Now I'll first speak and comment against the floor for today. Dr. Goldschrank, Dr. Ray is the special secretary of cybersecurity for the Prime Minister's Office of the Government of India. He has 34 years of experience in different areas of information technology, including cybersecurity, e-governance, legal framework and the Information Technology Act for e-commerce and several related areas. At present he is the special secretary of cybersecurity for the Prime Minister's Office of the Government of India. Prior to this, he was Director-General of the CERCID, the Indian Community Emergency Response Team and Group Information Technology. He was Executive Director before that of the Educational and Research Network of India for over seven years, and he was instrumental in setting up the first large-scale educational research network in close collaboration with the leading educational and research institutions in the country. He'd been the chief architect of the Information Technology Act for the first few years of time in India. Dr. Ray holds a doctoral degree in entertainment and has published several papers on e-commerce, cybersecurity, cyber laws, education and networking and has presented the stage in several national and international conferences. My great pleasure to welcome the stage, please, Dr. Goldschrank Ray. Welcome, please. Good morning to all of you. I professly thank the Open Group for inviting me to share my thought or share some of the views with you and trigger to get the views from you because the subject which I deal with is a multi-task subject and everyone needs to participate equally with the same right to strengthen the objective which with the subject was involved. I'm also grateful to Steve for saying some good words. Friends, I have been interacting with the Open Group for quite some time. I know how Dr. Koshy and our friend James have been coming to the country. Now it is more than three years, approximately three and a half years if I'm not wrong, going from imposter pillar to promote the activities or the ideas, good idea for the Open Group, pursue and stand for. I have exposure activity and what they want you to do. So when Dr. Koshy spoke to me, of course he spoke to me about well in advance two months ago, I was quite thrilled to come and interact with you and participate in the good activity which Open Group is trying to pursue and spread out not only in this country and other parts of the country. I'm sure as we move on the Open Group also we'll keep on transforming their activities because what we see in the IT and cyber space is all to be different than what we have witnessed couple of years ago. Today you think of any activity, whether in the personal life, professional life, depends, civil, military space, financial sector, economic sector. There are two clear distincts what you see. One is the conventional part. For example, if you have the banking sector, there's a branch, there are semis account, there are current account, there are loan account, you have a cash credit register. You go to the education sector, faculty comes, undertake research, teach the students that the conventional part which we are well aware of it, but the second part is the IT part in every activity. This IT part is driving the, cyber part is driving the first part. Imagine, can we have research today if the IT is missing? How much chaos was created in this demonetization exercise when people were not able to get money from the ATMs? For couple of days there, long lines were there. The ATM is nothing but a part of the cyber. So cyber part is becoming more important and it's driving the productivity or efficiency or the objective you want to achieve as a part one. That's the power the cyber has achieved today and in time to come it will grow and make us more independent. I just put a some semantic diagram of how does the cyber space look like. Connected work, every device today which is manufactured is connected on the net. Every device manufactured is a software building. Some sort of operating system is sitting there in any every device maybe smaller or smaller size software program or the larger size software program but everywhere some software is sitting there. This is some sort of a diagram which I have put it. There are if you see on the globe there are internet links are going on about the fiber cables or the submarine cables. Then you have the e-governance program, you have the economic program, ITBPO sector which is a Bangalore post office software industry. You have a data center, you have a mail center, you have ISPs who are in between there trying to connect everyone. And the recent part is the connectivity or bringing of the IoT devices on the cyber space. As per my estimate half a million IoT devices are already connected on the space and I presume it will be more but whatever my estimate I could get it. It looks to be quite simple when you draw a diagram but imagine what does it mean to us and what does it bring to us what alarming factor it brings to us and what productivity factor it brings to us. Yes, at the stroke of a press you can connect to anyone. Make your bill payment, book your ticket, you can do.  Today something comes in the mind. Any point of time you are traveling in a car, you are sitting in a bus or you are standing anywhere, something comes in the mind. You have an instant solution type Google and in Google, go to Google and type it and you will get some answer. May not be correct answer, may not be the exact answer but you will get answer for which will give you the further insight how to go about. New device comes up, gets connected on the network. New equipment comes up, gets connected on the network. It's a unique feature there and it's much different than what we have seen in convention. If you look at the IT sector, IT equipment or IT companies or you look at your ISP services and if you look at the internet, the complete different model is there. In a conventional equipment service provider, it is set up by a private entity used by the public entity, public, used by the public. All of us use it but set up, maintained service by a private entity. He has his own rights but when you come to the internet, can we say it is set up by a private entity? Look at the root servers, mirror servers, DNS servers, open servers. These are all, model is different. These are set up by the public. In the public resources, these are set up by the public sources and the users are private. We all use for our private purposes, for our official purposes which is private. So the entire model is different and that makes the big difference in what we have seen in the conventional and what we have seen today. Our revenue model is different. Can you think of you are sending a WhatsApp message and you are not going to pay anything? You are searching Google, you are not going to pay anything? It's a good efficiency, good productivity model but then it's a complete transformation but then it brings other challenges before us which I will dwell on the challenges what challenges they bring before us and how the open group becomes important in this So this cyberspace is getting complex day by day, day by day. New software comes up. New software you load on that. You download an app on your mobile phone. You don't know from where the app has come from there. Who has developed it? How does it go and sit inside your mobile phone and how does it interact with other phones? Is it genuine or fake? This is the word which we are dealing with this in the digital economy and it has brought so many challenges. Now the same cyberspace of anonymity, virtualness or the borderless whatever words we talk about it in popular jargon has resulted into adverse impact also. Because of these features only I can open an account in anyone's name maybe in the name of anyone not existing there. I can morph the account and keep on transacting whatever way I want to do. I remember in 1989 there was some cases of virus breakout and the issue was raised in the parliament. One of the renowned politician was the chairperson in the Rajya Sabha. When the issue was raised renowned person being from the medical field he says I have heard about the virus but why are you raising it why are you bringing the IT into the picture go and talk to the medical or go and talk to the All-Indian Institute of Medical Sciences. That's the first time the issue was raised virus. It's a parliament set up a committee I was a member of the committee go around it we went to the, came to the Bangalore also talk to the people talk to the Microsoft and we started some exercises but the journey from 1988 or 1989 look at the journey where we have come it used to be a simple injection you can spoil the website add something anti India slogan there put anti Kashmir slogan there then we had the kind of a box malware we talk about the malware we have the DDoS denial of service attacks there and then now we are moving to third stage so we have seen intrusive stage we have seen the disruptive stage where the operations are disruptive ransom ransomware we have moved into the damaging stage ransomware is indication of the damaging stage where how we have moved how we have transferred from this at this scenario has a linkages with the complexity in the cyberspace as the cyberspace become more and more complex the complexity in this cycle also will keep on increasing the factor which I told you if you look at the scenario which worldwide scenario which we see here certainly some countries are playing elite role the activities are they are victim stencils and they are source of the problems also by them and not that those countries are promoting that but then the automation is so much in those countries that you can see the any type of activity happens there most of the dotcom servers are hosted there most of the dotorg servers are hosted there most of the dotedu servers are hosted there out of 13 root server 11 are hosted there naturally when you have so much proliferation so much transactions happening there your malicious part also will be very high there are about 11 things which have emerged and become very important in this era of digital economy and when I hear see that mobile transactions are going to go up this 11 train needs to be kept in the mind government roles expand many of you would have been aware of the activity of ICANN which manages the entire internet situated at US it has gone a transformation recently by adopting a multi-seq order approach and write so multi-seq order approach because the technology does not distinguish between a poor and rich between military and civil between a critical sector and non-critical sector home users or any kind of a system there you can create your scenario from any corner from a mobile phone or from now from the IOT devices all of you would have heard in a 2 by 2016 the IOT baby monitor a mother went and left the baby monitor a fisher monitor to the child and it created a problem and shut down the internet for some time a large part the western coast of the US was in a problem in October because of the baby monitor so he is a home user that's why it has a multi-seq order role in any manner positive or negative but among all these things the government role is expending because whatever policy you make it the government will have to do this is the fact of the life and this will happen cyber offense by non-state and state actor affects everyone I have seen number of cases I see the cases there and mind-boggling cases the DDoS attack