Hello everyone thank you for being here, and I just wanted to take a minute to thank all the amazing people that we've met So far that have put so much work into producing this incredible event. So Matt and I are both really excited to be here. So Matt We're here to help the founders investors and operators in the audience Learn a little bit more about your experience building Netlify specifically in the context of a few things fundraising picking the right business partners and And most importantly maintaining healthy and productive relationships with that group of people and I think it's safe to say that you're uniquely equipped to apply it on this Given the five financing events that have happened throughout the life of the company I believe over two hundred million dollars raised and You and Chris have really been doing this over the course of seven years So I'm excited to kind of hear hear your wisdom, and I think everyone else is too So before we before we give Matt a chance to talk a little bit about Netlify I just wanted to quickly see a show of hands like how many people have used Netlify before how many people are current users or familiar with the company Okay, that's good. So Matt on that note. Why don't you explain a little bit about Netlify to those that haven't had that exposure? Yeah, so Netlify is a cloud platform that teams of web developers use to build deploy and operate websites and web applications and was built around the Inside that there was a shift happening in the fundamental architecture of the web where we were moving from monolithic web applications where every website was like one big monolithic application with app servers and databases and templates all bundled together and To a decoupled world where you decouple the web UI presentation layer from all the back-end business logic layer and we saw an opportunity to really build an Inter-end platform around that web UI layer and make web teams way more productive Great. Thanks Matt So I think it's fitting to start the conversation with what put the company in the news most recently Which is a hundred and five million dollar series D raised at a two billion dollar post valuation Congrats again on this map. Thanks So I think many in the audience may have experienced raising early stage financing But few a late-stage round like this So where I'd like to start is let's talk a little bit about that experience raising a late-stage financing and how it differs from some of The earlier stage financings that I think many in the crowd have more familiarity with Yeah, of course like you go into a financing with a way more established company and with Way more established plan in the early stages of raising funding it's very much about selling a Potential version of the future where where you can build something that will be worth a lot And in the later stages of fundraising, it's obviously much more numbers driven and much more game of building a model that that shows Financial outcomes in in a realistic time frame, right? Like so so obviously that's that's like a big shift that said there's still an important component to really explaining also like the Vision you're building towards and all the things that sits outside the numbers and outside the model And what impact you think you can actually have have on the world and what you think What you think can be inflection points beyond just extrapolating from where the company is now and and where it would Naturally progress over the next several years Yeah, and on that note, is there a different set of criteria that you feel like you and Chris really Optimized for when thinking about who the right partner was at this stage of the journey. Yeah, of course I mean, I think earlier on Early on the choice of investors even more important to some degree than then later on because like the early-stage Investors that coming in at a time where the company is still being formed and shaped from there from the ground up and you need people That that are really aligned very closely with you in the vision and in there and can help you Go through those formative stages of getting a company up and running Where of course as you go to the later rounds you start looking a little more just also in The VCs start looking a little more just as you as a set of numbers and and in reverse as a founder You also start looking a little more at the VCs as as a set of numbers But that said like we were still fortunate to really find a Partner in business that we also felt really aligned with and that came to us with with their like Description of our market fees is and and had really nailed like what what was our belief in the market, so I think Across all the rounds looking for alignment on what you think the future should look like it's really important because otherwise You're gonna be pushing each other in different directions along the way Yeah, and then is there anything different that one should expect from this later-stage set of investors in terms of the Support and value add that they give to the company from your experience that the crowd can learn from yeah again I mean early on You rely more on the advice and the input on going through the formative stages Later on you might need more of just the operational machinery like what can their fund actually do in terms of helping with pipeline and deal flow and the hiring executive candidates and getting you in front of in In front of your audience in different ways right like so it changes maybe a little bit from The advice you can get from the initial like partners you partner with when you're starting to to launch that journey of building a building a company to Evaluating more what the organization can do for you so it wasn't always this obvious and I'd like to go back to the times when it wasn't and Just thinking about the first time you had to raise money What did it take to get people to buy in to believe in what you were doing at that time? Yeah, the first fundraise for us was for what's the hardest fundraise we've had every fund There's since then has been a lot easier than that first one way where where we were two people with the first version of a product and some real traction some some early Some very very early revenue numbers and so on right like and had to get people to believe that we had sort of Had an insight that that the architecture of the web was fundamentally going to shift over the next five ten years in and getting people to believe that That that was like a real lasting phenomenon that that was an Architectural pattern and not just a few teams here and there building things in a different way and that our initial MVP was not just like a simple solution for static websites but their beginnings of a of a really big cloud platform that that was like their their the way their the fundraise where we had to spend the most time on really explaining their The core vision and selling people on on on a future that really didn't exist yet when we went when we set out to To build net li-fi and then of course as each round has progressed like that that shift in architecture has just been starting to play out More and more clearly in a way where we're now people come to us because they're seeing it happening and and And that's of course a very different process Yeah, and it definitely started to become more obvious shortly thereafter and the term gradually suddenly certainly comes to mind Including to my partners and I and where I want to go next is First of all, I should say that my partners and I have these fond memories of building our first jamstack website and chasing He and his co-founder Chris to New York in an effort to earn the right to work with them around the series B And of course the company's come a long way since then but I want to talk a little about the macro climate and what that means for Founders when it comes to choosing investors and raising money today. It's different. Yeah, so some would say it's become very fast-paced very transactional And if you think about the financing climate in that context The notion of expecting investors to add any value at all I think has come into question rightfully so and I want to get your honest take on this And yeah, so I I've heard a lot of different takes and that over over time for from like the only thing you should look for in an investor is someone that they won't fuck up your company to to Really looking for for value-adding investors I've always believed that one of the most important things of building a Business or company is the people you surround yourself with and the people you get on board along the way and and that goes very much for the for the people that come along to be board members and co-partners in the journey and I think Regardless of the of Their fundraising climate. I think everyone should always optimize for having people They feel a value at us people to have around them along the journey And then I would also say that like I mean just just from from from Kleiner Perkins and from you right like we we have now like probably Over there over the course of netlify three different executives We've hired because of of of intros from from your network great like that's a high impact to to a company and Investor like and reason can has a have a huge operational machine for back channeling on hires for helping out with with go-to-market with Getting in front of customers and and just general a brand that can help your company hire and and and get in front of your audience so for us a Lot of our investors have been really high impact and and have really contributed value along their the journey so So I would always optimize for for that And if you were to go back to the beginning of the journey knowing what you know now about how to have that productive Relationship and get the most value from these investors for the company's benefit What would you tell yourself when you were just getting started that you didn't know then I? Mean I would like I would tell myself a lot of things around like a understanding fund mechanics and and Investor motivations when you when you start out I would tell myself that I should be better at sending up sending out the investor updates Then I have traditionally been it's they've gotten much better over time improved, but But it's taken a while So I think many in the room here will agree that Talent has really replaced capital as the scarcest resource that founders are faced with today And this is certainly reflected in the conversations you and I have on a weekly basis about hiring recruiting and sometimes even aqua hires So talk a little bit about what netlify is doing that might be considered unique to overcome the obvious challenge of talent being so scarce Yeah, I don't know how many things we're doing that I is like totally unique right But I think there's a set of components that I believe are really important for our ability to to hire in this space There the first is a little the same as when you go out and and fight Seat stage investors that you have to have some kind of like broader vision of How the world could look like and and what your company can do to to get it there And that also goes for hiring great employees right like you have to give them some other reason To join your company then then then just a career in a job, right? And that that has to be based on having some vision of how the world could be be be a better place and for