterised by stress and disorder.
Act on these insights and you’ll see the impact - on your teams and stakeholders, your decisions about how to use data and AI, and ultimately your project outcomes.
AI in the project profession: examples of current use and roadmaps to adoption webinar
Wednesday 27 March 2024
Association for Project Management
Speaker panel:
Andy Murray, James White, James Garner, Karina Singh and Alex Robertson
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/ai-in-the-project-profession-examples-of-current-use-and-roadmaps-to-adoption-webinar/
Content description:
Disruptive technology and accelerating change is the now the norm within business. Advancements that feel relatively recent are already becoming embedded into business-as-usual activity. AI is one such advancement; it is already being used and having real-world impacts across the project profession.
To help P3M professionals understand the implications of this change, APM invited representatives from organisations that have introduced or are preparing to introduce AI into their project workstreams, to explain their approach and share their insight with fellow professionals.
This webinar on explored how AI is currently being used in project and programme management, and how organisations are gearing up for its adoption.
Katharine works for WRAP which is a climate action NGO working in more than 40 countries around the globe to tackle the causes of the climate crisis and give the planet a sustainable future. In this session, you will learn about WRAP’s plastics programme and how sustainability has been incorporated as a core value in delivery of the programme, with the aim of inspiring the audience to take action in their own work.
Kai-Fu Lee predicted that AI would change the world more than anything in the history of humanity – even electricity. It would disrupt how we live and work, how we operate our businesses, the core products and services on offer and the way in which we build technology.
However, in 2024 the impact of AI can no longer be discussed in future tense. With Microsoft copilot now publicly available, the change is already upon us. There is no consultation period or ‘unsubscribe’ button.
Project management professionals are likely to be asked to manage AI projects - and we are expected to skilfully use AI in our daily work lives. While overwhelming, this is not the first time we’ve had to adapt.
Sarah helps her audience sharpen their cutting-edge skills by answering:
What do I need to know about AI right now?
If I’m asked to work on an AI project, what techniques do I need to be successful?
Where do I start my own learning journey to upskill and prepare?
Sarah’s expertise in advanced agile and experience in highly regulated Finance environments give her a unique perspective into balancing governance with technical innovation. She uses her own experience building an AI solution in 2023 to share practical, widely applicable concepts in an “AI for project managers” 101 style session.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
1. Joint ICE and APM Prestige Lecture
Sustainability: the driver for
innovation?
Designing Resilient
Cities
Rob MacKenzie (on behalf of the Urban Futures team)
Monday 1 July, 2013
2. Sustainability, no matter what definition is used,
is all about the future - putting in place now interventions
(solutions) to problems that will yield a positive rather than negative
future legacy.
Sustainability and Interventions I
3. Joint ICE and APM Prestige Lecture
Question
“how sustainable are
the interventions we
propose?”
Designing Resilient Cities
4. Tower Blocks
Built as a response
to post-War housing
crisis
Initially seen as sign
of modernity
People enjoyed the
light, the new
bathrooms and
kitchens
5. Poor maintenance
Poor management
Failed lifts and other
amenities
Key Learning
Maintenance and
management critical to
success; intervention is
a system
Tower Blocks
for housing
6. What sometimes happens…
Case study
(+
Assessment
modelling)
Problem
identified
Solution
designed
Nothing
Happens
Solution
Successful
Something
bad happens
INNOVATION
7. Sustainability and Interventions II
For an intervention to succeed, certain necessary conditions must remain
in place
but these conditions are usually only implicitly considered (if at all) in
planning and development.
The continuation of necessary conditions determines the resilience of a
solution.
8. Joint ICE and APM Prestige Lecture
Question
“how sustainable are
the interventions we
propose?”
Designing Resilient Cities
Answer
“it depends on
what the futures
hold”
9. The Future is plural
Futures thinking exploits the human capacity for change
Urban Futures are
• derived from established philosophical positions: Thomas
Hobbes, JS Mill, Adam Smith, EF Schumacher.
• derived from global scenarios → consistency across scales
Derived urban futures can pressure-test sustainability solutions
Method gives rise to a shared rationale for interventions
can guide practice at every level from policy formulation through to
implementation in specific sites, reducing the risk of “box-ticking”.
10. How might
the future
change?
The
population
decreases?
The site is sold
and the new
owner doesn‟t
prioritise reduced
car ownership?
Someone
removes the
roadside
trees?
Live/work
becomes
the
norm?
Shopping
patterns
change?
Government
policy
changes? The city
becomes
more
densely
populated?
There is no budget in five
years to pay for
maintenance?
Residents prefer a
tumble dryer to
hanging their
washing outside?
16. Fortress World
The world is divided,
with the elite in
interconnected,
protected enclaves
and an impoverished
majority outside
17. The Urban Futures Method
Using future scenarios to determine performance of
interventions made in the name of sustainability
18. Sustainability and Interventions III
An Intervention must have at least one intended benefit,
but it is often lost in the design or decision chains of planning and
development.
Any solution/intervention can have unintended drawbacks.
