So just to bring up to speed, this is the flexor retinogulum that we see in front of us. And I have retracted the superficial palmar arch which came from the ulnar artery here to show you the flexor retinogulum in more detail. And we can see immediately it is attached to the PC-Pompon and to the hook of Hammett. Laterally it is attached to the tubicle of the scaphoid and the tubicle of the trapezium. And this flexor retinogulum bridges over the carpal tunnel. We have already split open the flexor retinogulum and we can see the cut margin here. We can see the cut margin is very thick. Flexor retinogulum is a very tough structure and once we split it open, we see the carpal tunnel with the contents passing through the carpal tunnel. So what are the contents of the carpal tunnel? We have these four tendons. These are the tendons of the flexor digital superficialis which I have eviscerated out of the carpal tunnel. And under that, we have these four tendons of the flexor digital profundus which also we have eviscerated out. Apart from these eight tendons, we also have this tendon. This is the flexor policies longest tendon. So these are the nine tendons of the carpal tunnel. Last but definitely not the least, the most important content of the carpal tunnel is the median nerve. This is the median nerve. This median nerve is the one which is responsible for the carpal tunnel syndrome that we hear about. This median nerve can get compressed in the carpal tunnel because the carpal tunnel is already over crowded with nine tendons with their sandalware sheets. And compression of the median nerve is how the carpal tunnel produces the carpal tunnel syndrome. So let's mention a few quick words about these tendons. If we were to pick up these four tendons of the flexor digital superficialis and we trace them, we find that this is the tendon which is going to the little finger. This is the tendon going to the ring finger, this to the middle finger and this to the index finger. And under that, we have this flexor digital profundus which are also going to the same four fingers. We will trace the tendons right up to the digits and we can see them here. We find that the tendons first run in a fibrous flexor sheath which we have split open. And if you look closely, we see that the superficialis tendon splits into two parts. And through the split portion, the profundus tendon is passing. Same thing we will see in this finger also. We can see the superficialis tendon has split into two parts and through the split portion, the profundus is passing. The same thing is seen here also and the same thing is seen here also. The superficialis tendon gets inserted onto the fetal phalanx and the profundus tendon gets inserted onto the tip of the fetal phalanx. So, therefore, the superficialis is responsible for flexing the proximal interphalangio joint. The profundus tendon is responsible for flexing the distal interphalangio joint. All of them are enclosed in the synavir sheath. The synavir sheath of the little finger is continuous with the synavir sheath of all these combined eight tendons while the synavir sheath of the ring, middle and the index finger stop here. This is referred to as the ulnar person. If a person gets an infected thorn prick in the little finger, the infection can spread all the way up to here and can involve this portion of the person. And that infection is referred to as suppurative tino-sinovitis. Of course, the same thing can happen to these other fingers also, but the infection will stop here because these do not communicate with the ulnar person. Now, let's take a look at this flexor-polisis-longus tendon. This is the flexor-polisis-longus tendon, which is also a content of the carpard tunnel. This flexor-polisis-longus tendon has got its own synavir sheath. And this synavir sheath is referred to as the radial person. And infection of the thumb of the synavir sheath will produce radial suppurative tino-sinovitis. When these superficialis and the profundus tendons are passing through to the digits, they pass through a fibrous flexor sheath, which we have straight open here. And that fibrous flexor sheath can sometimes become very tight. And in which case, they can compress and prevent free movement of the tendon here, even though the tendons are enclosed in the synavir sheath. In such a situation, the person, if he flexes his finger, after that he has difficulty extending his finger. That's because the fibrous flexor sheath has gripped the tendons tightly and it's preventing full release of the tendon. And that condition is referred to as trigger finger. Now, let's take a look at these muscles that we can see here in this dissection. We can see one muscle small, worm-like, thin muscle going to the radial side. Second one going to the radial side. Then we have a third muscle here and we have a fourth muscle here. These are the lumbrical muscles. The lateral two lumbricals, they arise from the profundus tendon to the second and the third digit. And they are unipenated and they get inserted onto the radial side of the dorsal extensor expansion. The medial two lumbricals are bipenated. They get inserted onto the dorsal expansion of the ring and the little finger respectively. The function of the lumbricals is to perform the Z movement, namely flexion of the metacarpophalogen joint and extension of the IP joints. The lateral two lumbricals are supplied by the same nerve which supplies the lateral half of the profundus, namely the medial nerve. The medial two lumbricals are supplied by the same nerve which supplies the medial half of the profundus, that is the ulnar nerve. This is the ulnar nerve which I have lifted up here, accompanied by the ulnar artery. It is passing through a canal here. This is referred to as the guion canal. And the ulnar nerve can get compressed in the guion canal or it can also be injured in fracture of the hook of hamate here. Or it can be injured in a condition known as handle bar neuropathy. Ulnar nerve gives a communicating branch to the medial nerve. It gives a superficial branch, which we can see going to this little finger and the medial part of the ring finger. And it gives a deep branch which supplies all the intrinsic muscles of the hand, except the lateral two lumbricals. Injury to the ulnar nerve here will produce paralysis of the hypothera muscles and it will also produce paralysis of the medial two lumbricals. And the person will get what is known as ulnar claw hand. Now let us come to the medial nerve, which I mentioned to you in the beginning. This is the medial nerve. The medial nerve, it passes through the copper tunnel and we can see it is giving rise to these branches in the palm. It is giving a branch to the radial side of the ring finger. It is giving a branch to the entire middle finger. It is giving a branch to the entire index finger. It's giving a branch to the thumb. These are all the branches of the medial nerve and I have picked up the whole stem of the medial nerve here. Additionally, we can see this is a communicating branch from the medial nerve to the ulnar nerve. And finally, we can also see this branch of the medial nerve. This is called the recurrent branch of the medial nerve which supplies the three nerve muscles. This is a very superficial branch and this can be injured if a person gets a superficial laceration of the palm here. If a person falls on his palm and it strikes a sharp object. In which case, the person can get paralysis of the three nerve muscles if this nerve is injured. This medial nerve is the main culprit which is compressed in the copper tunnel syndrome. In which case, the person will have tingling, numbness and peristhesia of this half of the ring finger, middle finger, index finger and the thumb. Additionally, the person will have weakness of the three nerve muscles and weakness of the lateral two lubricants because they are also supplied by the medial nerve. In this connection, I need to mention that the branch of the medial nerve which supplies the Palmer skin, the lateral three force of the Palmer skin does not arise from the copper tunnel. It arises from a branch of the medial nerve which goes above the copper tunnel. So therefore, in copper tunnel syndrome, the Palmer skin is spared. So this is the important clinical significance of the medial nerve. That brings me to the point which I had started with in the dissection when we made an incision of the flexor retinaculum to relieve a pressure of the copper tunnel. This incision that I made is the exact incision that is done in surgical practice. Earlier days, we used to do it by means of an open surgery. Nowadays, this incision in copper tunnel syndrome is done by means of an endoscope. In either situation, if you notice, I have made the incision slightly towards the ulnar side. The purpose of doing this incision is to safeguard three structures. Number one, we have to safeguard the recurrent branch of the medial nerve. Otherwise, if we got this, then we can produce paralysis of the theramoses. The second structure to be safeguarded is this, the communication between the ulnar nerve and the medial nerve. And the third structure to be safeguarded is this one, which is the superficial Palmer arch which is coming from the ulnar arch. So these are the three structures that we need to safeguard when we are doing a release of the copper tunnel in copper tunnel syndrome by cutting open the flexor retinaculum. Now, what I have done, I have lifted up the superficialis and the profundus tendons. And my finger has got under all of these tendons and you can see my finger here. This space where my finger is located now, this is called mid Palmer space. This mid Palmer space is a space under the profundus tendons. Just to bring you up to speed, covering all of this was the Palmer aponeurosis. We have removed that. Just under the Palmer aponeurosis was the superficial Palmer arch which we have reflected to one side. These long tendons, they are in the central compartment with the corresponding numericals. And under that, this space where my finger now is located, this is called the mid Palmer space. If a patient sustains an infection of the mid Palmer space and you can see it is quite a big space, the infection can track down. It can track through the copper tunnel, as you can see here. And it can come into this space on the flexor aspect of the wrist. This is called the space of Parona. So therefore, the space of Parona is bounded by, anteriorly by the flexor, digital profundus tendon muscles. Postially, it is bounded by this muscle here, which is called the pronated quadratus. Medially, it is bounded by the attachment of the anti-brickle fasciate. And laterally, it is attached the anti-brickle fasciate radius. And approximately, it is bounded by the attachment of the flexors of the palm to the radius. So this whole thing is called the space of Parona, which communicates with the mid Palmer space. Additionally, we have another space in the palm, and that also we can see here. These are the thinner muscles, as I mentioned. This is in the compartment called the thinner compartment. And this is the adductor policies muscle, which is in a separate compartment called the adductor compartment. Between the thinner muscles and the adductor compartment, this space that we see here, this is called the thinner space. So this is also a potential space of infection. And these are the two spaces that we can see in the palm. And finally, to conclude, we have hypothenol compartment, the thinner compartment, adductor compartment, central compartment, and dorsal to the mid Palmer space, we have the interosseous compartment. So these are the various compartments, each of which contain the various muscles. So these are the structures, which I wanted to show you in the dissection, deep dissection of the hand. That's all for now. Thank you very much for watching Dr. Sanjay Sanyal. Sanyal, please like and subscribe. If you have any questions or comments, please put them in the comment section below. Have a nice day.


