My submission for Interaction 12's Student Design Competition on the theme of The Future of News. My idea talks about an "actionable" form of news, in which news consumers are empowered to actually take action on the events from the news.
Croptops in Boardrooms: Viewing youth, expression, and achievement through ge...Chelsea Maxwell
The image of the boy genius in his hoodie is iconic in tech.
But what does the girl genius wear? Youth is worshiped in this field, but being very smart and very young as a women in technology is much different than being a young, successful man. I’ll start by examining the different appearance expectations of young men and women in technology, including how women are penalized for not fitting a narrow mold (or: Is no makeup or too much makeup going to make people stare more?). Next, I’ll move into how the media representation (and perpetuation) of the Tech Boy Genius trope establishes a cultural touchstone, while the female equivalent is far, far rarer. Finally, we’ll look at how this cultural trope lets employers, recruiters, and investors safely view youth as a positive trait in men, while being more apprehensive about it in women (or: a list of people who’ve told you to pay your dues).
Overview of the emergence and advancement of crowdsourcing for commercial and social uses. Presentation mostly emphasizes current uses and the firms supporting the business model. Presenters are encourage to spend some time with a few of these sites as a clickworker to get a good understanding of the models.
Creating Value in an Era of Exponential Change Learning SeriesHigher Logic
How is your organization competing to win, in a world where access to anyone or anything is constantly available and automatically recommended? Join Brian Vellmure, Principal/Founder of Innovantage LLC to better understand how you can help your organization and communities win—win membership, win engagement, and win your users’ time, energy and attention. Assuming the current trajectory, we soon will have an interconnected, global network of people, machines, robots, appliances, cameras, smartphones and devices we have not even conceived yet. A faster and richly connected Internet continues to outpace our individual comprehension of how to leverage new technology—but will we remain captive to an old way of thinking? In a networked economy, the concept of competing and winning may be outdated. Or perhaps it’s simply the methods, measurements and outcomes that have become old-fashioned. The better question may be: How will you continually create value in a constantly evolving world?
Why we all need women in tech. Despite of presence and contribution women has made in the industry, the numbers are staggering. This presentation by Vinita Rathi, Director Women Who Code London Chapter, Co-Founder Systango & CodePunt at Digibury Weekender talks about contribution gender diversity can make to the growth of the organisation, how and what women are good at, how motherhood can be boon for the firms they are working at and what can we be done to change.
Panel for Expanding the school library: connecting students with students, across international boundaries, using modern technology - IRRT Chair’s Program
ALA, 6/29/14
FutureM 2014
Anatomy of a Viral Video
Speakers:
Eric Williamson (@edubble_u) SVP, Director of Digital & Content Strategy, Mullen
Kazi Ahmed (@kaziahmed) VP, Group Digital Director, Mediahub/Mullen
Jon Ruby VP, Creative Director, Mullen
In advertising, we work tirelessly to create what we hope is incredible branded content and then pay to get it in front of as many of the right people as possible. Our success is measured by some combination of business results, brand surveys and industry awards. But what really gets our blood pumping is when our work grabs the attention of the masses and goes viral. At Mullen, we recently had the good fortune of experiencing this with a video we created for American Greetings’ Mother’s Day campaign.
Naturally, when you do something great, you want to understand how you did it, so you can do it again. Our project post-mortem revealed some interesting insights about how and why something spreads among consumers and media, which is what we will share in this presentation, “Anatomy of a Viral Video.”
Croptops in Boardrooms: Viewing youth, expression, and achievement through ge...Chelsea Maxwell
The image of the boy genius in his hoodie is iconic in tech.
But what does the girl genius wear? Youth is worshiped in this field, but being very smart and very young as a women in technology is much different than being a young, successful man. I’ll start by examining the different appearance expectations of young men and women in technology, including how women are penalized for not fitting a narrow mold (or: Is no makeup or too much makeup going to make people stare more?). Next, I’ll move into how the media representation (and perpetuation) of the Tech Boy Genius trope establishes a cultural touchstone, while the female equivalent is far, far rarer. Finally, we’ll look at how this cultural trope lets employers, recruiters, and investors safely view youth as a positive trait in men, while being more apprehensive about it in women (or: a list of people who’ve told you to pay your dues).
