Good afternoon, everyone. I'm Kathleen Hicks. I direct the International Security Program here at CSIS, and it's wonderful to see so many of you here today. On behalf of the Japan Chair and the International Security Program, I want to introduce our guest speaker, Admiral Kawano, Chief of Staff of Japan's Self-Defense Force, and he is our guest here today for a very timely and important discussion of the State of the U.S.-Japanese Alliance. In his capacity as Chief of Staff, Admiral Kawano supervises the operations of the Self-Defense Forces under the Minister of Defense and serves as the Minister's top-ranking military advisor. Prior to assuming his current position, the Admiral served as the Chief of Staff of the Maritime Self-Defense Forces, the Commander-in-Chief of the Self-Defense Fleet, and the Vice-Chief of Staff, in addition to serving in various command and staff positions throughout his distinguished career. Notably, Admiral Kawano is a graduate also of the U.S. Naval War College. Admiral, Kawano joins us after meeting with General Dempsey earlier today for the U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue, which was held over at the National Defense University, and we hope that was a particularly productive and frank discussion. I'm also pleased to introduce our moderator for today, Ambassador Richard Armitage. He has served as the Deputy Secretary of State and in various senior positions in the government. He is, of course, himself an expert in the Asia-Pacific region and is a former naval officer himself. Ambassador Armitage is currently the President of Armitage International and a member of the Board of Trustees here at CSIS. After Admiral Kawano speaks, Ambassador Armitage will engage him in a discussion, and then he will moderate a question-and-answer session that will involve the audience. As a reminder to our audience, as a military officer, Admiral Kawano will not be responding to questions related to the Japanese political process, including the ongoing debate on security legislation in the Japanese diet and the relocation of Futenma Air Base. Finally, before we begin today, I want to share with you our building safety precautions here at CSIS. We're quite confident that nothing will happen, but should we have any issues, we will all proceed out of here under my instructions as the safety officer. I will be right here in the room with you, and we'll let you know where we walk. With that, please join me in welcoming Admiral Kawano. This is a little bit high, Tomi. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I am Admiral Kawano, the Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Japan Self-Defense Forces. I am glad to stand here to address CSIS. Today is July 16th. In a month from today, it will be August 15th, the day the World War II ended for the Japanese people. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of the World War II. Both Japan and the United States fought against each other as bitter enemies, and the fierce battle claimed millions of lives. In August 1945, when the war ended, not many people could have envisioned the state of Japan-U.S. relations today. Seventy years have passed since the end of hostilities, and our bilateral relations have achieved miraculous levels of development. Now, in this milestone year, both countries are moving forward toward a new stage. Since time is limited today, I would like to talk about a future vision of the Japan-U.S. alliance, briefly touching upon the history and evolution of the Japan-U.S. alliance and effort to maintain the peace and security of Japan. Our alliance started with the former Japan-U.S. Security Treaty signed in 1951. As symbolized by the Korean War, the East-West divide was a great challenge for the East Asia region, as well as Japan and the United States. In the Cold War era, one of the main roles of the Japan-U.S. alliance was to defend Japan by preventing communism from spreading into Japan. What made it possible was the forward deployment of the United States forces stationed in Japan and the nuclear umbrella of the U.S. as a deterrent. Three years later, in 1954, the then Japan Defense Agency and the Grand Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces were established. I was born that same year. I don't know where it is just a coincidence or destiny that I wear the uniform of the JSDF now. As a time, most of the equipment operated by the JSDF was supplied by U.S. forces, including warships and aircraft. After that, Japan started to domestically develop its own equipment and also began least production of the same asset of the U.S. forces, such as the P-2V7 patrol aircraft and the F-104 fighter jet, and then equipped JSDF with them. This was the beginning of the trend developed our time and continues to today. These assets shared by the both forces can be said to have become the foundation of the current level of interoperability between the JSDF and the United States forces. The current Japan-U.S. Security Treaty was signed in 1960, and since then, the government of Japan and the United States have worked together to build a robust alliance based on the ideals of democracy, respect of human rights, the rule of law, and on our shared interests. Positioned squarely in the camp of the free world during the Cold War, the Japan-U.S. arrangement contributed to the security of Japan as well as to the peace and stability of the rhythm as a whole. Almost two decades later, the first guidelines for Japan-U.S. Defense Corporation were released in 1978. In the same year, I completed the Oshizaka Candidate School and became a naval officer. I cannot remember what I thought and felt about the guideline at that time, but I imagine I had no idea about what the guideline was. I never imagined that I would become the top officer of the JSDF and become involved in the guidelines. This was also the era when bilateral exercise between the JSDF and the U.S. military gained momentum. The first bilateral exercise was held by the Air Self-Defense Force and U.S. Air Force in 1978, and not long after that, the Maritime Self-Defense Force participated in the RIMPAC for the first time in 1980. This was followed by the Grand Self-Defense Forces' first bilateral exercise in 1981. It can be said that the time I was a young officer was the era that the foundation of the Japan-U.S. Corporation was formed. In November 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed, and the Cold War came to an end. This enormous change to the world order triggered a lot of friction and confrontation around the globe. Among the biggest incidents, at least from Japan's point of view, was the Gulf War, which started with the Iraqi forces' invasion to Kuwait in 1990. Japan provided a considerable financial contribution, approximately 13 billion dollars, which went largely unnoticed by the international community. Based on the international response, the government of Japan decided to send MSDF mine-sweepers to the Arabian Gulf for mine-sweeping operations. This deployment was the first overseas operation for the JSDF. At that time, I was in charge of the deployment at the Maritime Staff Office, and I was working very hard. We didn't have a lot of public support at first, but over time, it became clear that the deployment was viewed very favorably, and it boosted the public confidence in the JSDF. New challenges always come with friction. I believe the JSDF can remove such friction and win the public confidence when the JSDF sincerely accomplish their mission and live up to the public's expectations. Since that first deployment, the JSDF has expanded its overseas activities in various areas, including Cambodia, Mozambique, East Timor, and Gran Heights. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an increase in challenges to trust and transparency in the areas surrounding Japan, starting with North Korea's nuclear development in 1993, and following rising tensions in the Korean peninsula. Based on this situation, the guidelines were revised in 1997. The guidelines stipulated by lateral cooperation in various fields, such as maintenance of cross-corporation, e-formation sharing, and the deliberation of policies in peace time, security dialogues, defense exchanges, peacekeeping operations, international humanitarian aid, and relief activities, a study of bilateral planning and plans of mutual cooperation, strengthened joint exercises and training and building coordination mechanisms in order to defend Japan and build more stable international security environment. In 1998, the year after we revised the guidelines, North Korea launched a ballistic missile which flew over Japan. To deal with the threat of ballistic missiles, the Japan National Security Council approved a Japan-US joint study initiative on ballistic missile defense, which was the start of bilateral BMD cooperation. In March 2004, the diet decided to introduce ballistic defense systems followed by deployment of PAC-3 in 2007. In the same year, the destroyer, ISIS destroyer, Kongo, concluded Japan's first successful launch test of an SM-3. I observed tests in Hawaii as a director general of defense policy of maritime staff office. I still remember everyone around me when we broke into a loud chair as the SM-3 hit the target. Now, bilateral BMD cooperation, including joint development of SM-3 block 2A, is a front runner of bilateral defense cooperation based on the Japan-US alliance. The fight against international terrorist organizations has become the gravest challenges after the Cold War. The September 11th attacks on the U.S. shocked us. In November 2001, the government of Japan sent MSDF warships, including