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New NetAcad Environment

Key sessions to learn about the new NetAcad environment

• IPD Session: Top 5 Instructor Tasks
• IPD Session: Academy Management
• IPD Session: Are you ready?
• IPD Session: Creating and migrating course customizations

Actions and Reminders before convergence

Planned Downtime
Both NetAcad.com and SkillsForAll.com will be down for 72 hours from 8:00 pm PT on Thursday, August 22 through 8:00 pm PT on Sunday, August 25 (03:00 UTC on Friday, August 23 through 03:00 UTC on Monday, August 26).

Watch these key sessions to ensure you are prepared

• IPD Session: Top 5 Instructor Tasks
• IPD Session: Academy Management
• IPD Session: Are you ready?
• IPD Session: Creating and migrating course customizations

Changing passwords
Users who did not change their password between February 2024 and now will be required to change their password when they login to the new NetAcad.com.

Contact Role
On the new NetAcad.com, there will initially be only one Contact role per organization. Your Contact should be a person who deals with the day-to-day management of the program for your organization. At the end of October, we will release functionality allowing for a second Contact to be added.

NetAcad Program Updates - IPD Week - May 2024

Tuesday 28^th at 2pm CEST
We have many topics to cover, CCNA / CCNP minor updates, new CCST IT Support certification, All new offerings in AI and Sustainability and many more.
Register: https://netacad.webex.com/weblink/register/r7d077ed44a136d5e2b1689c68d4284ba

Journey to Convergence: Wednesday 29^th at 6pm CEST. All updates about convergence, actions to take, instructor resources. Don't miss this change to be inform, we are only 3 months away from Convergence!
Register:
https://netacad.webex.com/weblink/register/ra6c1b07ec00d32c40b5c5fa835d5afa7

Be Prepared! Hands-on Educator Experience Walk-through Part 2 30^th May at 5pm CEST. We continue to bring you the hands-on demo of the new platform. Join us to learn how you can leverage the Custom Content feature to enrich student's learning experience, and how to use Gradebook to monitor student progress.

Register:
https://netacad.webex.com/weblink/register/re90a238df71dc25d58074974e5398deb

You can also review the Part 1 recording: https://skillsforall.com/resources/video/ipd-be-prepared-hands-on-educator-experience-walk-through

And many technical sessions in English that ca be found in the IPD Week course! https://cs.co/ipdcourse24

Wednesday 29^th at 3pm CEST - IPD Dutch - Nederlandse Programma Updates
Register: https://netacad.webex.com/weblink/register/r51532ff1d28b5e04c0d1c34ba98850ed

Friday 31^st May at 3pm CEST - IPD French - Journey to Convergence
Register: https://netacad.webex.com/weblink/register/r106566d8f7c4071c775a3100c7f761dc

 

Reviewing Talent Connect 2024

Unlocking Futures: Networking Academy Students Explore Career Pathways at Talent Connect

A group of 180 Networking Academy students from different parts of Belgium had the opportunity to engage in informal discussions with Cisco partners about internships and employment opportunities in IT infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity. In total, there were 30 representatives from partner companies available to share information to interested students.

Talent Connect is tailored for students with objectives that are socially and educationally pertinent:

• Learning about opportunities within Cisco and visiting the TAC Lab
• Speaking to Cisco partners about internships and job opportunities
• Discovering your value as a future professional

The majority of students attending the Talent Connect event are from higher education, seeking challenging internship opportunities. Additionally, there are students from adult retraining and upskilling competence centers who are prepared for certification and are also seeking opportunities.

Offering internships to students before graduation is a valuable public service by businesses. Internships provide hands-on experience, bridge academic and professional life, and benefit both students and businesses. Internships in the fields of IT infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity have a significant impact. Without such internships, students cannot be adequately prepared for jobs in these domains.

During the event all students also were able to visit the Cisco TAC labs, guided by young professionals working there.

Here is a video flowing through groups of students talking to companies while other students were visiting the Cisco labs.

Feedback from participants

Het bezoek aan de Cisco TAC Labs mag wat meer gedetailleerd en langer duren. ☺

Qua planning ervoor zorgen dat de bedrijven langer aanwezig zijn of dat het bezoek aan het TAC na de bedrijven komt.

J'ai trouvé que tout était vraiment bien! Un tout grand merci.

Tout était très bien organisé, très intéressant et l'accueil a été très chaleureux tant des employés de Cisco que des partenaires

La partie plus intéressante était la visite du laboratoire TAC. D'autres visites similaires seraint intéressantes.

