Going on everyone Sam here with late and sports cards are been ten bucks Tuesday's ten bucks sterling sapphire baseball mixer number 162 random team style There's a look again at your random results as always you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as the Lincoln Chat, so good luck guys. Let me grab ten bucks Tuesday. Just so I know I'm ripping the right stuff There you are We'll start with 22 tops chrome update hobby. So Rayler basically split evenly except for big name rookie slash prospects So I'm just gonna do that's really only gonna affect a couple So for like this Stadium club chrome and tops chrome. I'll do all three of those first That's gonna have some some piles that all I'll just I'll tell you first. That's a 22 tops chrome update CJ Abrams Alcantara and William Woods. That's Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. No problem Bill. Thank you. I'm glad you keep an eye Always Elliot Ramos always make sure that you're good to go. I appreciate it man. No worries at all Craig Kimbrel and CJ Abrams purple true purple rookie there actually of Lattie, Jr. Generation now Adam Frazier purple No, I wouldn't say super full salad Richie Palacios we got to get these last few breaks filled up on the night Hey Jonathan taking a random team spot. We got to get these last breaks filled up So I don't know when we're gonna start personals CJ Abrams purple Alex Fado is really stargile casuke Kato miss Get this kind of Guantanamo Bay.  Oh man Here's you guys this link again to 10 Box Tuesday basketball Tuesday basketball really stacked line up in 10 Box Tuesday this week Pena rookie Maniah there's a pane of purple update or debut. I should say Ozakar Muziati purple Ken Griffey and Bryson Stott She's yeah, so Randy said that they're just Relentless night. It's got a short-handed goal to Ryland Bannon purple. That's tough Well, what's his face the best player on floor is out chucks out. Yeah, Jayrod rookie and Torkelson purple. I know that was a great initial save by Bobrovsky Yeah, it just like snuck in because it wasn't like on top of it. Basically Wasn't like fully on top of it say as a Zuki Rafi devours purple Adam. How uh hasley Fox, that's a gold matte Chapman auto for the blue jays nice one there Toronto 40 of 50. That's awesome There you go. Congrats on that The doll Bruhan purple as well Jose Miranda purple Orlando Arcia. Jeremy Pena debut Mackenzie Gore generation now Bob risky Ozakar purple rookie Bobby Whit rookie Roger Clemens purple Bryson Stott debut. I'm Jay Melendez generation now purple pooholfs That is purple you honey. Oh Suarez Somebody sends them out. She's throwing the nearest volcano. It is Joe Morgan purple Royce Lewis Kind of with you on that one Mike. I'm not gonna lie Not gonna lie with you Connor green rookie and a purple Louis gearman and that is going to be a purple Jayrod update very nice Um, so these will be sorted and then this stuff will be randomly split It's only going to be this and the next two that are going to have a lot of randoms planning Everything else will be sent or sorted Uh Yeah me in the back and then that would be cool perfect Because I got confused. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, you're good Um, see we're down to what are we 18 to go on that now 18 to go on 10 bucks Stop jimmy mind throwing that on facebook really jimmy jimmy. What is it jimmy? The uh 10 bucks. Yeah, uh steam club chrome coming up next So this will have a decent amount of top chrome jumbos gonna have a lot of So be our team of the future chain bonds heaney brendan donovan Gonna be a blue alex verdugo to 199 nice one there for the uh red sox Hans kraus and teosca hernandez steven quann Get the quann Frankie johnson Always waiting for that Arson judge was it just a bat bat signal. Yeah david orteez Rhino elai morgan jose can seiko I'm just sitting there like get me out of here. I'm uncomfortable Yeah, I already climb it. That's It's just weird. It's just weird like destiny miggy. It's gonna be a j rod rookie Very bm team otani torpleson Oh god One of one Hunter green team of the future dea gookestee. I wouldn't hold your breath too much on value with that, but Just jumps Down orange dylan cease to 25 nice one for the white sox schmitty mookie bets frank thomas burto mondesie david winfield It's gonna be team of the future spencer torpleson orange auto brice elder to 25. There you go braids Take that for sure Braids elder. I actually have a pretty decent year too base and keithan andas All mustache team keithan on this all day Oh, yeah, Clayton kershaw Yeah, he had it. Yeah, it's him. He's got a good stash for sure. Uh, so that'll be random like uh, split even Behind you. Yeah, and then that will be sorted right there. Yes, perfect The body is autographed line in the sand. We've got uh, 22 tops chrome jumbo with a silver pack I'll see a j-rotter a wit or a torpleson auto and there's a hunter green We're gonna be like sorting and shimmings.  This guy out of here. So they're gonna be saying Cormac Adams Future stars lube bob Gavin sheets refractor jake burger rookie Uh, it's randy rosarana purple set be a rookie to 2.99 on the purple mini diamonds George springer and salby refractor is a petalanzo francisco lindore prism and billon carlson I'm gonna have Sean drop you guys a link really quick to 10 box tuesday again Can be a fun one for sure 2012 13 iMac in there Shane Bob so is a seary erin judge Ryan belay that is adam frazier to 350 on the pink mini diamonds 18 to go on that one trevor story Uh, griffin jacks nice, uh, rookie autograph there for the twins base And zack wheeler refractor death beer rookie Good god air's heart of the city of uh, freddy freeman matt olson ryan reynolds base auto for the pyre It's just signed a huge extension there pyre for life most likely And mookie refractor I almost said for the red box Ha not anymore He has a long gone from there jaren duran to a fairchild jolly vado and nelson cruise Very important piece of documentation being uh written out over here Lester walker buehler prism and i kf. I say it kind of prolifer. I'm not one. That's all I care Uh lube up new, uh New classics Blake snell prism refractor rookie auto on hell zerpa at a 499 nice one there for the uh royals And albert pooholster fracter Ellen jake trippy's not on there trippy got off right now That moved that moved up a spot too Shane beaver pinchecks That is uh Kyle seager to 350 that's purple tyler gilbert to 299 and harris invader Any day now Yeah, I mean there's other like the guardians are decent and like the sapphires and stuff too They got stuff in five-star. They got stuff in luminaries as well A little bit better than some of the teams that are comboed As well as get shots at gabriel rise and this too lars newt bar Peter martinez alexander wells There's prism of hosé barrios and whit marifield gold schmidt There's one soda and shohei refractor See what we got here now Lancelin there's jaren durand prism Got a giovanni maran nice one there for the twins on the base auto That's twins giovanni maran and quarry seager That'll do it for tops chrome. We'll do the silver pack really quick here as well That's gonna be um split even Sent uh, we've got silver pack here That's yeah, that goes right there. Yeah Vado boom gold schmidt and rafi devours and then the uh, just the refractor will be non-split even This is here Yeah, that's gonna be um Yeah, uh That'll go random and then the devours will go in there Yeah, so now pretty much everything from here on out will be uh sorted Yeah, 2020 bowman sapphire because i'm assuming i mean sapphire doesn't count as well i'm assuming that that's 2020 bowman draft sapphire see what we got in here. Come on see what i'm doing creaster first, uh alika williams dane acker little parker kasey martin first nice one there and zack vien first solid one for the uh Rockies that is tre cruz coffee pedi helpen freddy zamora Ian seamore alex burleson and zack daniels. We've got dax folton nice one there for the uh marlins to 99 dax folton On the yellow and then aqua nick lofton 12 of 20 first for the royals Grats on that one there kc Royals on that one again guys got 10 box tuesday basketball coming up soon drop you a link on that 18 to go let's get that filled on up Do some of the sapphires again after this? Let's put this on twitter real quick Team to go. That's a flawless left side serial numbers at the end as well If you are interested in that we are on to 22 tops chrome sapphire edition 22 tops chrome sapphire Orange jared kelnic 225 