Estonia has enjoyed success stories in ICT implementation in a broad field of public and private sectors for last 15-20 years. The key event for that development was the launching of the Tiger Leap program in Estonian schools, 1996. The program fully equipped schools with computers and Internet access and other ICT services. Computer science classes were provided in 84% of schools in the following eight years. Since 2014 World Economic Forum considered Estonia among innovation-driven knowledge-based societies, and some years later – being hidden entrepreneurship champion in Europe. Besides, Estonia has become one of the developed start-up ecosystems where young ICT companies are booming.
These events mentioned above refer to the successful combination of educational and entrepreneurial ecosystems in Estonia. The presentation aims to disclose the role of ICT start-ups as the engine of the innovation-driven development in a small society. Case studies analyse the entrepreneurial process and journey of ICT start-ups suggesting dynamic stage model approach. This approach discloses complexity of the entrepreneurial journey from opportunity recognition to venture launch. Findings of studies show growing importance of digital technology, ICT start-ups and the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the welfare of Estonian citizens.
Overview of the ICT ecosystem of Wallonia - AWEX, Procolombia and App.co ir. Carmelo Zaccone
AWEX, Procolombia and App.co - ICT businessmen intending to settle down in Colombia
End 2014 a trade mission to Columbia, headed by H.R.E. Princess Astrid of Belgium, led a delegation of nearly 300 companies to establish business relations with the Columbian market. Building on its success, the Walloon agency of exportation (AWEX) organizes a second trade mission, headed by Jean-Claude Marcourt minister of economy and digital, in Bogota on June 18 to 19.
Regarding the Digital Economy, Belgium and Columbia share common views on innovations and entrepreneurship. Procolumbia, MinTIC and AWEX have decided to strength these opportunities of partnerships and mutual international expansion of our tech companies & startups.
Embracing Innovation in Government: Global Trends 2018OECD Governance
Report identifies the global trends in government innovation and includes 10 in-depth case studies to illustrate the 3 key trends - (1) Identity, (2) Systems approaches and enablers, and (3) Inclusiveness and vulnerable populations.
For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/innovative-government/innovation2018.htm
Presentation held by Mr. Dritan Mezini as a part of the ICT - the enabler for business development in the region Session at the 8th SEEITA and 7th MASIT Open Days Conference, 14th-15th October, 2010
INVL Technology - NASDAQ OMX Vilnius listed ICT investment company - 2015 06 09baipgroup
INVL Technology, AB is a company, investing in information and communication technologies, listed on NASDAQ OMX Vilnius stock exchange. The Company was created after the merger of BAIP group AB and INVL Technology AB. INVL Technology operates as a cluster of B2B- and B2G-oriented IT businesses with a focus in four key areas: business climate improvement and e-governance, IT infrastructure, cyber security and IT intensive industries‘ solutions. The largest INVL Technology investments currently are companies in Lithuania, Norway, Tanzania and Uganda: Norway Registers Development AS with subsidiaries NRD UAB, NRD East Africa Ltd and Infobank Uganda Ltd, BAIP UAB, Acena UAB and NRD CS UAB.
Overview of the ICT ecosystem of Wallonia - AWEX, Procolombia and App.co ir. Carmelo Zaccone
AWEX, Procolombia and App.co - ICT businessmen intending to settle down in Colombia
End 2014 a trade mission to Columbia, headed by H.R.E. Princess Astrid of Belgium, led a delegation of nearly 300 companies to establish business relations with the Columbian market. Building on its success, the Walloon agency of exportation (AWEX) organizes a second trade mission, headed by Jean-Claude Marcourt minister of economy and digital, in Bogota on June 18 to 19.
Regarding the Digital Economy, Belgium and Columbia share common views on innovations and entrepreneurship. Procolumbia, MinTIC and AWEX have decided to strength these opportunities of partnerships and mutual international expansion of our tech companies & startups.
Embracing Innovation in Government: Global Trends 2018OECD Governance
Report identifies the global trends in government innovation and includes 10 in-depth case studies to illustrate the 3 key trends - (1) Identity, (2) Systems approaches and enablers, and (3) Inclusiveness and vulnerable populations.
For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/innovative-government/innovation2018.htm
Presentation held by Mr. Dritan Mezini as a part of the ICT - the enabler for business development in the region Session at the 8th SEEITA and 7th MASIT Open Days Conference, 14th-15th October, 2010
INVL Technology - NASDAQ OMX Vilnius listed ICT investment company - 2015 06 09baipgroup
INVL Technology, AB is a company, investing in information and communication technologies, listed on NASDAQ OMX Vilnius stock exchange. The Company was created after the merger of BAIP group AB and INVL Technology AB. INVL Technology operates as a cluster of B2B- and B2G-oriented IT businesses with a focus in four key areas: business climate improvement and e-governance, IT infrastructure, cyber security and IT intensive industries‘ solutions. The largest INVL Technology investments currently are companies in Lithuania, Norway, Tanzania and Uganda: Norway Registers Development AS with subsidiaries NRD UAB, NRD East Africa Ltd and Infobank Uganda Ltd, BAIP UAB, Acena UAB and NRD CS UAB.
