I think this one person, I've done this for many, many years, and one person I definitely don't have to introduce, do I? Shakira, the greatest entertainer living and also does so much work for public good and advocacy. And God bless you for doing that. Thank you, God bless you.  You've performed in front of hundreds of tens of thousands of people, 12 Grammys, it's no joke. And now the Crystal Award. Was that special to that for our awards now, part of your life, for this special? No, of course, it's a very prestigious award. But I think that it's mostly a reflection. I hope that it's a reflection on the global understanding of the importance of investing in early childhood development. I hope that it means that the issues be coming top of mind for everyone. Right.  You don't just sing, you write your songs, you don't just dance, you get into choreography, presentation, production, editing.  That's what you said, actually. And now with child. You're not the most relaxed mom ever, I can say that. And now in child development, are you as hands-on? And are there lessons from your early years which you learned and you're implementing now? You mean in what we do on the field? Yes, in your childhood. Yes, education. Education. Yeah, I'm definitely on top of every detail on how the schools work, the progress that we're making in our schools. I decided to create my own foundation when I was only 18. And since then, we've been working on education, trying to provide high-quality education. So it is a challenge. And it comes with many obstacles that we had to overcome, and we have to still overcome on a daily basis. We work in areas where, in very remote areas, where literally there's nothing. Sometimes we encounter a tremendous lack of infrastructure, no portable water. In many cases, no electricity, no paved roads. So it definitely means that we have to work twice as hard in order to offer a quality education. But not only that, also the kids that we attend to, most of them belong to families that have been directly affected by violence, that have lost even family members. So you can imagine the challenges that we encounter when we try to provide that education. So I have to be constantly understanding, learning about their needs. I dedicate a huge portion of my time to advocating for education for all, but also to improving what we offer in our schools in Colombia and other places in the world. I notice also that you don't just provide education again, typical Shakira-style, high-quality education, even if it's for the poorest person, right? Yes, exactly. You focus on that. Yeah, from the beginning, I didn't just want to build schools. I wanted to build state-of-the-art schools. But what does that mean? It means that they had to be comprehensive, integral. They had to encompass not only for walls and learning materials, they had to encompass programs to engage the entire community to maintain the schools. School feeding program is the cornerstone upon our programs in our schools are built, upon which, I'm sorry, my English got a little fast. Upon which our programs are built. They're not even proud of this? It's the center and the core of our work, offering food in our schools is such a key vital element in order to keep the kids in school. So little by little, we were introducing other elements that were improving what we were offering, the kind of education that we were offering, involving the parents, trained teachers, and also even making available sports facilities to the rest of the community. And on this, Barca Foundation has been very, very instrumental. We have built football fields, football pitch. I would have thought that's the first thing you built. Not exactly the first, but little by little, we've been doing more and more improvements. But I'm telling you, it's so worth it. Every penny that we've invested in schools and in education have been so, so worth our while. I don't feel that I have wasted any money or efforts or energy when it comes to investing in education, especially on ECD. ECD strategies have early childhood development strategies have really demonstrated that are so vital when it comes to keeping kids in school as well and making sure that they succeed not only in school but later in life.  Shakira only takes things which have got hurdles. And then you smash each one of them. I remember as a kid, your music teacher said, you, singer, forget it. Can you imagine a music teacher? I didn't like my voice. Never let me enter the school choir. That was a big frustration for me. Luckily my dad was as stubborn as me and he always encouraged me and said, no, no, no, your voice is amazing. Someday they will know. Because I had a very powerful vibrato, which I still keep is a very, I think, a very signature thing of mine.  So many of my classmates used to say, Shakira, you seem like a goat. I kind of do have a little goatee thing going on. That's what the teacher said. Well, yeah. But, you know, my parents were always there. Insisting on the fact that I had to believe in me and in my dreams. So I really owe them my career, really. More than that, jeans. Every morning you should thank them for your jeans. Jeans are not that important. I mean, like Professor Heckman says, some jeans can be actually activated by, can be triggered by the environment. Yeah, absolutely. The environment is crucial. But I also remember when you switched to English. You're already a big star in Latin, most of Latin American countries. But then you switched to English and Rolling Stone said, Shakira, what are you up to, crazy? You didn't remember that? And you proved them wrong. What did they say? So you've had Rolling Stone magazine. Yeah, remind me. I have a bad memory now. They said, you shouldn't speak. You shouldn't sing in English. That's crazy. And you proved them wrong. You've had just so many huge hits. Well, I don't recall that. Maybe I just, I only remember the good stuff. You don't remember the good stuff? Well, I must say. Well, of course, I had people who believed in me at the beginning and people who didn't. But yeah, I guess I've been more than talented. I think I've been very persistent, you know, and disciplined as well. I don't think that's being modest. Would anybody here agree with that? No, it's more than, it's talent plus. And I think the work that you're leveraging, your popularity to reach out to a wider audience and people can learn from what you're doing is just wonderful. Hundreds of schools you've started. How about a round of applause for just doing it? Honestly, God bless you. Well, you know what? I've had a great team of people. I would have not been able to achieve many of the things that I achieved in life, both professionally and philanthropically if I didn't have a great team of committed human beings who want to see changes the same way I do. I've read about your dad.  