Hi everybody, my name is Felipe Wisi. I'm here to talk to you about Unicraft and how to make Unicernals mainstream. As you know, the public cloud is a great success. It has great scalability. It's really easy to use and has a whole lot of services. But it also has downsides. It's bloated, it's expensive, and it's certainly not eco-friendly. And there's been lots of reports stating that the cost of the cloud has become one of the main priorities for many, many companies now. So obviously this situation is good for the main cloud providers. And potentially also one could argue for the hardware manufacturers, but not so good for anybody else. So the problem with the bloat has two parts. The first one is when you look at your application and the virtual machine it runs in, there's your business logic, could be a database, could be a web server. Under that there are system services, libraries, and of course the operating system. And there's lots of part within these that you don't need to run that application, but you still pay for. The second part of the problem has to do with time when your service or virtual machine starts, it's at first idle until the first client request arrives. Then it does useful work, but then it goes idle again. And every time it's idle, you're still paying for services that are not really doing any useful work. And that's costing money too. So basically what's going on is that you'd like to run, you're running basically a full cafe when all you need to be doing is running an Espresso. And basically what we would like to do is specialize for the needs of particular applications running on cloud services. So if we're talking specialization and virtual machines, this points to Unicernals, which are essentially specialized virtual machines. So in a nutshell, if imagine you wanna run a web server such as Nginx, you're gonna have a number of third-party libraries in your virtual machine image. You're gonna have softer services. You're gonna have the OS kernel, perhaps from Linux. And you have lots of little blocks that you don't really need. You only need the sort of colored ones that I'm showing here for the web server to run. And what Unicernals tries to do is graph just those and build it into a very specialized virtual machine that is purpose-built to run just that web server. The problem is that turning the left-hand side picture into the Unicernal in the past has required lots of development time. So in Unicraft, we're trying to fix that. We have a core build system and a principled architecture where everything is modular. Everything is a library so that we can easily plug and play and specialize for particular applications. And then we have a set of well-defined APIs so that we can actually plug and play things. So if we start at the top and we have the application, we have a libc layer with a libc called new live. And we've also recently started adding muscle support. It should be ready soon. Under that, we have a POSIX compatibility layer. I'll talk more about this later, but this is so that applications can run unmodified on Unicraft. And below all of that are the different subsystems with well-defined APIs shown as black boxes. And this is what lets us plug and play different memory allocators, file systems, network stacks, and so forth. Under that is the platform layer where we add support for different hypervisors, KVM, Zen, and so forth. And then of course, CPU architecture support. So just to show you a few numbers, this is a Unicraft Unicernal running Nginx on an EC2 instance. And basically when we open the URL, the instance boots, it starts Nginx and it serves this webpage that has some basic stats. And here in this example, you can see that Unicraft booted in eight milliseconds. It took one more millisecond for Nginx to start up. The whole image is consuming just over four megabytes and on disk the image was under two megabytes. And this is also showing a comparison against Nginx running on Linux with the green number showing how much more efficient Unicraft is. So this just shows the potential. And then the question is, why aren't Unicernals more widely deployed then? So we think there's multiple barriers to deployment that have hindered Unicernals from being mainstream. The first one ironically has to do with performance because if you think Unicernals are specialized VMs, why wouldn't they just run fast? And it turns out that many projects have small but still monolithic OS primitives. So it wasn't always easy to specialize things. There was lots of underperforming code and optimized network stacks and so forth. And many of the projects didn't really target performance. They were using languages such as airline or oral camel and the purpose of those projects was never to go fast. In contrast, Unicraft's target is to have better good performance from the beginning. So this is a measurement of Nginx running measuring requests per second on KVM Unicraft. But also we compared against other Unicernals projects and Linux as well. And you can see where we come up on top. This is about 300,000 requests per second on a single CPU core. We also do measurements to do with memory consumption once again against other Unicernals projects and Linux. And you can see Unicraft on the left is able to run databases and web servers in as little as a few megabytes. Because Unicraft doesn't have a user space, kernel space divide, latency is pretty good. And this is a comparison against Linux. And finally a graph about boot times you saw in that sort of demo slide that Unicraft was booting in eight, nine milliseconds. Some of the time is consumed obviously by the VMM. So Unicraft supports different VMMs, Kimu, Solar 5, and more recently Amazon Firecracker. And for instance, if you use Firecracker then you can boot a hello world Unicraft image in as little as three milliseconds. So pretty quick. And then finally image sizes, Unicraft image sizes are pretty small. For real world applications, you can expect one to two megs. So the second barrier to deployment has to do with application and platform support. In the past, there's been a lot of Unicernel projects that were specific to a single application or a single language. So their applicability was limited. Many of them require porting. So you had to actually take an application and modify it by hand so that it would run on the Unicernel OS. So that wasn't really scalable. And for those that did support some level of POSIX, meaning they tried to look or offer the Linux API, there was insufficient Cisco support. So it was only partly supported. Unicraft already supports a rich set of applications and programming languages. But we also support what's called binary compatibility mode in which we can take an unmodified elf, built for instance under an Linux host. And we have a special Unicraft library called floader, which does what its name suggests. It just loads that elf. And whenever we get a Cisco, we trap that and we redirect it to another Unicraft library called the Cisco shim layer. And this layer then takes care of redirecting that Cisco call to the Unicraft library that actually implements the Cisco. And in this way, you can actually run a binary that has been totally unmodified. And this means that you don't need to port applications in order to run them on Unicraft. The second approach to achieving this is what we call from source or with muscle, which is work in progress. In this case, we take the sources of the application and we build it with its native build system against muscle. And then we take the resulting object files and add them to the Unicraft build. This works because Unicraft has a ported version of muscle, which then redirects again any Cisco to the shim layer. And then that goes on to executing them by the different Unicraft libraries actually implementing them. The advantage here being that the Cisco's actually turn into just simple function calls, so the performance is better. In terms of platform support, Unicraft started several years ago as a simple x86 on Zen project with a dummy libc called no libc. Also several years ago, we started out in support for KBM and NewLib. And then more recently, there's been a lot of effort towards supporting ARM64, which is there now. And as I mentioned, work in progress is muscle, which should be coming in the next month or so. And then from the open source community, there's people working on supporting Hyper-V and VMware and more recently the RISC-5 architecture. So here are just a few screenshots of Unicraft running on Hyper-V and VMware on RISC-5. And finally, you can also run Unicraft Bear Metal on ARM64. In this case, this is a screenshot of it running on their Raspberry Pi A3. Okay, the third barrier to deployment was framework integration. Many Unicurnal projects, when they came out, there were no obvious standard frameworks, such as Cape Kubernetes today. And even many of them didn't have any toolkits. So building these Unicurnals was a matter of getting dirty with make files and so forth. So it was really a difficult, a lot of engineering effort to get started with these. So in Unicraft, we're trying to make this as painless as possible, and we've done this in several steps. First, with Virtual Studio Code, we provide an official plug-in. So here's just a brief video where you can actually get the plug-in and then you can open a Unicraft Bear Metal and you can open a Unicraft project. In this case, we can select a Hello World one. And then you can see there's a special you Unicraft symbol on the bar on the left. And then you can just do standard development and then it'll build and actually run it for you all within VS Code. And underneath, what it's actually doing is running craft. And craft is our toolkit that wraps around how to easily build and run Unicraft Unicurnals. Of course, you could do this by hand using make files, but you don't need to. Craft simplifies this a lot to the point where you can run a single command to build and run your Unicurnal.  