s actually about making sure that we have multiple different options for the customers to make sure that it's the right solution for them that actually fits so when we have a conversation with the customer we're trying to find out what are their pinpoints what are their issues that they have how can we help them solve it with the different solutions that we have because we know it's not a same size fits all type of solution the great thing is we're doing this pretty much globally we've been doing it for a while we work a lot with our partners that's what we're here at channel partners very excited about it overall it's a really good show for us and you know technology is really changing so we're really excited where we're going to be going to and you just mentioned some global expansion so I know you guys expanded Operator Connect into EMEA can you tell us a little bit about that we can you know we're excited we were one of the first Operator Connect providers with Microsoft we've had a great relationship with Microsoft for over about 14 years overall and we've been doing Operator Connect since its inception which was back in September of 2021 which believe it or not it's already almost three years old it's kind of crazy but we were one of the first to actually do that and happy that now we're in about 21 countries over in EMEA and Asia pack is coming up soon so we're going to be doing Asia pack here in the next couple of months but for us we've been doing that rec rounding and international for a lot of years so the fact that we're just kind of moving into a different different phase with Microsoft overall is a good thing for our customers and for our partners to know that we could actually sell that we also do sell Cisco WebEx and we do also sell Zoom phone on a global level as well so we're in about 70 countries overall but again it's all about driving that solution for the customer and Operator Connect with Microsoft Teams is definitely something that's very new it's very innovative and the fact that we take it and we're able to customize it for our customers and really make sure to drive the true end to end solution is something that we're really excited about and the fact that we're doing it now across the globe yeah and a 14-year partnership I mean that's incredible yes to rely on and a lot of changes in 14 years and we'll all keep an eye out for APAC coming next and a topic that I think we've heard about at this conference at all of the conferences in the last year AI can you tell us a little bit about how that's impacting CallTower and your solutions? Sure Ken you know AI is one of my favorite topics and a big topic of this show and in others you know the the funny joke I make with it is when our customers call us up and they say I want AI and I say great what do you want to do with it though like I don't know I just want it right it's kind of like the new shiny toy I gotta have it but they don't know what they want to do with it I think the good thing that we're able to do is we're able to explain how you can leverage AI within a UCAS or a CCAS solution we all know that the premise based world meaning that systems and PBXs and so forth inside a customer's office those days are kind of down right they're dying and everyone's going into the cloud so how could you leverage AI with that and there's a lot of different ways first and foremost AI is there to really help drive on the machine learning part of getting all the data we have so much data but we don't know what to do with it right and we don't know how to analyze it and I think with AI that's kind of like a step one it kind of gets your kind of like dipping your toe into the water to actually understand what to do with that data and then understanding what it is so that you could see where you have maybe some gaps in and your offerings or maybe in some vendor relationships that you have and so forth so there's a lot that you could actually do there overall to really kind of drive the technology where we're seeing a big push with AI too is on the contact center side and we're working with some of the partnerships that we have there to really drive what we call interactive virtual agents anybody has ever called the bank or an airline or even the hospital you get you know walk home call ABC you know those type of things and the fact that you could have an interactive conversation with a machine and getting the information that you want is really great but now it's taken it to a different level that it's saying where are the customers getting frustrated that all of a sudden there may be zeroing out to a live person which is what we're trying to avoid so with AI you're able to go ahead and try to pinpoint where those pressure points are to actually say wait I'm having a bottleneck with this part of the conversation I need to change my script overall there's another thing that's called agent assist which is really when the contact center agents are trying to read off a script and through speech analytics different answers are popping up for them on their screen to really respond to the customer but sometimes only a portion of it is relevant to the customer so the interesting thing about that is that now it's taking those scripts and merging them together to put a live script in front of that agent that is more relevant to what the customer is asking for so that they could have a better conversation and it's just a tip of the iceberg what we're doing right now it's going to get continue to get more and more interesting absolutely those are all great value ads and I think they all circle back to AI for analytics AI for analysis so 100 what do they do with it and it's very key of course and for our viewers who aren't here and can't meet with you in person where can they go to connect with you or to learn more about call tower they can just actually go to our website over to call tower dot com or they could just reach out to us at connect that's the email we do webinars on all of the solutions and how we work with Microsoft with Cisco and zoom and and some of the contact center options that we sell with as well on a monthly basis and those are really good we get some really good turnout and some really good subject matter experts on there and just go visit us and we'll definitely help out on which way we can great thank you so much for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in let's connect at call tower dot com sign up for that next webinar and until next time happy networking and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 Halsey has just published a new e-book called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're going to want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with le grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 a lightwave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a lightwave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america's won another industry player taken home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards who love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out the website right on an award near and dear to our heart right j and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vacity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karen miller to their leadership team so congrats karen and that's a wrap on movers and shaker section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding um just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets welcome to jsa tv where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in digital infrastructure the channel and the networks within i'm allison wheeling coming to you live from channel partners 2024 here in las vegas nevada and joining me is eric barnhart chief revenue officer at light bird eric thank you so much for joining us thanks allison of course so for those who may not know and i'm sure many already do can you tell us a little bit about light bird well it's interesting timing because i'm not sure everybody knows who light bird is uh the name has been around for about three days three days which is which is kind of strange or ironic because we've actually been in business for a little over 20 years and i'll give you the background story on who we are uh and why we exist so today customers really have unprecedented unprecedented access to information and that information really makes them feel empowered uh specifically when they call in for customer support they know what they want right they expect personalized service uh and we've been operating customer support call centers around the globe for a little over 20 years but we really discovered that the old traditional way of running customer support and customer experience is is becoming obsolete based on those new expectations so we've developed a generative ai customer experience platform that we're really very proud of uh we came out this week to really introduce it to channel partners uh and also to customers um that ai platform uh guides and coaches the conversation delivering personalization the personalization and the information that consumers expect at scale we're really excited about that that is exciting and i mean three days that's incredible congratulations thank you of course thank you and can you tell us a little bit more about the synergies there and how it appeals to channel partners and the message we want to get out here yeah i think um you know if you look at the ability to actually solve a problem and build on a relationship um we're not selling a point solution we're selling the promise of a long term partnership with a consumer and i really believe that that's what channel partners are all about as well so the synergy is we're going to go into a relationship with a consumer uh and a partner together and we're really looking for ways to build on the brand of that customer uh and help them grow and scale their business and i think that the synergy is uh is really easily definable and that we have we want the same thing yeah and we talked a little bit about ai a moment ago but what would you say the top trend you're looking at in the channel right now it's it's pretty clear that ai