supply ships to the Indian Ocean in order to replenish U.S. Navy's warships engaging in the global war of terror. Our supply supported only U.S. forces at the beginning, but it was eventually expanded to include supplying the forces of other countries. The operation continued for about eight years, including a short break. One of our air transportation units provided humanitarian activities for the war in Iraq in 2003, shortly followed thereafter by the long-term deployment of the reconstruction assistance unit to Iraq from 2004 to 2009. In addition, we have conducted anti-piracy operations of the coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden since 2009. After the end of the Cold War, the JSDF has deepened Japan-US cooperation and has expanded the scope and the substance of activities in order to contribute to peace and stability in the region and to the world. Meanwhile, Japan has received a lot of support from the U.S., especially when the Great East Japan earthquake occurred in March 11th, 2011. This major tremor and tsunami claimed tens of thousands of lives. Operation Tomodachi saved a countless number of lives and supported the survivors of the disaster. Beyond just the achievement of the operation themselves, people in Japan remember the U.S. support in their heart as a symbol of the strong bond of the alliance between Japan and the United States. Lesson learned in the Great East Japan earthquake have been incorporated in the new guidelines, such as cooperation regarding humanitarian support and disaster relief activities, as well as the need to have an alliance coordination mechanism available even in peacetime. The new guidelines revise this April, updating the general framework of respective roles and missions for Japan and the U.S., as well as our overall policy direction. The revision also has revealed a strategic vision to build a more robust alliance and share major responsibilities by adjusting the alliance to address the current security environment, and by stressing deterrence and our ability to respond every phase from peacetime to contingencies. The core of the guidelines show the U.S. continuous and waving commitment to maintain peace and security of Japan, while the new guidelines as a whole elaborate on the ways and means in which we can fulfill our commitments through seamless, robust, flexible and effective responses by both countries as an alliance with expanded bilateral cooperation in various fields. The new guidelines have also stipulated cooperation in new fields, such as space and cyberspace, as well as in traditional fields, including peacekeeping activities, maritime securities and logistics, which motivates both countries to make further contribution to international security efforts. The importance of cooperation with regional and international partners and organizations has been also included in the document. In the future, Japan and the U.S. will continue to examine our own effort, develop capabilities and conducting exercises and training. As I mentioned so far, the Japan-U.S. alliance has transformed and evolved itself in accordance with the changing times. In the future, the alliance will be expected to be the one which can contribute to both Japan and the U.S., the region as well as the rest of the world. From a broad point of view on the current global situation, not only people, material and capital, but cultures and ideologies flow across borders on a global scale and this flow is gaining speed. The global economy is growing and deepening its interdependency among nations. The result is a complex structure in which nations cannot solve problems in a bilateral way. Under the current situation, our alliance needs the whole of government approach and cooperation which requires coordination across various fields. In this sense, a high-level cooperation in the field of military and national security as well as in economic and diplomatic levels will be required for our alliance in the future. And one more challenge I am sure we have to tackle is to share as many issues and interests as possible between both countries. The number of shared interests is proportional to the strengths of the alliance. Therefore, it is crucial for Japan and the U.S. to promote basic efforts to deepen mutual understanding and confidence in each other in a steady manner. In addition to creative and innovative ideas and thinking, I believe our success will be born from our character and the principles which we both hold dear and that these will sustain the alliance into the future. I hope my explanation today will deepen your understanding of the alliance and contribute to nurturing a mutual understanding. I would like to conclude my speech by providing one anecdote regarding the alliance. Japan and the U.S. signed the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty on September 8th, 1951 not at the same gorgeous, some gorgeous venue, but at the NCO Clubhouse in the U.S. Horses Base which was situated 20 minutes from the center of San Francisco. As a representative of the government of Japan, then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida alone entered a room and signed a document. Years later, looking back at the moment, Prime Minister Yoshida said, the treaty itself is only a piece of paper. I signed the treaty because I thought it was the best way for Japan at that time. The future of Japan should be determined by future generations. Seventy years have passed since the end of the World War II and the Japan-U.S. alliance has achieved miraculous development after undergoing many transitions to align with the challenges of the security situation. As an officer of the JSDF, I have been involved on and off in the transition of the alliance in my roughly 40 years' military career. The milestone year is seeing just another step in the progress of the alliance. I believe that the current Japan-U.S. alliance is a piece of work, passed from generation to generation. One generation makes their best effort for the alliance, and the next generation takes over it, added their own achievement to it, and makes it better and better. To continue the succession is an important role I must play now. This concludes my speech. Thank you very much for your kind attention. Thank you so much. Well, Admiral, thank you very much for your remarks, particularly the reminder at your close of Prime Minister Yoshida's comments about signing a piece of paper, but you really have to make it a living, breathing document.  This is as it does your colleagues who are serving in uniform. You know, over that, if you wonder why Admiral Kwano was Chief of Staff, you only have to look at his schedule during this visit to the United States. I'm not going to remember them all. There are too many. Stratcom, Centcom, Socom, Second Marine Expeditionary Force, discussions with the Chairman, General Dempsey, and the Deputy Secretary, Bob Work, and a visit yesterday with our Vice President, Joe Biden. And I don't think that's ever happened before to a chairman here in the United States, at least not in my knowledge. So he's got the energy for four of us. I'll tell you that. You have had, as you suggest in your speech, Admiral, the opportunity to live the alliance. So perhaps as an opening question, I might ask you how you've seen the military alliance change over your years of service. Certainly, as a young officer, I was involved in U.S.-Japan relations. But compared to that time, I would have to say that the relationship between the Japan self-defense forces and the U.S. forces has deepened quite a bit. And if I may speak about this, I did, as a young officer, travel to the United States and participate in meetings alongside my spurious. But I would have to say in terms of substance or what got discussed, it wasn't very deep back then. But today, I met with an engaged in strategic dialogue with General Dempsey and also had a meeting with Commander Harris at PECOM. And what we spoke about was quite substantial and very deep. And my thinking on this is that this has to do with the fact that as of 1991, the self-defense forces became engaged in operations to defend our nation's interests and to cooperate with the United States. Having been involved in these visits from time to time, Admiral, I can assure you that some method, the madness of the United States, the length and breadth of your visits and discussions show, I think, dramatically that the United States government wants to be involved with Japan in a way comfortable to Japan in every aspect of military life. And I think that's something that came through loud and clear to you. I might ask you, sir, if you'd give us in the audience an appreciation of the security concerns and the security environment surrounding Japan. Well, certainly, I would have to say if we look at the security environment surrounding Japan, we have North Korea and their regime is rather insecure, unstable, and the nuclear missile issue has not been resolved at all. And China's activities in both the South and the East China seas having quite rampant. And we are seeing a lot of activities on the part of the Russian military in terms of their modernization and activities that they have been engaged in. So I would have to say the environment is rather challenging. Sir, do you have expectations that we may see, John DeClaire and ADIZ in the South China Sea? And if so, what do we do about it? Well, I did attend the Shangri-La Dialogue. And on the occasion of the Shangri-La Dialogue, the representative from China did not deny the possibility of declaring ADIZ in the South China Sea. And the representative also did not deny the possibility of