Nice one there for the mariners jared kelnic Travis darno and cast the honors boston redsox dini gregarious dominoes Might be a dice roll in this too twins ryan mcman It's gonna be a gold of wan yepa's rookie. Nice one there for the cardinals 250 Now we end up getting chinese, timmy. There's zack davies Random player breaks every push of the yes. Yes, billy Every player that has autos at least with bowman u the random player style is everybody with base cards plus scoot henderson and women yama Yeah, so there's a hundred players with base and autos on the chat or a hundred with Base and autos on the checklist a hundred two with just autos and technically no base the women yaman short print technically card 101, but he does have a base card and scoot has a Um, uh, scoot's got an auto as well. Scoot's got no base, but he's got an auto Another gold chris pryan. Nice one there 50 for the giants, piganthes and andriakini as vascas and brandon lough right on to 22 bowman chrome sapphire Two boxes 22 bowman chrome sapphire. Let's see it Let's get 10 boxes. They filled up everybody that is coming up soon We're into basketball after this break. We got optic choice to 10 boxers then a full case Bowman u random player style And then we're in 10 box Tuesday, and then we're into flawless random left side serial numbers Starling marty colton causer I'm playing fortnite mobile while top floating to kyle said Maggi rohas rookie rones and catreras a needy cappy I'll see a red two box red here two box pad parasha. It's a purple to 25 petal anzo 19 of 25 nice one there for the mess Got jaren diran rookie and samu munoz first And 10 box Tuesday is going to be a lot of fun for basketball too. We've got a uh, 2012-13 iMac in there 17-18 prism Jake burger lexus rinandis plus prism from this year prism hobby from this year prism optic hobby from this year prism fast break prism choice Optic choice and optic fast break as well. There's mj melendez to 99 on the aqua rookie. That's royals charity comic So, uh, definitely looking forward to that. Let's get that filled on up Last basketball break until thursday everybody. If you're interested in some non football breaks Now is your chance to get into it. There's a bobby wit rookie Tonight will be your chance to get into it and seah tsuzuki Let's do 22 bowman chrome sapphire the second box. Yeah, and guys if you are subscribed to the sms as well There is a 10 percent coupon going around if you are opted into the sms text messaging Jeremy pain your rookie south frelik brison stotz Volpe mj melendez Juan yepas Got an orange drew baker to 75 nice one there. Absolutely mickey That's all part of the it's all part of the deal right there, buddy Paul gulchman yordan willy vazquez Purple again, that's gonna be getting cappy. Nice one there for the marlins to 25. It's gonna be one of 25 Jets brad are taking the jets and the random division tomorrow. Thank you, brad and louise meza That's what i'm saying, right? Could be a step down though. It depends on who you ask. It's gonna be cardinals one. Yep as rookie 2.99 on the aqua Congrats st. Louis John j with that one. Jose Ramirez and samuel zavala Delos Santos All right We are on to five star. I believe Before I Move on here is a link again to 10 box tuesday If anything just check it out. Just look at the lineup, man Like I said 23 or 22 23 domersoptic hobby fast break and choice 22 23 prism fast break hobby and choice 22 23 recon 2021 prism multi-pack cello 1718 prism hobby as well as 12 13 iMac hobby So that box has been sitting sealed for about 11 years now, which is unbelievable 22 tops five star now. Here we go. Got randia rosa rena 9 of 50 nice one there for the uh race randia rosa rena Congrats on that tampa second year rosa rena and Dale strawberry nice one there going to the mess Nice straw one box of 22 luminaries. Good luck here everybody. Let's see a cut See if I pulled who did I pull linden johnson cut out of this? Really? Yeah, gonna be to 15 For the braves tom clavin four of 15 three colored patch auto Congrats atlanta Number four in total career wins by a left-handed pitcher. Let's go atlanta. That is gonna be the braves at Braves braves peter m Yeah, I'll drop you the link right now d rock Here's a link to the break schedule All you got to do is uh click on the break that you're interested in Purchase it and then you'll be automatically entered into the random once we uh get there You also see the times and it'll have what the schedule is when what time the breaks are uh happening as well 23 sterling. Good luck everybody make sure that we have a yep 23 It doesn't shock me to be honest, but that is 2023 rookies in 2020's mlb all stars. Thank you mickey. You know it I'll start 2023 rookies out magus. I've been doing the rookies in this at least This one will be a rookie You have 130 180 potentially Probably closer to 180 All right, see who we got here 2023 rookies. Good luck everybody That it's gonna be nice christopher morrell three of 25 Jersey uh dual jersey auto for the cubs grab chicago nice one there cubs gonna be peter m congrats p Pete with the last two heads of the break congrats buddy Get that mag for repeat and we've got 2020s mlb all stars as well That one was good. I was gonna say I didn't really I like depends on the thickness of sterling sometimes Because sometimes you have to go into a 360 with like a filler too on the really thick ones 2020 I'm a 2020s mlb all stars. So it's gonna be relatively recent most likely That it's gonna be nice Byron buxton 17 or 25 for the twins congrats. Minnesota. Justin c there you go. Justin nice bucks coming your way Byron buxton I got a real quick recap here On our hits We had a daryl strawberry randia rosa rena Giovanni moran on hell zerpa That is Byron buxton Brian reynolds griffin jacks Bryce elder matt chapman to 50 nice one there for the blue jays We had a christopher morrell to 25 for the cubs and a tom glaven for 15 for the braves Gonna do it for the break everyone. Thanks again for the fill do really appreciate it up next. We've got basketball


I'm delighted to be up here as we begin to draw to the close of our amazing few days together. To do something that's always a really special highlight of the CCAC conference, which is to celebrate the work that's happening in our region, not only through all the workshops and sharing and networking that we've been engaging in over the past few days. To highlight a couple of projects with some Creative Economy awards. So it's our distinct pleasure today we're going to recognize two exemplary organizations and one exemplary Creative Economy project with our awards and each of the award recipients will receive a $2,500 cash award. These highlights from our region are chosen for their clear community development strategies and outcomes, the deep collaboration that they entail, and their innovative use of local assets. And all of them are models for all of us invested in New England's Creative Economy. We're going to be giving one award to a hard-working organization that has built upon its educational roots to become a community and economic driver. One award to an organization that has been steadily galvanizing and championing a crucial voice for the arts within their city government for many years. And one award for a timely and vital effort to raise neighborhood voices and connect generations in the face of gentrification. We're proud to have them all in our region and want to celebrate their successes to date and encourage them to continue and hold them up as examples. So to give our first award, I'd like to invite Todd Trevore from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to present. Thank you Kathy. Here on behalf of Randy Rosenbaum, the executive director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, he unfortunately could not be here today and senses love and regard. I am very, I put my chapter wrong. I'm very excited to present this first award to an organization from Rhode Island, the Steel Yard. This award is not for a single project or initiative, but to recognize the exceptional leadership and cumulative work of the organization on behalf of Providence and Rhode Island's Creative Economy. The Steel Yard was founded in 2001 as an industrial arts center in the outskirts of Providence. Today it has grown into a 3.8 acre campus that includes a craft school, a manufacturing studio, and a community venue that is outdoors.  