us it ties into how the web can be better and and seeing the web as a really fundamental open building block of of Information and and communication and interaction online that we want to to further and strengthen So constantly telling that story and building a broader story. It's really important to to be able to attract the The right people even the right people you want to join your company, right? And another part is a real focus on on building a company and not just a product, right? Like and and that means building a culture that people want to come and work in and want to be a part of So we've tried to also really be intentional of how do we create a culture? And then there's been some specific components like even early on we we were firm believers that remote work What was gonna be a core part of like how the how the world would end up working that got accelerated a lot during during COVID, right? But already before the pandemic that we had about 60% of Our team working remotely and everybody working only three days a week from the office And of course that's also to create a much bigger pool to to hire from and to be able to go where where the Best talent is instead of requiring them to to to come to you And then another component that that I think has helped us have been Really early on trying to build a diverse culture And like it it would have been easy to just hire people just from our network and people that were very similar To us and that would like work well for the first group of employees But then we would quickly tap out our network, right and instead right from the beginning We really tried building a Pretty diverse company and by now we're like for example 40% women and non-binary across all parts of netlify also engineering And and I see that as a way of long-term Expanding the pool of people you could access to right like they're the the broader the base of people you can Get to come join your company the broader the base of people you have to actually go hire from so that's been One of the elements that I think had also been really important to us and that says self-reinforcing effect And we talked a little bit about this earlier in the conversation, but if I'm a founder or I'm a member of a startup What can I do to leverage my investor base to maximize my success on the recruiting front? I mean the first the first thing is to really look for people you want to work with and you want to partner with and you feel that you you That you feel that you can build a really healthy working relationship with that same that solving problems for the for the company And then find a complimentary set of investors right like the the group of investors We've brought on board gives us very different things right like Kleiner Perkins has very much been there the personal networks Are and and connections and reason has very much been the the big brand the operational machine EQT has a Been great partners to to work with and we think BVP can add another another layer to that right like so I think also thinking about how you construct like if you have the opportunity and we've been fortunate to have the opportunity of doing Like some of being fairly selective on on our end right like then I think putting together in People with different skill sets to help you in different aspects of building your company is really valuable So where I want to go next is the movement in the ecosystem that I think underlies Netlify And I'd be lying if I said I don't think it underlies just about every great company I've seen there is some kind of a movement that underlies it so where I want to go next is Talk a little bit more about what this community that fuels the growth of Netlify and and the movement that I think this That unites this community means and and how you see that playing out going forward Yeah for us like we we really pioneered this idea of an office shift in the architecture of the web and a new Jamstack architecture that would change our developers build and operate websites and web applications and and I've only I've often had Seed stage founders as you say founders that's seen what we've done with Jamstack come to me and say like hey How do I build my own category like I want to make a category as well and and we are always First recommending like you really shouldn't do it unless you absolutely have to right like it's much much Easier if you can ride a wave that's already there and just build a movement around your own company and your own brand Then having to go and and essentially put it a brand into the world That's not yours that you have to grow and nurture at the same time as building your own company But that was what we had to do just because like when we started out There wasn't even a name for this architectural shift There wasn't a common nomenclature around it and and we knew that we knew that this shift in architecture was also a shift from a world where each of these different solutions were monolithic solutions like experience management systems with everything bundled these inside or e-commerce platforms with everything bundled inside and To a world where you would have like a web UI layer then all these different API Services frameworks tool set tackling all the different verticals So we knew that for Netlify to be successful We had to be part of a really well functioning broader ecosystem So for us it made a lot of sense to really nurture that from the beginning and really intentionally try to build an Ecosystem that was bigger than our company and to build the Jamstack movement in a way that it was obviously not like just a Netlify thing But a very shared thing we've spent a lot of time initially like reaching out to founders of companies Nations in the space the larger companies that had a role to play in the space and really get them to see the value of participating in the category and talking about this in the same way as us and building alignment and that has now sort of really created a ground swell where it's very obvious that there is a whole ecosystem and a whole movement and and and a movement that's only gonna accelerate and now we can sort of Take take our journey on that on that wave But it would have been much much easier if they had already been a wave We could have jumped on rather than having to go architect that whole thing ourselves Well, I can I can assure you that many startups will benefit from your efforts in that regard And I'm seeing that every day in my day-to-day great to him So in the end The people like me that you partner with are these people that you're gonna be surrounded by for a decade or more, right? It's been seven years and and counting so What are some of the key attributes that one should aspire to as a founder when building that relationship? And then I'd love to also hear from you on like the tactics of maintaining that relationship best practices from Communication to anything anything of that sort. I mean first, I think it's just like to be really high integrity and build trust over time by By honesty and as much direct communication as as as possible Then the other thing sort of from the tactics perspective is that I think it's extremely Important all like this is basically an all-work relationship to separate the person from that job, right? like and remember that no matter who No matter who the person is that that that sits on your board They are also someone that has a job from a font to like carry out a certain certain role and You should respect that Position and that fact that they that they are that they're not just a Person or an advisor to you or something. They are like hired by a VC firm to create a return of investment to their LPs and and Sometimes that might might align perfectly with your interest as a founder or in and and at other times it might not right like and You should be able to separate those kind of conflicts from from the personal relationship to the people you are working with I think that's an important part in in building these relations and building respect long term that that that you understand when There's like moments where there might be some more pushing and pulling and so on where that comes from and and what role people are playing in and then try to maintain like their their the trust and integrity at the in the in the direct person-to-person relationship That was a very Honest answer and I appreciate that so I think we have time for one question and it's the question I've been most excited to ask you which is what does the future hold for Netlify? What should everyone in the audience expect from the company in the future and and be excited about and how can they get involved? Yeah, so I mean obviously we we see this Fundamental shift in in in how the web is being built is just getting started, right? Like and we are still very much in the early days of it and have a lot ahead of us to to build a Web that will keep being the best platform for developers to to deliver both applications and and content on in We said like in that as a part of a very broad Jamstack ecosystem and for us the most important important thing we can do is really to unite that ecosystem to create the best developer experience for people building for the modern web and Some one one of the things that that we are really starting to working on is like Once you've accepted this shift from building everything with one like sort of package to a world where? You have a web UI layer where you build the user experience and and and try to differentiate yourself But then you have all these different components from frameworks and APIs and services and maybe every project you build on our Composed of many different APIs and services. How can we how can we help? Create some order out of that out of that chaos right like if we think of all of these different Services as as Legos that developers now have available I can put together that that only really becomes fun if all the Legos have the same connectors and and and not so much if you have to glue them together and Manually for for each piece right so we are thinking a lot about like how can we find the right? Connecting points to make it much easier for developers to to maintain a coherent view of that ecosystem to work with many different services and We're also thinking a lot about like how can we invest back in that ecosystem and help it grow up and help it mature? So with our latest round we we said our we set aside our own investment fund the Netlify Jamstack Innovation Fund where where we are investing We are our goal is to invest 10 million dollars into a lot of different companies and small small check sizes but mainly to help seed stage companies in this modern web space and Go through some of the same steps of of the journey that we've gone through We hope that we can help them both with our experience and with our network of advisors and executives And we also set aside a million dollars to invest in the open source ecosystem that's around us that are often not like projects that are Monetizable in in terms of a venture-backed company but led are often incredibly valuable to our customers and to the whole Ecosystem and we want to make sure we can help that part of the ecosystem grow up So of course if you're here and and you're building a seed state startup in there in the developer tool space API space The space that just aims at making it better to build for the web then then do come talk to me. I think we are just on time and Matt I want to thank you for being here and Hope folks enjoyed this and look forward to meeting as many of you as we can throughout the day. Thank you Thank you


