INVITATION

CONFERENCE
INVITATION
you are cordially invited to the Conference
N ew Bu si n e ss O p p or t u n i t i es fo r in d ivid u als o r small e nte r p r ises
DEVELOPING LOW CODE CUSTOM SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
FOR EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS
to be held on Thursday, October 29TH 2015,
@ The Cube
8 Kleisovis Str, Exarchia, Athens
The conference is organized by Dimitris Lyras, director of Lyras
Shipping and Ulysses Systems, and Karl Jeffery, editor of Digital Energy
Journal, a magazine about digital technology for oil and gas industry,
and will be looking at the business opportunity for developing Expert
Centric Software, to meet the needs of the Expert.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Roger Schank, founder & CEO, Socratic Arts (US)
One of the world’s leading visionaries in Artificial Intelligence, Learning Theory,
Cognitive Science & the building of Virtual Learning Environments. Roger will
present results obtained from a goal based model using computers for recruiting,
a timely subject in the current business climate.
George Karaplis, Senior Associate, IG ICON Investments
Former CFO & VP International, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization.
George will be speaking about the significance of low-code software modelling
from the investor’s point of view.
Free Registration and Agenda updates at www.bit.ly/Ath15SFDE
AGENDA
9:15
Stavros Messinis, Director, founder, The Cube
Welcome to The Cube
9:20
Dimitris Lyras, Director, Lyras Shipping and Ulysses Systems
Chairman’s Introduction: Why this is a good time for software for domain
experts. Examples of domain expert software applications in the shipping
industry
9:40
George Karaplis, Senior Associate, IG ICON Investments, former CFO and VP
International, Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation
LOW - CODE An inflection point in software development? What is low
code; External and internal customers; What are the implications
10:10
Roger Schank, Founder and CEO at Socratic Arts
Connector - Building Goal Based Models for Recruiting
10:40
Aristos Doxiadis, Partner, OpenFund
Business opportunities in vertical niches
11:10
11:40
Break
Emm. Giakoumakis, Professor and Vice Dean, Athens University of
Economics & Business (AUEB); V. Zafeiris & N. Diamantidis, School of
Science & Technology of Information, Dept. of Informatics (AUEB)
“Transition to Service Oriented Architectures”
12:10
Kostas Kontogiannis, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
“Model Driven Engineering and its Role on Low Code Software Development”
Managing Software Complexity; Meta-Models for Domain Experts;
Frameworks for Model Driven Low Code Services Computing
AGENDA
12:40
Discussion
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Nikitas Assimakopoulos, Professor, Dept. of Informatics, School of
Information & Communication Technologies, University of Piraeus (UNIPI)
The DCSYM Systemic Methodology: A Green Technology Approach
in a Public Hospital and in a Private Bank
14:30
Elias Gagas, Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Payment Components
How APIs & emerging global standards create opportunities for software
developers & experts in FinTech (financial technology): A case study of
Payments Components’ services & solutions for financial transaction
15:00
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, co-founder Sensorflare
Sensorflare - a Greek ‘low code’ start-up for fast and easy development of ‘Internet
of Things’ applications
How to connect Smart Devices with your web-based and mobile applications;
How to efficiently handle large amounts of data coming from your smart devices
15:20
Alex Seimanidis, co-founder, B2B Wave
B2B Wave is a software startup, providing software and associated services to 4
different customers
Providing software and services for B2B sales people
15:40
Discussion
16:00
Close
Free Registration and Agenda updates at www.bit.ly/Ath15SFDE
LOCATION
The Cube 8 Kleisovis Str, Exarchia, Athens, Greece
Inquiries
Athens Tel: +30.210.4190800, Email: eiordanidou@Ulysses-Systems.com
London Tel: +44-208 150-5292, Email: jeffery@d-e-j.com
MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Software for Domain Experts helping free thinkers work better
Software for Domain Experts is a blog organised by Ulysses Systems, an innovative software house
founded by shipping industry domain experts - based in Athens, London and Mumbai specialising
in delivering actionable information, and Future Energy Publishing, a company in London which
publishes magazines and organises conferences on digital technology, energy, shipping and carbon
capture.
What the conference organizers think
Dimitris and Karl believe there is a great potential for small and medium sized software companies
to develop software for Expert Users.
Most experts have very frustrating experiences with difficult to understand, unintuitive enterprise
software requiring massive resources to change and tailor to their needs. Experts have a long overdue
need to be in control of the feature development process but enterprise software could never offer
this control.
If this might have been their only option in the past, there are now new opportunities for smaller
client centered software development groups in alliance with domain experts to produce clienttailored, changeable and low cost applications with integrated results at the point of need that serve
the Enterprise / Expert User market, using ‘low code’ software modelling, and cloud hosting. This
synergy provides essential control of features and quality data results fully embracing the valuable
information in legacy systems.
Our guests and participants are experts
Academics / University Professors in Information Technology - Scientists, Researchers and Consultants
- Investors in Technology - Start-Up Entrepreneurs - Big Company and Government Professionals Shipping CIO
Expert centric software is
When the Domain Experts addressing their domain understand the software logic and are
involved in its development
When the software tools motivate Domain Experts
When it is very easy to enter data and stories
When the software tools aggregate large amounts of corporate data
When the software tools distinguish fact, analytics, previous experiences
and allows
Experts to follow up on their goals
Experts to have the best possible software working landscape, with the best company data
readily available and easy to work with
Experts to find similar previous experiences, learn what happened and how it was dealt with
Links
www.rogerschank.com
www.Softwarefordomainexperts.com
www.expertcentric.com
WHO ARE THE EXPERTS?