They don't just draw people to their own place where individuals, communities, neighbors, businesses, municipalities and institutions experienced to create a process. They also bring their inclusive design and public art process to other communities, training local artists and championing fair pay for creative work. It says on their website, and we agree, the Steel Yard has grown to be more than an arts organization. Their mission attracts community members to the site every day using it day and night as a hub for learning, working, and economic development to earn a living, place votes in local elections, and utilize their open green space, cultural events, and so much more. They are a quintessential example of the community pride and economic impact that results when hardworking artists bring people together to learn and craft beautiful objects. I would like to now invite Tim Berlin and Jenny Farks from the Public Project Department of the States to accept this state of Hollywood. To the Steel Yard, now I would like to introduce Karen Middelman, Executive Director of the Vermont Arts Council, who will present our next award. I just mentioned, Nifa's giving a second Organizational Leadership Award this year. This is not for a single initiative or a single project, but instead it recognizes the exceptional leadership and the cumulative work of an organization that has worked step-fastly on behalf of Vermont and Burlington's Creative Economy. I'm delighted to present this award to Burlington City Arts. You remember that BCA was first established in 1981 by then Mayor Bernie Sanders as the all-volunteer Mayor's Arts Council. Burlington City Arts, as it's now known, or BCA, has evolved from a tiny scrappy festival organizer into a crucial city department that keeps the arts at the heart and the center of Burlington's life. BCA has done it all when it comes to arts-based community development. One of the first departments in the nation to be designated as a cultural planner, they integrate the arts into planning for economic development, education, and urban design. They have renovated and managed city facilities, including Memorial Auditorium and the Firehouse, now or BCA's house. They still produce and partner on events large and small, but also manage a wide range of stunning exhibitions, groundbreaking educational programs, calls for artists, art sales, and other artist resources. And that says nothing of the way that they've elevated the public presence for the arts everywhere in Burlington and beyond through street festivals, concerts, and wonderful events like the Discover Jazz Festival happening right now. And of course, I can't describe the impact of BCA without giving credit to Doreen Kraft, who was the first part-time paid staff person in Mayor Bernie Sanders' office all those years ago, and now leads a staff of 18 and a non-profit foundation that helps raise money for the municipal entity to do its work. Doreen is a tireless champion for the arts. And Doreen, we've been talking a lot over the past few days about what our special powers are. Your superpower is definitely collaboration and partnership that's so vital to keeping the arts alive in Burlington and all across Vermont. Congratulations. I would like to invite Doreen and Sarah Katz, assistant director to the stage to accept this award. Congratulations to Burlington City Arts. Now we're going to give out our project award to a newer but impactful initiative in Massachusetts. And I'd like to introduce Luis Coto, Cultural District's program manager at the Massachusetts Cultural Council to present this year's project award. Yesterday I had on my community collaborator hat founder, so today I'm super proud to be representing the Mass Cultural Council, hence the collar. I'm super psyched to be presenting this next project award to an incredible organization that I've also worked with. And he's lost in Zoomics. This is our project, Constellacion de Historias. Constellacion de Historias was born out of a need to gather community voices around a crucial issue, gentrification in East Boston. Constellacion de Historias used the Zoomics radio platform in partnerships with local advocacy groups and youth journalists to produce radio stories and events that gave a voice to local citizens during the city of Boston's comprehensive planning process for East Boston. Project elements included an audio challenge to teach teams of youth and adults the elements of an audio story, a block party to share the collective stories through art installations, a sound block that mapped these stories around crucial spaces undergoing change, and a story loft of live storytelling performance and z-making. All live broadcasts in Spanish on the Zoomics radio. Constellacion de Historias is more than a storytelling project about the community's past. It is an effort to impart the existing community and strategy with youths in order to reflect with inevitable change. Connecting citizens to a city planning process and galvanizing them around creative activity might not prevent electrification, but reinforcing the importance of free speech and intergenerational story-gathering is sure to have a positive, possibly mitigating effect. I'd like to invite Brittany Thomas, director of paid media and technology at the NEDongo Radio Station Manager at Zoomics on the stage to accept this award for Constellacion de Historias. Congratulations to all of the amazing award recipients. If you did not get the opportunity to attend the workshops of these recipients, you will be able to see video of their workshops courtesy of the staff at Onion River Community Access and NIFA will be sure to share the video links in our follow-up and on our social media in the weeks to come. This is my last turn at the podium, so I am both going to reintroduce Dee, but I also just want to personally thank everyone for being here and it's been such a wonderful opportunity to hear from all of you who shared your projects and your workshops with us. I am so inspired, but we still have more and to tell us about more and next is Dee Schneidman. Thank you Kathy, and yes, an additional private congratulations from me, the award recipients. I don't get to give out grants that NIFA regularly. That is unusual. The vast majority of our staff give out grants. That's, you know, we run a lot of grant programs, so this is my opportunity to give out cash. Thank you. So, we are transitioning to a little early, but that's cool because we're all here and we want to get up on this beautiful day and enjoy Montpelier and Vermont. So I'm starting to transition us into our final special session together. We wanted to have kind of an arc of activities that we all share together as we mentioned around the value of inclusive creative communities. And obviously, a really important reason for us all gathering together at a peer exchange is that we all have so much to exchange. We are resources for each other. So we've sort of entitled this final session, reimagining resources round up because I like alliteration. And you probably noticed the names of the special sessions all have some alliteration. So to kind of kick us off and start off with some resources that are in this room, but came from maybe further than New England. We have some friends from some national organizations who are going to give you a couple minutes of some important resources that you should know about why and how you can make use of them. And our first resource of many is Axel from PolicyLink. Good evening everybody, can you hear me? My name is Axel Santana, coming to you from Oakland, California. I'm pretty sure I traveled far this, so I should get an award for that. Yeah, so I'm here representing PolicyLink based out of Oakland, California. PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing racial and economic equity by looking at what works. As a part of our arts and culture and equitable development work, we've developed a tool called Building a Cultural Equity Plan. Through this primary, the online tool, we have adapted a form of planning that explicitly focuses on cultural equity as a dynamic regular practice, hoping to inspire a wave of cultural equity plans. This tool provides guidance and resources for agencies and communities who would like to complete a plan that is dedicated to accomplishing cultural equity in their neighborhood, city, county, or region. By pointing to equity-focused approaches of cities engaging in this practice, it serves to promote equitable development through arts and culture. For those of you wondering what even it is cultural equity, to