making use of the man-made islands that are being built that they could be used for military purposes as well. And when we talk about the South China Sea, we have very important sea lanes there. And certainly that gives us much concern. Sir, it would be my view that if China does declare another ADIZ that we do just what we did last time, China has no ability to do much more than to declare a zone. We've got to make sure it doesn't stand. That's a personal view. Japan has the Air Self-Defense Force had to scramble last year through April, almost a record number of times, certainly since the end of the Cold War. What is your expectation going forward of the need for scrambling aircraft? Do you think it will lower, remain the shame, or even heighten? As far as the number of scrambles we had last year, it pretty much matches the number of scrambles we had during the midst of the Cold War. And one feature of that, or a characteristic, is that we have more scrambles against China. And so my sense is that this trend will continue into the future where China will go beyond the island chain in the Pacific. And so if anything, I would believe that the situation will worsen. Sir, there was an exercise, a trilateral exercise recently in Australia that featured Australians, U.S., and Japan's Self-Defense Forces called Talisman Sabre. I wonder if you'd give me a slight or short preview of the lessons learned. What did Japan learn out of this? What do you think Australia and the United States learned out of this trilateral exercise? Well, the Talisman Sabre exercise is still ongoing, so I have not received any reports from that, so I really can't say a whole lot about that. Now that said, I believe the U.S.-Japan alliance is actually a maritime alliance. And what this means is that both countries are seafaring nations and depend on interests at sea. And I believe the same could be said about Australia as well, that they are seafaring nations. So this trilateral relationship that exists between the three countries, U.S., Japan, the U.S., Japan, and Australia, I believe, is very important for the security of our own country, of course, in the region and the world. Thank you, Adam. If I'm correct, a maritime self-defense force, Rear Admiral, is commanding an international anti-piracy operation right now. I think this is the first time anything like that has happened. What are your expectations as we go forward? Is this going to be the norm? Will we look for more and more opportunities over the stage as we move into the next decade for Japan to take part, a leading part, in these great international efforts? So the CTF-151 combined task force commander is now a general emerald from Japan. And this was a major step both for the country of Japan as well as the JSDF. So I believe that Japan, as we go forward, while making the U.S.-Japan alliance its basis, it's important for Japan to step up to the plate in the international arena and by, within the international framework, contribute to the peace and stability of the world. And I believe this is something that the United States hopes Japan would do. And I believe this leads to proactive pacifism proposed by Prime Minister Abe. Now, Admiral, you mentioned in your excellent speech the Gulf War, the First Gulf War, and the financial contribution, which was unappreciated broadly in the international community from Japan. It is my view that taking part in these international operations where Japan chooses to do so will be greatly appreciated. It's a time of the Gulf War that young Japanese were accused of not wanting to engage in dirty, hard, and dangerous work, the three Ks. But the Jayatai is certainly proving that not to be the case. Yes. So during the First Gulf War, as I mentioned, Japan showed out a lot of money, which was not really appreciated by the world.  And based on the post-mortem we had, after that experience at 9-11, I believe we were relatively quick. We were able to respond fairly quickly. So now comes the part of the afternoon in which we have audience participation. We have some, I think, people in the audience with microphones. I only ask that when you stand up and ask a question, please identify yourself. Wait for the microphone, identify yourself, and ask the question of Admiral Kowano. So I think we have a gentleman right here first. Thank you very much. I'm Ben Self. I'm Vice President of Mansfield Foundation and an adjunct fellow here at CSIS Japan Chair. And in your excellent remarks, you skipped over the 1980s. And Mike Green, who's missing today, we all miss him, taught me that in the 1980s, Japan contributed a lot to our victory in the Cold War through especially its operations towards the Sea of Okhotsk and anti-submarine warfare. And Japan's enormous contributions in anti-submarine warfare against the Soviet fleet helped the U.S. in its victory in the Cold War. I'm wondering that legacy of Japan's strong capacity in anti-submarine warfare can be brought to bear against a growing ballistic missile threat, submarine ballistic missile threat from China based on Hainan? And whether Japan, in addition to potential maritime patrols in the South China Sea for surface activity, would consider anti-submarine patrolling in the South China Sea? Yes, in fact, as you just pointed out, we feel very proud that we didn't make a major contribution to the victory of the Western Bloc in the Cold War. But unfortunately, or regrettably, that was not something that was perceivable by the people. The people couldn't see that. And as far as the capabilities of the maritime self-defense force is concerned, it has always been strong in anti-worship and marines sweeping. And so those are the capabilities they still have that are quite strong. Well, I cannot really go into great details about this. There has been very close coordination between the United States and Japan in this area. So there's been a talk about, you mentioned anti-submarine activities possibly in the South China Sea. And there's been a mention of patrolling or doing surveillance in the South China Sea. But our position on this is we consider this as a potential future issue to be considered depending on how things pan out. Admiral, thank you very much. I'm Robbie Harris, a former naval person and also a fellow with Lockheed Martin Corporation. Thank you for your visit today. Thank you for the friendship with the Japanese Self-Defense Force and thank you for your personal friendship to this country. Would you please comment on the so-called policy of rebalance to the Pacific? Have you seen evidence of that rebalance and are you satisfied with the evidence you've seen? Thank you. Well, the defense budget in the United States is very tight at this time. And the situation in the Middle East is very difficult. You have the ISIL. So in spite of these constraints, we have seen the Ronald Reagan replace the George Washington. And so Egypt's vessels have been deployed in our area. And so I believe that this is evidence that the United States considers the Asia Pacific a very important region. We're going to Japanese and I'll come back to you, please. So I think that's a tangible sign that that's the case. Hi, I'm Hong Mingran from Shanghai Media Group. Actually, I have questions about that. Do you agree that for a Bay administration, the purpose of the passage of this bill is to stir up the hate of the China threat theory to loosen restrictions on Japan's military and in return, unshackle of the control from the United States? Thank you. Do you agree about that for a Bay administration, the purpose of the passage of the bill is to stir up the hate of the China threat theory to loosen restrictions on Japan's military and in return, unshackle the control from the United States? Well, I certainly don't agree with that assessment. Given that this legislation is still under deliberation in the diet, I'd like to refrain from making any comments. However, I can say that the reason why the Japanese government has submitted this bill to the Japanese diet is not to unleash military power and unrestrained military force, but it's to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance. Mentioned cooperation between Japan and also third parties in securing peace in the region, recently there have been joint surveillance flights with Japan, with the Philippines, looking at some of these reefs that the Chinese are building up and I guess there's been a political reaction to that from China. But how do you see that cooperation with the Philippines or possibly other regional South Sea nations developing? Yes, we had a joint training with the Philippines in search and rescue and we flew our SDF peace 3C patrol aircraft in Palamon to conduct this training. And as in countries are very important to our country and therefore we hope to engage in more of these, this type of joint training. And I don't have an understanding that China was reacted that strongly to this training that we have with the Philippines. Right under the third camera in Hyodong Road with the Yonham News Agency of South Korea, if there's any contingency on the Korean Peninsula, what will you do? What would be the role of the Japanese self-defense army? What kind of consultative mechanism do you have with the U.S. and South Korea? Thanks. If we're talking about an emergency or contingency on the Korean Peninsula, what is at play now would be our law called the surrounding area situation law. So in that instance, through our consultations with the United States or South Korea, what we would be capable doing would be to provide logistical support. And even if once the security legislation is passed by the diet, that fact, that