Of course, dad power. Somebody said, good for dad power, right? And I do remember him. Your name means grateful or gratitude. Yeah. And he did something for you at a tough time so you understood the meaning of gratefulness. It took you to a playground. You know, my dad is a dreamer and idealist and he hasn't been quite the best business person. So we, at some point in our lives, actually when I was seven years old, we lost pretty much everything we had. He was doing quite well with his jewelry business. But then he made a couple of bad decisions and voilà. Yeah, we had a financial crisis in our family and my mom also wasn't doing very well with her own business and things changed for us. And I never had a car ever again until I was able to buy my own when I was 15 with a fake license. Did you know that? Yeah, but I don't know. An uncle helped me. And you know, for us losing our financial stability was quite shocking and removed our grounds. But for me it was quite an impact. I was very shocked by what was going on and seeing so many things change around me. And they took me to the park where many orphans live in Barranquilla in my hometown. Yeah, and these orphans usually they sniff glue or resort to terrible things like those in order to survive the tragedy of their lives. And they showed me that other reality and it marked me forever. I never forgot that night and it made me want to do something about it and I made a promise to myself that day and being very, very little, I was only seven years old but that day I decided that I wanted to succeed in life. I needed to bring my family back. I needed to vindicate them socially and economically. But I also wanted to do something about those kids. It was my entire life that that image remained inside of me and accompanied me. And when I was able to have my big break in Latin America with my album Pies de Calces, Barefoot, Transnates Barefoot, I decided to create my own foundation for children and it was called right after my album as well. It was called Barefoot, the Barefoot Foundation. And since then we've been working for children and specifically providing them high quality education. It was a turning point that to some extent has motivated you for doing what you're doing right now. Sure. Wow. You also wrote after that, I think your father also lost a son and you wrote a beautiful song. Beautiful made my hair stand up and taught classes. Yeah, I think that was my first song. When I was eight years old. Eight years old. My first song. And actually it was included in my first album that was released when I was 13. I started very early. And the dark glasses was... Yeah, the dark glasses I think it was a metaphor for him trying to hide, conceal the pain of his loss. Right. I imagine that in my childish head that's how I interpreted things and I wrote a song about it with a spin on it. Yeah, beautiful there. Major emotional kind of turning points in your childhood which obviously has helped you choose how to teach and what to teach little kids. Yeah, coming from a country like mine, being born and raised in a country like Columbia definitely shaped me as a person I am today and shaped my views on the world and what we can do. And if I'm sure about something is that we can all be active. We can all help contribute in some way to change those realities that we don't agree with, those things that we grow up intolerant of and that you don't really need to be a celebrity to affect change. You can be a stay-at-home mom. You can be a young person going to college or in college you can be a journalist of course. But everybody nowadays, thanks to the power of social media anybody really has a platform and a voice and there's so much that everyone can do to make issues like the lack of access to ECB programs top of mind so everybody talks about it. All I can say is two things. One is thank God you're an entertainer because I was at the World Cup final in South Africa and you came in the stadium and the whole stadium you made them rock. That was just a wonderful moment. You remember that? I've been at the World Cup three times in a row. I don't think they're going to buy me anymore. Yeah, 2006, 2010 and the last one. 2014 in Brazil. But the year that was really exceptional for me was 2010 which is when I met the father of my kids. Yes. I had a double purpose then. You're amazing, talented and you don't just write songs as I mentioned, sing songs, you write them, you get involved in everything. So everybody wonders if you weren't a singer, entertainer, songwriter, what would you be? Probably a doctor. Doctor? Yeah, like medicine. I would have probably gone to medical school but now I'm so fascinated by neuroscience and all the new discoveries on the brain, on the human brain, that would have probably been my specialty in neuroscience. And you can do so much for people who are the doctor. I think that if we all had the consciousness, the awareness that we can all do so much for others, no matter what you do in life. As a matter of fact, for the issue of early childhood that needs so much awareness, public campaigns are such an important part of it. And like I said before, making the issue top of mind, anyone can share thoughts on the internet. Anyone can share literature on the issue. If you work in peer and marketing, you can help craft a marketing campaign that perhaps shows