Presented by Anthony Franco, president and co-founder at Forrester's Application Development & Delivery Forum 2012
IT and marketing departments often collide when it comes building solutions, but in the end it’s the technology evaluation that can have the greatest impact on user experience. Through real-world examples and best practices, Anthony Franco, president, EffectiveUI, shares the tools and know-how needed to evaluate technology using UX-focused criteria.
This session will answer the following questions:
• What are the UX factors I need to consider when evaluating technology solutions?
• How can I best communicate tech requirements for UX and functionality of a solution to my marketing counterparts?
• How can a focus on UX up front save time and budget down the road?
Identity access and privacy in the new hybrid enterprise slidesCA API Management
Identity, Access & Privacy in the New Hybrid Enterprise featuring Forrester Research, Inc.
Make sense of OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA
Overview
In the new hybrid enterprise, organizations need to manage business functions that flow across their domain boundaries in all directions: partners accessing internal applications; employees using mobile devices; internal developers mashing up Cloud services; internal business owners working with third-party app developers.
Integration increasingly happens via APIs and native apps, not browsers. Zero Trust is the new starting point for security and access control and it demands Internet scale and technical simplicity – requirements the go-to Web services solutions of the past decade, like SAML and WS-Trust, struggle to solve.
This webinar from Layer 7 Technologies, featuring special guest Eve Maler of Forrester Research, Inc., will:
• Discuss emerging trends for access control inside the enterprise
• Provide a blueprint for understanding adoption considerations
You Will Learn
• Why access control is evolving to support mobile, Cloud and API-based interactions
• How the new standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA) compare to technologies like SAML
• How to implement OAuth and OpenID Connect, based on case study examples
• Futures around UMA and enterprise-scale API access
Presented by
• Scott Morrison
CTO, Layer 7 Technologies
• Eve Maler
Principle Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Overcoming Design Challenges in Specialty Displays and ApplicationsTouch International
Navigating through design constraints for advanced applications can be challenging, and sorting through competing touch technologies and display enhancement options can make the process even harder. Learn how to plan for success, identify potential display disasters and optimize your hardware selections for a flawless finish.
ITSM Academy Webinar - Is ITIL Really Worth the Effort?ITSM Academy, Inc.
How do we calculate ITIL’s return on investment? Specifically, is the investment in training and the money and time required during implementation really worth all the effort (not to mention the significant costs associated with cultural change in our organizations)?
The monetary costs of an ITIL implementation are mostly quantifiable (cultural change notwithstanding), but, since no two ITIL adoptions are the same, the benefits are much more difficult to capture. Which processes are attempted and to what level? Where is the organization beginning its effort? At what level of maturity are the service management processes that will be improved upon? Can an organization really capture all of the avoided costs? How much does an incident really cost? What is the real financial impact of downtime, unplanned work, failed changes, and inaccurate budget forecasts? What is customer satisfaction really worth?
The calculation of the tangible benefits may seem nearly impossible, but this presentation will explore the benefits of ITIL and quantify those with sample ROI models using process KPIs in an effort to provide an answer to these important questions. (Intermediate)
Doug Tyre
Service Management Practitioner and Trainer
University of Miami
Doug Tyre is an IT Service Management practitioner and trainer at the University of Miami. He received his BS in Economics from the University of Alabama and his MS in the Management of Technology from the University of Miami. He is an ITIL Expert and holds teaching certifications in Linux, UNIX and VMware.
Identity access and privacy in the new hybrid enterprise slidesCA API Management
Identity, Access & Privacy in the New Hybrid Enterprise featuring Forrester Research, Inc.
Make sense of OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA
Overview
In the new hybrid enterprise, organizations need to manage business functions that flow across their domain boundaries in all directions: partners accessing internal applications; employees using mobile devices; internal developers mashing up Cloud services; internal business owners working with third-party app developers.
Integration increasingly happens via APIs and native apps, not browsers. Zero Trust is the new starting point for security and access control and it demands Internet scale and technical simplicity – requirements the go-to Web services solutions of the past decade, like SAML and WS-Trust, struggle to solve.
