Fields in Trust Healthy communities public health CPD eventFields in Trust
Alison McCann, Policy Manager, Fields in Trust
Making the case: Recognising the wider value of parks to contribute to the health and wellbeing of communities. The session explores some of the key findings from the Parliamentary Communities and Local Government Committee Public Parks inquiry.
Redefining Sustainable Design: The New AIA COTE MeasuresEskew+Dumez+Ripple
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) is the oldest U.S. program dedicated to sustainable design. In 1997, COTE introduced its annual Top Ten Awards, “the profession's best known recognition program for sustainable design excellence” (AIA), to celebrate exemplary projects and give the industry guidance on how to integrate green building principles. In 2015, to mark its 25th anniversary, COTE embarked on a landmark research initiative to study the first two decades of Top Ten, published in 2016 as Lessons from the Leading Edge. Part of the research was to revisit the program’s criteria of evaluation, known as the COTE Measures of Sustainable Design. The result of this effort was to overhaul the program with a completely new set of principles and metrics. The 2017 Top Ten Awards are the first year to use new criteria such as economic impact and more robust metrics for health and resilience. In this presentation, three members of the COTE Advisory Group presented the new criteria and engage the audience in a lively discussion about what defines sustainable design.
Z Smith, Lance Hosey of Harley Ellis Devereaux, and Angie Brooks of Brooks + Scarpa presented to a packed crowd at the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Questions about the presentation? Want to learn more? Reach out to us at communication@eskewdumezripple.com.
Slides from Madalyn Cioci, Principal Environmental Specialist, State of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, presented at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council’s 2019 Summit in Portland, OR.
Fields in Trust Healthy communities public health CPD eventFields in Trust
Alison McCann, Policy Manager, Fields in Trust
Making the case: Recognising the wider value of parks to contribute to the health and wellbeing of communities. The session explores some of the key findings from the Parliamentary Communities and Local Government Committee Public Parks inquiry.
Redefining Sustainable Design: The New AIA COTE MeasuresEskew+Dumez+Ripple
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE) is the oldest U.S. program dedicated to sustainable design. In 1997, COTE introduced its annual Top Ten Awards, “the profession's best known recognition program for sustainable design excellence” (AIA), to celebrate exemplary projects and give the industry guidance on how to integrate green building principles. In 2015, to mark its 25th anniversary, COTE embarked on a landmark research initiative to study the first two decades of Top Ten, published in 2016 as Lessons from the Leading Edge. Part of the research was to revisit the program’s criteria of evaluation, known as the COTE Measures of Sustainable Design. The result of this effort was to overhaul the program with a completely new set of principles and metrics. The 2017 Top Ten Awards are the first year to use new criteria such as economic impact and more robust metrics for health and resilience. In this presentation, three members of the COTE Advisory Group presented the new criteria and engage the audience in a lively discussion about what defines sustainable design.
Z Smith, Lance Hosey of Harley Ellis Devereaux, and Angie Brooks of Brooks + Scarpa presented to a packed crowd at the 2017 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Questions about the presentation? Want to learn more? Reach out to us at communication@eskewdumezripple.com.
Slides from Madalyn Cioci, Principal Environmental Specialist, State of Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, presented at the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council’s 2019 Summit in Portland, OR.
Deciding which collections to use, deciding which specimens/samples to use, destructive vs non-destructive handling; voucher recovery protocols, biological material transfer policies
an explanation of the barcoding pipeline, what data objects need to be tracked through the pipeline, and the possible entry and exit points to the pipeline
Community Based Adaptation as a Pillar of National Adaptation Efforts NAP Events
Presented by: Atiq Rahman
SESSION VI: PLENARY –PILLARS FOR NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLANS
The session will examine a few case studies of how a particular issue of prime importance for a country can be the main entry point or pillar of the adaptation work, after which all other issues would then be considered. Three examples will be covered. Madagascar is a well-known centre of biological biodiversity. Addressing climate change through adaptation must consider the dynamics of this biodiversity including closely related stress factors such as poverty, pressure on land due to deforestation, shifting viability of the main cash crops when climatic conditions change, etc. Two other examples are on taking a regional approach to the assessment and development of adaptation responses in the context of hydro-energy. In other cases, a focus on community-based adaptation has been very successful, as is the case for Bangladesh.
