My talk at the 2013 Social Innovation Summit. Democracies get their strength from the people’s trust. When the interactions that people have with government are so divorced from how they live their lives, or are hard and unpleasant, what does that do to the trust that underlies our democracies? At Code for America, we try to restore trust in government by building interfaces to essential government services that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use.
We take four approaches: 1) we work directly with government officials (at the local level) to create the capacity inside government to build innovative solutions to hard problems; 2) we build communities of technologists and citizens who want to lend their skills to help build their governments; 3) we build tools that make citizen interactions with government easier, simpler, and more elegant, so that the experience of government is positive and breeds trust. 4) We incubate and accelerate civic startups to create new
economic models for those tools.
Don’t stop believing that government can work, and can be a force for good
Software Above the Level of a Single DeviceTim O'Reilly
My talk at the O'Reilly Solid Conference on May 22, 2014. I mostly talk about UI implications of the Internet of Things, but also about the need for interoperability.
My keynote at the Twilio developer conference on September 19, 2013 in San Francisco. Reflections on the internet as a platform, why applications like Square, Uber, and the Google autonomous vehicle tell us what that platform makes possible, and why it's imperative for entrepreneurs to create more value than they capture. I also talk about Code for America, government as platform, and Twilio for Good.
Government as a Platform: What We've Learned Since 2008 (ppt)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the UK Government Digital Service Sprint 15 event in London, February 2, 2015. I talk about my idea of government as a platform, and what I've learned since I first articulated the idea, with specific reference to what the GDS has taught me about the idea.
Oakland Public Ethics Commission: Transparency, Open Data, and Gov as PlatformTim O'Reilly
I spoke at the Oakland Public Ethics commission on June 25, 2013. I was trying to set some context about how the ideas of transparency, open data, and government platform should shape their thinking. This is a PDF with notes on my talking points below each slide.
My keynote at Velocity New York (#VelocityConf) on September 17, 2014. The failure of healthcare.gov was a textbook DevOps (or rather, lack of DevOps) case study. But it’s part of a wider pattern that reminds us that people should be at the heart of everything we build. In fact, getting the “people” part right is the key both to DevOps and great user experience design. It runs from the Internet of Things right through building government services that really work for citizens.
World Government Summit on Open Source (keynote file)Tim O'Reilly
This is the keynote file for my talk at the Acquia World Government Summit on Open Source. I talked about the role of open source in the internet, and the role it can play in government.
Open Data: From the Information Age to the Action Age (Keynote File)Tim O'Reilly
This is the presentation I made at the UK Department for International Aid/Omidyar Network OpenUp! conference in London on November 13, 2012. I talk about open government not as a platform for transparency or citizen engagement, but for a developer ecosystem building useful services. A video of this talk is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OIlxdpfu71o
Software Above the Level of a Single DeviceTim O'Reilly
My talk at the O'Reilly Solid Conference on May 22, 2014. I mostly talk about UI implications of the Internet of Things, but also about the need for interoperability.
My keynote at the Twilio developer conference on September 19, 2013 in San Francisco. Reflections on the internet as a platform, why applications like Square, Uber, and the Google autonomous vehicle tell us what that platform makes possible, and why it's imperative for entrepreneurs to create more value than they capture. I also talk about Code for America, government as platform, and Twilio for Good.
Government as a Platform: What We've Learned Since 2008 (ppt)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the UK Government Digital Service Sprint 15 event in London, February 2, 2015. I talk about my idea of government as a platform, and what I've learned since I first articulated the idea, with specific reference to what the GDS has taught me about the idea.
Oakland Public Ethics Commission: Transparency, Open Data, and Gov as PlatformTim O'Reilly
I spoke at the Oakland Public Ethics commission on June 25, 2013. I was trying to set some context about how the ideas of transparency, open data, and government platform should shape their thinking. This is a PDF with notes on my talking points below each slide.
My keynote at Velocity New York (#VelocityConf) on September 17, 2014. The failure of healthcare.gov was a textbook DevOps (or rather, lack of DevOps) case study. But it’s part of a wider pattern that reminds us that people should be at the heart of everything we build. In fact, getting the “people” part right is the key both to DevOps and great user experience design. It runs from the Internet of Things right through building government services that really work for citizens.
World Government Summit on Open Source (keynote file)Tim O'Reilly
This is the keynote file for my talk at the Acquia World Government Summit on Open Source. I talked about the role of open source in the internet, and the role it can play in government.
Open Data: From the Information Age to the Action Age (Keynote File)Tim O'Reilly
This is the presentation I made at the UK Department for International Aid/Omidyar Network OpenUp! conference in London on November 13, 2012. I talk about open government not as a platform for transparency or citizen engagement, but for a developer ecosystem building useful services. A video of this talk is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OIlxdpfu71o
An Operating System for the Real WorldTim O'Reilly
My keynote at the Concur #PerfectTrip Devcon on October 2, 2013. I talk about the "internet operating system," and how sensors are turning it into a real world operating system, with "context aware programming." I use this metaphor to give lessons from some projects and startups putting these principles to work, including Tripit, the Google Autonomous Vehicle, Square, Uber, and Google Now.