Importance and Impacts of Strong Trademark Protection and Enforcement on Econ...Vincent BIROT
What Actually is “Economy 4.0”?
Intellectual Property and Economy 4.0
Trademark and Development of Economy
Merits of Trademarks on Business and Economic Performance
What Makes a Strong Trademark System?
Negative Impact of Counterfeits
Webinar: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Driving Growth and Innovation ...IDC4EU
This is the slide deck of the webinar held for the European Data Market study.
Artificial intelligence is widely recognised as an area of strategic importance and a key driver of economic development. However, to build reliable and high-performing artificial intelligence-based systems, access ti high quality data is an essential factor. Against this backdrop, the European Commission's aim is to stimulate data sharing and open more data for re-use to enable the conditions for a digital renaissance of new data-driven businesses and a broader take-up of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies throughout Europe.
Key speakers:
Giorgio Micheletti, Consulting Director at IDC4EU and project manager of the European Data Market study
Andrea Minonne, Senior Research Analyst at IDC
Sonja Zillner, Senior Expert Corporate Technology at Siemens
Communication channels for the european single digital marketMariana Damova, Ph.D
Presentation about the importance of tackling the multilinguality in the strategy agenda for the European Digital Single Market, and about the role of language technology and the European language technology community in solving this issue endorsed by public funding
e-estonia diginno-Toomas Turk @lovedigital.si, Slovenian digitalization compe...Aleš Vidmar
Estonia is beaking headway in terms of building an e-society and it shows in its unique approach to all aspects (education, economy, politics, health, social services). In the presentation one may see, just how many steps can be made.
Presentation and useful links:
e-Estonia - https://e-estonia.com/
Estonian Clusters - https://www.estonianclusters.ee/language/en/
Connected Health - http://connectedhealth.ee/
Smart City Lab http://smartcitylab.eu/
ITL and ICT Cluster - https://itl.ee/estonian_ict_cluster
Startup Estonia - https://www.startupestonia.ee/
Garage48 - http://garage48.org/
Prototron - http://prototron.ee/en/
Ajujaht - http://www.ajujaht.ee/en/
Level11 - https://level11.ee/
EU projects
DIGINNO - https://www.diginnobsr.eu/
SME2G0 - http://sme2go.eu/
Technology competence centers
https://www.estonianclusters.ee/cluster-partners/tehnoloogia-arenduskeskused/
Critical thinking presentation about the article "Tech Sector in Skills Shortage crisis" by Ian Campbell, published in the Irish Times on 15 July 2011.
Startup Europe: achievements and outsightIsidro Laso
facvts about the actual impact of Startups Europe as well as a glance of our future programmes. learn all about Startup Europe at www.startupeuropeclub.eu
Importance and Impacts of Strong Trademark Protection and Enforcement on Econ...Vincent BIROT
What Actually is “Economy 4.0”?
Intellectual Property and Economy 4.0
Trademark and Development of Economy
Merits of Trademarks on Business and Economic Performance
What Makes a Strong Trademark System?
Negative Impact of Counterfeits
Webinar: Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Driving Growth and Innovation ...IDC4EU
This is the slide deck of the webinar held for the European Data Market study.
Artificial intelligence is widely recognised as an area of strategic importance and a key driver of economic development. However, to build reliable and high-performing artificial intelligence-based systems, access ti high quality data is an essential factor. Against this backdrop, the European Commission's aim is to stimulate data sharing and open more data for re-use to enable the conditions for a digital renaissance of new data-driven businesses and a broader take-up of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies throughout Europe.
Key speakers:
Giorgio Micheletti, Consulting Director at IDC4EU and project manager of the European Data Market study
Andrea Minonne, Senior Research Analyst at IDC
Sonja Zillner, Senior Expert Corporate Technology at Siemens
Communication channels for the european single digital marketMariana Damova, Ph.D
Presentation about the importance of tackling the multilinguality in the strategy agenda for the European Digital Single Market, and about the role of language technology and the European language technology community in solving this issue endorsed by public funding
e-estonia diginno-Toomas Turk @lovedigital.si, Slovenian digitalization compe...Aleš Vidmar
Estonia is beaking headway in terms of building an e-society and it shows in its unique approach to all aspects (education, economy, politics, health, social services). In the presentation one may see, just how many steps can be made.
Presentation and useful links:
e-Estonia - https://e-estonia.com/
Estonian Clusters - https://www.estonianclusters.ee/language/en/
Connected Health - http://connectedhealth.ee/
Smart City Lab http://smartcitylab.eu/
ITL and ICT Cluster - https://itl.ee/estonian_ict_cluster
Startup Estonia - https://www.startupestonia.ee/
Garage48 - http://garage48.org/
Prototron - http://prototron.ee/en/
Ajujaht - http://www.ajujaht.ee/en/
Level11 - https://level11.ee/
EU projects
DIGINNO - https://www.diginnobsr.eu/
SME2G0 - http://sme2go.eu/
Technology competence centers
https://www.estonianclusters.ee/cluster-partners/tehnoloogia-arenduskeskused/
Critical thinking presentation about the article "Tech Sector in Skills Shortage crisis" by Ian Campbell, published in the Irish Times on 15 July 2011.