Overview of the emergence and advancement of crowdsourcing for commercial and social uses. Presentation mostly emphasizes current uses and the firms supporting the business model. Presenters are encourage to spend some time with a few of these sites as a clickworker to get a good understanding of the models.
Creating Value in an Era of Exponential Change Learning SeriesHigher Logic
How is your organization competing to win, in a world where access to anyone or anything is constantly available and automatically recommended? Join Brian Vellmure, Principal/Founder of Innovantage LLC to better understand how you can help your organization and communities win—win membership, win engagement, and win your users’ time, energy and attention. Assuming the current trajectory, we soon will have an interconnected, global network of people, machines, robots, appliances, cameras, smartphones and devices we have not even conceived yet. A faster and richly connected Internet continues to outpace our individual comprehension of how to leverage new technology—but will we remain captive to an old way of thinking? In a networked economy, the concept of competing and winning may be outdated. Or perhaps it’s simply the methods, measurements and outcomes that have become old-fashioned. The better question may be: How will you continually create value in a constantly evolving world?
Why we all need women in tech. Despite of presence and contribution women has made in the industry, the numbers are staggering. This presentation by Vinita Rathi, Director Women Who Code London Chapter, Co-Founder Systango & CodePunt at Digibury Weekender talks about contribution gender diversity can make to the growth of the organisation, how and what women are good at, how motherhood can be boon for the firms they are working at and what can we be done to change.
Panel for Expanding the school library: connecting students with students, across international boundaries, using modern technology - IRRT Chair’s Program
ALA, 6/29/14
FutureM 2014
Anatomy of a Viral Video
Speakers:
Eric Williamson (@edubble_u) SVP, Director of Digital & Content Strategy, Mullen
Kazi Ahmed (@kaziahmed) VP, Group Digital Director, Mediahub/Mullen
Jon Ruby VP, Creative Director, Mullen
In advertising, we work tirelessly to create what we hope is incredible branded content and then pay to get it in front of as many of the right people as possible. Our success is measured by some combination of business results, brand surveys and industry awards. But what really gets our blood pumping is when our work grabs the attention of the masses and goes viral. At Mullen, we recently had the good fortune of experiencing this with a video we created for American Greetings’ Mother’s Day campaign.
Naturally, when you do something great, you want to understand how you did it, so you can do it again. Our project post-mortem revealed some interesting insights about how and why something spreads among consumers and media, which is what we will share in this presentation, “Anatomy of a Viral Video.”
Succeeding in a disrupted world by Will McInneswill mcinnes
Talk at The Sunday Times Festival of Education, for Facebook.
Covers themes including crowdsourcing, participative decision making, realtime, openness and leadership in a networked world.
NYU ITP Winter Term 2010 Seminar Course: If Products Could Tell Their Stories. Taught to students who know how to make things talk.
Class One overview.
President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address on January 20th, 2015. Here are a few of the highlights as he covered issues including the economy, the wage gap, hiring veterans and climate change.
Local Gov2.0: Transforming Local Government With Social Media and Web 2.0 Symphony3
A presentation to the Australian Local Government Financial Professionals association on the benefits to local government when social media is correctly implemented. Provides a framework and roadmap for implementation and case studies
Insight Inspired Innovation: How to use research as creative fuel. Presented at the Expert Forum of CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) 2012 in Atlanta, GA.
IxDA and Thomson Reuters Student Challenge: Design the Future of News.
7 min pitch presented at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin, Feb 2. In this pitch, I proposed using physical space in different ways to access, share and understand news in a more intelligent way.