Hi, this is Hoso Pupati and we are here at SAP Safari. And today we have with us NDS Welsh, VP and Head of Marketing and Solutions of AI at SAP, and we are scared to have you on the show. Thank you so much for having me. It's my pleasure to host you today. Before we dive into this discussion, since we are here, David, I would love to hear from you how you are seeing the evolution of AI in this enterprise and the ERP space. Sure. So look, AI offers tremendous opportunities for business to enrich their business processes with AI to get better insights and better outcomes from, we call this business AI. It's AI built for business. It means it's ready to use on day one. It's built on deep industry expertise and knowledge that SAP has combined with the data that is in business systems of our customers to deliver outcomes that are relevant to them and to their business. And it's built responsibly, with responsibility with deep AI ethics built into it from the very beginning. What kind of adoption has been the economy? Of course, all these tools they use. In the early days also, security was using some AI, business intelligence was there. But if you can also know how much has it evolved over time, when you look back at it, it's like basically helping business customers. Their developer time is being saved. Their sales are becoming more efficient. One example that I'm really excited about is that AI from SAP is built into the applications our customers use every day. So let me give an example out of travel and expense. We're here at the conference and as soon as we're back, it's back to filling in the expense reports. Now, with our solution called SAP Concur, where we're able to scan the receipts. You as a traveler are able to scan the receipts as you receive them, scan them with your mobile phone, upload them to SAP Concur. In the background, AI already extracts the information from those receipts and pre-populates your travel expenses. So that means by the time you get home, you have a lot less work to do. You don't even need to look for the receipts anymore. You've lost them previously or something. And that really speeds up that process in a very seamless fashion. And that's part of the value we bring actually to more than 23,000 customers using this solution today. You did talk about business AI, but if you look at SAP in general, where is AI in your policy strategy? What is your AI strategy? And once again, at Sapphire, was there any announcement that were made which aligns with the strategy? So AI is centered to our strategy. We built it into all business applications, whether it's in ERP, SAP S for HANA, or it's in HR, SAP Success Factors, AI is built into these business applications to help users be more efficient and be more effective. And that really speaks to the comprehensiveness. So let me give you an example in finance. So take the example of a function called accounts receivable, where your teams receive payments from your customers for open invoices that you have. Previously, matching these payments to open invoices so you can balance out your account when it's accounted for correctly has taken a long time. So even when you set up rules, these rules might take a good chunk out of that automation work over for you, but they don't cover everything, especially as your business evolves, as you onboard new customers, their challenges to maintaining a static rule framework. So with AI, we're able to match these incoming payments to open invoices very, very quickly and with a high rate of accuracy so that you only need to look at the exceptions in that process. Some of the core customers or industries that SAP serve, some of these industries have been around for a very long time. And some of these industries are also in a very early stage of digital transformation, cloud adoption. Do you see, though, that they are running into some kind of roadblocks or hurdles when they look at the AI technologies and SAP, once again, help them to not only onboard them, move over quickly, or just help them wherever they are in their journey? I think that's where one of the beauties of the approaches and what our customers tell is that it is built-in, right? So you don't need to build anything. In addition, you don't need to go off and spin up your own environment, get the data, train the model, figure out that your data isn't as clean as you thought it would be or as complete as you thought it would be. We take care of that heavy lifting for you so that you can really consume it on day one in the applications you use. We are here that when you have a lot of customers, they are also sharing their own stories. Of course, I will not ask you to pick and choose one because they are all your kind of babies. But if there was any specific use case where this industry was kind of suddenly a leaf frog because of AI... I think there specifically it's actually about business functions, right? And, for example, the Swiss Railway Company is using AI from SAP in their accounts receivable management process and is able to automate up to 99% of their process now. For them, that's about a million payments a year. They no longer need to assign manually. A huge time saving for them. Now, let's talk about which is the hottest topic in these days, GDP and now Genitive AI. First of all, how new folks are looking at it? Genitive AI is part of our vision of business AI and our strategy for business AI, right? Like I said, business AI is AI built for business and Genitive AI is an additional and new, very capable and powerful technology that helps us realize this. With Genitive AI in SAP's business applications, we want to help our users and customers define the outcome and then have Genitive AI figure out how to get there. And today, we're very excited to announce the first set of six AI scenarios that we're planning to build into SAP's applications. And these are, let me give you one example of them. For example, we've worked with customers in the automotive and manufacturing industry.  You have lots of trucks coming to your gate to the factory and they deliver parts for the cars that you assemble. Now, your logistics clerk needs to make sure that actually there's the right number and the right type of components on that truck that has just shown up to your gate. And it takes a lot of time, right? Even in just the paperwork, the goods receipts, the delivery notes. And by combining SAP's document processing with large language models, we're able to extract that information very, very quickly. We're getting up to 70% of accuracy at the moment right out of the gate. And the huge advantage there is on the back-end side, actually, if you think back to previous approaches, you would have had to have tens of thousands of documents and examples and annotations to get to good data set and training set. By combining now document processing with large language models, we're able to completely skip that step and you're able to go live on the day one of this. We're really excited about the opportunities. And that's just one of many. You mentioned that here you talked about six AI scenarios. Can you talk with one of those? Sure, of course. So one scenario that we're really excited about is in the area of transportation management. We're combining our document processing capabilities with large language models to help our customers extract information from documents like goods receipts and delivery notes very, very quickly without the need to have training data which is usually very expensive and cumbersome to obtain. Also in the area of HR, you've likely seen our partnership with Microsoft that we have announced today. We will be using OpenAI GPT services through Azure and combining them with SAP Success Factors Recruiting by leveraging the GPT technology with the deep data and knowledge that is in the Success Factors. We're able to fine-tune the prompt engineering to get you very specific and tailored job descriptions because as a high-ring manager, you take usually something that's lying around a job description that you've used in the past. It's not very specific. It might have changed by combining Success Factors Recruiting data with large language models. We're able to help you and get to a very good and tailored graph very, very quickly. Now, the other examples are around SAP's digital assistant that we've announced that we're building it into a product like SAP Stardin Success Factors in our customer experience suite. There, through the help of large language models, we're able to provide a natural language processing capability embedded into the applications that our customers use every day to help them schedule a vacation, find out information about their purchase orders and many, many more things. So those are just some of the examples that we've announced today. One thing I would ask you is that when we look at the options they've generated, we also, like, governments are getting great and some of the customers or industries are raised to see that they're compliant and that they're dealing with some sensitive data. So do you also have some worry, not essentially, but the customers, when they look at it, it could be ethical, it could be legal. And if, yes, how do you also ensure that you know when you use or what technology, you don't have to worry about those aspects? SAP has actually been one of the first companies as far back as 2018 to define AI-guiding principles and since then we've also developed a binding AI ethics policy, binding in the sense that it applies to every SAP employee in how we work with AI technology, how we build AI embedded systems because we believe that responsible AI is at the core and has to be at the core of what we're doing. So these same principles apply also to how we approach generative AI. Since we are here, let me talk a bit more if the folks made an announcement we have to AI. We're so very excited because we've actually announced 15 new AI capabilities across SAP's entire business application portfolio and a large number of them are actually based on generative AI. Can you just give a little glimpse of, you know, of course we cannot go into all the 15, but you know where you feel hey, these are important ones. Sure. So the most important ones that we like to take on from generative AI actually are in the area of transportation management where we're able to extract information from delivery notes, goods receipts very, very quickly without the need of customers having training data to do that and also in the area of process management SAP's Signavio Suite where we're integrating large language models to help process owners and analysts create new processes and identify the right KPIs for these very, very quickly saving about 50 to 60 percent of time that you would usually need to set this up. Thank you so much for taking time out today and of course give us not only an overview of the announcement you folks made but also how you are helping customers with AI, generative AI in their journey not only where they are but how to take them forward. Thank you for sharing all those insights and as usual I would love to chat with you again soon. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. It was a pleasure.