parents and teachers how to best stimulate their children in the first years of their lives. If you are in the mobile and tech industry, for example, you can share your bandwidth, you can use your bandwidth to share or give for free educational material. Yeah, universities can step up the research, can actually help develop a curriculum for pre-K, which doesn't exist currently in many, many countries. So there is really so much that can be done. And like I said before, you don't have to be a politician or a singer-songwriter or a model, to draw attention to these important issues or other causes that people really resonate with them. Let me take a quick poll of the audience. How many would have preferred Shakira be a doctor and how many prefer her being an entertainer? Hands up for doctor. That would be an amazing doctor. How many would be an entertainer? Everybody entertainer. So just as well you did. I've always wondered you had so many... I'd be a sexy doctor. I put my best effort. I've always wondered one famous song which you wish you had sung.  It happens often. I think it happens to all of us singers that we wish we would have had those songs. I would have thought of that one first. It's such a brilliant idea. I can't think of anything right now, but I do get that feeling often. You used to sing, and now unfortunately it's my generation, I can see a few, Elvis Presley Always On My Mind. Oh, that's an amazing song. You sang it beautifully. I went for a VH1 special. The Divas. I remember vividly because it was Mariah Carey. There was Yamalisa Hedridge, Mary J. Blyche. Cher was there. And we were all singing classic songs. And I had to sing that one. Actually I chose that one when I liked it. Elvis fan? Like your dad? Many times. You won't sing one line of Always On Your Mind now? We'll join in. Ready to join in? Of course. You were always on my mind. Amazing. Did you say you were shy? I am shy. I swear to God. I had to have everything in the proper stage. The band and the bag. Everything has to be ready for production. But when I'm in the middle of a small group I get a little shy. This is a small group for me. You need 25,000 people. Exactly. More than I get. Listen up. I've always wondered, in your generation, our generation, me and your dad's same generation, haven't left you the greatest world. It's polluted, climate changed. So a lot from us you should de-learn and some of you did.  Or de-learn? I agree with you. I think that my parents' generation and generations before them had to deal with so much suffering and they struggled so much that perhaps they grew immune to human pain and those images of destruction became commonplace for many of them. And perhaps they accepted or assumed that they couldn't change the reality that they were brought up with. That they were unchangeable truths. So I would certainly hope that my kids don't feel that way and that they know that they can There's no such thing as an unchangeable truth. You can't change anything. Of course, there can really be agents of change. The architects of their own destiny are common destiny as a human race and that they can really contribute something to society.   But before you say that influences in your life these turning points, two or three of them that affect your child development I mean your approach to child development in your personal life three influences your turning points that you think I want the kids I teach not to go through that or to learn from that. Well, I know that for example I was born and raised in a country at war. My country I saw an internal conflict surrounded me for By the way, I do want to say to everybody Columbia is the most beautiful country in the world. Most underestimated people don't know enough about it you can go there gorgeous country and wonderfully friendly people sorry, I interrupted. It's beautiful, it's true and people are the best because they're all the best the country has to offer really they make you feel at home right? I'm just a whole family who's just looked after by a family of Colombians who gave up their life for that but you were saying I love it when someone speaks so highly of my country um but what were we talking about? Influences sorry, influences in your life It's called post pregnancy brain but it has lasted like four years in my case Couple of influences in your life which you make sure your children that you've learned from and you don't want them to go through it and you make sure in your teaching Well, violence, mainly I grew up in a very violent country and and now Colombians all more than ever are hopeful that that our kids and the newer generations and generations to come will be able to live in a peaceful environment where they can flourish and however I'm convinced that if we do want long lasting peace real sustainable peace we need to think how important it is to achieve a commitment from all sectors of society and not only the public sector, not only the government but also the private sector they have a great responsibility and a critical critical role to play and also all sectors of society we all have to be committed to give equal opportunities to the poor and if you offer equal opportunities to the poor then we're talking about a more prosperous and stable country and a more prosperous and stable world so I do hope that my kids understand that the bigger picture and how important it will be to for them to be committed to make a better world to leave this world better than we found it and that's actually the secret that I can think of things I haven't said before is that I secretly hope that my kids can become humanitarians of course my own children yeah I don't know exactly for what causes or I will never push anything to them but I just hope that they are aware of the power that they can have as human beings in this new world that we're building because it is a completely new world we're going through the fourth industrial revolution everything is changing and new realms are opening up in front of ourselves ahead of us but it also comes with many many challenges existing models economic models