is at the top of that list i would tell you um what we're really focused on is kind of clearing the air on what ai is and how to apply it uh cx leaders um are getting a lot of pressure from the c-suite to investigate ai and how it can help them deliver a better customer experience more efficiently i like to look at as uh you know that efficiency enables growth um so ai is it really at the top of the list what we do is really take the mystery of it of implementing it in the call center and the risk of implementing it in your call center out of the equation we've been doing this for 20 years we know how to operate a call center we know how to operate in a customer experience environment and now we believe we've developed uh kind of the secret sauce to enabling ai in that context just to create unbelievable customer experiences and really enhance the brand of our our customers it's great i love that efficiency enables growth yeah 100 and for those who aren't here at channel partners but we want to connect with you and learn more about light bird where can they go to learn more it's pretty simple um i'd invite you first of all you can you can find us at light bird dot ai very easy li gh t bi rd dot ai you'll find us there uh feel free to reach out to me on linkedin eric barnhart easily identifiable many people in the channel know me i've been in uh i've been in the channel for a long time so i really believe in partnerships so looking forward to sharing this with my own network and then expanding my network uh beyond that well thank you so much for joining us eric it's great chatting with you thanks allison and thank you viewers for tuning in here at channel partners 2024 and until next time happy networking and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're gonna want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with the grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightweight innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a lightweight innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america is one another industry player taking home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards who love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out the website right on an award near and dear to our heart right jay and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vacity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karin miller to their leadership team so congrats karin and that's a wrap on movers and shakers section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding um just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jayme that's our little secret my looks are sealed all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dark points project manager um we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes welcome to jsa tv where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in digital infrastructure the channel and the networks within i'm allison wheeling coming to you live from channel partners 2024 here in las vegas nevada and joining me is mike win from inflect mike thank you so much for joining us thank you thank you for having me so for those who may not know can you tell us a little bit about inflect and how you help those support connectivity needs absolutely inflects is a marketplace and a advisory in the channel space we helped customers find the right service providers with the right tools the difference for us is we actually built an open marketplace for anybody in the world to come to so instead of calling or trying to otherwise get connected to an advisor which happens in the channel space you can go to inflect.com free to use and search for data centers network services and get pricing for all manner of services yeah so i did see you guys have that instant pricing feature which is kind of unique in our industry right it's not something that you can just get at your disposal so that's a great value add for clients and partners alike but you're also easy to embed in existing workflows can you tell us a little bit about that yeah so our space is very complex right that's the internet is a complex thing so oftentimes service providers who are marketing a service and no service provider out there does everything right require a third party service to complete a solution so an example would be say a data center company like a digital realty or an equinex great footprints they control everything within their four walls but customers consume services outside the four walls let's say an office space or something like that so our partners at these companies will utilize the tools in their workflows and figure out how to connect to an end user location so they might quote out their data centers and they'll use our tools to figure out which network providers can provide solutions down to each individual office streamlining things for everyone right that's right amazing well we're here channel partners so let's talk about partnerships a little bit any new partnerships or partnerships you want to tell us about um yeah it's on really but i think some of the news is we won xeo's partner of the year award history thank you thank you so great partner of ours share a lot of same vision so we're only as good as our partners and xeo's invested a lot into their own automation tools which enables us to pull data from apis and whatnot we're seeing a lot of partners really move towards that so network providers data center providers cloud providers look to make it easy to consume their data that's great but if you know you have a whole bunch of portals to go to you're not going to do it so you need essentially like the expedia of the space so that's that's where we're at um i think we you know we're we're building some new relationships in third kind of tier three markets and whatnot we're excited for relationships like converger that will help us get into latin america um hgc which is hot just in out of hong kong canisian getting us into all of asia so we're really excited about something's emerging market trends sounds like growth a lot of growth to look forward to in 2024 that's right so for those who aren't here at channel partners and want to connect with you want to learn more about inflect can you tell us where they can go to either connect with you reach out to you or learn more well you'll find me on linkedin so mike win i'm ceo of inflects but you also just go to our website inflect.com you can engage through our portal or a chat that's available so engage with our team from there and if you want to look for me just ask them and they'll route them route you right to me perfect well thank you mike so much for joining us and thank you viewers for tuning in coming to you from channel partners 2024 until next time happy networking thank you and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're going to want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with le grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightwave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a lightwave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america is one another industry player taking home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards we love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out that new website right on an award near and dear to our heart right jay um and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vassity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karin miller to their leadership team so congrats karin and that's a wrap on movers and shakers section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding um just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jamey that's our little secret my looks are sealed all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from our last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dart points project manager um we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes onto our next of the five big news stories here everyone's waiting here so let's get to it i see a taupe they recently hit a new milestone by achieving chip level cooling this is exciting up to 1000 watts guys there is a lot of talk about liquid cooling in the industry today i'm reading a lot about it as we're putting together greener data volume two and it just sounds like i see a taupe is right on top of it absolutely absolutely and another company that's got their stuff together is t five who recently cut a deal with west seven center to be their new facilities management partner that means west seven's data center in downtown los angeles will be fully managed by t five j maybe you should go pay him a visit love that yeah or my own backyard here all right three out of five here we go there was more news in the way of deals and big wins coming from edge connects this month always a great company with breaking news here their campus in amsterdam achieved platinum level from the ul environmental claim validation program that's a big one guys it's a globalized standard that's all about zero waste operations so that's a big sustainability win for really the whole industry it absolutely is and edge connects achieved another certification too this time it was from the science-based targets initiatives or the sbti edge connects was recognized by the sbti for hitting greenhouse gas emissions targets so they are really putting their money where their environmental mouth is aren't they great stuff all around yep yep yep well in this section where we usually talk about mergers and acquisition news and there is one piece in that regard that we're super duper duper duper proud of jamie you want to do the honors yeah okay and this was the news guys that we were like teasing about in our last fast forward last month we're like we can't say it's not February one so here it is guys um on behalf of jsa's entire family we're excited to announce that we have added forward vision llc new jsa forward vision is a full service b2b marketing communications agency and we are so excited to see all the ways that we can be stronger together yeah that is really really exciting stuff and i absolutely love i mean the the name the forward vision name and their