Today I want to talk a little bit about Pokemon Sword and Shield because today the review embargo has lifted and no Not every review in the world that's gonna come up for this game is coming out today There will be people that review it later. There will be youtubers and other people who get the game on launch on Friday They end up reviewing the game either over the weekend or next week or however long it takes them to complete the game and 100% or whatever they feel like they need to do in order to review the game Right now it does stand as an 84 on Metacritic, but this is just based on 10 critics so far There's bound to be 30 40 50 plus count in the end. So this early scoring is an indicative of much but I have taken some time to actually read some of the reviews and I know that this Should mean that I can't review the game myself because now that I've read other people's reviews It'll obviously impact my opinion and I'm but I think I might review this game anyways Down the line. It's gonna be a little bit. It's not gonna be anytime soon. We're talking You know early 2020 or something that I might I might finally throw a review of Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield but I Was just kind of glancing at through these reviews because I'm curious what they say like what about it makes it Like why is IGN giving this game a 93? Whereas Nintendo life is given an 80 whereas daily stars given it a 60 Why is there such a wide variance in some of these scores? And you would figure a Nintendo place like Nintendo life would be more likely to score it favorably And I'm just gonna read some of the summaries from these critic reviews on Metacritic Just because I feel like this is a good way of teasing a little bit of what the game is about without Destroying this game for people and spoiling too much so IGN it is an example says Pokemon Sword and Shield are the best Games in the series stream lighting its most tedious traditions without losing any of the charm I think that's gonna be I think that's what Pokemon Sword and Shield's trying to do It's trying to be the best IGN thinks it's the best But that doesn't necessarily make it the best for each individual person for some people the fact that you can't have every Pokemon Is already going to make it not be the best You know that's just a personal desire for a lot of gamers But moving on games radar says gameplay tweaks and attention to detail make Pokemon Sword and Shield the most compelling Pokemon World to date So they're kind of agreeing with IGN They gave it a 90 game spot gave it a 90 as well And they said in collecting battling and exploring Sword and Shield cut out the bloat and focus on what makes these pillars of The Pokemon games so captivating in the first place You're not held back by overly complicated back-end systems or hoops to jump through in the outset You can start wandering the Galar Regency in its new Pokemon and trying out its new battle strategies But very little in your way This leaves you free to enjoy what Pokemon is all about and that makes for an incredibly strong showing for the series proper debut on switch and a lot of that makes Pokemon Sword and Shield sound like exactly what I Want Pokemon to be I do feel Pokemon as a series has been a little bloated Pokemon as a series has made people jump through a lot of hoops and made systems a little bit more complicated And they needed to be and that's one reason why I enjoy it Let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee so much in particular Let's go Eevee because that's the version I had I really enjoyed these games because it made me Appreciate some of the simpler things in Pokemon and not worry so much about some of the complicated stuff Well a lot of those complications are reintroduced into this game a lot of the other bloat was cut and That I think it's gonna make a more enjoyable experience for me. So I think game spots review might be the best one to represent my feelings In terms of making me interested in these games because again, I've been playing Pokemon since the very beginning I stopped after I think gen 4 or gen 5, but I'm really looking forward to getting back into the series for you know on a home console at least on my TV first time I've really done that since the super game boy back in the day, but Let's move on ever I dot IT I've never heard of this place, but they're they're included on Metacritic It says Pokemon Sword and Shield are complex and convincing games a solid plot a more varied gameplay and a very thought-plea created level design Are the hallmarks of this new Pokemon generation? They gave it an 85 now Nintendo life I mentioned earlier. They gave it an 80 They said Pokemon Sword and Shield succeeded in bringing some new ideas to the table But they're also somewhat guilty of not pushing things far enough. What's done, right is done, right? But what's done wrong feels like it comes from a decade old design document There are moments contained within that are the best the series has ever been But this joy is at times spoiled by contrasting moments that left us Disappointed and did not match up with the rest of what the rest of these games can offer What we've got here is an experience full of highs and lows from the unadultered wonder and joy of seeing a brand new Pokemon in a stadium full of cheering crowds to the monotonous and dragged-out dialogue. We just wanted to skip So it's interesting Nintendo life's actually been pretty harsh about the game I I think this is going to be a polarizing experience I think is what I'm getting from these reviews either you're not as critical about Pokemon and you end up loving it Or you are pretty critical and you're gonna not rate this game Maybe as high as you think now Pokemon games if you're actually looking at You know game review scores on the whole, you know, especially on metacritic where we're getting this stuff from Pokemon games in general aren't like these 90 plus experiences. They're always in the 80s Pokemon Let's go Pikachu. I think was a 79. Let's go Evie was an 80. I don't know why there's a one-point difference But it just is what it is You know, I think there's like Pokemon Y or Pokemon X one of those are like one of the highest scoring Pokemon games like an 87 or an 88 But Pokemon games in general are not like these 90 plus experiences anyways in terms of reviews It's just a really popular series. It's easy to get into one of the easiest to get into RPGs out there Yes, but if Pokemon's an RPG, I mean, I think everyone knows that but it's not talked about I think enough that it's that it's basically a Beginner's guide to RPGs does that make sense? But it's a beginner's guide that can get complicated if you want it to I don't know I mean, maybe that's just my viewpoint on Pokemon and I'm about to get blasted for it Moving on EGM given an 80 and they said the first new generation Pokemon games to release on a proper home console does not Disappoint new features like Dynamaxing and the wild area are fun additions that make the experience of becoming a Pokemon champion Still feel fresh. It's just a shame that the game freak didn't lean on the new features more than they did so Kind of a whole hum review there, you know, yeah, they liked it, but you know, it could have been better Daily star now these are the ones that so far have given it a 60 and it says Pokemon sword and shield are not bad games So it starts out with a look to give our bad despite our score but fun character arcs and inventive creative designs of the new Pokemon are often offset by poor pacing and restrictive world design the world of Galar is charming and Is a Pokemon interpretation of Britain I've dreamed of since I was a kid But between gating what Pokemon you can catch behind gym badges some half-baked route City designs and a modest amount of post-game content sword and shield can only be called a good Pokemon game but not a great one and obviously they use the full scale because They've literally said it's a good game But they gave it a 60 and for a lot of people's 60s like everybody panic But some some people actually use the full scale and mean the full scale It's not that anything that's not an 80 or 90 is a bad game. So I Just find it very interesting going through those reviews and there's more And there's gonna be more cropping up throughout the day you're gonna probably see plenty of youtubers as well coming out with their reviews and I gotta say that Setting aside all of the game freak BS We've had a lot of criticism over the the Pokedex We've had a lot of criticism at times over the art direction or some of the animations. We've also had a lot of Concern over game freak employees being upset maybe not being upset But thank you game freak movement and they thank you game freak movement actually getting mocked in a lot of ways because people think It's hilarious that fans need to thank a company for making them rich because that's what fans did Is we made game freak a Pokemon company and everyone else rich People wondered if they should be mad at Nintendo people wanted that should be mad at the Pokemon company or mad at game freak Or if we should even be mad at all, maybe we should just wait till the games come out judge the games on their own merit You know, we're so focused on all these things when none of us have actually played the games to know if it's worth cutting Pokemon And all this stuff like it's a lot of give and take and Pokemon is just a polarizing franchise It just is when I have spoken out against Pokemon in the past when I say spoken out against I'm talking about why I fell out of love with Pokemon, which I'm not even 100% sure exactly What did it? And how much I love let's go Pikachu and let's go Evie. I don't know if you guys remember last year I was praising. Let's go Pikachu and let's go easy heading into launch and I praised it after playing it and People were blasting me Pokemon fans were blasting me for my love of the let's go games And it just felt so strange to be attacked in so many ways by Pokemon fans And then the watch these Pokemon fans turn on big oh well gen 8's coming and then attacking gen 8 before it even gets here It does feel weird. It feels like the Pokemon fan base is a little fickle now This isn't everyone of course a lot of you guys out there a lot of you Pokemon fans That are patiently waiting for your favorite reviewer to get the review out or are picking this game of day one You bought the switch light bundle or whatever the case might be Some of you guys are gonna be perfectly happy and fine and happy go lucky and everything's gonna be great And I know a lot of kids that play it aren't gonna be as critical and all that so but but it's just interesting watching The Pokemon fan base do what they do because I see I've been really tight and close with the Zelda fan base for a long time And I've seen the Zelda fan base overreact the things But even then we didn't seem to attack individuals for having different opinions I you know before Breath of the Wild Zelda to the adventurer link was my favorite Zelda game and Ocarina of Time wasn't even in my top 10 and there were people that thought I was stupid for having those opinions But they didn't attack me over it They didn't come at me and you know yell at me about those opinions They just said why and then when I explain why they're like, oh, okay Well, I mean we can't argue with your personal opinion and what you enjoying games and all of that