Lessons from a career marketing big ideasTim O'Reilly
Slides from a talk I gave at the TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler, BC on August 18, 2013. It tells the history of my activism about the web, open source software, and open government, with an emphasis on lessons learned.
Open Data: From the Information Age to the Action Age (PDF with notes)Tim O'Reilly
This is the presentation I made at the UK Department for International Aid/Omidyar Network OpenUp! conference in London on November 13, 2012. I talk about open government not as a platform for transparency or citizen engagement, but for a developer ecosystem building useful services. A video of this talk is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OIlxdpfu71o
World Government Summit on Open SourceTim O'Reilly
PDF of slides and notes from my keynote at Acquia's World Government Summit on Open Source in Washington DC October 11, 2012. I talk about how open source enabled the internet as a platform, and how it can enable government as a platform. I talk about examples from the internet and from Code for America's work with cities. I crib shamelessly from some of Jen Pahlka's talks about Code for America, and some of the lessons that can be taken from her work.
Government as a Platform: What We've Learned Since 2008 (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the UK Government Digital Service Sprint 15 event in London, February 2, 2015. I talk about my idea of government as a platform, and what I've learned since I first articulated the idea, with specific reference to what the GDS has taught me about the idea.
The AIs Are Not Taking Our Jobs...They Are Changing ThemTim O'Reilly
My talk at the Web Summit in Dublin on November 6, 2014. Reflections on the notion that AI will take away jobs, and our need to recognize and redefine the human role in the applications we build. Covers many of the same ideas as my "Internet of Things and Humans" talk, but from a slightly different angle.
Reinventing Healthcare to Serve People, Not InstitutionsTim O'Reilly
My talk at South by Southwest on March 16, 2015. I use examples from consumer technology (the Apple Store, Uber/Lyft, and Google Now) to show where "the bar" is now for user experience, and what that should teach us about how to redesign healthcare. I also talk about the work of Code for America to debug the UX for CalFresh and MediCal.
Government For The People, By The People, In the 21st CenturyTim O'Reilly
My joint keynote with Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America at the Accela Engage conference in San Diego on August 5, 2014. We talk about current advances in technology, and how they call for anyone developing services to put their users at the center. In particular, we talk about how these lessons apply to government. Making government work by the people and for the people in a 21st century way is central to restoring faith in government.
Some Lessons for Startups (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program on March 6, 2013. I talk about some technical and business lessons from Square, Uber, AirBnB, and the Google Autonomous Vehicle that are applicable to today's startups.
Lessons from a Career Marketing Big IdeasTim O'Reilly
My talk at #BrooklynBeta on October 11, 2013. I talked about what I've learned from work on the commercialization of the web, open source, web 2.0, the maker movement, and open government. Key principles for online activists.
Some Context for Thinking About
Technology and Sustainability. A version of my "Towards a Global Brain" talk with a focus on sustainability, given at the Verge conference on the convergence of buildings, transportation, energy, and information, on March 15, 2012.
The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My keynote at OSCON 2012 in Portland, July 18, 2012. Focuses on the contribution of open source software to the economy, using the metaphor of "the clothesline paradox" first articulated by Steve Baer in CoEvolution Quarterly in 1975
Technological Revolutions and Cultural Revolutions: OSCON 2014Tim O'Reilly
Open source, DevOps, cloud computing, and the internet of things don't just require new technology, they require new thinking about how society and business is to be organized. It's critical, therefore, to infuse the work that developers do with human values, and to build a world that we are proud of.
The future trajectory of society and digital technology is not only changing the way we interact with government – it is forcing us to reconsider what government is actually for and what role it should play in our daily lives.
An Operating System for the Real WorldTim O'Reilly
My keynote at the Concur #PerfectTrip Devcon on October 2, 2013. I talk about the "internet operating system," and how sensors are turning it into a real world operating system, with "context aware programming." I use this metaphor to give lessons from some projects and startups putting these principles to work, including Tripit, the Google Autonomous Vehicle, Square, Uber, and Google Now.
Lessons from a career marketing big ideasTim O'Reilly
Slides from a talk I gave at the TED Fellows Retreat in Whistler, BC on August 18, 2013. It tells the history of my activism about the web, open source software, and open government, with an emphasis on lessons learned.
Open Data: From the Information Age to the Action Age (PDF with notes)Tim O'Reilly
This is the presentation I made at the UK Department for International Aid/Omidyar Network OpenUp! conference in London on November 13, 2012. I talk about open government not as a platform for transparency or citizen engagement, but for a developer ecosystem building useful services. A video of this talk is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OIlxdpfu71o
World Government Summit on Open SourceTim O'Reilly
PDF of slides and notes from my keynote at Acquia's World Government Summit on Open Source in Washington DC October 11, 2012. I talk about how open source enabled the internet as a platform, and how it can enable government as a platform. I talk about examples from the internet and from Code for America's work with cities. I crib shamelessly from some of Jen Pahlka's talks about Code for America, and some of the lessons that can be taken from her work.
