All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Jason Hare
Director of Open Data of the Open Data Institute
Open Government/Open Data
Sustainable Open Data Markets
The challenges of building a strong data infrastructureJeni Tennison
In the 21st century, data is infrastructure for our economy, just like roads. In this session, Jeni will talk about the big challenges of building a strong data infrastructure: challenges of equality of access, challenges of privacy and trust, and the technical challenges of discovery and interoperability.
Underpinning innovation through geography 16062010Geovation
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open, and Chris Parker, Ordnance Survey on open innovation with geographic data.
With Seminar summary outcome slide: "Do's and Dont's of opening up data.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
A talk by Anya Somerville and Michael Smethurst to the Study of Parliament Group annual conference. January 2020. On modelled procedure and queryable precedence.
The challenges of building a strong data infrastructureJeni Tennison
In the 21st century, data is infrastructure for our economy, just like roads. In this session, Jeni will talk about the big challenges of building a strong data infrastructure: challenges of equality of access, challenges of privacy and trust, and the technical challenges of discovery and interoperability.
Underpinning innovation through geography 16062010Geovation
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open, and Chris Parker, Ordnance Survey on open innovation with geographic data.
With Seminar summary outcome slide: "Do's and Dont's of opening up data.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
A talk by Anya Somerville and Michael Smethurst to the Study of Parliament Group annual conference. January 2020. On modelled procedure and queryable precedence.
“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015
A talk given to the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section and IPU Joint Virtual Conference "Parliamentary library & research services – towards an agenda for the next decade"
Presenting the Open Data Institute and our efforts to make North Carolina the largest interoperable data market in the world. Data must be broken down and analyzed for it to have value. Information included about Open Data portals and competitions in North Carolina.
This was a talk given at 'Netzpolitischer Abend' at Metalab Vienna on the 7th of April 2016. Its topic was the impact of data science on our society by showing two examples: the Internet of things and its algorithms and crime prediction.
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open on: The Do's and Dont's of Opening Up Data.
Seminar summary slide.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography, launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
Presentation to ODI nodes on 22 September 2015 of work in progress on data spectrum, data lexicon and data infrastructure. Still draft. Always be iterating :)
Investing in innovation for genomic medicine - the journey of RepositiveFiona Nielsen
by Fiona Nielsen
Presented for UK Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine Network (UK PGx Network) - Entrepreneurship, Disruptive Innovation and Personalised Medicine University of Liverpool London Campus, Finsbury Square, Wednesday 7th June 2017
The Gurubox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting ToolsAll Things Open
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Wes Morgan
Network/Software Engineer for IBMConsulting
Admin
The Gurubox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting Tools
All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
DeLisa Alexander
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for Red Hat
Opening Keynote
Women in Open Source
“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015
A talk given to the IFLA Library and Research Services for Parliaments Section and IPU Joint Virtual Conference "Parliamentary library & research services – towards an agenda for the next decade"
Presenting the Open Data Institute and our efforts to make North Carolina the largest interoperable data market in the world. Data must be broken down and analyzed for it to have value. Information included about Open Data portals and competitions in North Carolina.
This was a talk given at 'Netzpolitischer Abend' at Metalab Vienna on the 7th of April 2016. Its topic was the impact of data science on our society by showing two examples: the Internet of things and its algorithms and crime prediction.
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open on: The Do's and Dont's of Opening Up Data.
