Show where we explore a variety of people, topics, events and organizations doing great in our world. You know, we are right in the middle of this COVID and it's stressful time. So, you know, we have a really special guest today because she's going to help us out. How do we deal with all the stress and uncertainty and staying calm, which is a major concern for everybody. How do we achieve balance in this? And so today we have our guest, Lisa Dunlop. She's a nurse practitioner with an integrative health background. And she's going to speak from her own personal journey and experience on the front lines of the pandemic and how she's using that now to empower people, especially those in healthcare, with self-compassion tools and to achieve resiliency amidst these difficult times. She offers a variety of online workshops and weekly groups and toolkits. And so we are just going to learn more about how to be compassionate with ourselves, which of course leads to compassion for others. So thank you so much for joining me today and being a guest on the show, Lisa. Yeah, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. Well, it's, you know, we are right in the middle of this COVID and it's sort of just turned everything on its head. And I think life was stressful enough before COVID. How do we do it all? Or can we do it all? When do we? Yeah, you know how? How is it manageable? I don't know if I have the exact answer for how can we do it all. But I know for myself how I am learning to do it all is to purely accept what is and surrender to what is in the present. And I'm finding that when we can be here and not in what was and what's coming or what we don't know is coming, we really have a lot of joy to find in the present moment. I yesterday was out paddling us up in the ocean and there was a sea kelp forest. I was headed towards and I felt anxiety about being in the open ocean by myself and out of deception pass here in Washington. And all of a sudden, you know, I see the seal pop up. And seconds later I see a jellyfish huge, you know, and I thought, this is so funny. It's like, I'm worrying about what I'm going to see in the kelp forest. And if I don't pay attention, I'm going to miss what's in the kelp forest. So your message was at that time to yourself, just be here now be present with the seal popping up in this jellyfish rather than you let you acknowledge the fear but then moved on to the present. Yeah, yeah. So it's like, for me through the pandemic and some like health issues I've had in the last eight months that have now looking back looked like burnout and compassion fatigue. It's like, in those moments where I was told that I was having different struggles with my health and potentially ovarian cancer back when King County was shutting down and everything was getting lights out in March. And it was kind of this tunnel vision moment for myself where it was like, Okay, I can go down the road of fear and anxiety and certainly did that to went down that road and had created head to toe metastasis in my mind and I'm quickly clear to me that if I just enjoyed the present moment and the joy of my children's laughter and the joy of my garden and my bare feet in the grass that I could actually enjoy my life. You know, and I can't control what's going on out there. The pandemic, I can't control what's even going on in my body. I can't control what's going on at work. I can't control my B.E. at that time and, but what I do have the power of is just to connect to my mind and body and really calm down that fight or flight and use those tools that work for me. While I waited through the pandemic to get surgery and such. And so you, you practice these the self compassion at that time and came up with this, I got to live right in the moment and of course, the moment is all we ever have.  It is over. So let it go. And I always think that so she says this is the only moment you have and I realize that I think most of us live either in the past or in the future, not a lot right now because it's there's so much going on.  How did, obviously it leads to burnout and you're one of your focuses is the healthcare community. Can you talk to a little bit about that and how this especially is vital for healthcare workers that have ended the self connection. Yeah, so for me, working during the pandemic was on and off because I was having health issues and when it I was on the front lines at first I was out in the community here in King County and we had some of the first cases in the country.  Nobody was testing nobody knew what was out there yet no one had protocols. And there was it was just putting out fires there was no coping tools there was no let's sit down and talk about this. And so yeah I was I was definitely spinning in some fear and anxiety and meanwhile I'm dealing with some pain going on in my body and potential scary disease and so for me, it really kind of brought this tunnel vision of like, what can I do to kind of get healthy of my mind body and spirit and be able to attend to my patients attend to myself attend to my family. And I realized that there's just not a lot of support out there because everyone's putting out fires and so the healthcare community is so vulnerable right now. Because even something like putting on PPE can cause anxiety and trigger stress and trauma and then this global trauma that everyone has kind of triggers little traumas inside of us and in healthcare we're pretty much taught not to, you know, take time to feel not to take time to honor mistakes and practice self compassion and self acceptance it's kind of like your mistakes are put up on the wall because you know you could potentially harm someone. It clicked for me which was like, as I went through my own healing journey and was able to make my you know ovarian mass completely disappear just by using, you know, meditation and yoga and breathing and self compassion practice and sensory practice and this was over a three month period of just manifesting and managing the healing. And then when I went back to work it was just clear as day like if I can learn to heal myself with different tools, and I've kind of been through this burnout and anxiety and trauma. There's a lot of other healthcare professionals out there that potentially have burnout or trauma or body manifestations of stress and how can I share my journey to help them. And that's kind of how it began I held this workshop and 50 people showed up in the community and it was with two other small business women alternative healers, and people were just hungry for the concepts of healing yourself first and giving yourself compassion so that you can then extend it to others and start to problem solve. And that's, that's how it was born. And so it's born from your own journey and just especially this year and things just became really clear to you about that. In fact, out of those 50 people would you say were the majority of my healthcare workers are related to the healthcare industry. No, no, not that initial workshop so that was about two months three months ago that I held that online and that was like family friends, friends of friends, some strangers and not necessarily at that time you know and I'm still the business is still offered the workshops groups to all community members and then I've kind of launched this healthcare program second to that. It was just in the background of my mind that the healthcare workers were the most vulnerable right now. And they're just going to need so much support not just today but for the years to come and in that workshop it was just anyone in the community that's struggling with hopelessness and feeling, you know, anxiety about what's unknown and I think the idea of having tools and empower, it empowers you to then say okay, I can control something I can control what's in my heart and in my mind, and then through that possibility starts to happen and energy starts to expand. And just so folks at home can get on and see maybe some more information about your group you're on Facebook and Instagram also and website is coming and we have to all realize that this is a new experience coming out being born of your knowledge and experience which is terrific so how what is your Facebook page and what's your Instagram page. Yeah, so it they're both called self compassion connections and the idea when the idea sprouted it was also part of self compassion work is connecting to other humans and feeling that common shared experience. Dr. Kristen Neth talks a lot about that. Pema children has talked about that and, and just that you're not alone in this feeling. And once you kind of hear other stories and share other stories. I just got that sense that connecting to other humans, even if it's on zoom right now is so powerful. So that was the title and that's how you can find me on Facebook and then there's community groups and a healthcare group and those are free on Facebook and they're just inspirations motivations a place to share, be accountable for your journey and self compassion and mindfulness and then there's also a drop in weekly group for healthcare professionals that's live on zoom that's starting to take some shape and form started it a few weeks ago, and it's really powerful to hear what other healthcare workers are doing across the country. And it just gives you this sense of like again I'm not alone in this and we're all kind of in this together. And then the workshops are also online via zoom and they are listed on the Facebook page and the Instagram page. And it's getting Facebook.com slash self compassion connections. Yeah, thank you. But yes, yes, exactly. No, it's because you know people can or they could probably Google your name Lisa Dunlap to you and LAP and they would find that as well.  What was your, what would have been your specialties in that and how has that informed what you're doing now. Yeah, so when I was born and raised in Seattle and that's where I am now and when I moved to Hawaii the intention was to become a nurse and that was in 2006 and I went through a program. And this was after years of having, you know, I was born and raised in the Northwest so I had, you know, herbal medicine training here in Seattle and had mindfulness trainings. You know, I had hoped to go to best year but at that time it just wasn't a real legitimate career 20 years ago, if you weren't coming from a wealthy family. And so it's like okay nursing can offer something that's, I can actually touch on the integrative realm, if I have this Western background. I was born in Hawaii and it was the perfect place to integrate the two because of all the cultures and all the different native medicine and such and just the belief in the like healing of the land. And while I was there I worked in the community for hospice Hawaii for many years doing house calls, and then I got my master's in my primary care adult geriatric nurse practitioner and I spent a lot of time working with the geriatric population. I worked at Queens Hospital as a holistic nurse and that was really wonderful I got trained in reflexology, clinical aromatherapy and healing touch and was able to practice integrative therapies in a Western setting and it was fantastic seeing the results and that patients had and you know the love for that. And then I worked in the community as a for the geriatric house calls team at Queens Medical Center and so I got another understanding of just being out in the community and what people really want and what they need. And for healing which is spending more time with them really listening, really talking story and that was really wonderful training for me. Yeah, I can I can imagine it wasn't and you mentioned that Hawaii was a great place for that and and a natural place for that. But you mentioned best year University which is, you know famous for its natural pathic program and holistic wellness coursework. And what does that mean, and now that you're back there are you finding that it's just different back there, or are people receptive in different ways to that idea and what does natural or holistic mean for you now that that you're back there or hasn't changed at all. I've changed tons of Seattle is like light years ahead of