This webinar from Layer 7 Technologies, featuring special guest Eve Maler of Forrester Research, Inc., will:
• Discuss emerging trends for access control inside the enterprise
• Provide a blueprint for understanding adoption considerations
You Will Learn
• Why access control is evolving to support mobile, Cloud and API-based interactions
• How the new standards (OAuth, OpenID Connect and UMA) compare to technologies like SAML
• How to implement OAuth and OpenID Connect, based on case study examples
• Futures around UMA and enterprise-scale API access
Presented by
• Scott Morrison
CTO, Layer 7 Technologies
• Eve Maler
Principle Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Overcoming Design Challenges in Specialty Displays and ApplicationsTouch International
Navigating through design constraints for advanced applications can be challenging, and sorting through competing touch technologies and display enhancement options can make the process even harder. Learn how to plan for success, identify potential display disasters and optimize your hardware selections for a flawless finish.
ITSM Academy Webinar - Is ITIL Really Worth the Effort?ITSM Academy, Inc.
How do we calculate ITIL’s return on investment? Specifically, is the investment in training and the money and time required during implementation really worth all the effort (not to mention the significant costs associated with cultural change in our organizations)?
The monetary costs of an ITIL implementation are mostly quantifiable (cultural change notwithstanding), but, since no two ITIL adoptions are the same, the benefits are much more difficult to capture. Which processes are attempted and to what level? Where is the organization beginning its effort? At what level of maturity are the service management processes that will be improved upon? Can an organization really capture all of the avoided costs? How much does an incident really cost? What is the real financial impact of downtime, unplanned work, failed changes, and inaccurate budget forecasts? What is customer satisfaction really worth?
The calculation of the tangible benefits may seem nearly impossible, but this presentation will explore the benefits of ITIL and quantify those with sample ROI models using process KPIs in an effort to provide an answer to these important questions. (Intermediate)
Doug Tyre
Service Management Practitioner and Trainer
University of Miami
Doug Tyre is an IT Service Management practitioner and trainer at the University of Miami. He received his BS in Economics from the University of Alabama and his MS in the Management of Technology from the University of Miami. He is an ITIL Expert and holds teaching certifications in Linux, UNIX and VMware.
KW Group is Asia’s fastest growing privately owned B2B Exhibition, Conference & Training Organiser. We are a trusted event partner of Ministry of Economy, UAE (Patron & Partner of Global Trade Development Week), PMI Malaysia & Malaysia Institute of Human Resource Management (MIHRM). With our unique insight and experience - spanning eastern and western hemispheres - we lead the industry in exhibitions, conferences, training, media and consultancy services. Our portfolio spreads across Asia and the Middle East with special expertise in Trade, Finance, Infrastructure, Human Resources, Project Management and Healthcare - successfully bringing leading buyers and sellers together through our events.
Our networks across government, political, business, academic & industry thought leaders ensures that we originate & own leading innovative event profiles as well as managing strategic events for international associations & through government partnerships.
Launched in 2010, KW Group is independently owned and proudly headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with representation in Dubai, UAE. We have a growing team of 30 international event professionals leading our portfolio growth across APAC and EMEA regions.
Corporate Site: www.kwconfex.com
Event Sites: www.kwglobaltrade.com | www.mihrmcongress.com | www.kwppp.com
Contact me at: puvenj@kwconfex.com
With the support of Mr. Ajay Chandrakar, the concrete lining at a cost of about 2.93 crore will be provided which will further strengthen the distributary channel of Mahanadi main canal in Dhamtari district.
Source(S):http://ajaychandrakar.com/
The first Enterprise Architecture Special Interest Group meeting for 2015, with a presentation by Tom Graves on Enterprise Architecture and Systems Thinking.
Forma specialistica di counseling all'interno delle aziende e degli studi professionali che consiste nell'offerta di spazi e tempi di ascolto per i dipendenti che hanno un problema correlato al lavoro o all'interfaccia vita/lavoro.
This document provides an overview on real estate development and financial feasibility.