are being disrupted and from here to 2050 there will be massive growth of population and there will be starvation if we don't feed 9 billion people we have to find smart ways strategic ways to sustain our planet climate change unemployment so many things and you want your children well my children and all the children in the world those 250 million kids who are at risk of not receiving enough access to stimulation, education, nutrition all of those elements that are going to be so vital to prepare them to prepare them for what's coming we are already here and we are already facing so many many challenges but there are more to come and our kids not only my kids your kids and those 250 million kids who are at risk need to be prepared to face in smart ways, strategic ways and for that they all need access to education and information absolutely that's beautiful and something is going to make all of everybody angry I've been told we've run out of time oh God bless you so you want your children not to be entertainers but to change society that's going to kill me because he wants one of them to be a football player but I don't know about that whatever they do in life even if they dedicate their lives to making shoes or whatever that they feel passionate about they can put it at service of social good and they can find creative ways to solve social problems and as we all can I thought your secret was going to be that you are actually motivated by Bollywood I love Bollywood it's a hipstone lie song it has got some Bollywood elements it's inspired by it I don't know if anybody wants to do hipstone lie here God bless you thank you so much God bless you


My name is Jeremy and this review of Supernatural will be semi-adequate. Supernatural season 11 episode 15 if you didn't get that reference I was trying to reference the Miz who is in this episode in fact and Supernatural had wrestling in it. They even made a comparison that the life of a wrestler is exactly the same in general terms as a hunter. And Crowley got away from Lucifer and they found another hand of God device and there was wrestling in Supernatural and you know what? It wasn't that great. This episode started the way that I usually don't like how episodes start. We were spending a week looking at stuff and kept trying buckers blah blah blah blah this was like oh great here we go. So they find out that uh wrestlers that they like that they watch what their dad had been killed off and so they go off to this funeral they meet one of Dean's biggest wrestling fans and seeing the brothers watch look at these wrestlers and whatnot that was really funny.  This episode did have a lot of humor especially when Dean to try and figure out if any of the wrestlers were demons or possessed he got them all shot of tequila and Sam came back and he saw the aftermath that he drank with them and that was pretty funny. The fact that Dean then went on to finish the rest of that episode as hammers that he should have been that was that was the true test of impossibility in this episode. But also Crowley actually was able to get out of Lucifer's grasp. However after a few minutes I kind of was sitting there going I think this is a ploy by Lucifer to let him oh look Lucifer comes in it was a ploy all along. So Lucifer knew that Crowley knew where another hand of God was however Crowley gets there first there is this great dialogue with the idea of the original double cross that was funny okay Crowley did have a moment he had basically two moments in this episode he had the you can't handle my rod that was hilarious and you mastered the double cross I mastered the double cross that was also very funny however this episode itself was very meh that you saw that they try to throw in these things to really kind of tide you over for the next month because there's not another supernatural episode for a month from now but they were really trying to just kind of tie you in like kind of settle you to let you be okay for a month and it's okay but really the idea of wrestlers was so cool such a cool idea and they actually were taking they were actually seriously addressing it like jobbing they were actually using actual terminology but then the fact the main wrestler the one who was having this deal with his crossroads demon used a crossroads demon to get a bell for a week what the it's wrestling dude you would have been written into it what the hell that that okay I know wrestling so the fact that they did this really made me like okay come on come on you were halfway real with it before and then you just went off in stupid land with this like this is this is dumb even by wrestling standards however there was a point where the miss was offered a deal and I said my a joke to my brothers and hey if you did that maybe he could beat John Cena so in the end this episode had such great elements to it that could have been great however they just didn't really execute them well and to be honest this episode is literally just a tide over it's a Passover until the show returns which looks like it's a story episode so I knew that the show would run out of awesome steam and unfortunately it has but obviously it will pick it back up again but this episode really was not as entertaining as I thought it would be and I kind of felt a little bit let down considering that the Supernatural was actually going to talk about wrestling so excited for that so in the end this episode gets a three out of seven I'm sorry but it's just yeah it was all right it wasn't really that great but the next episode looks pretty cool just from the preview that we've seen so can't wait for Supernatural to return in a month which obviously means that you won't see a review for me about the show for a month but that actually is perfect because that gives me a week to watch both Daredevil and House of Cards season four so anyway see you guys later


Good morning. I just woke up and I'm absolutely starving. Usually. Let's go and make breakfast. I want to forget about you. I swear I don't know anything about you. That's why I won't be with you. Tell me what's wrong with you.