my experience in Hawaii, as far as like having natural paths on our insurance plans all around so like I could pick any natural path here is my primary care and natural paths are definitely rising up into the same pace scale and you know are getting much more respect in this community. So I feel like in Hawaii more than native medicine is, in my opinion, it doesn't mean I'm correct is more honored and respected but I don't, I didn't feel like the natural paths were being honored and recognized as well as they are here. And so what it means for me is that it's beautiful because people really know what it means and so when you talk about alternative things and energy healing and mindfulness and diet and such that it's actually kind of mainstream here. It's easy to integrate the two now I had always envisioned a brick and mortar like integrative clinic for myself. And this business is just not exactly what I envisioned 15 years ago but it's so beautiful how it's turning out to be integrative as I line up with other small business healers and connect with other women to hold workshops and be able to offer things that are integrative for people. Yeah, that's right because you're the insurance forces. Well it requires that natural natural health care practitioners or even acupuncturists if they're licensed by the state, I believe they're required to be covered in in Washington which is very advanced now. Of course, you know the native, you know Hawaiian traditions here also very important and very relevant for for Hawaii and how we relate to things. They're not mutually exclusive I think they're grounded in the same ideas a lot of the times that maybe it brings more of a spiritual perspective here in Hawaii. It's also really needed and are you seeing that as well with with the natural back in Washington that there's the people are hungry for a spiritual component as well as sort of this more natural approach to medicine. Yes, and that's exactly what happened for me was like Western medicine was failing me and you know in my search for causes for pain and and then you know telling me I have cancer when in fact I didn't and then telling me you know just sit it out waited out three months, you know everything shut and don't come to the ears don't come here even though you're in a lot of pain and wait for your surgery and it's like. Wait a second that's not enough, you know there's got to be more and it's amazing the people I've met the different kinds of healers I've met through my own journey and how spirituality plays such a big part into healing. You know when it comes to stored emotions and stored trauma and I feel like people are more understanding of that and more open to that especially in this pandemic. Being able to say okay, I got to find something beyond you know Western medicine beyond the tools I've used before how can I actually integrate everything and understand that you know this is an opportunity for us to sort of step into new territory and find other ways to thrive and enjoy our lives and be whole. It's interesting you mentioned that like the tools because it is different tools from different traditions different learning perspectives and and certainly you know each. Each culture has its own very deep wisdom. And now we have we have a Western medical perspective wisdom which is great if you if you. You know break your arm it's great to go to the ER and get it set in a plaster cast, certainly, but for other things that maybe they're ailing us or whether it is a mental emotional spiritual based illnesses that do manifest because of stress. stress is that is that you know a killer or just even things just about sitting down all day. When you're looking stepping back and looking at things in a total picture you're allowed to. To pick and choose what works for you what's best and and you have developed a tool kit that is including parts of these things and I'm sure that that is growing. Over time it will and will have a lot of different modules inside of it as you develop your your offerings so what what is your self compassion toolkit that you that you have developed right now and I'm looking forward to seeing how it expands over time. Yeah, so I mean I think on a like theoretical level there's tools in the workshop that are very helpful for what we're talking about to practice self compassion and mindfulness. And I can certainly share some like one of those and I have this tangible kit that I created while I was just sitting with pain and surrendering to waiting. You know for my surgery which a lot of people around the country had to do right a lot of people that weren't with coven had to actually sit in the wings and let their put their health aside and wait till things reopen. And so I just kind of really tapped into what can I do in these moments to feel joy and also share that with others and so this toolkit is a reminder of things that you would learn in the workshops and so it includes a heart chakra stone which is really wonderful it's Rose quartz and it is something that you can use for self acceptance you can put it in your pocket a lot of healers do that I always did that as just a way to re ground using touch. You can put it on your heart. It has a little vial of frankincense oil, which is a spiritual grounding oil, and it's really wonderful for also tapping into self acceptance and that spirituality. It has teamed up with another local business here in Seattle and she makes handmade organic heart shaped lotion bars and so that's in there too and that's for the idea of self touch and it sounds a little odd but it's really wonderful when you're dealing with a pandemic to give yourself a foot rub, or honor that sense of touch that you need. And then it has this art card that I created. And it reminds you with a question how can I nourish myself with kindness in this moment, because that's really what self compassion is all about and that's what I was gifted with my health issues I was given the time to really ask myself for the first time in my life. How can I nourish myself in this moment right now, not like I'm going to yoga or I'm going to massage but like, okay I need to just put my bare feet in the grass today, right now, or touch a tree, or go outside and look at my garden or meditate and so and then on the back it has tips like put your hand on your heart, breathe, awaken your senses and surrender. Surrender to right now. Yeah, so to what is because a lot of our difficulties in life emotions, thoughts are our inability to accept what is, and the idea of just surrendering, even if it's hard, even if it sucks, even if you just all the it comes up, even if you're in pain. If you're just in it, and you're really in it. It's amazing that you can still feel pretty good in those moments and so those were some of my powerful tools that have helped me heal. And I don't think I got to say but by the time they went in for surgery to remove the grapefruit mass in my ovary it was completely gone. And it was pretty much a medical miracle because it wasn't the kind that just disappears in eight weeks. And the doctors were jaws dropped out of the OR like, what happened and how could this be and they had to call in the doctor. People for opinion after opinion to look at my old scans and you know I said, I know how it happened. I was practicing manifestation and I was practicing meditation and I was de stressing and just being in the present moment. I had like a community also like sending energy and visualizations and it was like wow. If I could do this anyone can do this. And why not and why not be able to heal ourselves. Obviously you know she's a healer in a different way and her way is is primarily through the blade, and that's it's a different way of dealing with things and it's, it's a valid way and I think probably in a case like yours where it comes up and she's, how does this happen. It certainly has to open their minds and anybody I mean sometimes you'll see you know healthcare providers or they might be doctors and they think oh I would never go to a chiropractor and acupuncturists until they have terrible back pain or something then they go and then suddenly it works. So ironic you said that I'm glad you said that because absolutely I still have my white coat and I'm still Western medicine is so beautiful and valid for so many things and even that doctor I love her and by the next time I followed up with her she was opening her mind a little bit more to that because she's still like I can't imagine what happened there was no there's no signs of it bursting or anything. And she then by the third visit I saw her about three weeks ago she said I really want to sign up for one of your workshops because I'm feeling you know the strain of this pandemic and I thought you know that's a win it's like everybody comes to a point when they're ready on their own journey and I agree with you I'm grateful for her I'm grateful for the surgery even though there was nothing there for them to remove but I had more learning and healing to do and as as do we all and it's not an either or it's a both and and that we don't get to stop learning just because we turn 3040 5060 7080 and into the next life. So it's it's a it's all about awakening. I mean I'm viewing code as hard as it is as a gift. It's a gift of looking inward of looking outward of looking at our at our society our relationships our relationship with ourselves. You mentioned putting your hand on your heart. What does that mean to you and why why why did that pop up as one of your four skills what does putting your hand on your heart mean to you. So to me this is like the epitome of self compassion work it's like really reconnecting with yourself and honoring what it is you're experiencing in this moment, and then allowing yourself to be with that and and offer yourself words of kindness and a sense of we're all in this together and it's something you can do anywhere anytime and you don't even have to say or think anything honestly you can just do it. Just just doing this or just it's kind of a grounding yourself and I love the idea that you had that in your kit massage because we are touched deprived even you know here in Hawaii where we might give each other a kiss on the cheek or a hug and we're Americans are a huggy people just in general but we've been we haven't had that so it's good to to do that and I love the idea of the rose quartz whether people believe that it has a special healing frequency or not doesn't really matter just having that in your pocket as a reminder that says, what am I doing right now that can nourish myself in this moment or a touchstone to just have you calm down. You know that I love that you're offering this I love that this is born from your authentic experiences that you've that you've gone through very recently and in during this COVID pandemic and that you're able to shift this over and offer this to people with this very rich background that you bring from your your work history of the you know last a couple of decades and it's just such important work I look forward to doing that and I encourage people go to your website to the Facebook page right now and we'll see it again it's facebook.com slash self compassion connections or look up Lisa Dunlap and yeah and you can find the kids. Oh sorry. No and you can find the kids there too. Yeah you can find the kids there and upcoming workshops that I'm doing in September and October and trying to bring the workshops into healthcare organizations themselves but I also have them out in the community that you can sign up for privately. Okay and I hope that we can come back and see how everything is looking in six months in a year and see what new things you've you've you've brought to the fore but in the in the in the meantime unfortunately we are out of time and it's you know as we always have so much more to discuss but I so appreciate you for being on on the show and sharing your journey and your gifts with all of us and I look forward to all that this is going to all the good that this is going to come from this so thank you so much Lisa. Yeah you're welcome thank you for having me this was wonderful. Okay, I look forward to seeing you later then. Aloha.