So craft takes care of any dependencies, but libraries need to be dragged in. For each application, there is a craft YAML file stating dependencies and so forth. These are created by the team, they already exist. And then just a short video of how to use it. If the simplest use case is I just wanna choose an application. In this case, engine X. I just wanna craft to build it, download the sources, build it and then run it on KVM. So this is what the craft up command does. It'll first fetch the sources for Unicraft and for engine X. And then once it's done downloading them, you can see downloading now, it'll start actually doing the build. And then I'll just go ahead and skip to the end of the build. I think yeah, 98% now. And what it's done, what it's gonna do is it's gonna execute it right away on KVM, which is the selected platform we chose. There it is. It's already booted, it's running engine X. And just to make sure it's working, we're gonna curl the IP listed in the outputs to see if we're able to retrieve a hello world page. And there it is. The third part is obviously once you build the Unicurnal, you wanna deploy it. Arguably the de facto standard for doing this is Kubernetes. So we've done an integration with Kubernetes where we created an equivalent for Run C called Run U, which instead of running containers runs Unicraft, Unicurnals. And with that in place, you can use unmodified Kube CTL in the Kubernetes dashboard. As you normally would, it's just underneath your running Unicraft, Unicurnals. And here's a short video showing that the only modification you need to do is to the manifest YAML where you would specify that you'll be using this Run U. And then with that in place, you can just use standard Kube CTL commands. In this case, we're gonna create a Unicraft pod. It's already done. So pretty quick. And then you can list it, of course. And then we'll just show the log to, you can see now that it's running just as before. It's running engine X. We can still get the IP address and curl it. This is just to show that it is actually up and running and working. And then you can go to the standard dashboard. Again, this is wholly unmodified and you can go to the Unicraft pod and get some basic stats for it. You can see the console there too. Okay, and the final piece is, obviously once your Unicurnal is deployed, you wanna see how it's doing, be able to monitor it and so forth. So here we added yet one more library to Unicraft that works as a Prometheus exporter. And then what we do is we create Grafana dashboards out of it. This is an actual Grafana dashboard of a Unicraft kernel showing networking statistics and memory statistics. The final barrier to deployment is to do with debugging. Many projects had no standard tools, no GDP support. So it was really tricky to actually debug him. There was no performance profiling tools and there was poor documentation. In Unicraft, we've been working hard to provide such features. There's a library called UK.debug that you can enable and when enabled, it gives you access to assertions, trace points and a full GDP server. There's a library called UK test for unit testing and UK store allows all the other libraries to store information about their performance. So if you have a memory allocator, you can store and get memory consumption stats there and then you can export them onto Grafana. In addition to that, we created a tool called Uniprof. What this does is it takes stack snapshots periodically and then you can use those to generate flame graphs such as the one I'm showing on here. And the flame graph will very quickly and visually show you where your performance bottleneck is. It'll give you even the function names and then you can go ahead and try to optimize those. And finally, we have done a lot of effort to document Unicraft well. This is available on Unicraft.org slash docs. And then a word on security. If you know anything about Unicurn or even if you don't, you probably have figured out by now that because they're specialized, they have a lot of potential for having good security features because for one thing, they have a small trust in compute base. But if you know about Unicurnals, you've probably seen some reports in the past that have analyzed their security and they've been lacking to some extent. And this is nothing fundamental. It's just that many Unicurnal projects haven't really focused on adding standard security features. In Unicraft, we're trying to change that. So there's lots of security features that are in place or that are on the review or that are planned. I'm not gonna go over all of them, but the target is by the fall of this year that all of these features will be already in and upstream. We did do a test of that EC2 image running Nginx on Unicraft that I mentioned earlier. We pointed one of the security analyzers web-based ones to it and that got pretty good security ratings. So Unicraft is a Linux foundation project. The main website is Unicraft.org. So if you are at all interested, please check it out. We have a very active Discord server. I think we have a very friendly community. So if you have any questions, if you have doubts about whether Unicraft might apply to your project or you don't know how to get started, please drop by. We're usually fairly responsive. Another way to get started is we have a lot of regular hackathons. These are based in cities, but you can always remotely participate. So this is another good way to get started and get some hands-on supervision from some of the maintainers of Unicraft. And then finally, if you wanna read all the greedy-needy details of Unicraft, there's a long white paper that we published last year at Urosys that got the Best Paper Award. So you can read all the details about Unicraft there. And finally, if you wanna get in touch with us, here are your contact information. And if you like the project at all, please star us on GitHub. That really, really helps. And with that, I thank you for your time.


Okay, so what we'll do on this in the next let's just take let's just say 15 minutes or we'll try to do in 15 minutes, but we'll set up a calendar. Now, what you just asked seller appointments, no to tell you the truth, I would I would use this for everything I would use my cartridge calendar for every appointment from this point on anything regarding your business, I would use it. And there's three main reasons why I would use it. So yeah, name it something general not just seller right like name it you know your your appointment your your calendar name it your real estate name whatever like. Yeah, perfect appointments perfect. So, so why I would use it for everything because just number one yeah hit the green one it makes your it makes you look more professional now you have an online calendar right now you know you can send traffic there and people can book times with you it makes it just that professionalism just stands out. But but but also from this point on hit save and next everyone that schedules an appointment is now on a list. So I'm able to segment people in my life I'm able to I'm able to put these people that have ever came across my path through an appointment on a list. That's super powerful because now I can email that list anytime in the future. That's super important right because if you think about it now all you've had a million appointments you've been in the business for a minute. You had a million appointments. Imagine, you probably have all those contacts scattered all over the place maybe you have them. Maybe maybe maybe you are organized and you actually have them in a CRM. Okay, cool. Not not right via calendar yeah they're all exactly most are all scattered that's how I was too. And I'm like dude let me just put everyone through this pipe and now be able to categorize them and put them on a list, because if I want to communicate with them in the future, I could email them. That's super powerful but then also I can take that list, I could take that list uploaded to Facebook, create a Facebook custom audience, and then exclude them from seeing future ads, or I can retarget them. Imagine if you had a list of everyone who's ever scheduled appointment with you whether they bought or sold or nothing. Imagine if you just had a list, and then you ran and add to them. Hey guys this is Heather. Hey I know we spoke in the past you've actually scheduled a time and we took time and we actually spoke. Hey have you purchased yet. If not, I'd love to talk to you. Right, imagine running a specific message to people who have done some a certain, you know, thing and you can relate to that audience and run the most effective message that's powerful. You know so so list and then and then and then number three. What was, what was number three. Um, I forgot number three but whatever but put a title here put a description here, and then and then the duration. What is the title does is this title something that they can see as well see that part yeah those they see the actual class title, but I don't think they see the description or even actually they see the calendar name in the tab. So as they're on the page on the calendar they'll see the calendar name but yeah this is what they'll see for sure as well the class title. Okay. Yeah, book your book your one on one call now or book your one on one. Yeah. Call now or something like that you can always change this for sure as well. Okay, okay so the description, you know, strategy call on buying and selling real estate or whatever like the description this would be appointments for real estate. Yes, yes, perfect. Okay, and then and then the duration and then. The team member hit that drop down and then choose your name. So for the duration what is that do I need to like based on on on how long you want to take your phone calls that's that will reflect on on the calendar for example so by schedule appointment with you, it's for a one hour slot. Gotcha, right. So I'll see that one hour slot available or not, or and yeah you can base it on 15 minute calls or 30 minute calls. So yeah. I'll just add. And then so now available days and start time so select all the days that you want to be available and then and then all the times, and if, if each day is different then do do one at a time do do Monday if you have a certain schedule money Wednesdays, then then let's do money Wednesdays right now and then we'll do the time. And then and then we'll do Tuesday and Thursday and select a time. Okay Monday. So far right now my only busy days are Wednesday and Thursday, like, you know, whatever, extra, I have extracurricular activities with the kids and so forth. Yeah, for sure. So, so let's let's let's jot that down now like this is based on your real real life schedule. So, and then starting Sunday I mean I can make time. So each day there is is the same time. Yeah. Okay cool so select time and then and then just choose those hours. Yeah, I'd go by the hour. And again, based on whatever you put at the top. If it was 30 minute duration and you would go every 30 minutes here, but you went one hour so let me change the Saturday. Yeah see so every day might be a little different and that's what you want to do is is make sure that you do the hours. Yeah, what you do. Is it only nine o'clock on Monday to the Friday. No, it's, I can do like nine like I kind of wanted to just scatter them out a little bit you know like okay maybe one at nine maybe one at 11. Yeah, but do it by the hour since you went one hour duration at the top. Right so do it here one hour yeah so if it's 911 or 2pm. Right, don't put 1115 1130 1145 you know what I mean, right based on the hour. And then the third reason I forgot my brain farted a few minutes ago but but the third reason why I would push all through my calendar is mainly because of the booking that I like the booking confirmation the email reminders. Right, so that happens automatically that email that goes out the moment someone books a call that's professional. Right and then and then being able to have the system email them a reminder before our call. And I can put whatever I want in that email. That's that's that's pretty cool too. So that's why I use Karcher the calendar for everything. Okay, you know that I have this. Do I go ahead and so hit add. Yeah so hit add. And then, and then so now always go the other days now yeah so that that was Monday, Tuesday, Friday so yeah choose the other ones. See that's why I push all traffic through my calendar because everyone wants to talk everyone, everyone needs something everybody's trying to book a well at least some of us that have businesses where you know we're dealing with clients.  So if I can funnel everyone through this one back channel and get them to schedule that time based on my time. Right, right. That's powerful man. So we have kids and we have other activities going on it's like I can't jump on a call whenever go to my calendar and freaking schedule it like I'd love to talk to you just schedule it there, you know I mean. And so that's that's what makes makes a lot much easier as well. Okay perfect. Here I'm just going to say. Moving to the right you can leave all that checked and then all the all the months leave that and the number of sessions you can leave it at one that's fine and then the minimum booking appointments are notice I should say this is they're all different ones right like so me personally I go don't allow same day booking right so that's just me in my business but you can you could put either no booking notice or whatever right that's all based on on your schedule. And then. Yeah so choose whichever one is most relevant. Yeah if you take calls right now cool leave it leave it like that perfect so the booking restrictions what I do personally is I only go the next three days, you can go the next seven days, again based on your business you might. You might, you know, not mind calls booked 27 days out. But me, like it's like if you go to my calendar this chat now, like especially you know if it's regarding helping you right so I want to talk to you soon and later. And I've experienced where people when people schedule an appointment two days are two weeks later it's like dude they always forget.  