Thank you. Good morning, everybody. It was very nice to see you all here. I was just saying to Ken that it's great. You all came so early, so we're starting unscheduled. And as you know what we're going to be talking about is the changing face of digital innovation in Ireland. This presentation, can I introduce someeka formally in a minute, will be on the record. cyd-dweud hynny'n gwybod y byddai chi'n mynd i'w chadwmhau cyflwynt. Doedd ydych chi'n rhaid o'r arddangos ar y 가�f teist ar y bwysig yn hyn yn ymweld. Mae'n rhaglen oedd yn 10 y modd o unig, ac rwy'n rhaglen o'r ddweud bydd o'r tîm. Mae'n rhaglen o'r 6 eich llei geirio cenderwch yng Nghymru, o fod eich bod yn ddefnyddio ymweld. Felly, we are doing very well and we are particularly lucky today and happy to have Ken Finnegan back to talk to us here in the IAE way. He is well placed to discuss and provide insights on how Ireland has managed to achieve what is a really good record when you think about it and is uniquely positioned to take the lead and to look at how we are going to take the lead in digital innovation and digital disruption in the future. Ken is director of technology and innovation at the Harvard, sorry, the Harvard. He is global experience, you probably all know this in research, development and innovation in high value technology organisations and initiatives that create tangible value. He has also worked very closely with research centres with universities and third level institutions and helped create a master's degree in AI with three of the universities which was a really big development I think and really very timely. He was also chief technologist with the IDA and was involved in policy development, the creation of jobs and industrial growth. He was responsible in creating national value propositions for Ireland in artificial intelligence, the internet of things, cyber security and software engineering. So we are particularly lucky to have Ken here today and we look forward to your presentation and your insights. Thank you very much. Good morning everybody. I guess it is probably best to start off with talking about, I don't know if anybody has seen the news over the past 24 hours but it has been an interesting development with the Harvard innovation campus. It is no longer going to be on a ferry terminal in Tunliri which is a shame but we are working through that at the moment. It is an interesting development but only a minor slowdown let's say in terms of the vision that we have for Ireland. Thank you very much for having me here today and that was very kind introduction especially after the past 24 hours. There is a lot of stuff going on and we can make a change. So the changing phase of digital innovation in Ireland. As Joyce mentioned over the past six, seven years I have had a great opportunity. I worked as chief technologist in IDA and while I was there my day-to-day job was understanding Ireland from an innovation perspective, from a tech and innovation perspective, getting out there essentially into the field and understanding what large multinationals are doing but also attracting multinationals into Ireland. At the same time it was an opportunity to develop value propositions for Ireland. The past 18 months of artificial intelligence has definitely consumed my life and I think it is everybody in this room if you haven't heard about the change or disruption that artificial intelligence is going to have on the world then you probably haven't been tuned into any media of any sort. So it was an absolute joy to work on that. Off the back of developing that value proposition because we'd engaged with the entire industry around the country and research centres etc. We managed to secure €3.5 million euros from government to set up the first, what we believe to be the first collaborative industry-driven national masters in the world. So what that means is the entire masters was actually defined by industry. So 37 companies came together and as opposed to university or academia defining what should be taught and the companies basically specified what should be on that masters. It's getting international recognition. It's been the most successful ICT skill net masters programme or programme skill net Ireland have ever run massively oversubscribed. So that was again a nice demonstration of the appetite from an AI perspective. Now I jump straight into AI there. So let's kick off. So what is innovation? I've really simple definition of innovation and because I've worked from an enterprise perspective simply because innovation is the commercialisation of an idea. From a government perspective it could be the impact of an idea etc. Creativity is thinking up new things, innovation is doing new things. This expression here, this formula here is something that I actually have written on my desk and framed on my desk because I think it's a really nice demonstration of innovation slash creativity. So C is for creativity equals the function of A and I'll explain what A is in a second but K i.e. K is knowledge, I is imagination and E is evaluation, A is attitude. If you've got the wrong attitude you don't have innovation, you don't have creativity and it's a conversation that I've been having especially a lot recently from an enterprise perspective but also from an innovation perspective. If there's people on your team, if you want to innovate and there's individuals on your team or there's a general kind of like culture of no, you're going nowhere fast and I think there's a way to change that as well. If you have people on your teams that kind of like go like no, get them to say both what if opens