The next item of business is consideration of business motion 1227, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a change to today's business. Any member who wishes to speak against the motion should press their request to speak button now. I call on Stephen Kerr to move the motion. George, I am happy to move the motion. Thank you. No member has asked to speak against the motion. Therefore, the question is that motion 1227 be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed. The next item of business is topical questions. In order to get as many people in as possible, I'd be grateful for short and succinct questions and responses, as I call Graham Simpson. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the announcement by the UK Government not to proceed with plans to introduce vaccine passports. We know from expert public health analysis that we must do all that we can to stem the rise in cases and reduce the pressure on the national health service. Vaccine certificates have a role to play as part of the wider package of measures. They add a further layer of protection in certain higher-risk settings. We propose a very limited scheme to allow businesses to remain open and prevent further restrictions as we head into autumn and winter. The measures that we take forward have got to be effective but they have equally got to be practical and able to be delivered. We will work with all of the relevant sectors that are affected in a constructive way to make sure that we implement the decision that Parliament has taken in principle, that it wants to see a vaccine certification scheme in place. I thank the Deputy First Minister for that answer. He didn't actually answer the question that I asked, but we'll move on from that. The weekend, the head of the SPFL, Neil Doncaster, said that the league was hugely concerned about the practicalities of delivering the scheme. After the league made it clear that the Government's plan was unworkable, the health secretary confirmed that Mr Doncaster's suggestion of spot checks on those attending a match was a possibility. That shows that this Government is still filling in the blanks when it comes to this scheme. One of the many questions still remaining is around data and the equipment used in the debate last week. Much was made of the fact that businesses will be able to use an app on a phone to scan QR codes. When I asked the Minister for Parliamentary Business earlier on today what data would show up on somebody's personal mobile phone, say outside of football ground, he couldn't say. If my name, address and date of birth were to show up, that would be a clear breach of data protection laws. Those details could be easily harvested. So what protections would be put in place to prevent this happening? It's interesting that Mr Simpson moved on his question and instead of pressing me for further detail on the United Kingdom Government's position. He might have done that because the United Kingdom Government has just confirmed to the House of Commons that they intend to take forward a vaccine-only certification scheme in nightclubs, in indoor crowded settings with 500 or more attendees, in outdoor crowded settings with 4,000 or more attendees and any settings with 10,000 or more attendees should the circumstances arise because of the level of the pandemic? That is exactly the situation that we face. We face—we've been open with Parliament. It's very obvious that we've got a very significant level of caseload just now, which is putting huge pressure on the national health service, hence our rationale for bringing forward a mandatory vaccine-only Covid status certification scheme, which is exactly the same position that the United Kingdom Government is taking forward. Of course, I can understand why Mr Simpson is skating past this, because it's been frankly a very confused 48 hours on the question from the UK Government. On his substantive—Mr Kerr says that this is a Scottish Parliament. I've just been asked a question by one of his own backbenchers about the United Kingdom Government. I'm just trying to be as fabulously helpful as I always am when I'm answering questions. On the point that Mr Simpson was raising about what information will show up when a QR code is being analysed, the data that he's talked about will not show up when that's the case, because he's right that that would be a clear breach of data. There's no harvesting of data involved here. It's simple checking of information contained in a QR code to verify that somebody has been double vaccinated to try to keep us all safe. Of course, the difference between the UK Government and the Scottish Government is that the Scottish Government has actually set a date for introducing this, and the UK Government hasn't. It's said that if circumstances arise, there's a big, big difference there, and the Deputy First Minister knows it. It's been almost two weeks since the First Minister announced the plan for vaccine certification, but the Health Secretary again said yesterday that they were still working on the definition of a nightclub. Does the Deputy First Minister see how ridiculous it is that this scheme is going to come into force in a matter of weeks and the Government still can't provide any clarity on key questions surrounding its implementation? One of the many points of similarity with the UK Government here is that our decision making is based on the circumstances. We have a very high prevalence of Covid, and it's driving hospital admissions today. There are 1,064 people in hospital today with Covid-related illness. That's a very high level, comparatively very high, so we're having to take the action in the timescale that we are setting out, because the circumstances have arisen here. On the definition of nightclubs, the Government is working with the Nighttime Industries