I think it's time to start. We have a very, very packed program. So, the day we start, the most stress it will be to keep the program. So, I think we start. So, welcome so much, everyone? It is. Can I? Yes, I can. Okay, let me have this. Okay. Let me slide forward a little bit. You've got two rounds. Too much shopping. So, how do you go down? Okay. So, this is actually going to be quite a long time. Even though two years have talked with great guys for the whole time. So, I'm so happy to see you all. My name is Kirstin Groh. I'm the director of the new center and more about that later. And the professor at the Department of Informatics here at the University of Oslo. So, but now I'm only introducing our opening speaker, Lee Martin Uda. She's a policy director in NORAD. NORAD, you know NORAD, our oldest friend. So, we are so happy that Lee Martin is actually coming here to open this conference. She's a policy director, but she's also a co-lead, together with you, actually, of the global, not global digital public good alliance. So, she's here to talk about that a little bit as well. She will actually have a little bit of a keynote together with us in the cross-sector session in the planning on Thursday. So, we work together. So, this is not just a policy call. This is a real presentation. So, over to you. Thank you for being able to hear me in time. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here. It's really hard to see the application. It's impossible to match that energy level at any time. And I'm not going to try. I'm going to sit down here. It's such a long interview here. And I really do feel like I'm a partner of this, even though I haven't met all of you. And I'll say why. As Christine mentioned, I do call it the Digital Public Goods Alliance. And I am based at the Norwegian Agency for Development Corporation, so Nourad. And the concept of digital public goods, I stress this with all I ask, how many people here do you think actually, you know, has any kind of feeling on what that concept is? And he said, ah, 30, 50 percent. And I said, but they all know what the H2 is. And he said, of course, and they all know the H2 is open source. And he said, of course. So that's kind of a very important part of it. The definition of digital public goods is something that comes from the UN Secretary General himself.  And it came as a result of a report from the high level panel on digital cooperation that the UN Secretary General established in 2018. And 2018 is, of course, a long, long time after this endeavor started. And I would say that no one exemplifies the essence of what digital public goods mean better than this crowd. And also the crowd that is with us virtually today. And although the open source part of the concept of digital public goods, because that's what they mean, it's a reference to open source technologies, software, content data standards that adhere to certain minimum principles around user safety, privacy, and also that has some kind of relevance to the sustainable development goals. That's the technical definition. But the essence is really around community. And this is where I really think that the H2 stands out. It's the community. And it's a community that's rooted in local ownership. And it's locally that innovation happens. And that's what the topic of the conference is today also, from local innovation to global progress. And increasingly, what I think you will see in many other countries and what you have probably seen in many other countries that you're working is that increasingly you will come into other types of projects that are based around open source technologies that are being implemented, and many of them are being integrated also with the H2 in the field. Examples include Daivoc, which many of you probably know, Sormas. And you may also have come across digital public goods in other sectors or for that are enablers, for instance, of the progress also in the health sector, such as digital identity systems. There's one called Mosep, for instance, that Noura also supports alongside the H2. And what I am seeing as co-leader of this digital public goods alliance, which is very much around accelerating attainment of the sustainable development goes through, allowing these open technologies as a basis for adaptation and adaptation across countries with much more speed. What we're seeing is that everyone wants to learn from the H2. But they don't want, I mean, of course, there's great stuff that happens with the technology, the core management of the technology. And that's wonderful. But every time, I think in every conversation I've had with Christine over these years, she's always said, the technology is important, but that's not what matters. That's not the most important part about the H2. It's the community. It's HISP. And that's really what everyone tends to focus too much on the technology and not ask about the capacity building model and all of the what is happening in the community around it and how it's uniquely anchored across the globe. And that is something we're really, really trying to learn from. And that's probably why I'm invited here. And probably why I'm a big fan. And we need to find the way of making capacity building be at the core of all of these initiatives. And I think the role of academia, masters, these masters and PhD programs, the HISP academies, all of these things that have been built up over so many years and that even came before the technology was open source. That is the essence of what we're here today. And it's something that cannot, it cannot be done quickly. It's taken, I don't know, 30 years, yeah, to get to, yeah, something like that, to get to, to get to where this initiative is today. But what I think is so privileged for someone like me now who's working then on an attempt of building up an alliance around digital public goods is that not only can we leverage the model, the learnings, but my hope is that we can actually leverage you as in the community. Because this is a community of, and I was counting more than 300 people who will be here in Oslo physically, around 400 and 400 something people attending virtually, probably. Yeah. And the community, of course, is also much bigger than that, that the people that have somehow been involved in implementing the HISP over the years, which means that it's a global community that can be leveraged also to help scale the essence of this model. And why is this so important? I think what we've seen in the alliance that that I've been building up together with others, and which has now really scaled so that we have many countries joining as members, many of the same countries that are also implementing the HISP too, is that there's really this real strong drive for what we refer to as digital sovereignty, or it has many names. But what it means in essence is that governments are increasingly uneasy about either having to be forced to end up proprietary technologies that has many types of long-term vendor lock ins. I mean, there are many good proprietary technologies that need to be part of the mix. But there's also this particularly for them, what we talk about is this digital public infrastructures, ID systems, payment platforms being forced to adopt proprietary safe data exchange layers. There is this risk of having monopolies pestering throughout your entire system, if you get them wrong. And many countries are really, and that's countries all over the world. It's also in Norway happening here now, there's an increasing drive to build in-house capacity to actually be in control over the rights to the technologies that are being deployed. But many countries do not have the luxury of building these technologies from scratch. So there is a real need for these generic open source technologies that can be adopted and adapted. But in order to do that, there's a need for in-house capacity. And there's a need for that agency that comes of being involved in implementing and being part of that digital transformation in country. And that's a model that even though it is at the core of the HRIS2 and the HIST community, I mean, I don't have to tell you guys about this, it's not something that has happened in any sector in international development. It hasn't happened in education. It's starting to happen a bit in education, but that's because of the HRIS2 actually being implemented for MS in countries. And it hasn't happened in payment systems. It hasn't happened in digital identity, but it's starting to happen in digital identity now. It started with India. And if this transformation towards more local ownership and more sovereignty in these processes is going to happen, and if it's going to happen right, capacity building needs to be part of it. And it has to be done in a completely different way than the traditional business as usual international development assistance, for instance. It has to be locally grown and locally owned. And therefore, when Christine talks about going beyond health for the HRIS2, I see two ways. One thing is the adoption of the HRIS2 into other sectors, such as education, water and sanitation, agriculture, that's happening already. And I think that's like a natural evolution. But the HRIS2 will not be the only digital system on the planet, and no one wants that. There's not like one system to rule them all. So there's also all of the integrations that's happening. And I really, really, so I see beyond health as the HRIS2 going beyond health, but I also see it as HISP as a community going beyond health. So I'm very, very excited because one of these communities is collaborating with HISP on both of these issues, both on adopting the HRIS2 but also on adopting the capacity building and the regional hub model. So I'm actually going to end with saying thank you so much for having me here, but I also really, really hope that we can tap into you in the countries where you are working and that you can help be part of this journey of helping scale a model of digital public goods so that we can leverage this unique experience into something that becomes the model for how digital cooperation happens in the future. Thank you. There we are. Thank you so much. Now we might actually mention nearly all of our topics for the conference. That's good. So we are very well aligned. I just need to mention, since you mentioned our new collaboration, if we are just granted from Nora 