clients and all that other stuff but the people are absolutely chefs kiss they're wonderful people to work with and i can't wait to uh to get started with them oh you said it i love that chefs kiss that's great and here it comes our collaboration and innovation news from the month we're where we break down new partnerships new products new services and new sustainability initiatives so take it away jay all right let's begin with segra one of the biggest independent fiber companies in the us who announced a partnership with service now a leading digital workflow company service now's service management is set to simplify segra's work processes and enhance their customer service so great move there absolutely and other partnership news data center logistics provider trend trend logistics is celebrating a milestone partnership with construction company uis last month marked the one gear of working together on the country's newest biggest microchip facility pretty important stuff going on there so it sounds like big things to come from the folks at the trans logistics for me to say right no it's it's it's a it's a good one trans logistics i know i missed that anyway cool a company i know how to pronounce it i'm also celebrating a partnership as they announced they have enhanced their relationship with oh we love them i mason's color has been named in i mason's climate accord mover designation this recognizes their contributions both financially and also through their operations like the climate accord working groups great to hear about things like this going on in the industry and by such big companies like color yeah and we love i mason's as well but now let's talk about some new products and services hitting the market alpha wireless has unveiled their small cell fusion platform the first 5g small cell antenna that can be mounted this is so cool that can be mounted midway up a streetlight sounds maybe trivial but when you consider that real estate on those polls is at a premium the fact that they can mount this midway up a streetlight is significant so from what i know about 5g deployments this is going to be this is a big big deal it is it's very big talking big xkl is getting in on the action to announcing new capabilities for their dark star line of multiplexing products they say that these new features will provide even more ease and predictability for long haul deployments xkm awesome good folks over there too more new stuff coming our way from precision ot who announced their new open path solution open path is an end to end passive optical network access solution and it is now available all right we're going to close out our collaborations and innovation section here with involta who launched their new involtor partner community it's a channel program all set up with the portal commissions and more sounds very exciting it absolutely does and that about does it for our collaboration and innovation section and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're going to want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with the grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 light wave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a light wave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america is one another industry player taking home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's marcom awards we love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out that new website right on an award near and dear to our heart right jay um and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vassity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding caron miller to their leadership team so congrats caron and that's a wrap on movers and shakers section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jamie that's our little secret my little field all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from our last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dark points project manager we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes onto our next of the five big news here are everyone's waiting here so let's get to it i see a taupe they recently hit a new milestone by achieving chip level cooling this is exciting up to 1000 watts guys there is a lot of talk about liquid cooling in the industry today i'm reading a lot about it as we're putting together greener data volume two and it just sounds like i see a taupe is right on top of it absolutely absolutely and another company that's got their stuff together is t5 who recently cut a deal with west seven center to be their new facilities management partner that means west seven's data center in downtown los angeles will be fully managed by t5 j maybe you should go pay him a visit love that yeah my own backyard here all right three out of five here we go there was more news in the way of deals and big wins coming from edge connects this welcome to jsa tv where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in digital infrastructure the channel and the networks within i'm allison wheeling coming to you live from channel partners 2024 here in fabulous las vegas nevada and joining me today is kevin francis from cci networks kevin thank you so much for joining thank you for having me today of course and it's been nice to be neighbors with you they're right next door to us the whole show so for our viewers who may not know can you tell them a little bit more about cci networks yeah i'm cci i like to you know look at them as like it's the gem it's the diamond in the rough we've been around for over 21 years we're headquartered in downtown salt lake we're a voice and internet carrier and we have a lot of other products and services that we layer on those services as well but yeah we're kind of this little cool little gem and we will help the customers with their internet and their voice and really help them with reducing their cost so that we can open up their budget for other projects that we can assist with yeah free enough budget for oh their growth and even more oh yeah that's that's key is a lot of times they it wants those you know the new shiny carrot but they can't get it because they don't have the budget and uh help and make that happen amen yes well we're here channel partners and i know you guys have had some new wholesale partners recently can you tell us a little bit about that yeah we've partnered with two companies that we feel that are going to be a game changer not only for us but game changer for all of our trusted advisors you know you're talking to your customers already about internet and sd wan and and now we've got voice but and they're doing the contact centers but the two partners that we're bringing on is um one meta um they're a a voice over the phone interpretation company and then graphene networks who is an msp and they're powering all of our sd wan for us and it's more of a consultative approach we're not just going to sell this product we're going to find out which product works best for how the customer wants it to work right and then one meta is helping us assist our customers with language barriers so you may have customers in a different language and you don't have a way to have a full conversation and with this um verb and call cci verb and call it allows the customer and their client our customer and their customer to be able to have a full conversation in two different languages wow it's incredible enabling communication and breaking down language barriers oh my gosh and it's it's really you know we've had a few people over and we've shown them and they're just their facial expressions as awesome as like what just happened um last night i was showing it to a gentleman and he spoke japanese and we had a full conversation i'm speaking english and he's speaking japanese and then when well call's done i showed him i logged into the portal and i showed him the transcription of our entire phone call and he's going not only are we doing translation but we're doing the transcription as well yeah that's absolutely incredible i see so much value there and that's really for any industry right oh and you know and in a lot of the government and schools there is a mandate out there that those schools have to speak the language of the parent so now you know with our open borders and we have all these different children that are going to schools but their parents don't know how to speak english and because of the mandate from the government that that school now has to talk that language we now have a solution for them oh and there's no internet no app it's just a phone number that's beautiful right yes enabling so much more communication and connectivity there oh it's it's and it's really fun to watch people see it happen um and it's really great to break down that barrier and help the customer because a lot of the customers the problem that they're having is trying to find a human translator right the long hold times and then the cost for that human translator right and and you don't know when you'll need it right so right you might need it in five minutes you might need it in an hour but you can have it on demand yes amen well it sounds like you guys are doing absolutely incredible things i've seen the booth busy the entire time i know service support and savings are kind of the theme that we've been hearing about you guys throughout the show so for viewers who aren't here and can't meet with you right now where can they go to learn more schedule a meeting with you in the future um they can go to our website which is www.cci.com.com please reach out to me on LinkedIn and my email address is kfrances at cci.com.com well Kevin thank you so much for joining us it's great chatting with you and to our viewers thank you so much for tuning in coming to you live from channel partners 2024 until next time happy networking and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're gonna want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with the grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightwave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a lightwave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america's won another