Topics Covered:
Development - Process, Ecosystem, Model, Flowchart, Risk vs Value, Development Risk, Development Cycle, Key Categories of Tasks
Economic Feasibility - Financial, Development Budget, Static Analysis, Loan-to-Cost, Debt Cover & Default Ratio Approaches, Detailed Proforma & Analysis
Addressing Today's Challenges in Application DevelopmentMicro Focus
Today’s business climate demands increased agility, adaptive skill sets, and fast-paced innovation in IT. With the introduction of popular trends such as mobile and tablet computing, increased security threats and the growing adoption of Cloud-based services, how do application development teams respond? Can reliable, time-tested, and proven application technologies such as COBOL adapt to meet this changing paradigm and business need? We’ll take a close look in this session at the application development landscape today, the growing technology and process trends, and the outlook for existing business applications and enterprise application development.
Acre State Government - XWebX 2012 - IBM ProjectsRafael Osório
Welcome to the Jungle! The Government of Acre State in Brazil, http://ac.gov.br, a state in the middle of Amazon Rain Forest, is doing a Social Business Transformation, implementing Work and Web Experience Solution. Come learn about how Government of Acre State is using web experience solution to improve service delivery and citizen engagement and how to implement a work experience solution to maximize the productivity of employees.
Details will include use of Site Wizard to create multiple sites of different Secretaries on Government of Acre State, resulting in the ability to implement a new Secretary Site just two days, reduced from 3 months. The team will also share how they are delivering a “One-Stop Service Center Employee Portal “ integrating WebSphere Portal , WebSphere Process Server 7.0 and delivering a single, shared view of each citizen's data created with Infosphere Information Server (Infosphere QualityStage and DataStage tools), resulting in aportal solution where the employee of One-Stop Service Center of Acre can perform more than 100 services to the citizen. Understand what and how these solutions were delivered, and next steps in their exceptional web experience journey.
View On-Demand: http://ecast.opensystemsmedia.com/369
To dramatically reduce defense costs, Open Architecture (OA) offers a vision of complex systems of systems built from composable, replaceable modules.
From its origins with the Navy's OA program for ship systems nearly 10 years ago, this design philosophy is spreading to military programs worldwide, including the the Future Architecture Computing Environment (FACE) for avionics, the Unmanned Air Segment Control Segment (UCS) for ground stations, the Army's Common Operating Environment (COE) and the UK's Generic Vehicle Architecture (GVA). These programs are defining technology and acquisition policy for the next generation of defense systems.
JAD and RAD ~ Joint Application Development and Rapid Application Development ~ are IBM-developed methodologies for improved User acceptance of higher quality business solutions. Together they build on Software Engineering tools and group decision making techniques through the use of a trained JAD Facilitator. The methodologies have proven to be effective beyond software development to course development, product development, project management work breakdown structures and any effort that requires group consensus decisions. Several JAD-like agile software development techniques have evolved such as SCRUM and PRiSM. John Crosby was the IBM curriculum owner for JAD/RAD courses and extended the method adding business process and data modeling.
An independent Marketing Services organisation with proven expertise in delivering end-to-end marketing services.
Our industry know–how and partnership approach helps us in delivering ROI based services.
To top this, our sustainable marketing approach ensures optimum utilization of resource, reduce wastage of marketing collaterals for our client
A top issue with IT service and support organizations today is how to drive greater business
value from SAP solutions. Most often, the degree of value is directly tied to the decisions
business leaders make on which SAP projects, enhancements, and new solutions they will ask
IT to deliver to their organizations. This presentation will dive into today\'s challenges facing
CIOs, technology delivery executives, and IT project managers: How do you balance the
customers\' demands for SAP enhancements against finite technical resources and managing the
IT portfolio? How do you build close, sustainable relationships with business leaders in order to
drive greater influence on the strategic direction of SAP within their operations? What changes
need to be made within IT itself (organizational structure, job roles, skills) in order to move
from an "order-taker" to a valued partner? This presentation will explore the role of the IT
business partner within Day & Zimmermann - the many successes achieved and challenges
faced in influencing the strategic direction of SAP within its businesses. The presentation will
provide detail on how Day & Zimmermann\'s IT business partners work with executive teams,
their sphere of influence on business and IT decision-making, and driving ownership together
with the interpersonal skills, organizational structure, and IT processes required for strategic
alignment between IT and business stakeholders.
