Welcome to the wide world of eSports, a show devoted to all things eSports. I'm your host, Catherine Noor. Today, we're talking about GamerTech, wearables engineer for gamers. Joining us from Colombo Sri Lanka is the CEO and co-founder of GamerTech, Amila Paturana. Welcome, Amila. Thank you, Catherine. Nice to be on the show. All right, so tell us about GamerTech. GamerTech, we founded in 2018, just a year before the pandemic really started hitting us, or rather two years before the pandemic. Me and the co-founder, Taraka De Silva, we both were passionate gamers. We were working for an organization called MS Holdings. And MS Holdings gave us an opportunity to explore something that they never explored before. And what really happened was we went to the market, we started doing a lot of research to understand what are the pinpoints gamers go through, including ourselves. And we realized that there were no dedicated wearables or approval solutions built for gamers. There were four main areas that we identified. One was in terms of handheld. As you would notice, gamers need to have their hands in their peak condition to really perform at peak levels. And then the second one was around vision. Obviously, when you stay in front of a screen for a long time, you're going to deteriorate your vision. Third one was around posture because you also tend to compromise your posture when you really sit in front of a screen for a long time. You tend to be unconsciously plouching, breaking your posture, leading to long-term repercussions. And the fourth one is around non-communicable diseases related to bad lifestyle stemming from obesity. So out of these four problems that we identified when we did the second research, we thought about solving for handheld, which we felt one of the biggest problems that the gamers were facing. And then the second one was around posture. And then also there was a sub-segment that we identified that a lot of gamers also tend to have issues in terms of managing their wellness and then also in terms of managing their body orders, things like that, because you tend to stress a lot during gaming sessions. So with that, we started developing consumer problem statements. And then we also started developing solution profiles to match those consumer problems. So we follow a very specific process. And this is all thanks to MS Holdings because what they've done in the past is that they've created an innovation center for people like us who enable us to join them as entrepreneurs and then work on projects that can be a future potential of MS if we are able to prove different milestones as we move forward. Then by 2019, we started working with an organization called One HP who specialized in game health and wellness doing primary research in the US because we felt US was the market because you may ask why not somewhere else like India, China, which has bigger population closer to Sri Lanka. And the reason for that is we also looked at what is the average revenue per user that would spend on a product like this and US seemed to be the highest. And we started doing our primary research throughout 2019 where we developed solution prototypes, tested in the market. Just to give you perspective, we did about 600 screener surveys when we started the journey. Then had like almost 61 on one interviews. Then from those one-on-one interviews, we actually put down a panel that we were going to do product testing. And we did multiple iterations of products for us to understand how different product solutions resonated with the gamers where they actually help them improve performance or address their condition. And that's how we started the journey. So they found to summarize gametech. There are three things that we do. One is boosting performance. We want to help gamers improve their performance. The second one is around also creating immersive experiences because we felt there's technology that we can use. And then the third one is around managing their wellness. And why we want to do all this is because we feel there's a vacuum in the market at this point that we try to solve these problems with either hardware or ergonomic solutions, but there's not necessarily any dedicated solutions in the market at the moment that you can actually put on the gamers body. And I feel like in traditional sports where you have very specific gear that's built for those athletes, gamers are athletes that we would like to give them solutions that's going to really help them improve their gameplay. So that was the reason for finding gametech and how the journey in a very short span of time. But yes, that's how we started gametech. All right. Let's show the first video. Tell us about that video. What is being shown? Yes. So we built on multiple product solutions. So the first product that we were hoping to bring to the market, which we'll be doing the announcement, it's been in the making for a while, which we call the Magma Glove. Magma Glove, the whole idea was that when you're playing a game, you need to have good hand dexterity.  Magma Glove, the whole premise is that we are going to use a proprietary heating technology with compression to improve your circulation quite rapidly. So we've identified the areas that we need to warm up. What's the best way to warm up? What's the temperature? As well as what's the level of compression we need to give to improve your circulation quite rapidly. So this glove is going to be a pre-game warm-up glove. As well as anyone who wants to use it during the game, you can definitely use it. We've also done quite a bit of research around the glove before we introduced it to the market. What we did was we also worked with another doctor called Dr. Lindsey McLeo. And we did product testing around using some of the gaming gold standards. So we used AMLAB's grid test to understand with the glove, without the glove how a gamer would perform. And what we saw was there was about 30% improvement in terms of their actions per minute, as well as efficiency of how they were using the mouse and the keyboard by using the glove. So yes, we are announcing the glove in November at the Sports Awards. I will definitely share some of those details as we move forward. So it will start getting into commercialization from January 2024, hopefully. All right, so I've actually had Dr. Lindsey McLeo on my show, GamerDoc. So how did she help you develop your products? So as GamerTech, we believe in working with experts within the industry. And we also looked at at that point who were the experts who had a good understanding, who's not just coming into the industry, but who also had a background in terms of physical therapy, who's adopting in her field. And that's how we connected with Dr. Lindsey. So she still consults with us. We worked with her very closely on all of our products. What we did was we worked with her to design the testing protocols, because no one has done a product like this before in the market. So we were sure that we just didn't do it from a physical therapy or a physiological point of view. We've done those testing as we started the project. But we also want to test it with certain protocols that meant it's going to be something meaningful to the gamer. So we worked with her, used MLabs Gridshot as an indicator to understand how they would improve their performance. And what we did was we did multiple testing with different gamers, professional gamers, as well as aspiring gamers over a course of couple of months with the glove, without the glove, how they would perform. But we noticed was that there was a significant improvement in terms of their performance the moment they started wearing the glove. But obviously it has a diminishing return over a longer period of time. But it really shows that when someone starts using the glove, it really gives the performance improvement that they need. And then it enables you to hold it for a longer period because usually when you look at both side of things, very specific gear is built to help at least perform better and perform better for a longer period. So it's the same premise that we are looking at. And what we noticed with the testing we've done that you're actually able to improve your performance and then also sustain it over a longer period of time. And that's why we believe this product would change how gamers would manage their performance as we move forward once we introduce it to the market. So you wear the glove before you play or do you wear it during play? So the glove has controls built-in. So it gives you a pre-game warm-up cycle, which is 12 minutes. It gives a higher heat level, which lasts for 12 minutes. And then that improves your decisions.  You do practice matches. You do quite a bit of finger stretches, all these different exercises to warm you up because you need to have your muscles switching at a much faster rate if you want to compete. So what this does is because of the way we've done the heating technology, it improves your circulation quite significantly, enabling you to have those actions per minute improving quite rapidly. So what you would take usually about, say, a couple of hours to warm up, now you can do it in about, say, less than an hour.  So you have a 12 minute pre-game warm-up cycle and then there are two more different cycles that you can use during the game. One is for a one-hour cycle at a lower, like a medium temperature level and another one for a three-hour cycle at a lower temperature level. So you feel comfortable. You also would notice that when you play at an arena or at a competition, the environment tends to get very cold, right? And sometimes when it's too cold, your fingers don't work the way it should.  And in that way, you are able to keep going for a longer period and not reduce your performance. Does this increase circulation in your hands? It does to a certain extent because what it does is usually if you look at compression and heating combined together, that gives you a better circulation. Then just using compression or heat in isolation. So that's why we combine those two technologies together. So the heating technology is an active heating technology which we call the TFTR, which stands for thermal thin film thermal regeneration. So that's a patent pending technology. What we've done is we've actually developed our proprietary heating technology, which technically can be applied across any part of the body. But we've done it in a way that it's going to be easier and comfortable for the gamers to use. And then also we use passive compression. You have seen passive compression shorts, t-shirts in the market. Again, similar premise, but we are doing passive compression at a certain level, which is not medical, but it's more in terms of wellness side of things. Sure. So let's show the video of the glove. You know, I would think that it would also be kind of a fashion statement that it's kind of cool to be wearing those gloves. What do you think about that? So we actually, we just didn't want to build something very functional, but also look very vanilla, right? So we actually want to build something that's going to resonate with the gaming culture who would want to really vary with pride.  