framework, the basic framework would remain the same. We have time for two more if they're brief. Yes, sir. Thank you. My name is Hiroshi Waguri, visiting fellow to the CSIS. I thank you for your wonderful briefing today. And I just would like to ask you your funny experiences. I think, you know, the effectiveness of Japan, the joint operation between Japan's self-defense forces and U.S. forces are very important, continue to be very important. And could you elaborate how well the effectiveness of joint operation between the two countries have evolved or improved so far up until now? And what do you think that we should do as a next step to further improve that effectiveness? I believe that the bilateral exercises between the two countries have evolved quite a bit. So the U.S. had joint exercises or joint services, joint operations. And Japan now has joint operations, and therefore the bilateral joint exercises between the two countries have become much richer. And JSDF will undergo a reorganization, and that is we will modify our joint staff office. So that would result in even greater evolution of bilateral exercises with the United States. Paul Giar, you have the last word against a short word. Good afternoon. I'm real good to see you again. My name is Paul Giar on the President of Global Strategies and Transformation. You've talked about the history of the alliance, and you've mentioned several very important turning points starting with the security, the signing of the security treaty in San Francisco, Cold War operations, the end of the Cold War, piracy operations and so on. Would you describe and tell us just a little bit about the turning point that came in 2010 with Japan's new national security strategy? In 2010, Japan published a new national security strategy. Would you tell us about that please? So in 2013, Japan formulated the national security strategy. Military or security strategy is something that the United States has had, but up until that point, Japan did not have a security strategy. And thanks to the creation of this national security strategy, we have the defense guidelines that come under that, as well as midterm defense program. So I consider this a major step for Japanese defense in that this strategy enabled us to have our policies formulated for defense, and I consider that to be a major step for us. Admiral, it is left to me now on behalf of Dr. Hamery, President of CSIS, Dr. Hicks, the Director of the International Security Program, to thank you, first of all, and to assure you that your words have left at least the American, most of the Americans in this audience, filled with even greater enthusiasm for even greater efforts to support this alliance. So I would like to ask all of you to join with me and thank our guest, Ed Mokwano.


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And you know, Erin Clapper is a proud graduate of Maui High School, and then she went on to attend the University of Hawaii at Manoa and she got a couple of degrees, one in Hawaiian language and the other in fashion, design, and merchandising. And then now she's the principal broker at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Advantage Realty Valley Isle over in Maui. And she's incredibly passionate about the Hawaiian language and helping island families come home. Welcome, Erin. Hey. Aloha, Leone. Aloha, Leone. Aloha, Will. Thank you so much for having me on today. I'm so excited to be here and so excited to share. Thank you. All right. Welcome, Erin. Welcome, Anna. Aloha. So when did you first start connecting with the Hawaiian language? Is it something that you grew up speaking at home, or can you tell us more about that? Oh, I wish I grew up speaking Hawaiian language. My family did not speak any Hawaiian. I think it started in middle school. I had a social studies teacher who didn't have any Hawaiian. She was this Japanese lady, but she was super passionate about the Hawaiian culture and the Hawaiian language. And I think seventh grade was when I had her, and that was when I started becoming a little bit more interested in my heritage, in my culture, and in the Hawaiian language. That is so cool. And you know, I just read an article about a small Hawaiian immersion school right in Wailuku Maui. And they're actually providing families of children that attend the school and the community with classes on Hawaiian language, on grammar, on values, on culture in general. And I think that they're doing that to support the children's learnings at home as well as in the classroom. And I thought that was really cool. And it's clear that we're seeing a resurgence in Hawaiian language much more so over the last several years. What are your thoughts on that? It's so exciting, you know. The Hawaiian culture has a pretty tumultuous history, particularly with, well, including the language, right? Back in the late 1800s, the Hawaiian language was banned. And could you imagine that the language itself, prior to it being a written language, was an oral language? So the example that I like to give is, you know, I make a pumpkin crunch dessert every Christmas, right? And so every Christmas, I get out my recipe and I'm like, okay, I know exactly what ingredients to have, what I need, how long to cook it for. But could you imagine in a culture where everything, where the language is oral?  So, you know, back then, from it being banned as an oral language, and now with the resurgence, I think back in 1978, the state of Hawaii finally recognized the Hawaiian language as another language of the state, which is incredible. There have been so many great milestones reached with the creation of the Ahapuna Nalau, which is sort of the preschool immersion program. Then they went on to creating an immersion program that allowed kindergartners all the way through high schoolers to complete their education all in Hawaiian. And then in 2002, we had the first college degree earned from the University of Hawaii at Hilo. And then in 2012, kind of one of my favorite, more recent things is the state of Hawaii declared February as Olalua Hawaii Month. So businesses, it's certainly gained popularity over the years, but businesses across the state participate. You'll see signs up where they'll have some of their major items labeled in Hawaiian. People make an effort to speak more Hawaiian. There's tons of events. So it's been so empowering and exciting to see this resurgence of the language. Wow, that is fantastic. And in terms of the Hawaiian language, there's a lot of transplants or visitors. Of course, we say aloha, ahalo, whether it's in an email, but in terms of the proper pronunciation of some of the words, can we take a deeper dive into maybe some of the words that we encounter and maybe even the, how many letters and vowels and consonants are there in the Hawaiian language? Yeah, we can breeze through this. We'll pull up the first slide that just demonstrates the Hawaiian language is made up of 13 letters. And okina anakaha ko. So the okina is a glottal stop. And the kaha ko sort of makes you elongate your vowel. So these are the, this is the Hawaiian alphabet. And then the next slide I've got a couple of just common words, words like kane. So the pronunciation is super important, right? So the first word, people always say kane, but you can hear the difference when I say kane versus kane. So that's the kaha ko, where it elongates that vowel. One of the tricks of pronouncing Hawaiian words is to make sure you say every single letter. So I think a very common word that people know is lei, but you probably hear it as lei versus lei. So if you can hear the difference where I pronounced that last letter, that last I, that's actually the correct way to pronounce it. And then a lot of people say lani, it's actually lani, so heaven. And then Hawaii, that's what we probably hear most often. The correct pronunciation is actually Hawaii.  Wow, that was awesome. Like, so what role does the Hawaiian language play in your life as a realtor? Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's a pretty incredible thing to be a realtor. We get to help people, you know, find their dream homes and start their families and just help set them up for a life that's just full of great memories. And, you know, being part of a community. And so for me, it's really important that whether I'm helping local families or whether I'm helping families that are moving here from the mainland, it's really, really important to me that they find that connection between the language, the culture and the people. So whether it's encouraging my clients to understand the history of their neighborhood or how to pronounce their street name correctly, I usually like to make sure that I educate them just a little bit on now that they're going to be part of this community. It's their responsibility to be a part of it and to, you know, play a respectful role in being here in Hawaii. And Erin, you know, just going back to the first slide, was there only like 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet? So 12 and then the Okina is sometimes considered the 13th letter. Oh, wow. OK. Got it. Got it. I do have a little slide that has a couple commonly pronounced neighborhoods here. Oh, yes. That's all kind of fun. All right. So this will be a little pronunciation tutorial for you folks. So most often we hear people say Honolulu, right? They say, oh, we're going to go to Honolulu for vacation. The correct pronunciation because it's H-O-N-O is Honolulu. So again, just pronouncing every single letter. This is a fun one. I think this is probably the word that gets the most action, right? The like, like highway. So