industry player taken home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards who love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out the website right on an award near and dear to our heart right j and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vacity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karen miller to their leadership team so congrats karen and that's a wrap on movers and shakers section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jamie that's our little secret my looks field all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from our last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dark points project manager um we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes onto our next of the five big news here everyone's waiting here so let's get to it i see a taupe they recently hit a new milestone by achieving chip level cooling this is exciting up to 1000 watts guys there is a lot of talk about liquid cooling in the industry today i'm reading a lot about it as we're putting together greener data volume two and it just sounds like i see a taupe is right on top of it absolutely absolutely and another company that's got their stuff together is t5 who recently cut a deal with west seven center to be their new facilities management partner that means west seven's data center in downtown los angeles will be fully managed by t5 jay maybe you should go pay him a visit love that yeah or my own backyard here all right a three out of five here we go there was more news in the way of deals and big wins coming from edge connects this month always a great company with breaking news here their campus in amsterdam achieved platinum level from the ul environmental claim validation program that's a big one guys it's a globalized standard that's all about zero waste operations so that's a big sustainability win for really the whole industry it absolutely is and edge connects achieved another certification too this time it was from the science-based targets initiatives or the sbti edge connects was recognized by the sbti i for hitting greenhouse gas emissions targets so they are really putting their money where their environmental mouth is aren't they great stuff all around yep yep yep well in this section where we usually talk about mergers and acquisition news and there is one piece in that regard that we're super duper duper duper proud of jamie you want to do the honors yeah okay and this was the news guys that we were like teasing about in our last fast forward last month we're like we can't say it's not February one yet so here it is guys um on behalf of jsa's entire family we're excited to announce that we have added forward vision llc new jsa forward vision is a full service b2b marketing communications agency and we are so excited to see all the ways that we can be stronger together yeah that is really really exciting stuff and i absolutely love i mean the the name the forward vision name and their clients and all that other stuff but the people are absolutely chef's kiss they're wonderful people to work with and i can't wait to uh to get started with them oh you said it i love that chef's kiss that's great and here it comes our collaboration and innovation news from the month we're where we break down new partnerships new products new services and new sustainability initiatives so take it away jay all right let's begin with segra one of the biggest independent fiber companies in the u.s who announced a partnership with service now a leading digital workflow company service now's service management is set to simplify segra's work processes and enhance their customer service so great move there absolutely and other partnership news data center logistics provider trend trend logistics is celebrating a milestone partnership with construction company uis last month marked the one gear of working together on the country's newest biggest microchip facility pretty important stuff going on there so it sounds like big things to come from the folks at the trans logistics for me to say right no it's it's it's a it's a good one trans logistics i know i missed that anyway a company i know how to pronounce is um also celebrating a partnership as they announced they have enhanced their relationship with oh we love them i mason's color has been named in i mason's climate accord mover designation this recognizes their contributions both financially and also through their operations like the climate accord working groups great to hear about things like this going on in the industry and by such big companies like color yeah and we love i mason's as well but now let's talk about some new products and services hitting the market alpha wireless has unveiled their small cell fusion platform the first 5g small cell antenna that can be mounted this is so cool that can be mounted midway up a streetlight sounds maybe trivial but when you consider that real estate on those polls is at a premium the fact that they can mount this midway up a streetlight is significant so from what i know about 5g deployments this is going to be this is a big big deal it is it's very big talking big xkl is getting in on the action to announcing new capabilities for their dark star line of multiplexing products they say that these new features will provide even more ease and predictability for long haul deployments xkm awesome good folks over there too more new stuff coming our way from precision ot who announced their new open path solution open path is an end to end passive optical network access solution and it is now available all right we're going to close out our collaborations and innovation section here with involta who launched their new invulter partner community it's a channel program all set up with the portal commissions and more sounds very exciting it absolutely does and that about does it for our collaboration and innovation section and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're going to want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with legrand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightweight innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go legrand that way to go to the legrand team also precision ot also won a lightweight innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america's won another industry player taken home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's welcome to jsa tv where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in digital infrastructure the channel and the networks within i'm allison wheeling coming to you live from channel partners 2024 here in fabulous las vegas and donating me is tony i-gun from buy sells technologies tony thank you so much for joining us thanks good to be here so for those who may not know can you tell us a little bit more about buy sells sure so buy sells uh technologies we're a vendor or maker of 4g and 5g wireless infrastructure so basically we're kind of making the next generation networks that we would sell to wireless service providers enterprises and even cities and for example the city of las vegas has their own private network based on buy sells today wow so right at home here huh it is and i know you're on a panel earlier and then also sat in on a carrier panel so can you tell us some key takeaways from that panel that you're on sure so i participated in a panel on private wireless we're essentially you know we had a good turnout we were trying to tell the audience what private wireless is it kind of in this day and age why it makes sense for this audience in this type of event so really it's kind of the next gen wireless type solution that's really well suited for enterprises and being that it is a private solution it's very much highly tailored to the enterprise so compared to maybe to some legacy type solutions like wi-fi or carrier based networks this is something that really suits the enterprise quite well a forward-facing solution exactly and for those who are new to this can you tell them a little bit more about why it's so important well i think some of the things that private cellular or private wireless can offer the enterprise is really you have the ability now to kind of tailor a connectivity solution really specific to your venue to your use cases to your user community and there are some things really that cellular is inherently better at than say wi-fi so if you have use cases that demand lots of endpoints with voice if there's a roaming element to your network if there's things like low latency because you're doing autonomous vehicles and say a smart factory these types of use cases or applications play very well into cellular and then private cellular as well which could be highly tailored again and engineered to kind of the specific requirements of that business and again with kind of the advances in the technology and the new economics it's no longer really the exclusive domain of just the wireless carriers but enterprises really can benefit and take advantage of what private cellular has to offer them in terms of kind of transforming how they operate and do their business yeah no longer stuck with that out of the box solution right exactly perfect well thank you so much for joining us and for those who may want to learn more where can they go to connect with you or learn more about buy cells so essentially you can find us on the web at buycells.com straight and easy and that will cover a lot of success stories use cases products solutions who we serve things like that well thank you so much Tony for joining us it was great chatting with you and to our viewers thank you so much for tuning in here at Channel Partners 2024 until next time happy networking bye and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 Halsey has just published a new e-book called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're gonna want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategy is very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with the grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightwave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go le grand way to go to the le grand team also