Awesome. Here we go. So, welcome, everybody. We restart now for some break of the hyperliger global summit early September. So, pleasure to start second part of the season here 2022. And don't want to lose too much time. I say I would love to hand it to my colleague here, Tom Clive from Chicago to recap what happened during the hyperliger global forum to give you a quick outlook on what went on and what are news from the global forum. Then we'll hand over to my friend from Lash who will talk about blockchain and sustainable development goals and tokenization. Tom, stage your step in. Thank you very much. And Andrea probably went a little overboard there since I was not in Dublin nor is Andrea nor is Eric, but come Lush, I believe you were there, right? Yeah, I was there. So, you'll be able to provide more on the ground kind of thing here. So, it's the main guy today here from Lash. So, let me just share a couple of things here, come Lush, before you get started. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, first off, all are welcome. Thanks for joining here on a fun Thursday to hear come Lush talk about and share their presentation from the global forum as well as a little bit of on the ground as we just talked about. So, we're glad you're here, antitrust, normal Linux foundation. Please don't share competitive information that you don't want out there in public. This is a public forum here, but we're all glad you're here. There is this thing announcements. Let's see here. Myself, Andrea, as well as Eric, as well as Alicia Noel, have been talking every Tuesday on how do we take this to the next level here? And we're thinking about ways that others can get involved. And so, you see there some big event planning, taking meeting notes on a meeting like today here, making event flyers, which is something Andrea does right now, other suggestions. There's plenty of ways to get involved. So, we're throwing it out there just as an initial. And hopefully we're going to have some more opportunities here coming forward and into 2023. A few events here. And then lastly, before I turn it over to you, come Lush, here is what I did is I went through what the sessions at Hyperledger Global Forum in Dublin and the ones that were supply chain and or trade finance had had some applicability. Come Lush is one of them. That's good. Here, I found 11 of them here and you see the list here. They are not up on YouTube yet. One of them is up on YouTube. I have the link here, number seven, Saudi Aramco, Precure to Pay ecosystem. You can look at that session down below. There's a chart from that session that I copied and pasted. It was actually a very nice story that they told where it was similar a little bit to actually the Walmart Cannes story and that services contracts were over 100 pages and trying to get all that contractual stuff reconciled when invoices were presented was taking two to three months so people weren't getting paid, which is not a good thing. And these contracts can be over the very long period of time like five or 10 years. And so they built a system at Saudi Aramco for Precure to Pay with services specifically that they were named on board at 11 vendors and they were able to take down their time from two to three months down to two to eight days to actually pay and really make any disputes into a rare occurrence. So there's an example of a good story that was shared at Global Forum and what we'll do is once all these things get up on YouTube there, then I'll create links here in the wiki so that everyone can find these or we'll create a playlist there so that you can just look at them all and you don't have to figure out what's going on. So with that, Kamlesh, I'm going to turn it over to you right now, okay? And I will stop sharing so that you can share your screen. Okay, yeah, right. So I think as usual, like the Hyperlegia Global Forum events are really extremely well and well managed and lots of learning from the event. So is there long I think three days kind of event with a multiple keynote session from industry, from Danila, from X1030, and from the production deployment, even the some failure stories. So great to see the V.Trade story, like how their trade network failed and what the learning they shared. I think this will be released soon. So all has a very good understanding and what is happening globally and what are the different risk cases. And if I share the team most learning of the program, first is from the event, first is kind of how much you can share the what is committed building on blockchain and the hyper technologies. Second aspect like how to work on the traditional new things like for example, tokenization and hyperlegia or metaverse kind of use cases or interoperability in terms of moral option of the technologies. And third like how the community come together and share what they are building and what they have done and what they are kind of roadmap for the future. So it's always good to attend hyper is a global forum event in person. So, so especially I talked couple of sessions the same topic. So this is one of the my global forum presentation similar topic I was a part of the panel discussion with Danila and the circular CEO and Nancy from British Columbia to talk about sustainability and blockchain and all this stuff. So this things we have done, let me go to the presentation, I will talk like how the blockchain could play very important role in sustainability and supply chain and achieving the STG goals and use cases and the climate and carbon credit and how it's number which I take the my company doing in the particular vertical. Come less real fast before you go on to the next page here. Just in case anybody is on here and is looking for the media and entertainment session that move to a different zoom link which if you scroll up in the chat you'll be able to see and you can go over there and that's where the presentation discussion on media and entertainment is right now. So with that come less I'll turn it back to you. Yeah, okay. So I think so we'll start with the climate change. So we even understand the climate aspect and that's why the hyper leisure community we have separate climate action and accounting working group like we have the state finances supply chain. So in the climate perspective we understand the climate change importance like how the global warming how the weather conditions and how the how the we see the European countries so much warm so much so much temperature going up and so how so and how it will impact the climate and the environment in the future and that's why the SDG sustainable development goes by the United Nations coming the picture they defined like we need to reduce the carbon footprint we need to take action for the climate change. So that is a story about the climate and that's why the Paris agreement which just talk about it or the what those different 17 policy development goals always play very important role and and this topic is presentation about like how the blockchain could help to achieve this SDG goals and especially the supply chain and carbon accounting and climate actions related use cases. So these are the different 17 sustainability development goals decided by United Nations so like no poverty, zero hunger, quality education, gender equality, clean water and the number of things so especially jobs change with play very important in roles of the affordable and clean energy where lots of use cases in terms of like P2P energy or energy certificate and then sustainable as well as a responsible consumption and production where the sustainable supply chain come in the picture and then 13 is about the climate action about the carbon accounting, carbon emission footprint on all this use cases and rest of the other other things other you other sustainability development also can be taken care by the blockchain where like in social or environment ESG goals kind of thing but I am especially talking about this these three goals affordable and clean energy responsible consumption and production and climate action and when we talk about the sustainability and SDG goals we see all this picture about the global warming, carbon offsets, CO2 emission, carbon footprint, coir to protocol and all the all the kind of things which is literally sustainability of like renewable energy, climate change, CO2 trade so all these things in terms of energy efficiency and all this is related to the climate action and climate change. So this is for the gold limit 12, sustainable development growth, gold limit 12 and gold limit 13. So 12 like about the how how you measure the your carbon footprint in any supply chain how much the process are you using in terms of sustainability past like to completely digital, digital trade, paperless trade for example so you will say we you're saving in terms of carbon footprint saving in terms of your paperwork and also how quickly you are settling your trade that means you are also solving the your supplier to buyer, buyer transition type and all which impact the carbon footprint saving and then other like what are sustainability practices are for example suppose if you transporting or maybe doing the trade finance trade of the particular agriculture food for example agricultural crop so how the agricultural crops are manufactured or produced what kind of fertilizer what kind of pesticide and even in the supply chain what kind of fuel they are using all this could be recorded and can be created some kind of carbon footprint saving. So even we are doing one of the projects in the plastic recycle so that I will cover that in detail later. Another is some letter to use case about the climate to like how you measure the your climate actions for example like if you if you're having some solution to recycle the plastic or recycle the some e-waste so if using this and this thing that that means you are saving some kind of carbon footprint in terms of it impact the climate so how to measure those those kind of parameters and create some kind of sustainable finance model some kind of green bonds for example or some kind of tokenize of the viewer carbon footprint and periods another second layer marketplace for trading of this carbon credit and even this carbon credit is a bond say some kind of mutual fund so there are there are a couple of sustainable finance use cases coming in this particular sector. So in the climate space if you're not if you're if you're having some actions but if you're not accounting those actions sometimes digital then it will it will it will challenge to actually achieving your target like for example your target may be reduce the carbon net zero by 2030 but if you're not accounting to your best practices or not accounting your measures then then it's not viable or not valuable in terms of your carbon footprint saving and another another thing like how the blockchain could play because there are number of multi parties that will work into the space and if they're not using some kind of blockchain space then how you could bring the trust of the all your carbon accounting or climate accounting so so blockchain will play in terms of recording all this climate actions measurements and then accounting the carbon footprint saving and then tokenizing it and create some kind of sustainable or some kind of green financing model out of it so this is all about this is i taken from the hyper leisure climate action accounting so blockchain actually is a fundamentally a technology of trust and that trust actually comes via the technology of itself like how you create a block you can't temper the data you could trust the data available in the blockchain because it's shared by the multiple nodes and that's