10 PhD scholarship or building capacity in countries through the HRIS2 groups for global digital public goods. So that's cool. So you will hear a little bit cross sector things during that this week. So apologies for all the health people, but there's a lot of things happening because what we have learned from the pandemic is that it's beyond the health. We went from the basement to the little bit top ministry of health to the presidency level when it's come to the pandemic because it involves civil registers, involved finance, it's involved portal entry, immigration at the ports and so forth. Meaning the world through our global HIST model have understood the way of doing digitalization and e-governance through our open source platform like the HH2. And that we need to leverage. And this model, so that's why I'm actually today will present a little bit more about the capacity building model because we take it for granted and everyone says, but you need to be more explicit when it's come to the way we are working because that is the secret soup. It's not it's of course it's a software as well, but it's more about how we are enabling capacity in country to create ownership and make the platform relevant at any time, both technological, but also use case wise to following what's happening in the world to have global progress through these local innovations. So this local innovation, you see the picture here is from, oh Prosper you can arrest me, but type May 2020 where all the truck drivers were standing put at the border of Uganda with all the goods coming into the whole East Africa because they were not tested out of the queue. Then very fast and innovation have made real time monitoring from the lab results. So getting certificates on the negatives also for the positives to get them out of the queue into the country and to the rest of the East Africa. That's just an example of how this platform to innovate on top, but also sharing these innovations like Andrew Mojira from from his round the sides. We are sharing, I said well you are we are not innovating, we are sharing all the innovation from the all the other groups you are stealing, but we are proud of stealing innovations and when it's implemented in your country it's domesticated and it's cultivated into your local innovation. So we are here to share and steal. So from first of January we were actually being upgraded, promoted as a center acknowledged by the University of Oslo as something very multidisciplinary, a little bit higher up in the hierarchy and we also have our fantastic new offices that we opened officially last week, the center but also the offices because we are I just wanted to show the colors, these pretty bright colors all pasted with the fieldwork pictures from all of the countries in the office. So that's a little bit of the opening, but that's more for the party and we are a bit into parties as well. So this is the net result. You have seen this many times, so this is just a very very very short glance that's kind of the adoption buying in this new health and how we do the global footprint you cannot see it under there because we have a line 2.4 billion people are living in the country with using DSS as a national health information system, HMI system. How has that been possible? I need to acknowledge also all the investors in the platform and also the partnership we have with investors because that partnership has been so I would say crucial for how we have been able to work and become relevant but also mobilize funds when things matter. It was you know the first many years, did I skip the history slide? No it's coming hopefully. Okay, the first many years we were only having a research fund and a new IO and then PEPFAR, Global Fund, NORAD came into this three-party partnership. However all the investors were lurky, we call it in the social media world, but they were always sitting in the partner meeting becoming part of the discussions of how can we make this as an open source platform relevant for all the countries not only for the ones that are happened to have finance because we would like to share it with all countries. We were truly open source and then we have had all the other partners coming along and now we are reaching out to the to cross-sector partners like education, climate health, climate and so forth. And we have been bragged about as a global public good for a while through Marty's work with our government but even the previous prime minister was proud and presented this. So how has this been possible? I can see my first slide about the history it's not there, but we know that when you have a French presentation it takes double our time, I know that.  But then I can just pause a little talking about the history because the history slide is not there. Lee Marty was indicating this has been taking 30 years and it's almost 30 years, it's 28 years since Jørn Bro, Arthur Haywood from having the first presentation, the first implementation and starting to discuss with Kalla and the rest, Nora and the rest of the team in South Africa collaborating with the University of Western Cape on making reconstruction of the health sector after apartheid. So that is our soul. So I started as an action research project, Jørn Bro, my brother, not husband. People assume you know I'm the wife. So as this PhD project and you have continued to be action research. So we usually say it's traveling through geography from South Africa scaled up to the whole South African 2000 to rest of Africa, India, Asia and geography. So technology from Microsoft access to whatever technology available, cloud-based services, web-based DHS2 when it's become 2.0, alluded to and the mobile internet and so forth. So we always use the latest technology in order to create resilient, sustainable, scalable system that can be relevant and flexible for all kinds of use cases. And that takes a group of people. So this is the secret soup. It's actually that the invisible hands of action research is that we have all these HIST groups, all these PhD scholars, all this master program that I met supported from the Norwegian government long time ago. Seven of them. We are now continuing, we are now getting into it again to actually form all our knowledge into master program, because the master program is there to stick. They are there to stay. So even though it stopped the funding in 2000 and maybe eight or 10 or something, it's still there. And we are still recruiting from the master programs that are existing in those countries. And we are now starting up in many other countries. And then we are collaborating with the government, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, the ministries in order to build our capacity in the ministry through participatory design. That's why it takes time. So we are there to commit, to teach people how can you own your own system? How can you customize your system so you can actually answer to the pandemic's new request on legislations and knowledge about how to handle the COVID-19 situation? Because you can easily change that platform to innovate on apps on top in order to cater for these kind of new things happening in the world. So that is the local innovation and the global progress. So this action research is actually building knowledge about how to do resilient information systems, e-governance, digital e-governance, while actually doing it. And when we're doing it, we do it, of course, together with the people in the country, being mentored by the his groups, building capacity in the country, being having global resources to the mentors, to the people in the country. So we become bigger and bigger. And that's how this community is becoming bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. Because everyone that learned and become part of this family are part of this family for life. That's not a threat. So what we do is actually knowledge-based. So this research is not like academic, only academic research. Of course it is also because we have 73 graduated PhD scholars from this program. We even have a defense on Wednesday, marginously from the head of the DHS2 design lab. He's graduating his PhD. He has a defense on Wednesday. But we are actually using this knowledge in order to do better, more relevant design and implementation and share that with everyone. And then that's not stealing, but stealing is nice. So all this and the academies, regional academies, we need to be regional, we need to be physical again, that has been kind of the locomotive of dissemination of these innovations and best practices. And what we see is most important in these regional academies that you guys probably have attended, held by the his groups locally in the region, sharing best practices and innovations. But the best part is actually to be inspired. So what we see, if Kenya can do it, then now I will be scalable. Tanzania can do it. That was when it was mobile internet. So we are not ranking people there, but all the innovation can be shared and will be shared. So these his groups are now leaders of the PhD scholars, often the leaders of these his groups. So this machinery is actually either local innovation, either going into a custom app, generic app, or be part of the new release the next time, half a year after, always coming with capacity and one way or another, how you can get these solutions in your hands. So these are the reason, these are the his groups. We have 17. We got a new one in Pakistan during the pandemic. So welcome Pakistan. So this region, his groups are very critical component of our strategy because they provide long time, often lifetime, often paid support to the ministries in countries. So that's why I'm talking this because we really need also to see how this can be sustainable, the business model as well. But that is the commitment that we always work with the ministry because why we are here is because what's happening in the countries. It's actually there in the countries that make us sustainable, make us famous for being able to support that many countries because this is a community where everyone can grow and shine. So the closeness to the field is so important because how can there just to be relevant for 20 over years because we always are in dialogue with the field and get scolded every time we are not really, really hitting the targets. And then we have all these groups to feedback. How