Some of the most effective ways of understanding what customers want or need – going out and talking to them – are surprisingly indirect. Insights produced by these methods impact two facets of innovation: first as information that informs the development of new products and services, and second as catalysts for internal change. Steve discusses methods for exploring both solutions and needs and explores how an understanding of culture (yours and your customers) can drive design and innovation.
The title of this workshop is a reference to The Artist Is Present, a performance art piece by Marina Abramovic. Marina spent months at MOMA sitting silently across from a nearly endless series of museum visitors, some of whom broke into tears.
The notion of presence is a critical idea for those of us in user experience. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, presence is tied to self-knowing. During ten years of writing, lecturing and coaching on “interviewing users”, many of the questions that Steve Portigal receives are about controlling or influencing another person’s behavior. Yet these interactions with others are really about ourselves, what’s inside us, who we are.
Therapists, as part of their education, must go through therapy themselves. They are expected to achieve a certain level of insight about themselves — their biases, their discomforts, and so on. While we are not therapists, we go out and study people without that level of self-insight!
A lack of self-insight sometimes manifests itself as passion, commitment, or being driven by a mission. While those have their place, it’s easy to become blinded by what we can’t let ourselves see. Sometimes this shows up as discomfort at the micro level, when we react to something a user might tell us about themselves; sometimes it’s a macro issue, when we’re uncomfortable with people who hold different values, preferences, or beliefs than ourselves. And it crescendos as know-it-all douchebaggery, when we think our job is to tell other people what’s best for them — when phrases like “frictionless sharing” fall from our lips as naturally as “what time is dinner?”
In this workshop, you’ll tap into a new level of personal authenticity to unlock a powerful boon. Together, we’ll explore this point of view and participate in a range of exercises to learn more about these ideas — and about ourselves.
Yes, My Tuatara Loves to Cha-Cha Improv, Creativity and DesignSteve Portigal
From UX New Zealand 2015 - Improv is not ‘stand-up comedy’ but a series of games that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. During improv, we bring out quickly-understood-and-communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit.
Design and improv have important similarities. Both practices involve collaboration and brainstorming; an emphasis on breakthrough thinking; in-the-moment aspects and ‘Aha!’ moments; a balance of process, structure, and unfettered creativity; an enormous unspoken interaction; and the need to learn upon reflection.
Playing with improv can help us to be more mindful of the power of listening, to create a more collaborative work culture, to develop our own creativity, and to warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions.
In this interactive presentation, you’ll learn about improv, listening, and creativity, and how each supports the others. No tuataras will be harmed.
Well, We've Done All This Research, Now What?Steve Portigal
One of the most persistent factors limiting the impact of user research in business is that projects often stop with a cataloging findings and implications rather than generating opportunities that directly enable the findings. We've long heard the lament "Well, we got this report and it just sat there. We didn't know what to do with it." But design research (or ethnography, or user research, or whatever the term du jour may be) has also become standard practice, as opposed to something exceptional or innovative. That means that designers are increasingly involved in using contextual research to inform their design work. Ongoing acceptance of design research has increased the ranks of designers and others who feel comfortable conducting user research. But analysis and synthesis is a more slippery skill set, and we see how easy it is for teams to ignore (more out of frustration than anything malicious) data that doesn't immediately seem actionable. This workshop gives people the tools to take control over synthesis and ideation themselves by breaking it down into a manageable framework and process.
Steve Portigal: Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and DesignSteve Portigal
Improv is not "stand-up comedy." It is often presented series of games with rules that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. In these games we bring out quickly-understood-and-communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit. The activities of design (collaboration, creativity, and design research, for starters) have interesting similarities with improv: All have in-the-moment aspects; we learn upon reflection; there’s enormous unspoken interaction and there is often an "aha" moment. Design and improv also have important similarities: the need to collaborate and brainstorm, the importance of breakthrough thinking, the balance between process, structure, and unfettered creativity. Playing with improv can make us more mindful of the power of listening, and can be harnessed to create a more collaborative work culture, as a way to develop one’s own creativity, or to help warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions. In this interactive presentation you will learn more about improv, listening, creativity, and how they all connect together to support one another. No iguanas will be harmed.