CONSTRUCTION / BUILDINGS Building surveyor, Construction manager, Estate agent, Facilities
manager, Geographical information systems manager , Geomatics/land surveyor, Housing adviser,
Site manager, Building control officer/surveyor, Building services engineer, Quantity surveyor
ENGINEERING Aeronautical engineer, Civil engineer, Commissioning engineer, Communications
engineer, Control and instrumentation engineer, Electrical engineer, Engineering geologist,
Environmental manager, Exploration geologist, Health and safety adviser, Land-based engineer,
Maintenance engineer, Manufacturing engineer, Materials engineer, Materials specialist, Mechanical
engineer, Mining engineers, Petroleum engineer, Seismic interpreter, Site engineer, Software
engineer, Structural engineer, Technical author, Technical sales engineer, Water engineer, Chemical
(process) engineer MONEY Commodity broker, Corporate banker, Corporate treasurer, Credit
analyst, Financial manager, Insurance broker, Insurance claims inspector, Insurance risk surveyor,
Insurance underwriter, Investment analyst, Investment banker - corporate finance, Investment
banker - operations, Investment banker, Investment fund manager, Pension scheme manager,
Trader, Loss adjuster (chartered) GOVERNMENT / LAW Advocate (Scotland), Armed forces officer,
Arts administrator, Barrister, Clinical research associate, Customs and excise officer, Customs officer,
Doctor (general practitioner, GP), Doctor (hospital), Economist, Education administrator, Energy
conservation officer, Government lawyer, Government research officer, Health and safety inspector,
Health service manager, Higher education administrator, Lecturer (adult education), Lecturer (further
education), Lecturer (higher education), Legal executive, Medical physicist, Museum education
officer, Nutritional therapist, Nutritionist, Records manager, Recycling officer, Social researcher,
Solicitor, Sports development officer, Tax inspector, Teacher (secondary), Tourism officer, Town and
country planner, Trade union research officer, Trading standards officer, Urban general practice
surveyor, Waste disposal officer, Water conservation officer, Careers adviser (higher education),
Civil Service administrator, Licensed conveyancer, Local government administrator, Patent examiner,
Regulatory affairs officer INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Information scientist, Information systems
manager, Information technology/software trainers, IT consultant, IT technical support officer,
Systems analyst, Systems designer/builder, Systems developer Systems programmer GENERAL
MANAGEMENT Media planner, Programme researcher, Agricultural manager, Catering manager,
Charities administrator, Logistics/distribution manager, Management consultant, Personnel officer,
Planning technician, Project manager, Quality assurance manager, Recruitment consultant, Fisheries
officer, Fitness centre manager, Leisure centre manager RESEARCH Market research executive,
Marketing account manager, Marketing executive, Restaurant manager, Retail buyer, Retail manager,
Sales executive SCIENCE Animal nutritionist, Biomedical scientist, Field trials officer, Food scientist,
Food technologist, Forensic scientist, Immunologist, Meteorologist, Soil scientist, Toxicologist,
Advertising account planner, Biomedical engineer, Oceanographer, Operational researcher, Product
development scientist, Research scientist TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT Courier/tour guide, Exhibition
organiser, Hotel manager, Tour/holiday representative, Transportation planner, Travel agent
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THE MANIFESTO
Creating business value
If a problem can’t be fixed by giving experts access to the right data, it probably can’t be fixed at all.
Many experts in critical roles have a tiny percentage of the data which would help them do their jobs
better readily available.
If, on the other hand, experts have the right information presented in the right way, it creates enormous business value. They can make better decisions, keep organizations healthy, and be more productive, and enjoy their work much more. They can even generate entirely new business models.
Giving experts better data is surely one of the best answers to some of the world’s biggest challenges
- (reducing the cost of oil and gas production, solving carbon, running government departments well
and more).
What experts need
Experts need the right data presented in a clear and consistent way so they can make the right decisions. The data needs to show them where they are, what is happening, things they should be aware
of, times when they were in a similar situation before and what happened.
Entering data must be as simple as possible. They must have a rough understanding of how the
system works. The system must also motivate the experts - give them suggestions which hold their
interest. People working together must also have access to the same data, so they can discuss what
it means. Experts may be part of a process, but it probably makes sense to separate the process management with the challenge of providing them with the right data, otherwise it gets too complicated.
In order to provide this
In all probability, experts will need ongoing service and continuous customization of the software as
their needs change, something big companies are not usually very good at. Building the right user
interface with the right data delivered at the point of need will also need domain expertise. The user
interface will probably be web hosted. There will be different interfaces for people in different roles.
People in a chain will see the data of people before and after them; people in management roles will
see the data of their subordinates.
Under the hood
Getting the right data to the right place is no trivial matter. It requires a lot of very complex data
translation work, all of which needs to be paid for by the value generated by and for the domain
experts - which means the domain experts have to be supportive of expert centric software. Data
standards will be very helpful, particularly in working out the intersections between streaming and
fixed data. Data analytics are important - but the effort is wasted unless the right data can be delivered to the right place to someone who understands what it is. The software will probably be cloud
hosted. Low code tools will help put the software together faster - and make it clearer to the developers how it works - and make it easier to update.
The commercial model
Expert users must be involved in development as much as possible - since they (or their departments) are paying for the development. There needs to be space for independent companies of all
sizes in every layer - the user interface layer, the layer bringing data to the user interface, underlying
databases, analytics, cloud hosting, low code tools.
Common errors made in creating Software for Domain Experts
Too much emphasis on ‘business process management’ and not enough on getting the right data to
the right people. IT department taking a reactive mindset - fixing problems rather than creating the
best possible system. Not enough willingness to do the really difficult work! The really difficult work
is analyzing the domain.