can we then change the platform to be even more relevant? And of course the donors and the funders is super important. I'm guessing I'm using too much time. And also these partnerships we have had with our donors show that we were able to move fast, faster than any during the pandemic because we already had that partnership. We already had that trust. We have already shown that we can be relevant for what's happening in globally and never have the global world been smaller than the pandemic because the use case was almost the same everywhere. So then mobilizing funds to get the machinery going, meaning all the groups that were able to support countries digitally remotely because everybody was locked down. So this network of partners shared the same values. So in order to be a HIST group, you need to sign an MOU and sign an MOU. There's 12 bullet points of values that need to be shared and signed in blood, meaning everything can be stolen. Everything shall be shared. So then already in the 27th of January, Sri Lanka got to first confirm cases. And Sri Lanka, as you know, tourist country, and Sri Lanka had a strong HIST group. They were able then to make an app of Port of Entry app already two days later. How could that be possible? They had already been in negotiation and discussion with the ministries to be able to do that. So they spent five days. That was a fist because we used Slack. And then we saw on Slack, Max and me and everyone. We called Doubla. They looked at what's happening. However, Sri Lanka was able to respond fast and that inspired the whole HIST network. How was that possible? You will hear the story tomorrow. In the planned recession, tomorrow. So sort of rest this history, 47 countries are now using DSHS-2 for disease surveillance on COVID-19, even also for vaccine delivery. I'm taking that after. And this is the example for the launch of all the vaccine certification from Rwanda. And that was in the national news. And even Norway followed. This is from the newspaper in Norway saying, wow, in Sri Lanka and Uganda, they're using open source software. In Norway, we use pen and paper and no standards and 364 decisions in the municipalities to how can we do this? Okay. So now DSHS-2 is used in Norway for the first western country ever that used DSHS-2 for contact tracing. That's a cool story, isn't it? And they're even thinking, discussing with us, oh, will DSHS-2 survive another five years? Yeah, we think so. So they are now regarding using DSHS-2 as for all disease surveillance in Norway. So that's discussions. So I have hinted on all these arguments already how we were able to mobilize the whole global digital community, his community, that fast. Of course, mobilizing funds. Thank you, Nora. First time called two weeks into the pandemic, three weeks. And after the lockdown, how much can you guys absorb? And everybody knows that we have an absorbative capacity when it comes to budgets. I said, 10 million, no reason to go. Come on, think bigger. Okay, can, can, can, can think bigger. So then we just push the apparatus. So all the history was enabled, you just do whatever you can do. That's the history. And we already had the digital tools because we have been collaborating digital for years. So that's how we were able to share, learn, steal, snap innovations across the globe, being the first in the world on digital solution for the COVID-19 surveillance. We are pretty proud of that. But it's a generic platform. So why stop with the COVID-19? We have for many years, water sanitation and nutrition and even agriculture. But of course, also education. So here at the village level, all these are in one topic. So when you come down to the community, everyone is dealing with this across food program, where's water, water hall, any sudden sanitation, education, how can we get the teachers to attend the classrooms? So we are working and we got from Nora again. Thank you, Nora again. How can we reuse the IT capacity in the countries? The platforms, feasibility, is it possible? And we have shown proven, yes, it's possible. Something is happening behind here. Because we have DHS2 for education in all this country now, Uganda, Gambia, Esvertini, Togo, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, and we have a PhD program following it from Kix, GPE, Global Party for Education. And we had why there is not so many Ministers of Education here because we had a fantastic, glamorous DHS2 for education academy in Banjul last month, where we had the eight Ministers of Education present, 18 countries, all the partners that are in that space were there. It was super 118 participants. So that's, and we will have a, not a show, we will have a DHS2 for education just after lunch for people that are interested to hear more about it. Because this has mobilized a lot of energy in these groups to see how they can also support their country, not only health, but education as important. And very often it will actually happen as programs in school, food program, missile campaign, vaccination campaigns in schools. Then it's really truly helped to have the denominators right in the schools and be able to monitor this campaign. You will hear more about that on Thursday in the cross-sector presentation from Uganda. And Lee-Marc will join that one as well. Okay, I need to, and then we have another cool example. This is pretty new. This is from Uganda. I don't know so much about the case. I just grabbed this from the Slack, where we are bragging about all the innovations that this Uganda government uses the E-governance tool for monitoring and evaluation progress towards vision 2040 goals, meaning all the development programs in the country. So using this is just an example of how you can actually use it to monitor all your progress when it comes to development of the country.  Oh gosh, I have this as well. This I will do very fast. This is just, we are not, we are not including everything in DHS2. We can, we can, can, but we can also integrate with all the other systems. So, you know, integrate the data so you can have a holistic view of all your programs in a country, meaning either inside or integrating interoperability architecture, thinking architecture, very important. That will be a presentation and topic for Wednesday. How can we do make a national architecture? And how, so this is, this is the end because I think I'm used to too much time just to brag a little bit again. We are also into LMI, of course. This is Mozambique and monitoring the, the vaccine storage temperature. So just to show examples from the field, the local innovation that I shared globally. Thank you. Stop sharing. Who's that? I hope you mute me. Okay, now it's good. Are they still here? Yeah, there you are. Let's see if I can stand here. So good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We'll do some quick informational slides. Obviously, we won't have time for everyone to introduce themselves for five minutes. So we put together a few slides with some statistics. But yes, it is the new record again. You see the data from the last time we had in-person meeting on, on the left there. Then we had 268 participants. And that was a record this year, 326. So, welcome. And there may actually be more because we have 288 from outside the Hisp Center. And we are actually more than 38 at the Hisp Center. So we'll be, we'll be quite crowded this week. And a warm welcome to everyone from 20, no, 72 different countries. That's again a new record. That's pretty amazing. And 122 different organizations represented here. And as you know, since we're on Zoom, we have about 400 plus participants also signed up for remote attendance. So there will be 700 plus listening and sharing throughout this week. So where are you from? So this is a map showing kind of the distribution of participants. It says country of residence in the registration form, but you know, data quality can be an issue sometimes. But we, at least we have, and it's a bit difficult to read, but we have, of course, participants from south to north, from west to east, a lot of participants, southern, eastern Africa, as you can see. So I was very happy to have a lot of participants now for the first time from the Emro-Mena region. Many new countries there, including Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan has a bigger delegation. We have the WHO, Emro office here. Also something happening in this region, board participation, POW is here and several countries represented and many more online. So it's great to see also that the community is growing. If we try to have diversity of participants, that's something we really strive for when we accept all the registrations and make sure that it's a good mix of participants. You can see that we have about 30% from governments, 22% from Ministry of Health, a few more from other governmental organizations. There's a big group from international organizations and then NGOs and in order, looking at the list, there's a lot of universities, a lot of academia here as well, and then some private sector. So it's a good mix, good diversity, and that's what we want. So we have another record this year is that we have 31 different ministries of health represented last time we had 21. I'd like to go through this quickly so that you can show who you are. So when I call the country, you can stand up and then we can wish you welcome. I saw that there's still quite a lot of these badges outside. So there may be some visa and flight problems, of course, but let's see. Do you have anyone from the Ministry of Health or Government of Afghanistan here? Yes, welcome. Thank you. And then Burkina Faso, welcome. Burundi, they didn't make it. Let's hope they get the visa and get through all the different airport strikes. Kotivar, Ivory Coast, welcome. And then there's a brand new DHS country, Equatorial Guinea. Anyone here? Welcome. We should have a big group from Ethiopia. Welcome. And then Ghana. I know there were some, they say, hi there you are. Welcome. And Guinea. Do you have Guinea here? No, not yet. Hope they can make it Indonesia. I'm at the Ministry. That's the his group, maybe. Tomorrow? That's good. Okay, Jordan, in the back, welcome. New country starting with the DHS this year. Kenya, not in Europe at all. Welcome. Malawi, welcome. Maldives, welcome. And Mali. We have Mali, welcome. And another new country, Morocco. Not yet. And then