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Achieving the Productivity Gains of BYOD without compromising security Recorded: Dec 10 2012 53 mins

Frank Domoney

What it is about

•Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is the Device Centric part of the Consumerisation of IT (COIT). BYOD unblocks many opportunities for significant Productivity gains for both large companies and small companies. The low cost of developing an App for a Smartphone or a Tablet can make the payback time very attractive. Allowing it to run on the employee’s preferred personal platform guarantees a higher take-up and usage of the app and allows a reduction in the replacement costs of PCs .

•Attempting to achieve these gains without a methodical approach to evaluating the risks to the business might cause the company to fail to meet its compliance requirement, whether you are a Solicitor, a Financial Services company, or a Manufacturer supplying to a Defence Ministry or Government supply chain

•60% of UK businesses are believed to be implementing BYOD either formally or informally but less than 40% are taking adequate security precautions. New Generation Viruses can bypass traditional Firewalls and Virus Protection and are targeted to steal Trade Secrets and High Value Financial Information from industry generally. The employee’s own Tablet or Smartphone with all their games and social networking might be the carrier that infects the network.

•Companies need to protect themselves against the bad apple Insiders who will use the technology change to commit fraud or to steal the company’s trade secrets, source code, commercial information, without restricting their employee’s ability to carry out their day to day job.

The Benefits of Watching

•Find sources for more information about the implementation of BYOD.
•Discover a framework for evaluating the decision to introduce, restrict or forbid the technique
•Discover a framework for a sensible decision on how much to spend on securing the network in order to use it
•Discover some of the existing resources to support introduction of the technique

An introduction to Cloud Standards Recorded: Jun 19 2012 63 mins

Ian Osborne is Director of Cloud and Government IT at the ICT KTN

Cloud Computing is a relatively new and innovative area of business activity in the IT industry. The delivery of network based services is not a new idea, but the recent advances in network capabilities, the commoditisation of computing equipment and rapid advance of software as a service has taken this to a new level of business utilisation affecting all sectors and all types of business. What are the building blocks for these services? How are they regulated and controlled? How will the market continue to develop? A key element in the answers to these question are standards.

Maximising the Multi-core Advantage 6 Recorded: Jun 13 2012 57 mins

John Easton

John Easton is from IBM, a company which requires no introduction. However, you may not be aware of the extent of IBM investment in applied research in areas such as HPC and multicore. John Easton will guide you along this path.

Multicore and Scalability: What Really Matters for High Performance at Low Power Recorded: May 9 2012 57 mins

Tony King-Smith

The term “multicore” is increasingly misunderstood and over-simplified, as many still think this simply refers to having more than one conventional CPU. In this seminar, we’ll explain how Imagination uses the concept of multiple datapaths and execution units utilising range of different hardware and software architectures to implement high performance, highly scalable IP (Intellectual Property) cores covering graphics (GPU), video (VPU), communications (RPU) as well as CPU functionality. Tony will also explain how Imagination uses this to deliver much more than just performance scaling, including power management, product portfolio, and application software flexibility.

Maximising the Multi-Core Advantage - Easier Parallel Programming With GPUs Recorded: Mar 14 2012 55 mins

Timothy Lanfear, NVIDIA, Simon McIntosh Smith

: In the past five years, NVIDIA has driven the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general-purpose computing tasks from nowhere to a mainstream technology. Today, three of five most powerful supercomputers in the world are powered by GPUs and we see many examples where new science and technology is enabled by faster, better, more accurate simulation applications running on GPU accelerated computers.

How can a working computational engineer or scientist take advantage of this new computing paradigm? The simplest way is to use an application that has been ported to GPUs; more and more commercial applications in the fields of structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, bioinformatics, etc. are being ported to GPUs. For those using high-productivity scripting languages like MATLAB and Mathematica, the latest releases of these packages are accelerated by GPUs.
Libraries offer a route to exploit the benefits of a GPU with minimal effort. NVIDIA and our partners provide a broad spectrum of libraries for dense and sparse linear algebra, Fourier transforms, random number generation, image processing, video encoding and decoding etc. Simply replacing calls to libraries running on a CPU with calls to libraries written for the GPU will give an immediate boost in performance.

Multicore Design Tools: An Overview of Parallell Studio XE Recorded: Feb 8 2012 60 mins

Stephen Blair-Chappell, Simon McIntosh Smith, Ian Osborne

From multicore to many-core: How to write portable, scalable, parallel applications that take advantage of the mushrooming number of cores.
In the session we will look at some of the programming tools and parallel programming models that you can use to make your code parallel. We present an overview of Intel Parallel Studio XE, along with a discussion on what methodology to use when adding parallel code to existing programs.

Maximising the Multi-Core Advantage â AMD Opteron - Why it Makes a Difference? Recorded: Jan 11 2012 59 mins

John Fruehe, Director, Embedded Products, AMD

John Fruehe will be presenting the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series CPU and providing an overview of the features and benefits of the new Bulldozer architecture. In particular, how the core count and power saving features provide advantages to real world applications in terms of scalability and performance.