us, cultural equity explicitly values the unique and collective cultures of diverse communities and supports their existence in physical spaces in public and policies and investments and in their expressions within civic and spiritual life. A cultural equity plan values interculturality, the recognition and support of diverse and distinct cultures and the bridging and sharing of those cultures to build an interconnected communities, towns, and cities. It explicitly addresses legacies of structural racial discrimination and remedying of institutionalized norms that have systematically disadvantaged categories of people based on identity. Cultural equity reverses economic disinvestment to ensure healthy and living and thriving communities where people feel a sense of belonging. So with that frame in mind, some opportunities for policies in the arts and culture sector to deliver on equitable development include investing in artists of culture and artists of color and cultural organizations serving communities of color and realigning public arts and culture investments for racial equity. Also creating strong alignment between investments by public arts and culture agencies and demographic share of the populations as well as creating collaborations between artists and culture agencies and commissions and other key sectors to co-design, invest, and deliver on equitable development. So the tool we've developed includes some helpful considerations when planning for cultural equity as well as links to valuable resources and examples of promising practices. Again, the goal is to help communities think about how to utilize their existing assets to improve the lives of all residents regardless of race, ethnicity, customs, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, and socioeconomic or citizenship status. Key sections of this tool include resources for cultural asset mapping, tips and tools for incorporating disaggregated data, and considerations for aligning policies to achieve cultural equity goals. The City of Oakland's cultural plan is a great example of equity-focused planning, and it was adopted in July of 2018. A notable part of this plan was to build the infrastructure needed to achieve cultural equity, which included the reanimation of a cultural affairs commission focused on the vision of cultural equity. As part of the implementation process, the city has hired a handful of artists, fellows, from within the community to work directly with various departments to integrate creative strategies in their work. Our tool includes references and links to the Oakland plan and others like it from across the country. Although the most useful time to use this tool would be at the outset of your town, city, or community's cultural or comprehensive planning processes, it can also be useful in evaluating an existing plan and its effectiveness. So the earlier you start considering equity implications in your work, the better the outcomes will be for all residents of your community. So if you think your community could benefit from a cultural equity planning process, please visit plcylk.org slash cultural equity and or come up to me after this, and I can provide you with a palm card with more information. So thank you, and I look forward to connecting, and up next we have Mara Brown from Art Place. How's everyone doing? Going? I'm just coffee. We'll see you running for the coffee after this. So is Mara coffee? I'm here representing Art Plates America. How many folks are familiar with Art Place? Yeah. Okay, awesome. So then you probably already know that Art Place is a 10-year, thunder collaborative. We really care about creative place making, and we define that in a few ways. A meaningful definition has been artists as allies and equitable community development. In our mandate many years ago, we were tasked with this activity called field building. One of the ways that we have done that is through knowledge, right, and network weaving. My wonderful colleague Jamie Hand is our director of research strategies, and she's the one who has all the tools that you all, I think maybe have used in our goal to your tools that will be useful to you in the coming years that Art Place is here. I wanted to say a little bit about what those field scans are. That's the tool that I'm sharing with you all today. So we think about arts and equitable community development in a sector sort of way. Many of you have probably seen this matrix on the Art Plates website. So what we've been doing is gathering people at the intersection of these matrices. So what does arts do for food and agricultural systems? What does arts do for public safety? What can arts do for the environment? All of us in this room know that there's a lot that we can do in all of those sectors. What these field scans do is help us translate when we're partnering right across sectors. So on our website, if you go to, I don't have it memorized away. But we can go to artplaceamerica.org, we have a research strategy section, and a whole suite of all the field scans that exist right now. Again, those field scans are about art and these other sectors of community development. Most recently, we launched a field scan around food and agricultural systems. The Town and Family Farm, they're still here. We're a part of that work. Shout out to the Town and Family Farm for a month. And there you can read things that say you were trying to partner with folks in your region. That field scan would give you five or six outcomes, right, that you could go to your city officials, for example, and maybe you don't get that arts and food and agrar thing. You could say, well, look, here's the scan that artplates made in collaboration with all these great folks. And here are five things that we could do together. Another quick flood that artplates launched recently in collaboration with policy links. I only have one of these because I don't always have my app together. But the website always has this app together. Communitydevelopment.art is this really rad new website that categorizes a lot of the projects that we know are beautiful and important and are throwing our communities in beautiful ways. It's a repository of stories. It's a repository for documentation beyond stories. It's a repository of data as well. So I certainly encourage you to visit communitydevelopment.art to see some of those stories. And that's the first one was artplacemarca.org and our research strategies, Portfolio, our various field scans with a particular plug to the food and agricultural field scan. And I'm going to introduce a beautiful, wonderful, Sonya Whitman, Whitman from National Arts Archies. How's everybody doing? And more mentioned, my name is Sunny. I'm director at National Arts Strategies, and we are a national and international organization. And we support creative leaders who are changing the status quo in their careers, companies, and communities. And we do that through programs and through creating networks. So we have a program here in New England called Creative Community Fellows, which some of you may have heard of. We even have some creative community fellows in the room, I believe. You know what you're doing? But actually what I'm going to talk to you about is the resources that we have that are free and on demand and immediately available and applicable to your work. So the one I want to highlight is our Arts and Strategy Coursera course. So it's available on Coursera.com. Does everybody know about Coursera? We're the online educational resources. And it's also available on our website artsstrategies.org. So Arts and Culture Strategy, the course, it's something that you can do at 2 a.m. in the past. If that's the only time that you have available, that's true for me. And it's a course that is great for anybody who's starting up a project or someone who's in the middle, who's been running an organization for 10 years and wants to do some really fresh on how you are coping and powerful and describing the value that your work creates for your community and giving you frameworks that you can do to create a shared understanding of your partners on what the objectives and the steps towards achieving those objectives are in the partnership. I heard a lot of us talking about that yesterday. Tools for achieving great partnerships are definitely in demand. So this course is offered in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania. So I encourage everybody to go check it out. Great. That's all I have to say.