up the conversation and so I guess innovation, commercialisation of idea, to commercialise an idea, you have to be able to have those ideas, no STEM is that opportunity. So why has the term digital innovation become so ubiquitous? Everybody's talking about it these days as I mentioned artificial intelligence is a topic that you're currently but essentially the term innovation was coined in the late 90s in Forbes by a gentleman's name who I can't remember right now and it started I guess in 1998 especially with the first year the web 0.1 when the digital innovation happened and companies and individuals started to recognise as like okay we have a store or we have some type of enterprise, we need to get online, we need to just be digitally aware sell our products and services online that mentality has become so ubiquitous and it's underpinned by digitisation and we'll explain that in a second. As I mentioned we have artificial intelligence everybody's talking about it and they're not individual and all these technologies aren't they don't stand by themselves anymore they everything is starting to work together and this is where the complication is how it's becoming why it's becoming really complicated challenging and there's a lot of opportunities. So if you think about like from an IoT perspective is everybody familiar with the internet of things? So the idea is putting a sensor on whatever you want I could have one on my coast to measure kind of like my location or measure my biometric information and that information can be collected and if you're collecting millions billions of people's information AI is the solution that will look at that information and and and do some type of predictive analytics or say like okay maybe you need to buy a new coast this one's too old or basically provide some insight. 5G is about to come on the market next summer we'll we'll see the arrival of 5G what this means is currently the pipes that we communicate through have a certain capacity by when 5G is launched it's going to change the way communication happens so instead of downloading a movie which you probably could have done a few years ago but in in hours 5G will allow it to happen in seconds so communication and the transfer of data will happen in a much quicker way. Augmented virtual reality really fascinating things happening from that perspective as well we've seen closed stores where you can walk into now and using my jacket again it's like you can actually look at the screen and it'll put on the jacket for you and it'll measure you up and give you the right size and colours etc in and around but that's just one application area if you look at autonomous vehicles the application of google maps onto the windscreen of cars and there's lots of lots lots of opportunities happening there. Quantum computing is the next big thing I don't know much about that myself at the moment but if you have a conversation or if you look at IBM they've just developed the first quantum computing again the speed and size of computers or the speed is getting exceptionally fast sizes small robotics and artificial again artificial intelligence goes hand in hand and Ireland is really strong in AI we don't have such a heritage in robotics and we can see kind of like this some and to some good work coming out of trinity at the moment I don't know if anybody's been to Asia and some of the Asian hotels have pepper the computer or the little robot has a little screen that welcomes you you've seen them yeah um Ireland developed Stevie so Stevie so trinity is um professor professor Conor McGinn has developed a little robot called Stevie now Stevie isn't just for kind of like welcoming you into the foyer of a hotel they're very much focused on um assisting elderly and infirm people in in in the likes of um old folks home and in in camper lessons homes they want them to have a specific function in those areas um and there's really interesting work actually happening with um his company that he's spun out from trinity alone alone yeah yeah and alone actually won a prize a couple of years ago from the social innovation fund I think they go yeah yeah alone on netwell casala really interesting actually a fantastic example of the application of um technology in in an environment um where you can look after elderly people so in in Dundalk there's a there's a living lab so the 16 apartments and those apartments are have approximately 200 000 sensors in them whether they're on the floor under mats whether they're on the doors etc um and the whole idea is to monitor um and give independence to elderly people that are afraid to live alone so they're able to like for example when they get out of bed at night time when they step on their mat the light comes on automatically um one of the studies actually I saw from alone was um it was using again iot and I won't say I would definitely iot where every time they walked in and out of their house or every time they got up and out into bed and out of bed um everything was recorded when certain individuals went to their doctor the doctor was able to see their movement patterns to identify depression is is very subjective you go to the doctor and the doctor will ask you how do you feel and if you're kind of like if you're an open person you might go look I feel purely depressed right now but some people are embarrassed about mental health issues um so they'll say you know what I'm not too bad so it's really hard to identify if they're actually suffering from mental health issues with the information that they were able to collect about the movement of individuals they're able