actually, like, like. This one, Hana, you know, if you've ever been on the road to Hana on Maui, it's that windy road takes you two and a half hours. It's worth it. You get to see so many beautiful waterfalls and ponds. And by the end of it, you're getting the most delicious banana bread you've ever had. If you stop at the little grandma's store on the side of the road. But just to explain how to pronounce the difference. So Hana or people say Hana, oh, I try and Hana. No, no, no, let's practice this one. Hana and then Haleakala. I like to pronounce that one because of course I'm here on Maui, but Haleakala, I hear that a lot. Haleakala. And then I think I already talked about Hawaii. So we hear Hawaii a lot, but the correct pronunciation Hawaii. You know, you you named a lot of landmarks and things on the island of Maui. And you talked about Haleakala. You talked about the banana bread at the end of Hana Road and things like that. So like, what else do you feel like makes Maui so special? Yeah, you know, if we can pull up that map of Maui, Maui is kind of broken up into six different general areas. We have the North Shore, East Maui, which is the Hana area, upcountry, which is Kula, Pukulani, Makawal. We have South Maui, which a lot of people who have come here on vacation are familiar with, you have Kihe and Wailea in South Maui. You have Central Maui, which is where the airport is, Costco, Target, Walmart, and then West Maui. So you're Lahaina, Kaanapali, and Nipili. So, you know, what I love about Maui is that there are so many different demographics, there are so many different climates, different environments, you really have the best of both worlds. If you were here, let's say the beginning of January, where it was really, really cold and you caught a little bit of snow on the top of Haleakala, where else could you go? We're in a matter of two and a half or three hours. You could be from standing on the top of a mountain in snow to all the way down in 80 degree water on the beach. I don't think there are very many places like that. But if you catch a snowy day on Maui, that's possible. But, you know, we have so much to offer here. There are fantastic restaurants, fantastic beaches. There are amazing hikes. And I really do think that part of what makes Maui so special is the people.  And so I do believe that, you know, I also tell my clients that Maui is what you make of it, you know, are you exploring? Are you getting to know?  And if so, then, you know, Maui could certainly work for you. And we'd be happy to have you here as long as you're playing your part in the community. But I love this island. If you haven't been, I would encourage you to come and visit. I also have a list of fun things to do if you need any recommendations for best bakery or best Thai restaurant or best hike.  I mean, it's a big island, but at the same time, there's only like two or two hundred and fifty thousand people. Is that right, Maui? Compared to your walk, there's a little bit like... Well, I think you're better with population stats than I am. OK, that's OK. But I know in terms of population, Maui is, you know, much smaller in terms of numbers than Oahu and I always feel the community involvement. Is there like a favorite neighborhood that, you know, that you love, that you would recommend or is it just too difficult for you to choose? Yeah, people ask me this a lot. What's your favorite place on Maui? Where would you want to live? Well, I live where I would want to live. But it's not for everyone, though. So my husband and I, we live in a neighborhood called Piholo. It's upcountry. The lots up there are larger. There it's more ag, more rural. We just got internet a couple years ago. That's how rural it is. We have a little, a little less than an acre, and that's considered a small piece of land where we live. So that's definitely more country. You have Kula. Kula is this beautiful area where you also have some really large lots, but the temperature is lovely. Most people have fireplaces in their home. You get this beautiful, expansive view of central Maui and often, you know, expansive ocean views as well. If you like the beach, Kihé and Walea are probably for you. You're probably no more than a five minute drive to Sandy Beach, no matter where you live in South Maui. That's one of the awesome, awesome things about the Kihé and Walea area. Central Maui, you know, this is kind of the hub. So we have just a lot of families that live in central Maui, right? You have your county buildings, your courthouses, your main shopping in terms of Target, Costco, that sort of thing. And then let's see West Maui. Oh, West Maui, you kind of have a little bit of everything. Still lots of hotels, a little touristy, but you also have some great beaches, some great snorkeling. So I if I could pick a favorite, I think it would be where I live. But I don't think I have a bad thing to say about the rest of the island either. Hey, Erin. OK, so am I pronouncing Maca wow, or is it with them? Well, what's the correct way? Oh, that's such a good question. It's actually a common question. Do you pronounce the V as a W or do you pronounce the W as a V sound or a W sound? There's not really a set set of rules necessarily, but it's Maca wow. So with a W, you're correct. All right, I got it right. So one point for you. Because I wanted to kind of just go back to Hawaiian language, because, you know, if I say Hawaii, you know, with a V, you know, is that I feel like sometimes maybe that's am I saying it correctly? Or is that offending, you know, the Hawaiian language? I mean, yeah, sure. You know, say with, you know, saying for me to say or anyone, you know, like a visitor saying Hawaii. Yeah, so what do you think about that? Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't speak for everyone, but I could certainly give you my own opinion, and that would be that if you were trying to pronounce it, if the intentions behind you trying to pronounce it were respectful and you were doing it with the intention to honor the culture and the language, I'm all for it. I don't think I would be offended now if you were making a mockery of it or, you know, doing it with some sort of negative energy, maybe not so much. But if you were really making an honest effort to to do your part and to play a positive role in it, 100 percent, I'm for it. Yeah. And actually this is just complete. Off the cuff question. But, you know, our kids, when we do shaka, it's our kids that are saying, you know, hey, you're kind of doing it wrong, you know, so you're saying hi or bye to someone. How do you do your shaka? So, well, this, did you not prep on this question? OK, I don't shaka. I think I have the worst shaka in the world. My husband mocks me all the time. So I don't shaka like this is my shaka like the front forward. My husband will just laugh at this. So I don't think there's a right way. I think as long as you're showing shaka with Aloha, you can't go wrong. Thanks for that question. Well, and so what is the Maui real estate market? Like, Erin, can you tell us about that? Yeah, absolutely. You know, during COVID, like a lot of places, particularly here in Hawaii. We saw some unbelievable price points. It was sort of the perfect storm with the low interest rates. We saw quite a few people relocating to Maui because they were coming from areas on the West Coast where they were stuck inside LA, a lot of people from Colorado moved here. They were like, we're stuck inside. We can work from home. Why wouldn't we want to be stuck in a place like Maui instead? So they saw just an astronomical increase in price. And, you know, while that was great, if you were a realtor, it wasn't it's not the best thing. It's not my favorite thing, right? It's not that we don't want to welcome people to Maui, but it's the price has significantly increased. I do have a couple of slides. We can bring up that first statistic slide. Yeah, thank you, single family home. So the July stats were not out yet, but this was from June. So the median sales price for single family homes last year, twenty twenty two was one two five two million two hundred and fifty two thousand. And then you can see there was a little bit of a decline. So the median price for single family homes for June twenty twenty three was a million seven thousand. And then year to date, it kind of evened out a little bit more. So year to date at this time last year, one one seven seven five hundred. And then year to date this year, million one hundred and fifty thousand. So single family homes prices, you know, dipping down just a little bit. But if we take it to the next slide, we have some statistics on the condo market. So you can see that the median sales price for the condo for last June over this June increased quite a bit, as well as the year to date from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three. Now, what we're seeing South Maui and West Maui offers quite a few condominiums that allow short term rentals. So what happens a lot of times we get a lot of snow birds that come in. They have been coming for years, whether they spend just two weeks of Christmas or whether they come from January to March. They come enough where they eventually think, you know what, why don't I just buy a place here and rent it out when I'm not here? So we do have a pretty hot short term rental market. So on average, I normally see about 50 percent of the condos in both South Maui and West Maui offer or automatically allow short term rentals. And that's a really big part of the median sales price on the condo side. And why I think that number is still so, so strong compared to the difference