why if you recording any kind of your carbon or climate footprint measurement on a blockchain based system so who in the party can trust those data and then the consumer or the buyer supplier who are in the network of the supply chain could consider the data is trustful and another aspect the esg angle so there are environment social and governance is very important to achieve the sustainability aspect so there are multiple use cases and companies and startups having a use cases around like how you measure the your esg goals because like because esg is meant by the governments or but but how the companies and corporates following those things is still a challenge the blockchain could play that role and could come it contribute to the larger ecosystem of the of the like carbon emission footprint and then all other aspects of the of the environment like esg reporting for example so i categorize the use cases in couple of categories like one is renewable energy another is climate change another is esg reporting and then last is circular economy or certain level supply chain where where our this particular working group can relate so renewable energy aspect so there are renewable energy certificates tokenization of energy or peer-to-peer energy trading so in this category there are a number of use cases by if you heard about the power ledger the companies in Australia are doing such projects in different governments even we did one of the project for the european customer who having a a micro solar setup in rural India and how how they are first recording the carbon to print saving while consumer using this renewable energy and then tokenizing those renewable energy certificates so this kind of use cases is largely happening another is i mentioned about the like climate accounting like what are the measures like for example suppose you do some kind of forestry so generally forestry is a great example of this thing to be stop the CO2 emit even it will create the more oxygen but but but is there any way to record or is there any trust on the data provided by the companies like they say like they maybe a forest of one million three but there's no authenticity on the transfer so there are a couple of use cases in this particular category another like carbon accounting and credit tokenization in all the aspects whether it is supply chain whether it is the greenhouse gas emission saving or what are the different different areas where the carbon emissions are saved it could be it could be sustainable agriculture sustainable supply chain or what are the different use cases coming the picture and then car offset and creating the this token says a carbon offset NFT so people are using the NFT NFT theory also here too so to create this carbon footprint saving is a NFT as a token and that could be traded so so there are there are number of use cases available that I will cover in the next slide another is the ESG reporting of the transparent efficient report in voluntary carbon footprint responsible sourcing so like there is a one good use case by IBM and a couple of mineral companies they have a set up the responsible sourcing supply chain and they they even measure the industry or who are the workers whether they are a child lover whether they are getting their wages or all this could be recorded and then create some kind of data out of it and that could be used as a sustainability perspective and another which is a broader area as per the particular this group so there's a supply chain for example sustainable agriculture supply chain or the e-waste and plastic recycled supply chains like there are there are there are plastic recycled properly changed there are there are e-waste there are battery recycling and then supply chain decarbonization so in the your particular supply chain at the whatever the steps you could measure your carbon footprint saving and then suppose if you put some data about your product like for this particular product maybe saving this carbon this that much carbon footprint saving and then you can attract more customer to what that product compared to the other product with both of that data so so in the supply chain perspective the use cases are coming in the prospect where people are reporting the carbon footprint saving and showing at the product level like how much this particular product is saved your carbon footprint saving and if you buy this product then you are contributing to some kind of carbon emission saving and other aspect like plastic e-waste or recycle so even they are properly amended by government like extended bodies to respond to it so for example if you are a plastic manufacturer plastic bottle manufacturer then you need to recycle whatever the you are manufacturing it so these are the said by the different various governments they relate to bodies so and that's why the brand or the e-waste or plastic recycle companies will want to come up with some trusted and transparent ecosystem where all the players come in the picture regulator brand and plastic recycler although even the recycler garbage collectors in the same picture and then even even some kind of creating the tokens out of it and then people can buy it outside so even we are working with one of the customer in India for the plastic recycle traceability and then tokenizing that carbon footprint saving via this plastic recycle and there are a number of use cases in the battery and while the electric electrical vehicle adoption or the users are increasing then this particular use cases is also more remarked because we have lots of batteries to recycle and measure the carbon footprint saving out of this this number of the use cases are there so this I talked about one thing here if you could go back to your chart there just for the audience if you're interested in any of the accounting specifically carbon accounting that Kamlesh talked about we had a session with SAP green token back I think it was in May or so and you're welcome to go back to recording this out there and available you can learn more about that specifically in addition to what Kamlesh will say going forward here yes it was you were right Tom by the way it was me in May when we guessed this fish by James still great token yes yeah correct correct so green board is another example so so this sustainability angle is everywhere is just not supply chain is just not the climate but in the even finance space so recently in India we've owned one of the sustainable finance hackathon where we presented the similar case like how how we are tracking the plastic plastic recycle and then how we created the carbon token and then beyond that how you could this token is a some kind of investment asset some kind of finance asset and even the normal consumer instead of the carbon offset people who are interested in the particular sustainability aspect they can even invest and and this is a green board is one of the examples which India and Eric is mentioned so we provide so okay so I just talked about the use cases but now I will talk about some success stories and all the categories I discovered last so in a carbon credit tokenization so if you heard about this nori nori protocol this is a carbon remover market place and you see the number so there are how many projects 17 plus projects are there there are 1.8 million dollar offset exchange there are a number of this thing and then this flow carbon is one of the another carbon credit market place in the block which is the which is kind of creating the carbon tokens and even creating some digital currency backed by this green carbon offset and word banks is also having some kind of carbon offset in terms of this finance background this below two use cases is from India so in India there are a couple of use cases in the sustainable agriculture aspect where because India is a agriculture driven economy still we have around 70 percent farmers in India so so in sustainable agriculture perspective how these companies are using sustainable agriculture is their carbon accounting and then then then tokenizing it so this is the sustainability blockchain token Kitchi called it and another is a carbon NFT on food supply chain called Bhu so all this is production in India another in the renewable energy sector so like the first is my customer bit filmings where they have their setup of green technologies or green kind of solar energy panels in India and they have smart metering to set up at the household level and then how how they are measuring the carbon carbon emissions or carbon saving while consumer or farmers or people are using this renewable energy instead of the normal coal or water energy and then if they are using this particular energy then how much the carbon they are sending and then tokenizing this carbon data so this thing and there are already ready made data available in terms of for example suppose if you are using the normal energy whether water or coal so how much carbon emission it emits and if you using instead of the solar energy then you can easily compare easily calculate the carbon emission saving so this is typically standard data available another is power ledger so this is australian bank company they are using lots of use cases in terms of peer-to-peer energy trading or energy certificate when they did some project here with ministry of power and a smart bit foundation there are energy web foundation they have a number of use cases in terms of renewable energy certificate market and this are some circular use circular economy use cases especially in the west management so even there are circular eyes there is a recycle go there is a circular there is ever ledger there is my company also so there are a number of use cases in plastic e-west and battery so first project is record recording all the carbon emission and then tokenizing those data and another kind of fulfilling the sdg goals set by the brand like extended produce this kind of activity like for example whatever the e-west or plastic you are manufacturing then you need to recycle all those things and this is there there are lots of work required because currently there's a no-transplant data about the in the brand don't have circularity like whether whether they are getting the certificate of whether this plastic recycle that is correct or not because currently whoever in the plastic recycler they give some kind of before they post a million bottles of maybe one million metric and plastic but there's a no genuine trusted data so and that's why brands and the regulator need some kind of transparency where come the transparency then blockchain is a very good technology to achieve that piece and then some use cases in sustainable supply chain previous is a waste management especially like battery plastic or e-west another is some kind of sustainability aspect in supply chains like for example there is a mining where there is some kind of fashion forest to fashion supply chain whether the deforestation or even like a measure the carbon footprint saving at the each step of the supply chain so even for that there are there are there are data there is an extended process available like while while you transporting one good from another good another location then as per the your sustainability your supply chain data like what kind of vehicle what kind of the transport medium are you using how much time it can take all this parameters is in the data available and this particular solutions are using those data and creating the some sustainability data about it there are number of use cases like mineral supply chain like there's an IPM there is a port there is a access global they created with some kind of mineral supply chain responsible mineral