We have a new version coming out in November. That's what we're going to unveil. The new glove is actually going to have some really cool technologies built in, including Saudi lighting built into the glove itself. You will see it soon enough. I think that's going to be even more fuller than what you see, what you saw here at this point. But I think it's what we were discussing or rather what we were contemplating was, you know, how do we bring functionality as well as, you know, aesthetics to this product? Because we really want to make it a statement that gamers have passion. Gamers, you know, want to wear something that's going to really, you know, work well with their personality. So that's how we looked at it. We're going to have different versions of the gloves that's going to come in in the future with the different teams that we're working with. And that's how we are sort of looking at taking it to market. We have a phenomenal partner ecosystem as well, who's working with us to take it to market and then really have some of those, you know, really differentiated designs to designs that's going to come in. Sure. And I could definitely see that a team might like their logo on it, or that even for a particular game like Overwatch or League of Legends, that there could be branding by them. So is that what you're thinking about? Yeah, that's somewhere definitely down the line. Those are all the discussions that's going on at this point. But different, mostly different teams, different games would have different versions of this glove that's going to come in with different functionalities, hopefully. The vision is really to have like, you know, create a culture around a product like this. And, you know, I believe that it can really change the way people how they're going to play games and really enjoy it and really make it comfortable. You know, I think there might be even a version that would be only for PC. There might be a version only for console. But I think future is still a bit of a mystery. But that's quite a bit of thoughts that we are working in the background. Sure. Let's show the next video with your next product. Amila, tell us about this one. So we call this body thermal management which we call short form is BTM. When we started our journey, we also realized like, so I am a person who kind of suffer from hyperhygrosis because I sweat a little bit excessively. And what we realized that gamers also go through, you know, similar conditions.  You might have to wear the same same t-shirt. We actually did research around this as well. So what we found out from our research was that out of the population that we did the research, almost 20 plus actually would wear a t-shirt for about 24 hours. And then we had about another significant 18 plus percentage would wear it for about almost 48 hours, right? That is maybe not the most hygiene way to do things. But here we've designed a t-shirt that has multiple properties. It has antimicrobial, then also what you call sweat moisture wicking, all those functionalities. But it also has a smart polymer built in, which is going to respond to your body temperature. What this is going to do is that when you start really heating up, when you start stress sweating, it's going to absorb that energy into that polymer and then store that energy. And then it's going to pull you down because now the energy is taken away as part of the heating process. And then when you start cooling down at a certain temperature activates and then start releasing that energy back, it keeps you warm at the same time. So it won't allow you to go get too hot or get too cold at a given time. So it has activation temperature that works on that. It's the same polymer company that we work with when Tesla did the space suit actually. And so we kind of use different technologies. And this BTM suit is very interesting because you can wear it for a longer period. You don't feel like you're wearing something. It's very lightweight. It's made out of also it's made out of recycled plastic, ocean plastic. So it has a sustainability angle plus it has a performance angle that we're working on. And we envision a future that almost all these sports teams are going to use this product because it's going to be built as an e-sports jersey. It's almost like a high performance jersey for gamers, professional athletes. And the reason for that is what you currently get in the market. Yes, you have some really good products, but very less functionality. So we want to really bring that functionality performance. Again, as I said, gametech really stands for performance, experience and wellness. So we really want to bring that performance piece into it. BTM falls under the advanced approach category. So anyone who wants to use a BTM, we can actually now start producing it. We've done the product testing and then the material development as well. So it's now actually in a commercial state. So we are hoping to get this product out to market in Q1 2024 with some of the partnership announcements that's coming up. So you can actually essentially provide the jerseys to anyone that is doing that is playing e-sports and other sports even. So if you look at some of the leading athletic or rather active brands, if you look at any traditional athlete, typically your gaming time is about an hour. If you are an ultra marathon runner or whatever, then it's a little bit longer. But most of the sports are like an hour, couple of hours. So your gear is kind of built to survive for that long. But here what we realized was that activa is not the route for us to go, but really build something that can help you to survive for like 48 hours at a stretch. You don't really have to think about, because usually what happens is when you work out what you do, you change the clothes and you get into a fresh set of clothes. Here it's like you're going to have a peak, you're going to come down again, you're going to have another peak, you're going to come down again. How do you sort of normalize that and keep you going for the longest time is what we think is really about. Sure. All right. Well, that's fantastic. So it's interesting that you have developed all of this and you're actually in Colombo Sri Lanka. And I mean, it's a great, you're a great example of someone who can be anywhere in the world and make, you know, develop a product and then look at the world and pick global markets. I met you in Chicago and I understand that you were actually in the United States going to several cities. So is that what you're doing now? Tell us how you're marketing to the US. Yeah. So there are two components. I think, first of all, like the broad organizers that I'm attached to has enabled us, given us the tools that we need to work on projects like this. If I was doing a typical startup, if I didn't have this backing from MS Holding, because challenge would have been trying to find funds for the research, trying to have like an ecosystem of experts who can help us develop some of these technologies. The technology that I've developed is actually due to the ecosystem that MS has in terms of and the commitment they've given in terms of research and innovation. Then in terms of business development, I've always felt that, you know, connecting with people, you know, and then really like, you know, trying to, you know, do work distance from a longer distance. I never really thought about it as a challenge because I think we live in a day and you know, there's like a lot of phenomenal tools. I mean, look at LinkedIn, right? It enables you to connect with anyone in the world if you're in a professional network. So I really felt very comfortable with that process. And then we also like, I literally traveled to US like at least three or four times a year, right? And spent a couple of weeks at each given time. And maybe next week will be much, much longer. But what I also did was when we started this journey, we really started reaching out to people who, whom I thought who would, who could add value. So I reached out to like people like, I'm not too sure whether you're familiar with William, the Professor Paulist. So he's the person who wrote the book of Esports. So he's one of the first people who responded to me, which I'm very, very truly appreciative of. He's like, hey, you know, you're onto something interesting. Tell me more about it. And then, you know, I've been in touch with him since 2018 and we build a relationship. Then one of the first Esports teams that we started working with was Oxygen Esports. Why? Because William co-founded that. And through that, I got an introduction and now we've been one of the long standing partners of Oxygen Esports. Then with some of those connections, then you kind of open up a network that was never accessible before. And then we also went for like multiple events. I've been to like tax east, tax south, then GDC, then some of the Esports bar association events, some of the tournaments we've been at, you know, a call of duty major tournament. We've been to a League of Legends major, you know, tournament. So we've done quite a bit of different events, really, you know, meeting people, trying to find like minded people, who also saw the potential in what you're doing. Because when you start this journey, not everyone's going to think, you know, this is something that's going to work well. Some, you know, are there for different reasons, but I believe in building a genuine network, working with like-minded people to help us scale this. And I think that's been a very rewarding and a very integrated journey because, I mean, like obviously I've been running this for five years and we're still pre-commercial. But it's been a phenomenal journey because of the people who's involved in this industry. And I feel like gaming and Esports industry, the people are a lot more connected, closer. And I don't think an outsider can come easily, but if they come with something that's going to add value, I think then people are going to take you a little bit more serious. And I think that's how I've been able to manage that network and really slowly, you know, understanding what else we can do, what that future is going to be. I understand there's a lot of global conditions that's currently in place, but I feel the future is going to be very hopeful. And I personally believe gaming and Esports would really, you know, sort of replace entertainment and sports to a great extent because people are going to, you know, be more engaged with, you know, virtual worlds in time to come. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. William Callis, who you mentioned, the professor who wrote the book of Esports, he was my second guest on my show. And that was back in 2020, July of 2020 or so. And what's interesting is that you provide a great example for people in Hawaii who were, you know, we're really super remote, but, you know, you're really far away from the United States, your target market. So Hawaii people should take a note from you in terms of what you can do. So let's show your website and while we're showing it, why don't you tell us how people can contact you and how they can get your product. So product will come into, will publish it towards Q1 next year. The website is getting an upgrade. So all the products will be available through the Gamertek website. At the moment, it's more of an informative site, but this is getting an upgrade. You should be able to purchase almost all the products that I spoke about through the gamertek.gg website. You can contact me via amela at gamertek.gg. That's my email address. And you also can connect me with via LinkedIn. It's amela.paterinon. LinkedIn. I think those are the two platforms that would be easiest to get through to me. And I look forward to hearing from all of you. All right. Amela, thank you so much. I'm really excited about your product. And I can't wait to see all the gamers wearing it. And thank you to our viewers who joined us today. And in two weeks, my guest will be Makayla Frank. We'll be talking about networking in the industry and more. See you then.


