Browne Jacobson HR for Education Conference 2017 - Employment law updateBrowne Jacobson LLP
Browne Jacobson LLP
HR for Education Conference 2017 - 4th October 2017
Keynote 1 - Comprehensive employment law update - Heather Mitchell
Ensure you are fully compliant with all the recent and upcoming legal changes.
Browne Jacobson HR for Education Conference 2017 - Employment law updateBrowne Jacobson LLP
Browne Jacobson LLP
HR for Education Conference 2017 - 4th October 2017
Keynote 1 - Comprehensive employment law update - Heather Mitchell
Ensure you are fully compliant with all the recent and upcoming legal changes.
Property professional Jamie Lester discusses the Chiswick property market, post 2013 Budget. Is 2013 a good time to move out of London? What next for house prices? Is 2013 a good time to sell in Chiswick?
Property professional Jamie Lester discusses the Fulham property market, post 2013 Budget. Is 2013 a good time to move out of London? What next for house prices? Is 2013 a good time to sell in Fulham?
Property professional Jamie Lester discusses the Chiswick property market, post 2013 Budget. Is 2013 a good time to move out of London? What next for house prices? Is 2013 a good time to sell in Chiswick?
Property professional Jamie Lester discusses the Fulham property market, post 2013 Budget. Is 2013 a good time to move out of London? What next for house prices? Is 2013 a good time to sell in Fulham?
Slides from a webinar which took place on 6 September 2018. Presented by Chris Walker, senior external relations officer at NCVO, and Ben Westerman, NCVO's Brexit lead.
Citizens Reverse Plan To Burn Used Tires 2006/07 Nova ScotiaLydia Sorflaten
Brookfield Lafarge was awarded a contract to collect and burn Nova Scotia's used tires. A group of citizens whose aim was to protect the environment, CABOT (Citizens Against Burning Of Tires) formed. This is an outline of how they fought to prevent a 60 year old cement kiln in their area from burning a tire a minute. Beyond this, a Bill to prevent the burning of tires in Nova Scotia was put aside before it reached the final reading in the provincial legislature.
Event organised by Parliament's Outreach Service in partnership with the British Deaf Association. How Parliament works and to have a say on topics that matter.
As part of our Norfolk Annual VCSE Conference, Nikki Luke, Senior Education and Engagement Officer for the East of England, will be delivering a politically neutral session on the opportunities for engaging with and influencing Parliament to ensure the voices of those we support are heard.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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/
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.
Ilmastovaikuttajan koulutus 28.-29.1.2012: The uk climate change act 2008
1. The UK Climate Change Act 2008
A brief history of the campaign
2005-2008
2. Background
• Government promised in 1997, 2001,and 2005
elections to cut CO2 by 20% by 2010, and 60% by
2050, but emissions were same as at the start
• Increasing scientific understanding was showing that
60% was not enough
• Some increase in coverage and understanding – Al
Gore, Tony Blair and David Attenborough
3. The UK problem with CO2
• Politicians could not be held to account to
long term targets
• Long term targets didn’t do what the science
required – can’t just make cuts in 2049
• Business were complaining they could not
invest in low carbon products/services
because policies always changed
4. Solution – the first climate bill
• Bill required 3% cuts every year (c. 80% by
2050)
• Gave new powers to Parliament to tackle
Ministers who failed to meet them
• Could use FOE’s strength at local level in
pushing local MPs to support new law – and
build support from bottom up.
5. Local group activity
• Postcards and street stalls
• Public Meetings with MPs
• Film screenings followed by Q&A session with
MPs
• Photo opportunities with local MPs
• Bad puns (“The Big Cask” pub crawl)
6. Effect of local groups on MPs
• Gossip in bars about size of lobbying
• Boasting about mailbag in Parliament debates
• 100% of MPs who did meetings backed Bill
• Highest number of signatures on EDM (an MP
petition) in years
7. “Top-down” lobbying
• Supported “cross-party consensus” between
Opposition parties to isolate Government, and
plotted how to keep growing pressure
• Found “compromise” positions with parties
who backed much of what we asked for but
not all
• Kept Ministers briefed on what we were
doing..how support was growing, even tipping
off about Cameron’s support
8. Autumn 2006 – announcement leaks
• Massive lobby where we tried to visit every
single MP - about 625/650 done
• We got a Bill (just in time for activist party!)
• November – Queen formally announces Bill to
Parliament
9. March 2007 - Draft Bill
Government publishes draft Bill containing
• 60% cuts by 2050
• 5-year carbon budgets
• Aviation emissions excluded
• New expert Committee on Climate Change
FOE welcome the Bill as huge step forward, but say
it must be strengthened. Stress Parliament will
decide on target, and we welcome debate.
10. Draft Bill scrutiny
• Ruthlessly prioritise the Bills faults – find three
main points
• Launch campaign around 3 points.
• Thousands reply to consultation on 3 points
• Three Parliamentary Committees set up to
look at Bill – we convince all to agree with
three weaknesses (9-0 to us!)
11. Compromises...(and other dirty words)
• Recognise we could not change everything
• We would have biggest impact on things
public would understand and lobby for
• If we couldn’t win, could we “nudge” or set
traps for the future?
• Have confidence in being right on science –
does it mean we don’t need to win now?
• If you settle for a deal, welcome it! (Or why
would they settle next time?)
12. Autumn 2007 - “Real” Bill published
• Real Bill does not concede any key points, just
offers more scrutiny etc
• Bill starts in Lords – we defeat the 5 times!
• We continue to build MP support for further
changes – 160 Labour MPs call for Bill to be
toughened
13. Local Group pressure maintained
• More postcards, more lobbying
• MPs told to stick to what they supported
• Photo opportunities with Gordon Brown
ignoring aviation
• Operate telephone lobby from office – able to
get access because FOE so connected to Bill
now.
14. Winning bit by bit....
• At each stage Government made concessions.
• As debate went on, parties got “trapped” – ie.
“out-of-date” science point – enabled us to
suggest ways round they could not refuse.
• Convinced Government our “rebels” would
stay firm (enough).
• Overheard Minister say “we can’t win these
votes” to his aide.
15. Bill becomes law – October 2008
• Big Party! (with all parties)
• Support for Big Ask Europe links with Foreign
Office work singing praises of Government
around Europe.
16. Has it worked?
• Recession means emissions fell very fast anyway
– not fully tested yet
• Committee stopped Government claiming credit
for fall caused by recession
• Used in Greenpeace aviation legal case
• First big test – 4th carbon budget. It passed!
• Current Government policies under huge scrutiny
(Green Deal).
• Civil servants “complaining” about second
currency.