Denial service attack will start many of the home computers will be compromised by some non-state actor a state actor and start launching the Denial service attack there is no distinguish everyone is get impacted by them attackers are much more adopting involving as compared to the people who are defending it defender comes only as a reactive response rather than a proactive response complexity of the cyber attacks is increasing all of you are from the IT area investigating malware is becoming a challenge collecting the software building signature is becoming a challenge ransomware has impacted entire world our country also there you design one antidote to a problem next the variant comes up and again you struggle with that one third of the internet traffic is from the SSS protocol desktop internal protocol and 92% traffic today on the internet is encrypted what a problem it creates for the law enforcement and security agencies the threat detection requires collection you know where the data to be threat detectable analyzing the threats you require to know where the data will be there data is present is only present you don't know where the data sets are lying where all the data are there so the collection of the data for the purpose of analyzing threat is a challenge and it requires a deeper analysis there life safety and cyber security intersecting thought I have quoted the example of it where we monitor cyber litigation has gone I can narrate an incident we started writing the information technology act in 1998 I used to go to the law secretary because we have to get the legislation from him he will say what is the need of this I have to struggle to explain to them I use the service of IBM to take all the senior officers in the government to explain the what is digital signature hardly anyone any legal luminary so-called they were heard the jargons of the cyber nobody has any appreciation not that the position has changed dramatically today but lot many lawyers have found interest in this and they are learning they have become much more knowledgeable as compared to 1998 or maybe 5 years ago every litigation which goes has a cyber part pendrive, facebook every litigation, civil litigation, criminal litigation cyber is gone and the cyber litigation is going on we are not able to investigate the cases the cases are very very high you can you have gone through the that media news 3.2 debit cards media comes into the picture they make it a big issue probably comes in because everyone effected somewhere some ATM date and 3.2 million debit card started getting it that's the impact the civil litigation is increasing there as a result our civil our the lawyers judges they are more now they are getting into how to understand how to address the civil litigation part in the cyber area expectations are increasing I quoted 3.2 million debit cards there made so much a noise they expect government to do something they expect banks to do something the expectation increasing because awareness is also increasing and suddenly media has played a big role seminars have played a big role in increasing the awareness of the people all across the society as a result of everything trust and integrity is undermined today you take any device first thing comes in the mind can I trust it where all the leakage will be there this is the position we have come what is today's challenge as I said data is omnipresent so many transformations are happening you have a beam transfer the money you have a ATM transfer the money so many interfaces are there in between every banker is trying to introduce application where they want to do away with the use of the password so death of the password is a visible sign which will happen which is happening there this is the trend today data become omnipresent how do you know where do you know what over transactions you do where all the data is present in a beam app which is a Bharat interface for money the flow of data is from a mobile phone to BTS to the telecom equipment of the telecom service provider to NPCIL then to banks this is a broader category but when you analyze each category so many devices are come to the picture and they participate data is present everywhere all routers will have some of the data there user identity base access everyone is talking about user identity base that is a trend suddenly we have to do that privacy is getting more important biometric voice and finger print any application you go it says biometrics God knows whether he is verifying or storing or where all is taking it again the data of omnipresent multiple technologies integration when you send a message from your device to another device SMS or any WhatsApp message it passes through multiple device in deploying multiple technologies malware is a part of the part of the day part of your life can anyone say that mobile phone does not have a malware you don't know the app you are downloading is authenticated not authenticated what software what malware it brings take it guaranteed that every mobile device has some or the other malware built in into that or downloaded into that any point of attack we have to build up embedded security to address all so how do we these are the trend and these poses the challenges these are the challenges we need to address if we have to move if we have to move in the digital society we need to do this now what do we see worldwide as I said is a unique feature set up and maintained by public and used by the private the result is this that much of this global infrastructure is unsupported or operating with the known vulnerabilities still ATMs in most part of the world they still use the old PCXP operating software Microsoft has withdrawn they are not supporting the security providing the security patches vulnerabilities are there you get the router how many of them are patched up regularly I have seen Ntivirus software the companies are marketing automated solution there they put a console where you have a large number of systems they want to put the console and want to upgrade Ntivirus it never happens the console shows some figure it never happens there un-patching is an issue in this interconnected world many of the vulnerabilities are very old I have given an example to PCXP many of the devices camera devices interface with it is old devices there and today's interconnected world I have a one account on Google it gets connected to all Google hang up Google search engine or my Gmail everything gets my calendar one account one password connects there and I access those things from different devices different software none of them are patched up and they complexity to the malware is increasing all those my friends here who are who deals with the malware subject they will certainly be aware of the issues there now India has a unique footprint on the internet of the US and UK we are the second largest internet users country in the world the internet users are almost touching 600 million today in the country the unique mobile phone are 661 million user in the country with the population of 1.22 billion people 661 million users are unique on the phone and certainly 50% of whose server has a smart phone the percentage is now almost reaching towards 50% they have the mobile connectivity they have the internet connectivity also apart from your desktop they have a significant footprint on the internet every device is hosted here we have a statistically a magnetic problem of the patching issues in the country that's a we need to make something to improve the scenario and that will make a big difference the rank of India goes up and down in terms of spam in terms of botnet but at any point of the time very high among the first spam or the talk of botnet our population of the PCs devices are increasing and this problem will come up there India ranks high in a mobile compromise this is scenario and we have to see how do we deal in this scenario how do we as I said in the opening marks that is a multi stakeholder kind of approach common alone cannot do anything all of us we need to come together we need to improve our network hygiene the service provider the vendors and the users have to come together sincerely to achieve the hygiene achieve the better efficiency, better productivity or better performance of the hygiene on the network that's the first priority we need to do that user everywhere that's what we need to work together and this is where the role certainly I would like to explore the open group how do we work together to protect them by working, designing the architecture by promoting certain kind of application by promoting certain culture how do we help because this is becoming important issue we need to work together the critical sector critical sector which manages the information infrastructure the power sector or other we all need to work together the vendors we need to work together the banks are a part of the critical sector we need to work together to share the information and only it can happen if you have a intelligent sharing to a exchange of information we need to develop some kind of a root system where we try to authenticate I don't know how we need to work with them certainly I will talk to the open group the CEO here how do we work together to create the trust and the root system where we have a trusted transactions across the devices to secure to promote the digital economy until and unless we achieve the trust and integrity I am afraid we will have issue on the transactions there I deal with the IT I deal with the cyber security but I certainly will admit openly I shiver when I have to do the internet transactions on for myself I limited to very very bare transactions there okay let your wife do that you don't do that we need to come out we need to work together and we will explore with the open group how do we achieve how do we make it a part of there also agenda to announce the trust of transactions on the net or announce the trust on cyber transactions friends we are in an era which is becoming more and more complex the cyber is I said all my presentation is a much different era than what we have seen the cyber technology is much much more complex and much more dangerous than the nuclear technology nuclear bomb will come and impact certain kilometer area physically has to be transferred but the cyber area can damage millions of the system can wipe out the million of your assets data sets there information there and simultaneously from one to many many to one and many different areas can go and physically doesn't have to press well we should not take the pitfall of the digital economy the cyber part to stop our digital economy because that's a trend it will continue we have we have no alternative other than to move progressively on the digital economy the country in India is resolved to move that our prime minister is working very seriously on that he takes regular meeting and talks about it but we need to keep the other part and we need to work together so that we address the challenges which this technology is bringing the innovation is bringing on a regular day to day basis I once again thank open group to giving opportunity to share my thoughts and bring out the challenges which we are and which we will face in time to come thank you very much sir we can take couple of questions Steve may I please request you to join Dr. Ryan stage any questions we'll just limit to two please it's an honour and privilege to sit in an audience and hear your good words sir thanks a lot for your presentation just