Seminar summary slide.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography, launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
Presentation to ODI nodes on 22 September 2015 of work in progress on data spectrum, data lexicon and data infrastructure. Still draft. Always be iterating :)
Investing in innovation for genomic medicine - the journey of RepositiveFiona Nielsen
by Fiona Nielsen
Presented for UK Pharmacogenetics and Stratified Medicine Network (UK PGx Network) - Entrepreneurship, Disruptive Innovation and Personalised Medicine University of Liverpool London Campus, Finsbury Square, Wednesday 7th June 2017
The Gurubox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting ToolsAll Things Open
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Wes Morgan
Network/Software Engineer for IBMConsulting
Admin
The Gurubox Project: Open Source Troubleshooting Tools
All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
DeLisa Alexander
Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer for Red Hat
Opening Keynote
Women in Open Source
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Jason Hibbets
Director of OpenSource.com
Midday Keynote
How Raleigh Became an Open Source City
All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Ben Balter
Government Evangelist with GitHub
Open Government/Open Data
Software Development as a Civic Service
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Case Study: We're Watching You: How and Why Researchers Study Open Source And...All Things Open
All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Dr. Megan Squire
Associate Professor of Computing Sciences with FLOSSmole Project & Elon University
Business
Case Study: We're Watching You: How and Why Researchers Study Open Source And What We've Found So Far
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Elizabeth Joseph
Automation & Tools Engineer for HP
Admin
Open Source Systems Administration
What Does Big Data Really Mean for Your Business?All Things Open
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Leslie Hawthorn
Director of Developer Relations for Elasticsearch
Big Data
What Does Big Data Really Mean for Your Business?
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Frédéric Harper
Senior Technical Evangelist for Mozilla
Mobile
HTML for the Mobile Web, Firefox OS
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The Ember.js Framework - Everything You Need To KnowAll Things Open
All Things Open 2014 - Day 2
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Yehuda Katz
Founder of Tilde
Front Dev 1
The Ember.js Framework - Everything You Need To Know
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Arfon Smith
Chief Scientist for GitHub
Open Government/Open Data
What Academia Can Learn from Open Source
Find more by Arfon here: https://speakerdeck.com/arfon
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Robert Bates
Senior Developer for Phase2
Open Government/Open Data
Open Data + Open Government = Open Goodness
All Things Open 2014 - Day 1
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Joseph Gagliari
Web Designer and Frontend Developer for University of West Georgia
Design
Great Artists (Designers) Steal
This presentation was given by Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze of the OECD at the CERI Conference on Innovation, Governance and Reform in Education on 5 November 2014 during session 6.b: The Role of “Big Data”.
Talk delivered at London Natural History Museum's "Informatics Horizons for the Natural History Museum" video and programme here
http://scratchpads.eu/NHMInformaticsday
ODI Node Vienna: Best Practise Beispiele für: Open Innovation mittels Open DataMartin Kaltenböck
Vortrag im Rahmen des Data Pioneers Workshop am 10.10.2016 am BMVIT zum Thema Open Innovation und Open Data (Open Innovation mittels Open Data) seitens Elmar Kiesling (TU Wien) und Martin Kaltenböck (SWC) für den ODI (Open Data Institute) Node Vienna.
John Girard's talk for KM Russia 2014 in which he explores the relationship between knowledge management and big data through the lens of technology, leadership and culture
Briefing on US EPA Open Data Strategy using a Linked Data Approach3 Round Stones
An overview presented by Ms. Bernadette Hyland on 18-Nov 2014 on the US EPA Open Data strategy, focusing on the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) dataset to be published as linked data . This work is in support of Presidential Memorandum M13-13 - Open Data Policy and Managing Information as an Asset.
El impacto de open data en el mundo y en Venezuela. Profesora Maria Esther Vidal. Universidad Simón Bolivar. Presentacion realizada durante el boot camp sobre periodismo de datos-Venezuela.
What is research data?
Value and potential of research data and who benefits
What is data sharing? Open/shared/closed models
Benefits of open data
Class discussion: does all data need to be open to get value from it?
Building Reliability - The Realities of ObservabilityAll Things Open
Presented at the ATO RTP Meetup
Presented by Jeremy Proffit, Director of DevSecOps & SRE for Customer Care and Communications, Ally
Title: Building Reliability - The Realities of Observability
Abstract: Join me as we discuss true observability, learn what works and what doesn't. We'll not only discuss dashboards, monitoring and alerting, but how these can be built by automation or included in your IAC modules. We'll talk about how to properly alert staff based on priority to keep your staff and yourself sane. And even discuss architecture and how it impacts reliably and why serverless isn't always the best at being reliable.
Presented at the ATO RTP Meetup
Presented by Peter Zaitsev, Founder of Percona
Title: Modern Database Best Practices
Abstract: There are now more Database choices available for developers than ever before - there are general purpose databases and specialized databases, single node and distributed databases, Open Source, Proprietary databases and databases available exclusively in the cloud. In this presentation we will cover the best practices of choosing database(s) for your applications, best practices as it comes to application development as well as managing those databases to achieve best possible performance, security, availability at the lowest cost.