data and there are number of use cases there are about to use cases by one of the fashion India fashion retail group or the particular group and they have they have to sell you those one of the fibers from nature and then then they creating the kind of sustainability and sustainable data about how the particular fiber are transported or everything and and the tag with the particular brand product and there are number of number of use cases in the like cotton even the levels for a couple of customers using in India where they have into a recipe of particular so even this is one I think for I think at least one one month old data and if you see there are more than 350 plus projects already available where blockchain is used to achieve the sustainability in different aspect whether is the ESG with the ethical supply chain whether is the agri supply chain food safety supply chain pharmaceutical supply chain so if you go to this particular lane I given here you could every week really new new projects added to their repository so in the fourth week September it was around the 4th September project and I think mostly in the last four weeks maybe 30 more added so so you can see the impact of blockchain and how the people are using the blockchain system so any any question here or shall I continue till the presentation at the last any questions out there for Kamala okay so yeah Kamala is you know going here so there are you know ES device you know there are a few protocols country to country you know we have specific protocols and policies so here are we are adhering to any policies process anything so you mean talking about this vera and gold standard and that's it yeah that's right okay so so there are there are even multiple things so one thing people doing what whatever the vera and gold standard data available in terms of the respective projects people are tokenizing those data so and creating the carbon credit token sort of it there's one thing but still for example like agriculture space there's no any standards currently available so people are deriving the new new even the standards around it like for example suppose what kind of soil it is and what kind of fertilizers using what kind of pesticides they are using then if they are using this within how much the carbon footprint is having to this kind of data is still standards not available people are building and defining on and another for example like supply chain for example so like suppose if you in for example suppose in India for example you're transporting something from Delhi to Mumbai so how you will measure the particular products carbon footprint emissions whether you can relate like whether they are using diesel or petrol or CNG gas vehicle or how much time you take and what kind of people involved so all this data is very raw and but but I think there is still there are some kind of standardization coming in this aspect there are some already data available where you just simply put the your certain data will be the carbon footprint is a benchmark thanks Kamlesh and the final thing is you know how about the GDPR compliant you know how about the meeting so I think in block I think GDPR compliance can actually achieve because if you heard about some data collection of private data concept in all the blockchain so and private channel for example so all this you could achieve whether the technology itself that I think no need to be worried about GDPR compliance and that that you how you define and design your blockchain infrastructure blockchain network yeah thank you very much Kamlesh yeah so so here in some cases today which we are that did for the customer so this is the one we did for one of the plastic recyclers based in India so for that actually we are tracking end to end of plastic recycle collection detail waste aggregator and then recycler and brand and then tokenizing it in our blockchain product called trust chain and and the similar product could be used for whether e-waste or battery recycling because in all the aspects the supply chain is same and the guidelines and the regulatory is the same like e-pr kind of thing extended for disadvantage so what are the likes of the OEM there is a waste aggregator there is a recycler there is a manufacturing there is a product all to be your blockchain network participant and you just record all the parameter and then get agree all the participant node on the particular data what we are getting in the blockchain and then tokenize those time terms of like how much carbon footprint for example suppose if you see in the plastic bank plastic bank dot com that particular project I think started by IBM and which are the millions of plastic bottle the recycle and they clearly take the like if you recycle in one plastic bottle then how much carbon you are saving so similarly you can I'll calculate in terms of the plastic and e-waste or battery so and this actually we won the one of the hackathon where we are becoming a part of their kind of sustainable finance group so in the first part we are simply doing the waste recycling process into it like material collection to tail carbon credit certificate but that is a non non-technization part but in the later part like green finance the green token so similarly all the data what we are recording here we are using another another blockchain network like the polygon whether it's public blockchain and then creating the tokens some kind of sustainable tokens out of it whatever the carbon footprint and carbon credit generated here and then you could create completely your green financing sustainable finance model like people can invest in these tokens and they directly could contribute to this left hand side piece or if left hand side is already in place then they can create this kind of tokens and consumer or investor institution investor can buy this token on this thing so this kind of thing and the similarity could be applicable for other aspects like renewable energy for example there is even my friend's company in India they have they invest in a sustainable the investment in solar panels or solar micro grid setup and and then the funded consumer side they created some kind of green financing platform and I think the people invest in this token they invest in this solar panel solar project the similarity can be and this is typical this supply chain like all the first like waste recycler material collecting then EPR certificate which is the vermin organization checking whether the particular EPR is genuine or not and then carbon footprint recording then carbon tokenization and all other things like ESG and compliance can come in the all this end to end thing even like if you recycling the plastic then even you can tag the particular product like this product is made by a plastic recycle all this thing so and this actually we did for another renewable energy uh solution company in Europe so they having a micro grid or solar panel setup in India and rural rural India or farmers are using this particular energy generated by this solar solar panel solar project so in the project in the how to measure the carbon footprint so we get some kind of smart meters at the consumer side and we are recording the energy utilization in all the other other parameters about the about the farmer about their economic condition all the things and then tokenizing or this particular data and even also bringing the secondary marketplace and some kind of sustainable token aspect aspect and people can invest in this token and directly even invest or grant or charity to the farmers who are not who are who are poor in particular kind of space so this is some kind of thing we did for one of the European customers and that is live in actually India this is everything in Rajasthan one of the state in India and all these projects are using the hyper legit actually so this is a typical particular product solution diagram that was a smart fitter to be recording all the consumption data from the meter log and log and all the carbon calculation of the carbon emissions and everything and then certifying this carbon credit and then in the left left and green piece is about the token tokenizing those carbon emissions consuming and then similar similar how you can trade this particular carbon footprint and carbon footprint so that we did via our asset tracing and provenance that's an actual product where the number of stickers that I grow up to consumer are there and this is modified accordingly whether we are tracking or traceability the plastic or whether we are taking the traceability of a food supply chain and this is last so in the hyper ledger we have a hyper ledger climate action accounting SIG climate SIG actually we can say so there are a number of a number of different projects and different initiatives are there and one initiative is the supply chain the carbon addition so and recently we hyper ledger climate action accounting group actually participated in the I didn't call for code there was a green practice accelerator and even the particular code program when we got some kind of some kind of grant as a particular use cases look into the criteria climate SIG the supply chain decarbonization thank you any question okay thank you Kamalash for sharing the overview as well as specifically what you guys have worked on there that's great I was having some problems at the end it might be just on mine where you're a little fuzzy so if folks heard that great it was just me or if not then maybe there's some questions that you want to ask of Kamalash either on that or something a little bit earlier so I'll turn it over to the floor here and see if there's anybody who has any questions so so even I will share this presentation say that again I'm saying I will share this presentation which you can upload on your keeping beautiful beautiful well that is that's great the meeting is over Kamalash so I can upload it on to also on to LinkedIn site for everybody to access it and take a look at that yeah now in terms of contribution community contributions you know how how we can able to participate and contribute so so if you so there are number of different initiatives and there are multiple so if you are not a technical then you can contribute in terms of tender and business practice or some kind of business perspective like in the supply another thing if you have some development team or maybe some developer interest then already this particular law boxing car marketing network is now live I got a number of new enhancement or new things we have we are doing there so you can contribute that that too so we actually made every by week like we are meeting to the supply chain network so this is open anybody can join the meeting and participate whether they're working in the similar space whether they want to technical contribution that they want to do to kind of show business perspective like in carbon accounting space to work I think it's a collaborative I think every Monday I believe I think I think every Tuesday by by weekly Tuesday they have yeah okay okay okay good any other questions out there good question I like the participation or kind of contribute kind of question there and there's lots of opportunities so anybody else out there before you wrap up okay going once going twice going three times again thank you for joining here on Thursday or joining via the recording con lush thanks for sharing a little bit of what you saw there and Dublin as well as your your experience there and I like I like the ESG intelligence thing there blockchain for sustainability weekly so I'm going to go look that up here after this session here so with that let's close things out enjoy the rest of your day wherever you are con lush thanks for joining late in India since she won the win the prize her I guess is late and we'll talk with you next time I believe the 20th of October is our next session so look yeah 20th of October Tom correct I'm gonna have another very interesting meeting by the way thanks for everybody for joining us today thanks Kim Lash remember please share and slide yeah next night so I give everybody an appointment in two weeks time more good content strong they have less by changing trade funds say bye everybody bye everybody bye everybody


