Labs Talk

nyris is a visual search platform that gives people a more natural way to find what they are looking for. With nyris, companies of all industries realize financial value while improving how people find, discover and get things done. Up and running in minutes, only nyris’ technology is designed and engineered to handle any search challenge.

In this episode of Labs Talk, we talk to Markus Lukasson, the Founder and CTO of nyris. Besides discussing their visual search platform, we also discuss latest developments in search and their involvement in the SAP.iO Foundry Munich. 

Links

• https://nyris.io/
• Markus Lukasson on LinkedIn

Related News

• The Hundert - Nyris: Enabling Companies to Process Visual Data Super Fast
• [GERMAN] Heisse.de - Visual Search. A new trend in online retail in 2019? 

As both customer experience and social media are such vast fields, we thought intersecting these topics to focus our episode makes sense. Together with Dan Gingiss, we explore the intersection of customer experience and social media. We discuss how brands get started in the best possible way, pitfalls to avoid and how to find out which channel is best for your customers. We also touch in topics such as hyper-personalization and personal branding, the latter being all about how you can improve your social media appearance to build up your own personal brand (which by the way, will automatically also be beneficial for the company you work for). We finally also shed some light on how we can learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dan is an international keynote speaker, thought leader, consultant, and coach who believes that a remarkable customer experience can be your best marketing. He shares his expertise gained from working with leading companies through his books, podcasts, and various media engagements.

Links
Dan Gingiss on the Web
Experience This Podcast

The Corona Warn App, Germany’s contact tracing app to fight the spread of COVID-19, went live mid June 2020. Roughly three weeks have passed since then, and we thought we’d give you another update and some more insider knowledge from our colleague from SAP Munich: Malte Janduda.

We’ve already known Malte for a long time – Sven first worked and experimented with Malte for commerce and hardware prototypes many years back, when IoT was still the new kid on the block. At this point in time, Malte was still a working student. But since 2019, Malte is back at SAP Munich and is now involved heavily with various software architecture projects.

We’re super happy that we have a well known colleague and friend close by us here in Munich and are excited to share some updates directly from a team member of the development team of the Corona Warn App.

Links

• Corona-Warn-App Website
• Community Dashboard for the App / Backend 1 and here’s one more
• Malte Janduda on Twitter
• SAP Munich Website
• CWA Episode with Thomas Klingbeil – focus on technical aspects and privacy

Related News

• MIT Technology Review – COVID Tracking Tracker
• [GERMAN] Tagesschau – Rund 300 Fälle über Warn-App gemeldet
• The Local – The verdict on Germany’s coronavirus tracing app
• [GERMAN] German Federal Government – Falschmeldungen zur Corona-Warn-App
• German Federal Government – Corona-Warn-App international verfügbar (DE) | Corona warning app available internationally (EN)
• [GERMAN] Handelsblatt – Was bringt eine ausländische Corona-Warn-App?
• DW – Loved or loathed? How Germany’s coronavirus tracking app is faring
• Huawei – Neue Corona-Warn-App für alle HUAWEI Smartphones (DE) | New Corona warning app for all HUAWEI smartphones (EN)
• ZDF – Wo die Corona-App nicht läuft (DE) | Where the Corona App Doesn’

This episode, we tackle modern-day robots -- and we're not talking about your roomba! Meet Rafael Hostettler, the legal guardian and project lead for "Roboy". Roboy is the robot of your (and Isaac Asimov's) dreams: an advanced anthropomimetic machine originally developed at the  University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Now Roboy calls Munich his home, where a truly multidisciplinary TUM team of engineers and students base research off of Roboy's unique humanoid features and evolving abilities to the fields of AI, computer science, neuroscience, bioengineering, avatar tech, social psychology, and more.

In our discussion, we cover topics ranging from how Roboy works and what he can do, to how humanoid robots can teach us more about ourselves; whether it’s how to perfect the mechanics of the human body or how society can - and should - welcome a future where automation makes much of our daily tasks obsolete. Tune in for some extraordinary conversation!

Links:
Roboy
TUM - Robotics research cluster
Human Brain Project
Books - Roboy and Lucy "Superhero Glasses" and more
ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition

Related:
I, Robot - book and film
Paper - "From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human-robot interaction"

Along with several partners, SAP has been developing the “Corona-Warn-App” – Germany’s official mobile solution for contact tracing. The app is meant to help limit the spread of COVID-19 by anonymously tracking who users come into contact with and alerting them when one of these users has tested positive. Collaborators like Deutsche Telekom have focused on a scalable backend service for these applications, while SAP’s role is to develop the iOS and Android applications.

The first open source documents were available on May 13, 2020 and the first code drop followed soon after. At the time we conducted this interview, the Corona-Warn-App is purportedly a few days to being released publicly. 

We’re fortunate to be in touch with Thomas Klingbeil, Senior Developer at SAP and part of the application’s project team. Together with Thomas, we explore features of the app and their rationale (such as Bluetooth Low Energy and how it can be used for contact tracing) as well as spotlight topics, particularly the privacy-preserving nature of the overall Corona-Warn-App system. 