Hey friends, today I am exploring Epcot's World Showcase and we're gonna have dinner actually in the Germany pavilion at the beer garden. I'm so excited because I haven't eaten there since they changed everything inside there and I also want to get some schnitzel spatzel and sausages. So let's go do this. It just feels good to be walking around World Showcase in 2021. Look how beautiful it's out right now. I absolutely love it. It's around 60 degrees so it's just got that nice chili feeling to it. And like I said we're gonna explore around World Showcase and get something to eat. I'm also gonna be meeting up with some friends later on and I'm excited to try beer garden again but I only went there once and now that actually they've taken away the community seating and probably the buffet style would be nice to see what it's like. I love reading the descriptions of restaurants so this one says celebrate October Fest all year long after being transported to a traditional Bavarian village, pull up a chair at a communal table and feast on buffet style fair at the upah beat of a German band fills the air and livens up the dance floor. Doesn't that just sound amazing? And like I said earlier I don't think they're gonna be doing a communal table only because of social distancing but it makes it authentic and that's how they used to do it where you actually went to a table and you sat there with people you didn't even know so like they kept it within tradition and I like that about Epcot's World Showcase. As you can see also Festival of the Holidays is starting to end and we're getting ready for Festival of the Arts. These are gonna be all of the art tents. I'm very excited. I'm heading right into the Germany pavilion now and I thought it was so funny because I was sitting here on New Year's Eve actually me and Jackie were in the back and we were talking about how much I love this restaurant and I haven't been there for a while and how they used to actually have plans to put a attraction in there like a ride and they never did it and I don't know it just kind of inspired me to say hey I'm gonna make a reservation and go enjoy the beer garden. The Germany pavilion is just so beautiful. I absolutely love it in here. They still have Christmas decorations up but it's just so well versed in culture and it's just unbelievable like the statues like had anybody noticed before that that night is fighting a dragon? They're not actually called Knights in Germany they're called Ritta and these ones up here actually have one of the hardest to find hidden Mickey's in all of Walt Disney World. I'm not even sure if I'm gonna be able to show it but I'm gonna try. On the crown of this Ritta there is actually a little hidden Mickey directly in the center of it and it's so hard to see I don't even think I can zoom in and this is the farthest I can zoom but it's there I've seen it and now I think it's just about time for our reservation so we're just gonna hop to it and here it is the beer garden restaurant that actually means buffet of foods in German and here's a look at the menu of what they have to offer it's $46 for adults and it comes with seasonal salads, traditional sausages, schnitzel and spatzel, some pretzels potatoes and chicken and then also they have live entertainment inside and this is the different show times for the live entertainment you see they play very frequently and I'm excited. This is the waiting area in here isn't it just so themed it looks like an attraction almost with these beautiful murals they even went like the extra mile and put like staircases up there it's just so beautiful in here now it's time to head in look at these big doors I like them take a look at it in here isn't it amazing this is my table and I'm happy because this is a good spot for the show because the stage is right there and it's like a theater seating the way it is they have like four different levels like one two three and four now that we're officially at the table I can take my mask off and we can go through a little bit of the restaurant now normally this was a buffet but since Disney's not doing buffets at this time they're gonna do it family style so they're gonna bring everything out to me it's still all you care to enjoy so if there's something that you do enjoy a lot more than the other you can just be like give me more this less of that or say I don't want any of that but it's all the same food it's all listed on the app and you can just basically like pick and choose what you want they just bring it to you and of course it being the beer garden and being in the germany pavilion they have an extensive list of different German beers including a German beer flight but what I think I'm gonna go with is the Ludwig it's basically a Bavarian heffaways and wheat beer I haven't had this in a while you can get a half liter or a full liter I'm going all in with the whole liter one of my favorite things about this restaurant though is the bread service because the bread services are pretzel rolls and they're just like the pretzels that they serve out like in the court service out in the pavilion themselves and they're my favorite pavilion I mean my favorite pretzels ever they are my favorite pretzels ever right here are the pretzel rolls that I was talking about they are so amazing we have a nice German mustard and then the salad services come out we've got some beets some potato salad some macaroni and then some cucumber and tomato salad I'm excited to try the beets I guess I don't know you know I have to be honest I've never had beets before and I've always wondered what they were because I'm such a fan of the office and Dwight loves beets so I'm gonna try them I'm gonna try beets today there it is holy moly oh thank you just to give you a scale here this is amazing oh boy ready oh it's over there before I try the beets I think I need to have a pretzel to get me all warmed up oh look at that I can legitimately come here just for those but I said it I was gonna try the beets so come on beat get over here oh boy they're not bad at all I don't know why I had such a bad perception of beats well they're not bad I even go with another bite yeah I don't think I enjoy them but not bad but now I got beat juice all over my plate seriously though I don't know why I just thought beats were bad I absolutely love this beer though this is so good I love just the experience like it just fits so well holy moly oh boy a platter of livers bay with all of our favorites and that begins right here with the pork schnitzel schnitzel click-a-dally or German meatballs with a hundred gravy and spetzel oh there's a spetzel roasted chicken and potatoes nice and above the authentic German German sausage much like a fielbasa and bratwurst to complete that who can heard the baked macaroni and cheese frankfurters and sauteed green beans oh I'm so excited this is gonna be good this is a lot of food holy moly like this is a lot a lot of food we got the schnitzel we got the spetzel we got the chicken the sausages the potatoes the green beans the pretzel rolls I really love it I am so excited to just dive in I think the first thing I'm gonna dive into is the schnitzel I absolutely love schnitzel it's so amazing the sauce actually from the German meatballs ended up on the schnitzel and it made it 10 times better if you're not sure what schnitzel is it's just grounded pounded pork with breaded and fried but now I'm excited to try the German meatballs because I like the sauce so much whoops whoopee there we go just put you in a good mood I gotta let you guys know what's happening right now I've eaten all the schnitzel I absolutely love it the Germany meatballs are probably my favorite things I love the spetzel I tried the sausage that was very good and I even tried a little of the frankfurt so much food though there is literally so much food happening right now holy moly guys look at those horns so much good food I did ask if they'd bring me out some more the meatballs and the schnitzel because I think that's my favorite so far I do like the sausages but I'm gonna wait to see if I finish those first I don't want to order so much food that I don't finish everything but I really really love the meatballs I think that was my favorite is it polka time it must be polka time I love polka time the names Gus Polanski the polka king of the Midwest nice to meet you look at the happy polka dancers down there that was a really good show they actually paid for 25 minutes consecutive it was fun because they kept on stopping and having everyone lift their glass to prost and cheers and the food just kept coming it just kept coming guys I'm not sure how much more I can eat because I do know desserts coming but I do have to say the Germany meatballs are my favorite then the schnitzel then the sausage then the spatzel then the chicken the potatoes the sauerkraut the green beans and the mac and cheese I just wasn't a big fan I don't like cheese that much but everything else I really really liked everything was amazing it's definitely a unique restaurant and it's so funny because my waitress actually heard me say meatball