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Cisco Student Workshop & Creathon

 

Belgian Schools have the opportunity to attend a Student Workshop & Creathon organized by Cisco, BiASC and NASC.
More information: <[email protected]>

Example workshop

Amsterdam 1 February 2017 - Around 75 students from ROC A12 are participating in an IoT Creathon. Coaches: M. Verleun (NASC), Y. Rooseleer (BiASC), Cisco coaches

What's a creathon?

A creathon is an event where students are solving business cases in the domain of Internet of Things, mobile & cloud. There are several stages in the workhops: preparation - forming student teams - learning the problem statement - defining the problem - searching solutions (ideation & creativity) - come up with a solution - present proof of concept (business model, prototype)

Here is an example of a problem statement for a student creathon.

PROBLEM STATEMENT - DIGITAL SERVICES FOR SHOPPING CENTER OWNERS

We are a multidiscplinary team (team name) working for a startup NORAIN.

We develop applications and systems for the retail sector.

Our new customer BLINX, a Benelux based company, owns  25 shopping centers all over the Benelux.

BLINX want to collect and integrate useful information to improve the operations and management of shopping centers, making the tenants, shop owners and retailers happy about the new digital services and possibilities. Also they expect to make better business decisions about future projects.

EXPECTATIONS

FUNCTIONAL

• building intelligence for shopping centers
• intelligent connections: people, process, data, things
• => improve customer experience; engaging the shopper; recognize people, lifestyle, gender, ...
• => improve logistics, transportation, ...
• => The solution has to consist of a new digital IoT service for our customer BLINX, that will improce their relations with shop tenants

TECHNICAL

=>access to all data in once place for BLINX management (data lake)

=> combine data to get new information to allow BLINX to find opportunities

=> add new IoT data sources to create a bigger, better and up-to-date data lake

Getting access to this will give BLINX a competitive advantage in their field in addition to give them a value proposition to negotiate better rents with their tenants as they also can benefit from the products.

 

DATA SOURCES

INTEGRATING DATA => DATA LAKE => BIG DATA

Collecting all data sources, enriching the data with useful information like weather data, bank holidays, ...

Capturing and storing real-time data => wifi, cameras, sensors, ...

REAL-TIME vs BATCH processing

 

TO DO

Develop a Proof of Concept for your solution => inspiration, creativity, empathy, solution, description, presentation.

TIPS

Using video: https://goo.gl/photos/ttQcLWX9ypNnE2S9A

Using Wifi: https://goo.gl/photos/CPep3NhEWwTqebWM8

Using Digital Ceiling: https://goo.gl/photos/gx5xTEjim5rgzuU16

 

 

EMC Academic Alliance Course Materials

Here is the list of courses that will be provided in the same Canvas environment, which is also used by Cisco Networking Academy. BiASC will function as the regional academy in the Benelux and will support educational institutions that are interested in teaching one or more of the following courses.

• Course 1 - Information Storage and Management
• Course 2 - Cloud Infrastructure and Services
• Course 3 - Backup Recovery Systems and Architecture
• Course 4 - Data Science and Big Data Analytics

New ICT professional profiles - Antwerp - 20 NOV 2014 - 8 pm

On 20 November 2014 an evening conference will be organized about new ICT professional profiles:

• Digital Communications Expert
• Data Scientist 
• Mobile Application Developer 
• Information Security Expert 
• Infrastructure & Cloud Architect

DATE & TIME: 20 November 2014 - 8 pm
LOCATION: Crowne Plaza Antwerp
ORGANISATION: SAI

REGISTER: http://sai.be/content/nieuwe-functieprofielen-voor-ict-professionals

Intro to Software Defined Networking - SDN - Cisco Live 2014

The network needs to be application aware and should be treated as a system.

Openflow: Network solution for Cloud Applications: automation, efficiency, agility

C.Obediente, Introduction to SDN - Cisco ONE, Cisco Live 2014
May 2014
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4YNbVvFUk
1:25:45

Objectives

• Understand the importance of SDN
• Become familiar with SDN
• Real Use Cases

Background information 

In the SDN architecture, the control and data planes are decoupled, network intelligence and state are logically centralized, and the underlying network infrastructure is abstracted from the applications. As a result, enterprises and carriers gain unprecedented programmability, automation, and network control, enabling them to build highly scalable, flexible networks that readily adapt to changing business needs.

Open Networking Foundation, Software-Defined Networking: The New Norm for Networks, ONF White Paper, April 2012, 12 p.

URL: https://www.opennetworking.org/
URL: https://www.opennetworking.org/sdn-resources/onf-specifications/openflow
URL: https://www.opennetworking.org/sdn-resources/sdn-library/whitepapers
URL: https://www.opennetworking.org/images/stories/downloads/sdn-resources/white-papers/wp-sdn-newnorm.pdf