Hello, welcome to NPTEL NOC on Introductory Core from Point Setupology, Part 2. Today we will do module 16 and a new concept, total boundedness. In a metric space, there is another important concept which is a consequence of compactness namely boundedness. However, boundedness itself is too fragile a condition because any metric space can be equivalently changed, the metric can be changed into bounded metric without changing the topology. So, we are looking for some version of boundedness property which is not so fragile. Once again, we go back to the link between abstract topology and metric spaces namely the fundamental open subsets, open balls. So, here is a definition, let x t be a metric space, let epsilon be positive real number, n in m. By an epsilon net in x, we mean a finite subset x 1, x 2, x n of x such that the entire space x is contained inside the finitely many open balls centered at x i and radius epsilon. So, these epsilon balls are enough to cover the whole thing and of course, if you take all the points is always possible, but finitely many points only. So, we say x d is totally bounded if for every epsilon there is an epsilon net.  So, this almost comes to very close to compactness. So, it has something to do with compactness already. So, let us see what. So, total boundedness is some kind of restricted compactness that is the first thing to know. Every open cover of x by balls of a fixed radius, they admit a finite sub cover. It is clear that any compact matrix space is totally bounded because it can take balls of fixed radius positivistic that will be that will allow you a finite sub cover because it is compact. In general it is not clear why a total bounded matrix space should be compact or compact. So, observe that total boundedness implies boundedness automatically because all that you have to take is the x 1, x 2, x n and look at the diameter of this finite set x 1, x 2, x n. Add a twice epsilon that is all. Every point will be inside that much distance between any two points will be less than that that is what you can see. So, total boundedness implies boundedness. In the Euclidean space is even the converse is true. Thus our intuition may easily mislead us. So, it is total boundedness is much more stronger than boundedness but in the Euclidean space you do not have this problem. So, indeed it is clear that the bounded subset need not be totally bounded since the matrix can be simply changed to a bounded matrix all the time. Then it would that was the place then everything would have been. So, this is just a you know gas work but we will see the examples unless you see an example you will not be satisfied. Recall that if a Cauchy sequence admits a subsequence which is convergent then the sequence itself is convergent. Thus in a sequentially compact matrix space sequentially compact means remember what it is every sequence is a subsequence which is convergent. Every Cauchy sequence will be convergent because it will admit a subsequence which is convergent because it is Cauchy that Cauchy sequence is convergent. This latter property is known as completeness. Every Cauchy sequence convergent is completeness. So, somehow when studying the sequential compactness etc. we are forced to think about completeness also. Then there is another important property all the time used in analysis of matrix spaces namely compact matrix spaces namely the Lebesgue property. So, I will just recall it what is the meaning of Lebesgue. There is a theorem of Lebesgue and then whatever it satisfies Lebesgue property we have made for each open cover u of x you must find a positive delta such that the family of balls of radius delta form a refinement of u. If you take any ball of radius delta anywhere in the space such a ball will be contained in one of the members of u that is the meaning of refinement. So, that is the Lebesgue property. So, it is also worth recalling that if x satisfies Lebesgue property then every continuous function from x to any space y is uniformly continuous. Continuity implies uniformly continuity. You have been studying that on a compact space. It is compact you know intervals close intervals or a close joint bounded subset of r in and so on that is analysis. But now you see that all that unity is the Lebesgue property not compactness as such. So, how far can we go? How far are they right actually from compactness? Our next aim is to obtain a characterization of compact matrix spaces in terms of these properties. Lebesgue property sequential compactness, total boundedness and so on. So, that is the theorem here. There are six criteria here the first one is x compact. So, you can say five different criteria for a compact matrix space. You start with a matrix space then the following conditions are equivalent. X is compact, x is comparably compact, x is limit point compact, x is sequential compact, x is totally bounded and has Lebesgue property, x is totally bounded and complete. So, these first three are the ones which we have studied last time. These two new things are there now which are our old things except this total boundedness is new. Lebesgue property and completeness is old friends right. So, let us go through the proof of this. Equal 1 implies 2 implies 3 implies 4 implies 5 implies 6 implies 1 that would have been ideal thing the easiest way. Somehow I am not able to arrange it in that way. So, I will just follow a slightly different approach here. This is 1 implies 2 implies 3, 4, 5 and directly 1 and 4 and 6 are equivalent separately. So, observe that a matrix space is both T 1 and first countable. This is what I have already told you last time. Thus, we have already seen 1 implies 2 implies 3 implies 4 right. Compactness implies countable compactness, sequential compactness which is the same order. Countable compactness, limit point compactness and sequential compactness ok. These things we have already seen alright. We have seen more than that but right now the concentration is up till here we have already proved. So, these two implications and these two implications are left out right now ok. So, let us prove 4 implies 5 namely this is sequential compactness, sequential compact matrix space. So, we want to show that it is totally bounded and satisfies Lebesgue property that is what we have to show right. To prove total boundedness suppose there exist epsilon positive such that no finite number of pulse of epsilon radius cover x. That means there is no epsilon net ok that is that negation of total boundedness. Choose a point x naught in x any point does not matter. After that x 1, x 2, x 3 inductively how do you choose? x n will be chosen in x minus b epsilon of x k union k rings 1, 2, n minus 1. So, x 2 will be chosen x minus b 1 and b epsilon of x 1. Then take b epsilon of x 1, b of x 2 after choosing x 2 choose x 3 in the complement of that and so on. By sequential compactness a subsequence x n k will convert to some point a. So, there exist some k naught such that k is bigger than k naught will imply all these x n k points of the subsequence. They are in the side b epsilon by 2 ball of a. I can take epsilon by 3 epsilon by 4 order epsilon by 2 seems to be sufficient here ok. Hence the distance between x n k and x n k plus 1 n plus k plus 1 or anything after that will be less than epsilon right. On the other hand n plus k n of k plus 1 is bigger than n k I mean it is coming later on. Therefore, this x n plus k n k plus 1 is not in the previous ball epsilon ball that is absurd here you see. This says that this point is in epsilon ball of this point, but it says it is not all right. So, that is already a contradiction. So, we have proved total boundedness. So, no problem is things are things are straight forward. If this is not true what happens just ok. Second part we have proved what is that total boundedness Lebesgue property. Lebesgue property is also very close here. Let now u i be any open cover assume that this cover has no Lebesgue number. What is the meaning of that? This means that you know the Lebesgue number there exist some delta positive. So, for every delta positive something should happen that is true all right. Then for every n so now instead of every delta I am choosing n then 1 by n I am applying to 1 by n ok. There exist x n instead of x such that b 1 by n x n is not contained in any u i you can go to b 1 by 2 ok there will be 1 point b 1 itself b 1 of x 1 will not be contained in any u i next b 1 by 2 x 2 will not be contained in so on. So, you get a sequence let y k be a subsequence of x n which converges to y. Let y belonging to u i say ok. So, y must be in one of the open subsets here because u i is an open cover choose m such that b 1 by m y is contained inside. Now there exist a k naught such that for all k bigger than k naught all the y k must be in b 1 by twice m ok half of b 1 by m ball of radius 1 by 2 m around y ok.   So, this entire ball will be inside this one because this point will be there and it is in the distance between any point in the ball and this point is less than 1 by 2 m 1 by 1. So, together it will be less than 1 by m. So, that will be less than. So, it will be contained in the b 1 by m y. But b 1 by m y is contained inside u i is by choice and that is a contradiction ok. You see the proof of Lebesgue property as well as this one is more or less similar here ok using the sequential compare. This is all because we can use the metric here that is the otherwise there is no problem. So, now I will prove 5 implies 1 that namely what is 5 total boundedness and satisfy Lebesgue property ok that will give you compare. Just like we observed that countably compare and Lindelof implies compare. So, if the proof is not that simple almost you know. So, 5 implies 1 is also not difficult. So, let us go through the proof. Start with any open cover let r positive be a Lebesgue number.   