Thunkable Tuto (2/2): Make your mobile app smart with the Google Gemini API

In the first part of this tutorial, we connected our mobile prototype to a Firebase database. This is a great practice, especially relevant if you plan to transition to coding with frameworks like React Native later on. However, this approach keeps us dependent on a pre-filled database.

Today, we are shifting into high gear. After 20 years in the IT industry, I am still fascinated by how easily we can now integrate artificial intelligence into an app with just a few clicks. We are going to replace our static database with the Google Gemini API to generate 100% custom quotes on the fly!

Thunkable Tuto (1/2): Create a Cloud-connected mobile app with Firebase, no-code

Starting this year, I have the opportunity to act as a mentor for the Technovation Montreal program. Seeing teams go from a simple idea to a functional mobile prototype in just a few weeks reminded me of one key thing: no-code is an absolutely fantastic driver of innovation.

Even when you aim to develop mobile apps from scratch using advanced frameworks like React Native, leveraging these visual platforms allows you to validate a backend architecture and an interface logic in a flash 🙂

To put my money where my mouth is, I’m proposing a new two-part tutorial series to build a dynamic, Cloud-connected iOS/Android mobile app, without writing a single line of traditional code.

10-mn tuto: Install a local LLM on Windows with Ollama

In the previous post, I suggested some approaches to help as many people as possible understand the latest innovations in AI. Now, it only makes sense to set a good example from a tech popularization perspective 🙂

As the post title suggests, here’s a quick, simple, and effective tutorial to install your own large language model instance, or LLM, locally on a Windows PC using Ollama.

AI and Automation: Facing the 'Wild West,' the Urgent Need to Arm Our Minds

As we integrate more and more advanced AI capabilities into computer systems, and as we talk about a revolution in the world of work, I get a sense of déjà vu… It seems that in the face of technological advances, humanity invariably repeats the same patterns, without learning from past experiences.

Following up on my previous post (Automation, Cloud Computing, and AI: Current State & Synergies), I’d like to analyze how AI and automation are reshaping our world in unprecedented ways. This article aims to highlight the approaches that, in my view, should be adopted to support the population during this evolution, particularly by addressing ethical issues, training, and educational reforms.

Automation, Cloud Computing and AI: Current State & Synergies

Over the past 20 years, I have experienced several organizational transformations with different employers, all catalyzed by major technological innovations: automation, cloud computing, and advanced AI.

Here, I aim to highlight the importance of IT in operational technologies, clarify the context of automation, cloud computing and advanced AI, and examine how their synergy amplifies their respective capabilities.

Agentic AI: Revolutionizing Telecom Infrastructures

💡Dive into a future where telecom infrastructures become smarter, more resilient, and autonomous!

✒️This article explores the practical applications of agentic AI, a major technological advancement, in the telecommunications sector. Designed to be autonomous, adaptive, and goal-oriented, these digital agents act in real-time to optimize networks, anticipate failures, and automate complex processes, going far beyond simple customer support interactions.

🔍Dynamic network management, predictive maintenance, continuous service improvement… Learn through examples how industry leaders like AT&T, NTT Docomo, Orange, and Vodafone have embraced this game-changing innovation!

IT Systems Security: The Rise of Zero Trust

🔒As cyber threats evolve and challenge traditional security zone approaches, discover how the Zero Trust model can transform your infrastructure and protect your sensitive data, even against the craftiest hackers.

🕵️‍♂️Also learn how the Zero Trust approach could have prevented Kevin’s worst Honda Civic nightmare😅

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Life is a succession of challenges…

…that we face on a daily basis:

• Most of these challenges are easy to overcome and are completed in a matter of seconds.
• But some may appear overwhelming and take much longer to resolve.