a quick question looking at the way digitalisation is evolving in my humble opinion we are gone past the days when as private enterprises we used to focus only on securing our data with the advent of internet of things mobility and cloud most of our assets are now getting accessed by the end user devices bring your own device was one step in that direction what are your views in terms of building a thriving consortium of public and private partnership in the larger interest of citizen experience to build a very secured infrastructure be it in an area of mobility or internet of things Akshay Dhanak HDFC life you are endorsing what practically I am saying that I said that it's a multi-sigal approach government alone cannot do that and the data is lying we don't know all the data is present there the solution is a public private kind of a approach which we need to follow there and your idea is welcome and we must have a consortium well defined approach how do we lay down their objective their terms of reference and certainly the public private approach only will bring a sort of a can only create higher resilience everything is 100% secure we can only work together creating a system so that we can ask the resilience of our structure for the same I certainly welcome the idea of your public private consortium one more good morning sir this is Venu Gopal from BTP Technologies sir you mentioned about the challenges of devices not being patched and obviously the Indian users are not aware enough or educated enough to manage their devices securely does the government of India intend to have a law which can enforce security patching and update by mobile vendors and telecom service providers for example for devices that they mass produce for example devices from most vendors after they are released they are not regular security updates, quite a few devices in the market today after the first release there is no patching being done by the vendor so you talk about the law what I missed I am looking at sometimes the law can push the prioritization by the vendors in that space no you are talking about the law yeah is there any plan from the government to as part of the IT policy to push for a law in that space to mandate certain levels of standards in patching updates no you see the your question is the last line and the first line was slightly different standard, mandating standard is one part and mandating patching of the mobile phone is slightly different part of it you may try to extend to that but slightly different part of it see the information technology provides provision there are number of provisions to address this issue but there can't be a provision in the law that every mobile device owner or every citizen can patch the device which he owns it's going to be very difficult to enforce it there is a law that if anything happens from your device then you will be held accountable there is a criminal and civil liabilities are there there is a section 43 43A and section 66 66 say in the information technology act which provide the criminal civil liability is there that indirectly tells you that you got to patch your system because any malicious thing coming up you can be booked for the damages the law provides the compensation to victim and the law provides the punishment to the person from the perpetrators also there so there is a law but I find difficult to reconcile the enacting a law where you make every citizen directly to patch it up I have not seen any law anywhere but it's a point which you see let me point out


Saya Tuyak. Saya basically started as a developer. Now I'm an AI apprentice at AI Singapore. So if you haven't heard about AI Singapore, it's actually a national government initiative to train you guys to do how to do AI technologies and machine learning and deep learning sort of thing. So if you haven't heard of it, you can check it out. Just type AI apprentice program and you will find it. It's a nine months full-time program. They pay you to learn stuff, so it's cool. So this is me. I'm currently an apprentice at AI Singapore. One of the side things that I do, I'm also an even manager at Geese Hacking. Geese Hacking actually is a tech community. We sort of embrace tech, innovation sort of thing. If you are a junior developer that want to learn new stuff, you can check out our events. We also have free events to train you online. Mobile development, work development, all sorts of stuff. So this is my backstory. I study IT from Republic Poly, solid go to Commitment Science, and also after I graduated, I worked for RPA Analyst. It's basically automation of business processes. So you sort of automate critical issuaries, digitising sort of things into... We are basically writing scripts to do this kind of thing. So it's sort of like a developer job, but you're not building application, you're writing scripts. So from there, I progressed into AI apprentice, where I learned about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and de-learning. So yeah, these slides are really based on my experience. So if you have different experience, the experience might differ from how I experience it as a developer that go into AI. So take it with a pinch of salt. So there are quite a few difference that I can get from being an AI practitioner versus developer. The first thing is jobs code. How does it differ? So as a developer, you are just writing rules for the program to follow, whereby if you are AI practitioner, you are sort of programming the machines to learn the rule by itself. So you don't write rules. For example, you are trying to classify between cats and dogs.   You're writing all sorts of rules to classify all these pictures.  Oh, this is cat. This is cat. This is cat. It recognizes that the picture is cat. So it's a little bit different. I have drawn out this diagram. So what you do as a developer is basically you have input and you have a program. You process it. You try to compute it and then you have result. So for example, you try to call API call. You write API, you have input, API key, then you try to write API call. You press button, you get back the result. That's developer. But for AI, you have input and you have output. You don't know what to write. How do you come from this input to output? So you just feed entire thing that input output into the computation which is like the program. Algorithm will generate a program for you. So you don't have to write like specific rule what to do and what not to do. Then the top process. The next thing is top process.  Let's say you want to do some project, right? They will say, oh, what do you want to do? Are you want to do web app? Move all app? Are you going to build on like or Kotlin, Android, C-sharp, C++ but as an AI apprentice or the AI practitioner, you have to think about the data. What kind of data you have? You cannot just build like like very good machine learning model if you don't have any data at all. So you need to have like input and output to get the process, the program by itself. So you need a lot of data. Like maybe you are trying to classify whether it is dot or cats. Maybe try to get identify like criticat fraud by using a lot of transitions. Or maybe try to get like try to recognize the faces.  So all these require data. That's why Facebook let you like upload photos for free or maybe Google upload photos for free. This is how you're paying, by uploading your data and like tagging your friends. So remember if you remember like 2008, something, there's no such thing. So you just have to tag your friend manually. Like you will go to your face and tag them, tag them, tag them, right? It's basically you're training their model. So once they get it, now they are using it to like recommend you. Oh, is it your friend? Is it your friend? Yeah.  As a programming skills, right, like we are developers so you need to have a lot and like you need to like in depth sort of thing. You need to learn like Python, C++, we've been learning a lot. I've been from IT all the way to combine science. I learn programming every day, you know, do recordings. I have to learn in the like multi-training, synchronizing, you know, ABI call, asynchronous, so many things, right? But if you are AI apprentice, your focus is a bit different. So you won't be learning in depth into how to program things because it will be automatically program, right? So you have to, you will be learning more towards understanding the context which is like math, like the formula, how you're going to interpolate from like the input to output. Like you have this sort of data, for example, you're trying to predict HGV, housing price in 10 years' time. So you have to know what kind of input that you can put in, then what kind of output you're expecting, then you try to come up with like math formula behind it to understand it and if you don't have math background, you sort of can't relate what's happening with the data and how the program is going to give you this kind of result. So you don't need very in-depth programming skills. You need a handful like maybe Python, R, SQL, no SQL, maybe API calls sort of thing. But the more intensive things you need is to understand the algorithms and the math behind it. So the next one is math. Like how did you have to go, right? So as a developer, you don't really need to do a lot of math. Maybe like brilliant algebra for some operations.  You have to be familiar with all the symbols that they write, you know, all the Greek letters. Like when I see it, I just want to throw your people away that kind of level math. So, yeah, if you understand it, like when you get into it, right, you understand it, you read it like a code. Like when you try to read, for example, you try to read as that function, right? It is the same, like if you understand it, you can read the codes.  Maybe 4 number or 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Then you just use that to try to program, you know, this input is value or not, try to use rejects to like validate 5 number, 6 number, 6 number run alphabetical order, right? So, you don't really need like real life data to produce something which is doable, but doing AI application you really need a real life data because what you need is input and output, right? It has to be real to get a real program that can do execution. So, if you don't have a real life data, too bad your AI program will just predict wrong stuff all the time. Oh, then this is like one of the main things that a lot of people are talking about is reproducibility. What it means basically is try to reproduce whatever you have done, right? Like one input how often you can try to reproduce that? You can always reproduce 3 button with one input, all the time. You don't really need any specifications or any data format or anything, but for AI applications the requirements of the data like how many columns do you have, how many rows do you have, what are the data when it was taken all sorts of things are very important for the programs to predict accurately. So the tolerance of having around data is very low for AI application. So the data is like the key things that you have to be care of. So if your data is dirty doesn't make sense your AI doesn't make sense as well. So for the accuracy as a developer you have to be really like 100% sure that your buttons will work. Let's say your program e-commands website your checkout button, right? You cannot say checkout button 80% of the time.  