[Slides and the accompanying audio posted at http://www.portigal.com/blog/designing-the-problem-my-keynote-from-isa14]
Too often we assume that doing research with users means checking in with them to get feedback on the solution we've already outlined. But the biggest value from research is in uncovering the crucial details of the problem that people have; the problem that we should be solving.
As the design practices mature within companies, they need to play an active role in driving the creation of new and innovative solutions to the real unmet needs that people have. In part, driving towards this maturity means looking at one's own culture and realizing the value of being open-minded and curious, not simply confident. This is a challenge to each of us personally and as leaders within our teams and communities.
I will speak about the importance of this evolution and offer some tips to help guide the changes.
I gave this presentation to an undergraduate Design Research class at the University of Kansas, taught by Julia Eschman and Tamara Christensen, in March 2011. It focuses on the importance of finding the right people to drive insights for ethnographic/design research, and addresses tactics for doing so.
Recruiting is a key part of the design research process that often does not get the attention it deserves, to the detriment of project outcomes. I invite you to share your experiences and questions, to build a dialogue about this topic!
When NOT to Follow User-Centered Design TechniquesSteve Portigal
This invited panel brings together several high-profile members of the HCI community for an exciting, if not controversial, discussion and debate. Each is well versed in the principles and best practices of user-centered design, user experience research, and design innovation. How do they respond to the emerging topic of when NOT to use conventional user-centered design techniques? Speakers: Anthony Andre, Interface Analysis Associates; Jay Elkerton, Emerson Process Management; Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting; Cordell Ratzlaff, Cisco; Dan Saffer, Kicker Studio; Dan Rosenberg, SAP
Culture is everywhere we look, and (perhaps more importantly) everywhere we don’t look. It informs our work, our purchases, our usage, our expectations, our comfort, and our communications (indeed, if you aren’t familiar with a specific geographic and historical set of experiences, the presumably clever title for this talk will instead be perhaps bland). In this presentation, Steve will explore the ways we can experience, observe, and understand diverse cultures to foster successful collaborations, usable products, and desirable experiences.
Succeeding in a disrupted world by Will McInneswill mcinnes
Talk at The Sunday Times Festival of Education, for Facebook.
Covers themes including crowdsourcing, participative decision making, realtime, openness and leadership in a networked world.
NYU ITP Winter Term 2010 Seminar Course: If Products Could Tell Their Stories. Taught to students who know how to make things talk.
Class One overview.
President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address on January 20th, 2015. Here are a few of the highlights as he covered issues including the economy, the wage gap, hiring veterans and climate change.
Local Gov2.0: Transforming Local Government With Social Media and Web 2.0 Symphony3
A presentation to the Australian Local Government Financial Professionals association on the benefits to local government when social media is correctly implemented. Provides a framework and roadmap for implementation and case studies
Insight Inspired Innovation: How to use research as creative fuel. Presented at the Expert Forum of CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) 2012 in Atlanta, GA.
IxDA and Thomson Reuters Student Challenge: Design the Future of News.
7 min pitch presented at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin, Feb 2. In this pitch, I proposed using physical space in different ways to access, share and understand news in a more intelligent way.
Some of the most effective ways of understanding what customers want or need – going out and talking to them – are surprisingly indirect. Insights produced by these methods impact two facets of innovation: first as information that informs the development of new products and services, and second as catalysts for internal change. Steve discusses methods for exploring both solutions and needs and explores how an understanding of culture (yours and your customers) can drive design and innovation.
The title of this workshop is a reference to The Artist Is Present, a performance art piece by Marina Abramovic. Marina spent months at MOMA sitting silently across from a nearly endless series of museum visitors, some of whom broke into tears.
The notion of presence is a critical idea for those of us in user experience. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, presence is tied to self-knowing. During ten years of writing, lecturing and coaching on “interviewing users”, many of the questions that Steve Portigal receives are about controlling or influencing another person’s behavior. Yet these interactions with others are really about ourselves, what’s inside us, who we are.