So, that is all right. So, we have left with 4 implies 6 and 6 implies 2 6 implies 4 4 is what 4 is sequentially compare 6 is total boundedness and completeness ok. So, these are also not difficult given an open cover u i i belong to x ok this we have finished already. Here 4 implies 6 the first part of this has been proved in the implication 4 implies 5 ok.  So, there we have already proved that one completeness have been observed already in the remark 3 above right. Start the Cauchy sequence as a sequence it has a subsequence it is convergent therefore it is convergent. So, 4 implies 6 is easy. So, that is why I have taken that one all right. Now finally, I have to show that 6 implies 4 let x n be any sequence in x the idea is to show that it has subsequence which is Cauchy by completeness the Cauchy sequence will converge and that is that will over instead of so that is all you know you want to show that there is a sequence which is convergent you have to just show it is Cauchy here ok.  So, this epsilon net for epsilon equal to 1 by k. Now by the pigeon hole principle there exist an infinite subset n 1 of n and a 1 belong in to a capital n capital 1 such that all n belong in to n 1 we have x n is in b 1 of a 1 ok a 1 a 2 a k are there for each k right. So, look at a 1 ok there are only finitely many balls here and there is infinite subset infinite sequence. So, you will have pigeon hole principle is infinite to finite that is all exist in infinite subset n 1 such that n 1 a 1 is a point of a 1 such that all n inside n 1 ok this infinite subset all the x n are in b 1 of a 1 ok in a 1 there are finitely many one of them has to have infinite many one of the balls have infinite many. So, I am calling that as b 1 of a 1 similarly you can choose in infinite subset n k of previously chosen n k minus 1 because each is infinite subset such that this a k there will be a k inside a capital k some point such that the ball of radius 1 by k contains all this n k all this infinite subset ok. So, once you have chosen this nested sequence of infinite subsets of starting with infinite that here these are indexing sets by the way. So, that there are x n corresponding sequence will come out ok let n k be the least number in n capital k ok capital n k which is bigger than n k minus 1 choose n 1 to be anything inside n 1 then n 2 you have to choose bigger, but the smallest one you have to give what choice. So, I am telling you least number ok then we claim that this sequence x n k is a course is equal ok. So, this choice was not all that obvious how to do this, but we have done this kind of even more complicated choices here anyway. So, why x n k is a course here even epsilon positive a k naught such that 1 by k naught is less than epsilon by 2 then if k and l are greater than k naught x n k and x n l will be inside 1 b of 1 by k naught a k naught right both of them will be here what is the meaning of that distance between them is at most epsilon by you know twice 1 by k naught twice 1 by k naught is less than epsilon. So, given every epsilon I have chosen I have given you some k naught such that bigger than that distance is less than epsilon means that this sequence is course here they are all coming nearer and nearer to some finite even point each time. So, that is why so this becomes a course is sequence course is sequence convergence ok. So, that completes proof of almost big theorem and looking big right. So, we have this these are the implication that we have grown now alright. So, here is my exercise I will go through that you can you are welcome to solve them and get answers from a checked and so on. Easy application of theorem 4.10 that is what you know take x to r we continuous real world function where x is countably complex then show that f is bounded and attains its extremum ok. So, this is similar to what we remark namely the big property implies uniform continuity. So, compact under compactness this is vice trust theorem any continuous function on a compact set to real numbers is bounded and attains its extremum both maximum and minimum right no need for compactness countably compactness is enough. So, try your x p a metric space for each r positive show that there exist a subset a r of x which is maximum with respect to the property that for any two points x y not equal to x not equal to y inside a r the distance between x and y is bigger than r you get the point you have for each r you have to subset each any two points are at a distance bigger than r. For example, if you have just two points r is one the distance between these two points must be at least one then third point all the distance between the one one between one and two two and three all of them must be bigger than one and so on ok. Choose a maximal such subset a r ok. So, that is there exist a maximal subset that is what you have to show further x is limit point compact then show that any such a r is finite in a compact metric space you have proved such thing now you have to prove it for limit point compact space limit point compact metric space show that every metric space which is limit point compact is separable and hence second countable in particular conclude that every compact or countably compact metric space is second countable which you might have proved in a different way elsewhere ok. So, next time we will prove the very important functional result namely a scholes theorem. Thank you.


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Welcome everybody to the, and this is a mouthful, the West Cliff, Foster Park, Overton and Summer Fields Area Improvement Community Design Meeting. If you can see the chat button in the bottom right-hand corner and you already have questions, go ahead and type that into the chat and when the presentation is over, we will field those chat questions first. If you can't see the chat and you still have a question, we will take the call-in users after we do the chat question. And we want to welcome Tara Holt. She is the District Director for Council District 4 and she's joined us in this meeting. Tara, do you want to say anything? No, I'm just happy to be here. I can't wait to learn more about the project. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. All right. And Preeti KC is your project manager and I'm going to pass this over to Preeti. All right. Thank you, Sally. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for attending the Community Design Meeting for West Cliff, Foster Park, Overton and Summer Fields Area Improvements. Today is Monday, November 7th. So for this meeting, we are going to follow an agenda which includes introductions, project overview, project area, some frequently asked questions and the timeline of the project. So your project team includes myself, Preeti KC. I am the project manager for this project. You can reach me at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can email me at Preeti.KC at FortwoodTexas.gov. Our engineering design consultant is Multitech Engineering Incorporation and Robert Prittis and Paul Padilla are the project engineers. So why are we doing this project? Fortwood prioritizes water and sewer line replacement based on available data which includes water main break history, leak history, CCTV inspection, the age of the line, the material of the line, some lead services line and cast iron lines. Project overview. Existing water and sanitary sewer mains will be replaced in 11 streets and courts and in 10 easements. This project is in Council District 3 and Council District 4. Construction will impact the Overton Woods, West Cliff West, Foster Park, Overton Park and Summerfields Neighborhood Associations. Now we're going to go through the project area. If you can see the map on the right hand side, there is this black line which represents the area that's going to be affected. We are going to replace water and sewer line on those areas. Windslow drive from Encanto Drive to Sombra Slain, we are going to replace water line. Sombra Slain from Bellar Circle to Windslow Drive, we are going to replace water line. Eastman between Arundel Avenue and Windslow Drive from 220 feet east of Encanto Drive to 910 feet east, we are going to replace sewer line. Wind south of Arundel Avenue from Arundel Avenue to 190 feet south, we are going to replace sewer line. Eastman west of Sombra Slain from Arundel Avenue to 500 feet south, we are going to replace sewer line. Overton Park Drive from Altura Court to Rainier Court, we are going to replace water line. We are also going to replace water line at Rainier Court from South Drive to 1620 feet north. Water line is going to be replaced at Norwich Drive from Rainier Court to South Drive and at Lambert Avenue from Rainier Court to Norwich Drive. We are also going to replace water line at Windill Court from Trail Lake Drive to the Calde Sack and at Sierra Court from Trail Lake Drive to the Calde Sack. We are going to replace sewer line at the Eastman east of Rainier Court slash Lambert Avenue intersection to 1500 foot north then 170 foot east. We are also going to replace sewer line at the Eastman west of Norwich Drive from 180 feet north of Norwich Drive to 170 foot west. We are also going to replace sewer line at Eastman north of Lambert Avenue from 150 feet west of Rainier Court to 542 foot west. We are replacing sewer line at Eastman east of Overton Park from 