Southeast Wisconsin award winning First Weber agentsFirst Weber
This document lists various real estate teams and individuals who received awards in 2015 at different levels, including platinum, gold, silver, and bronze medallion. It recognizes their achievements and accomplishments as sales leaders and associates within the company. Over 100 people are mentioned across different award categories like President's Circle, Chairman's Circle, Ruby Circle, and Emerald Circle.
This chapter discusses the importance of a leader's character and inner virtues. It addresses how leaders can develop virtues like courage, temperance, wisdom, justice, optimism, integrity, humility, reverence and compassion. These virtues are woven into a leader's life and allow them to make good moral choices. The chapter provides examples of how leaders can build character through role models, learning from hardships and developing habits that foster virtuous behavior.
This document summarizes key concepts from a chapter on meeting ethical challenges of diversity. It discusses how promoting diversity in organizations can have benefits but also barriers like prejudice, stereotyping and ethnocentrism. It presents various frameworks for managing diversity effectively, including reducing negative biases through mindfulness, dignity, moral inclusion and cosmopolitanism. It also discusses universal ethical principles and approaches for making ethical choices in culturally diverse settings, such as integrative social contracts theory and the HKH six question model.
This document discusses various models and approaches for ethical decision making. It describes Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionist model of moral reasoning and James Rest's four component model of moral action involving moral sensitivity, judgment, motivation and character. It also summarizes several ethical decision making frameworks including Rushworth Kidder's 9 step method, Louis Day's SAD formula, and Laura Nash's 12 questions. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are briefly highlighted.
This document discusses promoting diversity in organizations and addressing the ethical challenges of diversity. It notes that greater cultural diversity is a product of globalization and organizations have discovered benefits to a diverse workforce like increased innovation. However, there are also barriers like prejudice, stereotyping, and ethnocentrism. Organizations can unintentionally erect barriers through practices that exclude some groups. Reducing prejudice requires commitment to mindfulness, dignity, moral inclusion and cosmopolitanism. There are also approaches to universal ethics that point to common moral ground across cultures like the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This document discusses how leaders can create an ethical organizational climate. It states that leaders are largely responsible for the ethical behaviors of their organizations as they act as ethics officers who set an example through their own conduct. Unethical leaders fail to live up to ethical values and priorities. The document also discusses how ethical climates can be classified and outlines some key markers of highly ethical organizations, including humility, zero tolerance for destructive behaviors, integrity, justice, trust, focus on process, and structural reinforcement.
This document discusses strategies for building effective and ethical small groups. It emphasizes the importance of cooperation, accountability, and preventing issues like social loafing and groupthink. Specific recommendations include fostering open communication, considering minority opinions, encouraging participation, and challenging assumptions to arrive at high-quality decisions.
Southeast Wisconsin award winning First Weber agentsFirst Weber
This document lists various real estate teams and individuals who received awards in 2015 at different levels, including platinum, gold, silver, and bronze medallion. It recognizes their achievements and accomplishments as sales leaders and associates within the company. Over 100 people are mentioned across different award categories like President's Circle, Chairman's Circle, Ruby Circle, and Emerald Circle.
This chapter discusses the importance of a leader's character and inner virtues. It addresses how leaders can develop virtues like courage, temperance, wisdom, justice, optimism, integrity, humility, reverence and compassion. These virtues are woven into a leader's life and allow them to make good moral choices. The chapter provides examples of how leaders can build character through role models, learning from hardships and developing habits that foster virtuous behavior.
This document summarizes key concepts from a chapter on meeting ethical challenges of diversity. It discusses how promoting diversity in organizations can have benefits but also barriers like prejudice, stereotyping and ethnocentrism. It presents various frameworks for managing diversity effectively, including reducing negative biases through mindfulness, dignity, moral inclusion and cosmopolitanism. It also discusses universal ethical principles and approaches for making ethical choices in culturally diverse settings, such as integrative social contracts theory and the HKH six question model.