precision ot also won a lightwave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america's won another industry player taking home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards we love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out the website right on an award near and dear to our heart right jay um and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vassity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karin miller to their leadership team so congrats karin and that's a wrap on movers and shakers section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jamie that's our little secret my looks field all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dart points project manager um we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes onto our next of the five big news here everyone's waiting here so let's get to it i see a taupe they recently hit a new milestone by achieving chip level cooling this is exciting up to 1000 watts guys there is a lot of talk about liquid cooling in the industry today i'm reading a lot about it as we're putting together greener data volume two and it just sounds like i see a taupe is right on top of it absolutely absolutely and another company that's got their stuff together is t5 who recently cut a deal with west seven center to be their new facilities management partner that means west seven's data center in downtown los angeles will be fully managed by t5 j maybe you should go pay him a visit love that yeah or my own backyard here all right a three out of five here we go there was more news in the way of deals and big wins coming from edge connects this month always a great company with breaking news here their campus in amsterdam achieved platinum level from the ul environmental claim validation program that's a big one guys it's a globalized standard that's all about zero waste operations so that's a big sustainability win for really the whole industry it absolutely is and edge connects achieved another certification too this time it was from the science based targets initiatives or the sbti edge connects was recognized by the sbti for hitting greenhouse gas emissions targets so they are really putting their money where their environmental mouth is aren't they great stuff all around yep yep yep well in this section where we usually talk about mergers and acquisition news and there is one piece in that regard that we're welcome to jsa tv where we're covering the latest stories trends and innovations from leaders in digital infrastructure the channel and the networks within i'm allison wheeling coming to you live from channel partners 2024 here in fabulous los vegas nevada and joining me is daniel lanstein of air spring daniel thank you so much for joining us thanks for having me nice to be here of course so air spring is known for vast and versatile services can you tell us a little bit about your specialties and what you guys are known for so you're correct we have a pretty extensive product line from voice to security to mobility but our focus and where most people come to us and we start with our building blocks is network connectivity both domestic and globally so i'd say uh you know connectivity followed by esti when and security would be the three things that we do the most of these days yeah and i know you guys have a proprietary solution air control can you tell us a little bit about that yes absolutely so we've been in business uh air spring it's a family owned and operated business uh we're privately held we have no outside investors where we're debt free and profitable we've been doing this 23 years so very much we like to say a family powered business myself my brothers run and operate and own the business so it's kind of unusual in this industry particularly these days um and we've been doing this a long time um and so we've been building our proprietary software for at least the last 20 years and now we've compiled it into a customer facing portal called air control which is a single pane of glass it sm software that tracks everything from the order submission how it's going through to the carriers uh the equipment circuits um ip address blocks every piece of cp that goes out and then afterwards is used for monitoring the network health bandwidth utilization latency jitter and then we have esti when all the uh information and uh analyze analysis that you can do with esti when as well so it's a very very powerful single plane of single pane of glass tool that gives our customers complete access into many of the things that we have seen uh from the uh service provider side but now available to our customers as well single pane of glass just streamlining creating efficiency there right exactly and simplicity for our customers yeah simplicity is key these days right yeah and again it's a very powerful tool it does a lot of different things not every customer is going to take advantage of all the different features right but that's okay we make it available and they use whatever whatever they find most valuable for themselves amazing and your team has grown there's been a ton of awards can you tell us a little bit about just that growth and what's driving those awards sure so uh our channel chief uh john young recently won a channel award which we're very proud of but uh what hasn't been announced yet we've been winning stevia awards for our customer service excellence of the past few years and we just got told that we're going to be a winner again this year for another stevia award and so we're not exactly sure which one but that's another and and more than anything those are the ones that mean the most to us because those relate to our service and support for our customers one of the things that i spoke about last year i think when we chatted uh and it's still core to our whole belief strategy is the difference in our industry between customer acquisition and customer success and acquiring a customer is one thing creating success with that customer from the beginning of the order submission process all the way through to deployment and delivery and then service and support that's the key to long-term happy customers and again we've been doing this 23 years we are here for the long term we we're not here to just sign up customers and you know put them in there where we're here for the long term we want those customers to renew and we want partners to keep bringing us more business and be happy one of the things to that effect that we do that i think we're one of the only companies that offer that is we offer our partners full spiff on renewal so if one of our partners brings an account and let's say after three years their contract is up they work with us to renew the customer they will get the same full spiff on that renewal that they would have gotten if it was a brand new customer and i don't really know anybody else who does that we're very proud of that so you guys are popular right we're popular for that but it's it's about that commitment to the customer success in the life and the full life cycle and the continuation of that versus oh let's just sign up someone and make a i don't want to say quick buck but make a quick buck get something and then move on that that's not our focus so i think that's key yeah well we'll keep an eye out for that award congratulations thank you and what can we expect from you guys looking ahead the rest of 2024 what's on the horizon so we're continuing to invest very heavily in our global strategy i was chatting with some partners earlier today about this you know about three four years ago we brought in our own in-house team to source connectivity from global vendors in you know over 190 countries so we have now i think over 100 direct contracts with vendors all over the world and we have won so many deals for us based companies they might have 50 locations in the u.s and only two or three abroad maybe manufacturing warehouse but because we can support those international locations in a very efficient manner we can get quotes back within three to five days because of our relationships and the direct contracts we're now winning more of those deals just because of those pieces we can do so our global strategy is key to what we're continuing to deploy this year and we think it's a strong differentiator for us also our global sd-wan where we can deploy sd-wan globally we have truck rolls available throughout the world through subcontractors where we can put hands-on to do deployments and installation next day delivery of replacement equipment if that's necessary so there's a lot of things we're focused on oh global currency support all of these things so our global is a big part of what we're continuing to build on for this year and we've had great success we think it's going to continue to drive a lot of success in these deals yeah it sounds like you're supporting the full global ecosystem there from different parts well we don't do everything globally but certainly in terms of connectivity sd-wan and security yeah very much and leaning on partners and keeping those long-term partnerships exactly well for those who aren't here and want to connect with you in the future where can they go to learn more to connect with you reach out to you absolutely so on our website airspring.com that's air with an e after the r so now that i live in miami i would say iris spring so airspring.com and we have a full channel map so you can connect any one of our channel managers for whatever region all of our senior management is there as well so easy to connect with us well daniel thank you so much for joining us and thank you so much to our viewers for tuning in here from channel partners 2024 in las vegas until next time happy networking thank you bye and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're gonna want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with legrand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 lightwave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go legrand way to go to the legrand team also precision ot also won a light wave innovation review award this past month with their integrated circuit technology technology being