and she came over and told me that the German word for meatball is fricadella and I was like oh well you learn a little bit here too but I can say I love these fricadellas I do think we're gonna need to stop eating though because we haven't even got dessert yet and I almost finished my whole liter of beer I'm happy we're walking around World Showcase after this definitely to work off some of these calories holy moly dessert has come out and take a look at this we've got an apple strudel with vanilla cream we've got a Bavarian cheesecake a German chocolate cherry cake roll and then some chocolate chip cookies this is like an impressive dessert I think I'm excited about that right there oh yeah I am always a big apple pie apple strudel fan and this just looks good especially with the vanilla cream that they put on top of it oh I think I need to get a smaller piece that was a big bite we'll go with this one right perfect the strudel is amazing and the cheesecake is not too bad right now I'm gonna try the chocolate roll I really think nothing's gonna top that strudel though that was phenomenal I don't know this chocolate roll might be amazing well that's a tough one oh boy that's tough I really can't tell you what's one I like more the strudel or the chocolate cake if you guys have eaten before let me know what you like or actually what was your favorite thing that you've eaten here if you've ever eaten here before let me know in the comments right now when the sound getting myself a cup of coffee just so I can get myself more energy because I feel so stuffed like prepare to get full if you eat here I'm just saying it now roast time to move along but wow I gotta say I absolutely loved it here this was so good even without the actual buffet and just family style and you know I kind of like it when it's not community sitting so I mean you have that for as a plus any hoos we're gonna keep going around world showcase but I thoroughly enjoyed it here definitely worth the money and I ran it to my friends Jojo Caroline and then Kyle and we're gonna hang out here in Japan a little bit they all have different social media as I'll put all of the links in the description below but it's fun to hang out with some friends one of my favorite places to get a drink in Epcot the actual garden is closed but they moved some of their beverages up here including the Tokyo sunset which is something I've been wanting to get I've never had the Tokyo sunset I've had the violet lemonade yes yes violent socky not violent lemonade violet socky tastes like a jolly ranch it very sweet yes Tokyo sunset a little less sweeter I think you guys enjoyed oh I'm good to know we'll see they have both the violent socky and the Tokyo sunset hey restriction I get Tokyo violet I'll let you pick for me the sun's gonna about to set so you gotta go with the sunset please yeah right the sun's about to set you're right now we can actually enjoy our Tokyo sunset right with the sunset I'm so excited yeah with the sunset look at that it's like perfect right now for the sky to literally start getting a little bit darker out I just love sitting over here it is so beautiful the best way I would describe this is it's something out of a frat house basement but in the best way possible amazing thank you how do you like your violet socky it's thank you for holding the life by the way and hey do you like your Tokyo sunset I do I feel like it's a beautiful Tokyo sunset the sun is setting it does it makes you feel like it's a beautiful Tokyo sunset everyone needs a cheers though oh yeah yeah we need a cheers cheers as we were sitting there drinking our Tokyo sunsets we kind of missed the sunset it's so much fun to the Tokyo sunsets yeah good drink I recommend it but now we're going to be moving along I am going to meet up with some other friends I just randomly ran into Jojo and Kyle so it was fun to hang out with them for a little bit and we're just going to maybe get a ride in or just explore a world-shake case a little bit more it looks like Kyle Caroline and Jojo are actually going to be bouncing out but Vincent is here to tag in so much fun right some water squabble right here yeah yeah you're tagging out oh yeah you're tagging us in there it is hey hey she's like I don't know what's happening now that we've joined up with Vincent vision Jojo and Kyle have left we're going to end up going into the rosencrown get ourselves a nice little pint what do you say so ready for this yes yes yes Vincent's getting a black velvet Guinness on top and a little bit of strong bow on the bottom looks pretty cool oh that looks very fancy I think I'm going to get myself a good old heart and uh just enjoying my beer I don't know I've enjoyed beers look at that though look at that it's cool it's very fancy oh boy don't spill the beer are you while holding the beers oh yes oh look at that champion where are we going with these as we sit in the UK here drinking my harp and of course the black velvet I did notice all the way back there in the gazebo they have like it looks like a piano so we might be seeing some live entertainment in the back of the UK professor of the arts oh that'd be fun I know that they had uh meet and greets there with Mary Poppins not too long ago I seen that so it'd be nice to see some live entertainment now that I've enjoyed my delicious pint here in the UK it's so funny because I had a pint of beer in the UK and a leader of beer in Germany I think we're gonna grab another person to join along with us and move along isn't she here at a park here she comes at just a walking down the street I can't believe I was a six-minute walk yeah you were little are you wearing figment sweater I am you ah what a fun night and now Jackie super enthused has joined the party I have joined yeah we have just been hanging out and I had dinner at beer garden and ran into a whole bunch of friends that's not so nice yeah we're a disney world that's what happens it's Epcot's world showcase we came on over to the France pavilion because a lot of the very popular things over here just recently started opening up again the bakery has opened I'm so excited because I can go get my napoleon and even the ice cream and the sorbet stand opened but what I'm excited more about is now all of the France merchandise is here all of this stuff that was actually limited edition for Disneyland Paris is now inside this shop this is really fancy stuff and now I think we're gonna actually go to the bakery I'm gonna get a nice little coffee that'd be a good way to cap off a cold chili nut at Epcot maybe maybe a pastry I don't know or Maurice the baguettes sorry just take a look at all these beautiful treats I know I had that apple strudel in Germany but I can't resist the napoleon here I just absolutely love this it is amazing and I have to get it I'm just so excited to be here also maybe a latte yeah a latte and a napoleon that sounds very good so now we actually got ourselves a little table here and I haven't been in this like area for such a long time I don't know when this opened I would assume like not too long ago but this is the first time I've actually been in here since the park reopened and I love it this is like one of my favorite places to come so like now that I know that it's open I'm probably gonna come here a lot more they have my favorite dessert on Walt Disney World property I absolutely love this I had it for the first time I think sometime last year and I remember watching it while I was I remember eating it and watching illuminations and just thinking that's it that's my favorite dessert at Epcot and it's always been that way what's in it it's like kind of like custard and it's got like that very like phylo paper yeah that paper like look at it it's like it's like a cake but it's very light okay very light cake very light Vincent got a chocolate beignet yes beignet not what not a mickey beignet not a mickey beignet no this is one here from the france pavilion at Epcot I'm very excited to try it looks like a chocolate like donut but it's a it's a beignet chocolate and hazelnut inside of it oh fancy and then Jackie also got the same thing a napoleon yeah influenced by how like excited you were about I got super excited I probably looked like a like a like a like I don't know what I was probably looking like but here it is I am so excited well I devoured my dessert I mean I got a little bit of scrapples and I'll definitely eat the rest of that scrapples Vincent loved his chocolate beignet it was so good and Jackie she's on the fence she doesn't agree with me this is my favorite dessert but that's why it's my favorite dessert your favorite dessert yep exactly that's the way you know yeah so I think that's gonna do it for me what a fun amazing night I just got to come to Epcot hang out in world showcase enjoy the beer garden run into some friends Kyle Jojo Caroline and then Vincent from Vincent vision and then Jackie super enthused and we just got to hang out enjoy eat some France pastries and some great France coffee so I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it we'll see you next time bye