Mozambique, Mozambique, not yet. Namibia, more visa and airport problems. Nigeria. They always make it. Yeah, they're there. Pakistan. I saw a big group. What was that? What was that? So we didn't have anyone from Nigeria yet. Now, I know that you have to go through this extra screening for Schengen visa. So it's been difficult actually to get visa for Nigeria this year. Then Pakistan. You're here. It's coming. Yeah, we have other delegates. See UNICEF there, but we'll have ministry representing later. Okay, then Congo, Brazil, Republic of Congo. Anyone here? No. And then Rwanda. Welcome, welcome. South to main principle. Are they here? Not yet. Then Senegal, so more earlier. Welcome, welcome. It's been a lot of DHS activity in Somalia over the last year. Anyone from Somalia? Yeah, welcome, welcome. And then the very first country to stage is South Africa. We're here. Welcome. Then the RC. Anyone from the RC? Yeah, welcome. Welcome. And Uganda. Uganda here? Yeah. Welcome, Paul. Zambia, industry in Zambia, not here. And then Zimbabwe. Welcome. That was the ministry. So we're about 20 something, still a record. Then if you look at other organizations that are here, I bragged them by number of participants. You can see, you may remember that when we started announcing this, we had quite limited capacity. We thought people were not ready to travel yet. So we had an auditorium down there for about 175 people. And Alice gave you a hard time with quotas of three to five per organization. And in the end, we have 17 from UNICEF. We have 17 from WHO plus power there. So you see big group also from CDC and MSF, BO, many of his groups, PSI, Jon Snow. So I think we can do them quickly also. Who's from UNICEF? Can you stand up? Welcome. And then WHO, do you want to be POW? Do you want to be included or do you want to be separate? And we can do all WHO and POW. Welcome. Great. We do have actually many regional offices represented this year and that's great. We have Afro, MRO, POW all here. And we also have WAHO, West Africa Health Organization, where is WAHO? Yeah. Welcome. And then we can do CDC. Welcome. MSF. Welcome. BO. Welcome. And then PSI. Welcome. And JSI. Welcome. Welcome. There you are. And we have CHI. Welcome. And then POW, they stand up together with the WHO colleagues. FHI 360. Welcome. We have Global Fund. A few people. Yeah. Welcome. And then we have Abbott. Welcome. Great. University of Dar es Salaam is here. UDSM. Welcome. And then we have Oriole Global Health. Yeah. Welcome. First of all. And then I think you see many hisps here and then many more. We had a whole week. Yeah. Yeah. Maurice. Welcome, Dr. Fese. You were not on my list? Yeah. Good to see you here. Then we had a whole week of hisp discussions, strategic discussions and trainings last week. So we have many hisps groups. Kristi mentioned them all earlier, but maybe all the hisps can stand up. Welcome. There are many. Great. And since we don't have time to introduce everyone personally, but we'll have many breaks. We'll have many social events and we really encourage you to expand your hisp network and make new friends in the DJAS2 community. If you want to know who everyone are and read their backgrounds, you can go to the SCED app and browse the participant registry. And that's also an opportunity for you to upload your most beautiful photo and write all the good things about your background. So you see some of them here. And then Kristi talked about agenda and you have the SCED app where you can go through it. We have four days of sessions. It's pretty packed. We'll start with plenaries in this room every morning. Sometimes for 90 minutes, sometimes for the morning up to lunch. And then we have another building just across here. It's just 25 meters called VB where we'll do all the plenary breakout sessions in smaller auditoriums. So afternoons will always be over there. And we have a map to show you later. We have a lot of diversity in terms of presentations. We have this call for abstracts out and we got 149 submissions. So big thank you to everyone for submitting. And the agenda now includes 173 unique speakers across 89 sessions. So it's pretty amazing. But I know that there's still badges out there and the morning sessions are historically a little bit low attended. So we have some super hot topics here starting 8.30 every morning. We like to party at Kristi and Seb but we also hero during the day and the morning. So really want you guys to come here at 8.30 every day. And then all the details on the agenda you can find in Sked. You can browse it on your mobile. It's very easy. You can also download an app for it. You can create your own profile. If you have any problems, I guess you can contact Alice and her team here. But I think most of them should have their accounts now. Is that correct? Yeah. And then you can also it's very easy. You can also tick, especially when there are a lot of parallel sessions, you can kind of tick the one you want and build your own personal agenda. Keep it a little bit easier. We may do some changes. So as with each is please remember to clear your cash frequently. That may solve problems. I think that's all we need to say about this one. And then we have a few kind of in the afternoon, a few special sessions. This afternoon, we have the use case.  But it's basically a chance for many different implementations to share their experiences. We have in total now 24 use case presentations that will be in the Bazaar in different stations. And then you can walk around and listen to them. There will be a little bit of speed dating. They will have maximum 15 minutes per round. And they will get a lot of exercise in presenting because they'll do it 10 times. And then to make it a little bit easier this year, we've created a catalog, a map of all the different stations. I'll get to that on the next slide. And then we'll leave it up to you now to choose where to go. Previously we had these groups where we move around, but today you can go to the ones you want. And you will be able to do about 10 in the two and a half hours we have. So you have to pick the ones you're most interested in. So if you look at this, we'll print this right away. So they will get a print out of this. So you can follow. You see all the presentations here. And then the location on the map in the lobby area just across here. So that will be starting at 4.30 this afternoon. That was on the slide. Whenever this is going, you have to change the numbers. Yeah. So you need to follow these instructions there. So we'll 15 minutes and then we have to walk to another one and they will start. So that we start, they all start in sync. I think that will be fun. Great opportunity to meet people and have discussions in smaller groups as well. Okay. Then the other two afternoons on Tuesday and Wednesday, you will get the chance to talk to the various developers and expert implementers one-on-one. We'll have the expert lounge. We don't need any frequent flyer points. I know you have lost your privileges over the pandemic. This lounge is open to anyone. We'll have a lot of tables in the lobby area for Android, for budgeting and planning, for integration, data analysis, and then just stop by the table and then you get the chance to talk to us. There will also be a few sessions in the auditoriums next to that area on bigger topics where you can have group discussions and demos. So everything in this get up, much more details there. So that is Tuesday and Wednesday for 30 to 6.30. And then you want to take this one, Max? Yeah. Yeah. You got to stay around the educational part before the party. My name is Max. I lead the DHS2 training and communication team here at the University of Oslo. I started just after the last in-person annual conference in 2019. So I haven't had a chance to meet a lot of you in person yet, although we have exchanged emails or posted the COP with each other. So I'm really excited to talk to people this week. And my team is helping out with the technical part of the conference. So if you have any questions or issues, let me know and I'll try to sort it out for you. I want to give a big round of applause for Alice who's leading the logistics conference. Thank you. So really what I'm saying is we have questions. I'm going to go ask Alice what the answer is. But I'm here as a buffer to kind of absorb those questions and then help her fix it for us. Anyway, so we are live streaming this conference. This is the first time we've done a really blended conference with everything both online and in person. So that's why you're seeing Zoom stuff on the screens. Hopefully that's all right. It means we have a chance to reach a lot more people with this conference. So if you're joining remotely, this is especially for people who are hopefully already joining us remotely. All the links to Zoom are in these SCAD details for each session. So you can go there and click on them and hopefully get right into the Zoom. We are trying to keep it simple. So we have four different parallel session rooms we're using and they each have the same link throughout the day. So from session to session, you just stay in that room or switch to another one. It should hopefully be fairly straightforward. This is the same as we did for our digital conferences the last couple years just in person. Their SCAD is also broken up into parts for several sessions. That's really just sort of looks right in the schedule, but really those are just one continuous session. The session leads may have breaks built in, but just follow along. We're not trying to make it too confusing. And then plenary sessions, what we're doing right now is we're streaming this on the Community Practice and on YouTube. So hopefully also reaching people there who might not have registered for the event. They can just watch it live. So we also are trying out something new this year. This is a live chat function on the Community Practice. So if you're on there and if you click the link that was sent out in today's post, you can get added to that chat group and then you can have a live discussion with other people on the COP, including people who aren't here in person. And we're also doing French interpretation. So maybe it's best if Alice explains this part. I think Alice you're already on YouTube. Okay, so yeah. So obviously the So this year we will provide French interpretation for the French speaking community. So I'm going to switch in French. So this year we have all the members of the Francophone community present here at Oslo for the annual conference can benefit from the French interpretation. So all the plenary sessions will be automatically interpreted in French, as well as some of the parallel sessions. If you are here at Oslo and you want to listen to the French sessions, it's very simple. You just have to join an listener and be connected to the Zoom link that you can find on SCAD. So if you have a problem or whatever, don't hesitate to come and see me. Then in order to benefit, when you are on Zoom, in order to benefit from the French interpretation, it's very simple. On SCAD, in any case, you will see that all the sessions that benefit from the French interpretation in this icon, English French. So it's there to help you in the selection of your sessions.  