Association to be certain about the details of that definition. We are working through individual questions with the Nighttime Industries Association to ensure that we address any unintended consequences in that definition. Of course, we'll publish that when we've come to the conclusion of that exercise. This week is freshers week. Students will be congregating from all over the world and the UK in pubs, cafes and restaurants. Indeed, for the next two weeks, students from outside Scotland will be in nightclubs. On 1 October, they won't be able to do so because they've been vaccinated outside Scotland and NHS Scotland does not recognise their vaccinations for the purpose of certification. The problem has been there for months and has not been fixed. Can the cabinet secretary confirm to the chamber that it will be fixed in the next two weeks? We're obviously working to address a number of practical issues to ensure that the steps that we take forward are effective. We fundamentally come back to the core motivation behind that particular move. The core motivation is to try to reduce the level of transmission that is possible because of the protection of double vaccination and by trying to make higher-risk settings safer as a consequence of the vaccine certification approach. That's the policy objective that we're trying to secure. I quite appreciate that that will mean that some people are unable to access nightclubs because they will not have adequate vaccine certification in place. However, the purpose of that is to try to reduce transmission by maximising the level of protection that is in place within the population. The Government seems to be shifting its position in light of its discussions with the industry. I think that it's only fair to press the Deputy First Minister in respect to the answer that he gave some moments ago to my colleague. When exactly does he expect to be able to bring details to this chamber and to publish them more widely? The first point that I would make is that Mr Simpson—I should have addressed this, my apologies to Mr Simpson, I didn't address this point that he made earlier. He talked about the possibility of spot checks at football grounds and suggested that that was some new development that was conceived of in the document that we lodged with Parliament last Thursday. Shouldn't it have been a surprise when the health secretary talked about it on radio at the start of the week? In relation to Mr Kerr's point, the Government often gets criticised in the eyes of some of our critics not engaging enough with external sectors. Now we're getting criticised for engaging too much with sectors. We want to make sure that we get a definition—as I explained in my response to Douglas Ross last week—that we don't have a definition that essentially creates any uncertainty or disadvantage within the marketplace around the grey area between night time pubs and night clubs. We just have to make sure that we get all those details thought through in consultation with the industry and we'll publish that information as soon as we've completed those discussions. To ask the Scottish Government whether it is in discussions with the UK Government regarding its decision to terminate its supply agreement with Valneva for its Covid-19 vaccine candidate, VLA-2001. The decision to terminate Valneva's contract was one taken unilaterally by the UK Government. We are in discussions with the UK Government over Valneva's alleged failure to meet the terms of its contract and we are waiting for that information. We are currently working with Valneva to secure the future of the site and the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, Ivan McKee will be meeting with them shortly to discuss matters. The announcement to terminate the contract does not affect the Scottish Government's vaccination programme, which we continue to roll out as guided by advice from the JCVI and the First Minister will give details of that shortly. We have sufficient vaccine supplies to undertake any potential booster programme over the coming months. Many people in Scotland participated in clinical trials of the Valneva vaccine and this decision may understandably cause them anxiety about their vaccination status. Can the cabinet secretary confirm that the termination of the agreement will not impact the vaccination status of anyone who participated in the Valneva clinical trial? I will take a look at that. Of course, we wouldn't want anybody disadvantaged if they took part in a vaccine trial. We owe them a great deal of thanks. I am not talking specifically about Valneva, because I do not have the details on the clinical trial. I will urge the UK Government to publish that detail, because transparency is paramount. I will take a look at that to double check whether the Scottish Government's starting position that anybody taking part in a clinical trial should not be disadvantaged in any way shape or form. Gillian Mackay I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. There is some evidence that the Valneva vaccine could be more effective against variants than other vaccines. What impact does the cabinet secretary think that the UK Government's decision could have on our ability to protect people against further mutations of the virus? I will reiterate what I just said a moment ago that I think that it would be important in the interests of openness and transparency that the UK Government publish—absolutely when appropriate. I know that there are sensitivities and commercial sensitivities around those matters, but they publish the results of the cough boost trial on the clinical trials under way. What I would do is reiterate that regardless of the decision, we have plentiful supply of vaccine. I am pleased to say that the clinical trials and the evidence that we have show that, of course, the vaccines