Government as a Platform: What We've Learned Since 2008 (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the UK Government Digital Service Sprint 15 event in London, February 2, 2015. I talk about my idea of government as a platform, and what I've learned since I first articulated the idea, with specific reference to what the GDS has taught me about the idea.
The AIs Are Not Taking Our Jobs...They Are Changing ThemTim O'Reilly
My talk at the Web Summit in Dublin on November 6, 2014. Reflections on the notion that AI will take away jobs, and our need to recognize and redefine the human role in the applications we build. Covers many of the same ideas as my "Internet of Things and Humans" talk, but from a slightly different angle.
Reinventing Healthcare to Serve People, Not InstitutionsTim O'Reilly
My talk at South by Southwest on March 16, 2015. I use examples from consumer technology (the Apple Store, Uber/Lyft, and Google Now) to show where "the bar" is now for user experience, and what that should teach us about how to redesign healthcare. I also talk about the work of Code for America to debug the UX for CalFresh and MediCal.
Government For The People, By The People, In the 21st CenturyTim O'Reilly
My joint keynote with Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America at the Accela Engage conference in San Diego on August 5, 2014. We talk about current advances in technology, and how they call for anyone developing services to put their users at the center. In particular, we talk about how these lessons apply to government. Making government work by the people and for the people in a 21st century way is central to restoring faith in government.
Some Lessons for Startups (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My talk at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program on March 6, 2013. I talk about some technical and business lessons from Square, Uber, AirBnB, and the Google Autonomous Vehicle that are applicable to today's startups.
Lessons from a Career Marketing Big IdeasTim O'Reilly
My talk at #BrooklynBeta on October 11, 2013. I talked about what I've learned from work on the commercialization of the web, open source, web 2.0, the maker movement, and open government. Key principles for online activists.
Some Context for Thinking About
Technology and Sustainability. A version of my "Towards a Global Brain" talk with a focus on sustainability, given at the Verge conference on the convergence of buildings, transportation, energy, and information, on March 15, 2012.
The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy (pdf with notes)Tim O'Reilly
My keynote at OSCON 2012 in Portland, July 18, 2012. Focuses on the contribution of open source software to the economy, using the metaphor of "the clothesline paradox" first articulated by Steve Baer in CoEvolution Quarterly in 1975
Technological Revolutions and Cultural Revolutions: OSCON 2014Tim O'Reilly
Open source, DevOps, cloud computing, and the internet of things don't just require new technology, they require new thinking about how society and business is to be organized. It's critical, therefore, to infuse the work that developers do with human values, and to build a world that we are proud of.
The future trajectory of society and digital technology is not only changing the way we interact with government – it is forcing us to reconsider what government is actually for and what role it should play in our daily lives.
The Open Group Panel Explores Ways to Help Smart Cities Initiatives Overcome ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how The Open Group is ambitiously seeking to improve the impact of smart cities initiatives by easing the complexity and unique challenges inherent in public sector digital transformation projects.
Open Government and local community foundations: Getting involvedHack the Hood
What is Open Government and what opportunities does it offer for you as a community foundation? Attend this webinar and learn more about how partnerships between technologists and city, county, state and federal governments can result in greater transparency and accountability, more access to data for citizens, and even cost-savings—and what role local organizations like yours are playing.
http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/learning-module/open-gov-and-what-it-means-community-foundations
This is the pdf (with notes) of my slide deck from the Smart Disclosure Summit in Washington D.C. on March 30, 2012. Video will eventually be available.
A presentation for public sector professionals about the benefits and risks of social media. Explains how rapid growth in technology is impacting on communication with citizens. Outlines a six-point plan for digital engagement. Gives winning tactics to mitigate risk and protect reputation/
my talk to 2/12/09 O'Reilly IgniteBoston, emphasizing that passage of economic stimulus package, combined with current economy, is perfect time to introduce data-centric "democratizing data" approach, giving workers, regulators, public, watchdogs real-time access to critical information! Video version: http://tinyurl.com/c9vkjy
In this paper, I talk about three distinct areas: Big Data, Crowdsourcing, and Public Sector. Each of the these areas is vast on its own but through this paper I want to argue that it is the intersection of the three which offers unique and immense possibilities that can truly make the world a better place.
5 Reasons Our Children Are About To Miss Out On The Greatest Opportunity In T...iBridge Hub
5 REASONS our Children are about to miss out on the Greatest opportunity in the world.
This presentation was inspired by code.org, codeacademy.org. It highlights why we all should learn to code and the benefits of coding in this 21st Century and beyond.