Hey weirdos, it's Darren and I wanted to share something with you from my church that we had our services this morning and We do online services still thanks to COVID. We do have some people to go and attend in person Doing the social distancing and everything, but we still do it online at the same time So that's how I watched this and the reason that I'm sharing this is because it is so appropriate for what we're going through right now Not only with the pandemic and being self-quarantined, but with the election stuff that's gone through and I know a lot of people who listen, you know, obviously we talk a lot about depression anxiety, but we've all got problems that we're going through as well and This just it the more I watched This service today The more I realized this is something that I needed to share. There's communion at the end of this This message and if you want to take communion You can Just grab like go to your pantry and grab a cracker and maybe some juice out of the fridge if you want to take communion After the song There's a little bit more that greg says that I I think you'd probably want to hear But I'll start the video right at where greg starts speaking So that way you don't have to fast forward through the the worship beforehand in order to get where we where we start the message I think it's definitely appropriate for just about everybody right now And I think you'll agree once you start listening And uh, if you like it feel free to go ahead and share it with anybody and everybody that you want This is particularly good for our our weirdos in christ Anyways, welcome for those of you watching online. Thank you so much for making state line church part of your routine this sunday morning I'm excited to continue in this series that we've been in context clues. How many of you guys like superheroes? Right one person don't lie because think of all the money that is spent on superhero stuff all the movies Right all the marvel blockbusters all the dc movies though the dc movies really aren't nowhere near as good as the marvel movies Right, they're just they just don't stack up to the competition But then you think of all the money on comic books and merchandising and toys that is spent in my two sons For those of you, you don't know. I have two boys jack and luke. They love superheroes They're obsessed with superhero stuff and they love to dress up In superhero outfits all the time.   He literally wants to fight me constantly He just comes up to me and he starts to attack and it's getting to the point now Where I don't know if I can take him. He really is getting strong But here's the truth just because a kid dresses up like a superhero It doesn't mean they have superpowers, right? But not all kids get that I read this article this week in the national institute of health and it was talking about how there have been many instances of kids dressing up like superheroes And trying to do superhero things For example in this article it talked about one kid who dressed up as spider-man And decided to scale the window out of sight of the two-story Bedroom house that he lived in and of course he doesn't have sticky hands and he doesn't have spider webs and he fell Now the good news is he was okay because he was wearing the doctors think because he was wearing a padded outfit That the padded cushioning inside of the superhero outfit actually kept him safe There were also mention of three different instances in this article of three kids Who decided to take flight with no landing strategy? They just thought that they they were dressed as superman so that they could fly and so they were just jumping off of stuff Now fortunately in this article No child was seriously hurt beyond a few broken bones some some bruises and of course a bruised ego Because the kids had to deal with the sad reality The sad news that they indeed did not have any superpowers But there is a verse in the bible That if you read it And you read this verse it implies something That if we put our hope our trust our faith in jesus That through christ Maybe we can have some supernatural strength That through christ maybe indeed we can have superpowers you all know this verse you've seen it on tim tebow's eye black And john jones has a tattoo to cross his chest Philippians 4 13 for i can do everything Through christ who gives me strength other translations of the bible would say i can do all things Through him who gives me strength so maybe the missing ingredient for these kids Was that they just simply weren't putting their hope or their trust in jesus They weren't letting jesus give them the superpowers that they need because isn't it true that we can do all things All things sounds pretty inclusive right? That we can do all things through christ who strengthens us So i decided this week that i was going to put this verse to the test I wanted to see if it was indeed true that we could do all things everything Through christ who strengthens us now. I know when you look at me you see just a very physically fit specimen and i understand that I totally appreciate that but i have some limitations I can't dunk a basketball and i'm really not that strong So i went to movement fitness this week and i was putting my faith in god and i decided i'm going to see If i can take it up a level so why don't you take a look at this video? And look who showed up. Hey personal trainer tyler here tyler.  Okay. All right. So what are we doing putting this to the test? Yes, so we're gonna test If i can physically do things Through christ who strengthens me. Okay, right.  Do you know how to do it? Oh, yeah, all right Let's yeah, all right watch Piece of cake nailed it. That doesn't seem like adjusted. Can you show him? That's that's how it's That looks a little different than what I did All right, so greg is uh five ten Maybe five nine. I think you like that driver's license. Whoa five ten Five nine and a hazel eyes Oh, I thought we were talking about my driver's license. All right, here we go. All right, jesus get into the hammies Come on jesus right into the hammies. I can do all things Through christ who strengthens me Hold on. Hold on. You know those fisher price. It's not quite a ten foot though All right, let's try something else. All right my arm hurts so far We've established That I can do okay through christ who strengthens me and so For the ultimate feat of strength I'm gonna bench press through jesus 300 and what is it 15 pounds? one two three I did I did it nailed it. I count that one chalk one up for jesus Well, here's what we've established. Maybe I'm not as fit as I'd like to be So I got a little work to do and I can do some things But maybe not all things don't count me out yet.  I want to say that those dumbbells at the end those were 100 pound dumbbells Give or take a zero. Give or take Oh, that's so embarrassing.  It's not in the cards So I guess I can't do that through christ who strengthens me now We're not talking about limiting jesus here if jesus wanted to I guess he could But the reality is I need a trampoline in a six foot rim in my own power Now could jesus make a trampoline materialized for me to be able to dunk a basketball Could jesus get into my hamstring muscles and somehow make me super naturally spring into the sky Yeah, I guess he could but just because jesus can do whatever he wants does not mean he does whatever I want And the reality is a lot of times we use philippians 4 13 as a verse To get god to do what we want as opposed to understanding What god wants and we're in this series context clues And we've been talking about over the last few weeks how there are certain scriptures that if we pull them out of their context We we pull them away from the original intention of what they were intended to mean in our life What happens is we can get it to mean whatever we want it to mean But that doesn't mean us getting it to mean whatever we want it to mean Is in line with what god wants it to mean and so to understand scripture You've got to look at the context the who the what the when the how and you use scripture Other scripture to interpret scripture and here's another basic rule of understanding When it comes to interpretation the same intention That the author originally had when they were writing the scripture in the first place Is the same intention now and you say well, why is that? That's because the holy spirit was the same back then as he is now and it'll be the same holy spirit tomorrow now There are cultural realities Cultural distinctives that are in play when you read some of the scripture But just because there are cultural realities or cultural distinctives remember the intention can remain the same So let me give you an example when paul says in the new testimony he says it I want to say three or four times. He says greet each other with a holy kiss Now this is a cultural command. This was part of the customs at this time Now we don't do this now right especially during covid right how awkward would that be if we're like Oh, we got to obey the word of the lord.  All right. I like this greet each other with the holy kiss idea All right, but we don't do that All right, we see that as a cultural command But just because we don't actually physically greet each other with a holy kiss doesn't mean that the intention Right the the original meaning behind paul's command just goes away And what is that which is to show genuine love Genuine affection genuine appreciation for our brothers and sisters in christ And so let's look at philippians now Let's go to chapter four and let's find paul's intention by looking at this verse in its context Now a couple of things that I think are important to know as you look at the book of philippians where our philippians 4 13 is found paul is writing this Letter to the church in philipp the philippian church. He's writing this letter from prison And he's been imprisoned for talking about jesus and not only is he imprisoned But many scholars believe this is towards the end of paul's life And he finds himself in prison and he's awaiting trial And it's kind of at this point now as he's getting to what he believes is to be the end of his life As he's awaiting trial. He kind of knows essentially he's going to die That if he gets put to trial for preaching about jesus, they are going to put him to death So that's kind of a backdrop for you to understand Where paul's at right some context as we dive into philippine So let's go back a few verses from philippians 4 13 and start at verse 10 How I praise the lord that you are concerned about me again I know you have always been concerned for me, but you didn't have the chance to help me Not that I was ever in need for I've learned how to be content With whatever I have I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything I've learned the secret of living in every situation Whether it is with a full stomach or empty With plenty or little for I can do everything through christ Who gives me strength?   