Startup Europe: achievements and outsightIsidro Laso
facvts about the actual impact of Startups Europe as well as a glance of our future programmes. learn all about Startup Europe at www.startupeuropeclub.eu
Per novè any consecutiu les empreses catalanes tenen una participació destacada al Mobile World Congress. En aquest catàleg podeu consultar els expositors que hi participen.
EU Investment Programs in AI and Blockchain Soren Gigler
This presentation provides an overview of EU investment programs in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. It specifically covers the new AI and Blockchain Investment Fund of the European Commission, that support early stage and growth stage of highly innovative deep tech SMEs and startups.
Andrus Viirg - Estonian Tech Ecosystem - Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley - ...Burton Lee
Talk by Andrus Viirg, Director - Enterprise Estonia - Silicon Valley (EE), at Stanford on March 2 2015, in our session on 'Estonia & Berlin | Barcelona :: Big Data & Co-Working Spaces'.
Website: http://www.StanfordEuropreneurs.org
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordEuropreneurs
Twitter: @Europreneurs
Il mercato unico digitale offre interessanti opportunità per le imprese e per i territori. Le strategie regionali possono supportare attivamente la transizione verso il nuovo paradigma tracciato da Industria 4.0., promuovere gli investimenti e contribuire alla creazione di un eco-sistema favorevole all'innovazione e allo sviluppo. Commissione Europea e regioni europee offrono un quadro sulle opportunità e sulle principali esperienze.
EU Digital Innovation Programs- Fostering Ecosystems and Empowering Startups Soren Gigler
This presentation provides an overview of the Digital Innovation Programs of the European Commission focused on blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, deep technology, startups. It also highlights several finance programs to support innovative, digital startups and SMEs.
Closing the Investment Gap for Deep Tech in Europe Soren Gigler
This presentation during the INTABA organised workshop, It describes the market failure in terms of investments in deep tech startups and SMEs in Europe. It provides an overview of the EU's investment program for AI and blockchain to support the early stage and scale-up of highly innovative startups and SMEs.
A recent direction in Business Process Management studied methodologies to control the execution of Business Processes under several sources of uncertainty in order to always get to the end by satisfying all constraints. Current approaches encode business processes into temporal constraint networks or timed game automata in order to exploit their related strategy synthesis algorithms. However, the proposed encodings can only synthesize single-strategies and fail to handle loops. To overcome these limits I will discuss a recent approach based on supervisory control. The approach considers structured business processes with resources, parallel and mutually exclusive branches, loops, and uncertainty. I will discuss an encoding into finite state automata and prove that their concurrent behavior models exactly all possible executions of the process. After that, I will introduce tentative commitment constraints as a new class of constraints restricting the executions of a process. Finally, I will discuss a tree decomposition of the process that plays a central role in modular supervisory control.
In his ignite talk „The Digital Transformation of Education: A Hyper-Disruptive Era through Blockchain and Generative AI,“ Dr. Alexander Pfeiffer delves into the intricate challenges and potential benefits associated with integrating blockchain technologies and generative AI into the educational landscape. He scrutinizes consensus algorithms and explores sustainable methods of operating blockchain systems, while also examining how smart contracts and transactions can be tailored to meet the specific needs of the educational sector. Alexander underscores the importance of establishing secure digital identities and ensuring robust data protection, while simultaneously casting a critical eye on potential risks and vulnerabilities. The topic of digital identities, facilitated through tokenization, forms a bridge between storing data using blockchain-based databases and the increasingly urgent need for content verification of AI-generated material.
Alexander explores the profound alterations occurring in teaching methodologies, assignment creation, and evaluation processes, shedding light on the hyper-disruptive impact these changes are having on both research and practical applications in education. The production of textual content by educators and students is analyzed with a focus on ensuring clear traceability of content sources and editors, and its proper citation, a critical aspect in the responsible use of AI. In addition to generative text and graphics, AI plays a crucial role in future learning and assignment practices, particularly through adaptive game-based learning and assessment. Alexander will provide a brief glimpse into his game „Gallery-Defender,“ a prototype demonstrating how AI and blockchain can be effectively implemented in serious gaming scenarios.
Furthermore, he emphasizes the imperative for ongoing education and professional development for educational personnel, advocating for a proactive stance in addressing the (legal) challenges associated with AI-generated images and text. This ignite talk aims to provide a balanced and critically reflective perspective on hyper-disruptive technologies, setting the stage for further discourse and exploration in the subsequent discussion.