Building a Data-Driven City
Pittsburgh has incredible tech resources but Pittsburgh city government has not created the partnerships that could allow all residents to benefit from them. Let’s work together to make Pittsburgh a data-driven city!
How open data and social media can work together to solve some of government's big problems. (Presented to the California Democratic Party Internet Caucus at Stanford University, Feb. 5, 2011.)
Mastering the demons of our own designTim O'Reilly
My talk about lessons for government from high tech algorithmic systems, given as part of the Harvard Science and Democracy lecture series on April 21, 2021. Download ppt for speaker's notes.
What's Wrong with the Silicon Valley Growth Model (Extended UCL Lecture)Tim O'Reilly
A three part lecture for the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. I talk about how the Silicon Valley growth model is leading from value creation to rent extraction, then about how public policy shapes our markets and what public policy students can learn from technology platforms (both what they do right and how they go wrong), and finally, I touch on some of the great mission-driven goals that could replace "increasing corporate profits" as the guiding objective of our economy.
Learning in the Age of Knowledge on DemandTim O'Reilly
The London Black Cab driver's exam, "The Knowledge of the Streets and Monuments of London," is one of the most difficult exams in the world, requiring drivers to become a human GPS. With today's tools, the smartphone and the right app turns anyone into the equivalent of a human GPS. I've been asking myself how this concept applies to the field of online learning, particularly in my own field of programming and related IT skills. How should we rethink learning in the age of knowledge on demand? My keynote at the EdCrunch conference in Moscow on October 1, 2019. As always, download the PPT to read the detailed script in the speaker notes below each slide.
What's Wrong With Silicon Valley's Growth ModelTim O'Reilly
A talk I gave on the oreilly.com live training platform on January 22, 2020, focusing on the way that many Silicon Valley startups are designed to be financial instruments rather than real companies. They are gaming the financial system, much like the CDOs that fueled the 2009 financial crash. I talk about the rise of profitless IPOs, and contrast that with the huge profits of the last wave of Silicon Valley giants. In many ways, it is an extended meditation on Benjamin Graham's famous statement, "In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term it is a weighing machine."
Google handles over 3 billion searches a day, Amazon offers a storefront with 600 million unique items, Facebook users post 6 billion pieces of content sailing, all with the aid of complex algorithmic systems that respond to a constant influx of new data, adversarial activity by those trying to game the system, and changing preferences of users. These systems represent breakthroughs in the governance of complex, interacting systems, with algorithms that must be constantly updated to respond to rapidly changing conditions. The economy as a whole is also full of complex, interacting systems, but we still try to manage those systems with 20th century tools and processes. This talk explores what we can learn from technology platforms about new approaches that the Fed might take to improve its historical mission using the tools of agile development, big data, and artificial intelligence. My talk at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank FedAgile conference on November 7, 2018. Download the PPT file to read the narrative in the speaker notes. (I wish slideshare did a better job of displaying these, but they don't.)
My talk for TechStars at Techweek Kansas City in October 2018. While this is a talk based on my book WTF?, it is fairly different from many of the others that I've posted here, in that it focuses specifically on parts of the book that contain advice for entrepreneurs, rather than on the broader questions of technology and the economy. As always, look at the speaker notes for
My plenary talk to the California Workforce Association Conference in Monterey, CA, on September 5, 2018. I talked about the role of technology to augment people rather than replace them from my book WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, and my ideas about AI and distributional economics, in the context of today's education and workforce development systems. I also summarize some of the work Code for America has been doing on the current state of the California Workforce Development ecosystem.
My keynote at OSCON 2018 in Portland. What I love about open source software, and what that teaches us about how we can have a better future by the better design of online marketplaces and the algorithms that manage them - and our entire economy. The narrative is in the speaker notes.
My keynote at the 2018 New Profit Gathering of Leaders conference in Boston on May 17, 2018. I talk about the lessons from technology platforms, how they teach us what is wrong with our economy, and the possibilities of AI for creating better, fairer, more effective decisions about "who gets what and why" in the economy.
Slides from my talk at the Price Waterhouse Coopers Deals Exchange conference on April 26, 2018. I talk about algorithmically manage, internet-scale networks and how they are changing the very nature of the economy, the shape of companies, and the competencies that are required for 21st century success. There are many similar themes to other talks, but this is tailored to a business audience, and very specifically to one concerned with how to do M&A in an age of dominant platforms.
My keynote at the Open Exchange Summit in Nashville on April 18, 2018. I talk about the implications for many different kinds of companies of the fact that increasingly large segments of our economy are being dominated by algorithmically managed network marketplaces.
Yet another version of my book talk, this time at Harvard Business School, on March 28, 2018. This one had fewer slides with less connecting narrative so that I could spend more time interacting with the audience. I think it went pretty well. As usual, the speaker notes contain the narrative that goes with the slides, which are mostly images.