I'm fine. Yes, mom I have my medicine. Yes mom. I've got the mace. No mom. I won't stop too late. Mom. I'm good mom. Leave me alone. Mom. Okay. I'm okay I'm not hungry. I'm fine right whatever. He's basically doing that with the church. He tells them guys. I'm good Thank you for checking up on me, but I'm good because truthfully I've never been in need Because I've had a lot and I've had a little Right. I've had a ton of money And I've been flat out broke before I've had really good meals before and I know what it's like to live on ramen noodles And I've been good because regardless of all of that I have learned to be content I've learned to be content no matter what's happening to me. What's happening around me. What's happening in my circumstances And he almost is implying to this church. He's saying I know it's crazy Right because you look at my situation and you look at my circumstances How is a guy that's broke now who's lost his freedom who finds himself in jail who might be put to death? How can a guy say that he's content? I'll tell you how Because I can do everything Through christ who strengthens me. I can be in prison Through christ who strengthens me. I can endure the upcoming trial and the trials I've already been through through christ who strengthens me. I can live through the mockings I can live through the beatings of the prison guards through christ who strengthens me. I can do all things Through christ who strengthens me And if you look at this here in context You see now that paul's intention wasn't to show that we can have a supernatural ability to maybe run faster Hit harder or to fly or bench press three hundred and fifteen pounds His intention is to show us That we can be content Even when it seems like we shouldn't be And why Because of jesus Jesus can be Our source of strength And so when paul says I can do everything When I can do all things Really the everything that he's referencing here The all things that he's referencing here Are the hard things The painful things The things that make us suffer The things that we don't want to have to go through But life will throw at us anyways And so paul is insane use this verse To get superpowers Use this verse to achieve your earthly dreams Use this verse to win trophies or conquer the board room or become a rock star That's not what he's saying because this verse is not about having great physical resources like a great job or a great education Or athletic ability this verse is about having strength when you don't have great physical resources Because this verse is not about achievement It's about contentment And we use it out of context though right all the time we hear people Use it for achievement use it for success Like it could be up in the board room as one of those old successories quote with a really cool picture of an eagle flying over something right I can do all things But it's about contentment It's about strength. Yes In the suffering it's about triumph. Yes But in the trials And so paul is telling us this is not a phrase that's going to help you conquer the world This is a phrase a truth that will help you press on When it feels like the world has conquered you Because even if it feels like the world has conquered you the truth is That whether you have a job or no job Whether you have money in the bank or not Whether you have the best athletic prowess Or you find yourself like me None at all What matters Is that you have jesus And the truth here is if you have jesus You have all you need And not only do you have all you need? But this is the supernatural part He can make you content Even in the midst of your suffering He can satisfy your soul even in the midst of your suffering He can give you an internal victory even if your external circumstances seem like chaos and he can help you endure When it seems like others going through the same thing Would fail And how? Because we can do all things Through him who strengthens us You can go through and endure cancer And honor the name of your heavenly father as you fight it How? Because you can do all things through him who strengthens us You can be laid off from work and have heartbreak and go through it and keep a positive outlook And know that god is with you how? Because you can do all things Through him who strengthens us and the world will look at you if you have this type of strength and think How is that possible? How is it possible that they're going through this circumstance and this hard thing and this reality? And yet their perspective is so different than mine because i'm spiraling i'm anxious I'm freaking out and they're going through something too and I look at them and they're an oak tree They right there they have faith They have a joy They have a contentment how? I can't manufacture that and myself. How are they able to do that? And it's because of jesus in us. We can do all things and so the true superpower here is contentment in him And if you're sitting there and you think man I feel like i'm lacking a little bit I don't have that type of strength. I want that type of strength and who doesn't Right who doesn't want contentment enjoy in the midst of trial because the reality is trial is coming For all of us some of us guys covet has punched us all in the gut Every single one of us All of us have had to contextualize and deal with it differently But but it's hit us all But some of us have a perspective of joy and contentment and faith while others are spiraling out of control And don't know what to do and the difference is all things endurance through christ who strengthens us and if you're sitting there and you're like I want that I need that In my life Well, this seems obvious But yet it's so easily forgotten That if you want that strength that comes from jesus Then you've got to put your focus on jesus And we're talking about context here and i want to jump a few verses back because paul is literally Unlocking for us his secret as to how he's able to do all things through christ who strengthens him And i love how all of this ties together and these are some very famous passages of scripture But once again look at it in context and then you see the beauty of how all of this is written So we're going to go back to philippines 4 now verse 6 So we're going to chase it back just a few more verses Paul speaking do not be anxious about anything Man some of us are anxious about everything And he says don't be anxious about anything but in every situation By prayer and petition So it doesn't matter what you're going through if it seems like a big deal or a little deal Every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving being grateful present your request to god and the peace of god which transcends all understanding Will guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus he said don't be anxious About the trials don't be anxious about the prisons that life has you and don't be anxious about your suffering No matter what's going on Good or bad he's saying you can talk to god about it You know even in me saying that we'll talk to god about talk to god about it pray about it pray about it. It seems so cliche Oh, okay Pray about it. Sure. So we'll throw up a flare prayer a token prayer or whatever Guys listen this is so important and it's just it's just true There's nothing cliche about talking to god You have the ability to talk to the god of the universe and when you talk to him, guess what he does He listens to you He listens to you There's nothing cliche about that And when you talk to him your focus is on him and he gives us what this verse says is a peace that passes Understanding well, how does that work? Well, if I could explain it to you then it'd be understandable Right, but I love the idea Paul uses here to try to explain it. He literally says peace will guard your heart In context for now put yourself into the situation. Where's paul writing this from from a prison cell, right? And he's talking about how he has this piece of god that passes all understanding And he's like it doesn't make a lot of sense. I should be more worried. I'm not I should be more sad I'm not I should be angry. I'm not even that angry. I'm pretty content. I'm in jail. I think I'm gonna die I got that going for me. That's nice, right, but he's like I'm content And so then maybe he looks up and as he looks up he sees the prison guard walk by And he's like that's it He's guarding me making sure I stay in here. So maybe god is guarding my heart and making sure the peace stays in there It gets supernatural. I can't explain it But god is guarding me like the like the prison guard is guarding the cell And he's making sure the peace and the joy of god stays in my life because i'm keeping my focus On him and this is the only way that paul could explain something that doesn't make a lot of sense And then look at how paul continues down verse 8 once again famous passage of scripture Finally brothers and sisters whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable If anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me or seen in me Put it into practice and the god of peace will be with you and there it is again, right the god of peace will be with you Well, how he just told you how to fill your mind with the things of god Put yourself into the word of god Put yourself into worship music put yourself into times of prayer. He says think about things that are true noble, right Pure lovely praiseworthy Think about your blessings Think about what you have to be grateful for Think about your family think about your friends think about your salvation That god has saved you right he saved you Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved the wretch like me That god saved us that we were once lost but now we're found We were once blind but now we can see and paul what he's saying here is like do what i did I've done this He's like follow me it works people it works. So put this into practice And many of us and I found myself there over the last few months As we look at maybe things that aren't of god Put our focus on the news Put our focus on social media Even put our focus on work all the work we have to do or the school the online schooling We have to get through right all of these things that cause chaos and no wonder we don't feel the peace of god When all we can do is focus on what is wrong with the world instead of what's right with god and what god's trying to do In our life And the reality is when you look at all of these things that cause chaos Right all of these things that cause anxiety All of these things that make us spiral with fear That's not god's fault God has told us what we can do to prevent that from happening That's our fault We have to take responsibility for that But if you let the truth of who god is fill your heart Fill your mind give you perspective Perspective about the election perspective about covid you let them give you perspective Even if your circumstances look the same Even if you have to endure hard things You will be so overwhelmed with god So overwhelmed with whatever is true and noble and good That you won't have energy To worry about the bad things And so now Looking at all of this in context you can see why paul says i have learned The secret of contentment And the secret sauce It's jesus It's jesus above all else it's focused on jesus And with jesus I can endure hardships With jesus i can resist temptation With jesus i can bear with the unbearable bear with people that are almost impossible to be around With jesus i can do all these things Through him who strengthens me but not just get through them but be grateful and joy filled all the while And this my friends Is way better than being able to dunk a basketball Listen you don't need a god to motivate you to get a better job You don't even need a god to motivate you to chase after your dreams The truth is many of us can do that on our own anyways You need a god who makes you strong when life sucks Who gives you a hope when all else fails Who helps you endure when others would quit And one who isn't afraid to get in the mess with you Don't you love that our god gets in the mess with us? He's not like I ain't going down there I'm gonna get in the mess with them. Oh you created it. You don't no no He gets in the mess of our life with us. So if you look at philippians 4 13 It's actually way better than originally advertised because the reality is most of us are find it easy to be content with life When life is going well Right, it's easy to be content when circumstances are going our way But when life falls apart and when you feel stuck in life's prison And you don't know what to do then jesus can come in and give you what you can't get on your own A