270 feet south of Overton Park Drive slash Altura Court intersection to 150 feet east and 155 feet southeast. We are going to replace sewer line at Eastman north of South Drive from 150 feet north and 350 feet east of South Drive slash Rainier Court intersection to 500 foot west then 60 foot north. We are replacing sewer line at Eastman between Sierra Court and Windill Court from 130 feet west of Trail Lake Drive to 360 feet west. We are also going to replace sewer line at Western Center Boulevard from Silver Sage Drive to 600 feet west. And we are replacing water and sewer line at Poppy Court from Sunnybank Drive to Western Center Boulevard. We are replacing sewer line at Ranchview Road from Belair Drive to 67 feet east. We are replacing sewer line at the Eastman south of Southwest Loop 820 from Overton Ridge Drive, oh sorry, Overton Ridge Boulevard to 610 foot west. So we're going to talk about another project that is going to happen in Westliff West area. So if the map to the right looks familiar to you, it's because we hosted a community design meeting for the Westliff and Westliff wastewater and sewer project on October 24th. The project we are talking about today includes Summers Lane from Belair Circle to Winslow Drive and Winslow Drive from Summers Lane to Encanto Drive. The two projects will be constructed in phases. So as to minimize disruption to the residents. Now we're going to go through some frequently asked questions that can arise during construction. Will our water be turned off? Water will be turned off for 15 to 30 minutes when service is transferred from the existing line to a temporary water line and when the service is transferred from the temporary line to the new line. The switchovers are done during the day. The contractor will knock on the door and let customers know when the water will be turned off. The transfer typically takes 30 minutes per house or business. Will you need access to our property? Construction will be in the streets and easements. If forward water needs access to your property, we will contact you. If an easement is needed for your property, a city land agent will be contacting you soon. I guess the city land agent has already contacted most of the property owners for the easement. Will our sewer service be disrupted? Sanitary sewer service will not be interrupted. New sewer cleanouts will be installed at the property line. The sewer cleanout provides crews easy access if a backup or block is occurs. The sewer line from the clean out to the house is the owners responsibility to maintain. Will I have access to my driveway? An inspector will be assigned to the project when we are ready to start construction. The inspector and the contractor will work with the residents who needs driveway access during active construction hours.   Will there be lane closure during construction? Yes, there will be lane closure during construction, but the sign will be posted to alert the motorist. What are the construction hours? The hours of construction are from 7 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday, and if requested by the contractor, it can be from 9 am to 4 pm or 5 pm on Saturdays. Now we can talk about the timeline of the project. So this project is still in the design phase. We expect to finalize the design, advertise for bids, and select a contractor before summer of 2023. We will host a community construction meeting after we have a contractor on board. Here can I get more information? You can go to www.fortworthtexas.gov and type in the project number 102783 in the search bar on the home page, West Cliff Foster Park Overturn and Summer Fills area improvements will pop up. To get to the project page updates, scroll down to the bottom of the project page and click on subscribe to this page. The link to the project summary or frequently asked questions will be linked to this project page. How do I report an emergency or non-emergency? If there is an emergency water main breaks, sewer backups, you can reach out to number<PHONE_NUMBER> and select option 1 and it is 24 hours a day. If it is a non-emergency, it is the same number,<PHONE_NUMBER> but it is from 7am to 7pm Monday through Friday and it is closed during city holidays. You can also download the My FW app from the App Store or Google Play. You can report sewer overflows, leaks, and water main breaks, missing or broken meter leads, water theft, water violations, no water service, water pressure issues, and other sewer concerns. Here is the contact information again. So I am the product manager. My name is Preeti Casey. You can reach me at<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can also email me at Preeti.kc at FortwardTexas.gov. Our engineering design consultant is Multatech Engineering Incorporation and our product manager is Robert Preetis and Paul Padilla. If you have any questions related to easement, you can contact our land agent Austin Lopes. You can reach him out at<PHONE_NUMBER> and his email address is Austin.Lopes at FortwardTexas.gov. You can also reach out to him if you have any additional questions on the easement and we can set up a separate meeting on the site. If there is any questions related to trees and landscaping, you can reach out to our city forester Craig Fox. His phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER> and his email address is Craig.Fox at FortwardTexas.gov. Thank you so much for your time for attending this meeting. I will pass this to Sally now to see if you have any questions. Okay, so far, excuse me, so far we don't have any questions in chat, but if you did not have a chance to write down those contact numbers, the project page link is in the chat. Preeti's phone number and email is in the chat and she mentioned the easement question. We put Austin's contact information in the chat and also when she talked about the tree and landscaping questions, we have Craig Fox's information in the chat if you want to open that and write that information down. So, if you have a question, go ahead and let me do this one by one. Okay, let's see. I'm going to unmute you all. Okay, you can unmute yourself and ask your questions. Bruce, do you have any questions? Yes, I appear to be a lucky one where I'm going to have construction in front and behind my house. Okay. On the sewer, is it dig it up and replace it or is it put in a kind of a sleeve or a rubber lining or something to keep it from leaking? So, in some places we are digging it up and replacing it and on some places we are doing a CIPP lining. And you probably don't know which I'm going to get. It depends on the address or you can send me a separate email and I can look into it and I will send the information. Sounds like I shouldn't replace my back fence yet. No, not yet. Yeah. Thank you. Sure. Okay, John, excuse me if I say the wrong Viola. Yes, sorry, I had some technical difficulties. So, I got in a little bit late but we have a sewer easement in the back of our house and I was just, I didn't know if that's going to be affected as well. Yeah, again, like if at this point I don't know which address that you are in. So, you can, if you can shoot me an email or you can give me a call and we can definitely look into it and send you the information and also I can send you the 60% of the time when you can see if we need additional easement or any easement is needed. Okay. Thank you. Okay, we have, we have two call-in users. So, I don't have your name if you have some questions. Okay, call-in user two. Nope. Okay, it looks like those are the, yeah, those are the only ones on here we have questions. Please make sure you open up the chat and copy all of that information down if you need to get in contact with Pre-T and again, easement questions are often, often I may be saying this wrong, it's either Lopes or Lopez. It's Lopes. Lopes, okay. And then Craig Fox is your contact for tree and landscaping questions. Oh, is it presentation available online? We will make a PDF copy of it and post that to the project page. It should be able, this is what? We should be able to post it by Wednesday at the very latest. We also post this video. It becomes a YouTube video instead of WebEx, so that'll be on there. And we also do summary FAQs. If you don't want to watch a video, you can just print off the summary FAQs and it has all the information that is on this PowerPoint. So you've got several different ways that you can get the information, but don't hesitate to reach out to Pre-T. She can answer your questions for you. And I hope none of your neighbors are stuck in the traffic on I-35. Kind of crazy today. Okay. If you have any questions about your lot or easement, please send me an email. Yeah. Here is my contact information. You can also call me or email me. Juan, I was going to ask Pre-T, do we have an estimate about when this will be advertised and go to construction? Yeah. We are thinking somewhere of 2023. So we will host a community construction meeting before we go to construction. Guys are being quiet. Tara, do you want to say anything? I also saw Council Member Blalock was on the call. Okay. He's not on the call anymore. Tara, did you want to say anything? Yeah. He was probably stuck in I-35 traffic. That's usually where he is if I can't find him. So yeah, now that you say that. So he planned on being here today. So I apologize on his behalf, I'm sure. Okay. Well, thank you everybody. Again, if you have any information, don't hesitate to reach out to us and you will get another mailer in your mailbox when we have the community construction meeting set up. Thank you all. Thank you all. Thanks. Bye.