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Now we're going to come up with an expression for the velocity of objects undergoing uniform circular motion. So what speed is an object undergoing uniform circular motion actually travelling at? Well we know that for a constant velocity the speed v is equal to the distance travelled divided by the time taken to travel that distance. So let's investigate one revolution which is an object travelling once around the circle. We know that the distance the object has travelled is the circumference of the circle. If you remember the circumference of a circle is equal to 2 pi times the radius of the circle. So for an object undergoing one revolution of the circle the distance is equal to 2 pi r. Now the time taken to complete one revolution around the circle is the time of the period which we're going to call big t. So for example the period of the earth travelling around the sun which we discussed earlier is 365 days. And that's the period of the earth's orbit. So if we look back at our velocity equation and we plug in the values that we've derived we see that v, the velocity of an object undergoing uniform circular motion is equal to 2 pi r the radius of the circle divided by big t, the period. And there you have it. The speed of an object undergoing uniform circular motion is equal to 2 pi r on t. So now we know the magnitude of velocity. What is the direction of the velocity vector? We know that an object undergoing uniform circular motion is travelling along the circumference of a circle. To undergo this motion the velocity vector of the object must be tangential to the circle at every point. To see this let's consider the velocity of different points along the path of motion. On the top of the circle in our example the object is moving left so the velocity vector must point left. And if we look at the velocity at the bottom of the circle we know that the object must be pointing right so the object is moving rightwards. If we look at the left side of the circle the object is moving downwards so the velocity vector must point down. We can see that at every point on the circle the velocity is pointing tangentially to the circle. So in summary the velocity of the object undergoing uniform circular motion has a magnitude of 2 pi r on t and the direction of the velocity is tangential to the circle on which the object is undergoing uniform circular motion.


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So, thanks for organizing it. Okay, let's start. So, today I'd like to chat about data processing program in OpenStack called name Sahara. My name is Sergey Lukyanov, I'm a PTL of Sahara Project. And so, let's start with a small overview of the killer things done. Next slide, please. Okay, and so first of all, let's define what Sahara is and what's the goal. So, Sahara is a project to provide a scalable data processing second, as I said, it's known as an interface. And so, there are two main directions. The first one is to provide and then operate the data processing clusters. And the second one is to schedule and operate the data processing jobs and workloads. So, the first one is about deploying the Hadoop cluster, for example, or any other data processing clusters. Now, Sahara supports Spark and Storm as well, in addition to the Hadoop. And the second direction is about running the big data data processing jobs on top of the redeployed clusters. Next slide, please. The ETP functionality is a rusty data processing. It's a Sahara take data processing workflow management. It's a code name of the second direction of Sahara goals. Next slide, please. So, there are some numbers for the killer release and let's not spend time on it. It's just increasing as always from the release to release and the numbers are pretty doubled comparing to the overview that we've done a year ago. Next slide, please. So, what was doing here? During the killer, there were a few new plugins introduced and a new version supported to existing clusters. So, the newcomers to the Sahara plugins for the query is a MapR plugin. It's one of the distribution of Hadoop with a custom very high-performance distributed file system and Apache Storm. It's a real-time data analysis tool. And the two existing plugins, Vanilla Hadoop and Cloudera distribution, including Hadoop, were updated to the latest versions and some additional services were supported by the Cloudera plugin as well. Next slide, please. So, in a Sahara UI site, there were a bunch of improvements and bug fixes in Horizon and we added the guided cluster creation and job execution workflows. So, now users could go through the guide on a UI site to create the stuff needed for provisioning cluster, including creation of the configuration templates for Sahara, like non-group templates and cluster templates. The same could be done in a guided way with the job executions. All of our object page in Horizon currently contains filtering for the search. So, it's now easily to filter objects by, yeah. For example, the cluster or the type of the job, et cetera. So, let's move on to the next slide, please. In the killer, the indirect virtual machine access was implemented. So, can't please, there is a way to set some node groups to be gateways to access other nodes. So, the Sahara controllers will use the gateway nodes as the proxies to access other nodes. It's needed to better consume the virtual IP addresses and so, you don't need to have IP addresses assigned to all the nodes in public IP addresses. And, obviously, Sahara will still be able to access all the nodes. Next slide, please. So, the next big feature in killer that was implemented is the event log. So, this feature is about expanding additional information about the provisioning status and the progress. So, now, while the cluster provisioning for scaling, you could go to the event log tab in horizon or through API and get information about the more granular status. For example, what's the number of machines for the provision and what are they waiting for? And, it's very helpful, not only to track the progress of cluster provisioning, but to debug issues, issues with the cloud, for example, because if you have network issues, for example, with event log, you could easily see that some of the instances are not accessible via network, for example. Next slide, please. The defaulting plate CLI2 was added in killer to be able to add functionality for end users to provide the defaulting plates for different tenants and products and open stack. It means that there is a bunch of predefined team plates for different plugins in Sahara for the base and you could use the custom ones to generate the default not group and cluster templates for any tenants in your cloud and the users will be able to use some predefined ready cluster templates and after that, you will be able just to create clusters via a few clicks. Comparing to the way with our defaulting plans where you need to create the configuration templates first, so it was the user experience feature. Next slide, please. So let's move on to the Liberty plans and next slide, please. It's first of all, let's talk about the new plugins in the chat updates. So the two main distributions of Hadoop, CloudJR and the HTTP will be updated in Liberty Cycle. The CloudJR distribution of Hadoop gets the latest version supported, 5.4, and we are going to provide the HDFS and YARNA high availability mode support in Liberty for both of the plugins and we are currently working on the reworked version of the HTTP plugin that is now based on the Humbari Blueprints comparing to the direct API calls. So HTTP plugin currently supports all of the services as supported by its manager named Humbari. And so the whole big Hadoop world stack could be deployed by the HTTP plugin including Storm, Spark, et cetera, embedded to these clusters and EJ supported as well for it for both YARNA and HDFS. And the separated Spark plugin which would be named to an evil Spark plugin because it's installed from the upstream without using the deployment engines. So it's getting support as the latest 1.3 version. Next slide, please. In Liberty, one of the huge UX functionalities is the data sources place address or team plates. This feature provides end users an ability to create the data sources with some variables inside URLs so it could be a random value or job execution ID embedded to the data source URL and it means that if you will execute a few times a single job, for example, if you run one of the job executions, you will receive the outputs if they're specified with the data source team plates in different places, for example, with randomly generated suffix. Next slide, please. So another big feature is to provide the objects updates support to the API and UI site. So our goal in Liberty is to enable support for updating all of the objects with strict validation for not being in use, including validation of the dependencies. For example, you're unable to update the class into plate if there are some classes created from this class into plate. And in addition to it, in fact, the parts of it, we're going to support extended ACLs for our objects and we agreed to provide two types of feasibility. The default one is just a tent one, like a default objects for OpenStack projects and the public one that will be shared between all the tents, it's pretty much the same as in glass. And we're going to add the protected field like a glance images to be able to protect your objects like clusters and team plates from the essential removal, for example. Next slide, please. In Liberty, we're planning to separate our integration scenario test tool from the security to the security as a hard test to pull it through. Spec is currently not created, it's in progress, but on the summit, we were agreed on doing it and choosing it separately to support the current master and the few previous releases of OpenStack to be able to use the latest testing tool with the latest scenarios to test all of the currently supported versions of OpenStack. Next slide, please. So in Liberty Cycle, we were actively working on an overall provisioning probability and we'll continue doing it to the end of the cycle and in the next cycles as well for sure. But in Liberty, the main goal was to to support the Keystone sessions, to retry OpenStack client calls, to ensure that if there are some networking issues or some EPI rates, limits, issues happening, then we'll always retry and not fail the cluster provisioning. It's extremely important for the huge, big data clusters like some of the not Hadoop cluster that you don't, they're unable to fail the cluster creation and a few instances creation failed. And in Liberty, we're already deprecated the direct provisioning engine and the heat engine is now the only provisioning engine supported by Sahara. It means that all changes to the existing engine, I mean, to the previous direct engine will be blocked and we're going to remove the scores of ways for direct provisioning engine in the next cycle. So I think it's pretty all about the Sahara, Keystone use and the Liberty plans updates. Thank you very much for your attention.