strength and a hope and a peace that passes all understanding A true contentment in the midst of pain See it's not just about even getting through the bad times It's it's not just about kind of sucking it up and pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps Lots of people can get through bad times, but only jesus can help you get through with a true joy With contentment with peace And if you during all of these chaotic times are getting through things with joy People look at you and they see peace in you when everything else looks like chaos That really is a true superpower That's impressive to a lost and dying world That's a superpower that old moody old batman would love to have And don't be like if you're a comic book nerd, I mean technically batman didn't have superpowers He had a utility belt and so you get my point, okay So listen You can get through kovat Isn't this while I was thinking about this just the other day six months ago We didn't know I didn't know anyone who had it now. I know dozens of people who do Right you you can get through the quarantines you can get through the online schooling You say well, how you can do it through christ who strengthens you If you're going through a divorce heartbreak maybe somebody it's going through a Affair and they're trying to figure out how to navigate it and their heart is broken and they're like, I don't know how I can go on You can go on Because you can do everything through christ Who strengthens you? There's people in this room right now who are going through a lot of pain Physical pain, maybe cancer treatments Maybe they're going through the pain of a miscarriage people online. You know you're going through something right now And you're like, I don't know how I can get through this Well, you can do it through christ who strengthens you You look at god's will for your life And it involves risk it seems daunting and you're not sure how am I going to be able to accomplish god's will And do what god has called me to do. Well, I can do all things Through christ who strengthened me. I'm dealing with temptation I'm afraid to relapse I don't know what to do. Well, I can fight back because I can do all things Through christ who strengthens me. I don't have a job. I don't have any money in the bank I don't know how i'm going to pay my bills, but I can do all things Through christ who strengthens me. I can get through this with hope and joy and contentment They make fun of me. They mock me for my values They mock me for having joy in the midst of all this chaos They mock me and they make fun of me because I said I wanted to wait to have sex until I'm married and they think I'm a freak They mock me because I don't join in on those jokes that they like to kind of tell at the water cooler I like to tell the print room. I don't get into that so they make fun of me But it doesn't matter. I can endure the mocking I can endure them making fun of me because I can do all things Through him who strengthens me And so here's how we're going to wrap up today And I can't think of a better way To celebrate christ's strength in us Then by celebrating communion And so if you have your community you can go and grab it Don't take it yet. We're actually going to take it as we sing the song But I just want you to have it for a second and if you're at home go and grab your communion and And just think about this for a second. Think about what god has done for us You know communion is such a sacred act and you say well, why is it a sacred act? It's sacred because what we're doing is remembering That jesus's body Was broken for us that his blood Was shed for us and when you think about and look at those elements and you you picture jesus's broken body And you picture his blood being shed on a cross and you realize he did that for you That he loves you more than you could ever know and more than you could ever imagine man It gives you a lot to be grateful for It gives you a lot to be thankful for It doesn't matter what circumstances are happening to you. You know that you had a god who died for you And man that is so powerful And when christ and when you take the emblems we don't we know it's not magic But it's symbolic and when you take it it's symbolic of christ being in you And when you understand that christ is in you then you can see why maybe you have the strength to endure Because yes, maybe people in this world would fall apart on their own fall apart on their own strength But with christ in you You can do everything through him who strengthens you One of the things we believe around here is that communion is a a sacred gift for believers For someone who has personalized and owned what jesus has done for them And I do want to say if you're here or you're watching online and you don't believe man, thank you so much for just Taking a part of state line church and investigating it We ask that you don't take part in communion Because we want this to be something that's sacred for people who I have identified with jesus, but I will say this If you're sitting here, you're like, I need that strength. I need that hope I need more than what i've been trying to do on my own I've been trying to do it on my own and it's just not working. I want the strength that comes from jesus I want to put my faith in jesus and you can take communion as your first act Of salvation your first act of putting your hope In trust in jesus. You just simply say jesus. I believe your body was broken for me I believe your blood was shed for the forgiveness of my sins And then we're gonna sing a song It's a new song a song we haven't sung around here. It's called I will follow you anywhere And as we sing this song as you're reflecting on what jesus has done for you at any point during this next song You can take communion on your own and for those of you watching online same thing As you're listening to this song at any point when you feel ready Go ahead and take communion on your own And do this as an act of saying not only thank you But keeping your focus on him Of internalizing what jesus has done in your life saying you will be my strength no matter what comes my way You know one last thing I want to read to you. I read a story This week about a young man who was going through leukemia and he unfortunately passed away I want you just to look at this quote from this article I read as to what he said to his pastor in the midst of his struggle He said he said this I have learned that life is not like a vcr You can't fast forward the bad parts kids in here. You can ask your parents later what a vcr is But I have learned that jesus christ is in every frame And right now That's just enough Here's the truth no matter what you're going through As you look at your life It doesn't matter what you're going through doesn't matter where you're at in your life It doesn't matter how things are going all that matters is who is with you And if jesus is with you in every single frame then that's enough It doesn't matter how it's playing now, and I'll tell you what you know what glorifies god It doesn't glorify god if you can dunk a basketball, but it does glorify god when you say jesus I will follow you anywhere no matter what no matter what i'm going through because I can do all things Through him who strengthens me. Let me pray for communion and then pray as we enter into this next song heavenly father just grateful for the ability to take communion to celebrate That jesus body was first of all sent and shown us how we can live and then broken for us And blood shed for the forgiveness of our sins And we don't ever want to take that for granted And then there's this promise that you fill us up that you live within us You give us this power because of what jesus has done now we can be in union and relationship with you And so no matter what circumstances come our way. Let us be the people that will say I will follow you anywhere No matter what's going on because I can do all things through him Who strengthens me we give these next few moments to you amen All right, so a couple of things here to know If for some reason you're here and you're thinking okay this week I really need to put my focus on christ. I I I've been doing this wrong I haven't been putting all my focus on chaos and the news and social media and it's just causing me Anxiety and panic then here's something I want you to do Read Philippians 4 specifically verses 6 through 13 Maybe read it every day every morning first thing you do read that Let that kind of be your reset button for the week Right to to help you get your focus where it needs to be so that you can endure and live in the strength of jesus this week So do that if you're here also and you put your faith in jesus or you're really interested in exploring more about what that means Or even watching online and you're like, hey, I'm really on the fence We'd love to send you this resource called I have decided it really explains some next steps Of what to do when you've put your faith in jesus and it'd be even great if you're still exploring jesus If you go to our app and fill out the connection card You can click right on there either I have decided to follow jesus or you can just put in there I'd love to have an I have decided book and we will mail this to you Or you can get one today if you would like to get one. God bless you guys keep you guys We'll see you next week


Hey guys and girls, good afternoon. Welcome back to theCUBE's day one coverage of Google Cloud Next live at Moscone South in sunny, I think, San Francisco. Lisa Martin here with Dustin Kirkland, our CUBE analyst. We're going to have a great conversation next with Deloitte and CME Group. We've got Pradeep Sandhu, Cloud Security Leader at Detroit. Great to have you. Deloitte, excuse me, not Detroit, Deloitte. Dan Manley is here, the CISO at CME Group. Guys, great to have you on theCUBE. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us. We're here with about 20,000 other people, so it's pretty loud in here. You probably can hear that in the background. Lots of folks here, lots of interest, lots of news. Dan, start us off, talk to us a little bit about CME Group. What do you guys do? Give us all that backstory. So CME Group is the largest futures and options exchange in the world. And so we're located out of Chicago, but we serve customers around the globe. You have been on, so CME's been on a Google Cloud adoption journey for, what about a, I see in my notes, more than a year now, Deloitte's been helping from a Cloud Security Enablement perspective. Give us a snapshot of that journey and then we'll get you to weigh in from a security lens. So CME Group announced our partnership with Google in November of 2021. And as a highly regulated, critical infrastructure provider in financial services, we knew that we had to have a secure infrastructure. We did not have that as optional. And so we've been working very hard to move forward down that path. We knew we needed a partner to assist us with that effort. And we chose Deloitte. And so Prateep and I have been working very closely over that time period. Prateep, talk a little bit about Cloud Security Enablement. You know, we can't have a conversation about Cloud without talking about security. It's a hot topic, as is Gen AI. But what does Cloud Security Enablement from Deloitte look like? Yeah, I think it's a loaded question. When I would try to, you know, like split it into some of those small phases. Like when we started off this journey, our focus was on enabling the foundational elements to start with. And then we started on building upon it. So as we went through that process, it's more than 18 months than we have been working together to strengthen the Cloud Security for CME. And overall, if you ask me to summarize it, you know, again, starts with the foundational element and then you jump