Conferences, Wednesday 10 May

 ...rely very heavily on open-source software. Including open-source software components during software development improves developer productivity, while delivering more feature content in a shorter time span. However, this reliance comes with downsides. Many open source components have an array of openly documented flaws and exploits that can easily looked up in publicly available databases such as the National Vulnerability Database. This gives bad actors a list of things to try to subvert your application or system. Some of these components were added by your team to implement anything from cryptology and communication to databases. Some of these are through transitive dependencies in application binaries and libraries that you rely on such as graphics libraries or graphics toolboxes. This problem compounds due to their probable live deployment and thus immediate potential to cause harm.
Software Bills of Materials (SBOM) are lists of components that document open-source re-use and are a great tool to firstly document and then manage the open-source risk. More and more international regulation is being drafted to mandate their use. This presentation will look into where in the process SBOMs can be used and how to quickly reduce outstanding risk.

 ...experienced a remarkable 26.6 percent growth in 2021, setting high expectations for the future. However, the industry's growth slowed down to a mere 3.2 percent in 2022, and now faces a daunting 22 percent decline in 2023.
This feast-to-famine scenario raises important questions: What caused such a drastic change? Can the industry maintain its impressive technology advancement, including Moore's Law? Is the trillion-dollar industry just a pipe dream?
This presentation dives deep into the root causes of these cycles and provides actionable steps to ensure the industry's long-term success.

...findes der ved at gå ind i metaverset med et ESG perspektiv? Det er fokus i en ny rapport fra KPMG, "Shaping the Metaverse towards sustainability," som kombinerer KPMGs viden med indsigter fra en række industriledere og eksperter og giver et indblik i hvilke ESG-overvejelser virksomheder bør have i deres arbejde med metaverset. Dette er udgangspunktet for denne session hvor Michael Birkebæk Jensen vil udfolde analysen og dele sit perspektiv på hvordan organisationer og ledere kommer godt i gang med rejsen ind i metaverset.

...connected electronic devices are starting to become ubiquitous across all types of industries. Moreover, various studies predict the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to rise to astronomical numbers within a few years from now. However, a challenge lies ahead: the dependency of IoT devices on batteries. Operating on batteries first and foremost means high maintenance costs due to the frequent replacement of the batter-ies, especially for applications with remote or hard-to-access locations. Moreover, even with the state-of-the-art low-power communication technologies, energy-efficient circuits, and improvements in battery design, the battery capacity is a considerable limiting factor that usually dictates how often we can measure and receive data from an IoT device or prevents the usage of more advanced features, such as remote software updates. Lastly, there are use cases today where an IoT device cannot be used, simply because there is no access to mains power or /or retrieving the device for battery replacement is not possible. The promise of using energy harvesting, the process of obtaining electrical energy from ambient energy, for IoT devices is to become a technology that can enable further adoption of IoT, by reducing the high dependency on batteries and hence mitigating the challenges that this brings. 

...connectivity replacing SIM cards with software.
The Onomondo SoftSIM is a software-based, GSMA-compliant, UICC SIM – supporting all of the features required for connectivity and fully compatible with 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G. SoftSIM is the world’s first agnostic connectivity solution.
Unlike eSIMs and iSIMs, there is zero extra hardware required. By embedding Onomondo SoftSIM in your hardware, Onomondo’s Global IoT SIM can be stored and executed as pure software. The benefits of SoftSIM are: 

• Reduces power consumption of idle devices, saving money and battery resources. 

• No physical SIM cards mean a reduced device Bill of Materials and SIM costs savings of up to 90%. 

• The SoftSIM application comes preloaded directly from the factory. 

• SoftSIM provides the same interface as a regular UICC SIM and is fully GSMA compliant. 

• SIM keys are tied to the device IMEI and this is enforced by the Onomondo Core Network. 

• Provision SIMs on your device on demand with no need to wait for physical SIM shipments. 

• Don’t pay for SIM activation/deactivation to avoid fees, only pay for connected SIMs. 

• SIM card production generates 18,000 tons of plastic waste annually. SoftSIM can eliminate that. 

...eller virksomhed kan det være brugbart at ”tænke som en hacker” – ved at sætte sig ind i angribernes tankegang, metoder og motivationer bliver man bedre til at bygge det rigtige forsvar. Men ”Tænk som en hacker” tankegangen er også et stærkt kort, når det handler om undervisning, awareness og talentudvikling. Oplægget giver en introduktion til hvordan hacking og gamification kan bruges til undervisning i cybersikkerhed på alle niveauer, og med masser af eksempler på indhold og formater til forskellige målgrupper: Fra gymnasieelever, der møder hacking og cybersikkerhed første gang, til efteruddannelse af såvel generalister som teknikere. Udover at være professor på Aalborg Universitet er Jens Myrup Pedersen også landstræner for Cyberlandsholdet, der i 2022 vandt guld ved de Europæiske Mesterskaber, så mon ikke der kommer både inspiration og gode fortællinger fra den kant også. 

...vores privatliv ændrer sig radikalt løbende med hver nye teknologiske udvikling. Og for tiden går det rigtig stærkt med forandringer og fornyelser.
Både i form af den store kunstig intelligens-bølge, der skylder ind over de fleste erhverv, elektrificeringen af vores transportmidler og IoT-tendensen, der kan ændre både vores hjem og arbejdsplads. 
David Guldager tager tilhørerne igennem tidens største teknologiske tendenser med et glimt i øjet. Han kommer med både helt brugbare og konkrete eksempler og tager også de mere spøjse og klart ubrugelige cases, der er ude på markedet i dag. Og han vil ikke mindst give et indblik i hvad der sker i morgen. 

...costly, and faults at the early stages of prototyping even more so. The increasing complexity in chip manufacturing technology and shrinking size of the PCB components creates a need for better hardware testing tools to facilitate rapid production of hardware prototypes, keeping the costs down and the quality high. 

...inviterer Nordic IoT Centre dig til en tankevækkende paneldebat som vil udforske potentialet i IoT og de barrierer, der hindrer dets udbredte anvendelse. Ekspertpanelet vil give værdifuld indsigt i, hvordan man fx gør IoT-løsninger kommercielt levedygtige og understøttende for en bæredygtig fremtid.
I takt med at IoT fortsætter med at udvikle sig og bliver mere og mere udbredt, er der flere udfordringer, der skal løses. På trods af disse udfordringer har IoT dog potentialet til at revolutionere stort set alle brancher og understøtte den grønne agenda. IoT-løsninger kan muliggøre mere effektiv brug af ressourcer, reducere spild og forbedre den overordnede bæredygtighed af vores systemer, processer, virksomheder og samfund.