Drawbacks are often context-specific, but so too are benefits.
MacKenzie, A.R., T.A.M. Pugh and C.D.F. Rogers, “Sustainable Cities: seeing past
the trees”, Nature, 468, p765, 9 December 2010.
20. Step 2
Necessary Conditions for Success
• Non-potable water demand
• Enough greywater must be
collected
• Enough greywater must be
stored
• Must be economically viable
• Must be acceptable to the
community
• Others?
22. New Sust‟bility
Paradigm
Efficient
technologies
and use
Policy Reform
Efficient
technologies
but not use
Market Forces
No change
from current
behavior
Fortress World
Rich and Poor
Non-potable
water
demand
Low demand
Medium
demand
High demand
Rich – High
demand
Poor – Low
demand
Enough
water must
be collected
Risk not
enough
collected
Enough
collected
Enough
collected
Rich – Risk not
enough collected
Poor – not enough
collected
Enough
water must
be stored
Risk not
enough stored
Enough
stored
Enough
stored
Rich – Risk not
enough stored
Poor – Not enough
stored
Economically
viable
ROI takes too
long
ROI
borderline
acceptable
Fast ROI
Fast ROI for rich
and poor
Acceptable to
the
community
Highly
acceptable
Questionable
acceptability
Low
acceptability
High acceptability
Scenarios
NecessaryConditions
24. STEP 1
Solution &
Benefit
STEP 2
Necessary
Conditions
STEP 3
Future
Performance
STEP 4
Resilience to
future
change
STEP 5b
Adapt
STEP 5a
Implement
STEP 5c
Seek
Alternative
The analysis has flagged up reasons why
the solution may fail. This is the starting
point for adapting the solution or..
INNOVATION
25. STEP 1
Solution &
Benefit
STEP 2
Necessary
Conditions
STEP 3
Future
Performance
STEP 4
Resilience to
future
change
STEP 5b
Adapt
STEP 5a
Implement
STEP 5c
Seek
Alternative
This analysis - reasons why the solution may fail.
Starting point for adapting the solution or..
Considering more resilient alternatives
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
26. Lombardi DR, Leach JM,
Rogers CDF et al. (2012)
Designing Resilient Cities: a
Guide to Good Practice. IHS
BRE Press, Bracknell, UK
Quick example of a solution designed to meet a problem, that was welcomed at first but hit a range of problems until finally discredited as beset by and giving rise to a range of other problems
Understanding the possible future changes that will impact on a solution helps to manage risk and support more informed decisionmaking.
Slide asking What if...Showing some questions reflecting possible future changesThis is not an exhaustive list, just a flavor... the future develops differently?
Slide Future Scenarios / How will the future develop?Leads into the scenarios section
The scenarios used in the tool are drawn from those used by the UK Government for policy and planning purposes. They are robust and an extensive review of the literature resulted in convergence on 4 distinct plausible scenarios. The bulk of the research project work was in defining the characteristics for these scenarios against a number of themes and sub sets of indicators which will see more about later in the talk.As we go through the scenarios you will probably have your own experience of examples of each of them – but don’t get locked into 2D images – each scenario – as said already has a deep and wide set of characteristics used by the tool - this set is an evidence base for you to use which is tailored for the UK context and is coherent and internally consistent. We can’t predict one future, one way the world will developSo, we have developed 4 future scenarios of the futureThey are plausible but very different so they can be used to effectively pressure test solutionsThey are UK based, but could easily be adapted for OECDThey are grounded in the academic literature and based upon work by the Global Scenarios GroupIf a solution works in all 4 scenarios then it will likely work in the future – no matter how it develops
The Urban Futures Method and Tool / Using Future Scenarios to Determine Performance – I am going to give a brief overview of the 5 steps in the tool. We will then give a couple of case study examples.Leads into the section describing the Method – this is how we use the scenariosExample to be used throughout this section = rainwater harvesting for reducing the demand for potable water
Step 1: Choose a sustainability solution and one of its intended benefits.Scale can range for building to masterplanExamples = installing a greywater recycling scheme, developing a mixed use site,putting in a low flush toilet, creating a city cycle network, planting urban trees,installing SUDS, putting up a green wall, installing multi utility tunnels, developing acity park, instigating a density gradient policy and using local suppliers.Solutions frequently have many benefits, but each must be considered in turn. Eg.Trees for biodiversity and trees for visual amenity.
Step 2: Indentify the conditions necessary for the solution to deliver its intended benefit.o Necessary conditions = what needs to be in place (now and thus in the future) forthe solution to deliver as planned?o Want enough to be useful and not superficial, but not too many to make the analysisoverbearing.o Also want to identify the most important / influential necessary conditions. Allnecessary conditions may not be created equal.o At this point we can tap the audience for additional necessary conditions: therainwater harvesting example has 5 generic and important necessary conditions.You may wish to identify others and certainly ones that take into account the localcontext of your specific case. For example – what water collection parametersexist for the development in question? How sustainability minded are the targetresidents? The council? The developer?
Showing the rest of the necessary conditions completed