vendredi 24 novembre 2017

The PAZ satellite heads towards its launch base#gerardpocquet

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Spain’s first radar satellite will be shipped next month to Vandenberg/USA ready for launch on 30 January 2018
Madrid, 22/11/2017 – The high resolution radar, Earth observation PAZ satellite, intended primarily to address civilian surveillance needs and to cover many different applications including defence and security, will say its final goodbye to Spain. It will be shipped in December 2017 to its launch site in Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA.
Airbus and Hisdesat, the Spanish operator of governmental satellites announce that the launch of the PAZ satellite will take place in the last week of January. Since completion in 2015, Airbus has maintained the satellite in its Barajas cleanrooms, in Madrid, ready to be launched at short notice. “We had to be ready at all times as we could have got a green light at any moment,” said José Guillamón, head of Airbus Space Systems in Spain. Close cooperation between Airbus as the prime contractor and Hisdesat as the owner and operator of the satellite has been a key factor in successfully reaching the final stages.
The PAZ satellite is equipped with an advanced radar instrument designed for high flexibility, and the capability to operate in numerous modes allowing for the choice of several different image configurations. It will be able to generate images with up to 25 cm resolution, day and night and regardless of the meteorological conditions. Designed for a mission of five and a half years, PAZ will orbit Earth 15 times per day, covering an area of over 300,000 square kilometres from an altitude of 514 kilometres and a velocity of seven kilometres per second. On its slightly inclined quasi-polar orbit, PAZ will cover the entire globe in 24 hours, serving both government and commercial needs.
PAZ also features a sophisticated Automatic Identification System (AIS), simultaneously combining for the first time ship AIS signals and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery, increasing the monitoring capacities of the maritime domain worldwide. It will also be equipped with a Radio Occultation and Heavy Precipitation experiment (ROHP) from the Institute of Space Science del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICE-CSIC). For the first time ever, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Radio Occultation measurements will be taken at two polarizations, to exploit the potential capabilities of polarimetric radio occultation for detecting and quantifying heavy precipitation events.
Airbus in Spain, as prime contractor of the programme, led a team of 18 European companies. The Spanish space industry was heavily involved in the development of the advanced active sensor with SAR technology. Since the start of the programme, the PAZ satellite has been generating significant benefits for the Spanish space companies involved, allowing them to develop new capabilities to further enhance their competitiveness in the global space market. “The PAZ programme is already a success story for Spain’s industrial development, said Miguel Ángel Panduro, Head of Hisdesat. “It has created hundreds of skilled jobs over the years, and stimulated research, development and innovation activities in Spain.”
Once in space, PAZ will share the same orbit as the TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar satellites. They will be operated as a very high-resolution SAR satellite constellation. The addition of this third satellite will reduce revisit time and increase acquisition capacity, leading to subsequent benefits for various applications. All three satellites feature identical ground swaths and acquisition modes. The new setup will be jointly exploited by Hisdesat and Airbus.
The SAR constellation will expand Airbus’ already broad constellation services also comprising the optical satellites SPOT 6/7, Pléiades 1A & 1B and the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). PAZ, the first Spanish Earth observation satellite, will also be a contributor to Copernicus, the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.

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KKR to Present at the Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2017#gerardpocquet

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KKR to Present at the Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2017

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE:KKR) announced today that Scott C. Nuttall, Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, will present at the Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference 2017 on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 2:40PM ET.
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor Center section of KKR's website at http://ir.kkr.com/kkr_ir/kkr_events.cfm. For those unable to listen to the live audio webcast, a replay will be available on the website shortly after the event.
Any questions regarding the webcast may be addressed to KKR's Investor Relations group at investor-relations@kkr.com.

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KKR is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit and, through its strategic manager partnerships, hedge funds. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and driving growth and value creation with KKR portfolio companies. KKR invests its own capital alongside its partners' capital and provides financing solutions and investment opportunities through its capital markets business. References to KKR's investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds. For additional information about KKR & Co. L.P. (NYSE: KKR), please visit KKR's website at www.kkr.com and on Twitter @KKR_Co.