The simulation of melee combat is central to many contemporary and traditional strategic games and simulations. In order to elevate this element of play from mere exercises of stats-comparison and dice rolling to a meaningful experience of play, strategy games rely on a rich plethora of cultural motives as deciding factors of their mechanic design. On the example of Samurai-themed skirmishing games, my talk elaborates on the impact that (popular) culture and other inspirations have on gaming experiences. It provides concrete examples from Japanese history, its traditional cinema, and postmodern Western reflections of Japanese cultural practices. Based on these insights, it compares four tabletop strategy games, muses on which phenomena they have adapted in their mechanics, and asks why or why not they may succeed in capturing a cultural essence via their rules.
Ultimately, this comparative approach shall serve to decipher the interplay of dice mechanics and aesthetic properties as the longing for a dramatic ideal in tabletop gaming and encourage participants to reflect on the idea in a subsequent, shared gaming experience.
How does a development team expand on an already existing game?
We will look at the two community driven and committee led expansions to the abandoned Tabletop game 'GuildBall' and explore the stages of development that the game went through. The art and lore driven approach employed will show us how rough sketches and concept ideas become a fully fledged ruleset and ultimately miniatures that can be put on the table. We will also explore pitfalls in rules design like over complicating abilities, the lack of streamlining across the game or simply creating expansions who break the game instead of the mold.
Exploring the development and production pipelines for miniatures in the tabletop wargaming industry. Including a look at the career route taken by the speaker, a case study on developing anatomical archetypes for consistent design outcomes, and a brief look at the various production methods available to the industry.
In recent years, we have experienced an exponential growth in the amount of data generated by IoT devices. Data have to be processed strict low latency constraints, that cannot be addressed by conventional computing paradigm and architectures. On top of this, if we consider that we recently hit the limit codified by the Moore’s law, satisfying low-latency requirements of modern applications will become even more challenging in the future. In this talk, we discuss challenges and possibilities of heterogeneous distributed systems in the Post-Moore era.
In the modern world, we are permanently using, leveraging, interacting with, and relying upon systems of ever higher sophistication, ranging from our cars, recommender systems in eCommerce, and networks when we go online, to integrated circuits when using our PCs and smartphones, security-critical software when accessing our bank accounts, and spreadsheets for financial planning and decision making. The complexity of these systems coupled with our high dependency on them implies both a non-negligible likelihood of system failures, and a high potential that such failures have significant negative effects on our everyday life. For that reason, it is a vital requirement to keep the harm of emerging failures to a minimum, which means minimizing the system downtime as well as the cost of system repair. This is where model-based diagnosis comes into play.
Model-based diagnosis is a principled, domain-independent approach that can be generally applied to troubleshoot systems of a wide variety of types, including all the ones mentioned above. It exploits and orchestrates techniques for knowledge representation, automated reasoning, heuristic problem solving, intelligent search, learning, stochastics, statistics, decision making under uncertainty, as well as combinatorics and set theory to detect, localize, and fix faults in abnormally behaving systems.
In this talk, we will give an introduction to the topic of model-based diagnosis, point out the major challenges in the field, and discuss a selection of approaches from our research addressing these challenges. For instance, we will present methods for the optimization of the time and memory performance of diagnosis systems, show efficient techniques for a semi-automatic debugging by interacting with a user or expert, and demonstrate how our algorithms can be effectively leveraged in important application domains such as scheduling or the Semantic Web.
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is the latest paradigm of cloud computing in which developers deploy their codes as serverless functions, while the entire underlying platform and infrastructure is completely managed by cloud providers. Each cloud provider offers a huge set of cloud services and many libraries to simplify development and deployment, but only inside their clouds, often in a single cloud region. With such „help“ of cloud providers, users are locked to use resources and services of the selected cloud provider, which are often limited. Moreover, such heterogeneous and distributed environment of multiple cloud regions and providers challenge scientists to engineer cloud applications, often in a form of serverless workflows. In this talk, I will present our design principle „code once, run everywhere, with everything“. In particular, I will present challenges and our approaches and techniques how to program, model, orchestrate, and run distributed serverless workflow applications in federated FaaS.
As the network softwarization trend started by SDN and NFV keeps evolving, the hardware/software continuum becomes more relevant than ever, offering new offloading/acceleration opportunities at node and network-wide scales. This talk will review evolving transformations behind network softwarization with a special focus on network refactoring and offloading trends leading to “fluid networks planes”, characterized by multiple candidate options for the specific HW/SW embodiment and the location of chained network functions, from the edge to core, from one administrative provider to another, from programmable silicon to portable lightweight virtualized containers. The talk will overview concrete examples from the literature with a special focus on the role of Machine Learning to assist key (automated) decision-making steps. Lastly, the talk will conclude with a glimpse on ongoing ML work applied to Youtube video QoE prediction in live 5G networks.