to the doctor can look at the data and subjectively go like I see a change in your behaviour for example a depressed person um doesn't like to won't leave their house typically to go shopping during the day because there's more people they can potentially move bump into they leave later on at night and you can see these changes in this data you can over time so in the years time or over six months you can recognise this change of information now it could be just a change in behaviour but at least the doctor is um equipped with information to go like okay there is a change in your in your behaviours are you sure you're okay and it gives the doctor more opportunity to kind of like investigate and um understand and that's I guess a really nice example of the power of of of technology and what it can do um so yeah first of all there's a tech like it's overwhelming artificial intelligence blockchain 5g robotics cyber security there's so much going on out there I was at a cyber security conference recently and it was specifically about cyber security but they talked about artificial intelligence and they talked about blockchain so we they're not silos anymore they're starting to come together and trying to get your head around this is is is very challenging seconds there's that night that example and the choice mentioned there's the application area of those technologies so up there we have um autonomous vehicles so via letter bulk the commissioner for um transportation in the european commission wants to see european streets and roads um totally autonomized by 2040 so there's every car in in europe every vehicle um autonomous by 2040 the main driver behind us there's a quarter of a million people die on their streets of europe every year um so to to bring the the target is how the target is to have zero deaths on the european roads um human error causes obviously most um accidents I noticed some kind of like uh some horror stories already with regards to people being in accidents with um autonomous vehicles but we're at the very start of that journey when the machines are all communicating with each other apparently it's going to be uh it's going to be interesting but turning turning a car into a technical device a technology device is that idea of convergence it's like the application of microelectronics communication technology and data analytics um and merging them all together to work seamlessly with each other um we've spoken about from a health perspective just so many opportunities I was glad to see um the new CEO of the um HSE is can anybody help me out with his name here he's ex um intel Martin Curly Martin Curly thank you I'm glad you drew him out there I was delighted to see Martin Curly has taken over that role he's like voted um top CIO um in Europe back in 2015 and I think hopefully he will have a massive impact in terms of what they can do and because the opportunity from a health perspective is phenomenal um another interesting and this is really relevant from an Irish perspective um advanced manufacturing we're not of that we are a manufacturing economy 33 percent of our GDP depends on on manufacturing um we're not low cost so it's not like the good old days of of having low skilled workers on low wages we are an advanced economy we need to we need to reduce costs so so if you go into some of the factories around the country they're absolutely spectacular in terms of the robotics and the technology that they have um I've been invited to give a talk to uh and this is actually really interesting over the past year I was invited to speak to radiologists about artificial intelligence so you can see different sectors in industry starting to prepare they recognize okay there's a potential disruption to our industry how do we prepare um so with the accountants the accountancy association of Ireland they've invited me to come and have a talk with them about artificial intelligence because any job that can be um that has routine in it essentially a robot essentially an AI can do robotic process automation is the disruptor there um so we've seen everybody from radiologists to accountants to to to all these different individuals starting to prepare for what's next and it's a really kind of it's a mentality that I very much encourage and I'm always happy to have discussions with people because because the future of our work is is transforming the whole idea of uh the education system at the moment it was in like going to primary school secondary school college coming out and then doing a job that's no longer the future we need to prepare ourselves as well as um as well as enterprise um yeah and then I have a picture of governments there um we have issues I know in government but I can see them starting to take take action I've been on I've sat on steering committees or committees in looking at and and and addressing kind of like why is Ireland number 10 in the world for innovation but at times our government can doesn't necessarily embrace it so there's a lot of kind of like a lot of work being there to try and address that number one I always say is we always come down to culture I guess the second point and an interesting point from my days in IDA when a multinational comes to Ireland they get to see the crown jewels they get to see why Ireland for innovation they get to see the amazing things that are going on around the country um as part of the plan with the harbour innovation campus that it was to make somewhere that's a nice demonstrator where everybody could come to to go and demonstrate what was going on there we'll still get it we'll still get to that finally