Do More. Do things that were previously impossible!Tim O'Reilly
My keynote at SxSW Interactive on March 9, 2018. I tackle the job of the entrepreneur to redraw the map, and not to accept the idea that technology will put people out of work rather than creating new kinds of prosperity. I try to provide a call to action to throw off the shackles of the old world and to build a new one. So many companies play defense. Cut costs, watch the competition, follow best practices. Great entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk play offense. They see the world with fresh eyes, taking off the blinders that keep companies using technology to make slight improvements to existing products and practices, rather than imagining the world as it could be, given the new capabilities that technology has given us.
We Get What We Ask For: Towards a New Distributional EconomicsTim O'Reilly
My keynote at the Venturebeat Blueprint conference in Reno, NV on March 6, 2018. The bad maps that are holding us back from building a better world. Technology need not eliminate jobs. It could be helping us tackle the world's great problems, and helping design marketplaces that ensure a more equitable distribution of the proceeds from doing so. The narrative that goes with the deck is in the speaker notes. There is also a summary and link to the video at https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/06/tim-oreilly-to-tech-companies-use-a-i-to-do-more-than-cut-costs/
Towards a New Distributional EconomicsTim O'Reilly
A talk I gave on December 1, 2017 for a workshop on AI and the future of the economy organized by the OECD and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy. In it, I explore implications of AI and internet-scale platforms for the design of markets, with the goal of starting a conversation about what we might call "distributional economics."
We forget that when technology destroy, it helps us to create new ones, as long as we remember that the point isn't just cost-reduction, but doing things that were previously impossible! That means both solving hard problems, and pairing technology with people in ways that play to the strengths of each. My keynote at Strata+Hadoop World London, May 2017.
This is my March 8, 2001 pitch to Jeff Bezos on why Amazon ought to offer web services. I'm uploading it now because I'm referencing it in my forthcoming book, WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us, due from Harper Business in October 2017, and want people to be able to take a look at it. This is of historical interest only.
A somewhat longer version of my Frontiers talk about technology and the future of the economy, with additional material pitched to an audience of Internet operators at Apricot 2017, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on February 27, 2017
WTF - Why the Future Is Up to Us - pptx versionTim O'Reilly
This is the talk I gave January 12, 2017 at the G20/OECD Conference on the Digital Future in Berlin. I talk about fitness landscapes as applied to technology and business, the role of unchecked financialization in the state of our politics and economy, and why technology really wants to create jobs, not destroy them. (There is a separate PDF version, but some readers said the notes were too fuzzy to read.)
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
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Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
Technology and Trust: The Challenge of 21st Century Government
1. Technology and Trust:
The Challenge of 21st Century Government
Tim O’Reilly
@timoreilly
Social Innovation Summit
November 20, 2013
codeforamerica.org
@codeforamerica
Wednesday, November 20, 13
When you see the title of this talk, Technology and Trust, you perhaps think of Edward Snowden and the ongoing scandal of NSA spying on the American people and our allies. But I’m actually here
to talk about something that is perhaps even more fundamental. And it starts here...
2. Wednesday, November 20, 13
How many of you are old enough to remember a time when you had to physically walk into a bank and talk to another human being in order to get cash?
I remember….
And that memory seems quaint to all of us because we know how much personal finance has been revolutionized over the last 25 years because of digital, networked technology.
3. Wednesday, November 20, 13
Leave Bitcoin to the side for a moment, I’m still amazed that I can take a picture of a check with my phone and the money will show up in my account a few hours later.
The same digital, networked technologies, it seems obvious to say, have revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives. Not just banking but everything from education to how we interact with our friends.
4. Wednesday, November 20, 13
But there’s one place where that revolution has largely not yet taken place: in government. This is the Department of Motor Vehicles,
which in the US is a symbol of bureaucracy. Just about everyone has to go at some point in their lives and almost no one has a good experience.
5. 91% of Americans own a cellphone
67% use Facebook, 33% have a tablet...
Why is this how we engage with government?
Wednesday, November 20, 13
And this is a microcosm of the problem we try to address at Code for America--when the tools are available for people to connect with anyone in the world and
access every piece of information one could ever want, why do we make it so hard to access government?
6. 6
Wednesday, November 20, 13
Even
when
government
tries
to
do
digital,
we
get
messes
like
healthcare.gov.
It
doesn’t
have
to
be
that
way.
But
when
the
government
does
end
up
building
technology
that
doesn’t
work
and
costs
way
too
much,
not
only
do
ci=zens
get
gypped,
but
it
breaks
our
trust
in
government.
7. 7
Wednesday, November 20, 13
Democracies get their strength from the people’s trust. When the interactions that people have with government are so divorced from how they live their lives, or are hard and unpleasant, what is that doing to the trust that underlies our
democracies? Obviously, the decline of trust in government has to do
with a lot of other factors besides technology, but the way government is so out of step with ordinary life certainly is symptomatic
of the deeper problem.
