Ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish that endless ‘To Do’ list? Beginning to lose the spark and passion that you thought you had? If you’re doing more and enjoying it less, it’s time to make real choices about how you spend your time.
What you will take away from this workshop:
• Discover your own relationship with time – formal or casual?
• Recognize and address those time wasters in your life.
• Identify a strategy for recharging productivity and energy that is designed just for you.
• Discover at least three methods for establishing priorities and creating realistic boundaries for your time.
• Prepare to identify a powerful method for breaking any indecision and procrastination tendencies that have plagued you.
Of all the resources in the know universe, time is the most non-replaceable. Unfortunately, it used to come without a manual, so here comes one from Profate (https://profate.com)
Time Management Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as a component of the Pitt University Library System's Leadership Development Program, a year-long set of learning activities to strengthen ULS leadership capacity for achieving strategic initiatives, managing projects, and working in teams across organizational boundaries.
Ever feel like there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish that endless ‘To Do’ list? Beginning to lose the spark and passion that you thought you had? If you’re doing more and enjoying it less, it’s time to make real choices about how you spend your time.
What you will take away from this workshop:
• Discover your own relationship with time – formal or casual?
• Recognize and address those time wasters in your life.
• Identify a strategy for recharging productivity and energy that is designed just for you.
• Discover at least three methods for establishing priorities and creating realistic boundaries for your time.
• Prepare to identify a powerful method for breaking any indecision and procrastination tendencies that have plagued you.
Of all the resources in the know universe, time is the most non-replaceable. Unfortunately, it used to come without a manual, so here comes one from Profate (https://profate.com)
Time Management Workshop - ULS Leadership ProgramKaren S Calhoun
Prepared as a component of the Pitt University Library System's Leadership Development Program, a year-long set of learning activities to strengthen ULS leadership capacity for achieving strategic initiatives, managing projects, and working in teams across organizational boundaries.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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.
14. 3
How to
Set your goals?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Time bounded
15. Goals on multiple levels
• Goal today
• Goal this month
• Goal for this year
• Goal for next 5 years
• Goal for next 10 years
• Your dreams
16. Goals on multiple levels
• Goal today
• Goal this month Failing to plan
• Goal for this year is planning to
• Goal for next 5 years fail
• Goal for next 10 years
• Your dreams
18. From Goals to Tasks
• Break each goal into manageable tasks
(WBS)
• Set priority to each task
• reorder your task list
19. How do you eat
an elephant?
One Bite at One Time!
20. From Task to To-Do List
• To-Do list captures all the tasks you need
to do in a given day.
• It can includes other stuffs that are not
your tasks or goals
• Set priority to each items on the list
• Tools
21. Tips for To-Do List
• Only schedule a part of your day
• First things first
• Do the ugliest thing first
• Use block of times
• Kill small things in a batch
22. Time quadrant table
Covey’s 4
Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
Important ? ?
Not
Important ? ?
23. Time Matrix
Urgent Not Urgent
Important
1
50%
Not
Important
26. Understanding Time
Urgent Not Urgent
1 2
Important
Quadrant of Manage
3 4
Not
Important
27. Understanding Time
Urgent Not Urgent
1 2
Important
Quadrant of Manage Quadrant of Leadership & Quality
3 4
Not
Important
28. Understanding Time
Urgent Not Urgent
1 2
Important
Quadrant of Manage Quadrant of Leadership & Quality
3 4
Not
Important
Quadrant of Deception
29. Understanding Time
Urgent Not Urgent
1 2
Important
Quadrant of Manage Quadrant of Leadership & Quality
3 4
Not
Important
Quadrant of Deception Quadrant of Waste
35. Case Study 1
Max has been working on a long, two part report for
the past two hours, he has managed to draft the first
part and is ready to begin the second. Feeling that a
little reward is in order, Max gets up and heads for
the coffee room, where he refills his cup and chats
briefly with two colleagues,. Settling back into his
desk, Max soon notice that he has two new emails,
“I’d better check these out” he tell himself.
After he replies to those messages, Max revisits his
report. But he can’t start where he left off—he has
lost his train of thought.
36. WHO MOVED
MY BRAIN?
WHO MOVED
REVALUING
TIME &BRAIN?
MY ATTENTION
How can I keep my brain where I want it?
REVALUING
MERLIN MANN
TIME & ATTENTION
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MERLIN MANN
Today, I want to tell you about my pal,
43FOLDERS.COM
Mike Monteiro.
37. 28% OF EACH DAY
“Interruptions by things that aren’t
urgent or important, like
unnecessary e-mail messages —
and the time it takes to get back on
track.”
“Lost in in Emails, TechFirms Face Self-Made Beast”, June 14, 2008
“Lost E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast,” June 14, 2008
Interruptions are a huge pain. Intel estimates
that interruptions cost them US$1B last year.
46. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
47. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
• Group calls: 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.
48. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
• Group calls: 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.
• Start by announcing goals for the call
49. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
• Group calls: 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.
• Start by announcing goals for the call
• Don’t put your feet up
50. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
• Group calls: 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.
• Start by announcing goals for the call
• Don’t put your feet up
• Have something in view to do next
51. Tips for phone calls
• Keep calls short; stand during call
• Group calls: 11:50 a.m. and 5:50 p.m.
• Start by announcing goals for the call
• Don’t put your feet up
• Have something in view to do next
• Review, what we have agreed.
52. Tips for Effective
Meetings
• Punctuality
• Focus on meeting agenda ONLY
• Clear objectives, if not please chase up
• Manage specific topics individually
• Check agreement and action items at the
end of meeting
53. Case Study 2
Paula arrives at her desk at 9:00 am every business day,
once her laptop is up and running, her first act is to
check her mails, “I have missed feelings about it” she
confesses, “on one hand, I look forward to updates on
company activities that concerns me directly. And I also
enjoy findings message from my personal friends. On the
other hand, I dread facing the 20 or 30 emails that are
either misdirected or irreverent to me, and another 20
or 30 messages will hit my inbox before the day is over,
Worse, I have to open most of them to find out they are
irrelevant. Also as my mail box get bigger, it’s extremely
hard for me to find my desired emails.
54. HowInbox Zero
to deal with
Email overload?
action-based email
Merlin Mann
Google Tech Talk
55. Tips for overload emails
• Use Prewritten Responses
• Use Auto-Responders
• Avoid ambiguous title
56. Tips for overload emails
• Use Prewritten Responses
• Use Auto-Responders
• Avoid ambiguous title
• Use Rules to control your email flow
• Use Category instead of creating folders
• Use Search folders
69. Case Study 3
Harvey is a hard worker and is highly motivated staff. He is also willing
to do whatever is necessary to help his team to accomplish its goals.
When Mary, the team leader says, “Someone should develop a
proposal for the next stage of our project,” most people hunch down
in their seats or start looking at their notebooks, “Can some one take
care of this”? Mary asks again. Seeing that no one else will volunteer,
Harvey steps up to the task, as he always does.
His behavior is also predictable, in fact that his teammate know that if
they resist the urge to volunteer long enough, Harvey eventually will
step forward to do it. And when he get the work done, it’s always
done well, because he is a dedicated perfectionist. But the problem is
that Harvey has trouble to get things done on time, because he has
overloaded himself with commitments.
73. Books for reference
• Getting Things Done
• One Minute Manager
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Time Management: Increase Your Personal
Productivity and Effectiveness
• Overcome Email Overload with Microsoft
Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002
• How to you eat an elephant?