Oracle has been working hard for several years in building Oracle Fusion Applications which are slated to be released sometime during 2010. In this session, you will learn basic concepts of Fusion Applications, User Experience/UI Shell, features and functionality of Applciations. Present information about the Oracle Fusion Applications Present key concepts and ideas behind Fusion Applications Discuss the key technologies used by Oracle for Fusion Applications
EffectiveUI's Ari Weissman (Lead Experience Architect) and Lys Maitland (Senior Experience Planner) spoke at Denver Startup Week 2016. Discussion description:
Test early, test often.
It’s a mantra that’s been proven successful time and again when it comes to innovation and design. So why aren’t you doing it? In the start-up world, when everything is moving so quickly, it can be easy to overlook or postpone collecting feedback from real people because of cost, time, or lack of preparation. Don’t let those things stop you. Valid data can be captured cheaply, quickly, and with half-finished products and strategies.
This talk will cover:
What is user testing and why is it important
How to plan for user testing
What are ways to make testing cheaper
What are ways to make testing quicker
How to test with different fidelities of concept and design
How to collect data more frequently
Opportunities for getting the whole team engaged
What to do with the insights/outcomes of research
EffectiveUI's Raschel Iarocci, Lead Experience Architect, spoke at Denver Startup Week 2016. Discussion description:
When a design tests poorly with usability participants it can feel pretty defeating — especially when it has tested well in the past. After this happens, your UX team may go through a thought process similar to grieving, first denying that feedback is valid, then perhaps experiencing anger, then progressing through bargaining and depression, to finally acceptance.
During her talk, Raschel shared contemporary strategies for dealing with each of these five stages, enabling the group to move past initial reactions and get down to the work of addressing the design challenges.
UX Design Process 101: Where to start with UXEffective
EffectiveUI's Ari Weissman, Lead Experience Architect, spoke at Denver Startup Week 2016. Discussion description:
You’ve probably heard about user experience, design thinking, and a host of other terminology for following a human-centered approach to product design, but where do you start? If you’re thinking about working with a UX agency for the first time or tackling design on your own, this session is for you. EffectiveUI lead experience architect Ari Weissman will cover the key things you need to know:
What UX is (and what it’s not)
The UX design process
Measuring and validating experience
Points of frequent failure and how to avoid them
Give Them What They Want: Discovering Customer Need with Wearable TechnologyEffective
Presented at Design Thinking for Banking and Financial Services 2015
Dennis Ganesh, mobile platform lead architect, TIAA-CREF
Dan Saltzman, VP of design and user experience, EffectiveUI
As financial services companies race to disrupt the marketplace in any way possible, wearables are an attractive investment opportunity (and for good reason). Wearables can create quite the quandary, though: rapid innovation is key in getting a digital product to market when it still has the ability to disrupt, but there’s tremendous risk in being first to market, only to deliver a product that fails to improve customer experience. So how do you innovate quickly enough to beat your competitors to market and deliver a delightful experience to your customers?
In this session, EffectiveUI and TIAA-CREF explain the model they used together for rapid innovation and prototyping to deliver based on customer needs. We cover these topics:
• Why did we do it?
• How did we do it?
• What did we create?
• What were the critical elements for collaboration?
• How can you generate a market-viable product idea and prototype it in one day?
Common Innovation Myths (World Usability Day)Effective
From Green Screens to Lone Genius: Common Innovation Myths. Presented by EffectiveUI’s Steve Fors and Art Chinda at BNY Mellon’s World Usability Day celebration on November 12, 2015. Dispelling innovation myths, what innovation really is, the process of innovation and how to avoid innovation pitfalls.
Introduction to UX provides an overview of user experience design including what it encompasses and how the process works, the goal and principles of UX design, how to measure and improve UX, and the role of a UX agency. Presented by Ari Weissman, lead experience architect at EffectiveUI.