Hi everybody, my name is Sabine Staufer and I'm the CMO and co-founder of HydroLoop. So HydroLoop, you actually won the best of CES on the Engadget last year, right? Yes. So that must have been a good boost for a lot of people contact you since then. What has been happening over the past year? Well, where can I start? This really was, you know, we won four awards of which, you know, the top one, the best of the best. This has, like, catapulted us all over the world, literally. There isn't a language that hasn't written about us. So this was a marketing budget, you know, that we didn't have, but still we've been catapulted all over the world. Since then, well, basically we were on the news everywhere. We were in magazines everywhere, on blogs, on blogs. We've had thousands and thousands and thousands of people sending us emails. Our inbox was exploding. And I can tell you, we were not prepared for anything like this. So we had to really scale up our company, which is what we've been doing. But of course it takes a bit of time. We had to get more staff in and we had to get production up, you know, scaling that up. And of course we, yeah, we need financing to do all that. Well, that all worked out. So we've done all that. And since then, well, we've produced new products that we came out with this year at CES. And this is also one of the things that, you know, we really want to do. So we've come up with the HydroLoop H600, which is the bigger brother of the one that we came out with last year, which we launched globally at CES. We came up with the HydroLoop Cascade, another product, which is basically the product that is like a modular, skatable, HydroLoop that you can actually use for larger operations like in commercial buildings or a sport club or, you know, so we can treat thousands and tens of thousands of litres of water instead of just in a home. What else has happened? We've won several awards after that. We've been to the king and queen in the Netherlands for lunch because, you know, they wanted to congratulate us on the innovation. I became, I got a prize in the European Union. I became a, I got an award for a female entrepreneur for sustainable innovation in Brussels. And so basically you have, without filters, you can recycle water in residential at home. But now you're also doing small hotels and stuff like that. Yes, so we started off with a product that was just for like the family home for like four or five people. And from demand, basically from the, you know, from the market, we found out that there are bigger families that use more water. But also we have families like in the US or in like Middle East. As a family, they use like so much more water than, for example, we do in Europe. So that's why we decided to make a larger version. So that is either for families that use more water or for larger families. And also, yeah, there was a large request for larger operations. So that's why we created the Cascade and we can do, well, we basically say every building has, every building where people wash their hands or they take a shower or they take a bath and they flush a toilet or there's a garden. That's where a Hyderloop can come in. We can collect the hand basin and the toilet or sorry, not the toilet, the shower water. So the lightly contaminated gray water, as it's called, treat it and disinfect it.  It doesn't smell. And hey, you know, what are you going to reuse it for?  You don't need tap water for that. You need really nice, safe, recycled water for that. And that's what we do and we do it without the filters and the membranes. And that's why we're winning these awards as well, because what we wanted to make and it closes a, you know, a consumer product that is fit and forget. So you put it in your home and people, best thing they say is they don't even notice it's there. You know, so you don't even have to switch it on.  And then the software is actually loaded up into the system. And then it will just do a little test and then it will start to work. And for the rest of this fully automatic, you don't need to do anything yet.  And in some countries the return on investment will be longer, but life isn't all about return on investment, I always say. So since last year and actually since when are you launching these? Are you selling them? It looks like mass production. You're making them in Holland? Yes, yes. This is a very nice. This is a shared smart factory in the Netherlands called Technologies Edits. And this is perfect for startups and scale-ups like us. You know, so it's like your own factory yet they produce for other people as well for other companies. And it's very scalable. So they do the whole supply chain, the production, the assembly and everything, transportation companies inside the building as well. So it's very good. So as I said to you, you know, since CES last year, we've really had scale-up production, which is what we're doing. So this is actually the movie that you're seeing is still from a couple of months ago. But I can tell you there's a lot more people working there now. But not only here, I mean, we're also looking, of course, if you're looking at we are shipping all over the world because water is an issue. You know, water shortage is a worldwide problem. So we're shipping to Costa Rica, to Martinique, to Canada, to Middle East, to South Africa, to Namibia, to Vietnam. And of course, when you ship these units, you're shipping a lot of water, I was going to say, and a lot of air because, you know, of the tanks. So of course, what we're looking at is currently we're still making them in the Netherlands, but we are looking for partners in other countries. So we can actually assemble and produce them somewhere else and make them locally, which is good because then we will also create jobs in another area. And because their wages are probably also a lot lower than in the Netherlands, we can also bring down the cost of the units in other areas of the world. So what kind of price do you have right now? And is there any chance that this is going to be at the price point where this makes sense everywhere, even in more developing places where water is even more of an issue? Yeah. Well, I think water is an issue anywhere and it's independent or if people are rich or poor, it's going to hit all of us. But yes, we have a lot of, you know, we have a lot of things that we're aiming for. First of all, economies of scale. So, you know, at the moment, we're producing more, we're selling more. We at this moment, it's three continents in the world. We have partners because just to explain to you, how do we work? We have partners. So we find and we, you know, we accredit partners all over the world and they will actually market and sell our products in that part of the world. And they will also install them and they will service them. So by economy of scale, the more we sell, the cheaper, you know, the systems are going to be, the units are going to be. Also, what we're aiming for right now in the coming year is to really try and make the units a lot cheaper as well by changing things in it so we can produce it a lot cheaper. Then, as I said, we're going to produce in other countries and make them in these countries also cheaper because labor is cheaper. Then we also go having, you know, talks about private label. So that will also make the units cheaper. And then what we would like to be is the, you know, we'd like to remain like the Tesla offered the water recycling systems. So there will be, there will be many other companies that will come out with water recycling systems because this is really what we need in the world as well. There is a huge market out there and we invite them to do it, but we would like to be the best of the best always and then the nicest one. At the same time, we're talking to the World Bank already and it is our, you know, it is our mission that in 10 years time, no building will be built without its own decentralized water recycling system. And we want to make this available to the whole world. So of course we're looking, but that's going to take a few more years, you know, we can't do that right now with the company, but we are looking to make them in, you know, do that for licensing fees. So, and we will do that in countries like India or wherever where, you know, we will try and reach everybody. Can you talk a little bit about the invention or the engineering that went behind and how did you figure this out? You have like a background and doing this kind of technology? The answer is we have completely different backgrounds. I'm the co-founder, but the founder is Arthur Falkeester and his background is actually in television and media, but he was always very technical with all his camera and camera work, etc. So he would know his cameras inside out and as a kid he's always been interested in technology. So, but he wasn't schooled, he wasn't schooled in like the water technology or whatever. And we've actually been praised by several people that are like very, very top names in the water branch that this was actually so good because he wasn't trained in any way in the water branch. Therefore it made him completely look out of the box and look at very different ways of treating water.  So you need to make something that is good looking, has to have nice design. It has to be affordable and it has to take a very little space because anything that is in competition is huge and large and, you know, you need to shed for a machine like that. And we wanted something compact and smart and it has to be very, very low on maintenance. So those were the design goals basically of the system. And because we wanted very low maintenance, we knew that we couldn't use filters for membranes because they work fine. You can imagine water is pushed through a membrane, works fine, but they clog and you can't clean them and everybody in the water industry knows that. So that means that you have a lot of maintenance and it's dirty and it makes it expensive. So that's why we said we have to make something without membranes and obviously chemicals is another solution, but we think that is not very sustainable. So basically by trial and error Arthur, I lost him several years in the garage. This is a garage story. I'm not only the CMO co-founder, I'm also married to the founder. So I lost him a couple of years in the garage and he, by trial and error, by reading about it, by researching, by trying all these different techniques for water treatment, that's step by step he came to what has become now. And basically what we've done is it is six existing techniques, sedimentation, flotation, dissolved air flotation, foam fractionation, a biological treatment and the final step is UV light whereby we disinfect the water and it is, as I said, clean, clear and safe and certified, by the way, to use again. And this way we have a self-cleaning system, we created it, so you don't need to clean it, you don't need to do anything, as I said, it does its job. So you can recycle water from, let's say, a shower or from potentially washing machine to use again in the washing machine or in a toilet or in a garden, right? But it's not for drinking, right? No. The reason why we do it is that is another step that you have to make and it is quite complex and you probably need filters and membranes again. It can be done and there are machines that do it. But we look at it this way, if you look on the one hand, if you look at your water usage and let me give an example of Europe, for example. In Europe, people use about 130 litres inside the house per person per day, 130 litres. Now, this goes up into shower, bath, washing machine, toilet flushing and a little bit for the garden, let's say. And in the kitchen, for food preparation and drinking water. Now, if you look at, if you start to recycle your bath, shower and washing machine water, this water and you clean it and you use it for toilet flushing and washing machine again, that kind of evens itself out. So it's the same amount of water that comes in from the shower and the washing machine and you clean that and that with that you use it for the toilet and the washing machine and you have a little surplus over for, for example, your garden.   