One Planet Oxfordshire: Be a part of it! | Oxford Green Week 2018Bioregional
The presentation from our event at Oxford Green Week 2018 where we introduced our new, exciting One Planet Oxfordshire initiative. This will bring together councils, organisations, businesses, schools and community groups to co-create a One Planet Action Plan for Oxfordshire – a routemap towards a sustainable future.
Community Based Adaptation as a Pillar of National Adaptation EffortsNAP Events
Presented by: Atiq Rahman
7.2 Approaches / adaptation solutions (1/2)
The section will provide best practices regarding various adaptation approaches or solutions at various scales based on latest science. Examples to be featured include ecosystem-based approaches, community based adaptation, responses to heat waves and ways to deal with shifting growing seasons in agriculture. The session will also feature practical experiences from countries in addressing issues at multiple scales. This is the first of two sessions on this topic. The second is under session 8.1.
Module 2.1: How to Create your Environmental Policy and Action Plan - Environ...Julie's Bicycle
Aim: This webinar will take you through the process of creating an environmental policy and action plan in line with the Arts Council’s environmental reporting requirements.
The webinar will include:
- Introduction to the Arts Council’s environmental reporting and Julie’s Bicycle – what is expected of you.
- What is an environmental policy and action plan?
- How can they benefit your organisation?
- Top tips for creating an environmental policy and action plan.
- What help is available?
- Trouble shooting Q&A – your chance to ask the experts about any problems you are having with the environmental reporting process.
Webinar: Future Buildings (Arts Council England programme 2015/16) Julie's Bicycle
What does a sustainable building look like? How do you integrate environmental sustainability into building projects and applications for capital investment?
Julie’s Bicycle’s Fit for the Future Toolkit and webinar is designed to support organisations to overcome these hurdles and achieve significant environmental improvements in capital projects. It details how – through intelligent design, materials, energy efficiency, water management and ecological enhancement – arts organisations are beginning to realise the benefits of environmental action, from financial resilience to reputational benefits and audience development.
Blue Carbon+: Efforts to harness coastal and marine ecosystem values for impr...Iwl Pcu
7th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Barbados Presentation on Experiences from the Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project and the GEF/UNEP Blue Forests Project (PPG) by Steven Lutz
Character-based DNA Barcoding allows for integration of geography, ecology and morphology: The discovery of a cryptic species complex in dragonflies using Caos.
More from Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) (20)
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
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.
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.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
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/
Secstrike : Reverse Engineering & Pwnable tools for CTF.pptx
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1. Life Impact | The University of Adelaide
Regenerate
Delivering a
Clean Energy
Future
On South
Australian lands
The Environment Institute | Where ideas grow
2. Clean Energy Future Land Initiatives
Mission
• Ensuring world class biodiversity planting, land and vegetation carbon
sequestration and decision support for fast, economically efficient, future living
landscapes and ecosystems
Outputs
• Evidence based policy
• Practices and adaptive management for continual improvement
• World class decision making - Community, economic, environmental outcomes
• Supporting effective on ground action with scientific knowledge and social science:
• Monitoring and validation
• Robust understanding of species and ecosystems
• Planning for future changes
• Ongoing review and improvement of science
• Best practice social science for implementation and widespread action
• Effective carbon, biodiversity and productivity results
• Citizen science, engaged public, demonstrated and delivered public benefits
The Environment Institute | Where ideas grow
3. Cape Borda to Barossa
Examples of strategic issues
that will be addressed
• How to deliver biodiversity outcomes
• How to validate and quantify carbon
sequestered
• How to secure permanent
improvement
• How to minimise adverse effects on
water supply
• How to maximise ecosystem service
synergies with production
• How to get broad engagement and
adoption (incentive design for
collaboration and synergy)
• Broad scale public engagement across
10 electorates
Cape Borda to Barossa Nature Link
The Environment Institute | Where ideas grow
Editor's Notes
What’s the action land program name?
Nature Link on the slideHow to deliver biodiversity outcomesHow to validate and quantify carbon sequesteredHow to secure permanent improvementHow to minimise adverse effects on water supplyHow to maximise ecosystem service synergies with productionHow to get broad engagement and adoption (incentive design for collaboration and synergy)How to undertake broad scale revegetation that delivers biodiversity outcomes (e.g. including understory plants)Carbon sequestration validation and monitoring - leakage, permanenceandadditionalityCreating new regenerated systems resilient to future climate changeUnderstanding water and economic implications including benefits to agricultural systems and health