into continuous improvements and building the automation into the mix. So close collaboration, I would say from the day one, Google, Deloitte and CME joined hands, we teamed together. And that was the first starting point, you know, when we started off with this journey overall. Yeah, I've spent the last four or five years in the financial services industry. And boy, that's an industry that is in need of some modernization and migration to Cloud. I don't know, either you can kind of just talk about that journey and how, you know, Google Cloud, Deloitte and CME have come together for that, you know, modernization. Maybe Dan, feel free to chime in. For the last five years and for the next 10 years, probably, you know, we are seeing there's a huge amount of migration and modernization in the Cloud is happening. And that is driving focus on Cloud security because ultimately you want to make sure that your workloads are secure in the Cloud. And security is no more just one word. It's a combination of multiple domains, right? Now you're talking about data protection, security logging, network security and so forth. So it is crucial for any enterprise to identify and address those risks up front, you know, before you start with that journey. And then feel free to opine on it. I think the other aspect is the speed with which we were expected to deliver today. The ability for competitors to jump into a particular market is obviously an area that all organizations are concerned with. So the Cloud really enables that. But as we move fast, we need to make sure that we continue to be secure and defensible. And so our ability to understand how we're going to roll out new technologies of the Cloud, migrate our legacy apps into that new environment, but still maintain that vigilance against the threat actors coming against us is something that's very important. Dan, share a little bit about some of the risk challenges that you face. And then when we think about the cybersecurity landscape, it's changing so rapidly. The perimeter is now so amorphous and porous. What were some of those key risks that you faced that you came to Deloitte and Google to help eliminate? So as I touched on agility, the speed to be able to be responsive and make that change was very important for us to exact the value out of that migration of the Cloud. The second item was to understand how that new technology coming into our environment, our infrastructure, what were the vulnerabilities that might exist? How would that help us to mitigate vulnerabilities? And the third item is to understand how does that change our security ecosystem? The tools we use to really detect and monitor threat actors attempting to do us harm to be able to make sure we can understand that. And the reality is it's a hybrid environment while you're making that change to the Cloud. So it's important to make sure that those two elements work together as one cohesive view. Would you say, Dan, that you're taking both a defensive security posture as well as offensively and trying to get out ahead of attacks as well? I think that's a little bit of the debate you see in sports which is, is it better to have a good defense or a good offense? The reality is we have to have a balance as we look at things to make sure we understand what our perimeter is and how secure it is, especially acknowledging how it is somewhat amorphous as things are moving. But also we're part of a broader financial services infrastructure and ecosystem that includes connectivity with government agencies, other large financial service clients. So we have to make sure that we're bringing security to them as well to make sure it all works together as one. Pretty talk a little bit about Deloitte's approach to help CME really tackle these risks and challenges head on so that you can start dialing the risk down. What was that approach like? Absolutely. And like I said earlier, it's a complex undertaking to secure the broader landscape which is evolving every day. So our approach was taking those baby steps starting with defining the foundational capabilities and the plan around it. And those foundational capabilities like said, do you have a CSPM? Do you have CNAP? Do you have a SOAR capabilities established? And then also talking about what are the access controls and policies you want to make sure are going into the platform to start with and then you're building upon it. And I think Dan just mentioned it. It is a combination of prevention and detection which is super critical because you need to go hand in hand so that you have preventative capabilities going into the platform and you have detection capabilities going into the platform and both would provide you a good security posture which you need as you're taking on this journey. So our approach was defining that plan and then continuously identifying what next after the first step and second step and third step and building upon it. And being 18 months now, I would say we are charting towards what is the next thing we need to catch up and are we prepared for it? So those were the key areas of which any enterprise who's taking the journey needs to work upon. But what keeps you up at night security-wise, Dan? And how can Deloitte and Google Cloud help let you sleep a little bit better? So I think what Deloitte has really helped us with as we think about all those threats that are targeting us is how to understand the protections we put in place will help us identify when something happens. It's not really a case of if, it's really a factor of when. And so the ability to appropriately detect where those bad things are going to manifest themselves and make sure that we're getting that into our cyber defense center as we refer to it as a security operation center. That cyber defense center being able to identify things as early as possible is something that Deloitte's been able to help us do. A lot of announcements this morning in the keynote at Google, we knew we were going to hear a lot about GenAI, we can't go to any conference without talking about it these days. That's one of the hottest topics. But there was also a lot of talk about security. I'm just curious, Dan, if you were in that keynote, what were some of the things that you heard? And are you in a triangulate working with Deloitte and Google Cloud able to influence the direction their security posture is going in? I'm just curious. Yes, I would share with you, I was in the event, it was very exciting to see the announcements. CME Group, through our partnership with Google, it does have the ability to influence some of those things. We found the product management team at Google to be very receptive to feedback. And so as we've identified opportunities, features we would like to see, they've asked us to provide them information and insight to help them understand how they can add that to their roadmap. And so I think that's part of what has been great about the partnership with Google is to be able to have that face-to-face conversation and find that that's something they're very open to. Very symbiotic partnership, it sounds like to me. It certainly is. I'd say the three teams, Google, Deloitte and CME, we have a triumph for it, if you will, at CME as we've been going through the migration to understand who has the right skillsets, who has the artifacts that will serve as accelerators for us to be able to enable us to get to the cloud as fast as possible. Yep, that speed is key. I am curious too, Dan, and I want to get pretty pure thoughts too. The cybersecurity skills gap is real. It's significant, it's been around for quite a while. A lot of companies are trying really hard to help solve it. How does the work that CME is doing with Deloitte and Google, how is it helping you to address that? It's helping us in that there's quite a bit of education available to be able to help our security practitioners get certified. And then we look for the opportunity to be very much hands-on. Deloitte's contributed to that, bringing in the experience they have from other clients to help coach some of our staff up to an appropriate level, but then additionally, being able to get some sandboxes in the cloud where people can go in and practice safely, and then we can tear those environments down and let them do it all over again. Really, that iteration helps us to be able to grow and mature our skillsets as quick as possible. And Pradeep, just generally for other CISOs like Dan around the industry, what sort of messages or advice do you have for them around security, especially as it pertains to Google Cloud? Absolutely. So I think my advice, because we have been working on similar journeys with a couple of other enterprises, absolutely including CME Group, so three advice, and these three advice could be different for the three different groups. The first advice, in my opinion, is for security teams. Understand what is security of the cloud and security in the cloud, because those two are very different things, right? And it is very important or imperative for security teams to understand what they have in the cloud so that they can secure it. And it goes beyond, without saying, understand what you need to secure before you secure it. So that's the first advice to security teams. My second advice is to security leaders out there, like start this journey in a small step. This is not a sprint, it's a marathon. And you will take years to get to the perfection, right? That's the second advice. And so start with a small step, start with foundational capabilities and build upon it. And the third advice is to the transformational leader, and this is the big one, include security on day one if you are building your transformation plans because if they are not on the seat, every day, every hour would multiply by a couple of days and could derail the transformation journey. So include them on the day one and learn what is in the cloud and more importantly, start with a foundational step and build upon the continuous improvement. I think that's a great approach for so many things, kind of start small. At the same time, you talked about down the agility and the need to move fast. How do you manage both? Again, getting engaged as early as possible to help understand where blockers could develop or security services might not be available. And then once you have that transparency, you're able to allocate time, focus, attention to be able to make sure you clear those blockers as soon as possible. Part of that agile methodology to learn quickly and recognize it's not all rainbows and unicorns, you're going to encounter challenges, learn fast and then be able to move on from there. I always say failure is not necessarily a bad F word. And just talk about that. I'm just talking about that. Have the right partner with you, right? Your right partner is very important because who have done this few times is always really doing on the ground rather than planning for it. There's a different plan and doing action about it, right? So I think it's very important to have the right partner who have done it and who can take, who can join you along in this journey. And I think Dan already mentioned it at the start. The teaming with the cloud service provider and the consulting partner and the client is very crucial because those three people need to move every step together, right? To make the progress. What I would add to that is pick a partner that you can have a difficult conversation with based on fact. As I said, things don't always go right. Having somebody you can say, I don't understand that or that doesn't make sense to me. How do you account for this scenario is very important. It's unrealistic to think your partner's going to come in with everything defined for you. It takes that team working together to be able to right size the solution to fit for