All Things Open 2023
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Deb Bryant - Open Source Initiative, Patrick Masson - Apereo Foundation, Stephen Jacobs - Rochester Institute of Technology, Ruth Suehle - SAS, & Greg Wallace - FreeBSD Foundation
Title: Open Source and Public Policy
Abstract: New regulations in the software industry and adjacent areas such as AI, open science, open data, and open education are on the rise around the world. Cyber Security, societal impact of AI, data and privacy are paramount issues for legislators globally. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic drove collaborative development to unprecedented levels and took Open Source software, open research, open content and data from mainstream to main stage, creating tension between public benefit and citizen safety and security as legislators struggle to find a balance between open collaboration and protecting citizens.
Historically, the open source software community and foundations supporting its work have not engaged in policy discussions. Moving forward, thoughtful development of these important public policies whilst not harming our complex ecosystems requires an understanding of how our ecosystem operates. Ensuring stakeholders without historic benefit of representation in those discussions becomes paramount to that end.
Please join our open discussion with open policy stakeholders working constructively on current open policy topics. Our panelists will provide a view into how oss foundations and other open domain allies are now rising to this new challenge as well as seizing the opportunity to influence positive changes to the public’s benefit.
Topics: Public Policy, Open Science, Open Education, current legislation in the US and EU, US interest in OSS sustainability, intro to the Open Policy Alliance
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Weaving Microservices into a Unified GraphQL Schema with graph-quilt - Ashpak...All Things Open
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Presented by Ashpak Shaikh & Lucy Shen - Intuit
Title: Weaving Microservices into a Unified GraphQL Schema with graph-quilt
Abstract: The magic of GraphQL is that it provides data access through a single endpoint—clean and easy. But as the number of GraphQL microservices your tech stack depends on starts to grow, that single-endpoint purpose becomes a new multi-endpoint problem. Ideally, we would have an orchestrator that could aggregate schemas from multiple microservices into a unified GraphQL schema and route the requests to the appropriate microservice.
Enter graph-quilt, an open source Java library that provides recursive schema stitching and Apollo Federation style schema composition. In this talk, we’ll walk through our GraphQL journey and show you how to use graph-quilt to simplify your data orchestration needs. We will also share our open sourced reference implementation of a highly performant graph-quilt gateway currently being used in production here at Intuit, where we’ve had incredible success in scaling the gateway with 50+ microservices and 150+ clients.
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The State of Passwordless Auth on the Web - Phil NashAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Phil Nash - Sonar
Title: The State of Passwordless Auth on the Web
Abstract: Can we get rid of passwords yet? They make for a poor user experience and users are notoriously bad with them. The advent of WebAuthn has brought a passwordless world closer, but where do we really stand?
In this talk we'll explore the current user experience of WebAuthn and the requirements a user has to fulfil to authenticate without a password. We'll also explore the fallbacks and safeguards we can use to make the password experience better and more secure. By the end of the session you'll have a vision of how authentication could look in the future and a blueprint for how to build the best auth experience today.
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Total ReDoS: The dangers of regex in JavaScriptAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Phil Nash - Sonar
Title: Total ReDoS: The dangers of regex in JavaScript
Abstract: Regular expressions are complicated and can be hard to learn. On top of that, they can also be a security risk; writing the wrong pattern can open your application up to denial of service attacks. One token out of place and you invite in the dreaded ReDoS.
But how can a regular expression cause this? In this talk we’ll track down the patterns that can cause this trouble, explain why they are an issue and propose ways to fix them now and avoid them in the future. Together we’ll demystify these powerful search patterns and keep your application safe from expressions that behave in a way that is anything but regular.
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What Does Real World Mass Adoption of Decentralized Tech Look Like?All Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Karl Mozurkewich - Storj
Title: What Does Real World Mass Adoption of Decentralized Tech Look Like?