You can book any dates out book out your anniversary block out Christmas whatever like you can block any dates you want there. And then here at the bottom sync appointments to double avoid you don't have any other calendar sets fine you don't you don't need that purchase hit save the green one. So as we move through each step of the calendar you always want to click on the green save so hit that save at the top. Yeah, perfect. And then we go to registration and that's that's yeah save a next and then we go to the next one registration and then this is this is just free so hit the green one save the time zone conversion just leave that let your user select hit save, and then save a next and then the next step. Right here what we want to do is we want to, we want to redirect to another page. So click at that top, the redirect to another page. Now this other page. This is super super important and this other pages super super powerful. But it's really important to track your ads, or to even just exclude from ads as well. So for example, those that actually schedule a call. As I mentioned earlier, they land on a list. That's why I use the cartridge calendar right because anyone they're all they're all going to be on an appointment list on an appointment list. So that that's one thing I can I can leverage is the email list. And the second is the fact that I could just take the link. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to hit the destination page at the bottom external URL. So, so the moment they book up a call, they're going to be redirected to this next page. So it's going to be a cartridge page, and then it's going to be the call confirm page which you should have so no site in particular, and then the cartridge page is the call confirm page. Perfect. So that call confirmed so scroll up to the top hit the save. The reason why that's so powerful is because now we have that link, the call confirm page is its own page it's its own link, we're going to take that link and create a custom audience inside of Facebook. So again I can either create that that custom audience of appointments with with everyone's email I could take the list and upload it to Facebook, or I can just have the link, and give it a Facebook and say hey man anyone who lands on this link, you're going to be in this audience. Okay, and that's the call confirm link. Right. And again that audience is so I can exclude them exclude them from seeing future ads. That's good. You know I mean so again or I can, or I can target them hey this is Heather I noticed you, you know, we set an appointment before blah blah right like so I can I can either target them but most of the time it's excluded them. It's excluded from seeing any more ads. So here this is where your email goes so that's why this. So this is another email that needs to be set up is the is the is the email reminder so this will go to Gmail you said. No that has to be a your your professional email so yeah once we're done I'm going to reach out to go daddy and see what's up with that's all message you soon. But but so here just don't send so so we're going to we're going to want that for sure. So for example leave it at yes leave it at yes and then just hit the green the green one save we do need to change that out, or else it won't work. We can change it later. We could change it later, because once you hit yes. This is what I wanted to show you was what this this opened up. So now we have booking confirmation and email reminder so these are the two emails that you want to you want to put put together as well. And there's already a basic template there so if you click on yes, click on yes in the booking. And hit the pencil so there's there's the basic email. And this is just an example. So we come in here and and we can rename the subject line right your booking is confirmed at the top you can rename that you can. So now we're back in the email so I can either go. Yeah so I can go to advance at the very top so very top left advanced. I can go into if I save that template right from email number one, I can go to design templates to the left design templates and then I can click on the pink heart and out of seen my template right there.  Did you say that one. I don't think so unless we did it before. Click it and drag it over. I'm going to click it and drag it over so that's why I use a template right it saves me a ton of time. Yes, I need to edit the text, but at least the header, at least the footer all the social media icons, at least that's already optimized. Right and if that button, since this will be template from email number one, for example, and the button says solar guide and now we're on email number two. I'll just change out the button click here to watch my recent video. And I'll send them to a Facebook video or I'll send them to a YouTube video. The sellers package here since it's saying I got my seller's guide or no you can change out that text that's all I'm saying so now we're on a different email. Okay, so they've already been sent that email. Yeah yeah yeah that's this is just the template delete that. So I can change out the text in the top left right click here to the top left the copy where you see the word click here that's the text on the button. So right now you're in the button to the left you're in the button. Right. So, so I can change out that text at the top word says click here. Do you see that in the copy box to the top left. Yeah, that's for the button we're in the button right now. So I can. So if this was a template which it is. If you want a completely different email, I can leave the button there, or I can remove it, or I can I can just put like the call button for the appointment that'll be on the first one to. Well, any, anything can be on anything we now have a template so now we're going to just use this template over and over and over and we could put whatever the hell we want right here. So we got to keep in mind which email is which like this is a booking confirmation email. Right. So here, are we trying to get them on zoom, or are we trying to get them to call it like is it a phone call. I don't know either way, I guess. We'll see this is an email that I would receive once I schedule a call with you. Okay, so. So there doesn't even have to be a button there is what I'm saying like this. Is there a way to add it to their calendar. Is there a way for that or. Good question. No, we could no, no, no, but, but that's why we want to set up the reminders. So the email reminder so again there doesn't have to. Yeah, they're probably, there's probably no need for a button right there. But the, the, the, the, the verbiage, like, Yeah, delete the bottom one so scroll down and all you're going to do is just in the blue section you can do the you can do the pink but the blue you can see it's the whole whole thing. So yeah, delete that one, delete that one. Either use the top footer or that bottom footer or delete the whole bottom and if that's already your top use that top. No, the footer like the social media icons. You can delete one of them. You know you don't. Yeah, you can take away that whole bottom row. Yeah, perfect. So just optimize those ones. And again, so now so my templates to the top left go to that real quick my templates delete that template that's in there. Do I hit save first. No, no, no, just do that just go to the pink my templates, and then just delete the one that's in there, because we're going to say it so delete this one yeah delete that one delete, because you're going to you're going to save this this one so we're now going to optimize these. No, no, no, no, no, leave that one. What are you doing. I just deleted it. No, that dilly one's fine. Yeah, perfect. So this one is the one we want to save. So as we optimize these links at the bottom. Yeah, update those those links at the bottom and then save this one. Okay, you know, but I can do that later. That's not a problem. Yeah, you can do that later but yeah always so so save as template you might at least at least save it as template. Um, and so now you can use that same template I would use that same template for every email from this point on right now we're in the we're in the calendar emails, but the emails that are in your sequence after they download the seller guide that template right there is awesome. Okay, I keep dragging it all. This is what my two to three follow email follow ups kind of know this is the calendar this is the booking confirmation from from an appointment. Okay, so so that's. Yeah, so here you would hit the pencil and just write out this basic text just thanking them letting them know their calls confirm letting them know what we're going to cover what we're going to go over, you know how I you know questions I have blah blah blah like whatever the hell that call is going to consist of maybe let let me know here in a couple sentences. Okay, you know I mean um and whether it's a phone call or whether it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a it's a zoom call. So, I don't know what what what do you do do you are using zoom. Yeah, more regular so. Yeah, so if anything like again in the emails that you get for me my booking email my reminder email you get my zoom link right that that's. I don't have a zoom link yet so I guess I would just set that out. Well you zoom zoom is free you can set up a zoom zoom dot us. So if you go to zoom dot us and just set up a free zoom account. I just yeah. Yeah just your link just log in and grab your link and then that's what I normally put in my email just because I do zooms but um. Okay, so I'll try to work on that but that's in my calendar. Yes that and you can change that top to your booking is confirmed, right you can change that you can you can copy the dynamic variables go back in real quick, hit the pencil again one one more time. Right now down the pencil down the edit the. Your booking is confirmed, just down where you were just at hit the pencil and go back into the editing. Right I'm sorry right here. Yes, yes so this takes you into the email where you can edit. So those dynamic variables at the top event host coach next session date. Right, so you can go back to go back to advanced. Yeah for some reason that didn't that didn't save. Okay. So design to yeah there's your template okay cool so your template. So drag it over. And then I can customize it when I need. Yes you're going to customize it and then, but what I was saying is those dynamic variables at the top in the blue. You can always look at some of those and look at the most relevant look next session date next session time. You know, the event and give me an idea. That that if you copy, like do the do the do the session date and the session time copy copy everything in the parentheses copy the print no not that part just copy the parentheses. Yep, all of that. So that right there when that's in the email so you copy and then and then well I don't know about on a on a Mac but PC it's control V. So go into the text, like hit the pencil and go