But for AI applications the accuracy doesn't really dead. No, not really straight. F2P comfort level for the business to make decisions. So you can say I think HGP price will highly go up by 2% in the future and no one knows in the future so they're like I think based on these sort of formulas I think it's okay. We accept it that 82% so this kind of comfort level that you can play around so you can really get 100% accurate models just to be clear so anything above 85% that's quite doable already. So yeah, the most $1 million questions what AI replace developer? What do you guys think? Yeah, I think it's probably not a lot of people but there's like 200 article talking about it. So I think it's probably not because developer we have some foundations that I don't think AI can replace some logics that in our head is happening. Whenever we progress something there's some unspoken rules or spoken things in our heads happening that AI can never replace. So yeah the next one this code is in C it was trained on Linux repository. It can write this kind of code. So it's only trained I think 2 days. Do you think you can write this kind of code in 2 days? Yeah, it isn't legit if you take a look at it. Yeah it has like for loop it has some comments in there it isn't legit written by some experienced programmer but the good thing is you can compile that so you can push it to give hard report and if you want to try it out there's the GitHub profile as well and you can go and check it out. He has written like entire code and entire programs the AI programs to you know get into this kind of states. So if you are free maybe you can just take a look keep training your model entity you can code like you then you can just drink coffee every day just let it runs like I've asked you to do some fisheye right just let it runs just go for coffee or play games whatever man So if you are interested to get started the good thing about AI everything is free you don't have to pay money to learn it there's a lot of good youtube videos that you can find there's Coursera course which is machine learning to intro this is like go to machine learning intro whatever you are not sure about meh formula or whatever the machine learning intro given by the professor Andrew Ang is very good and deep learning intro is there as well and the medium is actually like a step overflow for AI practitioners so everything that you want to do for example I want to generate just now the code actually probably someone has already done it the guides are there how you set it up how you run it what kind of things that you should expect to do all these are there and the cargo is like a challenge thing so what they do they sort of upload the data because data is a more important thing they upload the data they give you a promise statement you try to solve it using the machine so if you can like beat other people in accuracy or maybe like simplicity wise they will reward you can be like 1 million dollar if you just keep trying out yeah the prices are too high you just take a look it's amazing yeah and data camera is the intro causes which is free if you want to try out the tracks you have to pay yeah but if you are just like willing to try it out you can just drop then an email saying that you are developer you are interested in this they are very nice they give you 3 months access and you can finish it in like 2 months so yeah and if you haven't heard there is AI Singapore approach which is like government funded agency we have a lot of programs like apprentice program there is AI for E AI for everyone program which is like runs in a day half a day around 9 to like 3 or 4 yeah we sort of like give you what you should be expecting AI then there is if you are like industry then there is AI for industry they train you on like data cam data science track so you have someone to like get you along if you have any question you can ask also do a question so if you check out right actually it's all government funded you just have to pay like certain like 20% I think I'm not sure about the cost yeah but AI for E is free AI for I you need to pay a little bit more yeah that's it and yeah if you have any question I'm happy to take either here or at the back yeah if you don't want to talk to me in person you can always terima kasih


Hey, Jay, what's the contrast to have a big personal day on a big team down day? It wasn't good enough.  The outcome, this is not the outcome we wanted. So it wasn't good enough. What is the finality like when you have such a long season, you had such a good regular season, then all of a sudden it's just over? Plotness, it doesn't matter. We didn't get the job done. And we're not here for see how good a regular season record could be. We're trying to win the Super Bowl. And the frustration, AJ, defense goes out and has to find sacks. Does that make it even any more frustrating in that situation? Definitely, we definitely had our opportunities to finish drives and we didn't. Defense built us out over and over again and we didn't. You guys keep saying we, when you're talking about this loss, but a lot of that responsibility will be placed on Ryan Tannehill. In your mind, why isn't it just him, just his fault? He had three assessments today. I can't speak on, I guess none of that. I mean, that's not my job. I'm gonna stand up here and talk about we as a group, myself most importantly. And it wasn't good enough as an offense.  All day, we were just shooting ourself in the foot. It wasn't really nothing that it was doing. We were stopping ourself, so. Two years, two home games, we think set up pretty well this year better than last year. To lose them both, something missing in the formula, like where do you go from here? That's not my job to try to pinpoint what was missing and what's not. But I think collectively as a group, we have more than enough talent in that locker room. It comes to execute and today we just failed short. We had opportunities and we didn't get it done. In the first quarter, there was a crowd where you got opened deep. It looked like, was there a route mix up on that at all? Or he just overthrew you a little bit? That's just one we missed on, you know. It'd be like that sometimes. Does it feel like progress you see and selected when I was done? Markets, I don't want to award a participation on a trophy, I mean. That's not what I'm here for. So, no, not for me.


All right, well, let's go ahead and get started then. I'm Hart Montgomery. I work for the Linux Foundation, where I serve as the Hyperledger CTO. And we have a really exciting panel today about blockchain in Europe. So I'd like to start by letting our excellent panelists introduce themselves.  Good afternoon. I'm Conrad van der Winter, CTO at Circular. We based in London and primarily focused on creating traceability solutions and tracing raw materials from mine to the, for example, EV batteries. And we make use of Hyperledger fabric as the blockchain. Hi, good afternoon. I'm Vanessa Senj. I work at Fujitsu as head of marketing of our Enterprise Blockchain Solutions Center. And I'm happy to be here to discuss this topic, as I believe that Europe is, in fact, a great space for blockchain innovation. Thank you. Hi, my name is Jesus Rith, and I'm currently with several hats. I am a board member and CTO of Alastria Blockchain Association, Spanish Blockchain Association, building the infrastructure for use cases in the real economy. I have also participated in the technical working groups in the building of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure Blockchain, probably in the future, more national blockchains, but essentially focusing on infrastructure, more than use cases, infrastructure which enables use cases which cannot be deployed in the current blockchains. Great. Thank you all. So since we are at an open source summit Europe, I'd like to start by asking a question specifically about Europe. So when it comes to blockchain and blockchain markets, the US tends to get most of the attention. And perhaps there's some attention on Asia as well. But there's sort of been considerably less attention on Europe. What would you say distinguishes Europe as a blockchain market compared to the US or Asia? Yeah, and Europe seems to lag behind a bit in the innovation space with blockchain. There seem to be more startups, more smaller companies, and more investments being put into it in the US especially. But in Europe, again, it seems to be more national level or more governmental type of funding for it, looking at solving real problems in the region and how those could be addressed by using blockchain. So from my perspective, Europe is known by a lot of new regulations. And I believe that not only that, but other things. As a marketing professional, I must highlight GDPR has paved the way as blockchain solutions aim to contribute to solve real world problems. And as I was mentioning new regulations, also we'll pave the way for the innovation in blockchain. So I would say that we have a huge opportunity here, not only for, as I was saying, innovation in blockchain, but also to be aligned with those new requirements. And we also have government support. So we have a lot of initiatives here in Europe that support blockchain, not only, as I was saying, innovation, but also blockchain projects related to sustainability, for instance. So yeah, so basically I believe that Europe is in fact a good space, a fascinating area for blockchain. So I believe that the time is now, actually. So a lot of opportunities. Yeah, I agree. I mean, in my opinion, there are many, many aspects, even cultural, but I would say that three are the most important in my opinion. One is the focus of the European governments and the European Commission and the European Union on protecting the general people, not just the savvy people or the people who have a lot of money to invest and so on, but protecting, because we have 500 million people and many of them have problems. So we have to make this a better society. That's the focus. You can see these type of regulations in GDPR, consumer protection directive. You can see right now in Mika. So that focus is protecting. So many people think that the regulation, or some people think that the regulation is in reality a barrier by some institutions to the innovation. My point of view is totally the contrary. The focus is the person. The most important thing in the world is the person, not the business or any other thing. So the quality of citizens is something which has to be enabled. Another factor, of course, is venture capital. So in Europe, we have less than, for example, in the US and other regions. And this is very important. But the third is related to the second is the focus is on the people. So the focus is on building things for the real economy versus the financial economy. You know that the world has real economy, financial economy. Financial economy is banking, assets, digital assets, and so on. So there is a lot of money to be made in financial economy. But in reality, financial economy should be at the service of the real economy. The real economy is health, food, dressing, roads, the real things, the real things that make or break the life of the citizens and make the quality better. And not many things, not many citizens in Europe have a lot of money to invest in risky investment instruments. So the focus of Europe is on things that are not attractive to risk capital or to venture capitalists that they want to invest and then get a benefit. So the focus in Europe is on real economy. And then you need financial mechanisms. And then you have Mika and so on. But