Radio Spectrum Options for Smart Metering in the Home Environment Recorded: Oct 19 2011 49 mins

Eddie Townsend and Rob Morland

This is an essential presentation for all organisations involved in research and the supply chain relating to Smart Energy and in particular the Smart Meter roll out.

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architectue, Processes, and Organizations f Recorded: Sep 19 2011 47 mins

Marty Abbot Michael Fisher Ian Osborne

Scalability is everyone’s problem. Designing for scale is more of an art than science. And, very few people understand scalability well-enough to design highly scalable systems and organisations. Is there an authoritative guidebook that can lead you through the process of building scalable systems? There seems to be one and here is an opportunity to listen to its authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher
Marty Abbot is an inventor, entrepreneur, technologist and business leader with executive experience with Quigo,which was sold to AOL. Prior to Quigo, Marty served as the SVP of Technology at eBay. His full profile can be found here: http://akfpartners.com/about/marty-abbott
Michael Fisher is an inventor, entrepreneur and veteran software and technology executive with Quigo (as CTO) and Paypal (Vice President, Engineering & Architecture). His full profile can be found here: http://akfpartners.com/about/michael-fisher
Ian Osborne (Project Director, Intellect and ICT KTN, http://www.intellectuk.org/spokespeople/580), will engage the two authors on topics such as how to design scalable systems, associated challenges and a few ways to deal with them. Feel free to send your questions before the webinar to ian.osborne@ictktn.org.uk or Mahesha.Pandit@ictktn.org.uk
This webinar is an initiative of Scalable Computing track of the ICT KTN.

FP7 Call 8 – European Funding for Your R&D Recorded: Aug 24 2011 38 mins

Peter Walters UK NCP, and Eddie Townsend, Collaboration Delivery Manager ICT KTN.

A briefing event for innovation driven businesses, academics and others working in ICT and its applications in the areas of:

•Cloud computing, Internet of services and advanced software engineering
•Trustworthy ICT
•Research enabling the Future Internet
•Advanced nanoelectronic components: design, engineering technology and manufacturing
•Micro-Nano Bio Systems
•Core and disruptive photonic technologies
•Intelligent information management
•Smart energy grids
•ICT for efficient water resources management
•Systems for energy efficient and sustainable mobility
•Technology enhanced learning

Participants will receive an introduction to the availability of this major funding for collaborative research announced by the European Commission on 20 July. The webinar is designed to provide understanding of the opportunities how to access these funds and access the benefits offered by European collaborative research,

The FP7 UK ICT National Contact Point and the ICT KTN are pleased to invite you to join this event and will help you to understand the call contents and the support available to proposers from ICT KTN and elsewhere.

The webinar will be presented by Peter Walters UK NCP, and Eddie Townsend, Collaboration Delivery Manager ICT KTN.

The webinar presentations will last for approximately 40 minutes followed by a further 20 minutes for questions.

This event is part of an ICT KTN programme designed to assist UK organisations benefit from the Framework programme and leading edge research networks.

Public Cloud services as part of the SME IT business solution Recorded: Jun 15 2011 52 mins

Tom Ray

Tom Ray, Cloudreach will talk about using the public cloud service providers as part of the SME IT business solution. Ranging from adding Infrastructure to adoption of Applications for the office.

ICT KTN Webinar Series: Cloud Based Security Recorded: May 26 2011 55 mins

Ian Osborne

Cloud Based Security: We have all become familiar with the process of installing anti-virus and other internet monitoring tools on our pc’s and then maintaining them on a regular, if sporadic, basis to keep up with the wave of spam, viruses, and other malware infecting our systems. Have you ever wondered whether there was another way? Perhaps using the modern techniques of Cloud computing to fight bot-net fire with fire? Perhaps there is. Ian Moyse will present the thought process and implementation strategy behind Webroot. A cloud based security service. This is an event in our Getting into the Cloud Series of events offered by the ICT KTN. It’s relevant to all Enterprises whether in the private or public sector. All delegates will gain access to the materials presented via registration on the ICT KTN website and the event will offer interaction between the speaker and Ian Osborne, the ICT KTN Host and Facilitator.

Connected TV: The storm approaches. Recorded: May 12 2011 64 mins

Dr Mike Grant, Founder of Caru Ventures

This webinar will look to separate hype from reality. It will provide an overview of the status of the connected TV market in Europe and the US, and identify some of the key issues that are exercising broadcasters, platform owners, content creators and device manufacturers as they look to develop and exploit the connected TV market.

Digital Youth Project Insights. Recorded: Jan 27 2011 39 mins

Julia Shalet, Product Doctor

This webinar, presented by Julia Shalet, Product Doctor will be of interest to people that want a closer understanding of the youth market. Using case studies from virtual world to mobile to community projects with a social media twist, this presentation will cover:
•Key insights from the youth market on digital products across a broad range of areas
•Adult mis-perceptions of young people
•How engaging end users early and often will bring you commercial benefit
•How to create learning experiences for young people that you involve
Julia has 17 years experience launching and maximising digital products and community offerings through her 12 years at T-Mobile, as the founder of the Digital Youth Project, through her 3 years as Product Director at Weeworld and as Project Director at Space Makers. She has a strong track record of success launching products and bringing failing products back to health for start ups, corporate and the third sector.