This document discusses various models and approaches for ethical decision making. It describes Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionist model of moral reasoning and James Rest's four component model of moral action involving moral sensitivity, judgment, motivation and character. It also summarizes several ethical decision making frameworks including Rushworth Kidder's 9 step method, Louis Day's SAD formula, and Laura Nash's 12 questions. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are briefly highlighted.
This document discusses promoting diversity in organizations and addressing the ethical challenges of diversity. It notes that greater cultural diversity is a product of globalization and organizations have discovered benefits to a diverse workforce like increased innovation. However, there are also barriers like prejudice, stereotyping, and ethnocentrism. Organizations can unintentionally erect barriers through practices that exclude some groups. Reducing prejudice requires commitment to mindfulness, dignity, moral inclusion and cosmopolitanism. There are also approaches to universal ethics that point to common moral ground across cultures like the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This document discusses how leaders can create an ethical organizational climate. It states that leaders are largely responsible for the ethical behaviors of their organizations as they act as ethics officers who set an example through their own conduct. Unethical leaders fail to live up to ethical values and priorities. The document also discusses how ethical climates can be classified and outlines some key markers of highly ethical organizations, including humility, zero tolerance for destructive behaviors, integrity, justice, trust, focus on process, and structural reinforcement.
This document discusses strategies for building effective and ethical small groups. It emphasizes the importance of cooperation, accountability, and preventing issues like social loafing and groupthink. Specific recommendations include fostering open communication, considering minority opinions, encouraging participation, and challenging assumptions to arrive at high-quality decisions.
This chapter discusses the importance of a leader's character and inner virtues. It addresses how leaders can develop virtues like courage, temperance, wisdom, justice, optimism, integrity, humility, reverence and compassion. These virtues are developed over time through moral choices, role models, stories and experiencing hardships. Leaders must work to cultivate virtues in order to act morally and influence others ethically. Habits and identifying values can also help guide leaders in strengthening their character.
The document discusses various perspectives on the nature of evil from a chapter on combating evil. It outlines six perspectives on evil: as dreadful pleasure, exclusion, deception, bureaucracy, a choice, and as something ordinary. It provides examples and explanations for each perspective. It also discusses the process of forgiveness and how it can help overcome evil by breaking cycles of aggression and retaliation. Spirituality and spiritual practices in leadership are presented as a way to develop virtues like hope, faith, and altruistic love that can help address and prevent evil.
01 04 Leadership Challenges In A Changing World Sjsstrittmatter
The document discusses leadership challenges in a changing world. It summarizes Stephen Strittmatter's background and experience in executive recruiting and consulting. It then outlines several mega trends, including the growth and increasing global influence of Chinese companies. The rest of the document identifies critical leadership capabilities that will be of high importance in the future, such as managing talent, change, diversity, and work-life balance. It stresses the need for organizations to assess their own capabilities in these areas.
This chapter discusses the dark side of leadership and identifies seven types of toxic leaders: incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, and evil. It explains how leaders can cast shadows by abusing power, hoarding privileges, mismanaging information, acting inconsistently, misplacing or betraying loyalties, and failing to assume responsibilities. The chapter also examines the ethical challenges of using power and managing impressions as a leader.
This chapter examines why leaders cast shadows and how they can master the forces of shadow and light. Shadow casters include those with unhealthy motivations like insecurity, selfishness, and pride. They also include those whose decision making is flawed by mistaken assumptions, failure of moral imagination, and lack of ethical expertise. Contextual pressures from groups, organizations, and societies can also encourage abandoning personal ethics. The chapter discusses these shadow casters and provides strategies for leaders to step out of the shadows through self-improvement, creating ethical climates, and increasing ethical competence.
The document discusses several major ethical perspectives:
1) Utilitarianism focuses on consequences and doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. It involves weighing costs and benefits of actions.
2) Kant's deontological perspective argues people should do their duty and act based on universal moral rules, not consequences.
3) Rawls' justice as fairness perspective includes principles of equal rights and helping the least advantaged. It uses a "veil of ignorance" thought experiment.
4) Pragmatism views ethics as a process of inquiry where alternatives are explored through imagination before making value-based decisions.