The dynamics of networks enables the function of a variety of systems we rely on every day, from gene regulation and metabolism in the cell to the distribution of electric power and communication of information. Understanding, steering and predicting the function of interacting nonlinear dynamical systems, in particular if they are externally driven out of equilibrium, relies on obtaining and evaluating suitable models, posing at least two major challenges. First, how can we extract key structural system features of networks if only time series data provide information about the dynamics of (some) units? Second, how can we characterize nonlinear responses of nonlinear multi-dimensional systems externally driven by fluctuations, and consequently, predict tipping points at which normal operational states may be lost? Here we report recent progress on nonlinear response theory extended to predict tipping points and on model-free inference of network structural features from observed dynamics.
When it comes to integrating digital technologies into the classroom in higher education, many teachers face similar challenges. Nevertheless, it is difficult for teachers to share experiences because it is usually not possible to transfer successful teaching scenarios directly from one area to another, as subject-specific characteristics make it difficult to reuse them. To address this problem, instructional scenarios can be described as patterns that have been used previously in educational contexts. Patterns can capture proven teaching strategies and describe instructional scenarios in a consistent structure that can be reused. Because priorities for content, methods, and tools are different in each domain, a consensus-tested taxonomy was first developed with the goal of modeling a domain-independent database to collect digital instructional practices. In addition, this presentation will present preliminary insights into a data-driven approach to identifying effective instructional practices from interdisciplinary data as patterns. A web-based application will be developed for this that can both collect teaching/learning scenarios and individually extract scenarios from patterns for a learning platform.
The advent of fog and edge computing has prompted predictions that they will take over the traditional cloud for information processing and knowledge extraction in Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Notwithstanding the fact that fog and edge computing have undoubtedly large potential, these predictions are probably oversimplified and wrongly portray the relations between cloud, fog and edge computing.
Concretely, fog and edge computing have been introduced as an extension of the cloud services towards the data sources, thus forming the computing continuum. The computing continuum enables the creation of a new type of services, spanning across distributed infrastructures, supporting various IoT applications. These applications have a large spectrum of requirements, burdensome to meet with "distant'' cloud data centers. However, the introduction of the computing continuum raises multiple challenges for management, deployment and orchestration of complex distributed applications, such as: increased network heterogeneity, limited resource capacity of edge devices, fragmented storage management, high mobility of edge devices and limited support of native monolithic applications. These challenges primarily concern the complexity and the large diversity of the devices, managed by different entities (cloud providers, universities, private institutions), which range from single-board computers such as Raspberry Pis to powerful multi-processor servers.
Therefore, in this talk, we will discuss novel algorithms for low latency, scalable, and sustainable computing over heterogeneous resources for information processing and reasoning, thus enabling transparent integration of IoT applications. We will tackle the heterogeneity challenge of dynamically changing topologies of the computing infrastructure and present a novel concept for sustainable processing at scale.
East-west oriented photovoltaic power system is a new trend in orienting photovoltaic system. This lecture presents an evaluation of east–west oriented photovoltaic power system. A comparison between east–west oriented photovoltaic system and south oriented photovoltaic system in terms of cost of energy and technical requirement is conducted is presented in this lecture. In addition to that, the benefits of using east–west oriented photovoltaic system are discussed in this paper.
Randomized Signature or random feature selection are two instances of machine learning, where randomly chosen structures appear to be highly expressive. We analyze several aspects of the theory behind it, show that these structures have several theoretically attractive properties and introduce two classes of examples from finance (joint works with Christa Cuchiero, Lukas Gonon, Lyudmila Grigoryeva, Martin Larsson, and Juan-Pablo Ortega).
We live in a “digital” world, the separation between physical and virtual makes (almost) no sense anymore. Here, the Corona pandemic has also acted as an accelerator/magnifier demonstrating that the future of our digital society is here with all its possibilities, but also shortcomings.
In his talk, Hannes Werthner will briefly reflect on the history of computer science, and then discuss the need for an interdisciplinary response to these shortcomings. Such an answer is the Digital Humanism, which looks at this interplay of technology and humankind, it analyzes, and, most importantly, tries to influence the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life. In the second part he will discuss this approach, and show what was achieved since its first workshop in 2019, and what lies ahead.
In the latest years, we have witnessed a growing number of media transmitted and stored on computers and mobile devices. For this reason, there is an actual need to employ smart compression algorithms to reduce the size of our media files. However, such techniques are often responsible for severe reduction of user perceived quality. In this talk we present several approaches we have developed to restore degraded images and videos to match their original quality, making use of Generative Adversarial Networks. The aim of the talk is to highlight the main features of our research work, including the advantages of our solution, the current challenges and the possible directions for future improvements.
Recommendation systems today are widely used across many applications such as in multimedia content platforms, social networks, and ecommerce, to provide suggestions to users that are most likely to fulfill their needs, thereby improving the user experience. Academic research, to date, largely focuses on the performance of recommendation models in terms of ranking quality or accuracy measures, which often don’t directly translate into improvements in the real-world. In this talk, we present some of the most interesting challenges that we face in the personalization efforts at Netflix. The goal of this talk is to sunshine challenging research problems in industrial recommendation systems and start a conversation about exciting areas of future research.
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.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
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.
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.
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.
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
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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.