Therapists, as part of their education, must go through therapy themselves. They are expected to achieve a certain level of insight about themselves — their biases, their discomforts, and so on. While we are not therapists, we go out and study people without that level of self-insight!
A lack of self-insight sometimes manifests itself as passion, commitment, or being driven by a mission. While those have their place, it’s easy to become blinded by what we can’t let ourselves see. Sometimes this shows up as discomfort at the micro level, when we react to something a user might tell us about themselves; sometimes it’s a macro issue, when we’re uncomfortable with people who hold different values, preferences, or beliefs than ourselves. And it crescendos as know-it-all douchebaggery, when we think our job is to tell other people what’s best for them — when phrases like “frictionless sharing” fall from our lips as naturally as “what time is dinner?”
In this workshop, you’ll tap into a new level of personal authenticity to unlock a powerful boon. Together, we’ll explore this point of view and participate in a range of exercises to learn more about these ideas — and about ourselves.
Yes, My Tuatara Loves to Cha-Cha Improv, Creativity and DesignSteve Portigal
From UX New Zealand 2015 - Improv is not ‘stand-up comedy’ but a series of games that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. During improv, we bring out quickly-understood-and-communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit.
Design and improv have important similarities. Both practices involve collaboration and brainstorming; an emphasis on breakthrough thinking; in-the-moment aspects and ‘Aha!’ moments; a balance of process, structure, and unfettered creativity; an enormous unspoken interaction; and the need to learn upon reflection.
Playing with improv can help us to be more mindful of the power of listening, to create a more collaborative work culture, to develop our own creativity, and to warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions.
In this interactive presentation, you’ll learn about improv, listening, and creativity, and how each supports the others. No tuataras will be harmed.
Well, We've Done All This Research, Now What?Steve Portigal
One of the most persistent factors limiting the impact of user research in business is that projects often stop with a cataloging findings and implications rather than generating opportunities that directly enable the findings. We've long heard the lament "Well, we got this report and it just sat there. We didn't know what to do with it." But design research (or ethnography, or user research, or whatever the term du jour may be) has also become standard practice, as opposed to something exceptional or innovative. That means that designers are increasingly involved in using contextual research to inform their design work. Ongoing acceptance of design research has increased the ranks of designers and others who feel comfortable conducting user research. But analysis and synthesis is a more slippery skill set, and we see how easy it is for teams to ignore (more out of frustration than anything malicious) data that doesn't immediately seem actionable. This workshop gives people the tools to take control over synthesis and ideation themselves by breaking it down into a manageable framework and process.
Steve Portigal: Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and DesignSteve Portigal
Improv is not "stand-up comedy." It is often presented series of games with rules that offer huge degrees of freedom within a set of constraints. In these games we bring out quickly-understood-and-communicated rules of culture that are implicit, not explicit. The activities of design (collaboration, creativity, and design research, for starters) have interesting similarities with improv: All have in-the-moment aspects; we learn upon reflection; there’s enormous unspoken interaction and there is often an "aha" moment. Design and improv also have important similarities: the need to collaborate and brainstorm, the importance of breakthrough thinking, the balance between process, structure, and unfettered creativity. Playing with improv can make us more mindful of the power of listening, and can be harnessed to create a more collaborative work culture, as a way to develop one’s own creativity, or to help warm up teammates and clients in workshops and design sessions. In this interactive presentation you will learn more about improv, listening, creativity, and how they all connect together to support one another. No iguanas will be harmed.
[Slides and the accompanying audio posted at http://www.portigal.com/blog/designing-the-problem-my-keynote-from-isa14]
Too often we assume that doing research with users means checking in with them to get feedback on the solution we've already outlined. But the biggest value from research is in uncovering the crucial details of the problem that people have; the problem that we should be solving.