This document discusses marketing practices and strategies. It covers trends in marketing like outsourcing and globalization. It also discusses organizing a marketing department through functional, geographic, product-based or market-based structures. Finally, it outlines tools for monitoring and improving marketing performance, including annual plans, audits, and reviews of efficiency, profitability and strategy. The overall document provides an overview of holistic marketing organization and best practices.
What ustwo Learned About Mobile Design from Android WearSpark Capital
The document discusses the challenges of designing for Android Wear watch faces. It outlines ustwo's process for designing watch faces which includes genuine collaboration between designers and engineers, sketching and prototyping to accelerate and validate ideas, and testing designs on actual devices. Their principles for watch face design are to be zen, glanceable, make it work, and show a singular expression. The concluding thought is that watch interfaces are changing the face of interface design.
How Squarespace's Lead Designer Built Its Mobile App from ScratchSpark Capital
This document lists three people and their roles: Danya Cheskis-Gold is the Director of Marketing and Community at Spark Capital, Mo Koyfman is a General Partner at Spark Capital, and Stephen Parker is a Senior Designer at Squarespace.
How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from MaslowSpark Capital
Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and FEST300, and head of global hospitality and strategy at Airbnb. He discusses how Maslow's hierarchy of needs applies to companies and their ability to achieve peak performance. High-performing companies consciously work to fulfill not just basic needs but also esteem, belonging, and self-actualization needs of employees, customers, and investors to transform, succeed and survive long-term. This allows the company, employees, customers, and investors to reach their highest potential.
Fundraising & Investor Relations with Yaron GalaiSpark Capital
Yaron Galai is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and sold two companies. He provides lessons from his experience raising over $100 million in funding. Some key points include: keep your story and slides simple; focus on metrics that show growth and future revenue potential; understand your primary risk for investors; and choose investors who share your long-term vision for the company. Proper preparation and understanding the funding process can set companies up for funding success.
Using OKRs in Startups with Nabeel HyattSpark Capital
This document discusses using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for startups. It provides the following information:
- OKRs were created at Intel in the 1990s to set goals and measure progress towards objectives. They focus on learning and improvement rather than just results.
- OKRs for startups should create accountability with autonomy by informing teams where the company is headed overall each quarter, once product-market fit is achieved.
- Objectives are the missions to achieve, while key results are objective metrics to measure progress towards the objectives. Not all KRs need to be fully achieved for the objectives to be considered hits.
- The document cautions that OKRs are not a panacea
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
This chapter discusses the importance of a leader's character and inner virtues. It addresses how leaders can develop virtues like courage, temperance, wisdom, justice, optimism, integrity, humility, reverence and compassion. These virtues are developed over time through moral choices, role models, stories and experiencing hardships. Leaders must work to cultivate virtues in order to act morally and influence others ethically. Habits and identifying values can also help guide leaders in strengthening their character.
The document discusses various perspectives on the nature of evil from a chapter on combating evil. It outlines six perspectives on evil: as dreadful pleasure, exclusion, deception, bureaucracy, a choice, and as something ordinary. It provides examples and explanations for each perspective. It also discusses the process of forgiveness and how it can help overcome evil by breaking cycles of aggression and retaliation. Spirituality and spiritual practices in leadership are presented as a way to develop virtues like hope, faith, and altruistic love that can help address and prevent evil.
01 04 Leadership Challenges In A Changing World Sjsstrittmatter
The document discusses leadership challenges in a changing world. It summarizes Stephen Strittmatter's background and experience in executive recruiting and consulting. It then outlines several mega trends, including the growth and increasing global influence of Chinese companies. The rest of the document identifies critical leadership capabilities that will be of high importance in the future, such as managing talent, change, diversity, and work-life balance. It stresses the need for organizations to assess their own capabilities in these areas.
This chapter discusses the dark side of leadership and identifies seven types of toxic leaders: incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, and evil. It explains how leaders can cast shadows by abusing power, hoarding privileges, mismanaging information, acting inconsistently, misplacing or betraying loyalties, and failing to assume responsibilities. The chapter also examines the ethical challenges of using power and managing impressions as a leader.