2016 SXSW Measures for Justice Panel Picker PresentationEffective
UNMASKING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM:
(2016 SXSW Panel Picker Submission)
The two women behind Measures for Justice and EffectiveUI discuss developing the first platform of its kind to simplify the complexities of criminal justice performance data, creating transparency and driving action.
EffectiveUI and Water For People teamed up again for a dramatic new take on the non-profit's reporting tool. To promote Water For People's mission of providing sustainable water to "Everyone Forever" the tool relies on data-driven design concepts and progressive visualization.
Getting into the Game: How EA Put User Research into PracticeEffective
Presented at Total Customer Experience, February 2015, by:
• Jordan Girman, group user experience director, EA
• Shane Johnston, lead experience planner, EffectiveUI
Personas and journey maps are becoming more commonplace these days, as companies realize the value of understanding their customers beyond their age, gender and income. Getting a clear picture of customers’ needs, goals, motivations and attitudes plays a critical role in designing products and solutions that resonate with your audience.
But what happens after the project is complete and the personas are delivered? In many cases, they may live in posters on the wall, or in a PowerPoint presentation in a file. How do companies make sure that their investment in this important research actually serves its purpose?
EA conducted a large ethnographic research project with user experience agency EffectiveUI, where 25 NHL and UFC gamers were observed playing their respective games and interviewed on expectations, perceptions and motivations. The result was a set of comprehensive persona profiles that clearly define EAs audiences for these specific games.
Through the lens of EA’s experience, this session will cover how to embark on a persona project within a large corporate culture, as well as how to keep personas alive beyond the deliverable and make them prevalent within the organization.
Scottrade and Understanding the Customer Journey: When Segmentation Isn’t EnoughEffective
Presented at Engagement & Experience Expo 2014 by:
• Gina Bhawalkar, assistant vice president of user experience and accessibility at Scottrade
• Lys Maitland, senior user experience designer at EffectiveUI
By nature, Scottrade, Inc., a leading investing services firm clearly focused on numbers, had ample data and information on its clients from a UX and marketing research standpoint. As the company worked to enhance its strategic vision for client experience and add new services and solutions, company leaders knew they needed to not only bring all of their customer research together, but also fill in some gaps to gain a deeper understanding and get a full picture of its audience – both current clients and potential clients they are looking to attract. Working in close collaboration with user experience agency EffectiveUI, Scottrade embarked on a comprehensive ethnographic study, interviewing 36 people in their own environments to uncover what trading and investing meant to their lives overall, how Scottrade fits into this, the tools they use, where they need guidance or help and how they feel along the way.
Scottrade came away with a better understanding of its clients and what they needed beyond what the company’s segmentation models provided. Scottrade is now actively working to turn what they learned into action and tailoring its tools around its audiences. This session will provide the following tips to customer experience professionals who also want to really know their customers:
• How to start the process of embarking on a large research project, including how to make sure stakeholders are on board
• How to combine ethnographic research with quantitative research for the best understanding
• How to bring participant stories from the research to life for team members who were not involved in the interviews
• How to effectively socialize personas and journey maps throughout an organization
• Using personas and journey maps to drive actual business decisions and initiatives
• Taking the next step in monitoring and addressing the customer pain points uncovered in the journey mapping process
A Blended Space for Heritage StorytellingEffective
Presented at the British 2014 HCI conference by Brian O’Keefe, lead experience architect
This presentation explores the role of Blending Theory as a framework to aid in design decisions while deploying mobile experiences for heritage storytelling. Blending Theory provides a structured way of thinking about how digital and physical spaces can be brought together to create new experiences in blended spaces. In this presentation, we describe the development of an app that aims to enhance the visitor experience to a heritage destination in New York State. We show how the blended spaces framework was used to guide the development of the app and provide evaluation data that highlights the effective UX that resulted. Heritage stories and augmented digital characters are used to guide a visitor from one point of interest to another, providing an engaging user experience.