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AWS Announces Amazon ML Solutions Lab#gerardpocquet

 

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AWS Announces Amazon ML Solutions Lab
New collaboration and education program connects Amazon machine learning experts with AWS customers and partners to accelerate the application of machine learning within their organizations
Johnson & Johnson, Washington Post, and World Bank Group are the first customers to join the program
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2017-- Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, a new program that connects machine learning experts from across Amazon with AWS customers to help identify practical uses of machine learning inside customers’ businesses, and guide them in developing new machine learning-enabled features, products, and processes. The Amazon ML Solutions Lab combines hands-on educational workshops with brainstorming sessions to help customers “work backwards” from business challenges, and then go step-by-step through the process of developing machine learning-based solutions. Customers will work with Amazon machine learning experts to prepare data, build and train models, and put models into production. At the end of the program, customers will be able to take what they have learned through the process and use it elsewhere in their organization. To get started with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ml-solutions-lab.
While AWS customers across various industries are moving quickly to adopt machine learning, relatively few organizations have machine learning expertise, and many are challenged in taking the first steps to introduce machine learning and artificial intelligence into their products and processes. Amazon has been investing in machine learning for 20 years, using machine learning and deep learning to make product recommendations, optimize robotic picking routes in fulfillment centers, sharpen algorithms that inform Amazon’s supply chain, forecasting, and capacity planning, provide the intelligence in Amazon Alexa’s natural language understanding (NLU) and automated speech recognition (ASR), and support Amazon’s drone delivery initiative (Prime Air). Thousands of engineers across Amazon are working on machine learning. The Amazon ML Solutions Lab provides customers access to the same talent that built many of these machine learning-powered products and services. Amazon ML Solutions Lab engagements (which range from weeks to months depending on the nature of the solution) are designed to take customers through the full process of implementing machine learning, combining educational workshops and boot camps, advisory professional services, and hands-on help building custom models with a customer’s own data. For organizations who already have data prepared for machine learning, AWS offers the ML Solutions Lab Express. This four-week intensive program starts with a boot camp hosted at Amazon, and is followed by three weeks of intensive problem-solving and machine learning model building with Amazon machine learning experts.
“We can’t wait for developers to start their journeys into machine learning with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Amazon AI. “By combining the expertise of the best machine learning scientist and practitioners at Amazon with the deep business knowledge of our customers, the Amazon ML Solutions Lab will help customers get up to speed on machine learning quickly, and start putting machine learning to work inside their organizations.”
Janssen, the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, is committed to collaborating with the world for the health of everyone in it. "We recently reached out to the Amazon ML Solutions Lab to collaborate with our data scientists on a deep learning initiative,” said Jesse Heap, Senior IT Manager, Data Sciences at Janssen Inc. “We are pleased to state that the Amazon ML Solutions Lab quickly kicked off a deep learning workshop through which machine learning experts from Amazon have been brainstorming with and training our data scientists on applying deep learning to pharma-related use cases."
The Washington Post is one of the leading daily newspapers in the United States. "At The Washington Post, we are continually working to improve the experience of our readers using machine learning algorithms,” said Dr. Sam Han (PhD), director of data science at The Washington Post. “We are pleased to collaborate with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab to build models in application areas such as comment moderation, keyword tagging, and headline generation. Through our joint sessions, we have already developed a much better understanding of the challenges involved, and a path to solution, and we look forward to partnering with the Amazon ML Solutions Lab to build out cutting-edge machine learning models to improve the accuracy of our existing models.”
With 189 member countries, staff from more 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership. “We are excited to collaborate with Amazon ML Solutions Lab folks to leverage machine learning in our mission to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity, ” Misha Lokshin, World Bank, Development Economics Group.
Amazon ML Solutions Lab engagements are available to all AWS customers with AWS Business Support today. Customers can learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/ml-solutions-lab.
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Symantec Selects Amazon Web Services to Deliver Cloud Security to Global Customers
Leading cyber security company builds next generation SaaS services and companywide data lake on top of AWS as part of its ‘cloud-first’ strategy
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2017-- Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Symantec has chosen AWS as its strategic infrastructure provider for the vast majority of its cloud workloads, leveraging AWS’s infrastructure scale and maturity to deliver cloud security to its global customers. With AWS’s breadth and depth of cloud capabilities, Symantec has transformed legacy applications into cloud-based solutions, and built innovative, cloud-native as well as hybrid offerings.
Symantec’s relationship with AWS is long-term and bi-directional, with Symantec not only making a major operational move to AWS, but also tapping the global footprint of the AWS Marketplace to deliver its security services. The company built a data lake on AWS that collects tens of terabytes of data every day from 175 million endpoints and more than 57 million attack sensors. Symantec chose AWS for its scale and comprehensive cloud capabilities, including data services, analytics, machine learning, and container management. Innovating on AWS has allowed Symantec to deliver new security software and tools to customers faster, while adhering to strict data protection requirements.
“Our cloud-first approach to engineering requires a highly scalable and reliable infrastructure that helps our team deliver faster time-to-market and ensure that security remains our top priority,” said Raj Patel, Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineering at Symantec. “Symantec is committed to protecting the cloud generation through our leading security products, as well as leveraging the cloud to deliver our services. AWS’s experience serving some of the most risk-sensitive enterprise customers was an important part of the decision to choose AWS as we execute on our enterprise Integrated Cyber Defense strategy.”
“Leading ISVs worldwide are moving core business applications to AWS for greater agility and efficiency, reduce costs, and to leverage the security, reliability, and global infrastructure we offer,” said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. “By taking advantage of the benefits of deploying their software on AWS, Symantec has been able to accelerate its pace of innovation, gain deeper insights through their companywide data lake, and use that knowledge to make better informed business decisions. We look forward to working with Symantec to deliver world-class security to global customers.”
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Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public#gerardpocquet