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/
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4. Estonia - basic facts
• Population – 1 300 000
• Area – 45 226 km2
• Currency – EURO
• GDP per capita $29,500 (WB 2016 PPP), 1987: ~ $2,000
• Member of WTO – 1999; EU and NATO 2004, OECD -
2010 (Dec), Eurozone 2011
• The Wall Street Journal’s Index of Economic Freedom
for 2018 Estonia ranks 7th
• World Economic Forum's (WEF) Current
Competitiveness Index 2016 Estonia ranks 29th
• WEF 2017/18: Higher education and training – 19th
• Ease of Doing Business Index 2018 ranks Estonia 12th
• Networked Readiness Index 2016 ranks Estonia 22nd
• E-residency law, 2014
5. Important milestones, selected
facts, Estonia:
• Own state: 1918-1940, Soviet occupation 1940
• „Singing Revolution“, regaining independence, 1991,
disconnecting from the East
• Restart of private business initiatives, 1987
• Tiger Leap program, 1996, followed by e-government
– political entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship development programs, 2000
• Estonian Development Fund: > €5M investments per
year into startups, since 2006
• Member of GEM, 2012; TEA Index, 2016: 16.2 %
8. Content:
• Entrepreneurial/startup ecosystem in
Estonia: http://www.startupestonia.ee/
• ICT as the source of knowledge economy
• Trends in ICT startup development
• Case studies: New startups and investors
replacing foreign direct investment (FDI)
9. Development stages of Estonia and
GDP per capita, current prices, EUR
(based on Schwab 2014, Statistics Estonia 2016)
9
0
2 000
4 000
6 000
8 000
10 000
12 000
14 000
16 000
18 000
Innovation-
driven stage
Efficiency-
driven stage
Transition from
efficiency- to
innovation-
driven economy
Recourse-based Knowledge-based
Catching-up period
10. Ecosystem for development:
New type of investors
• Old Soviet industry was not sustainable anymore
after 1991
• Estonia has been successful with FDI, but this FDI is
not interested in knowledge creation (R&D)
• Now: money is moving out – negative FDI balance
since 2011
• Seed capital comes to Estonian startups after moving
HQ to global centres
• New businesses to be sold ASAP?
10
11. After-crisis developments in Estonia
• Fewer employees – productivity growth in old
industries
• New startup programs and entrepreneurship
booming
• >10% of new ventures come from software field
• World Economic Forum: Entrepreneurial economy
in Estonia
• Doubts from industrialists – support of traditional
(oil shale, furniture production, etc.) industry!
• Forbes: any use for ordinary Estonian people?11
12. ICT sector in Estonia (Statistics
Estonia 2016, current prices)
12
13. Why ICT and entrepreneurship?
Some milestones:
• Tiger Leap program in Estonia, 1996
• E-governance – paper-free assemblies, 2000
• Electronic ID-card, 2002
• E-services: https://www.eesti.ee/est/teenused
• Crises 2007-2009
• Entrepreneurship policy, since 2000
• The role of ICT as the engine of the
innovation-driven development in a small
society?
14. ICT and entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship skills should be a part of
literacy – 3rd literacy after reading and writing,
and computer proficiency.
Anzori Barkalaja, Director of the
Culture Academy
15. Number of employees by the size of
software development companies
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
8000
9000
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
1-9 10-19 20-49 50-99 100-249 >250
Statistics Estonia and Commercial Registry, 2016
16. Number of people employed, sales,
export, profit and value added of
software companies
-200
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
EmployedX10 Sales, m eur Export, m eur Profit, m eur Value added, m eur
Statistics Estonia, 2017
17. The export-import balance of Estonian
service export 2013-16, million euro
Statistics Estonia, 2017
185.1
217
256.3
286
958.7 980
940.7
826.4
102 116.1
161.5
218.3
2013 2014 2015 2016
Balance
ICT Logistics Building
18. Unicorns - startups from Estonia,
see also: http://www.startupestonia.ee/startups
http://hub.garage48.org/estonian-startups
• Playtech, 1999: FTSE 250 Index, London
Stock Exchange
• Skype, 2002: investments $25m, acquired by
eBay for $2.6 billion, 2005
• TransferWise, 2011: investments $396.4m
Expected soon:
• Taxify, 2013: investments $2.2m
19. The number and share (%) of entrants
to ICT studies in HEIs by study years
Ministry of Education and Research, 2017
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
8.0%
10.0%
12.0%
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17
ICT intake ICT %
21. Ecosystem and welfare:
concluding remarks
• Statistics Estonia: GDP growth from software
• Highly paid jobs in ICT/hitech startups => jobs
in traditional sectors
• Conclusion: Integration of Estonian and global
entrepreneurial ecosystems?