most of the things go under the radar. And I can tell you Europe is the most advanced region in the world on blockchain for the real things. Great. Thank you all. I'm sure we will have some follow-ups to those points. I wanted the next question to start with Conrad here. But everyone else can feel free to weigh in. So you in circular have built what I would say is one of the most, I'll call it, real enterprise blockchain applications, obviously focused on supply chain and is deployed out there today. Can you comment on some of the challenges and things you've had to overcome to really make enterprise blockchain real? Thanks. Yeah, so when we started about five years ago, there wasn't. So yeah, tech was very new. And there wasn't a lot of other business cases or other examples to look at and see what to learn or what's there already out and just reuse or not. But learn from them, see what mistakes and challenges they've had. So there's a lot of things we have to pick up and adapt. And as the business growing, the amount of transactions are getting through, we keep having to adapt this new technology and seeing what's the limits of it. But one of the non, not technical, but one of the challenges was also education because people think, well, yeah, Bitcoin is blockchain. So there's always that hurdle and all those buzzwords and stuff. Then they want to know, well, what's the point? Why, what's the energy usage of this blockchain you're trying to use? Because you're trying to be sustainable but now actually you're making it worse. So there's a lot of education in there. But recently, it also became more about interoperability because companies don't just wanna buy into one technology, do all that investment, and then find out a few years later actually there's a new or better one until all the blockchain technologies are more matured. So interoperability is one of the new ones that we try to address and get around to. Great, does anyone else want to comment on this? Making blockchain real? I know both of you two have also been involved in real blockchain deployments. So would you like to comment? Well, yeah, we have some exciting projects. One of them is Botanical Water and actually we received an award from Elystria and their Sustainability Award this summer. And we actually have other projects where we are solving real world problems. So, and we co-create with our customers to address their needs. So we are focused on customer needs and not on technology. Technology will solve the problem but we need to address these customer needs and challenges that they have. And it is what we are doing with our customers. So we have a lot of success stories, not only under sustainability but regarding also tokenization, for instance. And yeah, so basically we are addressing those challenges with technology that gives transparency to the supply chain and people can trust on data because it is immutable, right? So we have a huge opportunity, once again, to innovate in this area. If we work with our customers and if we are focused on their challenges. Thank you. Well, as I said, I have been focusing for many years, eight, seven, eight years right now, essentially on the infrastructure because I was before in Marcos and Tander and then in IBM. I've been implementing distributed ledgers for 40 years. So distributed ledgers, DLTs as they are called, is something very boring, which is not really the focus of my job. My intention right now or what I'm doing right now is trying to decentralize log technology. The word decentralize is very important. I know that crypto anarchists and so on, want to call other projects which are not Bitcoin or Ethereum distributed ledgers because they want to say, well, this is just private things. Now, I've been focusing on what is the infrastructure for the future internet, the next generation internet. By the way, right now, okay, there's a huge unit in the European Commission called next generation internet. And then I have been involved first on creating an actual blockchain for those real use cases, non-financial use cases because for financial use cases, okay, you can do things right now, but not for real use cases, for the real society, for 500 million citizens in Europe, you need another infrastructure which is like the internet. You need a public critical infrastructure, public in the sense, in the correct sense, not in the crypto anarchist public sense, which is anonymous, public like public education, like public health, like public services of any kind, and public roads which are permissioned. So you need permission. That's not mean private. Permissioning is a requirement for anything which is decentralized. So decentralization requires permission. This is something that we already know from Bitcoin experiments and so on. So what we are building right now is the actual infrastructure for pan-European use cases. This is European blockchain services infrastructure, which is in pre-production and right now the legal instrument for operate this in a decentralized way without any single operator is being created by European Commission. The Spanish government has already approved a project to create a national blockchain, which is called ISBE, E-I-S-B-E, which is a palindrome of FC, okay, but because they are related, the focus of the pan-European blockchain network is pan-European cross-border use cases, okay, actual blockchain use cases, and as a trust framework, one of the several trust frameworks for the upcoming E-I-S regulation, the E-I-S II, you have heard about the European digital identity wallet and so on, you need a trust framework, okay? That's going to be, one of the trust frameworks is going to be not unique, but one of the trust frameworks is going to be the European blockchain services infrastructure, and then at the national and regional level, you need some infrastructure which implements what I call the proof of democracy consensus hours. We need proof of democracy. Proof of richness, like proof of work, proof of stake, and proof of everything, okay, you name it, they are not suitable for those type of use cases. So we need proof of democracy in infrastructure, which is public, decentralized, permission, and proof of democracy. This is the things that we are building. And they are coming very fast. Great, thanks a lot for that. So Conrad mentioned education and the challenges around that on blockchain. And Vanessa, since you're a marketing executive, I wanted to start this question with you, but one of the biggest challenges in blockchain is in fact, talking to potential customers or users who aren't so tax-happy about blockchain, maybe they don't understand the technology, maybe they don't care about the technology, maybe they just want to see the end results, right? And perhaps their exposure to blockchain is through things like Bitcoin or perhaps more recently FTX or some less than savory activities. So from your perspective as a marketing executive, how do you talk about blockchain to these people who are perhaps not as educated? So as I was saying, we need to focus on customer needs and not on technology. But of course, that when we are talking with potential customers, we need to talk about technology and it is blockchain. And I must say that I'm not a technical person as well. And I believe that helps when I'm communicating to the market, to different target personas. And of course, we have some of those people that are not familiar with the technology. And unfortunately, we still need to clarify, to mystify the concept of blockchain because sometimes we are talking with customers and they are saying, oh yeah, it's Bitcoin. And so we need to clarify that blockchain is much more than digital currencies. And actually, it's easier to explain with real use cases, right? And so we have, as I was saying before, some success stories with our customers and we can't talk about that. What was the problem of that customer? How we address the problem and the results. And besides this, I believe that's important to communicate the benefits of blockchain because when we are talking about blockchain, they are saying, oh okay, energy consumption because of Bitcoin. So, and we need to say, well, in fact, our solution is address to solve sustainability challenges. And we are talking about a solution that in fact is going to support you in your sustainability strategy. So I believe that if we can give some concrete examples, it's easier to understand that blockchain is in fact a technology with huge potential. And we have a lot of opportunities to solve real world problems. So, yeah. Would anyone else like to elaborate on this? Yes, some comments. I mean, right now from my explanation, you can see that I'm focusing on infrastructure for the use cases, but I have to be involved in some use cases. Most of the use cases that I'm involved in are very foul credentials, traceability, time stamping, and truthfulness of information. So, some people now have realized that it is not a good idea to store personal information in blockchain. We know this for 50 years, okay? Blockchain or whatever, public databases. But public information is good. So the use cases that I'm focusing right now is not, again, financial use cases because for that you have Ethereum, you have many, many, many possibilities, okay? But for real use cases, we don't have the infrastructure. So I'm focusing on infrastructure. So at the end, my product is not a commercial product, it's a common good, it's an infrastructure, is the next backbone, internet backbone. When I talk about internet, I'm talking about the cables, the fiber cables, okay? And I don't know if you know how this works, okay? But for example, in Europe, most of the providers, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom and so on, Vodafone and so on, they are connected between all of them to enable the traffic in some points called IXPs, Internet Exchange Points, which are managed in Europe by non-profits, neutral entities. So the network is public because it's available to the general public, anybody can contract access to that network and then you can do whatever you want. It's private, it's, and then privacy. You have privacy and permissioning. So the next blockchain is the next generation internet which is going to be transparent. You don't have to explain for your use case, hey, dear customer, I'm going to do this e-business by the way we need internet. Come on, internet is there. So blockchain is going to be there, it's going to be transparent specifically for the citizens because the citizens are not going to be involved in the real world, okay? Not for financial, for real economy use cases. And then most of the companies are going to be also like, this is another internet with other properties and those the- Why? The ability in an infrastructure which is not owned or controlled or operated by anybody is a collaborative operation, transparent, so you know who is good for the business. But this is very simple. But the problem is, yeah, put your face, face, where do we put this? Yeah, I think that some of us apologize for the questions that you've been watching, is there still a little bit of a problem to solve? But once it becomes more of an infrastructure scandal, and it just becomes a lot of people that focus on what technology is in there. And you'll look at what's the real problem in trying to solve it. The property, the property of the watch and the service just helps to eliminate the incident. And then, they will start getting rid of it. Great, and continuing on that