into yeah right there perfect and paste it in somewhere get away from the hot the hey part and maybe go yeah paste it just paste it right there. So when that yet on PC it's control V. I don't know what it is on Mac, how do you, how do you paste on Mac. I don't know. Yeah so you copy and then. Yes, that's that's the dynamic variable so not only do I use it for the for the date and times of certain events or whatever, but I also use it for their name so to the very top left dynamic variables, click on that one. Yeah, their first names right there but it's it's to the left dynamic variables, click on that drop down. So it's right here. Click on that. I can always copy it from there as well so I use their first name for everything like I'm always putting their first name in emails. So when I do this and the ones in parentheses and I put like, you know, put it right here like this calendar next statement that will that auto populate with what they booked automatically. Yes, I'm saying yeah that's the dynamic variable auto populates their name, whatever whatever bear but the date like yeah yeah for sure use those for sure so now go up to the very very top so you saved. So you're good so hit edit yeah make sure you save it that way hit edit and then and then save that's the booking confirmation the next one will be the email reminder. Right so so the way I have mine set up is is I click on yes and then I and I'll have a set new reminder. And then this will be a click on that. And then here I can choose to have this email go out an hour before so at the very very top, you see that the time. So I can have it go an hour before the session starts and then and then if you hit the drop down before the session starts there's different options. So you can get kind of fancy with this and this is all a one time thing like set this up one time and, and the rest, you know is history and then just push everyone through it. So, so the booking reminder the email confirmation I'll use the same template so click on advanced, and then and then go to that to design templates go to my favorites drag over yours, and use that same one. You know, and just change the tech, and I love that headline yeah that image looks looks awesome and then just change the text that's it and then maybe, maybe add a button if needed. You know, so on the booking on the calendar emails, there's really no button for anything but but in the sequence right if we're on email number four. Here's the template, maybe I'll add a button, click here john for to schedule your best time, because remember in the in the emails what I'm doing is I'm reiterating that the seller guide in the email I'm referring back to the seller guide I keep putting them on each email and maybe I have 17 emails set up, because I have a 15 page PDF and I'm breaking down every freaking page in a cliff note, and I'm making that my emails. Right, but but in in in every other email for example, I'll have a button to my calendar. Hey john and by the way man I'd love to talk to you so if you click the button below it take you straight to my calendar where you can schedule your best time, and that might be email number nine. Okay, right. So you're not going to set up. I'm just going to see. Yeah, so here again emails that go out just because someone booked. But what I was talking about is the sequences, you don't have to have 17 emails set up right now set up at least three, four maybe, and then these two emails here on the calendar, and then you're ready to run, then you're ready to run. And then as as you move forward, what I do is all delegate all delegate an hour a week, or allocate not delegate all allocate I'll put aside an hour a week. And what I do is I'll look at my sequences I have different sequences, one sequences for everyone who who sets up culture through my link which is, which is you. One sequence goes out to a list for my clients, which is you one list goes out to people that I'm helping with landing pages, which is you. Right, I have these different sequences. And so what I do is I I'll set like maybe an hour aside, and I'll add three emails to sequence number one. Next week I'll put an hour aside and I'll set up for emails for sequence number two. And so as I go every week man, I'm just adding a few more emails to that sequence. And now today I have some sequences that have freaking 57 emails, all in a sequence that go out every other day. And I have 57 of them. Okay, that's like months of nurturing a lead. And all I did was added a few every every week. Right. So here yeah you might want to go set up three emails to get the seller guide campaign going. And then yeah, every week at three more every week at three more every week at three more.  Right. Because this is again and in these emails they're fully optimized in these emails again I'm breaking down the seller guide. But then after I get way past the seller guide, my maybe I'm talking about other listings I'm talking about other other other open houses I'm talking about other experiences in my business, and that makes up my email sequence that makes up email number 19. I'm not sure when we get there I'll give you many ideas but what you want to ideally be thinking is long term with this because once a lead is in the system, especially if you're running ads. That person lives down the street. And so yeah they might not be looking a list kind of like a CRM right. It's a full blown CRM with. The one that we have with my work like I can't fit it's really retarded. No man. Every lead that comes in every every name that comes into Heather's world from this point on should be going through a cartridge page. It should be going through a cartridge funnel a cartridge page or a cartridge calendar. Because yes we now want to start segmenting and collecting these leads. You know, so, so here yeah, fix these two emails later so scroll down. And then, and then what we want to do is, you could do yes reminder here but hit the green button. And do you use, do you use Google calendar. Yes, do we integrate the Google calendar already. No. Okay hit save and next. Okay cool so today will be a full blown setup of the calendar. So right here. Yes, allow cancellations if I need to cancel for whatever reason, allow me to do that with a click. Right, so hit save that's fine and then instant approval we based that time on your life right so if they're if that slot is available it's freaking available. I don't need to manually approve anything. Right so instant approval that's fine and then save and next. And then over here we want to sync with your Google calendar. So we have to actually integrate it first and then we're going to come right back to this part. So assign tags to the right assign tags click change and let's just set up a tag. A tag, yes assign tag, and everything that starts to happen. They, you know, every lead that starts to come in based on what they do. You can tag them and tagging is just another form of tracking it's just a way to track it's just a way to segment leads. It's a way to set up automations. So a tag in this case appointments scheduled appointments right that's the name of the tag something like that appointments scheduled appointments. Anyone and everyone who has came in, they'll be tagged scheduled appointments and then the description same thing I just put the same name. And then and then the category, there's the you just really have one category and that's real estate so just hit the drop down for category and just put no category, and then click create. The schedule and appointment will be simply tagged and I'll show you what we can do with tags in the future, but click on add. And then click on save. Yeah, add and then click on the green one save and then below subscribe to list. So yes, everyone who comes in needs to be subscribed to a list so click on change. And then let's see if we have any list there hit the drop down. Yeah, see it's not seller guys. So let's create a list so get away from that drop down and then click on create new list to the bottom right create new list. And then name that list and I normally name it the same as I name that tag, you know scheduled appointments is basic, you know so you can rename it or edit it whenever. The description is simply what that leads sees if they ever were to unsubscribe from this list, which there's really no reason to unsubscribe, but if someone were to do that on this list, then they'll see, you know the description and what I like to do is just a brief that just details, or just reminds them of how they even got here. You know, it's not even so start to see you go it's not even that it's kind of just reminding them you could put that for sure that's actually good.  Right.  I did download her seller guide, or I did schedule a seller guide. I remember your general calendar so this is okay this you could put something like thank you for scheduling a call with Heather, Sean, with whatever like, it could be something like that you know thank you for think just reminding them reminding them of what list they were on. It's a simply because they scheduled an appointment with you, because they scheduled an appointment with Heather, you know I mean. Thank you for scheduling a one on one call with Heather, Sean perfect create. Okay, so that's a list. You can hit, hit the add button yeah click on create, and then click the blue add button and then save it and then sequence they don't need to be on a sequence here I don't set that apart, I don't set that part up here, save a next and that's it. And then let's do this real quick let's integrate. No you're fine there hit save a next, the bottom. Click on cart your hosted pages. This is your calendar link. So hit the pencil to the very very right let's change out that link hit the drop down to the left. And there's your, your. Now, this is the domain that's integrated. So that becomes the domain tie to the calendar and I know that does not really. That's not really choose your domain for sure, and just put calendar, you know, choose the domain, go ahead and hit the drop down hit the choose your domain right there at the bottom. Right here. Yeah, choose your, choose your domain, and then you can always rename the Ford slash take away that XZ whatever it is to the very right and just name it calendar or whatever. But that's not really a link that you really you know, want to promote your calendar on because it's tied to that domain which doesn't really right it's kind of off right the naming. Who cares no one even cares. So just book now that your calendar link. Save. See so in my case look, here's what I'm trying to explain. In my case, my domain that I have within cartridge is the five step blueprint. Right, that's the domain that I have inside of cartridge that's tied to all my pages that I run ads to. And because it's the domain that I have in cartridge it's also the domain tied to my calendar. Am I supposed to have no just one but here's what I'm saying. I don't go around promoting that link the five step blueprint.com Ford slash calendar. Right, I don't really go around promoting that because I have other businesses that I help, or they're like if they looked at that they're like what the hell is the five step blueprint that's not David. Right, so in this case, if you're sending me that link telling me to schedule a call to buy, because I'm trying to buy a house but you're sending me a seller guide domain right that doesn't really that doesn't really make sense. But at the same time no one cares so I'm not even trying to I don't want to overthink it but what I'm trying to explain is the fact that what I did is I simply and this is not something you got to do at all. But what I did I simply got zoom call with David calm zoom call with David calm. And if you go to zoom call with David calm, it forwards you to this link that doesn't really make sense, but it's still, it's still it's still my calendar. You know what I mean does that kind of make sense. So I can just get like another domain if I really wanted if you really really wanted to I'm saying you don't have to at all but yeah if you really wanted to like you can easily do that that's what I did, because I just buying another domain you know whatever but I wouldn't want seller guide to be in everything because I'm going to be after this one eventually I'm going to be doing a buyer guide. Okay, so so the calendar is general for everyone and anything. And so I just wouldn't promote that link I get a different domain, if I was going to promote a link at all. That's all that's all I'm saying. 