Links

• Official Corona-Warn-App Website
• Corona-Warn-App Open Source Code Repository at GitHub
• English FAQs for the Corona-Warn-App
• Apple - Information on Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing
• Google - Information about Exposure Notifications
• Exposure Notification Bluetooth Specification (PDF)
• Exposure Notification Cryptography Specification (PDF)
• Corona-Warn-App Solution Architecture
• Risk Score Calculation
• [GERMAN] Code Review 1
• [GERMAN ] Code Review 2

Related News

• SAP CTO Juergen Mueller - The Technical Foundation of the Corona-Warn-App 
• [GERMAN] SAP News Interview with Eyk Kny and Thomas Klingbeil
• [GERMAN] Corona-Warn-App FAQ at tagesschau.de
• [VIDEO] DW Business Top Stories - Germany's Virus-Tracing App (19.05.2020)
• [VIDEO] DW Business Top Stories - France's Stop COVID-19 App (01.06.2020)
• National Cyber Security Centre UK - The security behind the NHS contact tracing app

This episode is for all our developers out there...For the uninitiated, Web Components are a set of features that provide a standard component model for creating web pages and applications, allowing for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements.

By now, most frontend web frameworks (such as Angular and React of Vue) support Web Components, and we thought it is the right time to look deeper into this mix of technologies that most likely will shape the future of browsable content. 

Our interviewee, Peter Muessig, is the SAP UI5 Chief Architect. He is driving open innovation in the area of the UI framework, rendering, and development experience. Tune in for a deep dive into key elements, best practices, developer adoption and community, and more!

Links

• Peter Muessig on LinkedIn

More on UI5 Web Components:

• https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents/
• https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents-react/ 
• OpenUI5 Slack > #webcomponents

 Related blogs:

• https://blogs.sap.com/2019/02/11/ui5-web-components-the-beta-is-there/
• https://blogs.sap.com/2020/03/10/ui5-framework-and-ui5-web-components/ 
• https://blogs.sap.com/2020/03/06/ui5-with-ui5-web-components/

Getting started:

• https://sap.github.io/ui5-webcomponents/playground
• https://blogs.sap.com/2019/04/01/the-fastest-way-to-get-started-with-ui5-web-components/      

OpenUI5 & UI5con:

• https://openui5.org/
• https://openui5.org/ui5con/
• https://openui5.org/ui5con/onair2020/

Other links:

• UI5 Web Components on webcomponents.org
• SAPUI5 Demokit
• UI theme designer

In this episode, we chat with a startup  founder in SAP.iO Foundry Munich’s Spring 2020 cohort. Nemanja Popovic, CEO of StorifyMe, explains how his company helps businesses engage on social media, shares insights on content technology trends, and tells us about his experiences going from corporate developer to innovation entrepreneur.

 StorifyMe re-aligns customer engagement with intuitive content delivery. It complements your commerce suite of tools, enabling you to secure customer attention. Simply put, StorifyMe pioneers how merchants compose and ultimately own compelling and influential mobile-first experiences. StorifyMe brings the familiar tappable format to the open web. Allowing merchants and brands to break free from an isolated ecosystem. And keeping them firmly in control (and ownership) of their content. 

Links

• StorifyMe Website
• Nemanja Popovic on LinkedIn
• Labs Talk Sample Story
• McKinsey on Personalizing Customer Experience
• SAP Marketing Integration with StorifyMe
  
  

We’ve produced 15 episodes of Labs Talk so far – Nick and Sven enjoyed talking to well-known technical people in the community. Since this year, a few things changed with regards to the team and also when it comes to how we produce this podcast. This is why we make some changes going forward – but rest assured, we’ll produce even more cool content with some greater variety. 

Going forward, your hosts will be Erica Davis and Sven Haiges. Nick decided to do a fellowship with the Customer Experience Enablement Team at SAP but will still be available if we need him to tame Sven. With Erica on board, we’re now able to discuss and explore the Startups at SAP.io foundry Munich even better due to her long-time relationship with SAP.io. Besides Tech and Startup content, we also will have exciting research topics from our collaboration between SAP Munich and the technical university of Munich (TUM). 

From a production point of view, the recording and mixing is now all done by our little team. We’ve chosen new episode music and also streamlined the show which helps us to mix these episodes down ourselves. 

 We hope you are as excited as we are – please let us know in the comments at cxlabs.sap.com/labstalk. 

Three experts, one topic. Leon Stigter (Flogo), Jan Oberhauser (N8N) & Nick O’Leary join us to discuss No Code / Low Code and share their different perspectives.

Links

• Node-RED
  • Node-Red Project Page
  • Node-Red GitHub repos
  • Nick on Twitter
  • Project Node-Red on Twitter
• Flogo
  • Project Flogo
  • Project Flogo GitHub repos
  • Leon on Twitter
  • Project Flogo on Twitter
• N8N
  • N8N Project Page
  • N8N GitHub repos
  • Jan on Twitter
  • N8N on Twitter

To start the new year, we thought it would be nice to talk with some of our colleagues from the Labs team to hear what they’ll be working on in 2020.

Links

• Blog Post: Zefiro on Automated Negotiation
• Blog Post: Automated Negotiation with Zefiro
• Automated negotiation on Wikipedia
• Blog Post: Flow-Based Programming on Kyma
• Node-RED
• No code and low code on Wikipedia
• Intro to Web Components on webcomponents.org
• Web Component Polyfills
• CanIUse Web Components