When you don't see this icon, it means that the interpretation is not provided for the session. So if you see this icon, you just have to click on the icon and then select French. You will be automatically directed towards the French space of the Zoom session and you will be able to follow the session in French. Thank you very much. Okay, and this is a general layout of the conference in the physical space. So for remote guests, just follow along. So here we are. We are in the plenary hall, as you can see in the right side there. Directly across the plaza from us is the building we'll be having all the parallel sessions. So if you walk out the main entrance that you came in and continue directly across the plaza, you'll get to the parallel session hall and they're all spread out across the back wall there when you enter. That's also where we're going to have the use case bazaar and the pizza party later today. So primarily we'll be moving between these two buildings for all the sessions and the plenaries, as Ola mentioned, start here in this building every morning at 8.30. Lunch is across to the left if you exit this building. There's a bigger plaza there and you will come to a building called Federica. Go on the door and go up the stairs and we have a large cafeteria there. We'll be having lunch. Copy breaks in the morning will be here as you saw this morning. We'll have them in the lobby of this building and then during the afternoons when we're running parallel sessions primarily, we'll be across the plaza in the parallel session building. And again, Sked has all the information on where each session will take place. Plenary sessions will always be here and then for the parallel sessions, just see which room. It's either one, two, four, five, and you can see their number when you get across the building across the plaza. And then I just need to know to get lunch. They have coupons. What do you need to get lunch? Your badge. You need your badge. And in the lunch area, if you are eating, for instance, vegetarian, we'll show you where the vegetarian area is. But in any case, to access the lunch area, yes, you need your badge, please. So please pick up your badge if you haven't done this already. I heard there were a few people that haven't. So they will still be out there in the break now very soon. So please get your badge. This is also then your food. And beer later today, I guess. All right. More details. So if you want to log into the Wi-Fi network while you're here, the network uses conferences, the password is there on the screen. This is also written down on pieces of paper out in the lobby. So if you don't take a picture of us now, you can get it out there. But don't share us on social media. We don't want everyone to log on to this network. Okay, bathrooms. There are two downstairs, one male, one female, to get them to go out the door to the right for men, left for women. And then there are also bathrooms in the parallel session building and water. The tap water in Norway is perfectly nice and good and safe to drink. So if you want fresh water, just take it from the tap. And use your brand. Use your brand in DHS 2 Cup. If you got a bag, there's a cup in there you can use. And if you haven't gotten a bag yet, please take one. There are all hanging hooks outside of the door. And social events. So as I mentioned, today after the use case bizarre, we'll be having pizza and drinks. And this will just be in the lobby of the building across the plaza here.  So anything you want to share with us. So we'll try to make that location clear when we're over there. And I just bite people out to talk to us while you're enjoying the celebration. And I think Ola, you wanted to explain the grand finale will be on Thursday after lunch. For those that have been here before, it's a bit unfortunate that they're not able to go to the island this year. Because they are electrifying the ferries and they haven't managed that process very well. So there's been a lot of long, long lines and people waiting and stuck on the island. So I don't want all of you to be stuck there. But we'll find another location. We do something from the outdoors. Yeah, we'll find some some lake where we don't need to go by ferry. We bring food, we bring drinks and games. We can play football, we can go swimming and have fun. So that's the plan for Thursday afternoon. More details will come later. Hope you can all stay for that. Thank you. And Alice, do you want to explain this part? This is the group photo. Oh, yes. So this year, it's a pleasure to go back to our old traditions. So the first one is the group picture. You are all invited to be at quarter to four outside the Sopistiae Auditarium. It's basically on the square in the stairs. Please do not be late because we would really like to have like everybody on the picture and it can take some time to organize to arrange that. So please make sure to be there at quarter to four. And if the session is not over, you can remind you are your lead. And no social distancing. And no social distancing. Yeah, it's great for that one. Yeah. So another tradition of ours, it's obviously the photo challenge. So as usual, you take you the best pictures, get inspired by the annual conference. The only thing that we will ask you is to share them, obviously, using the hashtag DAC 2022 so you can share them on Twitter, on Facebook. That's fine. We just ask you to use these hashtags so that we can recognize the picture and also find them. So yeah. That's a bit. Yeah. So remember 8.30 every morning. And then thank you. Lars and his team will start the hottest of the sessions. What's new in the HS2 at 10.30 sharp because they always spend a lot of time showing. Yeah, 10.30. Yeah. So 20 minutes or 15, 17 minutes. They always go over time and we need that one hour for lunch. So we have to start on time so you can refill your coffee, say hi to your friends and then please come back here as soon as possible so we can start 10.30. Thank you.


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Hi, I'm Rusty Komorian. This is Beyond the Lines. I am very grateful that I am able to feature such a wide spectrum of amazing guests on my show who inspire all of us to strive in reaching a higher standard for ourselves. And I want to thank you for tuning in today. We are broadcasting live from the beautiful Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in the Pioneer Plaza in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence and finding greatness. Today's special guest is the general manager of the very prestigious Hokuwa Kondo, and he was honored in 2015 as the top Kondo general manager in the world. He is Dwayne Komine, and today we are going beyond Kondo's. Dwayne, how's everything? Good. Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me for number 47. Congratulations. You know, yeah, you're my 47th guest. This is my 47th episode. Now, Dwayne, I know you for many years, but I want you to tell me about your youth. My youth, I grew up in Hawaii, Kai. I went to Cocoa Head Elementary. Then I went to New Valley, and then I went to Kaiser High School. And from there, I did no college, and then I started my career. But did you play any sports or do any other activities? Yes, I did. I played sports. I was short-lived, but I did play sports. And of course, I am what I do today.  Yeah, I have three daughters. I have my wife, Leona, Simone, Asia, and Jeanne, and I have three granddaughters, one in the oven. I've got six girls in the house. And what did Leona win some years ago? Ewan, Mrs. Hawaii USA. No, excuse me, Miss Hawaii. Yeah. And does that make you Mr. Hawaii? Somewhat. I don't turn around when people call me that. Dwayne, I want to ask you this because I have no idea. What was your first job that you ever had that you got paid money for? Interesting. I was a newspaper boy. I had approximately more than 300, 400 papers to deliver in a day.  So I decided to hire friends that were close acquaintances and I would pay them. I mean, not that much, but I'd buy them a plate lunch at lunchtime, so they didn't have to eat cafeteria food. So we were able to deliver that many papers. And of course, that led me to winning the Newspaper Board of the Year Award, which... Wow. That's a follow suit, you know. I had no idea. So you had a business going on back then? Yes. Wow. Amazing. Also, Dwayne, I want to ask you this too.  