910 times actually 10 out of 10 times 10 out of 10 times when I'm actually booking an appointment with somebody. I'm doing it. So I'm not even sending them my calendar link 10 out of 10 times. So my appointments that I have every single day with with agents just like you 10 out of 10 of them is not because I sent them my calendar link. 10 out of 10 of them is because I scheduled the appointment on my end. And so the way I do it so go to put calendar it doesn't even matter put whatever put calendar, and then just save it hit the check mark to the right note type it in there, and then hit the check mark. So my appointments is I just come in and I manually do it myself. If it's someone that's not clicking a button in an email, if it's not someone that's clicking a button from a landing page, or excuse me from a thank you page, right. On your thank you page, you have to click the button to schedule a call, right, you have that button on your thank you page, but I'm also telling you just put is to put that calendar link in your emails. It's different that's from someone scheduling a call and clicking on a button. Right. But if I was going to say hey john. Yes, I'd love to talk to you. Here's my link to my calendar schedule your best time. I don't do that. Okay, that's why this link right here doesn't even matter because I'm not going to be promoting, promoting that link. Anyways, 10 out of 10 times, I'm taking it into my own hands, and I'm saying hey man, give me your best time, send me your email and best time. I'll schedule it and email you a confirmation. But you're hoping that they'll click the book now, and then you'll they'll be redirected to your calendar and so forth from that way right. No, no, no, no, that's if I sent you the link. Yeah if I sent you the link. Yeah you're going to go to my calendar and you're going to book a call but what I'm telling you is I don't even do it that way. Okay, I don't even a little confusing just it's it's kind of a lot of informational at once. Yeah, yeah, like all I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what you put here because that's not a link you're going to promote. Okay, go to your calendar anyways. It's going to be hidden in a button if anything which it's hidden in a button on your thank you page. And it's hidden in a button in your emails. Okay, but publicly. I don't even see that. The way I book appointments is I'll come into my communications and just manually book it. If it's just someone manually if you just run into someone in the streets and say hey, let's chat. I'll come in here and I'll hit my communications and add the lead and book it that way. I wouldn't give that am I done on this one right here. Yes. The my communications like you were talking about just kind of so I can see what you're talking about. Yeah, so if you and I ran into each other and yours and I'm saying, I'd love to talk to you regarding purchasing Heather, when can we chat. What would you do would you send me your calendar link and tell me to schedule an appointment. Yes and no, no, we're not doing it that way. Right, we're not doing that way. What I would have said is out of said, yeah, sure Dave okay great send me your email and best time tomorrow. Add us to the calendar and email your confirmation. Okay, now this is someone offline. So that's where okay either information and then I would add it and leave. Yes. Or this is through a direct message or a comment. That's how I do it because that's that's that's normally nine out of 10 of my appointments where I'm actually scheduling it where I'm actually either getting it through a direct message I'm getting through a comment, or someone that I'm meeting offline. Okay, and we're scheduling an appointment. I don't send them my calendar link. So if I come in here, I hit my communications I click on the green one, click on the blue, I mean the blue, click on the green leads button to the bottom right. And then I create the lead. So if I come in here and I create that lead I just ran into Stacy down the street and her and her husband are thinking about buying. I'm taking her name, I'm taking her email, and I'm entering it this way. I'm going to book the calendar and I'm going to book that appointment this way so do it with me test it, put in my first name put in my email. And then and then and then hit calendars and schedule a call with me. So I just hit you up I'm interested in buying put my email at the bottom put anything put something fake make it up. David at gmail.com in the email.  I want to talk real estate. You're, you're scheduling the appointment, you're not sending me your link. Right.  So you just entered name and email, save it first. And then it brings you back in and hit calendars. Schedule that call so set select a calendar, Heather Schwann. Now again, this is not something you're going to do for every single freaking appointment at all. This is how I do it offline. This is how I do it when I'm scheduling an appointment somebody one on one and it's a direct message or whatever. So pick a date, pick a date. And then pick a time based on your calendar right pick a time anytime. And this parts in military time for that 13 is is 1pm 14 is 2pm. And my calls are kind of in the morning. So, so yeah, pick that time, hit the circle, I mean hit the, yeah, the zero. Okay, so you just scheduled for you and I to talk tomorrow at 8am or on the 10th, hit add. Now, because it's a calendar appointment because because you just scheduled an appointment to the calendar, what just happened. I the lead just received that book and confirmation email. And an hour before our call I'll receive the email reminder. Right. This is for any random appointment. Okay, any lead coming in through a funnel. Yeah, they're going to either see that button on a thank you page to your calendar, or they're going to see your calendar link and a button in your emails. Okay, and then I guess one last question before we get off that I had. If I go to I think it's my pages. The question that I had was regarding this email sequence because I was trying to get that video off. And then, do I have to have that on there or is that once they get. No, you can take it off for sure we can go in there and edit we can move, move everything. Now one thing we want to do real quick is integrate your, your Gmail it integrate your Google calendar. Okay, that's what we want to do for sure. But yes let's look at this real quick. So all we're going to do is click on my integration so what I do as I'm working throughout my day. I'll have my my I'll have a tab open with my Google calendar, and then I'll have the Google calendar app on my cell phone. And so as my appointments are scheduled on my cartridge go down to the Google one, and then click on the three dots and click on new integration. Once people schedule on the on the cartridge calendar it sinks over here. And I just manage my Google calendar so cool. Choose which one. Well, maybe I should do the other one. Well, see I don't I have everything connected to my Gmail right now. What's that I have everything connected to my Heather twine at gmail.com but then I do have another account I haven't even acted on for my DFW. Okay, keep it for this one for now because yeah that's fine you can always change it. Okay, so check those those two bottom boxes there to the right and then hit continue. Okay, cool. And then all this is going to do is now talk to cartridge. And, and, and now we want to go back in real quick so that was easy. We want to go back into my calendars to the to the left real quick, and then click on the three dots and go into edit. And then we're going to get to that last setting. So we'll click on edit, edit. And then right over here so automations click on change at the top sync, and then just click yes and then hit the drop down on both sides and choose yours. And that's it so it goes vice versa right so everyone who who schedules on on a cartridge calendar reflects on this Google calendar and then anything that you manually, or physically schedule on your Google calendar, that will fill the spot for this calendar. Gotcha. Right, so if you have a doctor appointment, put it on your Google calendar that we know and schedule that on your cartridge calendar. Right. Gotcha. So, so I use Google calendar for obviously those reasons but then also for that really for the notification because as someone comes to your to your, to your, yeah hit save and next. So as someone, as someone comes to your cartridge calendar and schedule the call, they get a booking confirmation email right away, and you get an email right away as well saying that someone just booked. So you do get a notification right away and we're going to double check those notifications at the top so click on your profile picture, the top right and go to email notifications, and then click on in the top right you'll see to your team, click on that one. And make sure that that these are all the right ones so turn off I'll show you which ones to turn off turn off the top one new affiliate calendar event you can leave that on calendar subscription off calendar subscription off.  Perfect. That was the most important. So making sure that okay yeah when someone schedules an appointment, you'll get an email right away and then when someone ops into any of your funnels lead fills in opt-in form, you'll get an email right away as well. So, but but but on the reminder on the reminder so when on the Google account so go back up you're done with this part. Yeah there's nothing else to fill out there. So, when it comes to the notification via email you get that but when the appointment comes up when the appointment is like, like let's just say 10 minutes away or 15 minutes away. And that doesn't send you a reminder cartridge sends them a reminder one hour before right that's the email reminder, but you don't get a reminder on on there's no cartridge calendar for notifications for you. That's why I use Google, because with Google with the Google calendar at least I'll look on my phone and be like oh not only do I have an email but I have an appointment I can look on that as well. On your phone Google calendar app phone you'll end on your, your, your computer here on your desktop, you'll know on Google prior to the appointment because you get the notification. You can set that that 30 minute reminder 15 minute reminder right on your Google calendar. That's why I really use it because I get the notification, I get the notification I don't get a notification when that appointments coming up through through Carter. I only get the email notification when they actually booked the appointment. So when you book with me, I get an email saying hey Heather just booked a call. But, but, but leading up to our call, I don't get a notification. Right. Right. So, so, so that's perfect so your Google calendar is ready to go. Cool. So that's the Carter calendar. Any other questions on anything else.


