Live Webinar February 20th, 2018 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm  EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
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It isn’t easy to make exact copies of even a simple product, but at least you begin that effort knowing what “done” looks like.

Development introduces a special kind of challenge – you only learn what “done” looks like at the end.

The critical path for execution becomes dependent upon the critical path for definition and vice versa.

The development path can be thought of as a part “altitude” you wish to attain and part “distance” you must travel to get there.

Randall Iliff (LinkedIn profile) will use this powerful analogy to explore why development outcomes vary so widely, why Agile methods are essential, and to help you plot the optimum launch trajectory for any given effort.

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Launch Trajectory:
Why Integrating Definition & Execution
Is Critical To Development Project, Program & Portfolio Success

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Live Webinar February 21st, 2018 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

In this webcast, you will:

• Learn how to be a rebel in designing a recognition strategy that challenges the status quo, encourages peer-to-peer recognition and promotes social cohesion.
• Master using social media to put recognition under the spotlight.
• How to use communications to recognize employees to fuel company culture
• Hear case studies from recognition rebels.

Join Debra to learn more about her journey implementing recognition programs at many companies for over 30 years as a senior HR leader.

Presenter:  Debra Corey, (LinkedIn profile)  Global Head of Employee Engagement at Reward Gateway is the author of two essential HR books, Effective HR Communication: A Framework for Communicating HR Programmes with Impact and Build It: The Rebel Playbook for World Class Employee Engagement. Her latest book is scheduled for release in February 2018.

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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How To Be A Rebel
With Recognition & Communication In A Social World

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Live Webinar February 20th, 2018, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Adapting event driven computing is an essential part of digital transformation. Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and others are actively investing in their next-generation application platforms to support event driven serverless function architecture.

Most technology leaders added Apache Kafka based event brokers to their platform portfolios. Event stream analytics is one of the fastest growing technology categories (Apache Spark Streaming and Storm, AWS Kinesis Streams and Data Analytics, Salesforce Thunder).

Yet, most organizations are hesitant to make a strategic investment in augmenting their skills and technology portfolios to build competence in event driven computing. I

Join Yefim V. Natis (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) and embrace event thinking in leadership and throughout your business and technology organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Event driven computing and how it facilitates digital business innovation
• Unique digital business opportunities revealed by event-driven computing
• Key stages of increasing maturity for an event-driven digital business

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Succeed In Digital Business With Event-Driven Computing

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Live Webinar February 20th, 2018 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

We’re experiencing a 2nd wave of machine intelligence.

Today, traditional artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) largely depend upon data scientists to formulate labels associated with feature vectors that take into account model attributes such as entity, action, or relationship.

This process can result in implementation difficulties and errors over time.

A key challenge is that a given feature vector could be a blended version of multiple labels, and many algorithms force a choice of a single label.

A feature vector may also need a percentage of a given class label (e.g. 60% friendly and 35% extroverted).

There is also the chance that the data scientist did not choose the best set of class labels for the data to reflect contextual change, motivating the need to retrain the algorithm models.

In this webcast, Brian Womack will discuss:

• Challenges of labeling data for next-generation ML applications, and suggestions for mitigating them
• Instance-based learning methods from cognitive science and how they can create associations that can be grouped into a dynamic set of labels from which models can re-learn
• Example uses cases to illustrate the challenges for the community to address

Presenter: Brian Womack PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a veteran of defense intelligence & operations with a combination of data science, analytics algorithm development, robust signal processing, and software engineering experience. He stays involved with the details of adaptive computing technologies to advance the state of the art of human machine intelligence (HMI). Brian’s R&D focus is on third wave of machine intelligence (3MI); which increases system autonomy by creating a true partnership of human and machine. His integration of traditional statistical learning methods from the 2MI and instance learning methods from cognitive memory-based computing, make high impact decisions faster with more relevant data. Dr. Womack received his Ph.D. from Duke in robust signal processing and his M.S. from Texas A&M in adaptive control systems.

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Creating Data Labels To Adapt To Contextual Change

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