8. 8
Wednesday, November 20, 13
There
are
lots
of
people
doing
great
work
in
government,
and
we
see
alterna=ves
star=ng
to
appear
to
the
broken
way
that
government
acquires
and
deploys
technology.
In
the
last
couple
of
years,
the
UK’s
Government
Digital
Service
has
replaced
something
like
1700
bad
government
web
sites
with
one
that
has
more
usage
than
all
1700
combined
had
before.
The
service
has
had
ci=zen
sa=sfac=on
go
through
the
roof,
and
has
won
plaudits
from
everyone.
9. 9
Wednesday, November 20, 13
In
the
US,
the
Consumer
Financial
Protec?on
Bureau
has
similarly
built
simple,
effec?ve
interfaces
to
government,
in
plain
language,
that
gets
results.
10. 10
Wednesday, November 20, 13
And that’s what we’re all about at Code for America. The organization was founded to change the culture inside government that supports bureaucracy, breeds disengagement
with citizens, and makes it hard for government to come up with innovative solutions to longstanding problems--all using
modern networked, digital technology and user-centered design principles.
We take four approaches: 1) we work directly with government officials (at the local level) to create the capacity inside government to build innovative solutions to hard problems; 2) we build communities of technologists and citizens who
want to lend their skills to help build their governments; 3) we build tools that make citizen interactions with government easier, simpler, and more elegant, so that the experience of government is positive and breeds trust. 4) We incubate
and accelerate civic startups to create new
economic models for those tools. In this, we’re influenced by the idea that government should act like a platform. Before the iPhone, phones had twenty or thirty applications; now they have millions. When governments open data, for
example, private companies can deliver innovative services. (Eg GPS, weather, healthcare innovation)
11. 11
Wednesday, November 20, 13
One big reason governments don’t innovate is because there is no benefit to taking risks on new approaches. The price of failure is too high. So we support cities in creating departments modeled on the Mayors Office of New Urban
Mechanics in Boston, which acts as a risk aggregator for city governments. These departments, which exist in some form in thirteen cities in the US and at least one city--Mexico City--outside the US, are specifically mandated with taking on
the projects that other departments fear are too risky or experimental. If they work, those departments get the credit. If they don’t, New Urban Mechanics takes the blame. It turns out, when you give city officials permission to experiment
they are really eager to try new things. So we place a premium on creating spaces that empower them to experiment (and I’ll tell you a story about one of their tools in a moment).
12. 12
Wednesday, November 20, 13
We’ve
worked
with
25
ci=es
so
far.
We’ve
worked
on
problems
ranging
from
blight
in
New
Orleans
and
Detroit,
to
beOer
management
of
alterna=ves
to
incarcera=on
in
NYC,
status
repor=ng
on
311
requests
in
Chicago,
access
to
public
records
in
Oakland,
business
permiSng
in
Santa
Cruz,
and
access
to
social
services
in
San
Mateo
and
San
Francisco.
13. Wednesday, November 20, 13
The second way we approach the government innovation problem is by building new avenues for citizens to participate.
We started in 2011 with one program, our fellowship, which remains our flagship program. This year we have 27 fellows… We recruit talented coders,
designers, and urbanists to do user research and build applications that serve real citizen needs. But the output of the fellowship isn’t really the
applications. It’s culture change in government, and a change in what people think is possible.
14. 14
Wednesday, November 20, 13
Our
fellows
do
write
code
and
build
apps,
and
open
up
public
data
for
re-‐use,
but
what
they
mainly
do
is
help
ci=es
learn
how
to
approach
government
IT
with
a
different
mindset.
A
lot
of
our
work
is
informed
by
the
UK’s
Government
Digital
Service
Design
Principles.
15. 15
Wednesday, November 20, 13
The
first
of
these
is
to
start
with
needs
-‐
user
needs,
not
government
needs.
This
is
so
cri?cal.
16. Wednesday, November 20, 13
For
example,
we
worked
with
Honolulu
last
year
on
rethinking
their
website.
With
only
three
fellows,
we
couldn’t
take
on
the
task
of
rebuilding
the
en?re
website.
So
what
they
did
instead
was
build
a
site
that
beTer
conformed
to
the
way
people
look
for
informa?on.
They’re
usually
looking
for
quick
answers
or
steps
for
ac?on
they
need
to
take
and
a
site
that
looks
like
this
is
really
frustra?ng
to
navigate.
How
oVen
have
you
come
to
a
government
website
like
this,
full
of
press
releases
(mee?ng
government
needs,
not
ci?zen
needs).
17. Wednesday, November 20, 13
So
they
built
Honolulu
Answers,
a
super-‐simple
and
elegant
search
interface
that
allows
ci?zens
to
enter
keywords
or
ques?ons
and
get
quick
answers.
18. 18
Wednesday, November 20, 13
They applied another one of the GDS design principles, to design with data.
They mined the visitor logs of the existing site and the city’s call center to find out what people are really looking for,
instead of what government departments want to say about themselves. And one of the things that they found was that
driver’s license information was one of the top searches. (In Hawaii, the city manages this for the state.)