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The Visitor Center is an architectural extension of Apple’s new campus.

The Apple Park Visitor Center opened in Cupertino Friday morning, welcoming neighbors and guests from surrounding areas to experience Apple Park’s innovations. The Visitor Center is a uniquely designed architectural extension of the new campus with similar aesthetics in staircases, stone walls and terrazzo floors. The Visitor Center’s cantilevered carbon fiber roof appears to float and is only supported by stone clad cores and no other extraneous columns for support.
Inviting guests to explore Apple Park in an immersive and engaging way, a 3-D model of the campus is brought to life by augmented reality technology. Visitors can learn about the world’s largest naturally ventilated building and view one of the largest on-site solar energy installations in the world. Visitors can also choose to lift the entire roof off the building to peek inside to the collaborative office pod layout.
Guests are also welcome to make their way upstairs to the roof terrace for beautiful views of the main building and some of the 9,000 native and drought resistant trees on the grounds. As they return to the first floor they are invited to visit the cafe surrounded by olive trees or the store with Apple’s full range of products and exclusive Apple and Apple Park branded merchandise.
 

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A step towards innovation - Alibaba Cloud Becomes Presenting Partner of the FIFA Club World Cup#gerardpocquet

 
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A step towards innovation - Alibaba Cloud Becomes Presenting Partner of the FIFA Club World Cup

Guangzhou, November 22, 2017 - Alibaba Group and FIFA announced today Alibaba Cloud - the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group – as Presenting Partner of the FIFA Club World Cup until 2022. The announcement was made on the occasion of the Computing Conference held by Alibaba Group in Guangzhou.
Commenting on the agreement, FIFA's Director Marketing Sales and Strategy, Iain Downie said: "We are aware of the substantial value that Alibaba Cloud provides to business in terms of technical support and global reaching services. We can only see great potential in this fresh collaboration related to the FIFA Club World Cup."
Beginning at this year's edition of the tournament, which will be hosted in the UAE from 6 to 16 December, as the Presenting Partner, Alibaba Cloud will design and provide the MVP (most valuable player) award. In additional celebration of the partnership, the FIFA Club World Cup Winner's Trophy was exhibited during the announcement and at the Computing Conference.
The FIFA Club World Cup is a FIFA-organised international football tournament, featuring the current champion football clubs from each of the six football confederations, as well as the national league champion from the host country. In previous tournaments some of the biggest footballing stars in the world have participated, including global superstars such as Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Cristiano Ronaldo, who had all been named tournament best players in past editions of the tournament.
Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud said: "As one of the world's leading cloud computing providers, we are striving to make technology more inclusive to benefit more people's day-to-day life and well-being. By becoming a major partner of the FIFA Club World Cup, we hope to show how our technology can bring new aspects of fun and enjoyment to fans of sports, including those people who might have had barriers to access or participate before. For Alibaba Cloud, this is the true meaning of inclusive technology."
Alibaba Cloud's powerful cloud computing infrastructure has proven its value proposition by supporting massive spikes in traffic and transactions during peak events such as Alibaba Group's Global Shopping Festival. Within the sports industry, Alibaba Cloud works towards providing cloud computing infrastructure and cloud services to support operation efficiency in a secure manner, including by supporting big data analytics requirements.