your organization. And how, from a leading edge perspective, Dan, were you in the Google Cloud journey? As the CISO, were you the lead there? We talk about, you know, when our security is concerned, we've got to shift left, bring security in. But how many people are at the table, if you will, in terms of really getting buy-in from your executive peers and even the folks downstream to say, we need to go to Google Cloud. Here's why, here's how we're going to do it securely. So, CME Group had actually been on their cloud journey for probably four or five years before our partnership was announced with Google. And so, that really accelerated things for us. And that really gave the executive endorsement that we were moving to Google Cloud. And then we were doing it intentionally and with purpose. That really helped us make sure we had a seat at the table. And then as we adopted some of the new product operating models to be able to integrate and work closely with our developers, we pulled in part of my larger team as quickly as possible to get folks working together to drive that incremental improvement that Pradeep talked about. And it's allowed us to be able to start parallel paths to be able to get things deployed so that you're not singularly focused on one project. We're moving at the speed of the business as much as we can. That's just it, moving at the speed of the business. It's all about enabling those business outcomes, right? Correct. You have to be able to provide value today. The idea that we are going to just secure the perimeter and not let things that happen is very unrealistic. And so our understanding of that is really leading into that cultural shift. I think it's going to help us to be successful for the future. You just brought up a great point. It is a cultural shift. And that's a hard thing for especially history organizations to go through, especially with the agility and the speed with which you need to be competitive. Pradeep, how does Deloitte help organizations like a CME and other enterprises that you work with to really face head-on that cultural transformation that has to happen and actually enable kind of smooth waters? Yeah, I think there are a couple of steps, you know, like every enterprise need to consider whenever they are on the cloud adoption journey. So a couple of steps could be, do you have a solid cloud strategy? It looks like, you know, a taxonomy which everyone uses, but do you have a plan even, right? Like what are the five steps you want to do? Second thing is, is your tooling or security tooling ready? Where are you going to implement these access controls, policies or the configurations? Do you have the right tooling to secure your world, right? And the third thing I would emphasize on, how are you building your teams to your point? You know, like it's a cultural shift. Are your teams being trained on the cloud? Do they know what needs to be secured? And last but not the least is have a line of sight where you want to direct your teams, what to do next and what is behind and have the interdependencies called out. And just the bonus point here is, I want to talk about it is, have a single plan. We have seen infrastructures having their own plan, platform is their own plan and then security is on there. Do we have a single plan to drive the transformation and security inside it? So those would be the key things I would say, you know, like where Deloitte have been helping multiple enterprises in this space. Yeah, and so that line of sight, like what's just over the horizon for you? Maybe that's a question for both of you, but like, you know, what's kind of next? I wish you were seeing me, we're still on that journey. We've got our foundations built, we're moving applications over, we're working with the appropriate regulators to make sure they're comfortable with the move. But even as we start moving things, we know there's another version of improvement we'll have to build for. And so it's going to be a very long marathon as Pradeep alluded to earlier. Yeah. And in my opinion, just add what Dan said, definitely there's a plan every enterprise have it, right? And we need to walk through it. For consulting firm like us, it is a journey. And there is a huge opportunity to help enterprise, you know, who needs help. And on that point, I would call it out is within Deloitte we are building our teams, defining or redefining our offerings in the secure digital transformation areas. And also pulling together, what are our common alliances? Like Google is our alliance here. We work with them very closely, right? So who are our common alliances? Who can help the enterprises like CME Group in this situation? That strong alliance, technology alliance, strategic alliance is so incredibly important. Guys, thank you so much for joining us on theCUBE today, sharing what's going on at CME, how you're on this Google Cloud journey, the journey that Deloitte is helping drive and Deloitte's journey. We appreciate that lots to look forward to. So thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for having us. Our pleasure. For our guests and Dustin Kirkland, I'm Lisa Martin and you're watching theCUBE live, day one of our coverage of the Google Cloud next from the show floor at Masconi South. Stick around, Dustin and I have a great guest lineup coming up next.


This morning I got an interesting comment from one of my YouTube followers And I thought I'd share it with you because I when we dive into some of the particulars when it comes to the Dating marketplace and the dating mating relating process. I think we get a better understanding of who's really Who is really desirous of a significant relationship and who's in it for just the fun? So let's lean into this for a second. I want to share with you what someone just wrote me a few minutes ago And they said people can date just for fun And it's okay as long as they don't say things that will lead the other party to think you want commitment when you don't If people could be more honest people in the dating apps ha ha as if there would be less misunderstanding It occurs to me that if and so as I was leaning into this for a moment It occurs to me that if men were absolutely Straightforward on their dating profiles. All I want is just sex a good time in sex Many men will actually get how many men will actually receive that now I know there is this belief that for example Tinder is the hookup place But the reality is is these days men and women buy into this Narrative that what I call relationship talk and what I mean to say is I think it's a unspoken rule between men and women that if a man says he wants a relationship a woman will believe them and then they'll engage in a short-lived encounter in many cases where there is some romance and some sex and Yet no real commitment. No real relationship is Developed from that Think about that for a moment if men were absolutely honest like what this woman has suggested How likely is a person going to want to engage in just an exploration of fun? Yes There is the small percentage of women that are just simply in it for hookups as well But the reality is is our current dating marketplace is based on the idea of the Exploration of a relationship an Exploration of a relationship at least that's the hidden promise that's supposed to happen between two people The problem with this unspoken Dynamic is it ends up leading a lot of people down the wrong path and by the way I do believe men I do believe most men are good guys. They're just bad daters, but more importantly I do believe most men are good guys. They're just lying to themselves when it comes to what do they really want in a Significant relationship. What do they really want? I'm referring to it. What do they want in this process? Listen folks that if you follow my channel, I particularly focus on those who only want partnership out of this dating Process out of this dating mating relating process through the dating marketplace only those who genuinely want Partnership with another person and to me partnership is most likely not always either living together or getting married. That's that's my belief That's my conversation My conversation isn't centered around how to meet You know how to have a short lived experience a Situation ship a casual relationship a friends with benefits and my job is to point out those who only seek those types of Relationship particularly the met Let me let me repeat this my coaching my whole channel is centered on how to determine Which guy is genuinely? Desirous of partnership versus all the others that are in it for a short term They're in it for a short term mating process not a long term mating process In fact, if you need some support with that check out the link below to a free discovery called with me to see if working with a coach is right for you So I want to lean into how does a man demonstrate? Really demonstrate he loves you. He really loves you And he's demonstrating his ways to show love Well going back to this original comment I want you to think of this how many men and women say the words I love you to each other But it's not a real commitment to one another That's right. How many men show them say how many men and women will say the words? I love you to each other, but it doesn't demonstrate a real commitment to one another I Get women asking me all the time Jonathan, I'm with a great guy, but I want more commitment out of them. I'm like great What does that look like for you? But Jonathan? I want more commitment out of them. I'm like great What does that look like for you? Jonathan? I want more commitment out of my guy. Great What does that look like for you? First ladies you have to determine what does commitment look like for you? Now if you follow my channel, you know, I have my rhetoric It's always at least in the big in the fairly early stage of dating once I once two people decide that they want to be Monogamous and exclusive with one another Monogamous and excuse me you might think they're the two same things. You know monogamy basically says I'm only sleeping with one person at a time Exclusivity means I won't be actively seeking others people At the same time in other words, I won't actively be on the apps Looking for somebody else. That's exclusivity monogamy is I'm just gonna sleep with one person at a time so when two people agree to Monogamy and exclusivity mainly calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend the standard I would invite you all to have is The following that we spend two three four days and nights a week together Doing shared activities hobbies mutual interest spending time with family and friends Travelling together teamwork building skills both in our personal and professional life intimacy both physical and emotional Intimacy that leads to either moving in together or getting married Now you might some of you might be going with Jonathan. I'm in a long-distance relationship. We can't see each other that often folks Proximity breeds continuity Proximity breeds continuity and what continuity means is continuous Just like the roots to a tree the more the more the roots continue to grow Through proximity That's stronger the the tree is okay, so proximity breeds continuity and continuity Leads to long-term commitment Yes, there's exceptions to the role I know some of you think even in my relationship It was long distance in our relationship. We spent a Significant amount of time together Significant in fact in the 90-day period we spent close to 40 days together That's more than most people spend when they actually live in the same tale. Okay so coming back to The idea of demonstrating love one of the most important things when people say I love you to each other in my opinion that Should be Kind of the agreement that we're going to really explore long-term commitment with