that we are using are very effective in relation to reducing the severity of illness against Covid and including the delta variant. Fiona Hyslop Valneva employs constituents of mine. He will be aware that Angela Constance, MSP and Hannah Bardell MP have written to the UK Government asking them to provide transparency about the UK Government's decision making and their on-going investment commitment to the cited French-owned facility. As Scottish Enterprise has also supported the company, will he ask the business minister when he meets with the company to discuss their worldwide vaccine market opportunities and the situation? I agree with everything that Fiona Hyslop has said. I have spoken to Angela Constance and Hannah Bardell yesterday and I am more than happy to speak in detail with Fiona Hyslop and any other interested member. We certainly, as a Government, will do everything that we can to ensure that we can provide as much security for the site as we possibly can. As I say, I am happy for my colleague the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise to update the member once he has had those discussions. It is very welcome to hear from the cabinet secretary that that should not impact on access to vaccines. Does that also include the possibility of 12 to 15-year-olds being given vaccinations and older people getting boosters? Does that impact on the surplus that he has referred to? Will that impact on the possibility of the Scottish Government supporting people going to COP26 from low-income countries being able to access vaccinations? The answer would be yes, yes and no to her answer to her question. We have plentiful supply. The First Minister will outline shortly our response to both the CMO's advice and JCVI's advice in respect of 12 to 15-year-olds and the booster programme, respectively, but we have plentiful supplies even if we include those two possibilities within our future programming. The decision by the UK Government will not impact our decisions to be able to vaccinate those from the developing world who may be coming to COP26, so there is plentiful supply. I just want to reiterate and reassure for our future vaccine roll-up programme with all the possibilities that we are planning for that we have plentiful supply. Thank you. That concludes topical questions. With regard to topical questions, the first related to vaccine passports, and there was great interest in adding additional questions to seek clarification on this matter, could I ask for your advice on how we can persuade the Government to come and give a ministerial statement on this so that the significant number of outstanding matters could be answered, please? Thank you. The member may be aware that there was discussion at Bureau amongst business managers. Such discussion will continue as a matter, of course, for the Government as to whether or not a ministerial statement is made.


from Berlin, Germany. It's theCUBE, covering DataWorks Summit Europe 2018. Brought to you by Hortonworks. Hello and welcome to theCUBE on day two of DataWorks Summit 2018 from Berlin. It's been a great show so far. We have just completed the day two keynote and in just a moment I'll bring you up to speed on the major points and presentations from that. It's been a great conference, fairly well attended here. It's a hallway chatter and discussion's been great. The breakouts have been stimulating. For me, the takeaway is the fact that Hortonworks, the show host, has announced yesterday at the keynote. It's gotten out of the CTO of Hortonworks and now it's Data Steward Studio, DSS, they call it. Part of the data plane, Hortonworks data plane services portfolio. And it could not be more timely Data Steward Studio because we are now five weeks away from GDPR, that's the General Data Protection Regulation, becoming the law of the land, and when I say the land, the EU. But really any company that operates in the EU, and that includes many US based and APAC based and other companies, will need to comply with the GDPR as of May 25th and ongoing in terms of protecting the personal data of EU citizens. And that means a lot of different things. Data Steward Studio announced yesterday was demoed today by Hortonworks and it was a really excellent demo and showed that it's a powerful solution for a number of things that are at the core of GDPR compliance. The demo covered the capability of the solution to discover and inventory personal data within a distributed data lake or enterprise data environment, number one. Number two, the ability of the solution to centralize consent, provide a consent portal essentially, that data subjects can use then to review the data that's kept on them to make fine grained consents or withdraw consents for use and profiling of their data they own. And then number three, they show, they demonstrate the capability of the solution then to execute the data subject, the people's requests in terms of the handling of their personal data. The three main points in terms of enabling, you know, giving, adding the teeth to enforce GDPR in an operational setting in any company that needs to comply with GDPR. So what we're going to see, I believe going forward in the, really in the whole global economy and in the big data space is that Hortonworks and others in the data lake industry, and there's many others, are going to need to roll out similar capabilities in their portfolios because their customers are absolutely going to demand it. In fact, the deadline is fast approaching, it's only five weeks away. One of the interesting takeaways from the keynote this morning was the fact that John Kreis of the VP for marketing at Hortonworks did a quick survey of those in the audience, a poll, asking how ready they are to comply with GDPR as of May 25th. And it was a bit eye-opening, I wasn't surprised, but I think it