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Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, is among the world's top 3 IaaS providers according to Gartner, and the largest provider of public cloud services in China, according to IDC. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to businesses worldwide, including merchants doing business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups, corporations and government organizations.

#G20YEA Comment les jeunes entrepreneurs veulent faire de la France une scale-up nation#gerardpocquet

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#G20YEA Comment les jeunes entrepreneurs veulent faire de la France une scale-up nation

Lors d’un événement organisé lundi au Conseil économique et social, l’association Citizen Entrepreneurs et la délégation française du G20 des jeunes entrepreneurs, qui a cette année lieu à Berlin, ont présenté leurs propositions pour renforcer l’attractivité et la compétitivité françaises.

Avant de changer le monde, transformons déjà la France ! La 10ème conférence annuelle des entrepreneurs a réuni l’association Citizen Entrepreneurs et les représentants de la délégation française du G20 des jeunes entrepreneurs de Berlin, qui ont présenté leurs recommandations pour doper la compétitivité française. Chacune d’elles est assortie de plusieurs propositions concrètes pour faciliter l’entrepreneuriat.
Les deux premières recommandations sont dédiées à la culture entrepreneuriale française et à son environnement économique. Ainsi, les jeunes entrepreneurs souhaitent “réduire le décalage encore trop important entre l’Éducation Nationale et le monde d’aujourd’hui“. Au programme, la création d’un Bac Numérique ou encore une immersion en entreprise obligatoire pour les élus nationaux, régionaux et locaux, une proposition qui avait été évoquée lors de la campagne présidentielle pour rapprocher les élus de leurs électeurs.
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Autre préoccupation : la préservation de la souveraineté des compétences et des actifs français mais aussi “le combat” contre “l’hégémonie des géants du Web américains et chinois“. Et pour cela, les jeunes entrepreneurs ont des recettes loin d’être novatrices. La création d’un “cloud souverain” pour “garder en France les données privées et publiques” avait ainsi été évoquée – sous une autre forme – par Marine Le Pen dans son programme présidentiel de 2017 (proposition numéro 8). La candidate du Front national entendait alors obliger les entreprises à “stocker les données personnelles des Français sur des serveurs localisés en France“. Quant à l’imposition des géants du Net sur la base de leur chiffre d’affaires réalisé en France, elle est demandée de longue date par plusieurs partis politiques… mais relève pour l’instant du voeu pieu, optimisation fiscale oblige.

Harmoniser pour mieux financer

Alors qu’Emmanuel Macron souhaite faire de la France une startup nation, les jeunes entrepreneurs ont déjà un coup d’avance et veulent en faire une scale-up nation, grâce notamment à la création d’un fonds souverain de 10 milliards d’euros pour financer les futures licornes. Le financement est d’ailleurs l’un des points identifiés par Citizen Entrepreneurs et la délégation française au G20 de Berlin comme les plus problématiques. Pour permettre aux entreprises d’accéder plus facilement au financement bancaire et au financement alternatif, ils appellent de leurs voeux à la création d’un “crédit Fonds Propres” pour que les PME puissent affecter une partie de leurs résultats au renforcement de leurs fonds propres.
Enfin, les deux collectifs militent pour l’harmonisation au niveau européen des politiques fiscales (TVA et impôt sur les sociétés), du code du travail (avec la création d’un contrat de travail type) mais aussi du droit des sociétés (en instaurant des règles communes de fonctionnement des sociétés commerciales). Une uniformisation qui permettrait aux jeunes entreprises européennes de s’intéresser plus rapidement à des marchés étrangers au sein de l’Europe et de limiter les écueils administratifs.
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Ces préconisations ont été remises au ministère de l’Économie et présentées devant le Conseil économique et social. Depuis 2012, 18 des 19 préconisations présentées ont été suivies d’action : certaines ont inspiré un changement de réglementation, comme la création en 2014 du dispositif PEA-PME pour financer les entreprises; d’autres ont abouti à l’organisation de conférences ou d’événements permettant de mettre en lumière certaines problématiques clés de l’entrepreneuriat, comme lors des Assises de l’entrepreneuriat lancées en janvier 2013.
Mots clés : financement, G20 YEA