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Well, we're back with the breakfast and our focus is on the Nigerian democratic system as we celebrate democracy day 23 years after what are we looking at exactly? We have Nika Ghoule who's a public affairs analyst who joins the conversation Nika Ghoule. It's good to have you join us this morning All right then now and a bit of it we talk about you know the tenet of democracy Some people say it includes the freedom of assembly association property right freedom of religion speech inclusiveness Equity citizenship consent of the governed Voting rights freedom from unwarranted governmental deprivation of rights to live and liberty and minority Right, I mean the list is almost endless, but I'd like to share your thoughts. How would you describe the Nigerian democratic process system? Thank you very much for the question. I would describe Nigeria's democratic system as a journey and the latest leg of the journey started 23 years ago in 1999 and Progress has been made on the journey up to this moment We are not where we want to be or where we should be but the journey is on and Next year 2023 is going to be very significant in terms of my story It will be a poco because we will have an opportunity to elect a new set of leaders at all levels as part of this journey and I will say that what I am seeing In the Nigerian Populous now is very hard for me I think the sing song on many people's lives now is the PVC and the PVC to me even though Is the P is permanent permanent water skirt? I was I will replace that P with people and power Because that is where our power lies as a people to be part of the democratic process So I see the democratic process to be in full tires So you have the executives the legislative legislative and the judicial answer government But the fourth tire is the people arm of government and for a long time In this democratic journey that fourth tire has been quiet has been docile has been silent But now there is a momentum a wake-up call sort of of that fourth tire, which is the people Coming into the democratic space and I will say Nigeria would be the better for it But but just before we get to the people you already understand that you know Politics actually takes place within the framework. So we're talking about the federal presidential system and a system where you have You know the legislative arm of government. You also have the judiciary and the executive.  How would you describe 23 years after and now? How would you describe? You know the executive arm of government. This is the framework. So you have the executive You have the judiciary and you have the legislature. How would you describe? I would analyze the executive arm of government in this way We we have had President of Baxan Joe, Yara Dua, Jonathan Buhari, we have had four Executive presidents in Nigeria since we started this leg of our democratic journey And I will say that the executive arm of government have got a Fade mark In my own assessment and the reason why I give them fame is that the person who started the executive leg of the relay race president Lucia of Baxan Joe I personally think we're unlucky to have him as the first person to begin that relay race because president of Baxan Joe Regardless of what people think or whatever good he would have delivered he damaged our democracy ab initio because democracy tries on setting pillars The first pillar is the rule of law The second pillar is the independence of the legislative and judicial arm of government and of course the fourth pillar is the the application of the auto office and the Constitution in the man in the management of the affairs of states and President of Baxan Joe fade on this count of them It was on the president of Baxan Joe's eight years That the supreme court the highest court in the land We make a judicial pronouncement and then the attorney general Interprets that judgment He has so ever where he wants it and goes ahead to implement it So it was like the attorney general had the the final say in judicial pronouncement that damaged the judiciary It was on the president of Baxan Joe's government that the Legislative arm of government was suppressed was made to become an appendage of the presidency you see Those who fashions the presidential system of government that we are operating now the United States They knew that the executive arm of government is handed humongous powers And when you hand the executive such powers you need the legislative and the judicial arms of government to act as checks as Modulations to those powers. I mean I tell people that this is akin to handing a driver a powerful car With the control of the accelerator But then you give someone else the control of the brake pedal So that when this driver is pushing the accelerator too hard and the car is heading into the bush or Into an accident the person controlling the brake pedder Slams on the brake pedder to slow down the car and give the driver control This is the way it happens that the executive team have the accelerator the judiciary and the Legislature have the Break pedder but what president of us and you did which has been copied by successive presidents to date is that He first and foremost Disabled that brake pedder it made that brake pedder to be irrelevant the brake pedder to be ineffective That brake pedder to just become like his era boys And then he carried on with the official state And that is where we have found ourselves now so President of us and you didn't rule with the rule of law It was only him who we use three or four members of a state legislature and impeach a governor In pitch a governor regardless of the court cases that we're standing against such an action It was presidential but Andrew who we sent soldiers to go and and murder people in Odeon and and it's as it happened in Zakibiam without any judicial process so that Leg of that journey we started with president of us and Joe has affected the executive arm of governments till today and From president of us and Joe we got to president. Yara Dua president Yara Dua Was different because he actually started on a very sound footing He was trying to reverse some of the damage that president of us and you had caused to the executive arm of government Unfortunately, president Yara Dua was in poor health and he couldn't just see those reforms He started on to fruition and he passed away Onto the stage came president Jonathan President Jonathan in my own ranking is somebody who was not prepared for the office for president I think he got there by accident He had these humongous powers, but he didn't even know how to use them I I mean at the end of the day president Jonathan as it was alleged and as evidence showed Was not in control of a face of state Nick Agoulet Nick Agoulet, I mean for the want of time because we're just moving very fast and you know how it can be but Quickly, I like you. I mean there has been for the executive because we're talking about a system Where the Nigerian politics of parades in the framework and if we're looking at the Nigerian democratic system Then we can talk about you know the executive the legislature the judiciary and the people in all of this The question would be where is the people you have mentioned the shortfalls of the executive arm of government during the 1999 Administration democratic government where you had the president of Lushabin Abbas and you're where is the people? I mean, where do you count the people? How how do you also have because you said it's in strata? So you have the you know the executive the legislature and the judiciary and the masses the people Where we're there when all of this was going on but away from that quickly. Can you tell us how you would rate the? Judicial the judiciary and the legislative arm of government, which is a framework where a democratic system thrives Thank you very much for that question before I answer your question I would like to answer your question that the people have been absent majority of the people who go to vote are those who we most likely say their votes The people who we most likely not said their votes have been absent in this process And this is why we are calling on them now that if you are sitting in your fine house In your posh estate in your fine office, and you don't have your voters card You are deceiving yourself that you can do well when that area is not doing well It is better. You step forward now get your voters card with registration ending in the next 16 days So that you can come into the process You cannot allow the orchids the area boys the okada riders to be elected leaders for you And then you will not be on WhatsApp and social media complaining for the next four years Now coming to the Legislative but this person's an I gerians. I mean everyone is exercising the right So also, I mean just a cotton Having a PVC does not translate into votes.  We are very correct. So this thing is in stages Stage one now is that we are campaigning for these people to go and get their PVC's Because if you don't have your PVC, you cannot step out to vote And you will notice that from the first of July after the close of the voters register The messages will not begin to be targeted at those who have PVC's that in February March next year You must come out and make your voices heard Otherwise, we're going to get another set of bad leaders that we are going to complain and suffer with for the next four years So now the the the target the focus is on get that PVC And then from there we're going to be talking about how to use it Now coming to The the legislative arm of government the legislative arm of government picking off from where President Obama's and Joe started us off started us on in 1999 Have been in the pockets of the executives. What are the executives at the federal state or local government? You will see that for every president and governor since President Obama's and Joe The first thing they want to do is they want to Install the leader of the legislative So that once they do that have been given powers in the constitution to remove a sitting executive Who is recalcitrant who is not delivering good governance and the Legislative arm of government in Nigeria at all levels have been muted. They have not exercised their powers The the the executives routinely ignore them and any attempt sometimes for the legislative and more government to even Exorcise their constitutional powers You see big and age from the executive arm of government like locking up the Houses of assembly or the National Assembly beating up register chasing them all over the place and these are the kind of things that must up You know when we come to the judicial arm of government this arm of government Which is said to be the last hope of the common man used to be very good But with time and especially with what has happened