Het zou handiger zijn als niet alleen de HR van de bedrijven zouden komen, want zij kunnen iets minder specifiek de vragen van de studenten beantwoorden.

AI Security Nuggets

NetAcad & SkillsForAll Platform Convergence

In the following weeks and months major steps are being taken to converge the old and new platforms into one new experience. The previous platform has been in use more than 10 years.

Belgian instructors are invited to the BiASC NetAcad Day and Roadshow 2024 in Charleroi on 31 May 2024. The purpose is to inspire and motivate you and help you to prepare for 2024-2025. Networking academy members can register here

Cisco s'engage à former 25 millions de personnes à l'IT d'ici 2032

Ce mardi 23 mai, Armand Leblois, directeur Europe Cisco Networking Academy Europe, Julien Berton, formateur NetAcad, et Charlotte Epeti-Mpacko, étudiante NetAcad, se sont penchés sur le réseau de Cisco, le programme de formation de NetAcad et également les opportunités offertes par l'intelligence artificielle.

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Cisco Talent Connect Event TCE22 Video & Pics

Creating a natural flow from internship to employment for IT students

YouTube (2 min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyxBdx5YLY

YouTube (45 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tdC6O71Rw
YouTube (30 sec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0PPSub0Xw&t=0s
YouTube (30 sec v2): https://youtu.be/7aqR-K2jk-o

Google Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kfCc2ehpLe1JZj518

Een dag in het leven van een NetAcad afgestudeerde (WTV/ VDAB/ HOWEST)

De tv-zender Focus WTV maakte in samenwerking met VDAB een relevante reportage met Jasper Dhoest, een afgestudeerde Networking Academy student van Howest. De oudstudent houdt zich bezig met de problematiek van security. Jurgen Lamsens is een instructeur bij VDAB die meewerkt aan deze video. Er is een korte reclameboodschap toegevoegd om de reportage gratis te kunnen bekijken.

 

Instructor Professional Development: online now in September

This quarter's GIPD Week starts on 11 September.

 Here are English sessions that fall under normal Europe times:

• DevNet Sandbox – Monday, 11 Sept 17:00 CEST/15:00 UTC
• Program Updates Option 2 – Tuesday, 12 Sept 13:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Zone Based Firewall – Wednesday, 13 Sept 8:00 CEST/6:00 UTC
• Packet Tracer Physical – Wednesday, 13 Sept 12:00 CEST/11:00 UTC
• Editing and Creating Packet Tracer Activities – Wednesday, 13 Sept 19:00 CEST/17:00 UTC
• An Intro to IS-IS – Thursday, 14 Sept 12:00 CEST/10:00 UTC
• Instructor Forum EMEAR – Thursday, 14 Sept 14:00 CEST/12:00 UTC

Other live Technical Sessions:

• SDN Fundamentals Part 2
• Instructor’s Guide to Teaching Introductory Python

To register for sessions go to http://cs.co/GIPD18

There are also offer localized sessions in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Polish at comfortable times. 

All sessions are recorded and resources will be posted within 24 – 48 hours of the session.

Using Apache Spark 2.0 to Analyze the City of San Francisco's Open Data

Published on Youtube 13 July 2016

Sameer Farooqui from Databricks delivers a hands-on tutorial using Spark SQL and DataFrames to retrieve insights and visualizations from datasets published by the City of San Francisco.  The labs are targeted for an audience with some general programming or SQL query experience, but little to no experience with Spark. Sameer will begin with some brief theory and lecture on Spark, before diving into several demos performing visualizations and analysis on calls made to the San Francsico Fire Department on July 4th.

----Topics-----
00:00:06 - Workshop Intro & Environment Setup
00:13:06 - Brief Intro to Spark
00:17:32 - Analysis Overview: SF Fire Department Calls for Service
00:23:22 - Analysis with PySpark DataFrames API
00:29:32 - Doing Date/Time Analysis
00:47:53 - Memory, Caching and Writing to Parquet
01:00:40 - SQL Queries
01:21:11 - Convert a Spark DataFrame to a Pandas DataFrame
-----Q & A-----
01:24:43 - Spark DataFrames vs. SQL: Pros and Cons?
01:26:57 - Workflow for Chaining Databricks notebooks into Pipeline?
01:30:27 - Is Spark 2.0 ready to use in production?