in pricing on the single family home side. Yeah, the condos on Maui, the median sales price is about five hundred thousand. So on Maui, it's I mean, close to a million dollars for condos. Yes. Yes. But when you say short term rentals, you know, that's definitely a hot topic here on Oahu, you know, there's talks about trying to extend the short term anything, you know, below 90 days. What is the kind of the status on Maui? Is it still 30 days or less is considered short term vacation rentals? Actually, anything below six months is considered a short term rental. So if you were looking for a lease of five months and 15 days, that would be considered short term. There's no minimum necessarily. So you could do one month, one day, one week, one month, but anything under six months is considered short term. Now, there are a couple of complexes that have different regulations that they've self-imposed. So there's a couple of complexes that while they allow short term rentals, they don't allow anything under 30 days. But there's no hard and fast rule across the board on that. I would say for those ones, it's complex by complex. Oh, OK, that's that's a little bit different. So that's good to know. Always learning something new and challenges. When you're looking at short term rentals here on Maui, there are a couple of areas that are dealing with some sea sea line, sea shore erosion. So that's one big sort of red flag that we always talk through with our buyers, anybody interested in purchasing oceanfront. There's a lot of diligence to be done. Complex by complex, you know, how well prepared are they for the work that needs to be done in the future? Some complexes have been, you know, collecting from their owners for years in preparation for the adjustments that needs to be made and others haven't. And so, you know, each of these is in sort of a different financial state, as well as some of these complexes were built in the 70s and 80s. So we're kind of coming up on, you know, a natural time in life where there's some major renovations and major upgrades that need to take place. So definitely important to do your diligence and to sort of work with a realtor who understands the caveats of each of these different complexes and what they entail. We definitely see that here in the Wahoo market as well for the condos that are a little bit older and there's special assessments and things like that coming up for those major repairs that need to happen, namely like plumbing or swallowing and things like that. Is that what you're seeing over in the Maui condo market too? Yeah, exactly, exactly that.  Very awesome. So if there were if there was someone that was looking or interested in investing in Maui real estate, what would you would you have any advice or guidance for them? You know, I think at this time in the market with the interest rates being where they are, you're pretty much in it for a long term hold. It's, you know, you can certainly find something that will maybe allow you to break even, but if you're looking for something that's really, really golden cash flow, those aren't quite as easy to as easy to find as maybe they were a couple years ago. So I would say if you are looking for something, be ready to hold on to it for a little bit. The equity is certainly inevitably going to increase over time. And so because overall, you're seeing pricing is still kind of holding at the higher levels for properties and Maui. Yeah, absolutely. We're not expecting to see any significant decrease or decline. The market is still pretty strong in terms of buyers. You know, for a lot of my sellers, if they price things well, the it'll move if they're if they're priced fairly and accurately and according to sort of where the market is, but for the sellers that are shooting for, you know, 300,000 over the last sale, those are a little harder to find buyers for. So we're seeing buyers being realistic, but still willing to pay what they feel is fair market value for the property. But, you know, if you're in the market, I would encourage you to be patient, know what you want, be able to have a little bit of flexibility. But when the right property comes up, be ready to move. There are certain things where we're certain circumstances where we're still seeing multiple offer situations. In terms of the buyer profile, do you see a lot of people from the big island, you know, Oahu, Hawaii or mainland, you know, foreign countries? Well, what's like the general buyer profile, you know, over the last couple of months, especially during the summer? Yeah, it kind of depends on what you're looking for, what type of property, you know, we don't get a whole lot of buyers from China or Korea or Japan, not nearly as many as you folks see on Oahu. But we see a lot of west coasters relocating. We see a lot of Canadians, actually, the numbers for Canadian buyers have gone a little bit, but traditionally they've been pretty strong. I still do have a lot of local buyers that are just doing well, where they bought a condo to start and they're ready to move into something bigger. So selling their condo and up sizing into a single family home. So, yeah, we're kind of seeing not so many outer island relocation, though, it's a lot of on island just getting ready to move up into something bigger. I just heard today, too, that is it some of the resorts over on Maui, are they actually building housing for some of their employees and things like that? Have you heard that? I haven't heard that. I know there's a lot of different construction plans that are happening, and then there are quite a few that are attempting to happen, but our county council isn't giving them the green light just yet. Oh, I see. And, you know, affordable housing has been a hot topic everywhere across all islands. And are there any just just generally speaking, you know, are they still building affordable homes or condo units on Maui? Absolutely. I think in the last several years, there have been several different neighborhoods that have come up, particularly single family homes, which is incredible. I know there are a couple projects on the horizon. There's a little delay, but there should be a few actually released by the end of this year, where at least the reservations will start being taken and applications will be released. So I would say, you know, if you have a local buyer out there that can qualify, if they need more information, please, please, please have them call someone. They're welcome to call me, but please call a realtor because there's some really, really great opportunities out there. It's crazy here that there are great opportunities for affordable housing because that's so needed and it's such a huge issue for our whole state, you know, for every island they feel like, yeah. But, you know, thank you so much, Erin, and I just, you know, we're coming towards the end of our time and just wanted to ask you if you had any final thought that you would like to share. Yeah, thanks, Leonie. Thank you and Will for having me today. You know, I just wanted to encourage you, whether you're buying or selling or whether you're new to the islands or not, just a friendly reminder on how important it is to not take for granted that we get to live here.   So learn your street name, show Aloha to your neighbors and just encourage you all to be just a really, really great community member. Wow, you've been so awesome. Thank you so much, Erin, for joining us on Inside Hawaii Real Estate. You're amazing, Erin. Thank you so much and Aloha. Aloha. Thank you guys. Mahalo. 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Okay, let's get started. It's 11 o'clock. Thank you for your attention. Because I'm quite alternative for today's meeting because I'm from university. Since yesterday a lot of enterprise big or small have shared their opinion. Actually for our universities we're also attending CNCF event. One is because of my personal interest. The other reason is because I'm trying to promote open source education in our university. That's why I want to take this opportunity to share with you about open source education in universities. First of all let me introduce myself. I'm from East China Normal University. I'm working in the Digital Engineering School which is newly established in 2016. My research is mainly about education education big data, smart education technology Actually I'm also combining open source with the education. This is my direction. I'm going to talk about three aspects. First about the open source new era. Why do we need to have open source in the universities? Second part is about what we have done in universities. Third thing is the resources we have used from CNCF including Kubernetes. We have heard that in the morning a lot of ecosystems based on Kubernetes, a lot of university students especially computer, science, and engineering students are also learning Kubernetes and other things. So how do we do this in the universities? Open source era I also want to briefly talk about the background of open source. Actually it's the trend. Open source is not only the whole world trend for technical development, it's also moving towards that direction. We have four key items here, connected, open cooperation and evolution. We can also experience that a lot in China. If we are looking back for the last 20 years of China's internet industry I think for the first two days we have companies like BAT, JD, and for the second decade we have the Meituan, etc. Actually connectivity is the foundation of China's internet industry. We have made some summaries in the writing. Actually the infrastructure maturity is the foundation for all