So that is, there is so much to be made with that. And then if we, if we were to make it, you know, like drinking tap water again, for those few liters that you are drinking, it doesn't make sense. That's why we chose to do it this way. So it basically told you about 130 liters, that is what normally people in Europe use per person per day. And if you have a hydro loop, you use only 74 liters. So it's almost half. It makes a tremendous effect if we start doing this, if we start implementing this in new constructions and this is, you know, what we are advocating right now and we're doing a lot more of it now already starting in the Netherlands, but this is going to, we're going to roll this out everywhere to build every building recycle ready so that every building is every new construction is made with decentral water recycling. You know, the plumbing made so that it, you know, it is ready for a decentral water recycling because you are building for the future, you're not building for the coming five or 10 years, you're building for 100 years. So if all the plumbing is made, and then within the next, you know, in the coming 10 years, we hope that every new building will have this implemented standard, just like, you know, air conditioning and and and everything else that heat pump and whatever. And at the same time in the coming years, every building existing building will have a refurbishment, either in, you know, or just a bathroom or the whole building. And then again, that will be an excellent time to then do the plumbing correctly, and also install decentral water recycling system so that in 30 years time when we have 2 billion more people on the planet that will be we will be using less water than we are using right now. That's that's what we're aiming for and that's the power of decentral water recycling. So you're talking about people in every language, every word reaching out and everything. Are you saying anything about how many you've shipped so far? Hopefully it's like growing fast. Yeah, I can tell you it's growing fast.  Of course, we had fuel tested and everything we came to market in November 2017. So it's 2018 19 we sold units and you know, we feel tested a lot. We've tweaked, you know, we've made everything, you know, we're now we're now working towards version 2.0, you know, so we've had different versions, upgrades, etc. What we are aiming for is that this year we're going to do 500% of what we did last year, and the year after we're going to do 500% more again. You have to understand that also this is not a product that somebody calls you and says okay, can you ship me one today because I need it tomorrow. 90% of all our business is new new construction. So we're talking now about projects that you know I mean we're talking now then you know that they're still on the drawing table is the architecture time and then because by the time it's built we're a year and a half two years later. But I can tell you honestly that we, I don't know if you know that you know we feature in a beautiful Netflix documentary it's called Brave Blue World with Matt Damon and Liam Neeson in it amongst others. And we are being shown as one of one of the solutions for, you know, to solve the water crisis in the world. And since this is showing in October. This is the second wave after we had CES in January. And at this moment in time we have 500 potential partners that are, you know, that are wanting to become our partners that we still have to look at and talk and discuss with etc. So, and we are doing writing proposals now for projects and I'm talking about, you know, Canada 1400 houses, Johannesburg 900 houses, Middle East 2000 houses and more so these are the projects that we are we will be doing and we but we will be delivering only in 2022. So, on the internet there is a, you have a video that shows how it works. And with all these quantities that you've shipped so far is there do you have like a way to measure the quality of the water that comes out or do people do that or do you measure it and so basically it's working that you have six steps right and Yeah, it really works and the quality of the water that comes out is totally usable for what needs to be used. Yes, yes, of course, well, you know what is very important of course is that you know it is safe, the water has to be safe. So everywhere in the world there are standards here in Europe very soon a new European standard will come out. But for example, one of the highest standards so one of the most difficult to reach so to speak is the NSF 350 standard in the US. And we're very happy to say that we're certified for that standard. So that means to give you an idea that our system was tested by an official laboratory stress tested for 27 weeks, weeks continuously every day. There is a report every day on, you know, and it is like a synthetic mix that goes in there and it's very heavy, you know, with soap and hair and dust and shaving foam and everything you can think of. And with that our system is tested for 27 weeks. And they test the water quality constantly. And you always have to be in certain, you know, measurements kind of, you know, a bandwidth that that is for them is is is okay. We are well within that bandwidth. And so we don't monitor the water when it's coming out every single second, we are certified. So it means that the system is safe and it can be sold almost everywhere in the world now with this certification.  So you're not drinking it. But I can, I can assure you that if you were to drink it, you don't get ill because it is disinfected. So there is no bacteria no viruses in it. And which part of the nine, the six steps is a UV disinfection right so is there a last one. Is this something about the speed that you can recycle water is maybe is just for a little family or the big one that you're doing now how fast does it recycle is it big enough for like a hotel with like 100 rooms or maybe you can just buy four of them or 10 of them or something in the hotel. Exactly. Yeah. So basically, the treatment takes a certain time. And we usually say it takes about five hours for a full tank to really treat itself and be be ready for for usage. If you look at just a normal family life.  Some people have a shower in the evening. And this gives plenty of time for the machine to clean it to offer it as treated water. And this goes on and on and on. If you're looking at larger operations like a hotel as you say or like, you know, we're doing quite a few sports clubs now we've done the first student flat with 350, you know, students living there. So we offer the cascade the hydro cascade and I can see if otherwise, if I can quickly show you what it what a cascade looks like. And so let me quickly go through my presentation with all these kind of stuff. And there what we can do is that we we can treat a lot more water and I'll show you, oh, hang on, this is just very just briefly. This is visual. On the left you see how, you know, the water with the official submix goes in. And on the right you see what it looks like after the treatment. And this is the certificate. So this is the 300 units, you know, that we've been selling in all these countries like Middle East and Slovenia, you know, since 2018. And what this is like the awards and the UN SDGs that we kind of, you know, contribute to. And this is the 600. So it looks similar to the 300 but it's just double the width. So this can treat already more but this is still for relatively small operations. But now this is the cascade. And this is and now here you see seven but the student house I was talking to you about. That was, we have 14 units there. And we're now doing a proposal for a student flat in Berlin and there will be 28 of them. And here it works like this. The first one fills up and the moment is full, you know, it starts its treatment and then the second will get the water, the treated water of the water that needs treating. And as the moment is full it starts cleaning and that kind of continues all the way and we make measurements, you know, we kind of look at every single this is made to measure and scalable.  So I already asked it earlier right but the kind of pricing and but there are some markets that I'm thinking about for example that could be very relevant. When you think about CS it would be Las Vegas they have a problem with water over there. And sometimes they're not even allowed to to water the golf courts. And this is. And that's many of the Southwestern states of America, for example, you know, and this is actually one of the areas that we had in mind really when we started the product, we started developing the hydro loop, because, you know, you need a few elements and here we thought here we have areas where there is a lot of drought, people have a sustainable mind in general, also in these areas and and water is expensive and are not allowed to do certain things. And the beauty with our system is you have to take a shower, you have to take a shower because with that you create the water that you can do the other things with. So it's not like like in some countries like in Cape Town when they were coming up to day zero people were only allowed a one minute shower. Now that is short I can tell you, you know, so because they were only used to allow to allow to use 50 liters per person per day. But if as I say, if you start to recycle your water with it with a hydro loop, you know you actually you can have that shower water and use it again. So it's very easy to comply with regulations like that. And with your app, you can also choose how you want to reuse that water. So, you know, you can say okay I want to use it inside or you can say today it's a hot day. I want to use it all for my garden so it gives you that kind of liberty. And then it's recycled water so you're allowed to do it. So is the next project you're going to are you going to clean saltwater what's it called the desalinated. No, that's not your project. Now what we're going to do is we're going to first we're going to sell loads of these we're going to do all these projects. We're going to scale up even more. You know, we have quite a strong mission and vision you know that in 10 years time no building will be built without its own descent for water recycling so we have quite a lot of work on our hands. And we still do a lot of development so I you know we just came out with a cascade in the 600. We're hoping end of this year to come out with the smaller brother of the hydro loop 300 which is the 150, and this will be integrated in the wall, and this will be for apartments. Many people live in a small apartment they don't have a lot of you know floor space, and so they don't want one of those, you know, one of those units that you see behind me, but they don't need that size because they are with less people. So this would be a system that is fully integrated with the flushing system of the toilet. So that is coming up and we have quite a few more products but all on on the basis of what we've created now. And do what do what the cities do right now in terms of water recycling do they do they recycle water from the sewer or not really they just. Well from the sewer let's not. No no well you know the sewer is mixed so that is actually the black water and the lightly contaminated gray water that's why we're saying break that up. So we say collect your rainwater in a water tank if you have a garden collect your rainwater, so it is slow released so here in the Netherlands a lot of rainwater goes immediately to to the sewer and the sewers are overloaded because there's just too much water. So everybody should collect their rainwater and use that in their garden but time released so you collect it and you use it later.  