I just want to talk about business models as well because everything's changing your traditional way of doing business is is no longer and and it's it's yeah that says it all basically and I'm sure you've seen many people in the room have seen this slide before but it's just it reinforces that that idea of business models who were the largest taxi company and it owns no cars airbnb owns no real estate skype doesn't have any telecommunications infrastructure now you're adding alibaba has anybody ever shopped from alibaba or wish yeah me too um and only recently and I'm kind of going like I you can see to benefit you know and facebook society one netflix apple our apple and google for for for um software no apps just platforms the whole idea of the platformer economy has become a new ubiquitous I look at this and I don't know if I feel terrified or if I feel kind of like this this this more opportunity here we saw last week um the Irish Government are starting to prepare legislation for controlling airbnb um in in Ireland and that's happening all around the world at the moment so we are definitely on a journey and some organizations are well ahead in terms of that journey um especially the digital native organizations I think what the the massive opportunity that we see at the moment is non-digital organizations and that idea of convergence so the health sector the the um transportation industry um the ones I talked about a few moments ago um every company is a technology company no matter what product or service it provides the companies that embrace this factor the ones to shape our world so this is a a Gartner um partner Peter Sandergard that's his quote also it's Pascal Donohue Minister for Minister for Finance Irish Government he's I've seen him speak of the past two weeks paraphrasing this he's aware that every company needs to become a digital needs to become a digital organization irrespective of your sector and I think it's so important I think the European Commission have um have identified this as well and if you if you look up the European Commission you'll see digital innovation hubs so the idea is that no organization across Europe is more than a 45 minute drive from a digital um innovation hub and we had a conversation that we want to have two in every region and at least minimum two in every region in Ireland um and the idea is okay I'm an accountancy firm or I'm uh an agricultural association of some sort what's going on like like I hear this AI is going to like we'll have autonomous tractors and drones flying in the air measuring for a scrote and you'll have fertilizer being spread by um by machines like how do we start this journey where do we go and that's the that's the biggest challenge for organizations at the moment it's like I know my business but I don't know technology where do I go to have this first conversation um so the idea of digital innovation hubs is great from a from um from a European perspective that that companies will have somewhere to go okay so the third challenge um for organizations is the speed of innovation so typically in innovation you have what they call the s curve of innovation so at the bottom of the s you have early adopters so and we've all seen this when the first iPhone or when an iPhone is new iPhone is released you have those crazy people that sit outside the shops going like yes it's a new color I want to get the white one and people do they queue up for for the early adopters yeah are the guys that wants wants the the first of the new tech then you've got me I guess the the growth spurt where it's like okay well the iPhone is out like two or three months it's really safe it's working there's no complaints um and as as sales happen essentially over time then you approach what they call the innovation window and this is this is where you see kind of like it's happening again with phones it's like um the apples of the world will will start teasing us with new features and it's like it's like on the next iPhone it's going to be this feature this feature this feature so that's fine then you jump from the top of the s curve onto your next innovation into your next innovation window and you've got a new phone or you've got a new product or you've got a new service etc now the problem with this or not the problem the the biggest challenge with this is traditionally on the left hand side there you can see um yeah an innovation phase would have taken years normally with the advent of digital um innovation and and digitisation these are getting so close together that it's hard to make sense and it's hard to stay on top of all the different technologies and all the opportunities and and and and innovate or die it's like if you don't if you don't recognise this it can be lethal for your organisation so this is again why why and the speed of things it's just baffling to stay on top of it so and finally fourth the evolution so innovation itself is being innovated right and just to make things complicated so originally you have closed innovation closed innovation is like okay i'm an intel i'm an ibm i'm whoever what i'm going to do is i'm going to hire really smart people and i'm going to put them in the basement for four months and they're going to come up with new products and services for me and they don't look outside the organization um this the advent in the past four or five years we've seen the advent of open innovation and and there's loads of programs and tools to help encourage um open innovation the idea is all about collaboration um has anybody ever heard the whole design thinking methodology where essentially