Abstract: We delve into the transformative potential of decentralized technology. Beginning with a brief overview of the rise of centralization with the advent of the internet and the counter-shift marked by blockchain we explore the intrinsic characteristics of decentralized and distributed systems, such as trustless operations, peer-to-peer networks, and enterprise application scalability. Various sectors, including finance, supply chains, media and entertainment, data science and cloud infrastructure are on the brink of disruption. The societal implications are vast, with the potential for greater individual empowerment, a greener planet and more viable resource utilization, but concerns about data security persist.
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Presented by Anastasia Lalamentik - Kaleido
Title: How to Write & Deploy a Smart Contract
Abstract: In this talk, Anastasia Lalamentik, Full Stack Engineer at Kaleido, will walk through how Ethereum smart contracts work and go over related concepts like gas fees, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the block explorer, and the Solidity programming language. This is vital to anyone who wants to build a blockchain app and is a great introduction to blockchain technology for newcomers to the space.
By the end of the talk, attendees will better understand how to:
- Write a simple smart contract
- Deploy their smart contract to an Ethereum test network through the latest tools like Hardhat and the MetaMask wallet
- Test interactions with their deployed smart contract and ensure that everything is working properly
Additionally, participants will get to interact with Anastasia's deployed smart contract at the end of the talk. Anastasia’s past talks have attracted and have been attended by a diverse group of participants with a range of experience in the space.
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Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows, Apache Kafka and TensorFlowAll Things Open
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Presented by Paul Brebner - Instaclustr (by Spot by NetApp)
Title: Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows, Apache Kafka and TensorFlow
Abstract: In this talk we’ll build a Drone delivery application, and then use it to do some Machine Learning “on the fly”.
In the 1st part of the talk, we'll build a real-time Drone Delivery demonstration application using a combination of two open-source technologies: Uber’s Cadence (for stateful, scheduled, long-running workflows), and Apache Kafka (for fast streaming data).
With up to 2,000 (simulated) drones and deliveries in progress at once this application generates a vast flow of spatio-temporal data.
In the 2nd part of the talk, we'll use this platform to explore Machine Learning (ML) over streaming and drifting Kafka data with TensorFlow to try and predict which shops will be busy in advance.
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Presented at the All Things Open 2023 Inclusion and Diversity in Open Source Event
Presented by Efraim Marquez-Arreaza - Red Hat
Title: DEI Challenges and Success
Abstract: In today's world, many companies and organizations have Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) communities. Red Hat Unidos is a DEI community focused on advocating for the Hispanic/Latine community. In this talk, we would like to share our challenges and success during the past 4-years and plans for the future.
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Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Lydia Cupery - HubSpot
Title: Scaling Web Applications with Background Jobs: Takeaways from Generating a Huge PDF
Abstract: Do you need to perform time-consuming or CPU-intensive processes in your web application but are concerned about performance? That’s where background jobs come in. By offloading resource-intensive tasks to separate worker processes, you can improve the scalability of your web application.
In this talk, I'll share my experience of using background jobs to scale our web application. I'll discuss the challenges my team faced that led us to adopt background jobs. Then, I'll share practical tips on how to design background jobs for CPU-intensive or time-consuming processes, such as generating huge PDFs and batch emailing. I'll wrap up by going over the performance and cost tradeoffs of background jobs.
I'll use Typescript, Express, and Heroku as examples in this talk, but the concepts and best practices that I'll share are applicable to other languages and tools.
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Presented by Robert Aboukhalil - CZI
Title: Supercharging tutorials with WebAssembly
Abstract: sandbox.bio is a free platform that features interactive command-line tutorials for bioinformatics. This talk is a deep-dive into how sandbox.bio was built, with a focus on how WebAssembly enabled bringing command-line tools like awk and grep to the web. Although these tools were originally written in C/C++, they all run directly in the browser, thanks to WebAssembly! And since the computations run on each user's computer, this makes the application highly scalable and cost-effective.
Along the way, I'll discuss how WebAssembly works and how to get started using it in your own applications. The talk will also cover more advanced WebAssembly features such as threads and SIMD, and will end with a discussion of WebAssembly's benefits and pitfalls (it's a powerful technology, but it's not always the right tool!).