in this democratic dispensation coming forward This arm of government have also joined the executive and the judicial arms to be very corrupt The you see strange judgments now being given by the judicial arm of government Because they have discovered probably that they were being left out of the party and they want to join the party So judgments in Nigeria now are seeming to be for the highest bidder because you cannot understand some of the judgments that this Judicial arm of government is given but in all of this The people are the ones that hold the power. You see the Constitution is very critical the Constitution provides the people the power to recall that is Pitch the legislative arm of government So if an executive arm of government is holding the legislature whole stage the people Must put pressure on that legislature to do their job and if they don't want to do their job Then the people should touch the recall process of the legislators I can assure you that this current national assembly that we have that seems to be like puppets if there is a recall proceeding in 109 senatorial districts in 360 federal constituencies to recall these members of national assembly who have refused to do their job I can assure you that something dramatic will happen in that national assembly And the same holds true for the state So again, we're talking about the people the people need to understand their rights The people need to know that they have the power and we shouldn't you'll be on the sideline complaining winging and whining But we should actually step into the political process take our rifle a seat and drive this process forward But let's get to this one. It's been 23 years. I mean after on uninterrupted Democratic process and some people are still saying that it is no longer nascent But constantly we hear the president and you know the elites the ruling class saying It's a nascent democracy. We're gradually getting there. At what point do we say that hey, we're ripe for this Now we're not agree that our democracy is nascent after 23 years. You mean the American democracy that is 200 years 23 years is 10% of that So we we wish you by now have developed this demo See to a point where it will be thriving It will be delivering Prosperity to Nigeria's it will be delivering good governance to Nigeria's but we have not got to that point yet We are still at the point where People are coming into political office not with the intention of serving the people of Giving good governance for the people. We're more like a business where they're coming in to make money That money legitimately, but no make that money by looting the treasury But bringing me grant looting schemes like few subsidy foreign exchange subsidy electricity subsidy those kind of schemes were trillions of Naira of Nigeria's money is Being looted and unaccounted for so that is where we are that 23 years now 23 years is a long long time 23 years is a quarter of a person who will leave a hundred years And you cannot say a quarter of a lifetime of a person should be thrown away and we're still calling it nascent We're calling it nascent because we haven't done what we needed to do now All that has happened in the past is gone is history What is left for us now is for the future? How are we going to correct this? How are we going to build our democracy and make it strong? Why are we going to build strong institutions so that we are no longer looking at strong individuals? Nobody should be looking at We should be looking at the the police we should be looking at the Head care systems we should be looking at the military Institution we should be looking at the judicial institutions. We should be looking at those institutions Align those institutions to do their work For instance, you have cases like a crime has been committed and then you hear president Audrey the the chief of defense staff and the service chiefs or the inspector general police to go and do a Bnc that should not be Once something happens the institution that are responsible for that. They should just get on with their work They don't have to be acting as Senior special assistance to the president They should they should not be acting as if they are an appendage of the presidency. Okay. They are an institution Yes, well, so so the entire essence of democracy day seemed to be hinged on the 1993 Naldi and all the elections and Basically, do you think that we have lent any lessons? And what does that really mean that Prior to this time you remember that you know May 29 has always been a democracy day for Nigerians But of course, it's been moved by the president 2018, you know to June the 12th, and it feels like it's hinged on that election that happened in 1993 Free fair and credible elections. What are your thoughts? I will answer this in two halves on the positive side. I will say yes We have planned our lessons because for 23 years now. We have kept the military in the barracks And we have had civilians to pretend over their face of Nigeria And we have had transition From Ubersa new to Yardua to Jonathan to we have had four transitions And we have even had the transition of the sitting president to His opponent So on that count, I will say that yes, we have learned lessons but then on the Content of free fair and credible elections I will say that we have not learned much lessons from from that one Because the first two or three electoral cycles in Nigeria were all a sham in fact president Yardua When he was elected in 2007, he he confirmed that he knows that the process that brought him into office Was a sham and he he promised that he was going to embark on electoral reforms You know, so on that basis we have not been having credibility in our elections but I have very firm faith in the 2022 electoral law I think the 2022 electoral law with Mechanisms like the electronic transmission of results is going to be very key in strengthening The independent national electoral commission And making our elections to be very difficult to rig You know, and that is what is going to engender confidence in Nigeria's especially the elite class The educated Working-class ones who have switched off from the electoral process leaving only those who go to say their votes to be part of the process Eat we engender confidence in them and bring them to the ballot I'm just quickly just in just in one minute the quality of candidates will be different Niko Goulet, I mean I'm being prompted to move away That's because we have to go with exhaust at a time right here on this one But just a quick one because we're talking about the Nigerian democratic system And we're also celebrating democracy on interrupt at 23 years and where we are right now Now a big question has always been if you look at all the african country that seem to be you know, cool Counter cool activities thriving and then you ask what's going on. Nigeria's big brother of africa And people who have constantly said how democracy has nothing to write him about Do you think that you know having the worst form of democracy and having you know, a military rule is something that we should consider Military rule should never be considered at all Because I personally believe that the military Are a huge cost of the problems that we face in Nigeria today Because the first thing the military doing they come into office to suspend the constitution And any country that is not being wrong with the rule of law is not going to make progress And the other thing is that these schools are happening Sway in Africa because the politicians are giving the soldiers the reason for that And that is why in Nigeria, we need to be careful There's the politicians need to deliver good governor so that they can continue to keep the military in the barracks Thank you so much. Niko Goulet We have to let you go. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts You have raised very strong and resilient points right here this morning as Nigerians actually celebrate 23 years of civil rule We look forward to sharing more of your thoughts And the costs of the show Thank you very much. Mr. I hope you have your vote as card. I have mine. Why not? I will show you at the next program That's okay. Many thanks for being part of this year. I mean the conversation right here It's important that you get your pvcs because I mean elections are not won by What of martin twits they're won by numbers and so go out there get your pvc And be sure to go out and cast your vote for your favorite candidate That's the size of a conversation this morning when we return it will be time for us to look at another You know major concern. We're looking at the AKT state elections and you know the debate that just happened Looking at these candidates and the capacity competence matching that with your switch stay with us


My name is Martin Krebs. I'm a physicist and electrochemist. I'm working for Wata for more than 33 years, but now I'm retired. And this is my successor, Nicola Spieger. Well, in my retirement I continue to work with printed electronics because I did it for a long time and I support Wata and I am looking for new applications for printed batteries and other printed objects. Printed batteries, it can work? It does work, actually. So hello, my name is Nicola Spieger. I'm with Wata as the head of final projects, his successor basically. And we continue the story that he started from research projects now at the doorsteps basically of commercialization. Printed batteries, as you can see here, is the novel technology that we have at the moment. And basically it is a super-slim energy source which can be used in different applications. We have identified nowadays with the trend for internet of everything, with the trend of ever-sensing. Basically this device is the enabler of such technologies in sports, in medicine or basically in tracking. And the device, the battery source is designed super-slim with a certain capacity which can be integrated in different shapes, as you can see here. So it's basically connected with printed... It can be connected with digital... using some Wi-Fi, NFC and so on. So it goes in the shoe, it goes on the patch. Basically with the internet of everything or the ever-sensing. With sports trackers or with having medical applications for a smart patch, for example, it can be done in any shape to, for example, measure... Temperature can be measured for heartbeat, oxygen level. But the main application that we have also identified is of course in type of tracking. Sensitive good, for example. Think about all the vaccinations that are shipped around the globe at the moment by minus 80 degrees C. To track these, that it has still the same condition as initially. It can be equipped with a smart label, power sourced with our printed device. And in that track, over the full globe, reachable at any time via the mobile network. And