granted a 4.0 honoree status so well done to our friends over at precision ot well done and china telecom america is one another industry player taken home awards that we need to mention their website was recognized as this year's mark com awards we love that they took home a platinum award in website redesign category can't wait to check out that new website right on an award near and dear to our heart right jay um and switching from awards to personnel moves our friends over at 1623 pharnem made a move just last month by promoting eric flock to vp of infrastructure and facility he was previously serving as operations manager at 1623 pharnem and sounds well suited for his new role so all the best in your new role to you eric yeah congrats eric and rounding out our movers and shakers news with one more piece of personnel news by vacity infrastructure group appointed a new director of commercialization adding karin miller to their leadership team so congrats karin and that's a wrap on movers and shaker section for the month okay deals and big wins it is we've got five notable pieces of news in the realm of mergers acquisitions expansions and projects plus one bit of bonus news so here we go okay i'm excited okay so we're going to start off with dark points who renovated and remodeled their Cincinnati data center with all new knock conference room office space fabulous outstanding um just don't talk about all that remodeling too loud because my partner this is a true story my partner has been bugging me to paint the cabinets in our kitchen mind you we've only lived in the house for not even three years yet but she's already wanting to paint the cabinets green and do all kinds of weird things like that anyway jamie that's our little secret my little field all right i've got boxes by the way that haven't been unpacked from when we moved from our last place so i hear you okay so so maybe we should should see if dark points project manager um we'll do some consulting for our homes come to my garage yes onto our next of the five big news here everyone's waiting here so let's get to it i see a taupe they recently hit a new milestone by achieving chip level cooling this is exciting up to 1000 watts guys there is a lot of talk about liquid cooling in the industry today i'm reading a lot about it as we're putting together greener data volume two and it just sounds like i see a taupe is right on top of it absolutely absolutely and another company that's got their stuff together is t five who recently cut a deal with west seven center to be their new facilities management partner that means west seven's data center in downtown los angeles will be fully managed by t five j maybe you should go pay him a visit love that yeah my own backyard here all right a three out of five here we go there was more news in the way of deals in big wins coming from edge connects this month always a great company with breaking news here their campus in amsterdam achieved platinum level from the ul environmental claim validation program that's a big one guys it's a goal and welcome to our movers and shakers section which features everything you need to know in the realm of new hires awards events and publishing and let's kick it off with publishing where 165 halsey has just published a new ebook called navigating new york data center market trends if you're interested in the new york data center market as i am you're gonna want to check this one out that's right there's another helpful resource published last month called sustainability insights navigating sustainable edge strategies very important it's from the research firm called stl partners and sponsored by our friends at icotope it's got lots of good information and about specialized cooling technologies we're hearing a lot about that and it's looking like one you don't want to miss definitely not let's move on to awards now starting with the grand they were recently recognized as one of the top in the industry by winning a 2024 a light wave innovation review award their cabling solution was chosen by a panel of judges to be honored by this year's award so way to go the grand


Good morning. Today we have Ray from F3 Uranium. How are you today? Great. Thanks, Tracy. How are you? I'm fantastic. And I'll tell you, anybody who's watching F3 Uranium must be delighted. Your stock, I was looking at your stock chart last year's same time was seven and a half cents to this morning. The last time I looked, it was 38 and a half cents. A lot of people have complained about miserable markets. What makes F3 different? Obviously, we're in a sector that's hot right now. It's the Uranium sector. It's just flying. That's about the spot price is climbing. But it's really that in the last few years, there's been an increased global international global acceptance of Uranium being the solution to generating baseload power that doesn't generate greenhouse gas. So the sectors flying, the difference with F3 is that we're also a discovery story, as you mentioned. So it's not just that all the Uranium stocks are rising because the sector is gaining interest and focus, increasing global acceptance of nuclear and really demand is increasing for financial investment in the sector. But the difference is that we're a discovery story on top of that. And when you talk about our share price going from our market cap going from 20 million less than a year ago to something like $150 million a day, that's really about the discovery. And we're lucky in a sector that's growing. So we're very lucky to be in the Uranium sector right now. Well, I think you summed it up beautifully. We're talking about education and resources and following the capital. You recently announced that Denison is doing a financing with you for $15 million and making a strategic investment in you. Do you want to comment on that? Well, absolutely. I mean, that is an endorsement to me of the high-grade Uranium discovery that we've made. It's a beautiful discovery hall, a very wide intersection of high-grade Uranium at a shallow depth in the neck of the woods in the southwest Athabasca basin where the next Uranium development is going to be taking place. So that Denison would have made an investment in us with the option for us to repay that convertible debenture with shares at a premium. It's really an endorsement of what we stand to find. The only remaining question with our new discovery is how many towns of Uranium are there? All the other ingredients have already been answered. Wide mineralization with a high-grade core at a shallow depth. So that's all the investors in investor minds and our minds. The question is, how much Uranium is there? I think that Denison has made that strategic investment in us really endorses the fact that we stand to have a tiger by the tail. Well, you took some time in one of your recent news releases to talk about the Mogul MT electromagnetic survey and how that might impact the potential for discovering additional mineralized zones at the Patterson Lake North property. Would you like to comment any further on that? I mean, you're obviously using the latest and greatest technology as well. That's exactly it, Tracy. The Airborne EM that we had available to us until this summer was flown in 2008. And we fly these electromagnetic surveys in the Athabasca Basin to try and locate the structures along which the fluids flow and these deposits are associated. The Airborne Electromagnetic Survey finds minerals in these shear zones in response to those so that that's how we pinpoint the structures. It's graphite and sulfides within these shear zones that light up from the EM surveys. So what we recognized is that there were there was modern airborne EM techniques available to us that we decided to fly to try and see if there were more shear zones there that the historic EM survey wasn't able to detect, but that this modern surveys would be able to light up. The survey was flown over the bottom two-thirds of our 100,000-acre property. PLN, Minto and Broch are three properties right around JR. Together they all are contiguous. Together they're about 100,000 acres. That survey was flown over the southern two-thirds of the entire property. And really it's already given us new data that's really encouraging. The first, as I mentioned, is that it showed us that the shear zone along which the JR lens, mineralized lens, is at the north end of that shear zone. Well, it showed us that it's longer than we thought historically. And that's the greatest potential for more mineralized zones right now at PLN is clearly along that structure. And it's longer than we thought. That came out of this airborne survey. The other thing that's happened is that it's showing us other conductors that are northwest trending that the historic data we weren't aware of from the historic data. So it's a beautiful, modern survey. It's going to give us 3D data, which we can integrate with all of the other data that we have. All our geochemistry, the previous, we've been working at PLN for a long time. So we have a lot of data sets that we integrate together that guide us. Right now we're following up that airborne survey with a large ground DC resistivity survey on the ground. And it's also a 3D survey, which we decided where that should be carried out based on the airborne mobile of T. So that data and the ground data we will also, in the new year, be doing additional ground surveys. It's all aimed at defining the best targets we can to try and discover the other uranium mineralized zones that stand to be there. Well, I'll tell you, if you're not excited by PLN, you don't have the Patterson Lake North property on your watch list, I'm certain our investor news audience does now. But let me ask you one last question. What is the significance of this PLN project in relation to other uranium deposits? Because I think a little comparative analysis might be very useful to some investors who might be new to the PLN project. Sure. Look, it's a big property, 100,000 acre property in that neck of the woods down in the southwest Athabasca basin where next gen's triple R and Fission Uranium, sorry, next gen's arrow and Fission Uranium triple R