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Presented by K.S. Bhaskar - YottaDB LLC
Title: Using SQL to Find Needles in Haystacks
Abstract: Database journal files capture every update to a database. A database of a few hundred GB can generate GBs worth of journal files every minute at busy times. Troubleshooting and forensices, especially of rare and intermittent problems, such as which process made what update and when, is an exercise of finding needles in haystacks. A similar problem exists with syslogs. A solution is to load the journal files and syslogs into a database, and use SQL to query the database. Bhaskar will present and demonstrate this with a 100% FOSS stack.
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Configuration Security as a Game of Pursuit InterceptAll Things Open
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Presented by Wes Widner - Automox
Title: Configuration Security as a Game of Pursuit Intercept
Abstract: In this session we will take a look at the emerging field of cloud security posture management and how we can approach the problem space using a class of board games known as pursuit/intercept. Using the game Scotland Yard as a visual illustration we'll explore the cognitive and technical limitations that all CSPM systems face and what you should look for when evaluating the strengths and weakness of CSPM vendors and approaches.
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Presented by Carol Huang & Mike Fix - Stripe
Title: Scaling an Open Source Sponsorship Program
Abstract: We already know this: the open-source ecosystem needs further monetary investment from the companies that benefit most from it. Likewise, companies say they want to participate in these initiatives, but find it hard to dedicate resources to open source funding when there isn’t a clear ROI.
This talk discusses how the Open Source Program Office at Stripe built a scalable, sustainable open source sponsorship model that aligns internal company incentives with those of open source maintainers and the community at large. We go over the unique “platformization” of our OSPO that allowed us to create multiple funding models, such as BYOB (Bring Your Own Budget), and share lessons learned from this experience as well as other OSPOs.
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Build Developer Experience Teams for Open SourceAll Things Open
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Presented by Arundeep Nagaraj - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Title: Build Developer Experience Teams for Open Source
Abstract: Open Source has become the default strategy for many IT organizations and Enterprises. However, the constant challenge with Open Source leaders of these organizations has been -
How is my product's developer experience?
Is this the right metric to track?
How can I scale my team to support our products better?
How can I add automation to scale redundant workflows?
If my product involves working with developers, how can I scale to the complexity of the requests and reduce Engineering bandwidth?
The challenges within support of open source products continues to magnify depending on the end user persona whether they are consumers or contributors to your product. Consumers utilize your product, SDK's and API's and are blocked with using it or run into issues, whereas contributors are advanced users of your software that understands the codebase to provide a meaningful contribution back to the product.
The answer to the above is to look at Open Source support as a first-class citizen of your corporate support strategy. To employ the right level of developer focused support as opposed to traditional infrastructure based support is key to scale to the amount of developers using your product. Supporting customers in the open involves more than pure support - building customer / developer experiences (DX) in the open (across platforms and communities) that pivots over the ability of your product's users or developers to be focused on the end-to-end value add. This helps with your active developer growth and retention of users.
Key Takeaways:
- IT leaders of Open Source will learn to employ strategies to build a DX team that engages on multiple platforms
- Work on identifying accurate metrics for product and organization
- Innovate on platforms such as Discord to build a bot and a dashboard
- Ability to leverage customer feedback and iterate over the customer success flywheel
- Distinguish between DX and Developer Advocacy (DA)
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Presented by Danny McCormick - Google
Title: Deploying Models at Scale with Apache Beam
Abstract: Apache Beam is an open source tool for building distributed scalable data pipelines. This talk will explore how Beam can be used to perform common machine learning tasks, with a heavy focus on running inference at scale. The talk will include a demo component showing how Beam can be used to deploy and update models efficiently on both CPUs and GPUs for inference workloads.
An attendee can expect to leave this talk with a high level understanding of Beam, the challenges of deploying models at scale, and the ability to use Beam to easily parallelize their inference workloads.
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Sudo – Giving access while staying in controlAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Peter Czanik - One Identity
Title: Sudo – Giving access while staying in control
Abstract: Sudo is used by millions to control and log administrator access to systems, but using the default configuration only, there are plenty of blind spots. Using the latest features in sudo let you watch some previously blind spots and control access to them. Here are four major new features, which arrived since the 1.9.0 release, allowing you see your blind spots:
- configuring a working directory or chroot within sudo often makes full shell access redundant
- JSON-formatted logs give you more details on events and are easier to act on
- relays in sudo_logsrvd make session recording collection more secure and reliable
- you can log and control sub-commands executed by the command run through sudo
Let us take a closer look at each of these.