• Warning signal: not following national smart
specialization strategy, government
compromises the future of innovative
knowledge-based Estonia 21
22. Main conclusion
In the socioeconomic context, Estonian ICT
startups remain a success story, not
depending on the venture capitalist or
traditional industrialists’ view
24. 24
Click&Grow (C&G), inventor of intelligent
houseplant pot Mattias Lepp, 2009
Experienced IT entrepreneur, participant of “Brainhunt”
• Pre-history: own software development company
• Opportunity recognition: from inception, based on product
idea from NASA
• Globalization: USA, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Great
Britain, Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, Brazil, China
and Japan
• Funding: Estonian venture/angel capitalist already in the
intial phase of product development, Kickstarter campaign
• IP portfolio&strategy: Patenting; involving university
researchers; involving customers in Kickstarter campaign
• Competitive edge: First-mover, emotional attractiveness of
the product for the customer
• Bus. model and strategy: B2B; Leverage via networking
with traders, no market pressing
28. Fits Me / Massi Miliano
• Massi Miliano was founded in June 2006 by Heikki
Haldre with the idea to create robotic mannequins
for virtual tailoring fitting rooms. The firm started as
technology developer with the support of the state
agency Enterprise Estonia and private and
institutional investors.
• Researchers of the University of Tartu and Tallinn
University of Technology were involved to
development process from the very beginning; the
first patent applications were dated from the year
2007.
• Heikki Haldre & Paul Pällin are co-founders of Fits
Me registered in London, 2009.
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29. Fits Me, cont.
• The company has designed a virtual fitting
room for e-shoppers to fit and suit clothes
before making a purchase in e-shops.
Technical solution for that is flexible bio-robot
mannequin adjusted to mimic of the buyer’s
body and visualizing to a person how a piece
of clothing fits her/him. In 2012 Fits.me moved
headquarter to London and in 2015 it was sold
to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten
(Lunden and Lomas 2015).
29
31. Main facts: Fits Me
• Total capital raised: 15.42 M€, 15% from
Estonia
• Price of sales not known, some doubts about
investors’ happiness
• ~50 highly paid jobs created, value added
~80000 € per employee year
• 0.7 M€ taxes from labor annually
• Competencies created and remained in
Estonia 31
32. 32
Feature of the
model
Description of observed features of the journey RemarkEntrepreneurialprocesspattern
(Re-shaping)
Propositions
Pre-incubation
Experienced in e-commerce and fashion shops, Heikki
Haldre initial idea is to create scanning technology for
human body for tailor purposes
Start-point based
on former
competencies
Intention Interest in creating innovative technology for garment fitting
services for e-shopping; founding Massi Miliano OÜ
Idea, 2006; Early
funding: loans
Idea
Development
Feasibility study of technology, R&D, prototype of robot-
mannequin, first tests, 1st patent application 2007
2006-2008
New Venture
Idea (NVI)
Idea of virtual fitting room 2008
Concept
Development
The concept of virtual fitting room SaaS, development of
robot-mannequin, customer tests in the UK, USA 2009-10,
Fits.me Holding 2009: virtual fitting room solutions on a
software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis
2009, EE: €0.7m,
involvement of
new owners
Opportunity
Confidence
Starting sales of services in UK, USA, Germany, Italy,
Estonia
2010-2011
Business
Development
Continuous development with customer tests. Fit Advisor
service 2013.
HQ in London,
2012
Venture Launch Sales 2013: ~2.8 m€, profit 0.27 m€ declared, 57
employees
Massi Miliano
Post-Launch Merge of US startup Clothes Horse Dec 2014. Acquired by
Rakuten, July 2015; positioning as data acquisition and
analytics company 2017: Fashion IQ – insights tool
33. Entrepreneurial journey: Fits.me
Venture maturity
Stage
Intention
New Venture
Idea
Opportunity
Confidence
Venture Launch
Pre-incubation
Propositions
Idea Development
Concept
Development
Business
Development
Time
P2006
2008 2012 2014 20152011 20132007 2009 2010
R&D Robot-
mannequin
1st patent
application
HQ in
London
Loan: €23k
Widening
ownership
€2.6M seed
investment
Acquired by
Rakuten
Loan+subsidy:
€102k
Virtual fitting
room, first
tests, variaty
of instruments
€5.5M A
round
investment
€4.2M B
round
investment
Merge of
Clothes
Horse
Founding
Fits Me
Holding
Ltd
Virtual fitting
room,
continuous
tests
1st Robot-
mannequin
Fit Advisor
34. Fits Me, some conclusion
• In the entrepreneurial process, initial body
scanner idea was replaced by bio-robotics,
integrated further to the virtual fitting room.
The latter was complimented with the Fit
Advisor. And finally, in the Rakuten
corporation Fits Me became the advisor for
brand owners and retailers. This is a long
journey of learning and competence
development, but this is also the story of
reshaping business idea and its technological
embodiment. 34
35. 35
Mobi Solutions – M-business
Mobile payment services (web): Fortumo, 2007
• IT & business students, Oct. 2000 – just a moment EMT
(Estonian Mobile Telephone) launched mobile-parking
service model => Intel (2010), Microsoft, ….