these things. Actually the big change is taking place in the internet industry. Infrastructure maturity has caused some rise of emerging companies. Second is about the opportunities of algorithm. Because of AI, a lot of enterprises have utilized some algorithms. The third one is about data and platform. All the digital companies are platform based companies connecting consumer and supply side and all the resources can be digitized. All the users are online on the cloud. And the second keyword is opening. This is something we can also observe in the universities. We can research some open topics and promote some open ideas and we also have some open source technology and platforms. Actually we can also use one sentence to summarize that. So it's not just competition between open source and closed source. It's actually the competition of large scale open source and open source projects. So it involves different kinds of factors such as technology, community and talents. Whoever wins development will be able to win the world. Actually a lot of companies are doing this. They're trying to attract developers. One important example is Microsoft. They embraced open source by turning a very big turn. So open source is the trend. Same thing happens in our university. In the past we were trying to choose database, and now we're seeing everything is based on open source. When we're looking at big data and AI, you have no other options in addition to open source. You can only choose open source. In that case we need to embrace open source. For collaboration with the internet with open source ideas, coordination and collaboration is also something we need to embrace. Actually collaboration already has a lot of magical powers and wonderful mess pieces as we have known Wikipedia which has become a must for us like big hot stack overflow including bitcoin or blockchain technology. It's all the same. If we're using GitHub as an example for the developers, you would find within the short few years, although it has been for many years, but actually suddenly the developers are doing different kinds of collaboration on GitHub and a lot of key software are using global collaboration to build their software including Kubernetes etc. It's all based on collaboration of global developers. So from the university perspective, if a student graduates from the university, if they can know or they can get involved in global coordination and collaboration you will have more competitiveness on the market. Last but not least is about evolution. I don't know whether you think evolution is a good thing or bad thing. The good thing is that you can have different kinds of technologies emerging. So we have new millennium and DevOps in 2010. So the result is that you would find the technologies upgrading very quickly. In a few years ago you still have web bb. Now you're shifting to applet. Not only we chat mini-program but also DD and other apps. For the language you were doing developing on LOS or Android now you're creating your software on a new platform with a new language. So our view is that the technology is moving faster which cannot be stopped and for the rise of every new technology they will replace the workload of the old technology. So from the university perspective we need to inform the students that you need to understand about the machine and control the machines. It's not just for students from computer science or engineering actually for the other disciplines the students also need to understand about that. Second thing is that we need to understand and deal with open source. Because now we're already moving to an environment where open is the mega trend. So this is a brief conclusion interconnectivity, open, cooperation and evolution will be able to create the new generation of excellent IT talents, embrace internet, open and sharing and collaborative learning. You can become the new generation of excellent IT talents with open source spirits. So this is the opinion from the university perspective. So we want to build the basic skill sets that are needed for the new generation. So we need to do things around these things. Here I also want to mention about AI artificial intelligence because in addition to open source we have another trend which is AI. I don't want to talk too much here. I have three photos here. The first one is about AlphaGo which has a leading champion Go player and the middle picture is a cover article from the New Yorker titled Dock Factory. What does that mean? Actually in the factories with AIs actually have the lights on only when the reporters want to interview or visit they can turn on the lights and they can show you that we have achieved complete automation of the factory. AI and robotics have brought some impact to the existing work positions. For the third picture is a book issued by Joseph Allen titled Robot Proof What does that mean? Because waterproof means that it can prevent you from water when you buy a garment. If the garment is waterproof that means that you don't need to worry about water. If we're talking about robot proof you can get rid of being replaced by robots in the AI era. So what do the universities need to educate the students with what kind of skills so that when we are having more robotics technology how can they beat the competition of robots? Actually it gives us some inspiration from aviation industry. Actually we're not taking aviation technology as an artificial flying. It's just flying. So we should also not take technical intelligence as artificial it should be an intelligence enhancing human capabilities. So actually the technology is helping humans. This is what we want to say here and this can only be achieved through education and from knowledge oriented to capability oriented shift. Actually we need to improve the basic skills, core skills and overall understanding because the technology has very rapid iteration because of this background we need to take a shift. The third aspect is about the background. That was the background. Now I'm going to talk about open source education in universities and colleges especially when it can be combined with degree education. Now we have such a scenario and the last step we have the industry in the right side we have the academia and actually somewhere in between there is a gap. You would find that all of the new technologies exist in the industry including kubikong, cncf every enterprise is promoting their own technology. Another area is the academia which is also very dynamic we know that the universities and colleges are building AI disciplines big data disciplines. It seems to be very dynamic but actually the academia is also facing some problems. Their technology cannot keep up with the trend. For someone who can really understand about the business technology they have luck in their faculty. So the capability of the teachers are missing. So how to bridge the gap. We think that the open source community is a good channel for us to break the gap. It is not only encouraging our students to participate in the open source activities or open source technology sharing but also we need our teachers to embrace what is happening in the open source community so that goes back to what I have mentioned. The current big data or the other technical solutions they are all open source while you are teaching students AI you will use the related framework while you are talking about cloud you will use Kubernetes but if you do not use it that means that you are kind of backward or you are lagging far behind from the current technologies. So that is what we are thinking about how to use open source so as to bridge the gap between the academic field and industrial field. On the one hand we can transform some of the industrial or technical resources into some of the courses in the college. So we are thinking about a kind of like open source driven talent cultivation mode and today the conference is mainly related to the infrastructure. So for the infrastructure actually it is kind of cloud based infrastructure and then based on that we think that the GitHub surveys, the practical surveys has also become kinds of infrastructure so with people whose majors are computer science, GitHub is something they need to master naturally. It is just like you surfing online with the computer and certainly what we are thinking about is to establish a kind of higher education open source education and innovation platform across China so actually this morning I have noticed that the Linux foundation has established some open source colleges. So if we can have such a platform which can provide the standard service or practical service to the students so that will help us to do a lot of applications and the students can also put some of their programs on the gate and the reports or the training materials of teachers can also be put on gate and the other data can also be put here. So actually we have already found that for gate it is not only code which are stored there and a lot of overseas professors began to use some of the key things they have cited in their classes on GitHub as well so as to share it with everyone so I think it is a trend. So this is about the specifics thing we can do first is the open source related courses and this was in Cornell University the open source software engineering and for our university in September we will also open such a course so it is kind of program based or it is via the participation of some of the open source programs so as for students to realize how to co-operate in an open source program and how to understand and to learn more about the open source programs so we can try