19. 19
Wednesday, November 20, 13
Take
a
look
at
the
city’s
exis=ng
start
page
of
driver’s
license
informa=on,
complete
with
such
“need
to
know”
informa=on
as
the
fact
that
the
driver’s
licensing
sta=ons
have
a
new
statewide
computer/camera
licensing
system!
We
even
have
a
link
to
a
picture
of
a
driver’s
license.
But
the
informa=on
about
how
to
get
one
is
hard
to
find.
This
is
the
kind
of
thing
that
breaks
trust
with
government.
20. Wednesday, November 20, 13
And
get
back
plain
language
answers
that
direct
a
user
toward
ac?on.
The
site
itself
was
easy
enough
to
build.
But
the
team
was
faced
with
the
challenge
of
how
to
populate
all
the
content.
It
would
have
taken
the
three
of
them
a
very
long
?me,
especially
considering
none
of
them
were
from
Honolulu.
So
they
did
something
that’s
actually
preTy
radical
when
you
think
about
how
government
is
used
to
working.
21. Wednesday, November 20, 13
They
asked
ci?zens
to
write
the
content.
You
may
have
heard
of
a
hackathon.
Well,
they
held
a
writeathon
22. Wednesday, November 20, 13
Where
members
of
the
community
picked
from
among
the
most
popular
topics
and
ques?ons
and
wrote
the
answers
to
them.
Over
the
course
of
a
Saturday
aVernoon
they
had
created
almost
all
of
the
content
for
the
site.
But
more
importantly
than
that,
they
created
a
new
way
for
ci=zens
to
par=cipate
in—to
build—their
government.
23. Wednesday, November 20, 13
I
think
that’s
a
great
story
in
itself,
but
it
doesn’t
end
there.
In
June,
on
the
Na=onal
Day
of
Civic
Hacking,
in
Oakland
(where
I
live)
we
held
our
own
writeathon
for
Oakland
Answers.
The
Code
for
America
Oakland
team
took
the
code
base
from
Honolulu
Answers
and
redeployed
it.
24. Wednesday, November 20, 13
I
got
into
the
act,
along
with
other
Oakland
ci?zens,
including
Code
for
America
founder
Jen
Pahlka,
Brigade
Director
Catherine
Bracy,
(who
worked
with
me
on
this
slide
deck),
and
who
authored
the
answer
shown
here.
By
taking
our
small
acts
and
s?tching
them
together
with
the
thousands
of
other
small
acts
of
par?cipa?on
we’re
enabling
through
civic
hacking
we
think
we
can
re-‐energize
ci?zenship
and
restore
trust
in
our
governments.
25. “Interfaces to government can be simple,
beautiful, and easy to use.”
Scott Silverman, 2011 Fellow
Wednesday, November 20, 13
There’s
another
key
idea
that
drives
our
work:
INTERFACES
to
government
can
be
simple,
beau=ful
and
easy
to
use.
These
interfaces
will
emerge
because
we
the
people
offered
input
into
the
design
and
the
result
is
something
relevant.
26. Wednesday, November 20, 13
Our work in Boston in 2011, our first year, was unexpectedly driven in a new direction by a piece of investigative reporting by the Boston Globe about
the nightmarish school choice system in Boston.
27. 27
Wednesday, November 20, 13
Parents
were
struggling
with
a
28
page
brochure,
well
meaning
and
full
of
informa=on,
but
that,
in
the
end,
didn’t
tell
them
which
schools
their
children
were
eligible
for.
28. BOSTON
Discover
Oct 2013
Nov
Public Schools
Dec
Jan 2014
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Registration
Today
English
umn
sion
Account
11
2
1
9
3
4
8
7
6
5
12
Elizabeth
GRADE
3
Choice order
+ Add a child
Getting there
School hours
Surround Care
Your Fit
School Start Time
7:30 am
8:30 am
1
Eliot K-8
3.2 mi
7:30– 2:30
2
Margarita Muñiz
Academy
5.6 mi
8:30– 3:30
Before school
3
Edwards Middle
School
5.6 mi
9:30– 4:30
Before school
Before school
After school
9:30 am
Surround Care
Before School
After School
Grades
Early Learning
Center
Wednesday, November 20, 13
10
28
K-5
K-8
7:30– 2:30
6-8
1.6 mi
In
two
months,
one
of
the
Code
for
America
Fellows
built
a
simple,
modern
web
app
that
lets
parents
explore
the
school
system,
4 Mission Hill K-8
6-12
including
such
factors
as
the
reputa=on
of
each
school,
the
distance
from
your
home,
and
the
likelihood
of
your
children
geSng
in.