You know they can disagree and I think it's kind of the same thing with Pokemon here where it's okay to be critical It's okay to not that to be unhappy with what happens in Sword and Shield Maybe you don't like Dynamax maybe you're really unhappy over the Pokedex these feelings are okay But what's also okay is for people to not care about that stuff and to love the game and I think what ends up happening is you see a clashing of personalities and this is the internet and The negative side of everything always seems to get amplified over the positive side So I want to kind of give a little positive spin on this as we head into the launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield And that is that these games are going to sell extremely well these games are going to make a lot of people happy For a lot of us This will be our first time seeing most of these Pokemon including the new ones of course in HD Because there hasn't meant every single Pokemon in HD before so That's going to be really exciting in that of itself I guess you if you count you know I actually know it hasn't been every single Pokemon because I was gonna say even Pokemon Let's go Peach or let's go Eevee or I really should say even that game plus the Pokemon Let's go the phone app doesn't really have every Pokemon and I know this one doesn't have every Pokemon either Oh my god, don't remind me but it's gonna have a lot like 400 Pokemon or whatever it is in HD It's gonna be glorious. We get to fight in stadiums we get to do a lot of crazy things and I think that a lot of us are gonna come away pretty happy with these games Including myself because after all this is the first true generation of Pokemon I'm deep diving in really since gen 4 and I am looking forward to either falling in love with Pokemon all over again And this is the game that does it although I really did enjoy let's go But it was gen one and I've been called the gen one or before um, or I'm going to You know end up not liking the game and maybe figure out what it is about Pokemon that doesn't click with me anymore Either way, I'm looking really forward to playing this game. I'm not sure which version I'm gonna get yet Probably leaning towards shield because it's blue and blue is my favorite color But we'll see if Eric ends up picking up shield, then I'll probably get soared and I look forward to having a deeper conversation About Pokemon on a future podcast episode Got some ideas for the podcast coming up, but Well, we'll get into that another day. Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in Hopefully you enjoyed this and you're enjoying all the reviews popping up around the internet And I look forward to talking more Pokemon with you guys once I get a chance to go hands-on with it Hopefully sometime in December. All right, folks Subscribe for more content and I'll catch you in the next video


وعلى أله التيبين الطاهرين ماسمين المظلومين، أما بعد فقد قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتاب المجيد وقول له الحق وهو أستغصادقين اسم الله رحمان الرحيم ذلك الكتاب ألف لا أميم ذلك الكتاب لا ريبة فيهداً للمتقين الذين يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون والذين يؤمنون بما أنزل إليك وما أنزل من قبلك وبالآخرة هم يؤمنون صدق الله العلي العظيم صلاة وعالى محمد وآل محمد all praise belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى the almighty God as you know Allah is the Arabic expression of the God the universal God whom Christians Jews all people who believe in God they will say when Christians in church do mass in Arabic you will see that they will use the word Allah also because that's the universal name of God and in Arabic it means the God he is the almighty the absolute the infinite and without his existence none of us can exist and our sustenance and maintenance in existence is only possible due to his existence and our eternity is only possible due to his eternity and therefore everything about us that has come into existence is only purely due to his presence and what's so beautiful about the almighty God is that he's absolutely good and infinitely merciful and therefore whatever he creates even if it appears to be negative in our eyes due to our myopic perspectives we conclude that actually it's all for the greater good because our trials and tribulations which have been created by God in other words the potentials for such trials and tribulations actually do strengthen us as you know as we as human beings know that we know friends after difficulties we know values of people after they struggle we admire heroes due to terrible tragedies and you find that the negatives actually are the springboard of all that is really pushing everything in the positive direction and God has allowed negatives to exist precisely so that we understand the difference between right and wrong and that we through our limited free will make sure that we avoid the negatives just like a student taking an exam the teacher will give them five multiple possible answers four are negative one is positive but we don't say the teacher is negative we don't say the teacher is evil in fact we understand the gravity of the exam that when the negatives are there and the objective of the student is to avoid the negatives and therefore they get rewarded should they take the positives that is where the real springboard of progress comes forth for if negatives did not exist then we would not understand the values of positives and the relative being this we are it's only possible for us to understand the nature of things through such what we call dichotomies or opposites so we should never be disappointed that negatives exist in the world we should not be disappointed that why does a merciful God allow such negatives to exist we should never question such integrities because God has endowed us with sufficient abilities to prevent those negatives that take place if you examine human tragedy on earth it doesn't occur primarily due to natural disasters if you really look at the number of people that die on natural disasters it's a very small percentage human beings die daily not due to natural disasters but due to human misdeeds Allah says indeed God does not do injustice to His creation in Allah He doesn't do injustice to mankind and of course Allah doesn't do injustice to any of His creation but here specifically God is talking about mankind rather it is mankind who does injustice to themselves if we look even at natural disasters you will find that usually it's the people who are in the lower economic strata who are the ones who die the most in natural disasters the wealthy usually don't die in natural disasters not because nature has a way to sift out the poor from the rich when it attacks but rather it's the rich that have already known the dangers of nature and have taken the higher positions to ensure that their lives are safe and therefore we have ignored the poor ones and put them in peril and in states of difficulty and then we complain why did these people die when God is questioning us why did you not elevate their status when you went up the mountains why did you not take them higher from the flood zones why did you not help them build homes that can sustain earthquakes and if you look at wars just in world war 2 60 million people were killed where in the annals of history do you find nature eliminating 60 million people it's not the case we find that we are the cause and in the judgment days we will question us and said you had the ability to stock most of the negatives on earth why did you not do it الله says indeed Allah does not change the affairs of a community until the community changes themselves first meaning God is saying you are divinely endowed with the ability to prevent danger and mishaps and problems in society what have you done to change your affairs God helps those who help themselves as they say it's so true because if we do not utilize the gifts that God has given us then we will be liable we are liable الله says on that day we will question you what did you do with my gifts and mercy so these conversations is for us to understand first of all the grand picture of things is that God is merciful and the negatives exist due to his mercy ومن شر ما خلق الله says and by the evil which he created meaning the potential for negation of good exists and let me define briefly what is good good is everything that God creates فتبارك الله أحسن الخالق everything in the universe that exists from the subatomic particle to the grand structures you will find they are all good there is no such thing as evil in the tangible five sense of the word try it fire explosions implosions physics chemistry biology everything is good show me what's not good tell me the sky the earth the seas the waves the tsunamis the earthquakes the volcanoes they are all good they are needed just don't be there when the tsunami is happening and just don't jump into a volcano you go it's the law of physics right God fixes it so we know that everything God creates is good then what is evil you will find evil by definition is the willful rejection of good when you and I willfully reject good it becomes evil if something does not have a free will choice partial of any type you will find such an act is exempt from evilness for example if two objects collide due to the physics of things there were two hills and there were rocks on the hill and the law of physics states that if it has enough momentum and it starts to move downward that they will move in the direction they've been designed to do الحمد لله they do that if those did not do what they did then you and I would not be able to utilize the principles of physics to do what we normally do imagine our cars are built around physics and if physics was to change we would be in peril in danger we as human beings grow and our bones grow based on the gravitational force of earth at 9.8 meters per second squared it's designed that way if we go to the moon our bones will atrophy they will brittle why? because the forces of gravity there are much less than here and our bones are designed to grow based on the physics so if God were to stop this physics then we would suffer so the physics of two rocks rolling down a hill is nature and let us say there's a car passing by and the rocks collide onto the car and kill the passengers in the car we say what an evil act there is no evil in it for that was purely an accident even in the courts of law if you establish something to be accidental even intelligent beings who know how to decide their own destinies will tell you that if something did not have a willful intent to commit the evil act then it comes under the jurisdiction of an accident and accidents are exempt from any accusations so we don't say it's evil when tsunamis take place and people die you don't see how the tsunami was evil it's a physical law and the law states that if you are in it there's a chance you will be damaged there's nothing evil about it when you smash something there's nothing evil about it but if the intent is to smash someone if the intent is to kill someone if the intent is to harm someone and if the intent is to take somebody away from the good that they were destined for then that act would be deemed evil because there was a willful intent to stop progress to stop tranquility to stop harmony to stop growth we call that evil so we agree if you use basic rational logic evil only exists when free will exists if you remove free will everything becomes