that in our school and as far as I know some Chinese universities have already had this kind of practice or trial they regard open source as a very important way to build the students capabilities. And second is what we have already done as we have mentioned we also want to provide the practical courses as a kind of service so that is what we are using our hands to contact more courses and for the practical courses the issue is there are too many open source software and if to establish the software environment sometimes they will meet some frustrations and cloud environment is also needed so that is why we want to provide a one stop IT training service platform that is any new framework can be applied to such a platform so as for students to get access to the open source knowledge and then they will have interest in it and then they will participate in such kind of open source technologies and with this infrastructure we can also organize some activities in schools this happened in the first half of this year I myself actually is a member of our open source organization and actually this activity actually has already happened in a number of universities in Shanghai for example we will give some courses or give some lectures on GIT or TensorFlow or we will later show some videos of Kubernetes and in July August we will go to Beijing Taiwan respectively in November we are going to have the China open source annual meeting so with this we can promote the open source courses in China and in the universities so what we are further thinking about is the kind of alliance of Chinese universities for open source so actually for last years open source annual meeting I have attended one of the sub forums that is open source education at that time we have invited some of the students who is responsible for the open source communities of the different universities and we hope that we can have some collision of our ideas so as to share the open source activities with different universities and also we hope that we can build such kind of open source atmosphere so as for people who are interested to interact with each other last and not least we are also exploring that is the open source software education fund we are thinking to establish a fund in the university university itself has the resources so if we can establish such kind of education oriented foundation for open source software that will better help us to cultivate open source software engineers and will also help us to integrate with the rest of the world and the last part is to echo today's topic so I want to use CNCF as an example to see how to implement that in our classes in our skills or in our activities so this is the practical course, platforms we have already built so believe that you know this it is an open source online course platform so if the practical courses can be realized via mode that will better help people to get the practical courses and that will also help teachers and students so we think that we have some innovation we have come up with the idea of called like gate course so we think that course like code can be shared or can be cooperated on gate so a lot of the practical courses we have done are on gate that is teachers together with the assistants collaborate with each other on gate and then they will also establish the environment description language on gate and then to use some website to explain so this will help students to have one click opening of the courses and there this way we actually have already iterated some of the standard courses like the library studies and the other practical courses so here I have an example before the examples we like to talk about the different kind of learning models the first is self help learning models that means you can choose any of the chapters or you can do any of the experiment and the second is kind of like a route oriented learning model so that will help you to go through one step to the other step and the third one is kind of like a free exploration model if you want to play with Drupal Notebook you can open it by yourself so that means anytime anywhere you have the access to the surveys and to the environment so this is the kind of demo of our gate course it is the TensorFlow which was in Tongji University so the students can follow the guide to carry out the different steps and then they can know that what can be done with the TensorFlow and can use the examples of the learning effect using TensorFlow and the CNCF we know that there are a lot of examples which can be used in practical courses because for CNCF most of the cases are related to infrastructure for example Kubernetes and this was just a video taped yesterday by some of our students with the small newsletter once you click on you will find some files on the left and then on the left on the right hand it is the Kubernetes environment you can learn and master and you can do some basic contours so the benefit of this is you can mostly have students to know some of the features of Kubernetes so if you have more interest you can do some of the more advanced functions and we hope that we can build this as an open service so as for software developers or for writers or for teachers to do their related courses on the platform to summarize where this way we hope to deploy the related open source technologies in schools or universities and then to realize some cooperation on Git and put the links in the Capcom and then we can provide some experiment for you to quickly experience about the stuff there so you can come up with some like hack phones or with some short videos or include it into the other library studies so with that the schools or universities will have better access to the open source technologies this is our team, our X-Lab so if you have interest you can scan the QR code here so with that I come to the end of my speech. Any questions? We have about 5 minutes for Q&A Can you hear me? We are doing open source education right now for the mainstream universities and colleges The students are participating a lot or very few students It's a very good question This is a challenge we are facing right now at the very beginning if you don't have very good marketing or you don't have very famous lecturers we don't have a very high involvement of the students that we have carried out We have more than 10 people or 20 people for the event we organize. This is very common I think for open source it's mainly based on the volunteer We don't have any commercial promotions so we're not pursuing for interests There are trends of open source when everything you're doing is related with open source I'm sure the students would know that trend and actually we're also slowly inviting some good content called lecturers I think that can attract the students So sometimes in some universities with less advantages they don't have many resources than they would like such events but for some other universities when they have many resources it's more difficult to attract the students Are you considering about working with industry some famous companies to run some projects in universities in that case without increasing engagement Because we're just starting we have invited a developer from Google community to give a lecture Now we're also working with Tencent and Adibaba This is what we're doing with open source social, we have an expertise We can invite those speakers So I think this format is very good At least gradually the university are trying to catch up because we're really missing that part in universities I have a question for your platform When the students are contributing to optimise the platforms, are many students doing that how can we attract them to be the social contributor What you're saying is also a challenge for us because for the platform core it's not so stable it's just like meaningless Only when you have a very stable and physical application scenario then you will be able to attract other developers So right now on this platform is mainly my students What I think when we carry out more events and when we're promoting that through our lectures maybe in the second half of this year we can complete the system then we can really open that to the public and do some promotion so that more people can join this This is also what we want to do with university open source So we want to utilize some channels to promote this but right now it's still within our own team Dr. Wang I have a question I'm from the industry I want to ask you if universities are establishing such a lab it would take a lot of expenses and labour Do you want to build together with the industry because enterprises want to have talent they can't find the right talents if some enterprises can develop that together with you when they are in need of talents I think there are a lot of such models Actually data school of East China Normal University has also established some in joint laboratories Actually they have two needs one is for technology research second is about talents Actually we don't specifically work with any individual or any individual organization because for open source we need to maintain its neutrality and openness We want to provide this platform to engage different organizations to do the same things on this platform We are working with Alibaba and Tencent so maybe they can put some of the open source projects on this in that case students would have more choices so that their interests can be met This is our idea We are also very welcome to the industry field to do something on our platform Time is up Okay So we can also have offline discussion


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