And it's great to have you with us here on our Yankees hot stove segment at yesnetwork.com Bob Lorenz, Jack Curry, John Flaherty, and Meredith Marakavis with you. One of the great things about the winter meetings, and it's been a little slow so far, but you start to hear those rumors. And the possibility came up last night that maybe the Yanks and Metz could do some business together, Jack. And then you go, no, no, no. They're not going to do that. And then you just keep hearing the rumors, right? Well, that's the best part about the winter meetings. You're right. Those rumors that we hear and then the chance to try and report them out and dissect them. And I don't want to speak for everyone on this panel, but I think as soon as we started to hear those words trickle out, and I believe Ken Rosenthal was the first to report it, I started to think about all the hurdles that it would take for a three-way trade. Even if the Marlins were involved, that the Metz doing something with Noah Cindergarde that would potentially help the Yankees, and suddenly the Yankees have Severino and Cindergarde, the two best velocities on fastballs and Major League Baseball at the top of their rotation. It just always seemed to me as if there were too many hurdles for something like this to be consummated. I agree, but it gives us a little glimpse into the new organization with the Metz, with their new general manager, that he's willing to at least talk about some of these things. And then you wonder about Cindergarde, would they be willing to move him?  But Real Mudo is the real deal behind the plate. The Metz need a catcher, but I think there are too many obstacles for this to go down. But I love the fact that they're even talking about it because it seems to be a new GM, a new sheriff intended, flushing. He's not afraid to get creative. And I don't think this one is going to get done. I think we're all in agreement on that. But like you mentioned, it's really opening up the floodgates that potentially down the road something could happen between the Yankees and the Metz. But when you look at this deal for the Metz, I don't know how it makes that much sense for them. Obviously, they need the catcher in Real Mudo. There are other people that are trying to enlist his services as well. The Phillies linked to him today as well. But giving up Cindergarde when you're trying to compete next year doesn't seem as though it would make a tremendous amount of sense for the Metz. It would be a good deal for the Yankees. And we're also heard the name of Miguel Andujar mentioned is potentially part of what would be a three-team trade. And it makes you wonder are the Yankees still high on him because he had tremendous upside in 2018? Or are they thinking we're not sure he can be a polished product at third base? Right. We're talking about Cindergarde potentially coming to the Yankees. Let's fill in the blanks. Great point by you, Bob. You're not getting him for nothing. You're going to have to put something into that deal. And Andujar looms as the trade piece that the Yankees seem to be willing to include. When you look at the free agent market and what pitchers are potentially getting or have already gotten, I think the Yankees see a trade as an option. And I think Andujar, as much as they love him, seems to be someone of value that they could get or use to get a frontline starter. By the way, just go ahead, Flash. I'm just curious on with Andujar. They're so willing to talk about him in trade talks and it's only going to be about his defense is the liability that he can't get better at third base. I mean, we've seen a lot of rookies come up to the big leagues, kick the ball around a little bit, have some problems, clean it up and turn into at least an average defender. That's a bat that I'm surprised they're talking so much about. But then you wonder is Manny Machado still going to be in that conversation as a possibility at third base? And I think that's it right there. If you move Andujar, you probably get Manny Machado. And I think that's ultimately perhaps what the Yankees want to do, whether or not they'll be able to match up in terms of years and money. That remains to be seen. But having Machado and Andujar does not make a tremendous amount of sense, knowing that Didi Gregorius is going to be back midway through the season. By the way, here's the last fun thing from the winter meetings, especially when you hear rumors. How many times do you then check Twitter? Right? We're constantly like noses in the phones. You see it here with everybody. You do it too. I admit it. Right. That's it for us on YesNetwork.com. Thanks for joining us. Don't forget CheckYesNetwork.com for all the latest Yankees news and for airtime to Yankees hot stove on Yes.


From Santa Clara, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's The Cube! Covering Altitude 2020, brought to you by Aviatrix. We will soon be taking off on our way to Altitude. Please keep your seatbelts fastened and remain in your seats. We will be experiencing turbulence until we are above the clouds. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now cruising at Altitude. Sit back and enjoy the ride. Altitude is a community of thought leaders and pioneers, cloud architects and enlightened network engineers who have individually and are now collectively leading their own IT teams and the industry on a path to lift cloud networking above the clouds, empowering enterprise IT to architect, design and control their own cloud network, regardless of the turbulent clouds beneath them. It's time to gain Altitude. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Malaney, president and CEO of Aviatrix, the leader of Multicloud Networking. Good morning everybody here in Santa Clara, as well as to the millions of people watching the live stream worldwide. Welcome to Altitude 2020, all right. So we've got a fantastic event today. I'm really excited about the speakers that we have today and the experts that we have and really excited to get started. So one of the things I wanted to just share was this is not a one-time event. This is not a one-time thing that we're going to do. Sorry for the aviation analogy, but you know, Sherry Way, Aviatrix means female pilot so everything we do has an aviation theme. This is a take off for a movement. This isn't an event. This is a take off of a movement, a multicloud networking movement and community that we're inviting all of you to become part of. And why we're doing that is we want to enable enterprises to rise above the clouds, so to speak, and build their network architecture regardless of which public cloud they're using, whether it's one or more of these public clouds. So the good news for today, and there's lots of good news, but this is one good news, is we don't have any PowerPoint presentations, no marketing speak. We know that marketing people have their own language. We're not using any of that in those sales pitches, right? So instead, what are we doing? We're going to have expert panels. We've got Simone Richard of Gardner here. We've got 10 different network architects, cloud architects, real practitioners. They're going to share their best practices and their real world experiences on their journey to the multicloud. So before we start, everybody know what today is. In the US, it's Super Tuesday. I'm not going to get political, but Super Tuesday, there was a bigger Super Tuesday that happened 18 months ago. And AVH6 employees know what I'm talking about. 18 months ago, on a Tuesday, every enterprise said, I'm going to go to the cloud. And so what that was was the Cambrian explosion for cloud for the enterprise. So Frank Cabri, you know what the Cambrian explosion is. He had to look it up on Google. 500 million years ago, what happened? There was an explosion of life where it went from very simple, single-cell organisms to very complex, multi-cell organisms. Guess what happened 18 months ago on a Tuesday? I don't really know why, but every enterprise, like I said, all woke up that day and said, now I'm really going to go to cloud. And that Cambrian explosion of cloud meant that I'm moving from a very simple, single-cloud, single-use case, simple environment to a very complex, multi-cloud, complex-use case environment. And what we're here today is we're going to go and dress that. And how do you handle those complexities? And when you look at what's happening with customers right now, this is a business transformation. People like to talk about transitions. This is a transformation. And it's actually not just a technology transformation. It's a business transformation. It started from the CEO and the boards of enterprise customers where they said, I have an existential threat to the survival of my company. If you look at every industry, who they're worried about is not the other 30-year-old enterprise. What they're worried about is the three-year-old enterprise that's leveraging cloud, that's leveraging AI. And that's where they fear that they're going to actually get wiped out. And so because of this existential threat, this is CEO-led. This is board-led. This is not technology-led. It is mandated in the organizations. We are going to digitally transform our enterprise because of this existential threat. And the movement to cloud is going to enable us to go do that. And so IT is now put back in charge. If you think back just a few years ago in cloud, it was led by DevOps. It was led by the applications. And it was, like I said, before their Cambrian explosion is very simple. Now with this Cambrian explosion, an enterprise is getting very serious and mission critical. They care about visibility. They care about control. They care about compliance, conformance, everything, governance. IT is in charge. And that's why we're here today to discuss that. So what we're going to do today is much of things, but we're going to validate this journey with customers. Do they see the same thing? We're going to validate the requirements for multi-cloud because honestly, I've never met an enterprise that is not going to be multi-cloud. Many are one cloud today, but they all say I need to architect my network for multiple clouds. Because that's just what the network is there to support the applications. And the applications will run. And whatever cloud it runs best in. And you have to be prepared for that. The second thing is architecture. Again, with IT in charge, architecture matters. Whether it's your career, whether it's how you build your house, it doesn't matter.  Good architecture, your life is pretty good. So we're going to talk about architecture and how the most fundamental and critical part of that architecture and that basic infrastructure is the network. If you don't get that right, nothing works. Way more important than compute, way more important than storage. Network is the foundational element of your infrastructure. Then we're going to talk about day two operations. What does that mean? Well, day one is one day of your life.  Day two and beyond, I tell everyone in networking and IT, it's every day of your life. And if you don't get that right, your life is bad forever. And so things like operations, visibility, security, things like that, how do I get my operations team to be able to handle this in an automated way? Because it's not just about configuring it in the cloud. It's actually about how do I operationalize it? And that's a huge benefit that we bring as Aviatrix. And then the last thing we're going to talk, and it's the last panel we have, I always say you can't forget about the humans. So all this technology, all these things that we're doing, it's always enabled by the humans. At the end of the day, if the humans fight it, it won't get deployed. And we have a massive skills gap in cloud, and we also have a massive skills shortage. You have everyone in the world trying to hire cloud network architects. There's just not enough of them going around. So at Aviatrix, we said as leaders do, we're going to help address that issue and try to create more people. We created a program, and we call the ACE program, again, aviation theme. It stands for Aviatrix Certified Engineer, very similar to what Cisco did with CCIEs, where Cisco taught you about IP networking, a little bit of Cisco, we're doing the same thing. We're going to teach network architects about multi-cloud networking and architecture. And yeah, you'll get a little bit of Aviatrix training in there, but this is the missing element for people's careers and also within their organization. So we're going to go talk about that. So great event, great show. We're going to try to keep it moving. I next want to introduce my host. He's the best in the business. You guys have probably seen him multiple willing times. He's the co-CEO and co-founder of theCUBE, John Farrier. OK, awesome. Great speech there, awesome. I totally agree with everything you said about the explosion happening. And I'm excited here at the heart of Silicon Valley to have this event. It's a special digital event with theCUBE and Aviatrix where we live streaming to millions of people, as you said, maybe not a million. I really take this program to the world and this is a little special for me because multi-cloud is the hottest wave in cloud and cloud-native networking is fast becoming the key engine of the innovation. So we got an hour and a half of action-packed programming. We have a customer panel, two customer panels. Before that, Gartner's going to come on and talk about the industry. We have a global system integrators who talk about how they're advising and building these networks and cloud-native networking. And then finally, the ACES, the Aviatrix certified engineer who's going to talk more about their certifications and the expertise needed. So let's jump right in and let's ask Simone Richard to come on stage from Gartner. We'll kick it all off. All right. Okay, so kicking things off, certain started. Gartner, the industry, experts on cloud. Really kind of more too, your background. Talk about your background before you got to Gartner. Yeah, before I began Gartner I was a chief network architect of a Fortune 5 company with thousands of sites over the world. And I've been doing everything in IT from a C programmer in IT to a security architect, to a network engineer to finally becoming a network analyst. So you rode the wave and now you're covering in the marketplace with hybrid cloud and now moving quickly to multi-cloud is really what I was talking about. Cloud-native has been discussed but the networking piece is super important. How do you see that evolving? Well, the way we see enterprise adoption cloud, first thing you do about networking, the initial phases, they either go in a very ad hoc way as usually led by non-IT, like a shadow IT application people or sometimes a DevOps team. And it's, it just goes as, it's completely unplanned. They create VPCs left and right with different accounts and they create mesh to manage them and they have direct connect or express route to any of them. So that's a first approach. And on the other side, again, within our first approach, you see what I call the lift and shift way. We see like enterprise IT trying to basically replicate what they have in a data center in the cloud. So they spend a lot of time planning, doing direct connect, putting Cisco routers and F5 and Citrix and any checkpoint, Palo Alto devise that they are in a data center, moving that to the cloud. I gotta ask you, the aha moment is gonna come up a lot in our panels is where people realize that it's a multi-cloud world. I mean they either inherit clouds, certainly they're using public cloud and on-premises is now more relevant than ever. When's that aha moment that you're seeing where people go? Well, I gotta get my act together and get on the cloud. Well, the first, even before multi-cloud, so of these two approach, the first one like the ad hoc way doesn't scale. At some point IT has to save them because they don't think about D2, they don't think about operations. They have a bunch of VPC and multiple clouds. The other way that if you do the lift and shift way, they cannot take any advantages of the cloud. They lose elasticity, auto scaling, pay-by-the-drink, these feature, all agility features. So they both realize, okay, neither of these ways are good, so I have to optimize that. So I have to have a mix of what I call the cloud-native services within each cloud. So they start adopting like all the AWS construct, Azure construct, or Google construct. Then that's what I call the optimal phase. But even that, they realize up to that, they're all very different. All these approaches are different. The cloud are different. Identity is completely difficult to manage across clouds. I mean, for example, AWS has accounts, there's subscription in Azure and GCP, they're projects, it's a real mess. So they realize, well, I'm not really like concentrate used the cloud product in every cloud. That doesn't work. So I have, I'm going multi-cloud. I like to abstract all of that. I still want to manage the cloud from an API point of view. I don't necessarily want to bring my incumbent data center products, but I have to do that in a more API-driven cloud-native way. They're not scaling piece that you were mentioning. That's because there's too many different clouds. Yes. That's the piece there. So what are they doing? What are they building different development teams? Is it software? What's the solution? Well, the solution is to start architecting the cloud. That's the third phase. I call that the multi-cloud architect phase, where they have to think about abstraction that works across cloud. In fact, even across one cloud, it might not scale as well. If you start having like 10,000 security group in AWS that doesn't scale, you have to manage that. If you have multiple VPC, it doesn't scale. You need a third-party identity provider. So it barely scales within one cloud. If you go multiple cloud, it gets worse and worse. See, way in here. What's your thoughts? I thought we said this wasn't going to be a sales pitch for Aviatrix. You just said exactly what we do. So anyway, that's a joke. What do you see in terms of where people are in that multi-cloud? So like a lot of people, everyone I talked to started in one cloud, right? But then they look and they say, OK, but I'm now going to move to Azure and I'm going to move to Azure. Do you see a similar thing? Well, yes. They are moving, but there's not a lot of applications that choose a tree cloud at once. They move one app in Azure, one app in AWS, one app in Google. That's what we see so far. OK. Yeah, I mean, one of the mistakes that people think is they think multi-cloud. No one is ever going to go multi-cloud for arbitrage. They're not going to go and say, well, today I might go into Azure because I get a better rate of my instance. That's never going to happen. Do you agree with that? That's never going to happen. What I've seen with Enterprise is I'm going to put the workload and the app, the app decides where it runs best. That maybe Azure, maybe Google, and for different reasons. And they're going to stick there, and they're not going to move. Well, let me ask you guys. But the infrastructure has to be able to support, from a network container, be able to do that. Do you agree with that? Yes, I agree. And one thing that's also very important is connecting to the cloud is kind of the easiest thing. So while they're a network part of the cloud, connectivity to the cloud is kind of simple. I agree. IPsec, VPN, DirectConnect, ExpressCloud. That's the simple part. What's difficult, and even the provisioning part is easy. You can use Terraform and create VPCs and VNAPs across your free cloud provider. What's difficult is the day-to-day operations. So we'll define day-to-day operations. What does that actually mean? It's just the day-to-day operations. After the natural, let's add an app, let's add a server, let's troubleshoot a problem. So what happened after provisioning? So your life after you? Something changes. Now what do you do? So what's the big concerns? I want to just get back to this cloud-native networking, because everyone kind of knows what cloud-native apps are. That's been the hot trend. What is cloud-native networking? How do you guys define that? Because that seems to be the hottest part of the multi-cloud wave that's coming is cloud-native networking. Well, there's no official gardener definition, but I can create one on the spot to do it. I just want to leverage the cloud construct and the cloud API. I don't want to have to install like, for example, the first version was let's put a virtual router that doesn't even understand the cloud environment. If I have to install a virtual machine, it has to be cloud-aware. It has to understand the security group if it's a router. It has to be programmable to the cloud API and understand the cloud environment. One of the things I hear a lot from either CISOs or CIOs or CXOs in general is this idea of I'm definitely a going API, so it's been an API economy. So API is key on that point. But then they say, OK, I need to essentially have the right relationship with my suppliers, AKA clouds. You call it above the clouds. So the question is, what do I do from an architecture standpoint? Do I just hire more developers and have different teams? Because you mentioned that's a scale point. How do you solve this problem of, OK, I got AWS. I got GCP or Azure or whatever. Do I just have different teams? Or I just expose APIs? Where is that optimization? Where's the focus? Well, I take what you need from an Android point of view as a way to control playing across the three clouds and be able to use the APIs of the cloud to build networks, but also to troubleshoot them and do data operation. So you need a view across a tree cloud. That takes care of routing connectivity. That's seen. That's the AVA tree plug-up you were right there. So how do you see, so again, your Gartner, you see the industry, you bet on network architect. How do you see this playing out? What are the legacy incumbent client server on-prem networking people going to do versus people like AVA Tricks? Well, how do you see that playing out? Well, obviously, all the incumbent, like, Arista, Cisco, Juniper, NSX, they want to basically do the lift and chip part. They want to bring, and VMware want to bring NSX in the cloud. They call that NSX everywhere. And Cisco wants to bring NSX in the cloud. They call that NSX anywhere. So everyone, and then there's cloud vision from Arista and Contrail is in the cloud. So they just want to bring the management plane in the cloud, but most of them is still based on putting a VM them and controlling them. You extend your management console to the cloud. That's not really cloud-native. Cloud-native, you almost have to build it from scratch. We like to call that cloud naive. Cloud naive. So close. One letter, right? So that was a big conversation I reinvent. Take the T out of cloud-native. It's cloud naive. That went super viral. You guys got T-shirts now. I know you love that. But that really ultimately is kind of double that sort. You can be naive on the architecture side and rolling that, but also suppliers can be naive. So how would you define who's naive and who's not? Well, in fact, they're evolving as well. So for example, in Cisco, it's a little bit more native than other ones because they really, ACI in the cloud, you really like configure the APIs of the cloud. And NSX is going that way, and so is Arista. But they're incumbent. They have their own tools. It's difficult for them. They're moving slowly. So it's much easier to start from scratch. I have a new like, you know, a network company and I started a few years ago. There's only really two. Aviatrix was the first one. They've been there for at least three or four years. And there's other ones like Alcira, for example, that just started, now they're doing more connectivity. But they want to create an overlay network across the cloud and start doing policies and abstracting all the clouds within one platform. So I got to ask you, I interviewed an executive at VMware, Sanjay Poonan. He said to me at RSA last week, oh, there will only be two networking vendors left Cisco and VMware. What's your response to that? What's your response to that? Obviously, I mean, when you have these waves as new brands that emerge, like Aviation and others, I think there'll be a lot of startups coming out of the woodwork. How do you respond to that comment? Well, there's still a data center. There's still a lot of action on campus and there's the one. But from the cloud provisioning and cloud networking in general, I mean, they're behind, I think. In fact, you don't even need them to start with. If you're small enough, you can just keep. If you're in AWS, you can use the AWS construct. They have to insert themselves. I mean, they're running behind from that point of view. Yeah, they're all certainly in comments. I love the term Andy Jesses at Amazon Web Services. These are old guard, new guard to talk about the industry. What does the new guard have to do, the new brands that emerge in? Is it be more DevOps-oriented? Is it NetSecOps? Is it NetOps? Is it programmability? These are some of the key discussions we've been having. What's your view on how you see this programmability? The most important part is they have to make the network simple for the dev teams. And you cannot make a phone call and get a v-line in two weeks anymore. So if you move to the cloud, you have to make the cloud construct as simple enough so that, for example, a dev team could say, OK, I'm going to create this VPC. But this VPC automatically being associated to your account, you cannot go out on the internet. You have to go to transit VPC. So there's a lot of action in terms of the IAM part. And then you have to put the control around them, too. So to make it as simple as possible. You guys both. I mean, you're the COC aviatrix, but also you got a lot of experience going back to networking, going back to, I call the OSI days, for us old folks to know what that means. But you guys know what this means. I want to ask you the question. As you look at the future of networking, you hear a couple of objections. Oh, the cloud guys, they got networking. We're all set with them. How do you respond to the fact that networking is changing and the cloud guys have their own networking? What are some of the pain points that's going on, premises of these enterprises? So are they good with the clouds? What needs, what are the key things that's going on in networking that makes it more than just the cloud networking? What's your take on that? As I said earlier, once you could easily provision in the cloud, you can easily connect to the cloud is when you start trouble shooting application in the cloud and try to scale. So that's where the problem occurs. Steve, what's your take on it? And you'll hear from the customers that we have on stage. And I think what happens is all the clouds, by definition, design to the 80-20 role, which means they'll design 80% of the basic functionality. And they'll leave 20% extra functionality that, of course, every enterprise needs. They'll leave that to ISVs like Aviatrix. Because why? Because they have to make money. They have a service, and they can't have huge instances for functionality that not everybody needs. So they have to design to the common, and they all do it. They have to. And then the extra, the problem is that came being an explosion that I talked about with enterprises, that's what they need. They're the ones who need that extra 20%. So that's what I see is there's always going to be that extra functionality in an automated and simple way that you talked about, but yet powerful with the visibility and control that they expect of on-prem. That's that kind of combination that Yin and Yang did that people like us are providing. So I want to ask you. We're going to ask some of the cloud architect customer panels. So it's the same question. This pioneer is doing some work here, and there's also the laggards who come in behind the early adopters. What's going to be the tipping point? What are some of those conversations that the cloud architects are having out there? Or what's the signs that they need to be on this multi-cloud or cloud-native networking trend? What are some of the signals that are going on in their environment? What are some of the thresholds or things that are going on that they can pay attention to? Well, once they have application in multiple cloud and they get to wake up at 2 in the morning to troubleshoot them, they don't know it's important. So I think that's where the rubber will hit the road. But as I said, it's easier to provide. And you can say, OK, it's AWS. It's easy. Use a transit gateway, put the QVPCs, and you're done. And create some presence like Equinox and do a direct connect and express route with Azure. That looks simple. As the operations, that's when they'll realize, OK, now I need to understand how cloud networking works. I also need a tool that gives me visibility and control. But on top of that, I need to understand the basic underneath it as well. What are some of the day-in-the-life scenarios that you envision happening with multi-cloud? Because if you think about what's happening, it kind of has that same vibe of interoperability, choice, multi-vendor, because you have multi-cloud, essentially multi-vendor. These are kind of old paradigms that we've lived through with client-server and internet-working way. What are some of those scenarios of success and that might be possible or would be possible with multi-cloud and cloud-native networking? Well, I think once you have good enough visibility to satisfy your customers, not only like to keep the service running and application running, but to be able to provision fast enough, I think that's what you want to achieve. Simone, final question. Advice for folks watching on the live stream, if they're sitting there as a cloud architect or a CXO, what's your advice to them right now in this market? Because obviously, public cloud check, hybrid cloud, they're working on that, that gets on-premises done. Now, multi-cloud's right behind it. What's your advice? The first thing they should do is really try to understand cloud networking for each of the cloud providers and then understand the limitation. And is what the cloud service provider offers enough or you need to look to a third party? But you don't look at a third party to start with, especially an incumbent one.  I'm going to bring my F5 in the cloud when you can use an ELB that automatically understand azs and auto-scaling and so on. And you understand that's much simpler. But sometimes you need your F5 because you have requirements. You have like I rules and that kind of stuff that you use for years. You cannot do it. So OK, I have a requirement and I'm not met. I'm going to use legacy stuff. And then you have to start thinking, OK, what about a visibility control about the tree cloud? But before you do that, you have to understand the limitation of the existing cloud providers. So first, try to be as native as possible until things don't work. After that, you can start thinking multi-cloud. Great insight. Someone, thank you for coming on, someone in charge. With Gardner, thanks for sharing. Thank you.


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Good afternoon and welcome to this press conference here from the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Thank you for joining us here in the room And thank you for joining us on the live stream and through Facebook and of course a special welcome to everybody here On the panel, maybe just one word of housekeeping. You see an extra name here We're hoping for the Health Minister of Malaysia to make it in time for the press conference He's currently stuck In traffic because he forgot his badge, so we hope he can make it so please bear with us while we're We're still starting and going ahead with the press conference now health has always been a Very important issue in the work of the World Economic Forum, but usually we're looking at global health issues We're looking on the national level and as you see from the title of this press conference This is about a bit of a different angle. We're talking about cities And we're here to launch the see can 2025 sit a city cancer challenge and and looking really at the city level of cancer as one of the most damaging Non-communicable diseases that are out there to talk about the issue We have assembled an expert panel here today, which I'm happy to introduce to you now to my immediate left I'm joined by Kerry Adams who is the chief executive officer of the Union for international cancer control or UICC as Most of you might know it Next to him. We're joined and thank you for being here Michael Berkovitz Who's the president of the hundred resilient cities of the Rockefeller Foundation? Right at the center of our panel here. We're joined by Christoph Franz who's the chairman of Rosh from here from Switzerland and For the moment last but definitely not least on our panel Edwin Makaria who's a partner of the Dalberg global development advisors based in Kenya if I Correctly informed so welcome everybody and without further ado Kerry What is this new initiative about that we're launching? What is the see can 2025 city cancer challenge? Tell us about it. Well, thank you very much and also. Thank you to the world For giving us a chance to launch the city cancer challenge 2025 here today Over the last few years as in the last seven or eight years There's been a lot of work done and that at the global level I'm raising the profile of cancer and the non-communical diseases Some of you will be aware of the challenge that was set down in 2011 2012 to reduce no premature deaths from cancer and other ncds by 25 percent by 2025 Following that we have the sustainable development goals which have embedded within that those goals under health goal number three That we should have an ambition to increase that number to more than 30 percent by 2030 so a lot of global commitment to address ncds and cancer globally now we need to turn that into action Embedded it within those those commitments was a call to action for multi-sector responses So the private sector civil society and governments working together to address as extremely difficult and challenging set of diseases Cancer being one of those some response to that the UICC talked to its partners and identified a number of organizations Where we felt we could work together to address cancer in low and middle income countries But around the world where we anticipate massive growth over the next 20 30 years Those discussions led to the city cancer challenge could we identify that cities with the growth anticipated in population in the future and the inherent growth of ncds and cancer in those cities were perfect opportunities for us to galvanize support around reducing the number of unacceptable and avoid all deaths in the future Hence the city cancer challenge 2025 which reaches out to all cities over one million population To say that there is now an international Collaboration of organizations that want to help them to understand the problem They are facing today in the future and what they can do about it working with that international Collaboration and this press conference features organizations which are willing to be party to that commitment around the world So what are we going to do in the next few years? There are over 500 cities with a population of over one million our ambition is to sign up as many of them We can in the next two to three years that say that they want to take on this challenge for their citizens to put in place Better cancer treatment and care than exists today But we need to learn along that pathway it will take time for our international consortium to know how it should work And how it would operate so we're launching today We're announcing three cities that will become the learning cities in the first phase of that action They will be young gone for me and ma their parents also for Paraguay and Cali from Columbia And we're delighted that those countries and those cities have said that we think this is such an important initiative for the future That we're prepared to work with UICC and its partners over the next five years to improve the availability of cancer treatment and care in those cities So that's the basis of why we're doing it and how we will go about it And I must say it's absolutely delightful to see so many partners supporting us around the world to help cities achieve that ambition Thank You Kerry Michael Maybe your your organization title gives it away your your folks on resilient cities, right? So maybe you can elaborate why the city level? Why is that important to tackle there? Yeah so thank you and You know, I think when we talk about building urban resilience We think about building urban resilience in a very broad way We think about it not just in relation to acute events things like earthquake hurricane terrorism But also in terms of long-term slow burn events things we call chronic stresses long-term food water and energy shortage high levels of crime and violence Shifting macroeconomic trends and in that context, you know premature deaths from non-communicable diseases is one of the important chronic stresses that impact Cities and and cities as Kerry mentioned are so important for the first time several years ago more than 50% of the world's population lives in cities and by 2050 that's projected to be at or around 70% So you can see the world is is is urbanizing. It's urbanizing rapidly And and what's so interesting and exciting really about working with cities is that cities are innovators or mayors or innovators They're they're happy to Implement and try out solutions. They're closer to the ground. They're not constrained by the gridlock of national politics even though nations are also important and They're they're willing to learn from each other And implement solutions that work on the ground and so that's why I like this challenge so much It's focused on cities and it's focused on building a network that shares lessons learned So that cities can leapfrog each other and really implement the best in class and not go through the whole innovation Cycle that comes out of cost Finally what I really like about this is looking at and what we encourage cities to do is to look at the multi-sectoral approach to understand the the relationship between Infrastructure between social between the different sectors and silos that often bind us And try to address those challenges more holistically and I see in this approach That that same Type of approach that I hope We'll really address this issue Thank You Michael Over to you Christoph we heard from from Joe Biden earlier this week From basically the government government perspective on on cancer Let's hear it from you as a representative of the private sector who plays a major role on that issue What can be your role and how are you cooperating with your partners here in the panel? Yeah, thank you very much It was a year ago when John Biden Joe Biden actually here in Davos launched the cancer immune to a moonshot initiative and I Highly appreciate this effort because we are living in a time when scientific progress is delivering new solutions to devastating Disease and every four seconds somewhere in the world someone dies from from cancer So it is obvious that this kind of non-communicable diseases will be tremendous Social but also financial burden which we have to address and Being involved in the private healthcare sector in the pharmaceutical industries we Strive to invent new innovative medicines and there is a perspective that in the next years Maybe next decade to come we may be able to Transform and turn some types of cancer into a chronic disease and the dream obviously would be to cure some types of cancer But our industry has also learned and that's the reason why I'm sitting here on the podium that Even the most groundbreaking Innovation in our business doesn't make sense if in the end of the day It doesn't reach the patients and we are aware that the patients get access to our medicines in the developed countries But in many parts of the world, this is not the case and in order to make a change We have to get involved with other partners I personally had the opportunity to visit some Sub-Saharan African countries in in October and visited a multitude of public hospitals got involved in discussions with Ministers of Health Prime Ministers I went to see stakeholders non-governmental organizations Foundations in these countries and one of my major learnings was the fact that There is no one-size-fits-all solution to this issue So we basically have to find individual solutions on the ground and the second learning We the pharmaceutical industry the private health care sector will not be able to master this challenge on our own We need to get involved into partnerships and that's why I'm so enthusiastic about being involved in the secant 2025 challenge because here Non-governmental organizations the private health care sectors and also Public institutions are joining forces in order to make a change happen and when we start making a change It's useful to do it where you have a lot of people who are Affected with this devastating disease and we feel that the city cancer challenge is a great opportunity To start make change happen and it's not important sitting here around talking about great plans What's really important is tomorrow when we start implementing implementing first of all in the three learning cities Kali Rangoon and But then spreading the learnings we have in these cities in different environments different solutions spread best Practices to other cities and thus make in the end of the day in the next 15 years to come very Substantial change happening throughout the world and we as the private health care sectors are committed to contribute to it but We feel that there is also a lot of Willingness to make change happen from the state organizations and in those countries where for example health insurance does not exist on on a National level I Feel that the mayors of the cities can make a lot of difference by creating this kind of political pressure from the bottom up It's not a top-down approach. It's a bottom-up approach to create the right framework in order to make Better health care available for everybody Thank you. Thank you and you mentioned the financial burden which brings us to admin because you're you're looking at the financing of things Cities are notoriously short of money. I think that is fair to say and all mayors in the world will forgive me So share with us. What's the financing angle here? What do we need? So of course for those who are looking at this challenge and asking if we agree that this is what we want to do Where where do the resources come from to be able to finance this and so we spend some time Looking at exactly this question and trying to find are there pockets of resources across public private social sectors You can actually crowd in together to bring the financing you require But the first thing you have to do is of course understand what's the quantum of resources that you're talking about, right? If you know the typical approach would be you're building a facility on top of or you know in addition to what is already on the ground So it's additive rather than completely new and the estimates that that would cost between five to twenty five million dollars Now that's a big number if you're the mayor or your governor of a city And you have to wonder well is this a pipe dream or is it actually possible to do that? And so we've looked at different pockets of resources that do exist Recognizing that they are private companies That actually do this on a commercial basis and the ideas of how those private companies could Access additional resources through their traditional securities derivatives kind of markets We've also looked at public-private partnerships that can be built particularly things like guarantees That help de-risk the opportunity or even things like resource-based mechanisms creating social impact bonds You know that that actually can make a difference and of course there is a question of how does the city itself increase its own tax base? or access to taxes that are collected and Utilizes for this really critical challenge that every single country and every single society faces And so if you're anchoring at the city level, are you are you able to find those resources to be able to do this? Now one of the critical Numbers that we all you know that we also ran, you know back of the envelopes. I come from Kenya On done roughly every single day in Kenya There are about 15 people who get on a flight and travel to India for cancer treatment every single day And when they get on that flight and get to India and get the treatment the total cost of that including flights Accommodation the treatments itself and so on and so forth is roughly about $10,000 Now if you multiply out those numbers 15 people 365 days a year $10,000 it comes to 50 to fifty four point seven five million dollars every single year That's getting spent that's money that is not being spent in the country That's that value is not being captured in the city in the country itself But we also know from a clinical outcomes perspective That actually you know patients do much better when they're treated much closer to home If you're happy and more comfortable you do much better That is something that you're currently losing in a very complex issue. That is cancer treatment We also know that you get better follow-up because now the facility is much closer to where you are Rather than getting on another flight to get to India to get to be checked by your doctor again But there's also that positive additive value of creating a facility creating jobs at the local You know within the city itself as well as creating a platform for innovation and to me That's that's what becomes really exciting about this challenges Finding where their pockets of resources currently being spent by individuals insurance companies extended family and so on and so forth Harnessing that to bring care that is going to be critical in each of the emerging markets as they you know as the disease burden profile changes And and and using that as a hub for for actually helping drive transformative change And so it reminds me of that old you know and famous African Proverb you know if you want to go fast go by yourself if you want to go far go together That's part of what makes this collaboration Exciting is these are people coming from public sector private sector Social sector and asking these hard questions and a commitment to doing something about it which gives over they'll be there'll actually be an answer That long term you know We'll be able to look back and say that was a seminal moment in launching this and this has made a difference in the lives of people Thank you, Edwin. Thank you. Thank you very much Before we open the floor for questions We asked our social media followers for a couple of questions before and I want to just take one The role of technology so the forum has been talking a lot about the fourth industrial revolution obviously technology Is playing a role in innovation and research but beyond that how can cities use technology? Sorry for putting you on the spot here, but that's that Ghana did a lot of interest I'm happy to start with that. I mean as mentioned earlier by Christophe I mean cancer is a complicated disease and there are very few cancers which don't involve the use of chemotherapy radiotherapy and also The use of surgery and in order to understand what the cancer is on what stage it is you need imaging and you Diagnostics so if I just limit the technology challenge there for low-midland countries For example, we need to develop and deliver Technology new advances in radiotherapy imaging and diagnostics in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of diagnostic and then treatment So that is one area where absolutely we need support beyond that of course now given primary health care workers The ability to diagnose earlier and present earlier as we know if you present earlier in cancer Your chances of being cured are infinitely higher than if it's presented later So the use of technology to inform and educate primary health care system I think is fundamental, but I'll stop there But I think just in the treatment side we really we are very fortunate. We work with the radiotherapy industry We're working with the imaging and diagnostics industry. They are supportive. They want to find a way to help this initiative I'm hoping that there will be an announce that they're part of this very soon And they will make a big difference because they will start thinking differently I believe on how they can deliver the solutions that required in low-resource settings And maybe just added in the in the prevention space That as cities Better understand the dynamics of their city. So what the impact is of building a road through High residential area and what you know the disease Outcomes will be on either side of that road. I think as cities begin to better understand Which of their interventions has what impact on public health? They will be able to take smarter decisions that both, you know address something like mobility as well as reducing Both communicable and non-communicable diseases. Thank you. Edwin. I think you wanted to just to clear it if you take a patient-centric view Cancer because of its complexity Actually works treatment works better when the patient has an idea of what they are going through and is actively working with With their doctor to figure out what's the best option for themselves, right? Unlike typical Infectious diseases where you know if you have malaria, you get malaria tablets, you're fine The complexity of cancer at the patient level and what that means to the individual to the community to their family Actually means that a better informed pay, you know cancer patient Ultimately can work with it with a care of doctors that they have to get to the best possible results And so to me that's where technology plays a particularly powerful role is empowering patients to actually own their health and own the Interventions that are that you know, and what's what's you know The drugs and the regimens that they will be on over the long term of the care that they have So information is going to be key the second one of course is How do you engage and manage patients within? You know health systems are already stressed in terms of you know You have a lot more people and you have you have a lot more demand and supply And so what does that do for scheduling patient engagement compliance and all these elements? Technology will be a core core part of making that much more effective. Thank you. Let me may add to two other examples I think the most impressive one probably is the fact that in many cases we do not have the right medical capabilities to do the appropriate diagnostics and In this case we can help with for example online educational training in order to bring Medical knowledge to rural places or places which are in the out outskirts of bigger cities And the second one is the fact that today for example when we are talking about imaging whether it's radio Images or MRI We can digitize the images transfer them to other places where you have Specialists looking at these images Maybe in a different continent maybe in a different place in a centralized specialized Lab or medical facility they can do the diagnostics send that back And then you can start with an appropriate specialized treatment So I think technology will be one of the key enablers in order to Have a decentralized Caring approach in the different cities by using centralized specialized knowledge and in fact to quickly add I think one of the interesting ad-necked notes is what's on the IBM? You know creation I think is actually now better at radiology than radiologist themselves Right, so that's an application of technology in a way that improves Detection earlier detection of cancer and therefore early interventions and treatment. Thank you very much I'll hold my fire for now. Can I get a sense from the room if there are any questions? Yes, we have a question over here. We get a microphone to you This radio I would like to talk about money, mr. Front and how much is rush Contributing like or at what prices are you giving away your diagnostics or your? Cancer drugs It is obvious that we have an interest in order to create a sustainable structure not to give away our diagnostics or Medicines for free, but it is also obvious that in for example environments with a very Limited purchasing power we have to adapt and be flexible with our prices and offer very Substantial discounts and this is exactly part of the partnering because this will be the content of Discussions with the public institutions in the different countries in order to come to a solution Where we can offer in the end of the day, which is most important something to the patient, which is either for free or Which is at a very low affordable? Pricing level, but to be honest I'm not talking about pricing at this point because my learning in this country was that there's such a multitude of different obstacles for the patient that You know the pricing issue is something which will we will solve it in the end But if there is no awareness and everybody shows up for example women show up with breast cancer in in Kenya 80 percent with Metastatic past cancer because for example there is no awareness of the disease or there are societal hurdles to speak up Etc. Then we have to solve these issues first. We have to make sure that there is an appropriate Diagnostics available. We have to make sure that for example of expensive Accelerators for for radiotherapy are not only existing but the spare parts Because the machine just has broken down this spare part is important within 24 hours and not within three Three months and that is reality in these countries. So look at what is really happening in these countries to make things work and that is Something not only our company can do but we have to team up with the government institutions with the NGOs and that's why we highly appreciate the effort of our UICC to Create working working Cancer care centers in the biggest cities of this world Thank You Kerry. I think you want to add to that. Yeah, I could just add to that I'd like to sing the praises of the World Health Organization who over the last few years working with experts around the world have actually spent time Developing an up-to-date list of essential medicines for cancer and essential technologies for cancer And I use the word essentials because that's the word that's used by the World Health Organization And that's driven from a set of cancer states No, the the cancers that we're all familiar with which can be dealt with with drugs the vast majority of which are generic drugs And they can be reduced by the many and not reliant on more innovative drugs And so certainly in the first phase is the way the city cancer challenge will be rolled out We'll be doing assessments against what cities have with regard to those essential medicines and essential technology lists Because and that includes for example very simple things like morphine availability, which is surprisingly not available in many parts of the world So I think we have a long way to go yet to get cities up to a level We'd say which is a baseline and of course that baseline would include pathology Imaging oncologist surgeons and at that point then you get to the opportunity to bring in more innovative drugs more personalized medicine Because you can deliver it in a more safe environment a more secure long-term sustainable environment So I think that the what we're doing here is we're putting in place What should have been in place for a long time working with cities to help them get to that level? Thank you, Edwin, please in my previous life I worked in the HIV AIDS space and one of the dramatic things that happened was being able to shift the Medicine element actually the entire ecosystem need for HIV AIDS care and treatment from being high-margin low volume To actually the reverse where your higher volume and lower margin Right so you can reach much more people because in almost any of these things They are dramatic in economies of scale that you get including the pharmaceutical for pharmaceutical space And so if this challenge part of what this challenge does is it helps unlock that? latent unmet demand and as that you know as and as that demand and those patients start being identified and coming forward and requiring Care and support as they go along then you will be able to write some of these curves For efficiency and therefore get to lower production cost and therefore get to lower cost of the actual product And so this is in some ways priming the pump for that reality that's coming down the line And that's what you think of it in an ecosystem and you're thinking of it in a city because that's where you have a lot of people Concentrated in one location that actually allows you to move much faster than in a highly distributed perspective Thank you Time for me to ask another question from our social media audience and because you you mentioned already breast cancer We had several young women asking us. How will types of cancer that affect? Like particularly women, how will that be reflected in the in the in the city cancer challenge and how you're taking account of that? Maybe I start and then and then you can can can a little bit add Gary. I think The value of this initiative is that we are focusing on the most important types of cancer and then look what is the Appropriate standard of care which we would like to see being delivered in all these cancer care centers in the cities and UICC has done a great job of developing this kind of Defining the right standards and let us remind I think a carry mentioned it already the essential Medicines list of the World Health Organization. We are proud as our company to having delivered 29 Medicines to this list, but only three of them still are patent protected. So in the end of the day, we are not talking about Very expensive medicines for most cases and for these cases We will solve this in the end, but they are most of them are available available but we have to make sure that the whole ecosystem is Working that we have the right trained people that we have the awareness that we have the right capability to do diagnostics and This is something which we will address now first in the three learning cities And at the risk of upsetting all men I don't want up to a man, but certainly when it comes down to curable women's cancers breast cancer and cervical cancer Feature very prominently in the ambition of the city cancer challenge and go beyond just a treatment perspective because it was you know avoidance of cervical cancer can be done through HPV vaccinations and we would like obviously to talk to cities and Countries around the world about rolling out population based HPV vaccinations because that eliminates a lot of the problem And you don't have to do as much treatment in terms of with the women who come through with cervical cancer breast cancer again is on the list of those that can be treated with essential medicines and with surgery and Also with radiotherapy. So yes, they are included. I'm hopeful that by the time we get to 2025 And 2013 we'll report back on those sustainable development goals that this community which is represented here and those of you Who wish to join the city cancer challenge can say with a fair amount of certainty that because of this initiative We are able to report thousands and thousands of lives being saved by 2030 because we can measure Over time the increase in the number of oncologists the number of radiotherapy machines the availability of essential meds around the world All these pinch points these 500 pinch points around the world and report back that we did respond to that 25 by 25 Challenge and so I'm very optimistic that this will lead to an outcome Which will satisfy all of us that we are not seeing unfortunately, you know unnecessary deaths around the world Thank you, and no minute too early We are holding up our promise and we're joined by the Health Minister of Malaysia Welcome Minister. Thank you for joining us. I know everybody has a tight schedule in Malay in Malaysia probably to but in So we're we're happy you can join Let me put you on the spot right away We've heard from the chairman of Russia about the role of the the private sector What is the role of the governments? What's the role of the public sector here in fighting cancer in cities? Right Governments role of course starts from the initially of course in the area of education and subsequently the area of prevention And Identifying inspectors and early screening to identify cancers at the early level and of course making available Treatment To all those who are who are affected of course It's easily said than done. There are many challenges in it Going from the Malaysian experience In areas of screening particularly and in prevention if you take prevention we have been We are quite lucky in that We have been able to vaccinate Our vaccination for both Hepatitis B and HPV particularly has reached about 95% that means 95% of all school girls at the age of 13 actually have been vaccinated with HPV So we hope in the next 20 to 30 years. We'll be seeing a serious reduction in the number of cervical cancers our screening program Particularly for breast cancer for cervical cancer and colorectal cancer, which you've taken as beer as part of the government screening programs so but as You probably know we cannot legislate compulsory screening So it has to be done on the basis of education and making sure the opportunities for screening available So we are quite happy that for example perhaps me the percentage of those who have been screened as Increased gradually till the last survey which we did nearly of all women over 20 years of age about 50 50 percent have had some kind of perhaps we are done in the last three years likewise in the And Nearly about 60% undergoes some kind of breast examination of course we self-examination and of course which leads to Examination by a medical professional and subsequently mammography and the latest MRI scans which available for for assessment of breast cancer Just as I was listening to you on the the availability of the facilities for managing this which is a bigger challenge for a population of 90s of 30 million people we've got 97 oncologists trained and and Unfortunately the bulk of them are in the private sector They all weigh the public sector training the public sector, but they all shift to the private sector because of the lucrativeness of the private sector But the public sector in Malaysia is very committed to provide access to cancer treatment So we have regional cancer centers. We have five regional cancer centers which are equipped with Nuclear medicine facilities diagnostic facilities and treatment facilities but the challenge is you know the the management of cancer is Evolving so fast and it's giving tremendous opportunities for for better cure of fall for better Periods of remission which is becoming longer and longer and the ability of governments in particularly in public system to be able to provide this particularly in the advent of newer technologies and newer medicines Which are available particularly in the area of Blood-related cancers. We are seeing a proliferation of new drugs which are formidable expensive and This is a challenge. I mean it is a challenge and As a public system, which is not based on any kind of insurance based on general taxation and giving it free of charge to the people We face that sustainability program when but not withstanding it our commitment to ensure that access to Diagnosis and management cancer is available to all sectors of our population Is something which motivates us to increase the the access and Availability to a wider spectrum of population Thank You minister follow-up question on that the the forum held its ASEAN event in in Kuala Lumpur earlier this year and I had the pleasure to be there and I noticed how young the population is there Do you feel that the young people have the necessary awareness of the of the risks? Yes Our health education Malaysians We have got a very peculiar situation Knowledge level is high But the change in behavior Subsequent to knowledge is poor and this is the this is the area which we have to tweak And we see that across All but so so it's it's how to make sure that that knowledge which they have Is Translated in changes of behavior but in in initially of course like breast cancer screening and and And and people willing to come for perhaps me are there were resistance, but I can see there's a change now So that is that that is something which is good But in in for example reducing risk factor because the one the biggest risk factor is tobacco and cigarette smoking and like most other book countries in the world We also fighting a big battle in trying to make sure that the hour in I think 50% of all Malaysian male smoke our Our total percentage of smoke is about 23% for those above 18 years of age So it's still high and that is a battle by all the with all the knowledge with all the Legislative requirements of labeling Packet packaging and all that still we are not be able to win the battle So this we have to find ways of knowledge is translated into behavioral change I think it's a much broader philosophical question on is human is humanity truly rational is a human being truly Thank you. Thank you very much and in the meantime we had another young woman writing on Facebook I know that she's young because her Her name on Facebook ends with her birthday, which I'm not gonna disclose here, but she said Okay, thank you for for raising these these women's health issues Unfortunately, do you do it from an all-male panel and yes, we do apologies It gives me the opportunity though to mention that we did Talk to Anne Hidalgo the mayor of Paris who's very supportive of the of the city cancer challenge Unfortunately, she is here in Davos, but she she couldn't make it in time to this panel So yes, we acknowledge that we need to to work on that as well But back to the issue at hand. Thank you to every everyone I know I've run hopelessly over time But I think it shows how important the issue is and and the challenges that lie ahead Thank you very much for being here today and talking about this issue. Thank you for being in the room And thank you for watching online. Thank you. 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Let's say people at the surface level and then your audience as you're building are able to get more success. I was going to say, because the best people to trigger are the people that don't know you. I wouldn't even say that. Your audience is villain. Boy, what you mean? There's some audiences that have an innate villain. Okay, yeah, okay. Right? In public. There's a- Like, oh, this is my social agenda and then there's some people who are against that social agenda. So I'm going to anger the people who are against it to make the people who are for it stand stronger. Yeah. Uprise. Be like, ah man, see, there it goes. There those people go again. It's like the Beyonce example. I always use Superbowl. All right, you remember her Brutal Mars. Love that performance. And, you know, good job, Cold Play for inviting them out. That's that performance. I watched it. I said, oh my gosh, this is amazing. That was great. I really felt refreshed. I was happy. People I knew that were happy. Enjoyed that performance. Good stuff. You remember that? I do remember that. Did you like that performance? It was cool. All right. You know, you got some work on your judgment to do. It was amazing. Now, what happened after that? You remember what happened after that?    She fell a little bit and that kind of became a thing and she recovered and the recovery became a marker. Wait, was her Black Panther performance? That's what it was. Right? Yeah. Look. I didn't even think about it and noticed it because I'm just Black. Sometime, man, but you can see Black Panther stuff and not even be Black Panther because that's just how ingrained it is. You know what I mean? It's just there and not always just to shout that out. But yes, people were angry because she was repping the Black Panthers and that was when I first truly started to understand how some people view the Black Panthers in this extremist way. All right? And allowed the government to manipulate their opinion of the Black Panthers, right? And of course, like all groups, maybe there are some people that, whatever, whatever, but no, like, we know by and large the Black community generally doesn't look at it that way, right? So you see all this uproar. The community that understands and sees the Black Panthers in a more positive perspective would see that performance and then there's no virality or emotion that came from it. From the Black Panther aspect of it, right? It just is what it is. Oh yeah, cool, whatever. Keep moving. But then, the people who are angered by that, the villain of that community in that particular issue, they got angry. And then, when the community that supports or views a more positively learned of the people getting angry and spewing their comments and the hating, da, da, da, da, that's when you create the friction. That's when you create the virality, the polarity, and things take off to another level, right? So that's how it works. You can't just introduced a message to an audience that agrees with it when you're working in those type of landscapes. It's best, if we're talking about virality, social engineering, to introduce it to the crowd that hates it and then tell the crowd that loves it, how the crowd that hates it is acting. That's true, that's true. It's a whole game you have to play. It should just be falling on deaf ears, oh yeah, good job, that's dope! Because you gave it to the people that love it. And now you're mad, they just kept moving. I think people realize that virality typically comes from people that don't agree with the thing that you did. Even he spoke on the video how it went viral because people were correcting me on my thing. His audience probably didn't care. They probably were like, oh, he made a mistake in the thing and kept pushing me. There's probably random people on the For You page.  You know what I'm saying? Let me take a quick second to say if you're an artist trying to blow your music up or if you're a manager, a music professional in general trying to help an artist blow their music up, I have something that's a game changer for you and it's completely free. As you may know, we've helped multiple artists go from zero to hundreds of thousands of streams. We've helped multiple artists go from hundreds of thousands to millions of streams, chart on Billboard, GoViral, all of that stuff and we've now made the way we've branded multiple artists and helped them go viral completely free step-by-step in Brandman Network. All you have to do is check out brandmannetwork.com. You apply. It's completely free, but the thing is we're not going to let everybody in forever so the faster you apply, the better your chance of getting accepted. Brandmannetwork.com. Check it out. Back to the video. Man, I know artists, content creators in general, typically dislike those type of people. Those are the people that give most creditors and artists anxiety about posting, makes them scared to check their DMs. Dislike which type of people? Like the trolley people that comment stuff like that. For sure. But what they fail to realize is that those are some of the easiest people to trigger. You want a viral moment?   Respond to that comment in a certain way. Watch how they hit you back with eight more that Boucher engaged in on your video. You know what I'm saying? I think this is a great example because he's just going off with something as simple as a clerical error like I made a mistake. But I do think you can be intentional in your viral campaigns about what emotion do I want to trigger and people and then work it backwards from there. So I don't remember what article I got this from. This was something like super early in our influencer marketing strategy building where I remember reading this thing that was like if you want something to go viral the easiest emotions to trigger are laughter, anger, sadness, and there was one other thing. I can't remember what the fourth thing was. There was like these four emotions, like you can trigger something in one of these buckets which is probably going viral. So now I even think about it with our influencer campaigns or just viral campaigns in general. What is the top of the line emotion that we're trying to hit?  We're trying to make them sad. We're trying to make them laugh. We're trying to make them feel like romantic and lovey. And then you work it backwards from there. Okay, what's the core idea? And then how am I going to communicate the idea?  You know what I'm saying? And if they're your audience, then maybe you walk that line pretty tightly but they're not your audience. Hey, man, it's all fair and love and war, bro. It's all fair when you're building the fan base. Hey, man. But the thing is, you don't also have to do it in that way where you're making a clerical error mistake. Yeah, right. You can also do it in a way where it's less of a mistake. It's just I don't even know what to call it intrigue or something or something. So here's an example to better display what I'm talking about. Let's say I'm rapping and I'm on the street, I'm rapping. All right. Better. Yeah, I'm singing. I like that better. I'm singing on the street. I'm killing it. All right. So in this video, there's this monkey that does a backflip. Yeah. I'm not acknowledging that I'm singing and everything and maybe I don't actually know when I'm recording a video but then when you post that video, what's going to happen?  I'll see that monkey. All right. And she's killing at the same time. It becomes these extra things like these Easter eggs at the end of the day. The social engineering aspect just comes from creating a what an environment intentionally to encourage that conversation no matter where it comes from. Yeah. There was this one artist I follow on TikTok, this rapper named Akin Toya. And I remember his early viral videos he used to wear like a, I think actually he wears like a bunnet in his videos while he's freestyle. Really? Yeah. He does. So he wears a bunnet while he freestyles like it was one day when I scrolled through his page and saw the point where he first started doing it.   It's overall boosting my profile.  I think he's been doing it. I don't know if he stopped because I haven't super looked at his content recently, but I mean he rode that train for like a good like a year and some change, you know what I'm saying? Why not? And so like, that's he comes from what I feel like is the model of me, man. But I find something that is triggering a group of people I'm riding that way forever.  If the fairs didn't ever stop them, who knows what type of men as he would have still been in the bay. Aye, bruh.  To the fairs get you, bruh. The wheels fall off. To the fairs get you. Aye, that's a new wave, bruh. Oh, man. I think that's the perfect way.


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In another story, the Nigerian Senate has thrown out a bill seeking to amend the electoral act to allow political parties nominate or replace validly elected candidates in the event of death, resignation, or vacancy of seats of seven states or federal lawmakers. The bill sponsored by senator representing Kogi West, Sunday Karimi, suffered a major setback during Wednesday's plenary as his colleagues did not allow it past 2nd reading. His lead debate, senator Karimi, has said the bill is necessary as it would put an end to unnecessary expenditures in rerun elections. According to him, various Supreme Court judgments had indicated that political parties have the sole right to produce candidates for elections, which is why party logos are printed on Barlow's papers during elections and not the candidates. On the other hand, the purpose of this bill is to eliminate waste in conducting bad elections by ILEC. This bill that I'm proposing is not a new thing. It's what is happening in other climes of the world, in America, where we borrowed a presidential system from. What is in place here is that when a candidate resigned or during the tenure died, you don't go to another election, the candidate is replaced by the party. However opposing the bill, senator Kawu Sumaila from Kanu South said democracy in its purest form deals with the wishes of the generalty of the people and not that of a political party as envisaged by the bill. How can we allow the FATI leaders to choose a representative in the constitutional representation in a heterogeneous society like Nigeria? Yes, the ticket is for the party, but the vote is for the candidate and policy representation. We are here, all of us, has a particular thinking and belief in what he is here for. It puts into rest any further discussion on abuse in its leaders in a talk by Amibamidili lamented the inability of the sponsor to present copies of the lead debates to lawmakers to see. It very specifically provides that the debate shall be on the merits of the bill. To begin with, the first fundamental error was the fact that even the sponsor of the bill, unfortunately, did not present us with the lead debate. A lead debate that should have stated the merits of the bill itself was not present. And more importantly, Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, I believe our procedure here should be with respect to both constitutional amendments as well as proposed amendments to the electoral bill. In spite of the fact that we did not see the lead debate, but we have a general idea of what the proposed amendment is all about. Those who are in support of further steps being taken on this proposed amendment say aye. Those who can't say nay. The nay is having.


This is stock number 10312. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2015 Chevy Silverado 3500 crew cab long box dual rear wheel This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LML motor and And from this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around Brownstone metallic is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is like you're right here Looking at the truck with me and definitely your best way to check out the vehicle before seeing it in person So you can make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home If you want to check out more photos you can go right to our website in the right hand corner upper right hand corner of this video It's a link right to this vehicle on our website Michelin LT 235 to 80 R17 tires with about half the tread left on them Has the nice polished aluminum rims. You can see just how clean the frame and anybody is on this truck Projected lamp headlamps has a factory fog lights the front bumper Parking sensors no major dents or dings on that front bumper lower valance is in nice shape as the chrome trimmed grill passenger side Fender is an excellent condition as well passenger side rim No scuffs or scrapes on that and as you go down this side of the truck You can see just how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint as we take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down You could still see the truck here the truck and of confidence in vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here So then when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises The cab is in really nice shape too and one more time down this side very very clean You can see any dents or dings on the doors the dually tub is in really nice shape I didn't see any Rock chips or anything like that and the frame and underbody on this truck is in Exceptionally clean condition and it does have all the remaining factory exhaust. So it has not been altered in any way Has the nice factory chrome step bars And this back rim is in excellent shape as well back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires now one looks pretty new on the inside there and And the box rails and frame all look really good As we come around to the back of the vehicle, you notice it has the rear bumper steps the back of parking sensors No major dents or dings on there. The tailgate is in nice shape It has a pace Edwards roll-up tunnel cover Has the shock down assist tailgate has the spraying bed liner and It does have fifth wheel bed rails in it. So you could put a fifth wheel in here Or one of those modified goosenecks Back up camera locking tailgate And as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as that passenger side It's again that dually tub looks really good and for full disclosure this back rim Is in really nice condition as well Down the rest of this side of the truck You can see any dents or dings as the telescopic tow mirrors you get these side LED lights They fold in as well Those mirrors do and they are power-fold in so they go in like so Power windows power locks power mirrors memory driver seat has the factory brake controller turned out four-wheel drive auto head lamps factory all-weather floor mats in front inside the high country package gives you the brown leather interior with the white Piping on it No rips or tears in those seats you get the high country stitched into the headrest and as we hop inside the truck here You can see that this one has thirty eight thousand two hundred and Thirty two miles Instrument cluster is very nice and clean you get a digital speedometer outside compass And information center comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel Bluetooth and information center controls on the right cruise controls and heated steering wheel controls on the left as well as Forward collision-oriented and then on the back of the steering wheel our audio controls you get the Allison six-speed transmission Comes with the Chevy my link MFM radio with CD player and serious XM radio capabilities also has the factory navigation system in it This is also where your backup camera shows up You got your heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your dual climate control stability control Power pedals your cargo lamps. That's how you turn those side lights on we'll check those out in a second You can turn those parking sensors off or off or on and then it does have lane departure and a factory exhaust break Three USBs two power points and then a hundred ten volt hundred fifty watt plug-in Instrument cluster is very nice and clean Leather wrap dash passenger seat and floor mat are in excellent condition as well No rips or tears on that and then this vehicle does have the power Sunroof Which is a really nice feature you get your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting It's your map lights your power slide and your window button and your Sunroof controls Then you get on-star capabilities in that review mirror Bose sound system in this vehicle We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips. No tears back here I don't think this vehicle has ever been smoked in has the power slide and rear window with the built-in rear to frost The rest of the seats are in excellent condition latch child safety system for any child car seats Carpeting and floor mats back here are in excellent condition as well and finally Nice door trim Doors are all in really nice shape and we'll take a quick look under the hood Do you want to show you these side lights? They are super bright on these mirrors here by turning those cargo lamps on that's how you get those on there And we'll take a quick look under the hood I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. Hopefully from this HD video You will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around Inside and out under the hood. We have the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LML motor 397 horsepower engine bay is super clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked off Checked and topped off Truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go See more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one tons you name it We got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto comm and if You'd like to check out more HD videos You can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you will see link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one On your right if you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website Click those check us out and we really look forward to help you with this super clean 2015 Chevy Silverado 3500 Crew cab long box dual rear wheel high-country edition. 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