day of infrastructure, so a question for you to start with, you know, more and more sort of public biologics are being driven by public commission biologics. And so you've been involved in two of the biggest efforts so far. Black chain and FC, for those of you that are interested, one in Latin America, a bunch of countries there, and the other obviously by Europe. So what are some of the differences working on government watch and projects as compared to the traditional enterprise watch and projects? That's a really good question. Many companies, big companies, they said, hey, I want to build my blockchain. Like, I want to build my artificial intelligence database, my blockchain. How do I do my blockchain? The answer was, sorry, if this is your blockchain, then it's totally business. That's it, that's it. And then the businesses approach any technology, not let's do a common good. Let's make this useful for others or for the society. This has to be a benefit for me, my shareholders, directors, and then I'm going to go to the competition. For the world perspective, it's completely different, for example, in the European Union, I mean, the focus is again on a fair economy, competitive, and so on, so there are some rules. And then the businesses have to come back. There are some values. So the business, from the government, they approach the blockchain just like with any other technology. This technology has to be good for all citizens, not just for one person, especially those citizens who have money to invest in it. There has to be a common good. So again, from the party administrations, they try to focus on these cases, but they understand very well, but they understand very well that we have an infrastructure that complies with the values of the European Union. It's impossible to deploy any of these cases which can lead to the European balance. So we need the world to solve the problem of the problem of the structure. This is kind of very fast. And Europe, again, is the most advanced country in the world. And then who is going to create the blockchain? That was also a problem. Well, in Spain, I was first in Bankers & Thunders, we had the same problem. We have very fantastic use cases and no infrastructure. Let's create this, and then somehow it happened. A collaboration of many entities to create an actual infrastructure. We created an association which is called Alastria, and we have a network which right now we have 200 different companies there from different party administrations. You have all types. Alastria is 500 members, and then this infrastructure is not big. It's only three or four million transactions per month. But again, the type of transactions are traceability. And production use cases, for example, we have some very notorious use cases, not just in Spain, from the Council of Europe, from France, from other countries. It's international, but it's still Spanish. But now, but then the governance model was that Alastria Association has not to operate anything. Who is operating the network? The different entities. Who is the owner of the network? The participants. That's a difficult model. But we have been successful, and then the European Commission called me, because they wanted to create a pan-European blockchain, but the problem is that they didn't want to operate this as a blockchain, as a service. BAS, with IBM or whatever, or any company. They didn't want to put the operator in a single country, like Germany, because then France would say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, here, because we have the Tuggefell and so on. And then the Swedes, no, no, no, no, you don't agree? Okay, here. And then the Italians, and then the Spanish. No. Right now, for example, in this infrastructure, they copied, well, I participated in the decentralized governance model, and then they even improved the model. And there is a decentralized governance model. So each validator is operated by each country, so it's impossible that one country can dominate the network, or can censor, or can do anything. So the control of the network that one given country, no matter the size, has on the network, is even less that in the European Parliament. Okay? So that's good. It's decentralized in the sense that I am European, I trust on the European authorities, and then I trust on this blockchain network. The Spanish government approved a project to create a blockchain where each node is going to be operated by at least one regional, different regional government, okay? They don't really cooperate a lot. We have 19, and then also the private sector, because we have more experience. So those are the type of infrastructure that I said. Decentralizing the sense that nobody has control, but everybody knows who is going to do, or who is doing what, and they are accountable. So if somebody does something wrong, we have the European legislation and the regulation. So that's not a major problem. So the incentives are proof of democracy, like everything which is working here. Because by the way, just a comment, I have never, ever in my life seen a more centralized infrastructure than Bitcoin and Ethereum. It's incredible. But everybody is saying decentralized. Well, without saying what decentralization means. For me decentralization means the type of infrastructure. So, blockchain. Then, blockchain also approaches Alastair. Alastair is a founding member of the Latin blockchain network, which you can imagine, what is that? It was, I mean, they don't have the European Commission, they have the Bank of Investment, which is a nonprofit and so on. And then under this, they created a blockchain network, which has the intention to be decentralized. So nobody should be controlling this infrastructure. And then the model, we have the model, internet backbone. So we already know that this more or less works.  They are going to kill anything, which is not controlled by them. But this is the right model, has proven to work, and blockchain has to learn and adapt the model of the governance of the internet. Great. Thanks a lot. We have about 10 minutes left, but we have more questions for the panelists, but I wanted to ask if anyone from the audience wanted to ask any particular panelist or the entire group of panelists collectively a question. So I'm going to repeat the question for online audience. So the question was about the European blockchain infrastructure, and what can it do? Is that a fair assessment? Great. Okay. That's a good question, because when somebody thinks blockchain is Bitcoin or whatever, no, non-financial use cases. What can you do? The main use case is going to be one of the biggest trust frameworks for the upcoming European digital identity wallet, because, for example, and then there are some use cases, for example, diplomas, interoperability of diplomas, traceability of diplomas. But the diploma information is not going to be registering the blockchain. Forget about registering any personal information, just evidence. And then it makes the blockchain incredibly useful. You can say, come on, no, but this is not the initial intention of blockchain. Well, who cares about the initial intention? What weaker is about the usefulness of some technology for the citizens, traceability, so diplomas, but you need identities. So imagine the following. Where is a single database with all the public universities in Europe? All the public universities in Europe. Who is managing this database? Second, when somebody is presented to you a diploma from a given university in Germany, how do you know that this university, which is a medical doctor diploma, is authorized to issue this diploma? So it's not just public infrastructure. So it's going to be a public infrastructure on asteroids, not just who is this guy or who is this public entity, by the way, the entities, the digital identities of the legal persons, businesses and organizations, never persons, never natural persons or public information. It's going to be registering the blockchain together with some additional data, metadata, which is going to say, I am at this university and, by the way, I have the authorization from the Ministry of Education of Germany to issue this type of diplomas on this year, because next year, I don't know. So you will be able to verify a very foul credential in a very efficient way, by the way, not even asking the issuer.  Social security is another project. Payments. I mean, name it. Anything to do with very foul credentials, the main use case is not going to be tokens. Well, tokens are going to be useful, but the real economy, the main requirement is verifiable credentials, so those are statements which can be verifiable very efficiently and then you need a transfer framework. And for many use cases, you need a pan-European transfer framework and in Spain, we need a pan-Spain transfer framework because, for example, health information. How do you know that this information that this citizen is presenting to me is coming from the real thing? And you can see something that nobody saw and then I have an article about this, the COVID, the European implementation of the COVID certificate, was the first one to implement a transfer framework which was pan-European, so many entities in Europe could issue to the citizens the credentials, the very foul credentials, not in W3C, but this is very foul credential, okay, digitally signed by Dishore and then very efficient to verify without contacting to Dishore because something like a blockchain, pan-European blockchain, was created with the public keys. No, no, no. It's the concept. It was a trust framework. Of course not. Why? Because there was no infrastructure for doing this, because otherwise, or maybe because it was not there and my point is that maybe for health it's going to be done. But the concept is certainly the same. So the European countries created something like a trust framework developing a doc, a blockchain because every member state was required to run a server with all the public keys of the rest. So they had to design and implement, I was involved in the project, and synchronization, a replication mechanism between all the servers because the public keys of Dishore in one country was the responsibility of the country. And the problem was how do I make my public keys available in an efficient way and robust and trusted way to all the other countries. By the way, it has been expanded to non-European countries. 