Let me check. From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering InterConnect 2017. Brought to you by IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. Day two, we are here live in Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect. This is SiliconANGLES, the CUBE coverage of IBM's cloud event. The CEO, Janine Rometti, was just on stage. We're kicking off wall-to-wall coverage for three days. I'm John Furrier with my co-host, Dave Vellante here for all three days. And our next guest is Andy Lin, who's the VP of strategy at Mark III Systems, a 20-plus-year IBM Platinum partner, doing some real cutting-edge work with Cognitive, as Janine Rometti said, Cognitive to the Core as IBM's core strategy. Data first, Enterprise Strong is kind of the buzzwords. Andy, welcome to theCUBE. Appreciate you coming on. Thanks for having me. So obviously, Enterprise Strong, it's kind of a whole other conversation that we can go deep on, but Data First and Cognitive to the Core is really kind of the things that you guys are really getting into, all kinds of data types, and automating it and making it almost frictionless to move insights out. So take a minute to explain what Mark III's doing and what your role is with the company. Sure, absolutely. So I'm vice president of strategy at Mark III, so I work sort of across all our initiatives, especially areas that are emerging. Just a little bit about Mark III, just historically for background purposes. So we're a 22-year IBM Platinum partner, as you pointed out. We actually started out in the mid-90s actually doing IT infrastructure around the IBM stack at that time. So we sort of been with IBM over the last 20 years since the beginning. We've sort of grown up throughout the stack as IBM's evolved over the last two decades. About two and a half years ago, we started a digital development unit called BlueCasm. And what BlueCasm does is it basically builds open digital and cognitive platforms on the IBM cloud that are around a lot of the services you pointed out. And we basically designed it based on use cases that the ecosystem and our clients talk about. And to give you a couple examples, one of the big ones that we're seeing a lot of interest around is called Video Recon. Video Recon is a video analytics platform that's API enabled and open at its core. So regardless of where the video comes from, if it's a content management system, if it's a camera, we're able to basically take in that video, basically watch and listen to the video using Watson and some elements of our own intellectual property, and then basically return insights based on what it sees and hears along with timestamps back to the user to actually take action. I love the name BlueCasm. It brings up, you know, Jeffrey Moore is crossing the chasm, Blue IBM is big blue. So, you know, it's nice, clever play, the BlueCasm opportunity. So in your mind for people watching, squint through some of the trends and extract out where you see these opportunities because you're talking about new opportunities are emerging because of cloud horsepower and compute and storage and all the greatness of cloud. And you got real-time analytics kind of really hitting the mainstream. That's highlighted by Internet of Things. You can't go anywhere these days out here about autonomous vehicles, industrial Internet of Things, AI. Mark Bandyoff was saying, you know, we've seen the movies like Terminator and we've all dreamed about AI. So we can kind of get excited about the prospects. So, but this chasm you're talking about, this is where these things that were ungettable before, unreachable new things, what are some of those things that you guys are doing in that chasm? Yeah, so I think some of the things that we're doing are basically enabling, like I'll use video recart as example, right? We're enabling a client to be able to get new insights using basically computer vision, but in an open and accessible way than they've never had been able to do before. Vision itself I don't think is new or revolutionary. You know, a lot of folks are doing it self-driving cars, et cetera, but I think what is new is being able to make it open and easily accessible to the normal enterprise and the normal service provider. Up to now it's been, you know, you've really had to have your own team of really, really deep AI developers or PhDs to be able to produce it for your own platform. What we're trying to do is basically democratize that. So, to give you an example, some use cases that we're sort of working on today, the ability to do things like read meters and gauges as an example with a camera.  It could be dangerous. There could be issues actually looking at what you see from a metering perspective or to be able to, for instance, for in the media entertainment industry or the video production industry, be able to do things like identify shot type to be able to more quickly allow our enterprise users in that particular space to be able to create video content quickly. And the underlying theme with all this, I think, is really about speed and mark and how quickly can you iterate and please whatever your customer is in that particular space that you're in. So, the video recon, so your videos are searchable, essentially. So, what do you do? Use Watson natural language processing to sort of translate them. And now, so of course, you know, NLP is maybe, I don't know, 75, 80% accurate. How do you close that gap? Yeah, so, video recon does both visual and audio. So, the audio portion, you are correct. There is some degree of trade-off and accuracy relative to what I think the average human can do today. Assuming the human is focused and able to really tag these videos accurately. So, we are able to train it based on things like proper words and things that are enterprise focused because I know there are a lot of different ways that I think you can maybe attack this today from a video analytics perspective, but we're focused primarily just on the enterprise solving business problems with video analytics. So, you know, taking advantage of as Watson improves because we do use speech-to-text at its core on the audio perspective, applying some of our own techniques to basically improve the accuracy of certain words that matter most of the enterprise. One of the things we've noticed is it's entirely a collaborative relationship with our enterprise clients, but really partners, because what works well for one may not work well for another. The one thing about Cognitive is it really depends on the end user as to if this is a good idea or not, or if this will work for their use case just based on error as you pointed out. So, to your point, you're identifying enterprise use cases and then tuning the system, building solutions essentially for those use cases. Absolutely. You said 22-year IBM Platinum partner, so he obviously started well before this so-called digital transformation. Yes. You see digital transformation as revolutionary or is it more of an evolution of your business? I would definitely say it's an evolution. I think a lot of the industry buzzwords out there are all around transformation or transition, but for us it's been completely additive. At the end of the day, we're just doing what our clients want, and we're still continuing the core part of our business around modernizing and optimizing IT infrastructure, the tech stacks in the data center, also infrastructure service in the cloud, also up through the middleware is still really as strong as ever. And in fact, that business has actually been very much reinforced by some of these capabilities that we brought in on the digital development side, because at the end of the day, clients may have a digital unit and they may have IT, but they're really viewed sort of all in the same. A lot of people try to put them in two different buckets by modal or whatever you want to use, but inevitably, clients just see a business problem they want to address, and they're saying, how can I address it the fastest and the most effectively as relative to what their stakeholders want? And we just realized early on that we had to have that development capability be able to build platforms, but also guide our clients. If they don't want one of our platforms, if they don't want video recon or cognitive call center platform, that's perfectly fine. We're more than happy to guide them on how to build something similar for their developers with our developers relative to their tech stack, hopefully on the IBM Cloud. Andy, one of the things you're pointing out that I think is worth highlighting is the digital transformation buzzword, which has been around for a few years now, really is in mainstream right now. People are really working hard to figure this out. We're seeing the disruption on the business model side. You mentioned speed and time to market. That's agility. That's not just a technical development term anymore. It's actually business model. It's business related. But there's two axes of thing going on. There's the under the hood heavy lifting stuff that goes on around getting stuff digitally to work. That's IT, security, and you know, Ginny Ramay talks about a lot on stage. That's being enterprise-grade or enterprise-strong. The other one is this digitization of the real