As the design practices mature within companies, they need to play an active role in driving the creation of new and innovative solutions to the real unmet needs that people have. In part, driving towards this maturity means looking at one's own culture and realizing the value of being open-minded and curious, not simply confident. This is a challenge to each of us personally and as leaders within our teams and communities.
I will speak about the importance of this evolution and offer some tips to help guide the changes.
I gave this presentation to an undergraduate Design Research class at the University of Kansas, taught by Julia Eschman and Tamara Christensen, in March 2011. It focuses on the importance of finding the right people to drive insights for ethnographic/design research, and addresses tactics for doing so.
Recruiting is a key part of the design research process that often does not get the attention it deserves, to the detriment of project outcomes. I invite you to share your experiences and questions, to build a dialogue about this topic!
When NOT to Follow User-Centered Design TechniquesSteve Portigal
This invited panel brings together several high-profile members of the HCI community for an exciting, if not controversial, discussion and debate. Each is well versed in the principles and best practices of user-centered design, user experience research, and design innovation. How do they respond to the emerging topic of when NOT to use conventional user-centered design techniques? Speakers: Anthony Andre, Interface Analysis Associates; Jay Elkerton, Emerson Process Management; Steve Portigal, Portigal Consulting; Cordell Ratzlaff, Cisco; Dan Saffer, Kicker Studio; Dan Rosenberg, SAP
Culture is everywhere we look, and (perhaps more importantly) everywhere we don’t look. It informs our work, our purchases, our usage, our expectations, our comfort, and our communications (indeed, if you aren’t familiar with a specific geographic and historical set of experiences, the presumably clever title for this talk will instead be perhaps bland). In this presentation, Steve will explore the ways we can experience, observe, and understand diverse cultures to foster successful collaborations, usable products, and desirable experiences.
Unfinished Business Lecture: Culture, User Research & DesignSteve Portigal
Culture is everywhere we look, and (perhaps more importantly) everywhere we don’t look. It informs our work, our purchases, our usage, our expectations, our comfort, and our communications. In this presentation, Steve will explore the ways we can experience, observe, and understand diverse cultures to foster successful collaborations, usable products, and desirable experiences.
Keynote from Interact 15, London.
Therapists, as part of their education, must go through therapy themselves. They are expected to achieve a certain level of insight about themselves – their biases, their discomforts, and so on. While we are not therapists, we go out and study people without that level of self-insight! A lack of self-insight sometimes manifests itself as passion, commitment, or being driven by a mission. While those have their place, it’s easy to become blinded by what we can’t let ourselves see. Sometimes this shows up as discomfort at the micro level, when we react to something a user might tell us about themselves; sometimes it’s a macro issue, when we’re uncomfortable with people who hold different values, preferences, or beliefs than ourselves. And it crescendos as know-it-all douchebaggery, when we think our job is to tell other people what’s best for them – when phrases like “frictionless sharing” fall from our lips as naturally as “what time is dinner?”
In this interactive talk we will delve into the concepts of presence and mindfulness and develop an understanding of how this informs how you engage with the world around you, as a designer, a professional, and a person.
Well, We've Done All This Research, Now What?Steve Portigal
From Bolt|Peters' User Research Friday, November 2010. Steve Portigal and Julie Norvaisas, show you how designers and researchers can work with user research data to create action for businesses. One of the most persistent factors limiting the impact of user research in business is that projects often stop with a cataloging findings and implications rather than generating opportunities that directly enable the findings. As designers increasingly become involved in using contextual research to inform their design work, they may find themselves holding onto a trove of raw data but with little awareness of how to turn it into design.
The emphasis in this workshop (including a pre-work exercise in the days and weeks leading up to User Research Friday) will be on strengthening the creative link between "data" and "action." By the end, participants will have developed a range of high-level concepts that respond to a business problem and integrate a fresh, contextual understanding of that problem.
Challenging trust in the digital age - SMBW - 03/04/2019Denys Malengreau
Talk held at Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Cyprus on 3 April 2019.