are in the process of being developed. That's the right neck of the woods for monsters. Those are very big uranium deposits. So the PLN property is a large property, and it's very close to those big deposits. That's the first significance. The other thing is that the discovery of the JR zone on the PLN property is at the north end of shear zones that are north trending, northwest trending. That's something new. Triple R and arrow and the historic work that was done before that was along shear zones that were northeast trending. That's where so far in that neck of the woods, the high-grade uranium's been discovered near arrow and triple R. We've now demonstrated by discovering this JR zone lens that northwest trending structures in this neck of the woods have clear potential. So it means that we have a big property, and a lot of the structures on the PLN property are northwest trending. It's right where things turn. So it just means that there's a regional potential on this property for additional structures that will host zones of mineralization. So it's not just the one structure where we found this beautiful high-grade zone, where there stands to be more, but other parallel structures on this big property also have potential. So we're trying to look for more zones along the A1 shear zone. There's also, because our mineralization in the JR lens is so close to the unconformity, which is the bottom of the sandstone and the top of the basement, some of our mineralization is only six meters below that plane, the unconformity. So there is clearly the potential for unconformity mineralization or a sandstone-hosted component to the mineralization we found. And especially down in the south, where we have these good signs, the sandstone is looking much more altered. So that is a possibility that additional zones that stand to be along the A1 shear zone and then this regional potential, that there's other mineralization along the structures that we're defining with this mobile MT. So that's the beauty of the PLA property. It was our flagship property for a reason. It's in the right neck of the woods where the very big most recent discoveries and that'll be developed or in the, you know, our being in the process of being developed. It's right there. It's a big property. And now in the brand new discovery. And of course, that's Ray Ashley from F3 Uranium. Ray, thank you so much for joining us today. As always, it's a pleasure. Thanks a lot, Tracy.


As we all know, Julian Assange has been arrested, taken out of the Ecuadorian Embassy and is now in British custody. To talk about this, we have Renata Avila, a very well-known lawyer and civil rights activist in Latin America, and actually, digital rights activists for the entire world. Renata, bad day for the world and freedom, particularly freedom of press, because the intergovernmental body had already given a directive to the Ecuadorian government that Julian cannot be arrested without a proper legal process. He cannot be extradited, cannot be handed over to the British government in this way. The Ecuadorian government has really disregarded that advisory and also what the world opinion was saying about this. Well, basically, the Ecuadorian government, when even beyond this, the Ecuadorian government completely ignored its obligations under international law. It was brutal. It was an act, it was a political persecution act. It is just one in this chain of political persecution that the other government has been using as its foreign policy since Lenin and Moreno took power.  And the big dogs are the US government and the UK government. And it is a terrible day for Western democracies because, you know, I've come from Latin America and asylum was an institution that we shaped in the region, that we shape in the region to assist dissidents, to assist even politicians, you know, the world suffering political persecution. And no, it is the first time that a Latin American embassy opens the doors to an empire to sacrifice a political prisoner. It is outrageous. Was it because of the IMF loan that Ecuador is seeking? Or is it also the fact that some information has come out about Moreno's family and their involvement in some offshore account, which WikiLeaks also carried? I think that it was a sealed deal since a long time ago, as WikiLeaks warned at its moment. It is the usual way, the Bananago Republic's Ecuador Act, US snaps and they jump. And that's what sometimes even without in exchange of nothing, you see how the US treats Latin Americans.  That's the way that we are described in the US. And in spite of that, this president fearing, you know, fearing, I don't know, maybe he has a lot to fear. Well, I think he has a lot to fear because of the systematic corruption of his family. And that's why the way that he reacted. But I don't want to focus that long on Ecuador in the Ecuadorian because it's a small country. In the face of a very large empire. And in that sense, we have to congratulate at least what the previous government did. And it was a very brave of Korea, President Korea and then Ecuadorian government who stood up to the empire. Well, my only hope is that Rafael Correa will be back in power in Ecuador and will fix things and will keep these people a lesson. Because it is not the way that we hope Latin America will be in the future. But it is part of a regional crackdown on the left, basically. Renata, you are also a lawyer who's been fighting for civil rights on various issues. What do you think the legal course would be in England now, in the UK? Well, there's a hard chance that we will win the extradition case in the UK. Julian has the most capable team of lawyers and Julian has the reason on his side. It is crystal clear that this is a political persecution. There's no space for doubt. It has nothing to do with protecting the public interest, but protecting the people from closing the eyes of people so they cannot see the abuses of their government. That's what this case is about. And there's a good recent precedence, like Laurie Love case in the UK, where the UK refused to extradite him to the US. And I think that the two important points here that we need to keep while describing the situation is number one, it is political. Number two, Julian is not a hacker. The act of the situation described in the charges finally is closed by the US Justice Department. They try really hard to change the narrative and to drive the narrative by describing him as a hacker, as two hackers conspiring to do bad things inside the US government systems. The situation they describe in that document is of a source, talking to a journalist, as any source and any journalist in all over the world talk at any time by criminalising and using the wrong words to describe these people while they were exercising the right to seek and receive information, a universally protected right. We helped the US narrative to criminalise the act of power. But if we accept this argument that Washington Post should have been charged under criminal law as a newspaper for publishing Pentagon papers, it's no different. Except they say it's a digital platform, we will not extend all these rights. And that's the important part because together with killing freedom of expression, they want to kill all the space for journalistic innovation. I was reading the charges and in some part they pay spatial attention to the Dropbox. And you know that these Dropbox are saving people's lives all over the world because many newsrooms have adopted the WikiLeaks standard. The WikiLeaks standard is that you will do as much as possible of not knowing the identity of your source and keeping the source anonymous. And that's part of the brilliant technical advance that WikiLeaks wrote to the journalistic world. And the US is targeting that specifically. So, already last words you have for the global community. How we should react to this, particularly the new, what shall I say, the digital media whose actually freedom is at stake because if this is accepted against WikiLeaks we are all then not protected under anything that the press is accustomed to being which is that we have a right if a whistleblower comes to us to put the document in public domain. We are at a crossroads. We are really in a defined moment and this moment should be defined by principles and courage. That's my point of view for the international community. I would say this is jeopardizing the right to know of the people outside the US and outside the Western world if we have unequal right to know and if any person trying to elevate that right to exercise the right for us because that's the crime. The crime of Julian Assange is that he's not an American and that he has opened up. He's a truly international journalist. His internationalism has been so powerful that he, without making a profit, without being like elevated as many gurus get elevated when they create an app to make us slaves of our devices, he did the opposite. He created a public interest technology and then he innovated so much in journalism and opened up the ability for anyone in the world without paying a cent, without being tracked to know about precisely the kind of documents that those in power do not want us to know and they do not want us to know because if we know what is really going on behind closed doors we will get really upset. And we are very upset now because we know that this constant censoring and restriction and access to information to all of us is what is keeping us with the hands tight and it's time to stop it. The battle for the freedom of Julian Assange is the battle of freedom as well. Thank you, Renata, for being with us. The real crime of Julian Assange is speaking truth to power, the fundamental task of all media. Thank you very much, Renata. One more thing, we need to keep the good spirits. We need to smile, we need to enjoy. I guess when he was taking to the police he was doing this, that's Julian and that should be us. Let's not be in despair, let's not be sad and let's take this to the next level. We are going to win because we are right. Thank you for those inspiring words. Thank you for being with us, Renata. Thank you, Praveer.