Using Behavioral Modeling to Engage Customers Throughout the Decision-Making ...Effective
Presented at Integrated Marketing Week 2014
Richard Warnaka, manager of UX, Cabela's
Shane Johnston, lead experience planner, EffectiveUI
As retailers look to understand their customers, they often turn to tools like market segmentation and personas to better understand the different types of user groups within their target market. But this approach often overlooks the different stages a consumer goes through in making purchasing decisions.
Behavioral Modeling seeks to construct a universal representation of behavior: information is collected on the context, social structure, previous experience and emotion of a behavior.
This session explores why this approach was invaluable for Cabela’s, where – working together with EffectiveUI – the company uncovered the different stages its customers went through as they shopped. By understanding these various phases of decision-making, the company identified some new opportunities to provide meaningful engagement during the process to help guide customers’ decisions.
During the session, we will cover:
• How to conduct effective behavioral research
• Turning behavioral models into actionable design
• Key lessons learned throughout the process
Liferay and Water For People: From Data to InformationEffective
Presented by Steve Clement, senior Java developer, at Liferay Symposium 2013.
Water For People, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting improved access to water and sanitation systems and services in developing countries, was looking for a way to track and hone the progress it is making toward solving the water and sanitation crisis via its programs.
EffectiveUI was enlisted to create this new platform – called Re-Imagine Reporting – and selected Liferay as the backbone. This session, led by Steve Clement, Sr. Java Developer at EffectiveUI, will demonstrate how his team innovated on Liferay to build a new and transparent way for Water For People to manage data, improve outcomes, and prove its efficacy to stakeholders. Topics will include data import via Documents and Media all the way through to the final visualization using AJAX IPC calls and structured content, focusing on how they leveraged Liferay to roll up the data from the lowest geographical level up to a global view.
Michael Salamon, User Experience Practice Lead for EffectiveUI, on the fundamentals of creating engaging user experiences, as presented at E2 Boston (June 2013).
UX is a combination of science and art, but it doesn't need to be as complicated as it seems. If you follow these rules, you can immediately improve the experience your users have with your product.
Watch the presentation on our YouTube channel:
http://www.slideshare.net/effectiveui/making-mobile-meaningful-ny-2013
Presented by Anthony Franco, president and founder
The art of creating mobile experiences that gain adoption and integrate with your digital ecosystem.
• How to develop a mobile strategy that integrates business, user and technology needs
• What mobile insights Forrester Research and EffectiveUI uncovered in their upcoming Technology Adoption Profile
• How to leverage your existing technology platforms for mobile development, while addressing security issues and other constraints
• What questions to ask and answer to arrive at the right mobile feature set for your users
• What other companies have done wrong, and right, to encourage mobile adoption
Experience Driven Development - Future Insights Live 2013Effective
"Experience-Driven Development & Contract First Development" presented by EffectiveUI's Ryan McGinty and SuAnne Hall at Future Insights Live 2013.
Experience-Driven Development is a user-centered, top-down development methodology that puts the needs of the user first, even above system needs. When developing solutions from scratch and using this approach, the layers of the stack are designed from the user interface backward to the persistence layer. However, in the real-world, you often aren't starting from scratch and have to develop against pre-existing solutions and take a Contract-First approach.
This session provides tools and tips for both approaches, specifically how to meet the needs of the user as well as prevent your project and budget from turning into a raging inferno.
You'll learn:
- How Contract-First Development can reconcile discrepancies between the user's needs and system capabilities.
- How to decompose a wireframe into software contracts.
- How to be part of the experience design solution rather than saying, "No, we can't get there from here".
- How to use modern Javascript Frameworks, like Backbone, to build amazing experiences while adhering to software contracts.
EffectiveUI’s team on the ground provides a daily recap of SXSW Interactive 2013 in Austin, March 7-11, 2013. Sunday featured a special event at SXSW, GoodxGlobal, dedicated to the local and global power of social good, technology and entrepreneurship. Here's EffectiveUI's recap of one of the GoodxGlobal panels, "Tech Powering Effectiveness," with Rebecca Flavin (EffectiveUI), Ned Breslin (Water For People), and Eric Stowe (Splash).
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.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
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.
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/
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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