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Building on Digital Transformation - Integrating, Scaling, and Streamlining Wealth Management for the Future

Building on Digital Transformation - Integrating, Scaling, and Streamlining Wealth Management for the Future

This session builds upon the previous webinar's exploration of digital transformation in wealth management. It delves into the convergence of wealth/asset management with banking, insurance, and planning, focusing on hybrid digital solutions and emerging technologies. Topics include integrating traditional and digital practices, scaling advisor impact (fractional investing, platform services), streamlining operations, the future of financial planning (AI), and meeting evolving client expectations. Provides a roadmap for implementing digital strategies and capitalizing on emerging trends.

Building a Distributed Data Ingestion Pipeline

Building a data ingestion pipeline using Spark, Kafka, DataStax, Nifi, and Pentaho.

Managing Secrets in a Cloud World – Introduction

If your application does anything interesting, it has secrets. No, not that no one remembers how your code works, or that that one dev put a curse word in his checkin once. Not those kind of secrets. We’re talking about database passwords, secret API keys, per-user encryption keys, and the like. For a long time, web developers put those in configuration files or read them from files which programmers promised never to accidentally check in. Cross your heart.

Using Breadcrumbs as a Navigational Aid

Q: Breadcrumb trails seem to be common navigation aids. But in which ways and how often are they really used? Is it enough to rely only on the breadcrumb trail to tell the user where she is in the site hierarchy (for example when she arrives via a deep link), or do you still need to do that with headings, etc.?