Previously, there were quite a few situations where you had to give users full shell access through sudo. Typical examples include when you need to run a command from a given directory, or running commands in a chroot environment. You can now configure the working directory or the chroot directory and give access only to the command the user really needs.
Logging is a central role of sudo, to see who did what on the system. Using JSON-formatted log messages gives you even more information about events. What is even more: structured logs are easier to act on. Setting up alerting for suspicious events is much easier when you have a single parser to configure for any kind of sudo logs. You can collect sudo logs not only by local syslog, but also by using sudo_logsrvd, the same application used to collect session recordings.
Speaking of session recordings: instead of using a single central server, you can now have multiple levels of sudo_logsrvd relays between the client and the final destination. This allows session collection even if the central server is unavailable, providing you with additional security. It also makes your network configuration simpler.
Finally, you can log sub-commands executed from the command started through sudo. You can see commands started from a shell. No more unnoticed shell access from text editors. Best of all: you can also intercept sub-commands.
These are just a few of the most prominent features helping you to watch and control previous blind spots on your systems. See these and other possibilities in action in some live demos during our presentation.
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Fortifying the Future: Tackling Security Challenges in AI/ML ApplicationsAll Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Christine Abernathy - F5, Inc.
Title: Fortifying the Future: Tackling Security Challenges in AI/ML Applications
Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications continue to surge, it is crucial to be aware of and address the security risks associated with these technologies. In this talk, Christine will explore AI/ML failure modes, threats, and mitigation strategies. She will guide you through the fundamentals of ML models then introduce you to key security challenges such as adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, model stealing, and membership inference attacks, using real-world examples to demonstrate their potential impact.
Christine will also discuss privacy and ethical considerations in ML, touching upon techniques like federated learning and shedding light on the current regulatory landscape surrounding security risks. If you are developing AI/ML applications or incorporating AI/ML components into your technology stack, check out this talk. You will walk away with a deeper understanding of the current AI/ML security landscape and a toolkit to help you address these risks, enabling you to build safer, more secure, and privacy-aware applications.
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Securing Cloud Resources Deployed with Control Planes on Kubernetes using Gov...All Things Open
Presented at All Things Open 2023
Presented by Carlos Santana - AWS
Title: Securing Cloud Resources Deployed with Control Planes on Kubernetes using Governance and Policy as Code
Abstract: Are you concerned about the security of your cloud resources deployed on Kubernetes? Are you struggling to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while managing your cloud infrastructure? If yes, then this talk is for you!
We will discuss how to secure cloud resources deployed with Crossplane on Kubernetes using Governance and Policy as Code. We will explore how to leverage Governance and Policy as Code tools like Rego, Kyverno, and OPA to ensure security and compliance.
By the end of this talk, you will have a better understanding of the challenges associated with securing cloud resources deployed with Crossplane or ACK on Kubernetes, the importance of Governance and Policy as Code in ensuring security and compliance, and why it is critical to use open source and open standards in these technologies.
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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.
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.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024
Sustainable Open Data Markets
1. The Open Data Institute of North Carolina
Sustainable Open Data
Jason Hare · @jasonmhare
2. “Open data and a change of mindset
is the next step in the internet
revolution”
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, tweeting from middle of the 2012 Olympics
10. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Gavin Starks CEO
18+ years startup experience
20+ years science, web, media, and data
Jeni Tennison CTO
World-leader in open data and linked data
W3C, legislation.gov.uk and data.gov.uk
Stuart Coleman VP Market Dev.
15+ years in commercial tech space
Formerly HP, CA, and AMEE
23. Open data can help unlock $3-5 trillion in
economic value annually across seven sectors.
Open data: Unlocking
innovation and
performance with
liquid information
McKinsey Global
Institute
24. How Can We Help
“I got it wrong on climate change
– it's far, far worse.”
Nicholas Stern
27. The first robust quality
badge for open data.
Expert
An exceptional example of information infrastructure.
Standard
Regularly published open data with robust support
that people can rely on.
Pilot
Data users receive extra support from, and can provide
feedback to, the publisher.
Raw
A great start at the basics of publishing open data.