the act of God and then there's no one to judge and hence the day of judgment doesn't exist but the day of judgment doesn't exist الله clearly stated إن الذين آمنوا والذين هادوا والنصارة والصابئين من آمن بالله واليوم الآخر وعمل صالح فالهم عجروا من ربهم لا خوف عليهم ولا يحزنوا indeed Allah says with the believers إن الذين آمنوا والذين هادوا والنصارة والسابئين والصابئين وضعوا أن تصدروا من ربهم واليوم الآخر وفعلوا جيدا لكي لا يوجد خوف ولا يحزنوا ولا يحزنوا وانتظروا من ربهم القرآن يصدروا من ربهم انه جميل كرآن يصدر ماذا are the criteria why the day of judgment why can't I just believe in God God says you are under trial and your free will is under observation and if you did not have free will there would be no need for a day of judgment so prove positive the only reason you and I must believe in the day of judgment is so that you and I hold ourselves liable in the sense of our responsibilities as a creation of God and out with the responsibility to be promoters of good and demoters of evil صلى الله عليه وسلم it's very important what I'm speaking about right now is very essential for us to understand because when we really bring this to focus a lot of our anxieties dissatisfactions confusions what we call temporal agnosticism that we all tend to go towards sometimes wondering if God is really there or if he's there we wonder if he's really good or if he's really good we wonder if he's really hearing us etc. all these feed into our what we call mistrust distrust into our attitude of uncertainty so Allah in سلطة البقرة says ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه ودل المتقيم الذين يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون الله ستبدأ the second chapter of the Quran by saying in this book there is no doubt who are they? for those who are God conscious who protect themselves from the evils of the world متقيم are people who are aware of the dangers and the evils of society and they take every measure in life to avoid themselves from going towards evil because they know their free will is being tested and they know that the Almighty God is observing them and they know that they have the ability to dictate their own future they have the ability to dictate their own successes and failures and therefore they take every possible measure with vigilance to ensure that they do not go towards the wrong side like a student who is very good ensures that they don't put the wrong answers in a test why? because they are vigilant they will look over did I put this right answer? hold on maybe I did it wrong Shaytan the evil forces comes and puts doubt in us and Allah says ملك الناس من شر الوصواص الخناص say I seek refuge in the Lord the Lord of mankind ملك الناس the master of mankind اله الناس the God of mankind من شر الوصواص الخناص from the evil whisperings of the devil الذي يوصوص في صدور الناس this being and his cohorts meaning humans too are ever so ready to whisper negatives into our ears in order to take us from the path of God isn't it true? you and I are all subject to that the whisperings of people to try to dissuade us from doing good things it's an irony of life when we should all get together to promote each other towards good how often the human race whisper negatives into their peers ears in order to prevent them from progressing because that individual who is whispering the negatives has decided to be regressive and they don't want to be alone in their regression so they whisper into the ears of others to join them into a larger audience so that they don't feel as guilty sad Allah says من شر الوصواص الخناص how do we remove the شر this conversation as an example that we look at certainty and we look at the principles of good vs evil and we go into these observations and say that is true is there really holistic evilness now by the way some people argue that we don't have free will God has predestined everything just a quick update on this there is no such thing as totality of predestination predestination is in its limited form meaning God has decreed our existence the earth the physics of the universe our shape is human beings all of the things you and I cannot change our birth dates you know our humanity our inability to breathe underwater without an apparatus these are all predestined and those are not subject to questioning on judgment day is the power of the free will that you and I can exercise which is the moral judgments we make of good vs evil choices that will be questioned on judgment day and Allah is warning us that be careful of that do not negate each other for your skin colors do not negate each other for your economic differences do not negate each other due to your gender differences male vs female do not God says يا يهن ناس إن خلقناكم من ذكر و أنثة و جعلناكم شعوبا و قبائلة لتعارفوا أكرمكم إن الله يتقاكم oh mankind we have made you male in female nations and tribes so you know each other لتعارفوا meaning these are beautiful creations أردت أنك يجب أن تقوم بشكل موضوع لن أساعد with a liar لن أساعد with a thief لن أساعد with a criminal لن أساعد with a troublemaker لن أساعد لن أحب أحب أعادة لن أحب أعادة أعادة أعادة أحب أعادة أعادة أعادة أعادة أحبهم هذه المساعدة أنت و أنت لجب أن أفعل لأنها مردية لا يوجد أجناء يوجد أجناء و الله يقول من أعمن بالله و اليوم الأخر إعادة أنك تعتقدون في الله و يجب أن تفعل جيدات ما are the good deeds the principles of God promote justice and equity on earth يا إيه الذين أعمنوا كون قوامين لله شهداء بالقسط ولا يجري منكم شناءان قوم على أن لا تعدلوا إعدلوا هو أقرب للتقوى أحب هذه المساعدة لذلك للمائية المساعدة number 8 when God says all mankind all believers here and when Allah addresses believers He's addressing mankind but He's addressing the leaders of mankind the believers يا إيه الذين أعمنوا كون قوامين لله maintain the justice among the people قوم in maintain justice in your community and do not let a hatred of one against the other skew your necessity for justice this is on the trial on judgment day ولا يجري منكم شناءان قوم على أن لا تعدلوا that you should not be just because you have a vengeance and a hatred stop whispering negatives into people's ears block them when people whisper negatives stop it question it excuse me where did you get this from what's your proof where's your evidence huh when I heard it go find it don't share and spread this Chinese whisper for it's going to become something else tomorrow and many a people will be harmed Allah says لا يختب بعضكم بعضا do not back bite each other احب أحدكم أن يأكل لحم أخيه maintain do you like to eat the flesh of your dead brother فكرهتموا it's disgusting واتقوا الله be conscious and be aware of the negatives and avoid them واتقوا الله in سوت البقرة Allah says there is no doubt ذلك الكتاب لا ريب فيه ودل المتقين those who are God conscious who are they الذين يؤمنون بالغيب they believe in the unseen because they are rational they know the future is powerful and God's knowledge of the future does not mean that he dictated our destinies no God knows everything he has no future please understand that God has no future and I stress it God has no time God created time he created space he created matter let's not put him in it he is beyond it so how does God know my future that's different from saying how does God know the future even that implies that he is also experiencing time for how does he know tomorrow I don't know tomorrow how does he know don't be fooled by that simplest there are many many arguments to prove the point that free will exist one simple one God is all good we've established this in this conversation 100% there is no doubt in it so whatever God does is good therefore whatever God does has no evil we all agree it's logical follow the logic but evil exists and evil practices are pervasive on this earth and if God had predestined everything for us to do what we were supposed to do then technically there should be no evil and our naming these things as evil is absurd but we know that evil exists and people do perform evil so therefore it's only logical to say that God has commissioned that existence only due to the willful rejection of good in the limited free will he has given us proof positive that free will exists صلى الله عليه وسلم the argument is yakeem how do I get certainty you will notice that in society socially we love people who are confident we love confidence even if their choices are wrong in times of tragedies and difficulties we love leaders who appear confident they may make wrong choices but there is a sense of calmness when we know there is somebody in the room that is confident now the self projected confidence shows itself very easily we are talking about confidence where people make choices as directors of corporations who have a very clear vision of what they want to execute for tomorrow we love it I know people when you study them they love to be around confident people even in marriage relations you will find women love confident men and men love confident women because confidence is a sign of tranquility it's a sign of hope it's a sign of strength you may be wrong in your vision but at least you are driven by it at least you are committed towards it at least you are adamant towards it isn't that good who is the best human being the one who has confidence in the divine in the divine system the one who not only knows what to do for tomorrow's business or the children that they will bear or the homes that they will build but for eternity they have confidence for eternity as I mentioned last week actually I mentioned on Thursday I mentioned that Islam is a religion that has the roadmap for eternity nobody in the world I promise us Christians, Jews they are very close to among the Abrahamic faiths very close to Islam but when you look at the core principles of religion nothing with all due respect to all the other religions comes even close for the purity of the oneness of God to maintain it and to really understand how it works because nobody has got it with all due respect except Islam when I debate atheists they sweat because they don't know how to capture توحيد but if you believe God in the sun who died on a cross it's easy if you believe God chooses you as a special group of people in the resta that's supposed to be the scum of the earth it's easy if you believe there are millions of God it's easy if you believe God can be born and dies it's easy as an atheist to defeat them but when you have pure monotheism and that monotheism is the driving force of all temporal events and the absolute is so conspicuously ubiquitously present in everything you and I look at Subhanallah God says يقين have certainty and then chart your ways for tomorrow and you will see how amazing your life will be so I'm going to conclude within the time that I have in the 10-15 minutes from Surat Al-Waqa as I was mentioning as I touched Surat Al-Baqarah today who are these people who have yaqeen they believe in the unseen unseen my brothers and sisters requires these kinds of conversation why does evil exist why do I exist why do people die why do babies die we all have such questions every one of us even atheists will argue if God were to be there why did he allow all these children to die why did he allow Hitler to expand his powers why do we allow tyrants of the world today to succeed why does God not stop them what are you doing to stop it don't sit around and ask God to do things when the greatest gift God has given us is our free will if you and I do not practice it God says on judgment day I will raise you blind deaf and