was 19 or 20%, I don't have the numbers in front of me, said that they won't be ready to comply. I believe it was something where between 20 and 30% said they will be able to comply. About 40%, don't quote me on that, but a fair plurality said that they're preparing. So that indicates that they're not entirely 100% sure that they will be able to comply 100% to the letter of the law as of May 25th. And I think that's probably accurate in terms of ballpark figures. I think there is a lot of, I know there's a lot of companies, users racing for compliance by that date. And so really GDPR is definitely the headline banner umbrella story around this event and really around the big data community worldwide right now in terms of enterprise, investments in the needed compliance software and services and capabilities needed to comply with GDPR. That was important. That wasn't the only thing that was covered in not only the keynotes, but in the sessions here so far. AI, clearly AI and machine learning are hot themes in terms of the innovation side of big data. There's compliance, there's GDPR, but really innovation in terms of what enterprises are doing with their data, with their analytics, they're building more and more AI and embedding that in conversational UIs and chat bots and they're embedding AI in all manner of e-commerce applications, internal applications in terms of search, as well as things like face recognition and voice recognition and so forth and so on. So what we've seen here at the show is what I've been seeing for quite some time is that more of the actual developers who are working with big data are the data scientists of the world and more of the traditional coders are getting up to speed very rapidly on the new state of the art for building machine learning and deep learning AI, natural language processing into their applications. That said, so Hortonworks has become a fairly substantial player in the machine learning space. In fact, really across their portfolio and many of the discussions here I've seen shows that everybody's buzzing about getting up to speed on frameworks for building and deploying and iterating and refining machine learning models in operational environments. So that's definitely a hot theme and so there was an AI presentation this morning from the first gentleman that came on that laid out the broad parameters of what the developers are doing and looking to do with data that they maintain in their lakes, training data to both build the models and train them and deploy them. So that was also something I expected and it's good to see at DataWorks Summit that there's a substantial focus on that in addition of course to GDPR and compliance. It's been about seven years now since Hortonworks was essentially spun off of Yahoo. It's been, I think it's about three years or so since they went IPO and what I can see is that they're making great progress in terms of their growth, in terms of not just the finances but their customer acquisition and their deal size and also customer satisfaction. I get a sense from talking to many of the attendees at this event is that Hortonworks has become a fairly blue chip vendor that they're really in many ways continuing to grow their footprint of Hortonworks products and services and those are their partners, such as IBM. And from what I can see, everybody was wrapped with attention around DataSteward Studio and I sensed sort of a sigh of relief that it looks like a fairly good solution and so I have no doubt that a fair number of those in this hall right now are probably, as we say in the US, probably kicking the tires of DSS and probably gonna expedite their adoption of it. So with that said, we have day two here so what we're gonna have is Alan Gates, one of the founders of Hortonworks coming on in just a few minutes and I'll be interviewing him asking him about the vibrancy and the health of the community, the Hortonworks ecosystem, the developers, partners and so forth as well as of course the open source communities for Hadoop and Ranger and Atlas and so forth, the growing stack of open source code upon which Hortonworks has built their substantial portfolio of solutions. Following him we'll have John Chrysa, the VP for marketing and I'm gonna ask John to give us an update on really the sort of the health of Hortonworks as a business in terms of the reach out to the community in terms of their messaging obviously and have him really position Hortonworks in the community in terms of who do they see them competing with? What segments is Hortonworks in now? The whole Hadoop segment, increasingly, Hadoop is there, it's the foundation. The word is not invoked in the context of discussions of Hortonworks as much now as it was in the past. And the same thing for, say, Cloudera, one of their closest to traditional rivals, closest in the sense that people associate them. I was at the Cloudera Annals to event the other week in Santa Monica, California. It was the same thing, I think both of these vendors are on a similar path to become fairly substantial data warehousing and data governance suppliers to the enterprises of the world that have traditionally gone with the likes of IBM and Oracle and SAP and so forth. So I think their Hortonworks is definitely evolved into a far more diversified solution provider than people realize and that's really one of the takeaways from DataWorks Summit. With that said, this is Jim Kobielus, I'm the lead analyst, I should have said that at the outset, I'm the lead analyst at SiliconANGLES Media's Wikibon team focused on big data analytics. I'm your host this week on theCUBE at DataWorks Summit Berlin and I'll close off this segment and we'll get ready to talk to the Hortonworks and IBM personnel and there's a gentleman from Accenture on as well. Today on theCUBE here at DataWorks Summit Berlin.