And also then you have less taxing on the on the on the sewage system because now the sewage companies they have a big issue because we all have a shower at the same time. So all that water comes in at the same time so if it is time released again. They they appreciate it very much.  But you're seeing that now we're starting to starting to think about water. So we're having to collect the stormwater because we're getting a lot of water at the same time so this is important. And slowly people starting to realize that we we we should use our water a lot wiser and use it twice. This is what we say be wise and use water twice. So just recently I did a video with talking about the mission to Mars because humans are going to go to Mars soon with Elon Musk and everything. And when they get there they also need to recycle water like crazy. So I guess they will recycle even more than you right but can can you get to the even next level you talk about 85%. What would be required to do more and more and like recycle I don't know 95% or something. I don't know but I think we're going to go there with Elon Musk. I want to go there. I don't want that picture. And you'll be the first to have the higher loop on Mars picture of hydro loop on Mars functioning. But yeah we'll we'll have to see but I know there is a lot of developments there as well but. I think I think we have enough on our plate right now if we can fulfill our mission and have what we have at the moment we'll do very well and we will grow will have a much larger R&D department. And so we'll be able to also, you know, make systems for that. All right so looking forward to the 150 series and the future and everything that you'll do and to to see more of the actual success. What really happens like how many people are going to get it is it going to be millions of people or you know what what you're going to be able to do with this. Well, I would I would like to ask you to invite me in sometime, half a year or a year, if you like. And I'll tell you all about it. So far I mean the last year so much has happened so and I, there's so much going on some things I can't talk to you about at the moment but if you like will talk again in in half a year in a year's time and I'll tell you all about it. Awesome and and your headquarters behind you looks really cool. Thank you very much. And by the way, I forgot to say that this week hydro loop Inc is also is also official so we already had an office, but we now also officially have a daughter company in the US hydro loop Inc. So and we have already quite a few staff and and hiring. So anybody interested hydro loop.com. Is it in the in the California area or somewhere else. Well, actually offices in Milwaukee. Why, because the water council is there. And, and there's some very exciting things happening there but I'm not let's say anything, but some very interesting things going to happen in Milwaukee but I have to say that the team that we have right now is is all over the states. So, you know, we're all working virtual though. So, and we all need to travel as well. So we have people in Philadelphia. We have somebody in Vegas. So, you know, they're not really sitting in the office. And as you were saying earlier, your technology is coming to to Africa to to India and everywhere. China everywhere. Not yet. Not yet. I think we need a really, really, really good partner there that would protect us from, you know, people because we know that the Chinese are well known for trying to copy of course we have patents and everything but still we would need a really nice good big partner and we are approached by a large company, Institute, whatever. That would then really take over that that area, and they would be so important and big that you wouldn't want to, you know, then copy our product if it was there so if it is in their portfolio because then you have their legal department against you. Thank you very much. Thanks for it was a pleasure. It was a real great pleasure. And, and, well, I, as I say, I hope we speak again in half a year and a year's time. Cool. And in the comments people can write if they think you should be also the best of CS 2021. Oh, okay. Okay, well, that'd be great. Okay, thank you. Okay. Thank you.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're having a CUBE conversation in our Palo Alto studios are waiting for the crazy madness of the second half conference season to begin. But before that it's nice, we get a little bit of a break in the action and we can have people into our studio in Palo Alto. We're really excited to have our next guest really adding to this journey that we've been kind of watching over a course of many years with Informatica. She's Tracy Newell. She's the newly announced president, global field operations from Informatica. Tracy, great to meet you. Yeah, nice to meet you. Absolutely. So we've been following Informatica for a long time. I think our first visit to Informatica world was 2015. Back when it was still a public company and it was Info which still has this legacy. That's the hashtag for this show. It's kind of funny because it's not really a stock ticker anymore. So it's been quite a journey and really well timed with kind of the big data revolution. You joined the board a couple of years ago. I did in 2016.  So why did you decide to get into the nitty gritty? Yeah, so I joined the board because I really believe in the mission. So digital transformation is something that's real. It's a boardroom discussion. Every enterprise and government around the world is trying to figure this out. And so I wanted to be a part of that. And I've had a front row seat for a couple of years. I'm not one to sit on the sidelines for very long. And I thought this is just too much fun and I want to get in the game. So I asked to step down and I've recently joined as a president of Global Field Ops. Great. So your background is a little bit of confusion doing the history is a lot of sales. You've been running sales for a lot of different companies been in the Valley for a while. But sales is really under you. So you haven't really left your sales hat. That's just part of now a bigger role that you're going to be doing with Informatica. Yeah, that's right. It's a bigger and broader role. But my favorite thing is running sales organizations. So I've done other things too. I've run operations and customer success. But I was thrilled to join and also run professional services as well. Because that's so important to the delivery for our customers. So you go right to digital transformation. It's the hot topic. It's what everybody is talking about. And it's true.  There are no companies except software companies. I think we're taking it to the next step. Now there are no software companies. Really, everybody should be a data company and Informatica is sitting right in the middle of that world. No, that's right. Yeah, data is the new currency. It's become one of the most important asset for enterprises. Everyone's trying to transform. They're trying to disrupt. They're trying to take on the leader or they're trying to keep their lead. And they need all the information throughout their entire organization in order to do that. And so one of the stories that I really like, Graham Thompson's our CIO and he talks to lots of CIOs and he'll use this analogy in that he'll say, does your CFO have good containment strategy around their most important asset and that's revenue? Does your CFO, he or she know where all the data is and inevitably the CIO will say, of course, well, that's great. Does he know or she know how they're spending the money and who's spending the money and do they have controls and compliance and security around that? And of course the answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes. And then it inevitably turns to the CIO to say, well, if data is your most important asset, if that truly is the currency in your organization, do you know where all of your data is? And the answer is always no. And there's lots of reasons for that. It's most enterprises have hundreds if not thousands of databases and shadow IT projects everywhere. But if the answer is no, then how do you take advantage and leverage that information to the company's advantage? How do you control it? How do you have compliance? And that's where we come in. Right, so what's the Informatica special sauce? What's the secret sauce that you guys can bring to the party that nobody else can? Yeah, so I think inevitably that would be the platform. So our intelligent data platform is really important to the enterprise. The CIOs that I've been meeting with for the last decade have said, you know, I can't have 10 widgets that are all solving a similar problem because it's too expensive. I need to bet with the leader in the space. And so what we're doing to provide that for enterprises is really important. And yet at the same time, you've got to be the best at what you do. You can't just be comprehensive, but you have to have best of breed technology. And we're spending 17 cents of every dollar in R&D. And we're so focused on just this one thing. Our mission is to lead in digital transformation for the large enterprise. And we've been doing this for 25 years. So we've spent billions of dollars and making sure our customers are invested in us and that we protect that investment. Right, so what is your charge? As you're starting a new role, I think the press release just came out a couple of days ago.  