Julia Shalet’s career highlights include establishing T-Mobile as number 1 in the market for MMS; designing and delivering virtual revenue streams for Weeworld resulting in a 20m growth in registered users with $1m monthly revenue and being interviewed on BBC Inside Out for the successes at Brixton Village.

How to get the best out of H.264 Recorded: Nov 17 2010 60 mins

Professor Richardson

The H.264 standard is popular because it can be used to compress video
more effectively than older video coding formats. However, getting the
best out of H.264 is not straightforward. There are many optional
modes within H.264 and choosing these options creates a problem.
Getting the best compression performance for a particular video
segment involves evaluating all the possible modes, but this can be
very computationally expensive.

In this talk I will explain the trade-off between processing
complexity and video compression performance in H.264 video codecs. I
will introduce techniques for choosing a compromise between three
inter-dependent factors: computational cost, compressed bitrate and
video quality. Understanding these concepts makes it possible to get
the best out of H.264 in practical situations.

H. 264 Video coding tutorial Recorded: Mar 22 2010 60 mins

Iain Richardson

Video compression or video coding is essential to a wide range of products such as broadcast digital TV, DVD and Blu-Ray disks, internet video and mobile video. H.264 Advanced Video Coding is an industry standard format for compressed video which is key to many of these products. Participants in this webinar will learn how H.264 makes it possible to compress video through a combination of prediction, transforms and coding and will gain an insight into how to get the best from this popular compression format.

About the presenter: Iain Richardson is the author of the two leading texts on H.264 Advanced Video Coding and is an internationally known expert in video compression. Director of Vcodex Ltd and OneCodec Ltd and Honorary Professor at RGU, Aberdeen, he is sought after as a speaker, consultant and expert witness on video compression technology.

Framework 7 – Forming a Team & Writing a Proposal Recorded: Dec 16 2009 30 mins

Eddie Townsend

The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network will be holding another Webinar in a series focussed on participation in Framework 7. In the last webinar we looked at ways to improve your chances of success and minimise the cost of participation. In this webinar we move on to explore how to approach the task of forming a team and writing a proposal.

The topics covered provide a comprehensive overview of the main areas that any organisation planning to participate in FP7 should be aware of.

? Building a team
? Work integration
? Matching roles to partners
? Consortium organisation
? Partner search methods
? Building a proposal
? Proposal section by section view

The webinar will be of 45 mins duration, including some time for questions.

This webinar is part of a DC-KTN programme of events designed assist UK organisations participate in the Framework programme and leading edge research network.

If your organisation is planning a programme of collaborative research, or is already involved, then this 30 minute webinar could dramatically improve your chances of success.

The webinar is FREE and will be delivered by Eddie Townsend, our collaboration domain expert. Eddie has based the material for the webinar on his experience of successful proposal submissions and management in FP6 and FP7. Eddie has also published articles on the subject of collaboration and the role of collaboration in product innovation.

FP7 Call 6 – Submitting a Proposal Recorded: Nov 5 2009 58 mins

Eddie Townsend and Peter Walters

The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network and the National Contact Point for ICT will jointly be holding an information webinar on FP7 Call 6.

? Call 6 is the last opens in November with a budget of over €280 million.
? The Call will focus on:
o Cognitive Systems and Robotics
o Digital libraries and digital preservation
o Virtual Physiological Human
o ICT for Mobility of the Future
o Future & Emerging Technologies

If your organisation is involved in research in any of these areas then please register for this informational webinar.

The webinar presentation will last for approximately 30 minutes followed by a further 30 minutes for questions.

For those that have not participated before we will provide an overview of FP7. This will be followed by specific details of Call 6 presented by Peter Walters, ICT NCP.

The presentation will conclude with an overview of how to prepare a successful proposal.

This webinar is part of a DC KTN programme of events designed assist UK organisations participate in the Framework programme and leading edge research network.

The webinar is FREE and will be delivered by Eddie Townsend, our collaboration domain expert. Eddie has based the material for the webinar on his experience of successful proposal submissions and management in FP6 and FP7.

The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network has been established by an industry-led group of leading players, with funding from the Technology Strategy Board. It seeks to bring competitive advantage to the UK by promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing between the users and providers of Digital Communications, and by helping to drive innovation in the sector.

Membership of the Digital Communications KTN is free, and attendees are encouraged to register as members at www.dcktn.org.uk

TSB Digital Britain Feasibility Study Competition Recorded: Sep 17 2009 45 mins

Eddie Townsend

Please note: We have had updated information from the TSB regarding the eligibilty of companies to the competiition. Please refer to the updated slides on our web site for details

Preparing a sucessful FP7 proposal Recorded: Aug 18 2009 27 mins

Eddie Townsend

Eddie Townsend our collaboration domain expert with extensive experience in forming consortia and submitting proposals in FP7, will describe the steps to minimise the cost of participation and maximise your chances of success

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