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Fall 2014 Impact Magazine, School of Business and Economics at Michigan TechLynn Makela
Michigan Tech's School of Business and Economics Impact magazine. A semi-annual alumni publication produced in collaboration with the School and University Marketing and Communications.
By: Camilla Bjørn, Isabelle Ringnes and Louise Fuchs.
It's not a secret that the technology industry is highly male dominated. Women account for less than 20 percent of leading tech positions at the majority of tech companies.
In this presentation we are talking about why more women in tech is a business case for everyone. We are also discussing which technologies are fueling the media industry and how tech-savvy you really have to be.
Here you can see the webcast from the whole Lean In seminar in Schibsted Media Group:
http://webtv.hegnar.no/presentation.php?webcastId=21337776
More about TENK: http://tenk-norge.com/
This document is a briefing of the Conference Exponential Manufacturing organized by Singularity University in may 2016. We enrieched it with examples and articles by our own.
ViO Presentation The Future of Communications and Virtual EnvironmentsWill Burns
A quick presentation concerning the future of communications and virtual environments, given on May 2nd 2010 in SecondLife at the ViO Business Group Auditorium
On Digital Transformation - 10 ObservationsMike Arauz
The ideas about technology that have become lenses and points of view I return to as I try to makes sense of how things are changing, and what can be done. This is a digital world, so none of this is etched in stone. But from what I’ve seen so far, these things seem to be true.
The global digital landscape is driving everyone towards becoming a lifelong learner. This represents the biggest opportunity that the sector has seen since its inception. All contemporary digital threats can be met by universities, if they compete. The Digital Campus explores how a change of mind-set along with a digital campus can offer universities the opportunity to ensure that they can compete and excel in the contemporary digital environment. And it also offers an answer to an age old problem – how to maintain and leverage a vibrant university community after its members leave the campus. - See more at: http://precedent.co.uk/our-thinking/reports/the-digital-campus#sthash.DtIXHSEn.dpuf
Tell Me More's social storytelling series using #NPRBlacksinTech ends on December 20th. Since Decem- ber 2nd, black tech innovators from all over the country have spent a day tweeting about their lives. The social media series is creating new storytelling opportunities that run parallel to what Tell Me More does every day on the radio.
If you have been engaging with the #NPRBlacksinTech hashtag, please share your thoughts, comments and suggestions.
Input Variables - Presentation ADC*E Festival ‘17Helge Tennø
I work with input variables - figuring out and finding the data and insight that goes into an organization in order to make it successful.
Working with these problems I am sensing a gap - between what we want our organizations to become and what we put into our organization to get there.
The premise is that our imagination is limited by the tools we use to understand the world around us.
And that we are using old models to collect our data - and because we are using old models and methods we are only picking our data from the same pools of experience and information as we have done for decades past - serving us the same perspective of the world as we are used to seeing.
The future is not directly in font of us - it’s outside. And so looking in the same direction only further, or in the same places only deeper, won’t help us listen to the right data in order to navigate towards where we are going.
In this talk I shed light on this problem, that I am working on, probing and playing with. And I also try to explain why this is an important issue to solve right now - because of the changes in both the business models and practices that create wealth and customers behavioral patterns.
THRIVING ON DISRUPTION The reinvention of the public library Liz McGettigan
DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPTED
THE RESPONSIVE, ACTIVE LIBRARY,THE PEOPLE, SPACES, TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES OF THE FUTURE. - examples of library transformations, an exploration of the future for libraries
Zezan Tam's slides at Mobile Monday. Zezan Tam is a Melbourne based entrepreneur. After leaving his job at Boston Consulting Group, Zezan attended Singularity University in Silicon Valley, which kickstarted his thinking and excitement towards technology and entrepreneurship. He is currently working on a number of businesses in Australia, as well as being Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Melbourne Accelerator Program. He travelled to Yangon to see the Myanmar entrepreneurship scene, and is interested in investing into talented entrepreneurs operating in a vibrant country poised for an exciting growth period.
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.
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.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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.
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.