You have a passion of playing drums. When did you start playing drums first? Well, that's interesting. When I first started playing drums was, of course, I started playing on the table in my classroom, I think it was the fourth grade. You had the wooden tables and you'd do this and eventually the teacher would just yell and say, knock it off. So I elevated to pots and pans that my mom saw at home. And of course, I used the wooden sticks and I broke those wooden sticks, of course, needed to say they weren't very happy, but I started at a young age. Yeah. Why do you like playing drums so much? And then which performers have you performed with? I like playing drums mainly because my father wanted me to play the violin. I don't see the crossover there. So I performed with... More recently it was with Roland Casamaro. Over 25 years I performed with Frank DeLiemont, I performed with Danny Couch, Rick Wood, many others. Wow, that's legendary. So over 30 years. Yes. Wow. Dwayne, and then you started getting into working at condos. Is it true that you were a janitor? Yes. I was a janitor at a building at Crystal Park where the old stadium was. I came into that position because my brother had offered me, because he was in property management. So I was actually... I wasn't doing anything in the daytime because I played music at night. So I had no problems working in the daytime as a janitor. And of course my funny friends would pass by every morning and throw things in the yard and then make sure that I would sweep it up, you know? And now you're the legendary general manager of the Hukua condo and we just showed some pictures about the footprint that the Hukua building is currently at and then how beautiful that building is. But after you were a janitor, was it true that friends would make trouble with you? They continued to come by and throw rubbish at their food, their lunch bags. And they'd always laugh as they drove away. Of course, I wasn't too happy about that. That's so mean. I remember them today. So after that first job working at that condo, where did you go after that? Well, I kind of like the business so I applied. My brother got me to apply at the Ikuai Tower. From there I worked on a hands-on resident manager, meaning that I worked in the yard. I worked with the employees. And from that point, I really liked what I was doing and playing music. I decided to enhance my education so from that point I went to Royal Capital Plaza, which was the first condominium in the Kakako district and under the AIDS CDA ruling. So from Royal Capital Plaza I was asked to go to Nauru Tower, which was run by Nauru Phosphates Ruralities Development. And from that point I was recruited by Kobayashi McNutton Group to open up Okua. Wow. You've really went through a lot of places. And it's so amazing how you started as a janitor being, and now you're the general manager of one of the most prestigious buildings in Hawaii. And you're part of the Institute of Real Estate Management. And that's a great organization. I remember a few months ago I was a guest speaker for them. Tell me about that organization. It's a well-organized organization where education and just getting facts and learning about your career. I started about 30 years ago and the class or the organization had about 15 students. And I became the president. And when I left a couple years later, I left with about 300 memberships. Wow. It increased for the certification that's known nationally. And what is ARM, A-R-M? Accredited Residential Manager. Again, it's nationally recognized. And most people in the industry prefer an ARM that they would like to hire or interview. Yeah. And Dwayne, let's talk about Okua again now. When you became general manager, I mean obviously they had McNutton and Kobayashi. They wanted that vision of being the top of the highest standard of luxury living. Tell me about that situation in the beginning. Well, when I got hired by the Kobayashi McNutton team, it was very trying. I had to put condo living and resort style living together. And I knew a lot about condominiums, but not so much in the resort style living. Anyway, I went to many resorts to bring back home.  For myself, there was nothing, and I went searching. And I found a perfect partner, which he had represented the hotel side, been in the business for a long time as well. And we merged together, and I was able to bring the condo and the resort. And we brought it together almost by accident, and we created that lifestyle. And because you guys, I mean, they might have had the vision, but you're the one that has to execute it. Now, at that time, that was the highest standard of condo resort living. And right now, some of these newer condos are really emulating what you have done at Hokuwa. How does that make you feel? That's great, but we'll always be remembered as the benchmark of Kakaako. The Kobayashi-Magnatin group has changed the face of Kakaako. We have brought the bar, the bench, high. Other expectations. Of course, it's challenging for us because we continue to strive to be number one, and so far our property values reflect that.  But I want to know, Dwayne, what is your team culture like? Well, my team culture, first of all, I have a retention of almost 95% from nearly 13 years, original employees, and they continue to work at Hokuwa. I create an environment where I'm not the boss, you know, I'm just their friend. And normally, when I discipline, or they have to be disciplined, they're more bad about what they did than I do, and it moves on. So in other words, it's a more of a, they're not scared. I want to keep an open door policy so that they can talk and share what their problems are and so forth. So for the most part, they're very trustworthy, their integrity is amazing.  Well, that's why you're a great leader, Dwayne, and you have so much success because you do those things, and you have that empathy for them, and they know that. Now, in 2015, you got honored in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Real Estate Management Excellence Association, right? Yes. Tell me what happened there. Well, that was very surprising to me. This is the inaugural, for this particular award, and I was nominated out of three other candidates. And frankly, those were heavy hitters. And it's international. Yes. So we had Canada, we had Japan, we also had New York, and myself. So we went to this convention where it was like the Grammy Awards. So you sat on this amazing thousand people inside there, or more, and per table, and so forth. And then, you know, the time for the award to be given out, and I remember this very... I remember it like it happened yesterday. You'll announce through your picture, and announce, we are on the telecom tower, and this is... And the winner is, and it came dead, silence, dead, silence. And I was... I had my eyes closed. I got to bring this home. I got to bring this home, please, you know. And I heard a little chuckle, you know. And the announcer, she said, she had a little chuckle, and then she said, hello. And I still didn't realize that I won, because I'm trying to figure out, that's not my name, you know. So anyway, we brought it home, and brought it to the industry. And, you know, of course, we made a bigger impact for our industry and culture that we do here in the state of Hawaii. We're very proud of that. It's not my award, it's the industry's award. Wow, that's amazing, Dwayne. And then you got honored by the city council for that. And how did you feel getting honored with them? For me, I didn't feel... It was for me. I felt it was for the community and the industry. But I didn't mind taking pictures and bringing the trophy home, you know. But, yeah, it wasn't about me. Yeah, no, totally. And that's, again, you're very selfless. I mean, that's a sign of a great leader because you want to give the credit to everybody.  Yes. Yeah, and Dwayne, and what I find fascinating is your brother, Ron, he's also a general manager. Yes. Tell me about that. Well, my brother, Ron, we do have different ideas. And my brother thinks he's gotten me the job at Okua for an hour or so, or in the industry. Yes, he did. But I always remind him, he got me the key to the door. I had to open the door. He doesn't believe that. He's probably watching this and saying, that's not true, you know. So I thank you, Ron, wherever you are. You gave me that lucky key. Thank you. And he's a general manager of 1350 Alamoano, which is an amazing condo as well. Yeah, he's a great manager as well. And a perfect fit for that building. They like him there. He's won numerous awards and involved in the organization too. And Dwayne, you know, out of everything that you do, I don't know how you do it all, but you were the president of the board of directors for many years for the Miss Hawaii USA pageant. Tell me about that. That was very interesting. At first I was offered the position, and I didn't want to take it because I didn't want the D word, you know, the drama, you know. But having three daughters, I understood the challenges women go through and having a female dog as well. Grandma used to live with us. All female dominated. And I thought the fishes I used to have were female stews. I don't know. So, you know, I took an active stance with that and I left just recently through the health reasons. And I think my four years did an impact for the women in the state of Hawaii. Yeah, Dwayne, it's amazing. I mean, I'm having fun talking with you today, but we're going to take a quick break. And then when we come back, we're going to continue going beyond condos. You're watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my special guest, Dwayne Comine. We'll be back in a quick minute. Aloha, I'm Wendy Lo and I'm coming to you every other Tuesday at 2 o'clock live from Think Tech Hawaii. And on our show, we talk about taking your health back. And what does that mean? It means mind, body and soul. Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about. Whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means, let's take healthy back. Aloha. Aloha, this is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Welcome back to Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. My special guest today is the general manager of the very prestigious Hokua Kondo and he was honored in 2015 as the top Kondo general manager in the world. He is Dwayne Komine and today we are going Beyond Kondos. Dwayne, I know you read my book and you like a bunch of stuff that's in there. What do you like about it so far? Well, honestly, Bessie, I read the book a couple times and I shared with you earlier that when I was in the hospital, I read a lot and it brought to my mind a certain subject which is the four Ps and I really understood it as almost the way I read my building and I really appreciate what you wrote about that and how that those four Ps makes a difference surrounding yourself with the industry, the people, the people that you work with. It's an amazing piece that you wrote. The book is awesome. Oh, thank you. You give me a ticklish feeling inside. I know you like that. No, but you know when I look at you and I see you at work with your team, it's all about standards, a standard of excellence. It's all about details. You're all about that, right, Dwayne? Yes, sir. I'm about details. Details is very important. The small details, the service culture, I mean, in Allah, meaning no mistake, we kind of run our operation that way like a football team. When it drops the ball, we lose the ball. You can do 99 things right and you do one wrong thing. Everyone's only going to remember that one wrong thing. Absolutely. You can never do that one wrong thing. Sometimes they get complaints from people. It's a resonance for some people. They come home in that two-minute engagement in the lobby and their comment is, hey, I've never seen anybody over here or I've never seen people doing whatever they're not supposed to be, but you judge your whole entire day on that two minutes. Two minutes in judgment. I can tell you all what we did the last past 12 hours. But it's a good thing. It's a learning experience, too. What I like too is you train your team to expect the unexpected.  