world, right? So that's creative. That requires insights. That requires kind of a different, it's actually probably maybe more fun for some people, but I mean to me it's not who your profile is, but you have kind of two spectrums. Cool and relevant, exciting and intoxicating, creative, user experience driven. You mentioned reading meters. That's the analog world. That's actually space. That's the world. You got the sky, you got the meter, you got physical impressions. This is the digitization of our world. What's your perspective? How do you talk to customers when they say, hey, I want to digitize my business? How does it go? What do you say? I mean, do you break it down into those axes? Do you go, do they see it that way? Can you share some color on this digital transformation of digitizing business? Yeah, so I mean it really depends on, I think normally it has to do with interacting with some other stakeholders in a certain way. I think from our perspective, it really is about how they want to interface, and most of the time you pointed out speed. Speed I think is the number one reason why people are doing the digital transformation. It's not really about cost or these other factors. How quickly can I adjust my business model so I can win in the marketplace? And I think I pointed this earlier, but IOT is huge now. It covers what I call three of the five senses in my mind, it covers basically touch, smell, and taste in many ways. And for us, I think we're basically trying to help them even get beyond IOT with video. Video really covers site and hearing as well. It covers all the five senses. And then you take that and figure out how do I digitize that experience and be able to allow you to interact with your stakeholders, whether it be your customers or suppliers or your partners out in the marketplace. And then based on that, we'll take these building blocks on how we extend the experience and work with them on the specific use case. You got to ingest the data, which is the images or data coming in. Then you got to prep it and make it available for insights and then produce them really fast. That's hard. It's not trivial. No, it is not. It's not a trivial problem. Yeah, absolutely. I think there's a lot of opportunity here in the space over the next two to five years, but you're absolutely right. I mean, it is a challenge. And I want to get your thoughts too. And if you can share your reaction to some of the trends around machine learning, for instance, that's really kind of fueling this democratization you mentioned and the old days was really hard. There's kind of a black art to machine learning or unique specialties and even data science at one level was really, really hard. Now you have common people doing things with visualization. What's the same with machine learning? I mean, you've got more data sets coming in. Do you see that trend relevant to what you guys are working on than blue chasm? Yeah, absolutely. I think at the core of it, and this wasn't our plan initially three years ago, we didn't realize that this would happen, but every single one of the platforms or prototypes or apps we built, they all incorporate some degree of machine learning, deep learning within its core. And this is primarily just driven by, I think, to give a client a unique platform or a unique service on the market, because much of the base digitization, I mean, Jenny likes to talk a lot about the key to differentiating yourself in the digital world is being cognitive. And we've seen this really play out in practice. And I think what's changed, as you pointed out, is that it's easily accessible now to sort of the common man, as I put it. In years past, you really had to have people that are highly specialized. You build your own product, but now through open source. This building blocks out there, you can just take it up to such library and say, hey, and then tweak the machine learning. Absolutely, and the ramp up time has come down dramatically, even for our developers, just watching them work. I mean, the prototype to video recon was built over the course of the weekend by one of our developers. He just came in one Monday and said, is this interesting? Exactly, and we were like, yes, I think this is interesting. Well, this is the whole inspiration thing that I talk about the creativity. I mean, this is the two accesses, right? You try to do that in the old days. I got to get a server provision.  I mean, there's almost an abandonment going on. We talked to Indiegogo yesterday about how they're funding companies. You have this new creative action. So you guys are seeing that. Any other examples you can share in terms of color around this kind of innovation? Yeah, so we, at Blue Chasm, we try to let our developers sort of have free reign over what they like to create. So video recon was spawned literally by on a side project, as with a lot of companies. It was a platform that sort of evolved into a commercial product, almost by accident, right? And we've had others that have been anchored by what clients have done, but around the Cognitive Call Center, which basically takes phone calls that are recorded and then basically transcribes and make them easily searchable for audit reasons, training reasons, et cetera. Same kind of idea. We built things around like cognitive drones. A lot of folks are trying to do things with drones. Drones themselves aren't really novel anymore, but being able to utilize them to collect data in unique ways. I think that industry is definitely evolving. We've built other things like what I call the Minority Report Board after the scene in the movie where the board sort of looks at you and then based on what it sees of you, of different data points, it shows you an ad or shows you some piece of visual content to allow you to interact. I mean, these are examples. We have others, but we've just seen, like in this organization, if we allow creativity to sort of have free reign, we're able to sort of bring it back in along with some of the strengths of CoreMark 3 about being able to use it. I mean, cognitive is really interesting. It's a programmatic approach to life, and if you think about it, it's like if you have this collective intelligence with the data, you can offer an augmented reality experience to anybody now based upon what you're doing. Absolutely. So I mean, I think that the toughest part, I think right now is figuring out which of the opportunities to pursue because there are so many out there and everyone has some interest in some degree. You have to figure out how to prioritize about which of the ones you want to address first and in what order, because what we've noticed is that a lot of these are building blocks that lead to other greater and greater platform concepts and part of the challenge is figuring out what order you want to actually build these into. And through microservices, through containerization, all these awesome evolutions as far as like with cloud infrastructure technology, you're really able to piece together these pieces to build amazing things. The cloud native stuff is booming right now.  And all your clients are basically becoming software companies. They're taking your services and building out their own SaaS capabilities. Right, without a doubt. I mean, the cloud native container revolution has been significant for us. I mean, we added the audio component to Video Recon based on some of the work we've been doing on the call center side. It was almost by accident and we were able to really put them together in a day because we were able to basically easily compose the overall platform at that time or the prototype of the platform at that time just by linking together those services. So we see this as a pattern. Andy, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it in the quick 30 seconds. What are you doing here at the show? What are you guys talking about? What's some of the activity? Coolest thing you're seeing? Share some insight, what's going on here in Las Vegas? Share some perspective. Yeah, absolutely. So we have a booth here in Vegas. We're demoing some of the platforms we talked about, Video Recon Cognitive Call Center. We're at booth 687, which is toward the center back to the Expo Center. We have four breakouts that we'll be doing as well, talking about some of these concepts, as well as some of our projects that involve modernization of the data center as well.  And for the folks that aren't here watching, is there a website address? Where can they go to get more information? Yeah, absolutely. You can go to mark3sys, M-A-R-K-I-S-Y-S.com, which is our website. If you want to learn a little bit more about Video Recon, you can go to videorecons.io. We have a very simple demo page, but if you're interested in learning more or you want to explore if we can accommodate your specific use case, please feel free to reach out to me. Also mark3systems, M-A-R-K-I-I-S-Y-Sys. At Twitter as well. And I can- Well you know, we're going to follow up with you. We're going to get all of our CUBE videos into the cognitive era. You'll be seeing us pinging you online for that. Love the Video Recon. Just great blue cats, so great, great initiative. Congratulations on that. Thank you. 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