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of IBM Think 2021, brought to you by IBM. Welcome back to IBM Think 2021. This is theCUBE's ongoing coverage where we go out to the events, we extract the signal from the noise, of course, virtually in this case. Now we're going to talk about ecosystems, partnerships and the flywheel they deliver in the technology business. And with me are Jason Kelly, the general manager global strategic partnerships, IBM Global Business Services and Mani Dasgupta, who's the vice president of marketing for IBM Global Business Services. Folks, it's great to see you again. I wish we were face-to-face, but this'll have to do. Good to see you, Dave. And same, I wish we were face-to-face, but we'll go with this. Soon, we're being patient. Jason, let's start with you. You have a partner strategy. I wonder if you could sort of summarize that and tell us more about it. So it's interesting that we start with the strategy because you said we have a partner strategy, Dave. And I'd say that the market has dictated back to us a partner strategy, something that we, it's not new and we didn't start it yesterday. It's something that we continue to evolve and build even stronger. This thought of a partner strategy is that nothing's better than the thought of a partnership. And people say, oh, well, you know, you gotta work together as one team and as a partner. And it sounds almost as a one-to-one type relationship. Our strategies is much different than that, Dave. And our execution is even better. And that execution is focused on now the requirement that the market, our clients are showing to us and our strategic partners that one player can't deliver all their needs. They can't design solution and deliver that from one place. It does take an ecosystem to the word that you called out, this thought of an ecosystem. And our strategy and execution is focused on that. And the reason why I say it evolves is because the market will continue to evolve and this thought of being able to look at a client's, let's call it a workflow, let's call it a value chain from one end to the other, wherever they start their process to wherever it ultimately hits that end user, it's going to take many players to cover that. And then we as IBM wanna make sure that we are the general contractor of that capability with the ability to convene the right strategic partners, bring out the best value for that outcome, not just technology for technology's sake, but the outcome that the end client is looking for so that we bring value to our strategic partners and that end client. Now I think about when you talk about the value chain, you know, I'm imagining, you know, the business books years ago where you'd see the conceptual value chain, you could certainly understand that and you could put processes together to connect them. And now you've got technology, I think of APIs, it's really supports that everything gets accelerated. And Mani, I wonder if you could address sort of the go to market, how this notion of ecosystem, which is so important is impacting the way in which you go to market. Absolutely. So modern business demands a new approach to working. The ecosystem thought that Jason was just alluding to, it's a mutual benefit of all these companies working together in the market. It's a mutual halo of the brands. So as responsible for the championship of the IBM and the global business services brand, I am very, very interested in this mutual working together. It should be a win, win, win, as we say in the market. It should be a win for our clients, first and foremost. It should be a win for our partners and it should be a win for IBM. And we are working together right now on an approach to bring this go to market strategy to life. So I wonder if we could maybe talk about how this actually works and pull in some examples. You must have some favorites that we can touch on. Is that fair? Can we name some names? Sure, names always work and Dave, you're right. And it's always in context of reality that we can talk about, as I said, this execution and not just a strategy. And I'll start with probably what's right in the front of many people's minds is we're doing this virtually because of what? Because of an unfortunate pandemic. This disastrous loss of life and things that have taken us down a path. We go, whoa, how do we address that? Well, anytime there's a tough task, IBM raises its hand first. You know, whether it was putting a person on the moon and bringing them home safely or standing up a system behind the current social security administration, you know, during the depression, you pick it. Well, here we are now and why not start with that as an example because I think it calls out just what we mentioned here first, Dave, this thought of an ecosystem because the first challenge, how do we create and address the biggest data puzzle of our lives, which is how do we get this vaccine created in record time, which it was, the fastest before that was four years. This was a matter of months. So Pfizer created the first one out and then had to get it out to distribution. Behind that is a wonderful partner of ours, SAP, trying to work with that. So us working with SAP, along with Pfizer, in order to figure out how to get that value chain and some would say supply chain, but I'll address that in a second, but there's many players there. And so we were in the middle of that with Pfizer, committed to saying, how do we do that with SAP? So now you see players working together as one ecosystem, but then think about the ecosystem that that's happening, where you have a federal government agency, a state, a local, you have healthcare, life science industry, you have consumer industry. Oh, wait a second, Dave, this is getting very complicated, right? Well, this is the thought of convening an ecosystem. And this is what I'm telling you is our execution and it has worked well. And so it's happening now and we see it still developing and being very productive in real time. But then I said there was another example and that's with me, you, Monty, whomever, you pick the consumer, ultimately we are that outcome of the value chain. That's why I said, I don't wanna just call it a supply chain because at the end is someone consuming and in this case, we need a shot. And so we partnered with Salesforce, IBM and Salesforce saying, wait a minute, that's not a small task. It's not just get the content there and put it in someone's arm. Instead, there's scheduling that must be done. There's follow up, an entire case management like system. Salesforce is a master at this. So work.com team with IBM. We said, now let's get that part done for the right type of UI, UX capability that user experience, user interaction interface. And then also in bringing another player in the ecosystem, one of ours, Watson Health, along with our blockchain team, we brought together something called a digital health pass. So I've just talked about two ecosystems, multiple ecosystems working together. So you think of an ecosystem of ecosystems. I called out blockchain technology and obviously supply chain, but there's also AI, IoT. So you start to see where look, this is truly an orchestration effort that has to happen with very well designed capability. And so of course we master in design and tying that entire ecosystem together and convening it so that we get to the right outcome. You, me, Monty, all getting in a shot being healthy. That's a real time example of us working with an ecosystem and teaming with key strategic partners. You know Monty, I mean, Jason, you're right. I mean, this pandemic's been horrible. I have to say, I'm really thankful it didn't happen 20 years ago because it would have been like, okay, here's some big PCs and a modem and go ahead and figure it out. So, I mean, the tech industry has saved business. I mean, with knowledge, we mentioned AI, automation, data, you know, even things, basic things, like, you know, security at the end point. I mean, so many things and you're right. I mean, IBM in particular, other large companies, you mentioned SAP, you have taken the lead. And it's really, Monty, I don't think the tech industry gets enough credit but I wonder if there's some of your favorite, you know, partnerships that you can talk about. Yeah, so I'm going to build on what you just said, Dave. IBM is in this unique position amongst this ecosystem, not only the fact that we have the world leading most innovative technologies to bring to bear, but we also have the consulting capabilities that go with it. Now, to make any of these technologies work towards the solution that Jason was referring to in this digital health class, it could be any other solution, you would need to connect these disparate systems sometimes, make them work towards a common outcome to provide value to the client. So I think our role as IBM within this ecosystem is pretty unique in that we are able to bring both of these capabilities to bear. In terms of, you know, you asked about favorites, there are, this is really a co-optition market where everybody has products, everybody has services. The most important thing is, how are we bringing them all together to serve the need or the need of the hour in this case. I would say one important thing in this as you observe how these stories are panning out in an ecosystem, in a partnership. It is about the value that we provide to our clients together. So it's almost like a sell with model from a go to market perspective. There is also a question of our products and services being delivered through our partners, right? So think about the span and scope of what we do here. And so that's the sell through. And then of course we have our products running within our partner companies and our partner products, for example, Salesforce, running within IBM. So this is a very interesting and a new way of doing business. I would say it's almost like the modern way of doing business with modern IT. Well, and you mentioned co-optition.  