What are some of your short-term priorities? What are some of your longer-term priorities? Yeah, so we have a great opportunity in front of us. So, staying the obvious, I'm here to drive growth and expansion both in market share opportunities. We have over 9,000 customers globally and yet we all know that there's a tremendous opportunity to continue to drive market shares. This is a global phenomena. And yet our largest customers, we have 85 of the Fortune 100. They certainly need a lot of support and we're here to help provide thought leadership. And we do a lot of best practice sharing. We do a lot around helping customers on their journeys because we see these themes given that we do work with the largest companies around the world. And I'm sure you're going to be getting on a plane and meeting with a whole bunch of customers over the next several weeks and months. But was there something from your board position that you could see that was a consistent pattern that you really see an opportunity for growth, kind of an unexploited opportunity as people are going through this digital transformation? Because we talk all the time and it's how do I get started and how do I have small projects to give me early success and kind of those types of conversations. But clearly we're kind of beyond the beginning and we should be starting to move down the field a little bit. Yeah, certainly. So we work with all the global SIs and we won't ever try to take their place. You know, Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, they're tremendous at what they do and we partner with them very well. But we've absolutely seen consistent themes as we work with these big enterprises. I mean, we've seen Coca-Cola work on delivering new packaging for the World Cup where they drove exponential sales and they wanted to use the power of all of their data, the data in the cloud, the data that they have on-premise, the data in all the SaaS applications and that's where we come in and really helping them to leverage all of their information and to do that in an intelligent way. And so we've seen several patterns emerge how customers can get started and we've created a series of workshops and summits and specialists that we consult on a pro-forma basis in helping customers figure out where those quick wins are and there's a couple of key big buckets. We see most large enterprise moving from on-premise to cloud and they're trying to figure out a migration strategy so we help a lot there. Most customers are trying to figure out how to get closer to their customers. So we do a lot of work around customer intimacy. It could be driving the top line, cross-sell, up-sell, or even customer retention. BNP Paribas did a lot of work with us there around getting closer to in their wealth practice and then we do quite a bit around governance as you would expect. That's a hot topic with GDPR. Again, if you can't say you know where all your data is, well then how can you be compliant? How can you- How can you delete me? How can you delete me if you don't know where your data is? So there's a number of practices that we've set up and we'll do some not-for-fee consulting work to help customers try and figure this out. Yeah, clearly when we first met for Medica in 2015, the cloud was moving the public cloud but it wasn't near where it is today. And I guess you guys just had a recent announcement, Google Cloud Next is coming up in a couple of weeks and so you guys are now doing some stuff with Google Cloud. We are, yeah. So we're pretty good listeners. I think that's important.  And one of the things the clients have said to us is we need you to partner with our partners. The days of proprietary and sole source, you know, we're going to be everything to you without working with anyone. Those days are over. And so the key cloud partners our customers have asked us to work with include Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Azure. So you're right, last week we did make an announcement that we've done deep integration and we're spending RR and D dollars for customers that are investing with Google to make those investments more valuable. And we announced API management and integration with Google to make that easy for customers. Informatical World, we announced native integration on our iPass platform for Microsoft. So over and over again, you'll hear us continue to do more with the partners that our customers want us to. That's a win-win for everybody. It's just so funny too, because when people talk about a company like say Coca-Cola, which you brought up they talk about like, it's a company. It's like, no, it's not a company. Many, many companies, many, many projects, many, many challenges. You know, it's not just one entity that has a relationship with one other entity. That's right. But the other thing I think is interesting times, Coke's a good example or a forwarder pick. Many old line industrial companies that used to have distribution, right? What was the purpose of distribution is to break bulk is to communicate information and to get the product close to the customer. But the manufacturer never knew what happened once they shipped that stuff off into their distribution. Now it's a whole different world. They have a direct connection with their in-customer. They're collecting data from their in-customer. And so they have a relationship and an opportunity and a challenge that they never had before. They just sent it off the distributor and off it went and hopefully it doesn't come back for repair. No, that's right. But you're exactly right. And that's the challenge that customers are facing. I don't care if it's a customer in the mid-market or it's a customer in large enterprise or if it's a government organization. They need to know all aspects of their customer partner supplier information and how to communicate globally if they're going to drive disruption. And one of the CIOs of Fortune 500 made the comment that we decided that we were going to disrupt ourselves before someone else disrupted us. And that's my comment on why this is a board level discussion. It's super important and we can help solve those problems. That's funny. Dave Potrick, one of my favorite executives used to be number two guy at Charles Schwab. And I remember him speaking when they went to fixed price trading back in the day. I'm aging myself, unfortunately. But he said the same thing. We have to disrupt ourselves before somebody else disrupts us. And if you're not thinking that way, you're going to get disrupted so better at BU than someone that you don't even see. And usually it's not your side competitor. It's the one coming from a completely different direction that you weren't even paying attention to. That's right. And we see that over and over again and you made the right comment and that it's not always easy. Some of these Fortune 500s through consolidation, even the global 2000, they've done all these acquisitions. And so you've got hundreds of BUs that don't have any systems tied together. And how do you start to create a common connection so that you can build your brand and you can drive differentiation? And that's the key. That's back to the intelligent data platform. Right. And as you said, and there's not single systems and now we've got API economy. Things are all connected. So you don't necessarily even have that much direct control over a lot of these opportunities. And you said it first, I think it's just like, okay, where's your data? Can you start with a very simple question and a lot of people aren't really sure and can't even start from there. That's right. So good opportunities. Absolutely. There's no question. Well, thank you for stopping by. Congratulations on your new position and moving from a hoggy road down to the trenches. Down on the field. I'm sure they're going to be happy to have you down there on the field. Yeah, no, thanks, Jeff. I'm happy to be here and thanks for the time today. Thank you. And we'll see you at Informatica World if not sooner. That's right. All right. She's Tracy Newell. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from Palo Alto. Thanks for watching.


Today's topic the future of transportation and more specifically cars, so imagine you're the you're the CEO of one of the big car companies Toyota Ford Volkswagen something like that, and you know Everything pretty much there is to know about cars But what if all that knowledge will sort of point you in the wrong direction give you the the wrong answers So let's try this let's do a quiz question I'm in this city to work with a unicorn tech startup company and this city is world-famous for for the for the beautiful red bridge behind me for Back in history. It was Devastated by an earthquake and what more cable cars You got it. There you go knowledge. We're in Lisbon, Portugal Okay Back on track the future of cars what kind of questions should we ask what kind of trends? Should be of our course concern of course we need to pay attention to this new world of Tariffs and protectionism trademores I mean car sales in China the world's largest car market have seen their first annual fall in 20 years So in 2018 sales in China fell six percent, but hey still it's a huge market eighty eight million cars On as a total on the global market were sold last year So plenty of competition for everybody out there then of course we need to pay attention to new technology electrification everybody agrees of course that Electrification we need to pay attention to that we need to have a position here in 2018 a total of two million electric light passenger vehicles were sold and delivered to customers from a market share perspective Tiny portion point five percent But just like with e-commerce like 15 years ago was nothing from market share perspective but pretty much Everything from a growth perspective. So let's focus on growth in the eb sales the US market last year up 81% That's the Tesla Model 3 effect Half of the two million cars again sold in China the world's leading Electric vehicle market as well Chinese market sales up 76 percent from 2017 But the most interesting trend of them all have to be about ride-sharing and the whole concept of ownership Why on earth would anybody if I live in a big city like this and I have access to mobility as a service Why would anybody then? Purchase and own the product the automobile My client today is the European ride-sharing company taxified Let's talk about numbers shall we I mean this company was started six years ago So in 2013 this 19 year old student in Estonia Marcus Ville He borrowed some money from his parents and with it he built the software and Recruited some 50 taxi drivers to launch his ride-sharing platform Fast forward today here. We are Tada taxify is the fastest growing transportation platform in the world 15 million users in 25 countries And Number of rides their revenue they grew their revenue their number of rides 10 times last year That's not 10%. That's 10x Let's add something more to this perfect store brewing. Let's add autonomous cars. Obviously. We need to pay attention to autonomous cars I mean, that's not in the distant future today already We have a lot of cars on the roads with level 2 systems So lane assists and autopilots and stuff like that and we have a lot of tick companies that tells us that sure Technologies is already Way ahead of legislation and everything Wymo the Google company last year In October last year they celebrated 10 million miles of full autonomous driving on public roads. So 10 million miles. That's the equivalent of 10 lifetimes of driving experience So not in the future today the software have 10 lifetimes of experience and then Thinking about exponential growth you can figure it out You know, it's just a matter of years and then we have a thousand or ten thousand or a million lifetimes of experience And then no one no one will dare to step into a car and set foot in cars that is driven by human being Are you crazy? Are you going to drive you realize how how dangerous that is? I mean the maximum experience obviously is one lifetime You can never have more experience than if you have one lifetime. We prefer you not to drive anyway, so Is this good or bad? Red or blue him or her yes or no, I want to know that's how we are as human beings black or white Well as always with new technology it depends it depends on your perspective If you are one out of the 1.2 million people that get killed every year in traffic incidents, then this is amazing This is literally a lifesaver 94% of all the accidents are because of human error, so perfect, but again, remember you're the CEO of a car company You and all your expertise your organization and everything is optimized to research and development manufacturing supply chain marketing sales distribution of the product the automobile and Here we are sort of realizing the beginning of a new opportunity not for the product, but for a Service, what do you think did I miss something crucial? It's something wrong completely something you want to add work with me in the comment section, and I see you in the future Oh