• Pre-history tech-learning: 2000-2008, searching for M-
service (and) business models, testing on local markets
• Opportunity recognition: from inception, implementing
Living Lab methodology,
• Globalization: 81 countries (2014, 4 billion mobile users),
2015: digital market prognosis 268 billion US$.
• IP portfolio&strategy: no special measures and strategy
• Competitive edge: Easy to use; no fees (from concrete
service only), 80000 developers worldwide (21.02.2013)
• Bus. model and strategy: B2B; Leverage via subsidiaries
and BM replication (offering own ready BM for clients)
36. Case: Mobi Solutions, mobile payment
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Model feature Description of observed features Remarks
Entrepreneurialprocesspattern
Propositions Business and IT students starting their specialty; Rain
Rannu had a little international & business experience
Tartu, Estonia
Intention Interest in growing mobile technology and business Initial idea, 2000
Idea
Development
~200 different products & services tested; earning for
NPD; mobile payment “Every-Man M-Business” 2003
Started on
growing market
New Venture
Idea (NVI)
After 5 years sales of different products idea to globalize
the platform “Every-Man M-Business” 2006
Longer prepa-
ratory period
Concept
Development
From local to global service & business model (BM) Both models
used
Opportunity
Confidence
Local/regional OC reached very early, 2001 as service
provider; bootstrapping for NPD; Global OC 2006
Two related
opportunities
Business
Development
Start without BP, from local/regional to global strategy;
Fortumo’s offices: Tartu, San Francisco, Beijing, Dehli
Mobi HQ: Tartu
Venture Launch First products locally in 2001; mobile payment platform &
BM to rent out: Global spin-off Fortumo, 2007
Serial events
Post-Launch Bootstrapping from inception; profitability of Global
business, 2009; sales ~$30M, 2014
Fast growth
2008-
38. Entrepreneurial journey: Mobi
Solutions
Venture maturity
Stage
Intention
New Venture
Idea
Opportunity
Confidence
Venture Launch
Propositions
Idea Development
Concept
Development
Business
Development
Time
P2000
2000
P2006
Global
Spin-off
Fortumo
2006 2007 2013
Over 200 products tested, most
launched for some period
Involving
Global
investors
International
sales
2003
NPD project
supported by
EE
2005
Subsidiary
in Latvia
2011
Office in San
Fransisco
Pre-Incubation
39. GrabCAD, platform creator, revolutionary of
engineering industry
39
Feature of the model Description of observed features Remark
Entrepreneurialprocesspattern
Propositions Young engineers Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk had
already prior professional competencies
Started with
Futeq, Tln
Intention Interest in selling engineering services, 2007 Initial idea
Idea Development From own needs as service provider spun out
crowdsourcing idea, first success cases
2009
New Venture Idea Initial CAD library idea transferred into virtual plat-form
for collaboration and knowledge crowdsourcing
Seed fund
€260k, 2010
Concept
Development
Library 2010, sharing, collaboration; public and private
domains of the crowdsourcing web platform, 2011
Opportunity
Confidence
Reached by HQ moving to Boston 2011 + winning the
competitions of SeedCamp and TechStars + investors
Business
Development
Engineering 2007; Platform 2009; Workbench 2013, teams
in Estonia, UK (Cambridge) and USA (Boston)
Venture Launch Ongoing process; 1M users, success cases; biggest client:
General Electric, 2014
Post-Launch Acquired by Stratasys for ~$100M, Sept. 2014
42. Entrepreneurial journey: GrabCAD
Venture maturity
Stage
Intention
New Venture
Idea
Opportunity
Confidence
Venture Launch
Propositions
Idea Development
Concept
Development
Business
Development
Time
P2007
2008
P2008
2012 2014 2015
HQ in
Boston
$1.1M
investment
2011
$8.15M
investment
20132007 2009 2010
Workbench
Period of
Futeq
Founding
GrabCAD
Eng.
Design
Service
Library
concept
GrabCAD
sold to
Stratasys
Meybaum left
GrabCAD
Pre-Incubation
43. GE and GrabCAD asked designers to improve
upon this bracket. It weighs 2,033 grams (Photo
Courtesy of GE and GrabCAD)
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44. GE Announces Winners of 3D
Printing Design Quest, Dec. 11, 2013
• The redesigned brackets reduce engine weight and
fuel consumption. M Arie Kurniawan, based in
Salatiga, Indonesia, won the first place prize of
$7,000.
• Phase II winners include:
• 1st Prize Winner- $7,000 cash
• M Arie Kurniawan, based in Indonesia.
• 2nd Prize – $5,000 cash
• Thomas Johansson, Ph.D, based in Sweden.
• 3rd Prize – $3,000 cash
• Sebastien Vavassori, based in the United Kingdom.
44http://additivemanufacturing.com/2013/12/11/ge-announces-winners-of-
3d-printing-design-quest/
45. M Arie Kurniawan was able to slash the original bracket
weight by nearly 84 percent to just 327 grams (0.72
pounds). His design is inspired by the H-beam profile.
(Photo Courtesy of GE and GrabCAD)
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