I don't remember the count, but yes, you're correct. I believe there's about two or three people that we've saved their lives. One had a heart attack on the driveway on the street, hit another car, he was out. We brought him back to life just enough time for the ambulance to come. And he came back. He came back to see us as well. And he had tattooed on his arm our logo. Remembering that this is the team. And just recently, my wife had bumped into another fellow person that we saved. His brother said, my wife wanted to thank me for allowing his brother to live. So they go to extensive training in classes and so forth. We won many top-class awards. And in my book, Dwayne, I talk about the principle of welcoming adversity, looking forward to challenges. What's been your greatest adversity that you faced in your life? It's a really good question.  And then when you think about it, the way I think about it now, my adversity was overcoming the information that I received or finding out that my wife had cancer, which frankly floored me. I didn't know how to react. I was lost. I was seeking help. I didn't know anything about cancer. But she was so resilient. I mean, she was strong as could be. I wish I was a little bit more stronger for her, but I was pretty much taken back and I needed help to run the ship because I couldn't think because your loved one is, you know, has cancer. What do you do? You know, what's the next step and how do you do about this? So big support from the team, big support from the developers, as well as the ownership, family and friends. I was with you during that time period. I remember that. I mean, we both cried together and it's so great now that Leona made a full recovery. Yeah, she did. I remember when I was speaking with you, I remember, I didn't have to say anything. I just started and you really felt. Oh, yeah. It was a feeling. Some months ago, Dwayne, I mean, adversity at that same level, if not more, with your experience for yourself. Yeah, so we were given obstacles throughout life and you know, of course, on November 19 last year, I will never forget that date. It was hospitalized. I was found unconscious in my apartment and if I wasn't nobody following me, I probably would never probably have woken up by my employees and some close friends of mine, you know, they immediately took me to the hospital not knowing what had happened to me. My wife in the mainland so frankly, there was nobody there, you know, so I learned a lot about being alone and not knowing what to do and you know, it's one of those tiny things in life that what do you do? Yeah. But I learned what I had to do. I had liver complications liver complications, meaning that I had cirrhosis where liver is damaged by alcohol. I didn't realize that I was a functioning alcoholic. I looked in the mirror one day and I realized I was a functioning alcoholic and I take full responsibility for that. I take full responsibility. I look forward. I don't look backwards. I just wanted to make a change in my life since then in about three months I changed my life drastically and the way I think the way I operate my offices, the way I operate my leadership with the team and the community has changed my outlook and I have nothing but respect for my doctors that had a hard time diagnosing me. How long were you in the hospital for? I was in the hospital for nearly three weeks. I stayed at the clinical hospital. I stayed at three different wings. They transferred me to three different sides. I promised myself I would never, ever go back there again. The things that I went to, I came out on November 19. I have not had any urges to drink or have any alcohol or any sort. It's been 141 days. I've been sober and I feel great. That's so admirable.  Thank you. I feel great. The bad thing is I get up really early in the morning and I start work. The clarity is there and the employees were very concerned too. One of my employees they knew what I was doing. I didn't realize I was doing this, but he took me to the side. He said we knew you drank a lot and he said that we were going to talk to you. They said if you're not going to do it for yourself and you do it for us, the employees and I looked at them and I looked at him and I said wow I didn't realize it expanded beyond family but it went beyond my employees as well as their family as well as the community and so many other people that know the story and what I went through it's a wake up call for many of them. Because you affected so many people that you weren't really aware about how you affected them. And frankly it's a disease that you even know you have or you don't and you can make a choice. I made a choice. I made a really a choice like I said I would never ever go back and to this day I kept my word.  Who doesn't like popsicles? I never had popsicles too and I like chocolates. I just recently was introduced to C's candy. They've been around for a long time. I never knew that. I go to C's candy and they have these big samples and I feel bad because it's so big. It's such a small piece. You're appreciating the simpler things in life. I see that and I see the details now. I see a lot of details and my wife sees it as well. My voice has changed and my attitude has changed and you being in my life and talking with you you were one of my first guests I had that allowed into my house because I was so used to having many people around me all the time.  It's impactful and your story is going to inspire so many people to think about their situation and maybe a similar situation that they could really relate with to you. Before we wrap up I want to ask you one more thing. What's an important lesson you've learned in your life so far? Important lesson that's a good question I guess my lesson would probably be I want to be better than I am but you know it's how to get to that level where I pretty much won a lot of awards I know I did there's actually a ruling that you only can win one every five years they made it for me and I think it's unfair but if you're good you should be able to win every year like restaurants they win every year if you're the best you're the best right but I got a ruling you can't win I hope I'm going in the right direction No that's good and Dwayne it's so great having you not just on the show today but you're in life Dwayne thank you for sharing what you did. Number 47 Number 47 and thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii for more information please visit RustyKamori.com and my book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all Costco stores in Hawaii I hope that Dwayne and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs. Aloha


Good morning, John. This is a weird way to make a video. I recently fell down while ice skating. I didn't fall down, actually.  I ankle and my hip stayed like in the same place, just sort of like right in line with each other. But unfortunately, my knee did not occupy any space inside of that line. So that hurts, and now I'm squatting. This is probably an observation people have made about Los Angeles before, but it's very weird that there are a lot, a lot of advertisements, tens of millions of dollars of advertisements that are asking me to consider a film or television show for awards. There are 9,921 members of the Academy. So each one of those ads is for an audience of less than 10,000. The thing is, it must work. Like they wouldn't do it if it didn't work. But how many people are that kind of sway? So it was really, it's not even about the 9,921, it's about the like 45 people who might change their votes based on seeing this thing. If you could just find those 45 people and give them each a million dollars, it would be the same thing. All because there's that much economic value. I'm now doing stand-up comedy. Except I'm not, I'm just doing stand-up like upset. A lot of stand-up comedy these days really just stand-up upset. I'm gonna do squat down, upsetty. That's about... Give me love and maybe I feel high. This is a weird thing. Like I could make a really bad joke. And everybody'd be like, ah, but an artificial intelligence makes a really bad joke. And everybody loses their minds. But this makes sense. Because if I ask you what like 522 times 8 divided by 64 is, no, like you don't know. If a computer does that, not a big deal.  Like I would be like, oh! Like when computers could first do those math problems, was it like that? Where people that freaked out? Like the way that we were like, write a poem about Gilligan's Island in the style of 50 Cent. And I would do it and be like, oh! Is that how people felt when calculators refers to things? And everybody, I can see this happening where we're like, well, yeah, I mean, of course AI can tell you how to hot wire a car as a Shakespearean sonnet, but only if you give it like an ethical dilemma as a reason to tell you why to hot wire a car. That's no big deal. That's what AI does. It's been a month. We adapt so fast. Like we're gonna make a living computer sometime in my life, it seems like. And that's gonna be like amazing, huge news on Friday. They'll be like, we found alien life in a computer. We accidentally did that. And then on Wednesday, it won't even be like new gossip. It will be the same gossip, but 40 years from now, it'll be just like Harry Styles and Taylor Swift doing something. And I love it. And then a year later, it'll be like, yes, this is my friend, Steve, he's a computer man. He's a man made of computer and he's my friend. And that's not weird. This is what we do. I found a sticker. Let me read you what it says. It says Samantha Rose Garrison Vampire Boy, available on all streaming platforms. I think we should all listen to it. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. I'll see you.