 

Follow Along:
+ Databricks Community Edition: https://databricks.com/try
+ Labs: https://bit.ly/sfopenlabs
+ Learning Material: https://bit.ly/sfopenreadalong

 

Facebook's Data Center Network

Facebook, Engineering Facebook's Data Center Network: Challenges and Limitations, 13 Feb 2015, 19:12, on YouTube
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkEbSbE8Fz0

TOPICS: Network design for the datacenter, new switches, performance

Contact: Najam Ahmad, VP Network Engineering

Cisco Talks - Chris Litster

You might learn useful background information when you listen to the Cisco Talks by Chris Litster. He was part of the development of many recent technologies.

TOPICS: OSI/ Switching/ Routing/ Datacenter/ Wireless/ VOIP/ Collaboration/ Security

URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfTdIEJiussOGwhCu5cBJXMbqD_cLdysu

 

Facebook's Data Center Fabric

Facebook's Data Center Fabric, 13 FEB 2015, Youtube, 37:36
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcI3fGEait0&t=329s
Speaker: Alexey Andreyev, Network Engineer, Facebook

TOPICS: Datacenter Design, Switches, Pods, Racks, Clusters, Splines, Fiber, Platforms, Automation

Video | Cisco Networking Academy Benelux Event | Seraing | May 2016

This video gives an overview of the Cisco Networking Academy Benelux Event in Seraing (May 2016)

Message from Cisco CSR

• http://biasc.be/2016/06/benelux-instructor-event-2016.html

Presentations

• http://biasc.be/2016/06/benelux-netacad-instructor-event-may-2016-presentations.html

Photo Winning Presentation

What is the Cloud? | Google Cloud Platform | The Apps Show

Google for Work, What is the Cloud?, Youtube, 16 FEB 2016, 3:39

You have already certainly heard about the “Cloud”. But what is it exactly? In this episode, Jenny and Drea go beyond “Apps” and give us a quick overview of the Cloud concept… and of its reality! They explain how the Cloud is already affecting our everyday work and show us the benefits of moving businesses to the Cloud.

Inside a Google data center

Google for Work, Inside a Google data center, Youtube, 12 DEC 2014, 5:27

Joe Kava, VP of Google's Data Center Operations, gives a tour inside a Google data center, and shares details about the security, sustainability and the core architecture of Google's infrastructure.

What is Big Data and Hadoop?

Simplilearn,  What is Big Data and Hadoop?, Youtube, 29 JUNE 2015, 52:19

What is Big Data and Hadoop?

This video consists of four lessons of Big Data and Hadoop Tutorial. The lesson begins with the introduction of Big data and Hadoop developer and its objectives where you end up learning the fundamental concepts of hadoop, applying programming skills in MapReduce, Utilization of big data anlytic skills using pig and hive, Hbase data model and its components, and describes ZooKeeper and Sqoop.

Course Overview
This training provides the detailed introduction to the basics of apache Hadoop, Hadoop ecosystem, hadoop distributed file system, hadoop cluster, Map Reduce, pig, hive, Hbase, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, installation and configuration steps for various hadoop components, and programming skills relevant to the various hadoop components, Learn the Value of Hadoop Professionals.

Lesson 1
Identify the need for big data, learn the concepts of big data, know the benefits of hadoop
It also explains about the data Explosion, Big data and its resources, Characteristics of big data technology, Appeal of big data technology, Traditional IT Analytics approach, Handling limitations of big data, History and milestones of hadoop.

Lesson 2
Learn the steps to install Vmware Player, Steps to create a VM in VMware player, how to use the oracle virtual box to open a VM, how to start an existing hadoopVM.
Introduction to VMware player and know the hardware requirements of VMware player, learn how to install the VMware player, how to open a VM in VMware player and learn the usage of oracle virtual box to open a VM, etc.

Lesson-3 Hadoop Architecture
Know the use of hadoop in commodity hardware, various configurations and services of hadoop, HDFS architecture.
Know the Key terms like commodity hardware, Cluster, Node used in hadoop architecture. So that it will make you understand easy.
Know the core services and core components of Hadoop architecture etc

 

CiscoLive Berlin Streaming to You

Wish you were heading to Berlin for #CLEUR? Virtually attend by watching the live broadcast! https://t.co/gBoPb7Ne2c pic.twitter.com/3hnot0JBSf

— CiscoLive (@CiscoLive) February 13, 2016

Evolution of the Network Engineer Job Role

 

Source

Cisco Devnet, Evolution of the Network Engineer Job Role, published on Youtube, 9 March 2015, 28:37
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGco_SxgY3w