25 countries have these servers. So at the end, there was no other because it was created in months. So it was impossible to do this. So how did it work? Well, it was, we say, a hacking. Because in Luxembourg, the European Commission was running a server. Every member state had to send the public keys and the updates and the deletes to Luxembourg. And then every member state had to take back all the keys of all the other things. It's a replication mechanism where every member state, there was no single operator. And then in order to verify the certificate, the mobile application had to check where, in a central database of Germany, no, in home, for example. Well, actually, for example, we implemented the verifier and the wallet and the issuer for one regional government and then we were in Spain but we used the trusted list from Sweden because Sweden was the first country to publicize this. But the critical thing is that the concept, the idea was that and this problem can be solved much more efficiently with a proper blockchain. That's the point. But of course, there was no blockchain. There was not. Blockchain? A poor man, blockchain. Awesome. We only have a couple minutes left so I'd like to close with the following question for the panelists. I know Vanessa, you said earlier, the time is now and Jesus, you said this is coming. So what blockchain use cases do you think will have the most traction in Europe in the next few years and why? I think as Jesus was saying, the key to the success of some of these projects is this infrastructure being available and verifiable credentials being there for organizations. For example, interestability in CO2 tracking if you want to see in a supply chain network who are the worst contributors to CO2 or somebody claimed to be green the real evidence that's there and anybody else being able to look up that's true and not just accept a certificate by a consultant company. Like those type of things. I don't think it's going to be just one use case of only traceability but it's going to be how these layers of data can add to each other. Once you have traceability you can start to add energy uses on top of that. You can start to add compliance information on top of that that create a much richer picture of what's going on in a specific region and for specific organizations. I believe that you already know my answer so it is sustainability. I believe that we are going to have we already have some regulations and we are expecting more and it's going to be mandatory for some companies financial or non-financial institutions to deliver street reporting about their sustainability practices and I believe that blockchain technology can be a huge partner here to guarantee that information, that ESG data, it is actually correct as you were saying. So with blockchain we know that company is sustainable because we have proof of that and I would like to share to that Fujitsu we are developing actually ESG reporting platform and of course that we are going we are using blockchain technology because of that because we cannot say that I'm green I need to prove that I am in fact green and also other stakeholders are demanding that for instance employees or even consumers that are giving some pressure to their brands for instance to have sustainable practices and I believe that is going to be a huge opportunity here and to let blockchain shine I would say and to remove the restriction and to give that traceability that trust on data that it is going to be essential for a lot of companies here in Europe. So again you know my answer but once you have an infrastructure which doesn't have to be as complete as 100 and then you have an interoperable digital identity like the European digital identity then you can deploy your cases on that infrastructure and then you are not going to create silos because for example for traceability you most probably have to know who is writing what who is saying what because essentially you say something and then you cannot retract because it's there and you cannot delete it okay then because you are lacking a common infrastructure as a common good available to anybody then you create clubs and you create logistic chains which are silos the only way to solve this is to have an infrastructure like the internet which is public accessible to anyone who conserves access and that's it with fair prices and then digital identity and then the use cases are going to be based on traceability and then I expect on very foul credentials and then on the very foul credentials side I expect that once this is available the infrastructure and the identity the public administrations are going to issue anything that public administrations local governments and so on okay in my city you can ask for your certificate of residency to a bank for a certificate or whatever but the public administrations anything any document is going to be very foul credentials with traceability in the case of business for example so anything which is a document is going to be transformed into a very foul credential by the way not an NFT in most of the cases because you cannot create a secondary market for example for a diploma well maybe if you are in a secondary market for diplomas then yes then is because you have things that have to be killed so most of the important things and my certificate of residency can you imagine a secondary market for this well there is also okay so we have to avoid this so most of the critical things in this life are not NFTs or tokens because there are not secondary for that you are not going to sell things more than once okay so very foul credentials for many things more than once yeah well no the initial which may be free okay so once you do it that's it to you this is you okay and this is the very easy to do right now especially in Europe because digital certificates couple with very foul credentials very foul credentials will have to be digitally signed with digital certificates using advanced or qualified signatures in Europe then the very foul credential is going to be a document which is fully legal in front of the court is like a PDF but much more efficient because instead of having one person reading the text to verify that this is the document is much readable so you are going to avoid a lot of back offices and that's it very easy in Europe not anywhere else all right well that's it let's thank our panelists


Hi friends. Happy Friday. Welcome to my channel and welcome. If you are new here, I'm so excited that you stopped by to watch today's Wayne video. So before I head into my WW workshop, I just want to share with you a little bit of a recap of my week. So I had a pretty darn good week. It was good, really good for exercise. I ended up going to Jazzercise four times and yes, I went to yesterday. I know, I know. I told you I wasn't going to go on Thursday anymore and now I'm regretting it because I'm so sore. I actually went Wednesday and Thursday. So back to back days and it was a pretty intense workout. So my legs are sore. My arms are sore. Everything is sore. But I went and I'm glad that I was able to get in the exercise. I'm just really hoping it doesn't affect my weigh in, but my food this week was pretty good. I had my weeklies on Saturday. I had cookies and all sorts of great things. And then the rest of the week I maintained pretty darn well within my points. So overall I had a great week. So I should be seeing some success on the scale. I'm just a little bit nervous because I'm super sore. And to be honest, I haven't felt very light. You know what I mean? Like light and airy, like you want to feel this week. I felt a little bit, just a little bit heavy feeling, maybe on the bloated side. I don't know. I've kind of felt that way this whole week. I've eaten a lot of salads because I meal prepped salads for the week. And sometimes that, just all those greens just kind of make me feel that way. So I'm crossing my fingers because let me just tell you, I deserve a loss on the scale. I deserve a good loss to be completely honest, but we'll see what happens when I hop on the scale. So I'll be back to not only share my weigh in update, but let's talk all things WW workshop. Hi friends, welcome back. I am out of my WW workshop and I absolutely loved this week's topic. I think it's something that we don't talk about enough, or maybe we don't think about enough. And that is setting ourselves up for success. We decorate our homes. We make it comfortable for us. We buy our favorite blankets, our favorite pillows for our bed. But are we setting our home up for success on our weight loss journey? Or are we setting ourselves up for failure? And what I mean by that is are we bringing things into our home that are going to derail us from our weight loss journey?  Or you like me and you love sweets and you buy cookies and you tell yourself, I'm going to have one cookie per day. And the next thing you know, the entire pack is gone. So are we setting ourselves up for success or are we setting ourselves up for failure? So WW has six tips on how to set ourselves up for success. So if you're a snacker, it's really good to set out something in your visual site that's easy for you to get access to that's on plan. So WW suggests that you set some fruit out where you're watching TV, whether that be your kitchen table on your coffee table in the living room. Where are you more likely to snack? So like I said, watching TV is a big time for snacking. So while you're sitting on your couch watching TV, set a bowl of fruit or veggies out on the table and leave it there. Berries, grapes, something that you can grab and snack on that is zero points or low points. That way you're not reaching for those chips or crackers or cookies that are going to derail you from your progress and really kind of add up on the smart points. Number two is super important. Pack your snacks. You guys know I do this all the time. I'm on the road a lot as a real estate agent. So I'm not always home to eat all of my meals and snacks. So pre portion out your snacks. I have preached this that it's best if you're going to buy a full bag of chips to go home, grab your food scale, way out a single portion, bag it up and put it somewhere where it's easily accessible for you.  But we know that we don't always just eat one serving. So it's better if you plan ahead and you prepackage your food. This is everything. This is your fruits, your vegetables, your chips. If you're going to grab a protein snack, bake up some lunch meat, maybe a cheese stick, hard boil your eggs in advance. Always have something on hand as far as snacks go. That is easy, portable, and you can just grab and go.  So pre plan, pre pack, pre portion out your snacks. Number three, simplify your morning. If you are not a morning person, then pre plan out your morning the night before.  So when you open it up, it's the first thing that you see.  So when you wake up in the morning, you're reaching for that instead of reaching for something that's more convenient.  So set yourself up for success. Have it all ready to go.  You make your omelet and you set your day off on the right foot. Number four, start writing. Leave a notepad in a pen or maybe some type of a journal or gratitude journal or even just your planner. I use the Aaron Condren planner. It is linked down below for you guys. And in there is a note section and I take a lot of notes. Sometimes I'll write myself little messages on the date in the calendar. I'll find a way to write notes in a calendar, a notepad, a gratitude journal, whatever you have, but write down every morning, three things you're thankful for.  Every day, take a moment. It literally takes 10 seconds and write down somewhere, three things that you're thankful for every day. It really just reminds us of our why and it reminds us of why we're on this journey to begin with. Number five, get a little bit sneaky. If you can't keep your hands out of those cookies and chips in your pantry, don't put them at eye level. Don't put them where they're easily accessible for you. Put them away in a cabinet that you can't reach. If you're on the shorter side and I see this a lot with my friends, especially my best friend, who's a little bit on the shorter side, she cannot reach the top cabinet. So she would literally have to have someone else or get a step stool or a chair or put in a lot of effort to reach the snacks or food that she's put out of reach. And also you guys remember out of sight, out of mind, put those things that you're tempted by out of sight.  