Whether it's AWS, Microsoft, I mean Oracle is a really tough competitor, but your customers use an Oracle and they use an IBM.  Absolutely. If you pick on any other client, I'll mention in this case, Delta. Delta was working with us on moving, being more agile. Now this pandemic has impacted the airline sector particularly hard, right? With travel, stopping and anything. So they are trying to get to a model which will help them scale up, scale down, be more agile, be more secure, be closer to their customers, try and understand how they can provide value to their customers and customers better. So we are working with Delta on moving them to cloud, on the journey to cloud. Now that public cloud could be anything. The beauty of this model in a hybrid cloud approach is that you're able to put them on Red Hat OpenShift. You're able to do and package the services into a microservices kind of a model. You want to make sure all the applications are running on a portable, almost platform agnostic kind of a model. This is the beauty of this ecosystem that we are discussing is the ability to do what's right for the end customer at the end of the day. How about some of the like SaaS players? Like some of the more prominent ones. We watched the ascendancy of ServiceNow and Workday. You mentioned Salesforce. How do you work with those guys? Obviously there's an AI opportunity, but maybe you could add some color there. So I like the fact, Dave, that you call out the different hyperscalers, for example, whether it's AWS, whether it's Microsoft, knowing that they have their own cloud instances, for example. And when you mentioned, hey, I had this happen a long time ago, you started talking about the heft of the technology. I started thinking of all the truckloads of servers or whatever they'd have to pull up. We don't need that now because it can happen in the cloud. And you don't have to pick one cloud or the other. And so when people say hybrid cloud, that's what comes out.  People aren't just buyers or suppliers, they're both. And then you start to say, what are different people supplying? Well, in that ecosystem, we know there's not gonna be one player. There's gonna be multiple. So we partner by doing just what Monty called out is this thought of integrating in hybrid environments on hybrid platforms with hybrid clouds, multi clouds. Maybe I want something on my premises, something somewhere else. So in giving that capability, that flexibility, we empower, and this is what's doing, use that co-op petition, we empower our partners, our strategic partners. We want them to be better with us. And this is this thought of being able to actually bring more together and move faster, which is almost counterintuitive. You're like, wait a minute, you're adding more players but you're moving faster, exactly. Because we have the capability to integrate those technologies and get that outcome that Monty mentioned. I would add to this one, Jason, you mentioned something very, very interesting.  And that is the core of our point of view in this case is that we want to go further and we want to create value that is long lasting. What about like, so I get the technology players and there's maybe things that you do that others don't or vice versa, so there's gap fillers, et cetera. But what about, maybe customers that they get involved, perhaps government agencies, maybe they'd be a customer or an NGO as another example. Are they part of this value chain, part of this ecosystem? Absolutely, I'll give you, I'll stick with the same example when I mentioned a digital health pass. That digital health pass is something that we have as IBM and it's a credential. Think of it as a health credential, not a vaccine pass person because it could be used for a test, for a negative test from COVID, it could be used for antibodies. So if you have this credential, it's something that we as IBM created years back and we're using it for learning. When you think of getting people certifications versus a four year diploma, how do we get people into the workforce? That was what was original. That was a Jenny Romini thought, let's focus on new collar workers. So we had this asset that we'd already created and then it said, wait, here's a place for it to work with health, with validation verification on someone's option. It's optional, they choose it. Hey, I want to do it this way. Well, the state of New York said that they want it to do it that way. And they said, listen, we are going to have a digital health pass for all of our New York citizens and we want to make sure that it's equitable. It could be printed or on a screen and we want it to be designed in this way and we want it to work on this platform and we want to be able to work with these strategic partners, A Sales Force, an SAP, an Orca.  And we said, okay, let's do this. And this is a thought of collaboration and doing it by design. So we haven't lost that, Dave. This only brings it to the forefront. Just as you said, yes, that is what we want. We want to make sure that in this ecosystem we have a way to ensure that we are bringing together, convening, not just point products or different service providers, but taking them together and getting the best outcome so that that end user can have it configured in the way that they want it. Guys, we got to leave it there, but it's clear you're helping your customers and your partners on this digital transformation journey that we all talk about. You get this massive portfolio of capabilities, deep, deep expertise. I love the hybrid cloud and AI focus. Jason and Monty, really appreciate you coming back on theCUBE. It's great to see you both. Thank you so much, Dave. Fantastic. Thank you. Great to be with you. All right, and thank you for watching everybody. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE and our continuous coverage of IBM Think 2021, the virtual edition, keep it right there.


Hi everyone, I'm Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. Happy Wednesday. It's Wednesday. We got some immaculate WWE. This is random number block break number five, which is the fifth and final box of the case that we popped open earlier today. We got another one box break loaded up. That's from a fresh case. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. There are the numbers right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and numbers three and a three. Six the hard way. One, two, three, four, five, and six. Robert down to Charles. Three and a three. Six the hard way for the numbers. One, two, three, four, five, and six. After six, we got one down to nine. Alright, Robert with one. Alex with five and eight. Robert with four. Matthew with seven. Daniel with two and three. Shay with zero. That's any and all redemption in this box, including one-of-one redemptions. Robert, you'll get live one-of-ones. Daniel with six and Charles with nine. Let's order those numerically. We're going to pause the video just for a little bit, see if there's any people who want to trade. It doesn't usually happen in numbers, but we'll see. When we come back, we'll have the break itself. Jasper's Case Breaks dot com. Be right back. Alright, welcome back. No deals were done. Here in random number block break number five. Let's see what we got in here. Good luck, everybody. Alright, good luck. We're going to lead off with Dakota Kai. Seven out of 65. That's for Matthew, number seven. We've got Blair Davenport. Seven out of 25. Rookie Relic for Matthew. And then number seven. Alright, see you, Evan. Hey, you want to leave that gate open, please? Thank you. Alright, NXT UK. Got a Relic for Edge. 48 out of 99. Alex with the number eight. And that is Jumbo Ring Canvas. We got Gerald Briscoe, Harold and Signatures. Three out of 10. Daniel with number three. A couple more here. We have Shinsuke Nakamura. 15 out of 99. Relic and autograph. That's for Alex and the number five. And the final one here. Good luck, everyone. Final one is JC Jane, 77 out of 99. Memorabilia Autographs. And that's Matthew with the number seven. Another nice WWE box in the books. Got another one. Box break loaded up right now. That next one box break will be from a fresh case, so check that out. I'll see you next time for the next WWE break. Bye-bye.