It's Diddy Canem back today with another video. Huge thanks to you for tuning in. If you are not subscribed, go and subscribe one. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. In today's video, we're gonna do some Instacart and ship. We're about to get this grip. Are you guys ready? Let's go. Guess what? We got us one on Instacart. Guess who we at? Joe Osco, we can count on people who care. We about to get busy in here. Joe Osco, one order, 51 items, 2.1 miles for 67.96. We about to go ahead and get in the mix. Let's go. And Joe Osco, we can count on people who care. We got to get busy in here. We in this zone, baby. You got a lot of stuff to get. So we have to get some deodorants, some cleaning supplies, some squifters, shampoo, red bull, paper plates, tissue. We don't want no issues. We got some cheese puffs, some pretzels, chips, some cookies, cheez-its, Arizona iced tea crush, and Agua, the ice mountain, baby. Let's go. The first thing we're gonna grab is this tissue, baby. On the other side. Next up, we have to get the deodorant. We need that secret, baby. I remember back in the day, all the gurus ate that secret deodorant. Comment below and let me know if you know about that secret deodorant. Some powder fresh right here. And we need to get this shampoo with the conditioner combo. This is the last one, too. We was almost out of luck, Chuck. Then we need that Mr. Clean. We're here to get this green. We also need some swifters to grab this. Next up, we need some paper plates. Got that. We need two cases of ice mountain, one, two. We also need a case of porche pops, got that. Four pack of red bull, Arizona iced tea. We also need these cheez-its. Need this. Also need these cookies. Party size of lays.  We have a couple more things on the list. First, we have to get this whole one-man pizza. Comment below. Not this one, actually four cheese. Comment below and let me know if you have had this whole one-man pizza. We are here to go with this order to get it ordered. Guess how long it took us? It took us 38 minutes to do this order. That's it, that's all. Let's top up the ball. Put this right here. And we got both of them bags stuffed up, too. And this house is amazing. Which you guys see it, baby. They's doing this. Cold, nasty, beautiful. Grab that, just right here. I gotta go over that bump. I'm gonna see if I can do it. You gonna find out right now, baby. Close that joint. Let's go. We got off that bump, baby. We got off that bump, bump, baby. Turn it around in the left. See that wagon go over the bump, bump, bump. We having a remix. See, I gotta turn it a little bit so I won't roll all the way on me. Because I'm on the hill. I'm gonna drop this up here first. Drop it right inside. This house is amazing, guys. When that doorbell just says if you wanna come out here and get busy, I'm about to move kind of swiftly. Right inside, all off. Bag one is done. Now we're gonna work on bag two. Last but not least, drop that. Let's go. Guess what we just got? Another one. Another one on Instacart. Slam's Club, three orders, 31 items, 11.1 miles for 52.28. Y'all about to see us get this cake. Let's go. First thing we gotta get is these protein bars. They got coffee and peanut butter fudge. They got the butter muck of tub. Next up, we are here to pick up these takis, baby. Come up alone and let me know if you eat the takis or not. Of course I gotta get some of this candy. I ain't never had them before. Come up alone and let me know if we had them before. Then we need some chocolate cover strawberries. I've never had this before either.  Next up is this Arizona iced tea. Talk to me nicely. And we also need some of these. I ain't never seen this before. Come below and let me know. Have you seen this before? Have you ate this before? As you guys can see, we went in there and got busy. They ain't have a few things, but either way, go. We about to get this green. Let's go. Just like that, we are here and stop number one here to have a little fun. I had to come to the back door. I had to come to the back way, baby, because the front part got some stairs. We don't have to go to the stairs anyway, but this is a better way to do it. Hope that's laying back, laying back like that. Joe, baby, it's time to get this dough, baby. Y'all already know, baby. They know I'm about to go, baby. That boy be rhyming. That money be climbing. And it says meet the customer. So that's what we're going to try to do. Y'all know my flow stick like the flu. I thought y'all knew. We got it right here in that doorbell. Waiting for them to come. Grab this other thing and we're gonna get this green. We take it too long. Guess what?  Step back here with that photo. Y'all know it all so much. Let's go. Like that, we are here at stop number two. Guess what we're about to do? Get busy. And I'm gonna have to go out the way, but this house is beautiful. I just wanna know when that doorbell steps back, feeling with the photo. So much, let's go. Order number three. We're here to get busy. We're here to get busy, baby. This house is beautiful too, baby. It's 29. We're gonna come to some nice houses today. It says, leave it at the front door. I feel like, you know, with these strawberries right here. Step back with that photo. Y'all know it all so much. There we go. Let's go. Guess where we at? We're back with another one. Another one from Instacart. Costco, two orders, six items, 6.3 miles for 2260 R.I.P. Nipsey. Let's go. So baby, so we have to get some dog food. Dog food, sparkling water, and some unstoppable scent booster beads for me washing clothes. Even where it go. We're about to go, let's go. First thing first, we got this dog food, dog food. Then we have the unstoppable beads right here. Last but not least, we have that sparkling water. Let's go. We are here to drop our order number one. They had just begun and we having us a little fun, baby. This only has some strawberries. They got that package right there by our dog. Bananas, we got some shampoo, head and shoulders, shampoo and conditioner, baby. Step back with that photo, y'all know it all so much. Let's go. Ordered dogs. We taken over like Catalan Rick Ross. It says, leave it at the front door.  Jump like it's out. Jump this right here. Give me dog food. It's okay. It's okay. That's a big dog with shepherd too. He big, he big. That dog is big. Please take a photo with that dog. Let's go. Gives us what we're about to do. We're about to do something we haven't done. Well, first off, we've never done this on the channel, but we haven't done this in a long, long, long, long, long time. We are about to do ship. We have two orders to pick up from Party City and we are picking up two things of balloons, baby. And each order pays out $9.86 enough money to pay the rent. Let's go. In Party City, got me dancing in the video like I'm P-Daddy. They got big balloons in this joint. Hello, how you doing, Sire? I have two orders to pick up for Beverly S. I got a lot going on in here, huh? So this is normal for y'all to have all these balloons orders? On weekends, yeah, preferably Saturdays. Really? It's a lot like this all the time. It calmed down a bit when it was pretty cold, but now I'm starting to pick that cup. So it's two orders, right? So yeah, so two orders, two bags. So it's up to four bags for two orders. And I know you drivers are allowed to receive up to two orders. Yeah. Two names or so. Just know that when you drop it off, make sure there's a customer there. There's no one there. OK, so this is the two orders right here for Beverly S. OK, thank you very much. Just like that, we are here to draw up these balloons. Baby, they say, go to the front, though. I'm going to let the skin up now. Hello. Did you get in? I'm trying to squeeze it. I don't want to bust it. You got two? OK, let me turn this off. Yes, I have it. Awesome. You good? Yeah, this is good. Thank you. Thank you. I really appreciate it. You have a good one. Yes, ma'am. Let's go. Don't see what's going on, baby. We got an extra five skeet. We got biz Z. Let's go. And just like that, it is the end of the video. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Guess how much we made today, baby? We made $167.70. We was on that break like Sesame. Like Sesame Seeds, baby. We was out there getting busy, baby. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you are not subscribed, go on with just my subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up. And do not skip those ads. And lock in tomorrow because we're getting back to this bag. Why are we getting back to this bag? The 2023 is a big bag season. We don't keep on getting my reason. I'll see you guys on the next one. We're going, we're going, we're flooring. You already know the DDK. And I'm on my way.