Put them away, stash them. And if that doesn't do the trick, if just stashing them out of sight doesn't work for you, get rid of them. Take them to your office, give them to a friend and throw them away. It's okay to throw away food.  So it's better to waste that little bit of money and throw that food away rather than eating it and having to spend more money on weight watchers or working out or other ways to get rid of that food that you ate. So be sneaky about it, stash them, hide them, put them away. And at very worst case scenario, get rid of them. And number six is cue activity. So put your activity clothes, your workout clothes, your tennis shoes in a spot where you see them, maybe next to your alarm clock or put them on your dresser. So when you're going to get socks or things out of your dresser, your workout clothes are right there. It mentally cues you that you should work out, that you should think about exercise, put those things out where you can see them. That's going to give you that daily or constant reminder that you need to get in your exercise. My activity clothes are in my closet on the shelf right next to where I put my regular clothes. So whatever I'm going to wear the next day, my workout clothes are right next to that. So when I go in there to grab the clothes for the next day, I can't help but see my workout clothes sitting right there. And it cues me to think about throwing in some activity. So let's talk about my way. And I just want to say again, that is such a great topic. It's something that I'm thinking about implementing into my YouTube channel a little bit more is setting yourself up for success on your journey. I think it's so important. I know it's important for me. I can't bring sweets into the house that aren't WW friendly because when I'm hungry or think I'm hungry, that's the first thing that I'm reaching for. So love this topic. So as I mentioned before, I went into my workshop that I had a really good week. Yes, I used my weeklies. I worked out a ton. I busted my behind at Jazzercise. My food was pretty darn good for the entire week. I am extremely sore. I realized when I went to take my jacket off to weigh in that my arm is so sore, even sore than I thought. So I knew that maybe working out the day before weighing in wasn't the best decision, but I just wanted to get in that extra bit of exercise. So with that being said, when I stepped on the scale, I lost 0.4. So I lost 0.4 last week. I lost 0.4 again this week. Am I happy that I had a loss 100%? Absolutely. Am I annoyed that my loss was 0.4? 100%? Absolutely. Again, I feel like I should have lost more. I feel that I should be losing more than ounces every week. So it's a little bit frustrating. I guess I need to kind of reevaluate maybe what I'm eating because clearly it's not lack of exercise because I've been really good with my exercise. So maybe it's scaling down my day that I use my weeklies. Maybe it's changing up my foods a little bit. So I just need to do a little bit of deep diving into what I'm eating. So I think I'm going to spend some time doing that today. So with my frustration, I'm also really happy that I've lost every week so far in January, which was my goal starting this year. As you guys know, my goal is to lose 50 pounds in the year of 2020. So the fact that I'm losing every week is just getting me closer to that ultimate goal. I just wish it was a little bit more of a loss on the scale. So included in deep diving into my food, I'm also this next week not going to work out the day before weigh in. And I was actually visiting with one of the other girls at my workshop and we were talking about exercise and she says, Oh my gosh, do not exercise the day before weigh in, because even if it's something as simple as a walk or even a low impact exercise, your body, your muscles will retain water and it's not going to show up on the scale. So she is now probably the 10th person that's told me that.  So now I'm going to not work out the day before weigh in. So I'm going to go to Jazzercise tomorrow, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, give my body a break on Thursday. And then hopefully next week when I step on the scale, I see that little bit more loss because I feel like I deserve it with all the work that I've been putting in and I'm just not getting the rewards that I think that I should be on the scale. So it could be a multitude of things. And I know my body has a mind of its own, which is super annoying, but you guys know that I'm the first one to stay positive. So although I'm a little frustrated, I'm also happy that I'm losing and I'm just going to tweak things a little bit to hopefully see even a bigger loss next week on the scale. So that's my week. That's my weigh in. I want to hear how your guys's week went. Was it what you expected when you stepped on the scale? Is there things that you need to take a closer look at or maybe change up a little bit to get a little bit more success on the scale? And what about setting your home up for success as well? So I think all of these things tie really well in together. So I'm going to really think about these things. I'm going to make a game plan for this upcoming week. So I'm excited. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing as far as exercise goes. And again, just take a little bit closer look at my food. So if you haven't joined my Facebook group already, we'd love to have you join. We have 13,000 amazing, supportive, wonderful members who are there to answer your questions, give you support, and they share some great ideas on WW. So definitely head over, join my Facebook group. It's of course free to join. And we'd love to have you be part of that community. If you're new to my channel, I'd like to welcome you. I do a weigh in every single week. I discuss the workshop and I also share with you my weigh in results. So definitely subscribe, hit the little bell so you're notified every time I upload a new video. That way you're not missing any. I would really appreciate a thumbs up on this one. And of course, leave those comments below. I want to hear how your week was. I love hearing your guys's successes or things that you need to work on on your journey. It really makes me feel part of the community, a little bit more and makes me maybe not feel so bad about some of the things that happen when I weigh in on the scale at my workshop. So thank you guys so much for watching. Happy, happy Friday. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Laura Nolan coming to you from ITW 2020. Joining me today is Mike Severit president of SouthReach Networks. Welcome to JSA TV Mike. Thanks for having me Laura. Appreciate it. For those who don't already know could you tell our viewers about SouthReach Networks? Sure. So SouthReach Networks is a Florida-based fiber infrastructure provider. Very unique in the sense that we actually own and operate both a long-haul and metro fiber backbone spanning the east coast of Florida but we also own and operate a few key data centers. Regen, Edge Pops and also a key data center based in Miami in the one of the carrier hotels at 36 North East Second. Wonderful, wonderful. So I understand that you have some exciting news, some exciting acquisition news. Sounds like that you've acquired a Florida-based fiber and co-location assets of resurgence infrastructure groups. So what does that mean for SouthReach? Yeah it's exciting times. Exciting times during a crazy time in our world to actually you know be working on an acquisition which we successfully completed and announced in early May. So SouthReach acquired the Florida based assets of resurgence infrastructure group which was the original former assets of allied fiber. So we acquired the Florida-based network from Jacksonville south to Miami with five of their co-location facilities which are Regen Hutz and Micro-Edge Pops. We're excited about it because now what it does it just really solidifies our network from a you know South Florida reach. So it gives us over 400 miles of network, 100% underground assets, new fiber, multiple on-net key data centers and subsea landing stations. So now we have a you know more robust infrastructure network and we're really excited about what you know we're able to do with this going forward. And coming off the heels of that announcement just in time for ITW, SouthReach announces more growth news this time the addition of an industry veteran Dexter Cartwright. Tell us about the new addition to your team and his role. Yes very excited to to have Dexter join the team at SouthReach as a key executive both handling financial, chief financial and chief strategy. You know both sides of the house Dexter has a as a you know his career speaks for itself in his long history with cable wireless and cable Bahamas very long list and not only does this Dexter bring magnitude of experience in from from cable landing to subsea to large cable operator experience but you know he's a South Florida resident for many years knows the landscape well knows our network well and really is you know we're excited to have him we're lucky and fortunate enough to have him to help us you know take our expansion and take our vision to you know kind of SouthReach networks 2.0. Well as you were saying earlier 2020 has surely thrown us for a loop but with everything going on it hasn't stopped SouthReach networks and our industry from growing and innovating so tell us what's on the horizon for SouthReach for the rest of the year. Yeah it's a great question or I mean obviously we've all you know everyone in the world has experienced some some very you know scary and you know crazy times and with all that everyone has adapted and in their own way to you know change the way they live and work and with that we we've happened to we're going through a middle of an acquisition during when COVID hit and we were locked down so very very interesting times to try to navigate to change the working landscape and also to complete an acquisition but with all that right what what's making the world you know continue to operate at a very efficient you know level capacity it's been telecommunications infrastructure you know fiber data center cloud right that's the tower able to communicate and it's been fantastic so with all that we've see a more of a important emphasis on infrastructure now more than ever with increased capacity bandwidth really a lot of customers now really looking at their business continuity plan more than ever so for us looking forward 2020 and 2020 on its continued growth I mean we are looking to be you know Florida East Coast Florida in general very specific niche nimble fiber infrastructure builder operator of dark fiber really focused on our Caribbean and Latin markets you know subsea our customers base there and in data center space when we own operate you know the data center Miami which is a global reach meeting room that we own operate and we also have you know multiple multiple facilities up and down the East Coast so we're looking at you know continued growth possible other bolt-ons and roll-ups if they make sense for us but now that we have over 400 miles of fiber network you know fully deployed we're excited about you know growing the team growing the product-based and letting everybody know that you know South Reach Networks 2.0 is ready for ready for business definitely more to come from South Reach Networks that's for sure we'll be watching appreciate that well thank you Mike thank you for joining us and sharing with us today we appreciate it now thank you appreciate the time and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast happy networking