7-12 (Exam Schools)
Before school
After school
9-12
Rogers Middle
The
City
of
Boston
told
us
that
if
they
were
to
go
through
tradi=onal
channel
to
procure
such
a
site
it
would
have
taken
the
city
more
than
school probably
two,
and
approximately
two
million
dollars.
a
year,
9:30– 4:30
10.6 mi
After
5
School
Enrollment
That’s
obviously
a
huge
win.
Small
Medium
Large
6
Ohrenberger School
6 mi
9:30– 4:30
7
Perry K-8
8.2 mi
7:30– 2:30
Uniform Policy
Yes
Before school
Before school
After school
29. “DiscoverBPS changed the way
we relate to parents.”
Superintendent Carol Johnson
29
Wednesday, November 20, 13
But
the
real
win
is
described
in
this
quote
from
Boston
School
Superintendent
Carol
Johnson
That’s
ul?mately
what
we
want
to
hear,
that
as
a
result
of
our
work,
we’ve
changed
the
rela?onship
between
government
and
ci?zens.
30. 30
Wednesday, November 20, 13
But
the
impact
of
what
we
do
needs
to
go
deeper
and
faster.
I
wrote
a
blog
post
about
this
recently
on
the
Code
for
America
site.
31. “One
privilege
the
insured
and
well-‐off
have
is
to
excuse
the
terrible
quality
of
services
the
government
rou=nely
delivers
to
the
poor.
Too
ohen,
the
press
ignores
—
or
simply
never
knows
—
the
pain
and
trouble
of
interfacing
with
government
bureaucracies
that
the
poor
struggle
with
daily.”
Ezra
Klein,
Washington
Post
31
Wednesday, November 20, 13
It
was
fundamentally
a
reflec?on
on
this
quote
from
Ezra
Klein,
wri?ng
in
the
Washington
Post,
to
the
effect
that
all
the
furor
over
the
failure
of
healthcare.gov
hides
a
far
deeper
problem.
He
wrote:
32. 32
Wednesday, November 20, 13
That’s
why
I’m
par=cularly
proud
of
the
work
we
did
with
San
Francisco
this
year
to
build
a
system
that
uses
text
messages
to
remind
social
service
recipients
of
required
repor=ng
and
other
alerts,
to
make
sure
they
don’t
lose
their
services.
One
of
the
things
the
Fellows
learned
in
their
ini=al
month
of
user
research
was
how
ohen
CalFresh
(Food
Stamp)
recipients
didn’t
learn
that
their
benefits
hadn’t
been
renewed
un=l
they
tried
to
check
out
at
the
grocery.
We
built
a
similar
system
in
Louisville
KY
to
remind
people
of
court
dates.
We
also
built
a
system
in
New
York
to
help
the
criminal
jus=ce
system
help
evaluate
candidates
for
alterna=ves
to
incarcera=on.
33. Sadly, that’s not an uber-like timeframe.
But at least knowing is a big help.
33
Wednesday, November 20, 13
And
a
system
called
TextMyBus
in
Detroit
that
lets
schoolkids
in
Detroit
know
when
buses
are
coming.
They
don’t
all
have
smartphones,
and
messaging
lets
anyone
with
an
SMS-‐enabled
phone
get
informa=on
about
when
the
next
bus
is
due.
This
photo
was
taken
in
summer,
but
our
fellows
no=ced
this
as
a
real
problem
last
winter.
Some=mes
kids
were
wai=ng
in
the
dark,
in
freezing
weather,
for
half
an
hour,
to
get
to
school.
Knowing
when
the
bus
is
coming
really
maOers
in
a
situa=on
like
that.
Of
course,
the
fact
that
the
bus
comes
only
every
half
an
hour
may
be
a
problem
of
another
sort.
34. “The
legi=mate
object
of
government
is
to
do
for
the
people
what
needs
to
be
done,
but
which
they
cannot,
by
individual
effort,
do
at
all,
or
do
so
well,
for
themselves.”
Abraham
Lincoln,
July
1,
1854
34
Wednesday, November 20, 13
I
want
to
end
with
this
reminder
from
Abraham
Lincoln.
Government
is
one
of
the
key
plaforms
for
improving
the
quality
of
our
society.
Bringing
modern
technology
and
user
centered
design
to
government,
so
that
it
truly
serves
its
ci?zens,
is
one
of
the
great
opportuni?es
of
the
21st
century.
It
is
key
to
restoring
faith
in
government,
repairing
the
breach
between
government
and
its
ci?zens,
and
delivering
the
services
that
will
make
our
society
more
just,
fair,
and
prosperous.
35. How
You
Can
Help
• Don’t
stop
believing
that
government
can
work,
and
can
be
a
force
for
good
• 2015
Fellows
Applica=on
Deadline
July
31,
2014
• Get
your
city
involved
-‐
codeforamerica.org/ci=es
• Join
a
Brigade
near
you
-‐
codeforamerica.org/brigade
• Follow
@codeforamerica
for
news
and
progress
• Donate
-‐
codeforamerica.org/donate
35
Wednesday, November 20, 13
How
can
you
help?