it is designed to be long lasting for the critical time scale of six months or something like that. So... And that is the important thing. We have to find applications which are feasible, which the customers is needing. Because if we have a kind of market push, nobody takes care of. But if there's a market pull, an application like this LTE label which can send messages via mobile phone net, this is the thing that people need. Constantly looking for new applications where these electronics can be used. So, how advanced is the printed battery? Basically, as I mentioned at the doorstep of bringing this into market, we are now collaborating with partners. At the moment, we are able to produce prototypes of several hundred to be sampled. So, from the technical specs, so basically we have now a facility where we can already produce these prototypes. We are at the moment going into the next step of a pilot line. So with that, we could produce several hundred thousand of these. And in collaborating with other partners who are highly interested in the technology, we think we have market penetration around 24 to 25. What does it actually look like? Does it look like this one? Exactly. So it is super thin. It can be any shape, but let me go maybe back. It is something like that shape. It can be a smaller shape. It can be addressed to any shape as you want. That's basically the advantage of the printed technology. If you want to keep it equipped to your breast in a butterfly shape if you want to, you can make it. And is it from iron? No, it's a think carbon primary battery. So it is a super cheap material, high capacity, high power application, but only for one discharge. That's a huge difference that needs to be considered. That is what we tried in the past very quite often to apply any rechargeable systems that is usual in the market, nickel, metal, hydride, lithium-ion, but that creates great problems. So in the moment it is not possible to print these batteries. But on the other hand, we see that there is no market for secondary battery. Each customer asks for a primary battery that has a lifetime, enough for let's say 6 months, 12 months and then it is deposed because our battery doesn't contain any hazardous substances. Sink is in it and manganese dioxide is in it. So no hazardous substances in this battery and that makes it green and environmental friendly. What do you say, carbon? Sink carbon. Sink carbon. Sink. Like the tin cans or something like that. What is the difficulty of using something like lithium-ion or rechargeable on this form factor? Basically it would make the whole device more expensive. We are doing some research in that direction but the lithium-ion technology, as you can see from the markets that we address, we basically want to go in something where you can easily integrate it and also don't have to be concerned about disposing of it. So a primary source, for example, is here the energy supply of choice. It makes it much more sustainable because when you have a recharging system we would use more hazardous components which you would need a recharger itself which makes it much more complicated and the whole production process needs to be under certain atmosphere. The atmosphere conditions has to be in a dry room so this makes it super expensive. Basically it would be too high of its set for this type of applications. And Zink, you find it everywhere? Exactly. Zink is basically everywhere. It is in the battery technology, it thinks 150 years or longer. So basically there is no shortage in that and also no carbon and manganese dioxide in that sense. It is also super available. It sounds like all the stuff I take in my vitamins. No manganese dioxide, it is a special material for painters. It is a brown color for painters and manganese dioxide. And Zink is additive for the health. You get more healthy if you have a certain dose of Zink. It is the same magnesium from chocolate you are talking about, different. It is not magnesium, it is manganese. Manganese is a different element not to be confused with magnesium. But manganese, your normal alkaline batteries are basically out of the similar materials. So basically what you can buy at the supermarket the same materials in the batteries is basically processed in this device. It has a water-borne process. It is a water-based electrolyte. Also a huge difference towards lithium ion batteries which have organic electrolytes which are hazardous once they have some leakage. Nice. Can you talk a little bit about your interests in the industry what you have been working on before this project? In my case it is quite easy. When I finished my PhD at Theo Klaustahl in 1989 I went to Warta and found that that is the best job that I could get. Insofar there was no reason to change. And that until general of this year. And now I am an independent battery expert, a battery consultant and I see many interested partners who want to discuss with me about battery technology. So in all these years Warta did many chemist trees different combinations of technologies? Yes, but a micro-battery that is the company in Elwangen they have a lot of electrochemical systems. Sink air for hearing aids, silver oxide for watches, they have lithium manganese dioxide, coin cells for electronic devices. So I think in the field of portable devices Warta is a wholesaler and very good in each of these product branches. And what kind of discussions you can have here at the nanotechnology conference? For us the ISFUI is more interesting because ISFUI is part of the nanotechnology conference which concerns the printed electronics. And we see that a printed battery cannot be sold itself. It needs a printed smart object. And vice versa, printed smart objects with a button cell does not make sense. In so far it is a one-to-one relation between printed electronics and printed batteries. And that is what is discussed in ISFUI. That's the reason why I'm at ISFUI since 2009 and I like the place and I like Stegos logo Tertides. Many experts here. How many countries, many universities? Many countries who versus complete Europe. And it is very interesting and informative. And it is a chance to show what we are able to do. Especially we have a workshop on Tuesday, five talks and I'm leading the workshop. It goes for printed electronic code that goes to market. And that is the most important issue in the moment. How can we bring all these good investigations, inventions, these patterns? How can we bring it into the market? And here this is the best example basically. I mean, you started the research on it around 2012. So basically ten years in this research and now we are basically right at the point to have a ready to market sample. Basically being in discussions with interested partners in the industry. So this is to our opinion a really nice success story of one of Wata's product to be. What is the trick to get it to mass production? Do you have everything lined up? Do you have the partners who are going to help to do the... Is it role to role manufacturing? This is basically the goal. At the moment we have it still in the prototype production but everything is basically already at shelf prepared that we are in discussions with the interested partners from logistics. We are now going the intermediate step in a pilot line. This will be still sheet to sheet but we already have with our project process engineers the plans ready to go role to role. And then basically this will be in a scale of millions. It will change the world? I hope so. Basically I expect you. Actually every 8 billion people need batteries, need energy, power, solar, wind, all the different power and so it's like technology that changes the world. We do things in a smarter way that is useful for many people. Absolutely and especially for the environment. When I compare the batteries 100 years ago it has mercury, it has cardmium, it has lead in it but now all these hazardous substances are removed. Our battery is really a green product and so far I think it is the best product for storing. There is one comment right here. More dense batteries are usually more dangerous to handle. I wonder how these batteries react in a crisis? The printed batteries, it's easy to say. I mean I can punch through it. Still there is nothing to be worried about. If I go for lithium ion battery technology which is really a dense energy then of course I need to fulfill all the safety requirements but here basically I go into area. The battery is super thin, it's below 0.8 mm and we are going even lower. Still here basically the energy comes with area so the capacity is per square centimeter. And as you already said from the substances used, the chemicals used they are environmentally benign. We have a water based electrolyte so basically comparing to lithium ion batteries if they get in contact with atmosphere with ambient atmosphere, with water based atmosphere they will react but the primary battery doesn't.  Okay, thank you. We will further develop and decrease the capacity but now we are basically at a critical point where we see we are ready to partner up and to bring it into the world. And if people have new ideas what they want to do with this they can contact you? Absolutely, yeah. Please look it up, you can find it printed batteries at the Water Homepage. He can easily connect with us to discuss further applications. And it's just now is the time, that's what Martin said. We see a huge market pool because the development of the electronics of printed electronics or the chip industry it uses less energy, it gets smaller and smaller and we are getting more and more connected in our daily life. I mean we are getting connected with health trackers we are getting smart patches we are getting internet of things into internet of everything and here basically this is a nice piece of ingredient which will support this because all of it needs energy source. I did a video about the ARM devices and kind of like the chairman of the company that owns ARM talks about trillions of IoT devices they all need batteries. They can run them without. If you want to be independent if you want to stay independent you need a battery. I mean for each application you basically have a certain type of battery useful. So lithium-ion battery technology is very useful in certain applications but in others we see this battery also very important to fill the gap and being in that sense even more environmental friendly. And recycle, recycling? We already use a huge share of recycling material already on production and it is recyclable at the end as well. Yeah, for these type of batteries there is a recycling concept that is available. It's the same concept as for manganese dioxide batteries alkaline batteries which are in every supermarket. So we can use the same recycling processes as these under other things. So that is quite easy.