Avatar 2. John Landau, the Avatar producer, recently spoke to RNZ, that's Radio New Zealand. If you recall, a few weeks ago, we were talking about how Avatar 2 had to put their production on hold because of coronavirus. But New Zealand released a bunch of guidelines on how to return to production safely. And they are planning to resume filming Avatar 2 shortly. Well, in the RNZ interview, they asked him a few questions and we got a couple of details about Avatar 2. The first thing I want to say about the interview is it sounds like John Landau really wants to make a good impression with New Zealand. So here's what he says. We feel very comfortable because of the actions of your government and also the responsibility that people took to really curb the virus here. So we feel we're coming back to the safest place in the world possible thanks to a team of people we've worked with. We believe we have a very thoughtful, detailed and diligent safety plan that will keep everybody as safe as possible in these unprecedented times. So praising New Zealand, probably praise that they deserve. And then when he was asked if he could divulge some Avatar secrets, John Landau said the following. The only secret is not so much of a secret. It's the caliber of talent that New Zealand has and the artisans who are bringing the world of Pandora to life at a higher level and higher quality than one could ever imagine. So again, he's a big, big fan of New Zealand. Who can blame them? They gave us Lord of the Rings. But getting to the part of the interview where he actually divulges some vague story details about Avatar 2. He says, this is the story of the Sully family and what one does to keep their family together. Jake and Natiri have a family in this movie. They're forced to leave their home. They go out and explore the different regions of Pandora, including spending quite a bit of time on the water, around the water, in the water. I think why do people turn to entertainment today more so than ever? I think it's to escape, to escape the world we're in, to escape the other pressures they have in their lives. So one of the things we were wondering is what is going to be the big hook, the big draw for Avatar 2. For Avatar 1, it was the 3D. It was the motion capture. It was all that. For Avatar 2, it sounds like they've been pushing this for years. Every time Avatar 2 comes up, they really want to hype the fact that we shot a bunch of this movie underwater. So on water, is that enough to get you in the theater watching Avatar 2? Don't all the space movies already film a lot underwater? I have no idea, maybe, to get the effect of floating. Yeah. Speaking of which, Doug Lyman, I believe, is filming a movie with Tom Cruise in space. So James Cameron, the water thing, might have been more impressive a few years ago, but now we've got people shooting in space. I don't know. I mean, when I see the movie, will I see something that is more impressive than if they just used CGI and other effects? CGI water? Well, can't they pretty much accomplish the same thing without actually filming underwater? It's cool, but when I'm actually watching the movie, do they want me literally thinking about how they filmed it while I'm watching it? Right. Will it be a technical marvel when we look at this and go, wow, I can't believe they filmed this underwater? And by the way, I'm pulling up here a picture that John Landau tweeted the other day or posted on Instagram. Our Avatar sets are ready and we couldn't be more excited. So we've got a picture here of the Matador, a high speed forward command vessel and the Picador jet boat. So there's a little glimpse of what you're going to see in this movie. He goes on in the interview to say, I think with Avatar, we have an opportunity to allow people to escape to an incredible world with incredible characters that they will follow in much the same way as Peter Jackson was able to do with Lord of the Rings. So that's what we're looking forward to doing. That's the part of the interview that gets me excited, the Lord of the Rings comparison. Now, no part of me thinks that Avatar 2 is going to equal any of the Lord of the Rings movies in quality, but I think in the world building department, maybe they can. As much as Avatar is not a movie I revisit or think about that much, I remember Pandora being awesome and that's the part that most sticks in my mind. So I am excited to see how James Cameron evolves the world of Pandora, especially with all the advances in technology that we've had since then. And I just in general have not felt transported to an epic alternative fantasy world like I did with Lord of the Rings. I haven't felt that in a long time. I was hoping Star Wars would do it for me, but for some reason it didn't. Maybe Avatar 2 can accomplish that. We'll find out hopefully in a year or so when this movie actually releases. Alon, any other thoughts on Avatar 2, 3, 4 or 5? I mean, I'm definitely interested in seeing the world building aspect of this. I think the story in the first one didn't really blow my mind, though it's more about the world. The world of Pandora and I'm assuming whatever happens, it's going to look incredible.


So first of all congratulations to all the winners and more than anything as I know everyone says this but it was truly in some categories at least it was a very very hard choice and I think we made a few choices where we said okay you know we're going to have two silvers or two bronzes or two golds or whatever so which just goes to show how tight some of the competition was we at least in our group kind of ran over by more than an hour I think and even though we did not take a lunch break and it was just completely non-stop but which kind of goes to show not only the quality of the entries but how competitive the scenario was now the last thing that I'd like to tell everyone all the marketers out there that if there is a moment to shine for in all those folks who've been pushing for digital marketing and performance marketing for the past you know 15 years I've been involved in this area this is your time you know this is your time in this under the Sun but please remember that you know all the traditional ways of doing it and is undergoing it's going to go a dramatic change so cost of customer acquisition and efficiency is going to come on the big focus not just creatives and therefore this is going to be a very very sharp you know edge of the knife that you'd have to walk on but I'm I as a business leader and involved in several different these businesses I'm certainly looking for some of the best to over the next one year congratulations once again I hope you have a fabulous time and this is the time to celebrate and just get prepared for for another exciting journey ahead so we show the very very best