dumb and we will ask God but I had eyes when I was on earth I could hear when I was on earth Allah says you didn't use it when I gave it to you so now I've raised you deaf dumb and blind because you abused my gifts that means you and I must carefully administer within ourselves certainty projections towards the positive now I may sound a bit too idealistic here but not at all on a day to day basis every move you and I make do it with certainty but how do you gain real certainty when you have the roadmap to eternity and you must take into account the divine message for without the divine message you and I will not know what to do with life you and I will be good in temporal ways but you and I will fall you know I was just reading an article today Anthony Robbins is a famous motivational speaker guy is a billionaire very motivating extremely motivating if you listen to him he basically says anybody can do anything they want and I agree with him and many of the things he says are brilliant but do you notice how he talks is crass and vulgar filled with filthy words it's an indicator that this man is angry I thought you're supposed to be with tranquility when you speak this way but people are longing for motivation they don't care if you use vulgarity as long as you can inspire me and recently he's been accused of sexual harassment 20 people have come forth similar to what the other giants people like Charlie Rose Bernstein and all these Hollywood moguls giants in society making hundreds of millions people like Bill O'Reilly making hundreds of millions of dollars but they lack the eternal vision their vision is stamped with time and they think they are so powerful like Pharaoh do you see how powerful I am look at them bowing to me and I tell them I'm God and they bow to me and Musa comes with his staff he says didn't God dress you better than this look at me how nicely dressed I am with gold and silver and Musa taps his staff on the floor he says my staff is enough confident why? because he's got the eternal roadmap Pharaoh doesn't now he's being accused and accusers have come forth in so many ways that he is somebody who has many many bad characteristics in terms of his behavior with women you can't talk about it on this pulpit it's a shameful thing so you would think well you're so motivated what happened to your morals now I'm not pointing a finger at him or poking in his eyes all of us including myself are saying that we have the means by which to reach tranquility and harmony with certainty then it better show in our modesty and it better show in our behavior and if it doesn't then there's something intrinsically wrong with what we're saying اللهمة قولونة ما لا تفعلون كبرت مقتن اندى الله ان تقولونة ما لا تفعلون يتكلمون لله أنت تقول انها ما لا تفعلون تقولونة ما لا تفعلون يتكلمون بشخص أسر our prophets have told us our Ima have told us act on it and the world will follow you so we need to be a confident society we need to have a vision and understand the divine mercy of God and we need to come to terms with the fact that God has blessed us with free will and it is upon us to decide our own destiny and let not the whisperings of the negatives sway us from the path of God and let us be vigilant and persistent on a constant basis to be upright as Allah says لا تلقيهم تجارة ولا بيع عن ذكر الله ويقام الصلاة ويتاء الزكاة يخافون يوما تتقلب and notice again who are these people they have an eternal roadmap يخافون يوما تتقلب فيه القلوب والبصار they are afraid of that day they know there is a day of judgment they know they will be liable do you and I have it let's read the Quran and you will see briefly within the time that I have that in surah number 56 and I've recited some of it but I'll continue with it because I was reading it the other night I couldn't stop reading this surah over and over and I've recited it to the point where I memorized it but it's like I just read it first time and I kept looking at it this is the surah that I know like oh my God how little I know and it's exposing things to me that I never imagined was there and God says come I will teach you something and this knowledge will seep into your heart and it will strengthen you الله says إيمانا مع إيمانهم we will increase your faith upon your faith but study it understand it this is my roadmap hold on to it the whispering of society will try to take you away from this path watch out and you know what's beautiful and I'll just generalize it and then I'll talk about it is that the majority of the human race how many times we've been told no oh no brother the majority will enter hell even barker told me in the debate he said how's the name all the people according to your religions they're going to hell there's going to be a lot more parties over there a lot more social activities there look barker is telling me that and there'll be very few in paradise you know to make it in there oh my God so when you and I think that way yeah you see where it loses anyway and shaitan says exactly so it matters what fun here I mean you're going to get doomed there anyway so why bother you're not going to make it anyway so go for the materials go for the palaces be Machiavelli rob and cheat get it now enjoy it better now الله says in Quran he fools you so you might say brother what do you mean by that well let's understand that there is there are stations in paradise low stations and high stations don't forget that God is merciful now please I'm saying this with sincerity if you want to be and myself foolish go for the lesser everything you and I do in life we want the best if I can get something better why shouldn't I get it so don't go for the lesser so if you know there are low stations of paradise but there are also high stations of paradise don't say well as long as I get into the low stations I'm happy as long as I avoid hell don't do that please that mentality is self negating the mercy of God الله says now you strive to get to the finest it's your choice and if you decide to go to hell and Allah says it those who go to hell want to go to hell they don't go to hell because they don't want it when a human being does not want to go to hell common sense do you think they will ever enter hell logically of course not when you want to survive who have seen their children stuck under a car because they don't want their children to die have lifted an entire car and got the child out how does a mother lift a car men and women put together cannot lift a car but when you want something you get it as they say necessity is the mother of all inventions so in conclusion to this Allah says when you enter hell it's because you wanted it and in fact Allah asks that when they are about to be thrown in hell the angels are looking at them like what are you doing here how did you get here after all the mercies of God after 124,000 prophets after all the scriptures given unto you after all the representatives of God who guided you, protected you did everything good for you how did you get here they're asking didn't want to come to you قالوا بلا قد جعنا نظير فقد دبنا وقلنا ما نزل الله من شيء we belied these prophets when they came we told them no there was no revelation وقلنا ما نزل الله من شيء إن انتم إلا فيه ضلال كبير وقالوا لو كنا نسمعوا أو نعقلوا ما كنا فيه أسهاب الساعة if only we paid attention and followed and taken heed to the warnings we would not be in this state ما كنا فيه أسهاب الساعة فعترفوا بذنبهم they will recognize their evils فعترفوا بذنبهم and God says I am furthest away from them so you and I have to make that decision the beauty of سوت الواقية الله describes three groups وكنت مزواجا ثلاثة أسهابل ميمنا أسهابل وصابقون three groups you and I should zone on the third group but Allah says ثلاثة من الأولين وقليل من الأخيرين let me describe this very briefly God now is talking about those who are the foremost of the foremost and they will enter paradise without being questioned as you know by the way as I mentioned the other day you and I were created for paradise we were not created for hell but because God is merciful and He has given us free will Allah allows us to go there if we wanted meaning hell otherwise we were not created for it it's the truth if you read the Quran you will see it even Haj Ahmad when you recited the ayah today Allah says they will enter hell even hell Allah says they will remain in it for a time they will purify themselves if needed the ones who want to stay in it will stay in it forever he says the one who even if he is removed from hell after a long time continues to reject God will be the one who will remain in hell forever God is too merciful so Allah says the third group special who are they they say the third group صابقون are the foremost when Allah says there will be plenty ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأخرين then when God talks about the people of Ashab el yameen the ones who will enter paradise Allah says ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأولين وقليل من الأخرين will describe that another time in my next presentation what does it mean that there's many in the in the earlier stages and less the words صابقون are people who are proactive agents who run towards good and they don't waste time they don't wait for the dust to settle they don't wait for things to get into hype movement bandwagons and then they join the good God said صابقون here are always pushing and moving خديجة عليه السلام as soon as the prophet god revelation she said I am your follower the first woman to accept Islam she didn't wait like let me think about it although she was already a muslim by the way all the bannuha she never worshiped idols they were all believers in god but the prophet declaring himself as the final prophet is a choice of shahada choice we make and you find that خديجة immediately accepted it interestingly Imam عليه السلام was a young boy immediately accepted it why? no hesitation so Allah says there are plenty of those who are in the beginning stages the ones who move fast who don't waste time they will be so foremost they will enter paradise and you will be in such beautiful places that Allah is talking about the couches that he talks about for example أولاك المقربون في جنات عين ثلت من الأولين وقليل من الأخيرين على صور موضونا decorated thrones متكين عليها متقابلين reclining on them facing one another socially it's not a sad place it's full of being around the worshipers of god we'll talk about that too يتوفوا عليهم ولدانهم وخلدون you will see youth never aging meaning angels around you as mates بيكوابن وبارق وكأسن من معين you'll be drinking magnificent drinks لا يصدعون عنها ولا ينزفون no headaches no tiredness وفاكث منما يتخيرون you will eat all kinds of fruits ولا بطيرين ما يشتهون the flesh of fowl it will be all delicious وحور عين you will have mates who are so beautiful كأمثال المكنون the like of hidden pearls جزاء بما كانوا يعملون a reward for using your free will to avoid evil and to promote good I'm paraphrasing لا يسمعون فيها لغوة ولا تأثيمة you will not hear vain talk not even sinful discourse إلا قيلاً سلاماً except peace for how long? eternity وصحاب اليمين ما أصحاب اليمين and the people of the right hand who are they في استدر مخدود amid thornless loat trees this is a big discussion thornness loat trees so magnificent there are no thorns in it very smooth you will love being around them وطلحين مندود trees with large leaves some call it banana trees as an example one above the other وضل مندود extended shades وما إن مسكوب water flowing constantly وفاكيتين كثيرة لا مقتوات ولا ممنوع وفاكيتين لا يفعل ولا يفعل يعني كل شيء هو حلال وفرشين مرفوى اكسلت ثرون إن أنشعنا هنننشاءة سبباً لقد قمنا بشكل جديد يعني when we die لقد قمنا بشكل جديد في العالم الثاني هذا هو القرآن فجعلنا هنن أبكارة ثم قمنا بشكل جديد صحيح أغرقناها بر Charlotte أغرقنا اغرقنا وطعاننا how many of you they are they are you were you were you were I was me me me me me all you were I was I was I was I was نحن نتحدث عن الناس لن يتحدث عن هذه الصورة about the numbers و أصحاب الشمال now God takes me and shows me what hell is ما أصحاب الشمال what will make you know the people of the wretchedness the ones who think في سروم و حميم in hot winds and boiling water و ذل من يحمود and shades of black smoke they will be in shades but it will be black smoke لا باردن ولا كريم it's neither cool nor honorable إنهم كانوا قبل ذلك مترفين surely they were before that made to live in ease and plenty they were having fun on this earth cheating lying stealing destroying people Allah says now they're going to get what they deserve و كانوا يصرون على الحنث العظيم they persisted in great violation و كانوا يقولون عذامتنا و كنا طرابا و عذامنا إنا لما بعثون and they used to say listen to this and I end with this what when we die and they've become dust and bones we will be raised again now there's no life after death we all turn to dust و ذرب الله مثلا و الناس يأخلق قال من يحيي العظام وهي رميم قل يحيي الذي انشاءها أول مرة they asked how will we be raised again God says you were nothing before and I created you isn't that a bigger question you should be asking for when you are dust you come back it's a secondary question you did not exist هل أتا على الإنسان حين من الدهري لم يكن شيئا مذكورا لماذا تكلمين؟ now you are asking how will you come back this the person who says this has no eternal roadmap they say when we die everything dies the moral system dies the whole system dies God says your morality has to depend on eternity has to be dependent on the day of judgment has to depend on rewards and punishment otherwise the moral argument falls apart God says who are the ones who will enter paradise the ones who believe in the day of judgment the ones who do good deeds the ones who have a mental image because what happens after that you become certain and when you have certainty you will make wise choices and when you make wise choices you become a blessing for humanity and yourself may Allah give us the tawfiq insha'Allah but in this month of Ramadan while you and I are fasting these are the thoughts we should have and every handshake every salam every business dealing every human being we touch don't forget it's being recorded and that there is a written document that will come to us on judgment day it's what isra'Allah says كتابك كفا بنفسك read that book that has been put on yourself read it it is your act amazing and I tell you in all the years of my life studying and traveling and debating and going to even some of the most prestigious academic institution to speak to scholars nothing equals these conversations nothing وآخر الدعون الحمد لله رب العالمين والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله رحمان الرحيم اللهم إنا نرغب إليك في دولة كريمة here we are asking God to give us a good government دولة كريمة تعز بها الإسلام وأهلا meaning it becomes the standard for mankind with justice وتضل بها النفاق وأهلا and to debase the troublemakers the ones who create trouble in society وتجعلنا فيها من الدعات لا تعتك give us from what we seek from you that is good for us والقادة لا سبيلك وترزقنا بها وتدنيا والآخر give us from your mercy from your grace in this world and in the next وآخر الدعون الحمد لله رب العالمين سلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته we have iftar of course we will have salah you are more than welcome to join us we will be honored with your presence thank you so much السلام عليكم


and we're here at the Embedded World 2022. Hi, so please introduce yourself. I'm David Abar from Cantera. We're an HMI tool provider for embedded systems. So we provide a tool called CGI Studio. CGI Studio is a designer-orientated HMI tool to create embedded HMIs. As you see here is an automotive sample. The automotive sample shows here the car and the infotainment. So the infotainment cluster, this is running on a RENASAS R-Car H3 using real-time rendering via OpenGL. And also the infotainment system is here integrated. And with our tool it's possible to create HMIs with just a few clicks. It's designer-orientated, so if you're a 3D artist it's easy to use our tool, create HMIs. There is no coding required. It's what you see, it's what you get. And yeah, you create them high-performance embedded HMIs. So what's happened since last year? How many things have improved and changed? Yeah, there are actually some completely new things. You can see new demos over there. We have here some automotive demos and also non-automotive demos. We have the automotive weather demo here. This is a real-time rendering of outside effects in a car. So you can have weather reflected. You have also, let's say, from the other system, also input. You can see also here an instrument cluster based on a radio too. So this one can actually create it in just a few minutes in our tool. So let's say less than an hour. Less than an hour you create such an HMI. Here you have a medical device. This basically is an STM32 MP1 series. So running on a smaller screen with Linux. But perfectly for medical devices or white goods or stuff like that if you want to animate stuff with 3D animations, integration and so on. We have here a robotic industrial demo. This one runs on an iMix 8. We can also modify directly and interact with 3D models on the screen. And save data points and also do animations with 3D. So this would be perfect to enrich, let's say, industrial products with a maintenance screen you have available, let's say, more interactions than a classic mathematics display or other input devices. Here we have a coffee machine sample. Also for, let's say, white goods market. Coffee machine could be also, for example, and rich with 3D animations and stuff like that. You have, let's say, here really a premium user interface available. Moreover, you could also imagine doing stuff like creating a fridge and over in a washing machine or something like that with CJI Studio. So actually these demos are done, let's say, within one working day. Here you have even 3D interactions on it. So the tool is completely orientated on 3D artists. So it's possible to create HMIs quickly. So instead of having software engineers working with these samples, we are using 3D artists to create them. There is no coding required. And they are created, yeah, in a very short time. Nice. So it's just getting more beautiful, the embedded UIs. Yes, exactly. So one advantage is, as we are using OpenGL with our platforms, also none of, let's say, also MCUs. Thanks. Also MCUs without and with graphics engine. Maybe you show some demonstrations in there a little bit. Ah, yeah. Here you see our CJI Studio with some of our key features. So this is actually our product. What you see is what you get designed to. So if you're familiar with 3D tools from the 3D authoring space, let's say, like Blender or even gaming industry like Unreal Engine or Unity, you can start directly creating embedded HMIs. So it comes bundled with a lot of useful feature sets to support you. For example, the Smart Importer. Here you can see it. The Smart Importer is a tool basically allowing you importing assets from the Photoshop. Importing. Okay. Importing. Photoshop, Adobe XD, Sketch or even Azure V can be directly imported and then reached. Moreover, what else can we show you? Yes, some of our partners supported platforms. So we are really hardware independent. So you can use CJI Studio running on nearly any platform. Also different operating systems, Linux systems, specific real-time systems. And also using without operating systems. So we really bring out the maximum performance from your platform. And yeah. Cool. What kind of discussions you're having here at the embedded world? What do people come and talk about? What do they want? HMIs. Just more and more tools? So actually, most people are interested in creating easily and fast HMIs. So the HMI sector is moving from a software engineering sector to a, let's say, designer-oriented market. So this means that users are typically a different kind of role. There are artists. Artists should create HMIs, not software engineers. Moreover, this speeds up the development. If artists directly create HMIs, they can focus on the design, on the output, on the quality of the product. You don't need the software engineers, on the other hand, to coordinate between designers and software engineers. And this makes it actually quite easy. So here we have a lot of positive feedback that our tool provides the capability to allow artists creating HMIs directly, run it on the hardware immediately. So I typically suggest that you have, let's say, if you develop a CJI Studio, you have a designing tool, and bitmaps, stuff like that on the one hand. You have CJI Studio creating the HMI, and next to you is directly the embedded hardware. You can bring it to the target just with a few mouse clicks and run the HMI directly there, test it already, record some videos directly from the hardware itself to forward it, and you'll see that, let's say, the new HMI is running on it smoothly with high performance and without any coding. So no software engineer is required when you want to create HMIs. Nice. And since last year, there's just more and more people coming into your ecosystem, more people trying it out? Yes, absolutely. So new markets are opening. As time goes by, a lot of new controllers come to the market. So also based on new lore, controllers get cheaper and cheaper every year. This means that it's open space for new markets. So the automotive market offered premium HMIs. Currently we see that the market is offering in more and more segments, like Whitegold's market or the medical market, HMIs with a high quality. So the new controller generations make it possible to use HMIs on, let's say, washing machines, for example. So people are demanding it. So we get a lot of feedback and a lot of customers coming to us to actually ask us for supporting them how to create HMIs and using our tool to then actually provide the products. Do you have a feeling like the embedded industry is growing? Is more and more money in there? I think so, yes. I think the big problem only will be the chip shortage. But yeah, in general, yes. What do you do to solve the chip shortage? As a software provider, we can't do much, unfortunately, except that we are providing high performance. What we see is that due to chip shortage... People want the high performance. Yes, people want high performance, but it's also that the current serial production controls are not available. As they are not available, you are looking for a lower class, which could be still bought, for example. So with our high performance platform, it's possible that you still can achieve or create the products, deliver the same or similar performance and downgrade the CPU. If you switch to Scandiava Studio, as we have, let's say, the highest performance on the market from a rendering perspective. Cool. All right, thanks a lot. Nice to see you in real life. Yes, it was nice to meet you. It's a little bit different than the video chat. Yes, it was nice to meet you.