you put your customer at the centre of your solution and you don't let engineers you don't let sales people you don't let anybody tell you what to design you let the customer go this is what i want and it can be really easily achieved i heard a really fantastic example from fidelity investments um i came up with this new idea for a like pension a 401k whatever they're called in the states and um like as opposed to building a prototype or as opposed to letting any software engineer or get an expensive work done they went and got a big piece of cardboard cut out a little kind of like ice cream van shaped van stood on the main street in boston and got and asked people as they were walking up and then the street if you had a pension that gave you this if you had a pension that looked like this so they got input from potential customers before they even started developing and i think the whole idea is that they were able to collect information in and around what products and services that they can sell from essentially and that was the actual approach we took with the AI masters as well um we the objective for at least from from an idea perspective was to understand why Ireland for artificial intelligence and traditionally we would have gone to the big four our consultants to tell us what was what why Ireland essentially and the opportunity this time we decided to take a different approach we decided to use the design thinking approach and we brought in 60 individuals from SMEs from multinationals we brought in government officials we had academic research institutions and we had uh the unions in there as well and we brought the unions in because there's going to be a massive social impact because of AI so we brought everybody together and we asked them numerous questions like what are you doing what do you see is the value from an AI perspective et cetera et cetera and from that day we were able to kind of like get a really good really good insight into why what's great about Ireland for artificial intelligence intelligence but at the same time we asked them what do you need from us what do you need from government to help to help progress that story um and we're still kind of like doing doing working it at the moment as well but the whole idea is that it's a collaboration and that's the that is the future of innovation now the final one here innovation network ecosystem is a really interesting and it feeds into the whole idea of of open innovation in order to bring the right people into a room to have a discussion about artificial intelligence you need to have an ecosystem you need to understand who those players are and I'll talk about that actually in a second so I hope you feel like um I've overwhelmed you with information but just to summarize um so we've defined what an innovation is it's commercialization essentially of an idea um why our organizations need to innovate essentially innovate or die it's it's it's nobody will will tolerate um your customers won't tolerate kind of like old-fashioned technology old-fashioned solutions there's massive challenges to do this it's like we're at we're at a really exciting time I think it's like it's from a from a from a not even from an innovation but from an enterprise perspective to companies that will survive are the ones that have the little a they figured out the attitude they figured out that it's like okay like not going to say no but what if we did it this way what if we did it that way no is a wall I remember years ago a friend of mine who was studying him or who was working in the advertising agency they work in teams of a copywriter and a I can't remember the second person but there's always two people within the team and one rule was never say no because when you're working in a team of two no is a is a wall that blocks any ideas and that idea of of collaboration and creativity if you want to innovate is essential and then finally we discussed the evolution of innovation itself all right so that's kind of like from an innovation perspective so why Ireland now I'm going to do kind of like a little bit of an idea pitch here um I'm happy that none of my ex-IDA colleagues came here this morning because I probably hash it up but we are tent in the world for innovation according to global innovation index I had the pleasure of sitting on stage with the Australian and the head of innovation for the Australian Australian and New Zealand government a few weeks ago they were 22 and 20 or 20 and 22 so it was a nice position to be in to kind of like have the discussion why um and there's an opportunity to leverage leverage all of this as I say sometimes when we're based here in our offices we don't see the amazing things that go on and I think there's an opportunity to kind of like okay there are great there's great things happening around the country I think we need to become better at talking about that we are globally recognized globally recognized um uh technology cluster um and within other sectors as well so pharma financial service agriculture and medtech um I've been invited to Prague to Croatian a few weeks to talk to their government about innovation and the context or the brief that I've been given if I was to look at root knowledge equation the A doesn't exist from a Croatian government's um perspective I've been told that they are anti technology because they know it's going to disrupt jobs and I'm kind of like that's essentially this is like um essentially like not a good um news story for for for Croatia um the capabilities that exist in Ireland again looking at from an IDA perspective is the 40 so there's talent we've got a exceptionally talented um workforce um technology in a competitive tax rate 12.5 percent um and yeah I put this in there scale up and scale out and I was in my conclusions as well one thing that we don't really talk about and that that I think Ireland has a really fantastic ability in and the multinationals have seen this is the ability is like we have 1384 multinationals in Ireland and that are clients of IDAs they can't be a client of IDA if they're only serving the Irish market so they have to be able to scale up and scale out of the country and sell products and services into um into Europe or beyond DMEA I I I try and understand why our SME sector haven't leveraged that capability to the to the extent that um to the extent that we should have as well it's there and I think actually if we can put policy around it or if we can put the programme in place of some sort to leverage that ability to scale up and scale out actually Ireland could have the next our own homegrown intel or something like that again and then finally agility we're a small country four and a half million people um it's easy to if I need to get in touch with somebody working in Intel if I need to get in touch with somebody working in government it usually only takes one or two phone calls and so having having an idea of what you need and what you want and it's not that hard to get it done in Ireland you just have to kind of like ask the questions and know the people to ask I guess um this is really a nice indication of again why we're number 10 in the world why there's a massive opportunity there and in my five four years in IDA when I joined in 2014 there was a target of having three billion euros invested into multinationals by 2019 over five years that target was reached within three years so from a macroeconomic perspective as well as something really happening there's a lot of I guess there's a lot of confidence in what companies are doing from a multinational perspective simply by looking at the numbers that have been invested and again they've leveraged the talent and capability that exists in Ireland again how do we how do we leverage that and finally um this is just a fun fact um I put in in some presentations I had to give a presentation to the European Commission earlier on this year about artificial intelligence and and Ireland and as of last year more people work directly in tech than in agriculture so we've turned that corner from being an agrarian society into a technically advanced society and I think it's um it's just a nice milestone a nice indication of kind of like where we've come from to where we're going and I had a picture of a potato turned into microchips I don't think they got it on me videos I actually had a mevidius chip there which was acquired by Intel and this again this is a collateral from IDA but I when discussing technology on Ireland and the journey that we've gone on as a state this was this is powerful so you can see in 1956 62 years ago um IBM came to Ireland one of the first multinationals that came to Ireland and they set up and they had low-skill manufacturing jobs so essentially the assembly of machines and the packing of boxes and shipping and stuff right and I always use IBM as that really great example of a company that's evolved over the 60 years in Ireland from low-skill manufacturing to we have 3,000 software engineers our day have 3,000 software engineers their largest number of software engineers working outside of the states working in Ireland and working on projects such as their Watson platform their artificial intelligence platform one of their only labs outside of DUS is based here in Dublin as well so there's that evolution that has happened in IBM look at the following companies as well all tech tech tech tech tech it's very similar journeys have happened with those organizations as well what I really like about this slide as well if we go I'll stay here in front of the microphone if we go go to kind of like when the crash happened in 2008 we see kind of like up until that stage and I this is very much tech focused but we have a lot of tech companies coming into the country with a lot of tech organizations recognized and okay and initially coming here for low-skill manufacturers and then there was a gloss towards the end of the 90s and beginning of the 90s where we had as somebody said the industrialization of call centers they'd never seen anything happen like it before in the world and we had the industrialization of call centers as you move on towards the crash and I'm not attribishing this to the crash but a lot more companies started moving into Ireland to leverage to leverage the technology capability not just in tech so you have the likes of Zalando there it's an e-commerce platform that sells fashion for example from from Germany their story is amazing they looked they were looking at four different locations around Europe for their digital and our data analytics teams so they're going to open up four different hubs they decided to set up the whole thing in Dublin and which was a bit cool I guess Dacry an augmented reality company MetLife first data Bechton Dickinson Bechton Dickinson is a pharmaceutical company again they're focused on setting up their technology development campus down in Limerick as well so what you see is that idea of convergence the multinational sector are recognizing this like we can get the skills here in Ireland for the technical skills and in order to in order to provide platforms to the world essentially I didn't say it's a really kind of a powerful and infographic just to show the journey