This chapter examines why leaders cast shadows and how they can master the forces of shadow and light. Shadow casters include those with unhealthy motivations like insecurity, selfishness, and pride. They also include those whose decision making is flawed by mistaken assumptions, failure of moral imagination, and lack of ethical expertise. Contextual pressures from groups, organizations, and societies can also encourage abandoning personal ethics. The chapter discusses these shadow casters and provides strategies for leaders to step out of the shadows through self-improvement, creating ethical climates, and increasing ethical competence.
The document discusses several major ethical perspectives:
1) Utilitarianism focuses on consequences and doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people. It involves weighing costs and benefits of actions.
2) Kant's deontological perspective argues people should do their duty and act based on universal moral rules, not consequences.
3) Rawls' justice as fairness perspective includes principles of equal rights and helping the least advantaged. It uses a "veil of ignorance" thought experiment.
4) Pragmatism views ethics as a process of inquiry where alternatives are explored through imagination before making value-based decisions.
This document discusses marketing practices and strategies. It covers trends in marketing like outsourcing and globalization. It also discusses organizing a marketing department through functional, geographic, product-based or market-based structures. Finally, it outlines tools for monitoring and improving marketing performance, including annual plans, audits, and reviews of efficiency, profitability and strategy. The overall document provides an overview of holistic marketing organization and best practices.
What ustwo Learned About Mobile Design from Android WearSpark Capital
The document discusses the challenges of designing for Android Wear watch faces. It outlines ustwo's process for designing watch faces which includes genuine collaboration between designers and engineers, sketching and prototyping to accelerate and validate ideas, and testing designs on actual devices. Their principles for watch face design are to be zen, glanceable, make it work, and show a singular expression. The concluding thought is that watch interfaces are changing the face of interface design.
How Squarespace's Lead Designer Built Its Mobile App from ScratchSpark Capital
This document lists three people and their roles: Danya Cheskis-Gold is the Director of Marketing and Community at Spark Capital, Mo Koyfman is a General Partner at Spark Capital, and Stephen Parker is a Senior Designer at Squarespace.
How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from MaslowSpark Capital
Chip Conley is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and FEST300, and head of global hospitality and strategy at Airbnb. He discusses how Maslow's hierarchy of needs applies to companies and their ability to achieve peak performance. High-performing companies consciously work to fulfill not just basic needs but also esteem, belonging, and self-actualization needs of employees, customers, and investors to transform, succeed and survive long-term. This allows the company, employees, customers, and investors to reach their highest potential.
Fundraising & Investor Relations with Yaron GalaiSpark Capital
Yaron Galai is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded and sold two companies. He provides lessons from his experience raising over $100 million in funding. Some key points include: keep your story and slides simple; focus on metrics that show growth and future revenue potential; understand your primary risk for investors; and choose investors who share your long-term vision for the company. Proper preparation and understanding the funding process can set companies up for funding success.
Using OKRs in Startups with Nabeel HyattSpark Capital
This document discusses using OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for startups. It provides the following information:
- OKRs were created at Intel in the 1990s to set goals and measure progress towards objectives. They focus on learning and improvement rather than just results.
- OKRs for startups should create accountability with autonomy by informing teams where the company is headed overall each quarter, once product-market fit is achieved.
- Objectives are the missions to achieve, while key results are objective metrics to measure progress towards the objectives. Not all KRs need to be fully achieved for the objectives to be considered hits.
- The document cautions that OKRs are not a panacea
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
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.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
16. Jerry+All
The Five Challenges˝
of Leadership
•Delusion˝
•Disappearing into the fire˝
•Not understanding leadership˝
•Being unclear˝
•Avoiding fierce conversations
25. Jerry+All
Being without deception is an
extension of telling the truth: it is
based on being truthful with yourself.
When you have a sense of trusting
your own existence, then what you
communicate to other people is
genuine and trustworthy.
-Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche