Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 2018 commencement address My name is professor Brian Schmidt, and I am the vice-chancellor of a and you welcome one at all Thanks guys Good rent a crowd This event is now in its third year, and I'm excited to see so many new students here today And so many staff and curtains current students coming out to welcome our students So please join me and do make sure you cheer loudly especially For people wearing the t-shirt of the color that you adore here at a and you as we welcome our newest students to a and you and the commencement address So I Believe we are going to have music all right. I'm assuming the music is going to roll in But I would like to first welcome the a and you college of law led by professor Sally Wheeler Let's give them a great round of applause Come on lawyers. Give them a big round of applause Sally Wheeler our brand new dean of law Next up let's welcome our a and you college of engineering and computer sciences led by professor Eleanor Huntington We have the a and you college of Asia and the Pacific led by professor Michael Wesley Next up the a and you college of business and economics led by professor Stephen Roberts Next up the a and you college of science led by professor Kieran Kirk Let's welcome the a and you college of health and medicine led by professor Jane Dahlstrom Last but certainly not least the a and you college of arts and social sciences Sciences led by professor Raylene Francis Would you please put your hands together one more time for our new students and students? You might as well clap for yourself. All right, so As a relatively new tradition, I think we're still working on how to get everyone sitting down Quickly, but there's a lot of new students almost 2,000 people here today joining us Before I start I'd like to acknowledge that the music that we just heard was played during the procession Was composed for the 2018 Australian of the Year Awards by the head of a and you school of music professor Ken Lample And we thank the Australia Day Council for generously allowing us to use it today And we have to decide if we're gonna get our own theme. I think for the future. This is a very good one Alright I'd like now to call on dr. Matilda house to deliver the welcome to country For those who may not know the welcome to country is delivered by an elder of one of our local indigenous groups It's particularly significant because today 10 years ago Dr. House Delivered the welcome to country to Parliament the day before the national apology and I think that's worthwhile Recognizing that here today in 2018 This recognition or acknowledgement to country recognizes the land of which and you sits is indigenous land and is used to formally open All of our events, please welcome Matilda Thank you very much vice-chancellor and Of course, I acknowledge the vice-chancellor professor Brian Schmidt and All the ANU staff and a huge acknowledgement To the newest members of our ANU family your journey begins and It begins right here on the land of my ancestors our traditional lands of The nunnel and the new normal and Of course the numbering today It's a very proud day for all the families that are here today and those who couldn't make it but I'd like to tell you about How lucky we are in this beautiful country and sitting right here of the ANU Come on everyone punch the air for this beautiful ANU ain't it the greatest Yeah, and I wish you's all very very well and the success Which you will have later on in your lives The studies and may you raise To rise up for all your challenges That are going to be there and they'll be there To get you grab you or do anything with you, but remember When the time comes you can always say I was at the Australian National University in the country of All our ancestors. Thank you very much and welcome Thank you Matilda. It is great and behind us is Cambry the place where indigenous people have been meeting for Tens of thousands of years and which is the place that Canberra the nation's capital gets its name And it's something as the construction comes together We will truly be able to celebrate for generations in the future Next I invite the audience to rise for the Australian National anthem is a chance for the ANU community to welcome returning students and staff back to campus But also and most importantly to officially welcome our new students This event is not just about flags music or formal ceremony Although I do think formal ceremonies are an important part of the academic year We are really here to show you our new students that you are not alone You are surrounded by an incredible support networks of new other students who are just like you You're also surrounded by students who once sat where you are sitting today last year in the year before You're surrounded by postgraduate students, and of course you're surrounded by our staff both professional and academic The Australian National University is a tight-knit community another family away from your own family at home And you are now part of it. We look forward to seeing you grow develop and prosper here And we encourage you to take every opportunity that comes your way So that you can be what you want to be at the end of the day This will help you more than anything else to succeed, which is exactly what we want for each and every one of you So welcome from all of us to the ANU I'd like now to invite third-year undergraduate student Laura Farag to deliver the student oration She is going to answer the question.   Imagine a clear glass sphere of a light globe in the middle when the light is on the sphere will be illuminated in Physics there is a tool that is often used called a vector Vectors are just arrows Physics just likes to use fancy words to sound a bit pompous We can add these vectors if one is pointing up and the other down and we add them they sum to zero Vectors are used to describe certain quantities One such quantity is light So if we use vectors to describe the light in the sphere since the light points in all different directions as Do the vectors describing the light and it turns out? When we add them they sum to nothing This idea can be extended to that of life lessons the sphere is you The light are your life lessons and Thus irrelevant of what you learn throughout your life or your life lessons will sum to zero They sum to nothing They are Well then I think I've met the requirement for a positive inspirational message for commencement Physics got us here. So let's see if it can get us somewhere slightly less morbid Instead of one glass sphere Imagine to both with light globes both illuminated When we use vectors to describe the light in both the spheres and add them This time the result we get is different If we just look at one of the spheres We must now account for the additional light vectors entering this sphere from the other and So if you have two spheres instead of one The net total of light vectors do not sum to zero they in fact accumulate So just like the two spheres if we now have two people instead of one Their life lessons will not revert to zero, but will rather increase However The only way for the accumulation of life lessons to occur is if those two people are together Interacting and learning from one another For this is how we ensure life lessons do not sum to zero now If you've ever looked out at the sea when the water is rough you might have noticed that sometimes Two waves combine and become one But this new wave is different somehow. Maybe bigger or has changed directions This is called interference and Just like the waves light does this as well So when a when a beam of light from one of the spheres Collides with a beam of light from the other the light will leave the experience changed Cool. All right. So what does this tell us about life lessons? Just like the interference of light when we interact with others their life lessons will change ours But for life lessons to change we must learn from others and To learn from others means sometimes we must admit we are wrong I don't know about you when I can be the first to admit admitting your wrongs pretty hard a Fundamental theory a fundamental Part of science is being able to admit when you're wrong because to be honest The vast majority of scientific theories turn out to be bollocks But science can admit is wrong and every day it creeps closer to being right We used to believe that disease was spread by a sin bad smell and demons But medicine acknowledged it was wrong and today If you get a cold you can go buy some cold and flu tablets If physicists had never conceded the Einstein's ideas about time and space were correct We would never have gotten GPS and now the NSA has a much easier time spying on us So you see Science rests on being able to admit fallacy and correct previously incorrect theories So I think it's fair to say our life lessons could be wrong But if you agree with me that your life lessons can be wrong You can adapt them and they creep closer to being right and you have nothing to lose in doing so Since they sum to nothing anyway This all seems very hypothetical, so let me give you an example for my own life Recently I Learned that to make instant coffee tastes better. You should have the milk before the water. This stops the water burning the coffee When I found out about this My mind was blown After admittedly an unhealthy number of coffees turns out the way I've been making coffee was wrong I quickly told everyone I know Most people knew this and looked at me like I was a little bit dumb Some did not and their minds were equally as blown So if you imagined me as this weird little sphere floating about The light globe in the middle the light vectors of the sphere still sum to nothing and as such so do my life lessons if we imagine All the people I told about what I had learned are also spheres with light lobes in them the net total of vectors Accumulated and so did the total life lessons Some life lessons are not as nice as my coffee life lesson some life lessons freed hatred racism discrimination homophobia extremism and terrorism and They seem to be constants throughout the history of humanity no matter where you look But maybe they don't have to be so now some advice from a constantly confused Often lost though that may be due to the redevelopment and More than often intoxicated third year as we all start this academic year I implore you take heed of what I have said. I stand by the notion that there are no life lessons to learn for they sum to nothing But by being together Interacting and learning from one another This is how we ensure life lessons accumulate Some may say that they are better smarter or more important than you but remember Their total life lessons sum to the exact same value as yourself zero Everyone has life lessons that just as important as anyone else no matter who they are And as you go through your time and you Always try to keep in mind that learning does not just occur through books and academics You can learn from anyone you meet from acclaimed lecturers to the people who clean your restaurant tables and Personally, I would prefer to learn from restaurant staff because they don't set you exams and Maybe I'd be I'd by doing all of these things. We can change this tiny planet in a universe unimaginably large for the better so To put it simply basically Try not to live your life as a stubborn arrogant Twout Thank you. Thank you Laura for physics-inspired moral philosophy Reflecting on your speech one thing I would say is you may be able to improve Instant coffee, but you can never save instant coffee. Our next speaker is One of our academic staff Dr. Kim Hoon is an author. He is a scholar. He is someone who you may well have read He will give the staffs welcome to our new students Kim. Thank you VC As I understand it, I'm here to make you feel good about coming to the ANU I Think I could do a little more than that So I also want to consider what it means to be good and not just feel good and if this seems weird to you then it shouldn't because Universities as we know them grew out of the church and from the outset their sacred mission was to make students wiser and better That was a long time ago But I reckon the prestige of universities today is still very much linked to that mission and I'll put it this way What's the point of all the privilege the freedom and The wealth that we can access as students and scholars if it's not to promote in some way goodness Now you might say I've paid a lot of money to be here and I want some return on my investment Well, I reckon if you're a domestic student then you'll fork out about 40% of the cost of your education So if that's what you think then why not pay a hundred percent? and If you're an international student I ask did you come all of this way and Dedicate perhaps the best years of your life and all that money just so you could make more money If so that seems a bit sad and silly to me because there are surely cheaper and easier way to make Ways to make the big bucks and maybe life shouldn't be all about making big bucks either And I'll also say if you're an academic whose sole concern is your career Then you might as well give the customers exactly what they want with a smile Do exactly what your boss says all of the time and Relinquish any claim that you might have to tenure or autonomy because this is just another job What I'm trying to say is that the university is and should be different to other places But only if coming here Involves the sense of duty and honor Only if we concerned with the life of the mind and the welfare of the soul So let's get down to how to be good and I've got two tips for you in about three minutes Things that have taken me years to learn and that I can continue to struggle with every day first a Tip for how to achieve good health That is to embody goodness It's only natural that you feel somewhat antsy about coming to University You might have concerns about money Or maybe you're unsure about where or even whether you'll fit in and then there's all that study to do That seems totally natural to me. What's more concerning are Reports from the US from the UK from China and from right here of people experiencing overwhelming anxiety and Epidemics of anguish on campus So from someone who's battled to maintain my own well-being Let me give you some really humble advice in this regard indeed. It's very humble Because I was so stressed about the semester and doing this that I ended up in hospital over the weekend with an acute case of tonsillitis Basically from talking too much and not taking care of myself So anyway, don't do as I do do what I say and what I say is this be active in the morning and Relax before bed That's it Being active might mean anything from a brisk walk or a bike ride to an Argentinian tango The point is to start the day with a rush and a sense of achievement and then end it with quietude mindfulness Which might be a stretch a sit a loving chat or a gentle song. That's it Oh and and try to do this without a screen in front of you My other tip is to simply be more conscious of being good. I Say this because on most occasions Wrongdoing and and Bastardry and deceit do not so much arise from the presence of evil But rather our failure to consider to talk about and to try to be good Instead so often we try to succeed Really often over others So goes the logic. I just have to get that better grade, you know, or that internship or that job That big grant that top-ranking publication that promotion and then I can take care of myself and others The problem with all this chasing is that we never get to an end point or Appreciate anything as an end in itself And we never end up caring for ourselves and others and we constantly feel bad about it So I propose adopting a bigger and better notion of success one that's more aligned to goodness and this means diverting some energy away from climbing that slippery pole and Setting longer-term plans for work and for fulfillment That incorporate our well-being and the well-being of others And I propose that we call out this culture of busyness It's a culture that's antithetical to true innovation and productivity And it's a culture that militates against goodness against treating people properly What I mean to say is that morality is a function of time Again, I've got an example of what not to do a couple of years ago when I was really busy After teaching almost a thousand students in a semester getting horse like this and while I was running haplessly and frantically For a position in local Parliament My old man He asked me a question. I can't even remember what the question was I think was related to my political campaign and leaflet dropping or something. It was trying to help me But because I was so busy. I was convinced that he was getting in my way So I snapped that in This is what I said. I have a hundred things to do that are a thousand times more important, dad I have a hundred things to do that are a thousand times more important more important than you My dad would gave up everything for me and my brother when we left Vietnam and he would recently had a stroke After that I decided to go part-time Which hurts financially? I've got to say but it's worth it because it improves the quality the quality creativity and Meaningfulness of my work and my life And it means I have more time for my family my friends and my colleagues morality is a function of time So I propose that we steadily replace business with goodness The result is a university that's concerned not only with filling up your CV and Setting you up for your next job But with fostering the sort of integrity and grace that can set you up for a lifetime Thank you and on behalf of the ANU staff welcome to this good place Thank You Kim Your advice is advice that each and everyone Should take and remember through the course of the year in the end if you are good my experience Is that life will look after you even if it doesn't seem so in the short term and so Goodness at the center of all you do and the rest will follow I'd like now to introduce Dr. Jessa Rogers. She is a representative of our 100,000 strong alumni Jessa is here to give you her take on life at ANU. I begin by acknowledging country the traditional owners Auntie Matilda and all indigenous peoples here today. I also acknowledge elders past present and future, especially Aunty Dr. Anne Martin. I think Brian, Pasa and Nusa and the entire ANU team for the honor of speaking today. I Would like to start by acknowledging the gift of the name Cambry by the local indigenous people to ANU This recent event is indeed very important to this community and also to this place Because this has always been a meeting place where we can exchange ideas stories and knowledge Today I'd like to share with you some defining moments from my own journey and Talk a little bit about leadership because I believe you are all leaders In your own lives and beyond. I will never forget one of my first meetings here as a PhD student When a man told me it was unlikely I'd finish my PhD Because the statistics showed that Aboriginal people don't usually finish Fortunately, I have never taken Expectations of me to heart and I know that for most of my life Like many women, I've been underestimated This is my first message to you Only you have the power to determine what you achieve. No one else You can be whatever and whoever you wish to be That said as a woman, I know I face additional challenges Not because I lack skills or the qualities of a leader But because the systems and structures we work within privilege men. They also privilege white people But being a leader means sharing your story With the knowledge that you will not always be supported even by those who should support you This is a lesson I learned early when I was 16 Starting year 12 on a low-income scholarship. I felt pregnant. I Graduated that year with a 10 day old baby and an ATAR in the high 90s But countless times that year teachers doctors parents told me I would never achieve that goal The school even had parents calling demand that I be expelled because I was a bad role model and would encourage other girls to fall pregnant But you see all journeys have different challenges and it is actually these challenges that make us exactly who we are Being a pregnant teenager completing year 12 actually prepared me for a future challenge becoming one of Australia's youngest Aboriginal school principals and Opening the very first school for indigenous teenage mums and bubs in Far North Queensland the Cape York girl Academy Frequently on that new journey. I was the youngest in the boardroom and I saw and even heard the low expectations others had of me while I was trying to get that school off the ground I Had to remind myself that for many seeing a young woman in leadership is not normal Yet women have always led While facing additional discrimination Obstacles societal barriers and having less rights Women lead constantly in our communities in our schools in hospitals Universities companies and more and I led that school not only through my own efforts But with a team of dedicated people who believed in that project and I'm proud to say it's still going strong two years on Several of its students have finished year 12 each of them having been doubted to make it even through one year of high school And my second point is Don't be held back by the low expectations of others by those who underestimate you or by the systems that make it difficult for you to succeed Don't let your own doubts hold you back There is a proverb if you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together As an impatient person. I never really thought much of this idea But my life has taught me otherwise Because some journeys are just too big for one person My undergraduate path was when I took a loan having been kicked out of home at 16 With no family support. I was a single mother and full-time University student trying to complete a double degree My son Eden was pretty much raised under the computer desk at QUT Because I couldn't afford my own computer while I studied to make a life for him and At some point I realized I wasn't alone because I was taking someone with me I wanted more for him than I wanted for me When I graduated with first-class honours, I thought back to my entrance interview at that University and How the professor had told me that he was skeptical I would succeed given my circumstances But he would give me a chance. I Reflected on how if I could achieve my goals Then anyone really could and how I could share my journey so others who were struggling could also achieve their goals I took a role after University Supporting Indigenous students at a Brisbane Girls boarding school and so many times as a young teacher Other teachers asked me the Aboriginal people need a teaching degree to teach in schools Being a Catholic school. I also had my morals my marital status and other things questioned as an unmarried mother But working with those young Aboriginal women became my passion What helped me in that role was the college elder who took me under her wing and strengthened me and Many of those students I worked with succeeded But one dropped out that girl Shaliana was the great-granddaughter of Audrey new knuckle She was traveling several hours a day getting to and from that school had no power connected in her island home When I left that school to start lecturing I couldn't forget her in that first year as a lecturer I completed my masters while also working full-time and I met many young people not just young people Working hard toward their goals some Amid great challenges One Aboriginal student I worked with was completely blind and Completed that degree using assistive technology I remember as she and her guide dog crossed the stage her dog also wearing a cap and gown Reflecting on her courage resilience and ability to access the support she required to succeed My journey as a junior academic at that time was becoming increasingly difficult without holding a PhD So I looked for the opportunities to do a PhD and applied for a study tour That visited major universities in the UK and US including Oxford and Cambridge Something changed in me when I was Selected for that tour and when I met academics in those universities When they encouraged me to apply at those places. I doubted myself But with the support of a female mentor from my workplace. I applied at Cambridge University anyway In 2014 the arrest started here. I was accepted into a PhD at Cambridge And I kept that letter even though I chose to come to ANU because it reminded me that support Encouragement and finding great mentors changes everything Acknowledged one of my mentors auntie in at the beginning of my speech And I would like to briefly acknowledge some other champions at this university who have been key to my success Auntie dr. K price professor Margaret Harding professor Margaret Jolly associate professor Katarina Tewa Dr. Ian Walker Associate professor Nick Biddle Professor Peter Reed and so many others who have supported me to achieve my full potential Their encouragement enabled me to achieve that dream of submitting my PhD here at this university in under three years Most recently these mentors supported me and successfully applying for a full bright scholarship I could never have achieved such an opportunity without these people's support When I finished my fellowship at Harvard three weeks ago, I became emotional thinking about what their support actually means to me During that time I had received an email in Harvard that read Jessup, we wanted to let you know that a student you enrolled at Girl Academy just delivered her speech at year 12 graduation thanking you for believing in her That student was Charlie Anna the one who had previously dropped out of school Because when I opened the Cape York Girl Academy, I called her and enrolled her. I believed in her and I knew She believed in herself My point is find your champions mentors who inspire you and believe in you and be a champion of others If you live in a residential college like I did at Toad Hall, you can mentor others in your community there Maybe you'll run for PASA or a noosa to support your fellow students to achieve their goals My mentors and supporters are the reason who I am and where I am today Finally my time at ANU was a pivotal moment in my life, not least because I met my husband here Your journey will be what you make of it And I liken this to a poem The Dash Regarding that small line on a tombstone between the year you were born and the year you died What we achieve in this life is up to us On your journey take others with you reach through the walls you smash to help others through as That poem says it matters not how much we own the cars the house the cash What matters is how we live and love and how we spend that dash When your eulogy is being read with your life's actions to rehash Would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash? All of you have made it this far to Australia's number one university This is your moment and you have earned it Push ahead regardless of others expectations and those who doubt you Find great mentors who will encourage you. Many of them are here right here amongst you today ANU has great people who will be your champions Use your enormous potential To improve the lives of others Because we are still living in a world built on privilege and inequality right here in Australia As an ANU student you will be equipped to make a positive difference in our world When you sit down to reflect on your life, I'm sure that ANU will have been instrumental But as wonderful as this place is and it really is a great university and Canberra is a great city, too What you get from this experience at ANU really is up to you So make the most of it and enjoy yourself.  I think the three others that we have heard today We think back to Laura talking about How we need to work together Kim talking about the importance of goodness and you talking about expectations Expectations can be low or they can be high But in the end the only thing that matters is what you think of yourself in the end and how you interact with the greater world So I would like to thank our three speakers once again, and I will Now like to invite our two student body presidents Alyssa Shaw who is the president of the postgraduate and research Students Association and Eleanor Kay who is president of the ANU Students Association Parsa and Anusa to deliver the closing remarks So thank you Brian and Alyssa and I would like to start today by acknowledging the nunna wall and the Nambri people Who are the traditional custodians of this land on which we meet and acknowledge the elders past and present? We acknowledge that this land was stolen and never ceded that it always was and always will be Aboriginal land We acknowledge that for tens of thousands of years this land has been a meeting place for indigenous peoples And it is a privilege for us to meet on it today and What a meeting place it is We look out today over nearly 2,000 people from across our country across the world From a wealth of different backgrounds and life experiences We meet today to start the academic year and for many of you to start your journey here at the ANU I'm not sure about you, but my journey at the ANU began with me feeling very small in the seas of thousands of students I came here to study PPE and Arabic But in my first week, I was just one individual without connections without a community I had no idea what a Nusa or Parsa were But more concerningly, I had no confidence to speak up and make my own voice heard It's over the period of my five years here that I've learned what it means to advocate To have my voice and the voice of students heard in our society and I've learned this through my involvement with a Nusa Being part of Parsa has been the most rewarding experience I've had at ANU and it has shown to me the importance of student associations and the power of the student voice in our community This is my ninth year at ANU I started here doing my Bachelor of Commerce and now I'm doing my postgraduate studies in the humanities Throughout my time here.  It's fundamentally changed how I viewed the world and how I interact with people and it's changed my personal and my professional aspirations In the challenges of today's world, education is now more important than ever It's important to eliminate ignorance and combat polarization Through creating understanding valuing evidence and rational thought and building empathy between people For me, this happens as much through talking to my fellow students as it does in the classroom or through writing my thesis ANU is a crucial meeting place a Meeting place of people staff and students coming together to try and combat these challenges and transform what we know and how we think Is a crucial meeting place of people that create a community not just here in Canberra, but across the world But as with any community and any institution ANU has its shortcomings and you its students will likely face challenges while you're here These may be academic challenges in your own performance in your experience in the classroom or in engaging with your supervisor There may be personal challenges in relationships at work at home You may face financial hardship as you juggle paying your rent paying your uni fees and affording your grocery bills Anusa and Pasa are here for you as these situations arise to support you and to help you to try and find a solution But many of these challenges arise from structural systemic issues in our university and in our society Unequal power structures lead to inequality and exploitation and institutions frequently do not put enough resources in to supporting students These systemic issues cannot be fixed without collective voices Students together have an opportunity to unite our voices in advocacy and activism to address the systemic issues in our society When we speak together, we are stronger Alyssa and I stand here today as two individuals But we speak with the power of our collective voice because we represent you and We speak as part of a long history of student advocates in Anusa and Pasa in our country and in the world Student activism has been on the forefront of social justice movements across history Not only do we make a substantial impact in our community Improving the quality of our lives in the community and the experience of students But historically student activism has been a crucial part of movements across the world such as civil rights and suffrage for marginalized groups Student activism changes communities. It changes society and it shapes the future And this is not an abstract concept that happens off in the distance This happens right now and this is something you can all be a part of you can be a part of this by actively engaging with Anusa and Pasa or signing up to membership with over 150 clubs and societies we have here at A&U as well as through your own academic pursuits and your shared learning As I reflect on the other speeches today There was a lot of thematics coming out around connection and sharing particularly in terms of enhancing the educational experience and enhancing our journeys through life. I Think our speakers have given us a lot of food for thought Not in terms of just what you want your A&U experience to be but the sort of person that you want to be So as we step into 2018 We invite you whether you're new or returning to engage and connect with Anusa and Pasa For any support or help that you need over your time here and also to build the strong community of students that we have We encourage you to see this year as an opportunity and a significant step in your education journey But also in understanding your individual voice and amplifying the collective voice in order to make a difference in our community and beyond On behalf of all the student representatives of Anusa and Pasa and particular Eleanor and myself We wish you all the best for a terrific 2018 and welcome you to A&U Thank you, Alyssa and Eleanor and I can look forward to working constructively with the students to make this one of the Great student experiences, not just in Australia but in the world. I Now I'm going to bring this festivities to a conclusion. I invite you to Stay around get to know and talk to people. You're all organized with people who you're going to be studying with There's some refreshments around the corner and for those of you wishing to continue on I encourage you to move on to the Chabal Indigenous Higher Education Center Which you need to go down this way across the river and it's behind the Chifley library for their annual music on the meadow and free barbecue and I will be there helping cook sausages of nothing else. So ladies and gentlemen welcome to the A&U and The best of luck in your studies in 2018 and beyond


I am Nidhi Pundhir and I am Director at HCL Foundation. I think entrepreneurship as such in India is on rise now and we've had several women participants coming up. At HCL Foundation we make a special effort towards gender inclusion and gender transformative approaches as we call it. So most of the work that we do we apply a gender lens to it wherein we would get into the depth of whether the work is gender neutral, is it gender sensitive or is it truly gender transformative? By being gender transformative I mean it's beyond equality. It is who is competent to rise and who is capable to rise reaches that level and the opportunity is for both men and women, girls and boys to be equal. And that's where HCL Foundation takes a very special, I would say due diligence into the work that the NGO partners do where our funds go, our direct implementation, also it starts at home with our teams being very inclusive as well as growth opportunity being extremely gender transformative. In the rural areas I think something which has worked phenomenally well getting the women into the mainstream entrepreneurship is the community-based organizations and the self-help groups as we call them. Financial inclusion is a kind of a technique where we work on the concept of saving. So most of the women in rural areas also in urban communities where they are living in disadvantaged sections, the control on money as such is quite weak. So we start working with women on understanding the power of money and why it's important for them to save bit by bit and have the same decision making. And that's where the whole spirit of entrepreneurship starts coming into, I would say, into the picture. Once they get that, they can save as well as they can decide. What happens is if the woman is a farmer, normally her work goes unnoticed. It goes unpaid. It is never given credit for the kind of labor she puts in. So it's about understanding and it all starts with dignity at home. We also talk to the men folks out there that if the family is raising X income from farming, it's not without the labor that the female at home is putting in or the girl child at home is putting in. And that's something and beat other trades also, beat carpet weaving or beat handicraft or bee keeping and we have several examples where women participation is where we focus our programs. There's a special program called My Worth that we run where we work with adolescent girls and boys on girls to be able to realize their potential right from the childhood and we inculcate soft skills in them of time management, of resource mapping, resource management, understanding your environment, how to protect yourselves. And that's where I think the whole entrepreneurship concept is going quite well with women community partners as we call them. In rural setups, we have examples of farmer cooperatives, women led farmer cooperatives where they have raised their income levels significantly up to 30, 40, 50 percent. We have example, I think one big example I would like to give you from Srijan Foundation which was our HCL grant 2019 recipient where they have this whole concept of Pashu Sakhi and Krishi Sakhi's and Krishi Sakhi are actually women who are trained by Srijan Foundation the HCL grant under the HCL grant program wherein they are trained to become professional farmers. There are any ways farming and there are any ways contributing through their labor but then how is it that they can become experts on what kind of organic, the whole organic farming concept, the seed conservation concept, seed banking concept and that has really led them to become professional farmers and now they go out and they train men farmers. I think with women's day around the corner my message would be that it's very important, it's critical that be it rural areas or urban areas women form the equal part of our demography 1.3 billion demographic dividend that India has, women are very much 50 percent and that worth needs to be realized and that can only happen when non-government organizations, women partners, corporate partners walk into the rural communities, work in close partnership and understand their worth, their value and the contribution that they make and more than that make them realize that they are important and exact entrepreneurship starts from there. I don't think now is the era where we need to say we need to empower women, I think now is the era that empowered women are setting examples already India has, the maximum India has the maximum contribution in giving the world women pilots, let's celebrate our girls, let's celebrate our women, let's start talking about the kind of achievements they have made and the game is changing very much so I wish everyone a happy International Women's Day and worth for both girls and boys on this very important day.


I'm going to write in my five minute journal. I know I used to mention it a lot, but I kind of fell out of the habit of doing it for a while.  And once you do that, it helps you to be thankful for everything that comes in your way throughout the rest of the day. Basically what the five minute journal is, it gives you a quote every day. Today's quote is, we cannot change what we are not aware of. And once we are aware we cannot help it change. So it gives you a quote and then it has a few sections below and you have to write three things that you're grateful for, three things that would make today great and daily affirmations. And then at night you pick it back up and you write three amazing things that happened today and then how could I have made today better? Obviously like you don't want to write the same things every day.  It helps you reflect on that and starting your day off with that is just really the best thing because it helps set up your day with kind of like a positive attitude. So that's what I'm gonna do right now. What would make today great? I wrote down going on a walk, having a good workout and less time on my phone. So it kind of allows you to also set goals for the day saying like what would make today great? You can incorporate like self-care in it. Like you can be like, oh, I wanna meditate. So honestly, I would really recommend this. I'll link it down below for you guys. It's in my Amazon storefront. I think it's so worth it and I love this thing so much. And also being grateful is going to allow you to attract more things into your life and attract more things to be grateful for. It just works with a lot of attraction. So if you're trying to manifest something I would suggest starting with gratitude. Okay, so now I'm going to just give the kitchen a bit of a cleanup. So there's a little bit of dishes in here from last night and then I'm just gonna put away these dishes and also the dishwasher does need to be unloaded as well. So I like to do this first thing because I just don't like going through the day with a messy kitchen. I want it to be like a fresh start. So I like cleaning it and just giving it a little bit of a cleanup first thing in the morning so that I can start the day with a fresh start. Two cups of water. I have a few of these Starbucks tumbler cups that are, I think they're like at least two cups of water. I've never measured them before but I have a few of these that I rotate between that I just, every single morning I drink water out of because I just feel better when I'm hydrated and when I'm drinking water.  In the morning I try to, as much as I can, drink like a full one of these before I eat or have a coffee or do anything. As long as I have like one of these in the morning it helps me stay on track for the day. And then I'll fill a tumbler cup like this up about like two to three times more throughout the day. And as long as I have like three of these I feel like that's my daily water intake. So then I feel good about it. So if you guys are struggling to drink water honestly just get yourself like a bigger water bottle or like a tumbler cup like this and it'll motivate you just fill it up every single morning and just make it a point of at least drinking like one of them a day and then you can go from there. Having something like this where you can take with you anywhere you go it's definitely like more motivating and it'll help you stay hydrated. So I used to always start off my day with like water with lemon and I haven't done that in a while. Kind of want to get back into that because I know that lemon is really good to like cleanse yourself first thing in the morning. So I think I'm going to actually start buying lemons again and squeezing them into my water at least like one a day. So one thing that really actually helps me in the morning is not checking my phone first thing when I wake up because when you check your phone first thing when you wake up it's like you're right away the start of your day is social media and there can be toxic things on social media things that make you feel insecure or the list goes on. And so I just feel like looking at my phone and scrolling through social media first thing when I wake up it sets my day up almost for failure and laziness because that's just going to be a pattern that I continue throughout my day is scrolling through TikTok and when I shouldn't be in all that kind of stuff. So as soon as I stopped scrolling through my phone when I wake up it honestly has made the best difference in my morning. It's like I promise you if you feel sluggish in the morning and if you're the type of person that is on a morning person I would challenge yourself to not look at your phone first thing when you wake up and instead of looking at your phone go wake up and go do some yoga wake up and go do something that's more interactive with yourself and connected to yourself rather than outsourcing entertainment that you don't need first thing when you wake up. And it's so important to start the day off with a clear level head so that you're setting your day up for success. And yeah, I usually wait honestly until like after I'm done my workout and like my yoga and everything and after I've really just done like my morning routine then I'll allow myself while eating breakfast or something like that to look at social media and stuff but first thing in the morning is just not it to be honest it's not it. If you guys are struggling with productivity and everything definitely try that because it helped me so much. Okay guys, this is the little gym fit for today. So I put this on because now I'm going to do my yoga and my meditation and I just follow a yoga video I'll leave it linked down below this is the one that I've been into I usually like to switch it up every few months when I just get bored of it but I will link the one down below that I like doing now. So I'm going to go do that I just put on the video on the TV you guys will see and then I'm going to do my meditation and then after that we're going to head to the gym. I just want us to get in the workout holding to do the yoga and the meditation because it makes it more comfortable. Doing yoga in the morning honestly just helps my body stretch out because when I wake up I honestly feel so stiff and during the yoga session you won't even be able to count the amount of like cracks because my body is so stiff from waking up and it just feels so good to do it in the morning. So if you guys have never tried doing like stretching or yoga in the morning I promise you it is a game changer and you will feel so good afterwards it just makes me feel like I can actually like sit down and work and do stuff with my day and if I don't do it I honestly feel weird throughout the whole day and I feel super stiff and honestly like I can't move I don't know what it is but I just love it it has honestly changed my life and my mornings so if you guys have never tried doing yoga I would totally suggest it it doesn't even have to be yoga it can be just stretching just anything to move your body when you first wake up it helps so so so much in my personal experience at least. Okay so if you guys are new to my channel and you're wondering why I have an air mattress in my living room it's because we actually have a couch that's coming it's coming in hopefully a month latest but anyways that's why we have an air mattress setup right now as a couch we've just been using this as a couch so yeah if you were curious on why there's an air mattress here and also I was just using this weighted blanket as a yoga mat because I have my yoga mat back on my parents house so I was just this honestly works perfectly fine so until I get that I've just been using that. Okay hair is done we are going to go to the gym I just used this regular paddle brush and then this the worst one just you know sleek back the sides yeah now we're going to go to the gym and gross so what I did is I just did a little bit of 12 incline on the treadmill and you do three speeds so three miles per hour and then you do it for 30 minutes it's such a good workout but anyways so after I did that I just did a bit of like stirring if I did a bit of weights okay so now let's make a smoothie I'm going to do a protein fruit shake smoothie and I think with that I want to have like a meal as well because I am starving honestly but I also want to get like a protein shake in so I'm going to kind of do both it honestly kind of just depends on morning sometimes I'll just have like a protein shake like a fruit protein shake and then sometimes I'll just have like a meal honestly I don't have a smoothie every single day I try to have one as often as possible to get in like my fruits and stuff for the day but if I don't have one like it's not that big of a deal but I try to make sure to have on every single day and that's like I really don't feel like it okay so this is what I usually do for my morning smoothies I'll put like fruit protein powder maple syrup to sweeten it and then I'll put some sort of green so I actually put kale today usually I put spinach but kale is what we had so I just use kale but yeah that's basically all that I do this is the protein powder that I use it's organic it's vanilla it's vegan and it actually has it has four servings of green made up of broccoli kale spinach papaya, blueberry in one scoop so this stuff is actually really good I just got it at Walmart and it blends really nicely into a smoothie so okay so here's breakfast I got two scrambled eggs with this toast that has seven grams of protein in each slice and then I just put peanut butter on it and then with the smoothie so pretty easy healthy breakfast okay so after I eat I like to take my vitamins so I just slotted it out like every for every single day and I just kind of pick half of them to have in the morning and then the other half I have after dinner so I'm just gonna take half of these right now okay I'm just about to shower but I just needed to put you guys on this body wash holy shit it's literally the best thing that I've ever used and it smells so freaking good so yeah just putting you on this but I'm gonna hop in the shower cause I don't wanna waste water but literally best body wash and smells like heaven it's so good okay guys so now is the time of the morning where I would get ready for the day let's say if I was filming I was going out I would do my makeup and I would get in a cute outfit but since I'm not doing anything today I'm just gonna be at home editing cause today is just an editing day I'm not gonna put on any makeup because there's no point because I'm just gonna be literally sitting down all day inside probably won't even go out today and just edit so today's a no makeup day but this is the time where I would get ready if I were to get ready so but yeah so now we're gonna go make ourselves a coffee so this is just the fit of today I'm just wearing these sweatpants that I thrifted and this white fox hoodie and that is basically it I just really wanna be cute a little bit cute but comfortable that is what I'm aiming for today cause I'm just gonna be like sitting so that is the little fit for today so today I made myself a hot drip coffee every single day I have a different thing because I get bored so usually I'll use my Nespresso machine and make like a latte an iced or hot latte but today I was feeling the drip coffee machine coffee honestly incorporating those things that you guys saw into my morning routine has just set me up for success obviously what you deem successful in your life is not gonna be the same as what I deem successful in terms of what sets me up for the day like everybody is unique, everybody is different so what works for me or what works for someone else may not work for you so yeah my best advice is get in a routine if you're feeling in like a slump but make your own routine sometimes copying somebody's routine is just not gonna be it for you and it's not gonna satisfy what you want in your morning my best advice would be to make your own routine and cater to what you want and what makes you feel good so right now I'm just gonna look over my schedule for work and see what I have to get done today and get to work so that was my morning routine I hope you guys enjoyed please give this video a like and subscribe if you did and yeah please leave any video suggestions that you wanna see night routine leave that in the comments down below I love you guys so much


very often if you go to your physician with a weird or unusual symptom they may be dismissive and one of the reasons for that is that very often the difference between conventional medicine and let's say Chinese medicine is that in Chinese medicine we look for body systems which may have multiple symptoms but very often in conventional medicine you go to a specialist who deals with just one physical location or part of the body or one body system so random symptoms may seem like they mean nothing or they connect to nothing but that's not true in our field. Hey guys I'm Dr. Alex Hine author of the health book master of the day and doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. Now before we jump in there are two very important links right below the video. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of mine locally in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine you can reach out to my private practice and clinic right below this video and the second is for a free guide which is four daily rituals that can help you add years to your life with traditional Chinese medicine. Symptom number one is waking throughout the night so there are all kinds of insomnia in Chinese medicine and actually biomedicine as well right there's onset this sleep latency insomnia there's all kinds but onset insomnia that is being unable to fall asleep very often in Japanese lineages of Chinese medicine is an issue with the spleen or digestion interestingly enough but waking throughout the night I find very often is one part a liver dysfunction as well as let's just call it an adrenal dysfunction so liver and the heart and kidneys so the heart kidneys this axis is really the almost in a way the HPA axis so when you think about adrenal stress as the layperson would call it elevated heart rate heart palpitations feeling stressed or anxious very often my patients will just say I just easily feel stressed I have no resilience to stress I get my heart rate elevated easily I notice my heart a lot these kinds of symptoms very often are what we consider heart and kidney so when I utilize formulas to treat waking throughout the night very often it is one part treating a liver which is one of the organs that can bear the brunt of stress as well as the heart and kidney which we could just kind of call the adrenals. Symptom number two is constant mucus or phlegm in the throat most often what I find for people is that this is a constitutional feature if this is something that is chronic and happening frequently this is a constitutional type right my mother had it my grandmother had it you see that all the time now in the absence of eating a bucket of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and then you're like you know you're hulking up a lugi after that most often if this is a chronic issue it is an issue with the spleen we say that the spleen hates dampness and that is the tendency that it has so dampness very often sometimes it's even just literal the literal gut mucosa are too damp hence the constant clearing of the throat so very often these people have other issues with dampness as Chinese medicine calls it which most often are bloating food sensitivities a lot of gas sometimes epigastric issues as well and sometimes for women yeast issues so very common to have digestive as well as reproductive kind of yeast issues so very often those are main signs of dampness third weird symptom is tinnitus or ringing in the ears now there is low pitch and high pitch tinnitus but very often these two respectively belong to either whether it's low pitched or high pitched the two organs that most commonly are treated are the liver and the kidneys now it's interesting because there are some conventional medications that have the side effects of tinnitus which are I think maybe even acetaminophen overdose one of the symptoms is tinnitus or can be one of the potential signs and symptoms if it is overdosed or taken too long over too extensive of a period of time but tinnitus is something we very often treat from the liver and kidneys now acute tinnitus for example I often I most often see when there is an acute viral infection so that is one of the times for example you can see people get ear aches or their ears clogged is very common to see that with acute viral infections and one of the organs we treat is the liver gallbladder and the sanjiao or triple warmer those are some of the organs we typically tend to treat because they also involve the lymph so the lymphatic system is also one of the organs that can be impaired I mean even the sanjiao channel goes right along in front of the ear right in the front here so there are all points in Chinese that have names like related to hearing for example so clearly ancient doctors even noticed a local relationship between these organs and hearing but very often we're treating the liver and the kidneys and if it is a chronic tinnitus case most often I'm treating the kidneys now a fourth common symptom is headaches some of the most common symptoms that I see but depending on the location you might find it interesting what organs were treating very often frontal headaches are digestive headaches so they're either issues with the spleen dash pancreas right these are people who have SIBO food sensitivities food allergies who are prone to dizziness fluid retention that sort of thing ancient Japanese doctors called this toxic water which is probably a chronically congested lymphatic system which is why for example the primary issue the core pattern is digestive but they have all these secondary branch issues which are frontal head pressure very often there's an issue with the liver going on there as well a lot of people with reflux or sinus issues often get these frontal head pressure headaches and a lot of the time it's a distending kind of pressure it's not always a full-blown migraine or severe headache but people often report there's a constant pressure here that just feels better when they push almost always something digestive going on second kind of headache would be temporal headaches right and these temporal headaches often show up in people with migraines so those temporal headaches very often we treat the liver and the gallbladder and finally the third kind of common headache that I see are suboccipital headaches and I like to think of these as quote adrenal headaches because we are treating often the heart and the kidneys so these are some of those organs that were treating as a result of stress or let's just say adrenal stress right when you're always living in a state of fight or flight very common to see suboccipital tension neck tension and trapezius tension as well as some aspect of heart rate variability like palpitations or an elevated heart rate and finally issues with hair skin and nails there are some of the most commonly reported complaints to me by mostly my female patients in my practice and very often the nails skin and hair are the status or the surplus of the blood as we call it in Chinese medicine now the blood means a lot of different things it means the hormones it means the lubrication of the body it's the in it's the engine oil so for example people who exercise too much and sweat too hard will often develop issues with the blood from our perspective I see it all the time people who over train the pulses change the abdomen changes a lot of the physiological moisture in the body seems to get used up they get prone to really chronic constipation they get prone to really dry skin especially as women or brittle nails or dry and thinning hair now we say these are often liver blood deficiency now the blood is I like to think of it as the engine oil it's the lubrication in the body now there can be pathological processes that lead to this dryness or there can be lifestyle right people can overwork and under sleep we say that sleep is one of the main times of your life where your stores your body stores build themselves up again including the liver blood so it's common of course for women to report issues with their nails the skin and the hair and we say that because women are more prone to these issues regarding their cycle and their menses and their hormones more than men are so those are five weird or maybe unusual symptoms and their unusual counterparts within Chinese medicine I know that when I was just getting into this field I always found these kinds of connections very very interesting because in Chinese medicine every symptom makes sense but sometimes in conventional biomedicine none of the symptoms make sense and your doctor may tell you that they are not related but I'll tell you for sure in Chinese medicine they are always related so I hope that helps you guys before you go check out the two downloads right below this video to become a patient locally or to download that free guide and I will see you guys in these other videos here


Statistics and Excel. Perfect positive correlation. Get ready, taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds, looking forward to a smooth soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay because we'll basically build this from a blank worksheet. But if you do have access, there's three tabs down below. Example, practice, blank. Example, in essence, answer key, the practice tab, having pre-formatted cells, so you can get to the heart of the practice problem. The blank tab, blank worksheet, so we can practice formatting cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. Let's go to the example tab to get an idea of what we will be doing, where we will be going. We're going to be thinking about correlations. In other words, two different data sets to see if there's a relationship, mathematical relationship or correlation between them. Are they moving together in some way? If there is a correlation, the next logical question would be


Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE. Covering IFS World Conference 2018, brought to you by IFS. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of IFS World here at Georgia World Congress Center. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, and along with my cohost, Jeff Frick. We are joined by Cindy Joudan. She is the CEO North America, a position she has held since 2004. Thanks so much for joining us, Cindy. Good morning, how are you? Good, I'm good. Great. Good. It's our first IFS World, that's quite a show you guys have. Yeah, we're very excited.  So tell us a little bit about the theme of this year's conference, which is connect to what's next. What is that all about? Well, it's about connecting to what's going on next in technology, and in business, and in the economy.  You know, we've got many levels of people that come to this conference. You know, we've got CFOs, CIOs to power users, and so there's something here really for everyone. So you know, if you want to talk about trends in the industry, you want to talk about what's going on with our new versions of product, that's available. If you are a power user and you're in finance and you just want to go connect with that industry expert to find out how you can do your job easier, it's all here. So it's not only what is next in the technology, it's also connecting human to human. I mean, that's really what the Congress is about. Oh, most definitely.  And you know, our customers share so much. And so that's really just a great opportunity and also for our customers to connect with our experts and you know, and the people that they work with, you know, from day to day as well. So you're CEO of North America. I'm the president of the Americas. President of the Americas. The Americas, yes. Which includes the southern hemisphere, right? Yes, we don't want to forget our friends in Latin America. So it's a Swedish, founded in Sweden. So how are things going in North America or South America, excuse me, the Americas? And what kind of values and things that you take from a Swedish-based company that you're applying here in the Americas, that's maybe a little bit different than a company that was founded in Silicon Valley or someplace like that. That's a great question.  And you know, and say what you can do and if you can't do something, make sure you say that as well. So it's setting that right expectations. And we've taken that, and that's really pervasive through all that we do.  And then, you know, our employees love working with our customers and I think our customers feel, you know, feel that we're partners. And it's not something that, you know, we're not just saying something to get the next deal. You know, it's not unusual for us to say, well, I'm sorry, you know, we shouldn't work together because what you want to do, Mr. Prospect, is something different and it's not really in our focus. And you know, and sometimes it's hard to do, especially if you're in sales, is to walk away from somebody who's ready to buy a business, right? But we want to make sure that, you know, the customers that we work with are really good fits for where we're going because these are really long-term relationships. Right, and how about that? It probably increases your probability of customer success pretty dramatically if you can actually deliver, you know, what they want. Oh, most definitely, most definitely. And it's, you know, certainly we also, I don't have the largest marketing budget depending on, you know, my competitors that I deal with. And so I really depend on great customer satisfaction and great customer references to help, you know, bring the next prospect on as part of the IFS family. And you and our customers, I think, are some of our best sales people out there. It's really great. One of the things that the CEO talked about in the keynote was really about building trust. And you were just talking about your marketing budget. He also said, we're not going to market nonsense. Can you talk a little bit about how you build that trust? Being honest with customers, obviously, sorry, we can't do that. We can't deliver that, but we can deliver this. How, what else, what other kinds of ways do you make sure that you are building the kind of trusting collaborative relationship with customers that you want? Well, it starts with listening.  You have to be willing to listen to what you're doing well and what you need to improve on. And then you need to be able to take that in and then, you know, synthesize it and then, you know, figure out how you're going to improve. You know, in an IFS, we're always striving to improve, not just with our products. And you can see, you know, we've just released applications 10 and that's exciting. And many, many things that are in apps 10 came from feedback from our customers and from the user group. And, but it's also listening with how we do service or how we work with our partners or do we need more partners? You know, we, you know, we have to just, you know, be very open and communicative with our customers.  Right, right. And it's not easy to be maniacally focused on your customers. A lot of people say they are, but when you peel back just a little bit, they're more focused on their products, they're more focused on the competition, they're more focused on a lot of stuff. So it is hard to be really singularly focused. But you guys are kind of in services management, management business. So you work with those types of businesses that they themselves are really active in managing that client relationship. Oh, most definitely. And when they're involved in that business, they have very high expectations of what they expect, you know, on the other side when they're the customer as well. And I think we've learned some things from them too.  I also think it has something to do with the fact that when we, you know, IFS has been in the U.S. for 20 some years now, but we didn't come as the biggest player. And so we really had to listen. We really had to work directly with those customers.  Really prove yourself. Exactly, exactly. We're number two, we try harder, right? I mean, it's a great person to get together with versus we're number one and we're cocky and arrogant and don't care what. Exactly, exactly. So what is next? I mean, we've seen the introduction of IFS 10 and I know that we have some early adopters that it's already live with. You've got great scores, your NPS score, your Gartner Insight scores are very high. What are some of your ambitions for growth? Well, certainly we want, you know, I look to have the Americas be the largest region for IFS. I mean, I think that, you know, we've got a great opportunity here. We've got a large market. We've got a great product. And, you know, certainly we just want to continue to grow. And so, you know, right now we are a large percentage of the IFS revenue, but we want that to be even larger here in North America and in the Americas. So I think that's certainly very important to us. And we want to grow not only with what we're doing with IFS applications in its core, but also as we're adding new pieces with IFS, new add-on products, new technologies to be able to make sure that our customers understand what we're doing there and how that can help their business. You know, I think it was interesting Dan's keynote today was talking about cloud, which was a few years ago, and now it's mainstream for us. Last time it was talking about IoT and now we've got more and more customers doing that. And so certainly we're looking about, you know, artificial intelligence. And everybody's talking about that, but at IFS we don't just want to say these buzzwords. We want to really figure out as a customer, what do you need, how can you use this technology and monetize it, right? Because no one implements technology just to implement it. You want to have it, you know, help your business. And so, you know, those are the kinds of things we're working on what's next.  And that's why we depend on labs. So we're always ahead of the curve and we can be brain what our customers need. I thought it was interesting on Darren's keynote. The other thing really is function versus experience, which he talked about time and time again and then with the arena demonstration, kind of getting to a unified UI experience across all the different platforms. Looks like in nine you had kind of a different, kind of hodge podge of five. And then he showed how arena's slowly replacing all of them so you'll have this unified experience. But that's an interesting point of view, really to focus on the experience ahead of really the function. And that seemed to be a pretty clear message in his keynote. Well, we've been focusing on user experience. That's been one of our, you know, core things for the product roadmap for many years. And I think Dan talked about that as well. And so certainly it's a balance because if you don't have the feature and function, it doesn't matter what your user experience is, you're not going to use it. But IFS is a very feature rich product. And then you need to make sure that you can make it easier to use. And so certainly it is focusing on that user experience, but continuing to add the functionality that we need to support that as well.  They don't want to go to days of training. They don't want to have to, it just should be intuitive. And that's really what we're trying to do is just to make sure that it's as intuitive to use as a consumer product, but really has the depth that you need to get your job done because our customers, they have complex businesses and complex business problems that they need to solve. And so we need to make sure that we can use both and have both of them for our customers to use. But historically in the ERP space, it was always function over experience. And a lot of the historical companies had a pretty bad rap for the user experience. So to really prioritize that and then to add some of the automation and the AI to hide certain levels of that detail that you just don't need to see under the UI, I thought that was pretty impressive. Yeah, I think it is. I think it's very special for where we're going. And if you don't, people never really get to implement all the features and functions underneath it. And what my hope is, is that with a good user experience, people will use more of the product and then they'll be able to use more of the features and functions that are there today and that we're adding for the future and they can use that to make their businesses even better. So are you working with the customers in the labs too? I mean, how, at what point, because you said, I mean, that's why you have the lab so you can experiment and iterate. And then, but then how do you know what the customer, what is intuitive to the customer and then what the customer needs? How closely? Well, we'll bring customers into the labs. We will do a labs tour. We did last year that we did that and you let some customers, you know, see that. And then our customers know that everything that we do in the labs doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to come out, because we don't want them to fail, but they have the right to fail in the labs because you learn a lot about what didn't work as well. So it's making sure that when we have events like this, there's the innovation center over there and making sure that getting feedback on what they're doing there and letting customers see there and get their input. It's all, once again, about we've got ideas. We need to bring those ideas to the customer, listen to them, get their feedback, listen and then take it back, synthesize it and go to the next step. You're literate.  Are there any particular market segments that you're looking at? Well, IFS has had an industry focus for quite some time and we don't expect to change that industry focus. We're very focused on customers who make products and who can maintain and service assets. And so right now we're very strong in aerospace and defense. We're extremely strong in service. We're ranked highest on those. We've got a great customer base in industrial manufacturing and process and in those particular industries. And so we're going to continue to focus on those. I don't see that we're going to go outside those industries because there is more than enough market here in the Americas for us to focus on those and to be very good at it. And we need to focus and be extremely good at what we do. Therefore we can keep the good customer satisfaction. And then we just had Tobias on too talking about IoT and really starting to integrate multiple data sources, you know, a lot more stuff into your existing application to expand on your capabilities. Almost definitely. Yeah, you don't need to build a bunch of new stuff necessarily. Yeah, exactly. Great, well, Cindy, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. We've had a great time talking to you. Great, it was a pleasure. Thank you. Thanks. I'm Rebecca Knight for Jeff Frick. We will have more from IFS World, theCUBE's live coverage just after this.