one another And yet people like this woman who wrote dating should just be fun and saying I love you should just be for fun Okay No, I Believe when you get to that point of saying you genuinely love each other. There should be not there shouldn't be a There should be a not just implied Conversation of commitment, but an actual plan for long-term commitment with one another So how do you know the guys who really mean I love you for the long run because ultimately when you say I love you to each other isn't just I enjoy the good times with you I think it also should mean I'm gonna be there for you during the bad times through the tough times Maybe you're sick. I'm gonna be there for you. I want to take care of you not just Financially take care of you because I recognize that it's not about the financial piece, but it's the Emotionally take care of you spiritually take care of you Physically take care of you That's what real I think if you get to that point So I'm gonna share with you those six ways a man shows I love you and I'm gonna dive into this so I'm gonna say it out loud really quickly When a person says I love you this is how I believe it should mean I'm here You matter We are important. I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere and I only want you So I'm here Means I'm present to this relationship. My mind isn't wandering elsewhere I'm not gonna let all the other Important things in my life to take away from my being present to our relationship Present to this relationship. That's what I'm here means You matter That means you and I are on equal footing to one another It's not a one-up one-down type relationship. We're on equal footing with one another Your feelings matter to me your best interests matter to me you matter to me Think about that Is it trust really the You know, we oftentimes think of trust centered around fidelity But I really do believe when you trust someone is when they they say you matter to me That I'm not beneath you It's not all about it's not doing it my way or the highway And I know jokingly I will say but Jonathan I'm just supposed to sit my feminine energy you let him do all the work Folks a real healthy relationship is a two lane street a two lane street You're both equally investing in one another By the way, it's a gorgeous sunrise behind me All right, you matter we are important. We are important. That means the relationship is a separate entity There's a you there's a me then there's a collective we which means I'm investing in the growth of this relationship Have you experienced that? Do you experience a co-creative relationship? I mean by co-creative. It's two people Mutually investing in one another That is the kind of relationship that builds the deep roots that can sustain the tough times I'm here you matter we're important. I've got your back I've got your back Do you ever see the movie blind side? It was I think there was a lie in the movie that says I've got your back That means I'm protective of you I'm protective of you not just in the Financial sense. I'm there. I've got your back Emotionally I've got your back physically I've got your back spiritually meaning I'm being protective of you. I'm not going anywhere Look at I'm fully committed to this relationship. I don't want to leave I want this to to go deeper and Want this to go deeper Think about that. What does deeper mean? Deeper means is that is the building of that trust with one another You know these days people say I love you so cavalierly and The hard part is for many women in particular. They see that as a long-term commitment With each other Isn't it sad because we've become such a disposable society we become a group that just basically says I'm in it for just the fun Like this woman suggests In my opinion dating is For a purpose the purpose of dating is to vet the other person to determine if it's worth exploring a relationship with them And a relationship is a vetting process to decide if this is someone worth investing long term with one another because the long term Does require at some point to take care of one another if you're in it for the short run the fun We want you to think about that for those of us in midlife You know at some point we're going to age we're going to need help from the other person physically But Jonathan I don't want to be a nurse or a person That's part of the the bargain that you make with another person. Sure. You might want to have some longevity with a person before that happens, but saying Saying being in a fully committed relationship is saying I want to take care of you and the last And I think this is just as equally important as all the other is So I just want to repeat I'm here you matter We are important. I've got your back. I'm not going anywhere and I only want you in other words You are the person I only want to make love to that. I want to be sexually intimate with you I'm not going to be fantasizing about other people. I'm not going to go off on watch porn to get my excitement you Are the excitement for me you bring me that level of excitement and Desire and pleasure As we age that doesn't happen as frequently as it when we're younger But ultimately they're not on the dating app swiping, you know for someone else I know people that will say I love you and they're on the dating app in the early stage of dating and they'll say they'll be swiping elsewhere genuine love Is that when you're really genuinely in love with someone and you say the words I love you I'm gonna repeat myself one more time. This is how it should feel. I'm here. You matter. We're important I've got your back.  Are you experiencing it now? Have it seemed like some men say the words, but they don't have the actions behind it Ladies it's coming upon you because you're making these decisions for yourself And if you buy into the narrative that chemistry equals relationship success You might find yourself in a situation where you're attached to another person who isn't truly Desirous of long-term commitment who isn't really desirous or something deeper and let me just say this There are lots of men that are genuinely desirous of a significant relationship Now when I say the word lots It might be a small percent. I mean might be 20% of the population that's actively in the dating marketplace It's not it's not over 50% most 50 most 80% are operating the way this woman suggested Let's just have fun dating If dating is all about fun Then you could be setting yourself for only those short Fun is a short-term mating strategy being intentional Is a long-term mating strategy and that's what I teach when you work with me to help you Gain footing on who are the men who are genuinely interested from a long-term mating strategy versus the short-term mating strategy Is this making sense? Is this resonating with you? Please let me know if you find value in this Please hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel if you're brand new Check out the links below to a free discovery call with me to see if working with the coach is right for you Follow me on Instagram or even join my group called midlife love master. It's all listed below Now I saw the bird just fly by all right I think this is a great place to wrap up this video Please let me know if it resonated with you Please let me know if it had value for you and I'm going to wrap up my video as I always do first I'll give myself a big gigantic John the merit of self-love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love If that's okay, I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone a pat a teddy bear pillow You have entered them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love and let's face it We could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye now


This is stock number 11429. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used sports car headquarters. Today we are checking out this exceptionally clean 2009 Chevy Corvette. This vehicle has the 6.2 liter LS3 V8 motor. It has a red crystal metallic tint coat paint. All of our vehicles go through a 130 point inspection process. They get a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids get checked and topped off per the state of Wisconsin inspection process before being made available on the lot. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, definitely turn them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. And if you want to check out all the photos on this car in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one has Michelin Pilot Sport tires in the front. These are 245 40 ZR 18. So you get 18 inch rims in the front. Chromed alloy rims. Those are Corvette rims and they are in excellent shape. No scuffs or scrapes on them. And the tires I have probably about in the front here I'd say of 60-70% of the tread left. Pretty good amount of tread left on those tires in the front. Front fender is in excellent shape. It does come with the HIG headlamps, the factory fog lamps. Front bumper is in nice shape as well. And the hood is in excellent condition. Passenger side front fender. No major scuffs or scrapes. And the passenger side rim same thing as well. No major scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of the car take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the car you can see the car, hear the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there is absolutely no surprises. And that is also why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here all you have to do is drive the car and love it and be all set to go. On the back we have Goodyear Eagle F1 tires and these are 285 35 ZR19 so you get 19 inch rims in the back. Those tires have right around 50% of the tread left maybe just a hair under. Four wheel disc brakes of course on the Corvette. As we come around to the back rear bumper is in nice shape. You do get the quad tip dual rear exhaust and those are in really nice clean condition as well. We'll open up the trunk in just a second here. We'll finish the outside walk around. Driver side rear quarter looks really good. No major scuffs or scrapes or scratches and the rear driver side rim is in excellent condition as well. No scuffs or scrapes. Door looks really good too. You do get power mirrors.  No rips, no tears on the seats. They are in really nice condition. Power driver seat. We have actually two sets of floor mats in this Corvette. You get the Corvette stamp on the side there. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors. We'll open up that trunk so you can check that out without the dinging. Back storage area is very nice and clean and this one does come with a bra. Also has the holders for the hardtop so that hardtop is removable and just to reiterate the hardtop is in nice shape as well. We'll hop inside and take a look at the speedometer and everything. We'll start it up too. I'll just come up. 22,180 miles on this car and spring cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel. You got the paddle shifters on there. Audio controls as well. There's your information center controls right there. There's a push button start. This one does come with the factory navigation system on it. AM, FM and I believe Serious XM radio capabilities on this car. Dual climate controls, automatic transmission, passenger side floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears. Smells extremely clean in this car. The top or inside of the hardtop is in nice condition as well and you do get on-star capabilities in that mirror as well as a compass display. We'll take a quick look at the engine. It does have auto headlamps as well and I'll show you those headlamps because they are HIV's. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 LS3 motor. Engine bay is very clean. Runs very smooth. There are those HID headlamps. 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