that the country has come on from a at least from a multinational perspective but also leveraging how they've leveraged capability in Ireland so there are challenges and there's a lot of opportunity but there are challenges the quarterly economic observer released last week I think it was so in policy terms the success of foreign direct investment should be measured by the spillover effects rather than simply scale so there is a challenge there in terms of has the economy have our SMEs felt the impact of the capability that's grown through the multinational sector and it's I think it's an interesting it's an interesting topic that needs to be addressed and identified looking at it from an innovation perspective there is so much opportunity there we look that look at the whole idea of and externally focus our open innovation where and we've seen the release of the DTIF the disruptive technology innovation funds have you heard of this fund and it's half a billion fund over the next five years for disruptive technologies it was the first year was this year was 20 million it was low this year because I think the department wants to um understand the potential for this but it was massively subscribed to so over 300 organisations applied put in applications for this and we put into ourselves and and the whole idea if you read the application it's collaboration collaboration collaboration the whole it has to be driven by an Irish company in SME you can bring a multinational and a research centre on that journey with you but the whole idea is is collaboration so that's a really really excellent tool and a great initiative from the government and the second part innovation networks and ecosystems this is something that we can leverage in Ireland really simply as as Joyce mentioned they developed value propositions for software engineering cyber security internet of things and artificial intelligence and the idea of developing these propositions is like understanding what the ecosystem looks like it's not hard to identify an ecosystem again if we put some structures around this place marry these to open innovation and our our and understand our ecosystems we could be in it we could potentially be in a really powerful position along with tools such as DTIF now this is um I guess time back to division that we had in the harbour innovation campus so it's it's my work that we'll figure out how it's a how it works in the future but I guess the message is everything that I've just discussed and and and alluded to every organisation that wants to go on that wants to innovate has to go on a specific journey and there's only like having dealt with hundreds of multinationals moving to Ireland there's there's a new numerous tools or there's a finite amount of tools that each company needs um in order to kind of like expedite innovation first of all funding the whole idea is like if you're an Irish company if you're a startup if you're an SME if you're a spin-out if you're a spin-in where you're going to get the money um there's funding there available from IDA Enterprise Ireland Science Foundation and all the other um a lot of the other government agencies skills you need people to do the job um talents again from universities and college I have my fourth point there is collaboration and it is talking about that idea of open open collaboration co-creation co-innovation I have the disruptive technology innovation fund there it's it's no longer it's like if you want if you're an agricultural company and you want to understand that AI if you want to understand IoT etc etc you need to collaborate nobody can own this anymore professional services and then prototyping services again prototyping services was really or is important if you're an organisation you don't have to hire expensive technologists you want to be able to build a prototype and go like does it work does not work and what I have in the cost of hiring those people um there are some services around the country and I'm happy to talk about them if um if anybody wants now once you get to your prototype this is where Ireland is it becomes really interesting once you get to your prototype if you're multinational you have global um established organisations global tech um global connectivity you have your global networks you have your scale you have your capabilities to commercialise your network's supply chain so it's actually the journey from building a prototype to scaling it up and selling it off around the world is not that difficult for multinationals it's it's they have that bridge over the valley of debt but that's the start for Irish SMEs when you have your product or service it's like okay then the hard work begins then you fall off essentially the cliff I guess was what I would love to see and I think we're I believe we were reaching a place where where we can have this conversation it's how do we leverage the 1384 multi multi nationals in Ireland not just for funds but let's say how do we leverage their capabilities that's what station f and I've mentioned station f um a few times this morning but station s is the largest innovation campus in the world and what they it's in paris it was set up by Xavier Nell the guy that just bought um aircom actually or air and the idea is to bring that triple helix of innovation together bring government departments bring um academic institutes and bring enterprise together so that they can help leverage um their their SME SME um companies and the capabilities that exist there this can be done in multiple different ways I've been working on this and we'll see where we're as I say we we'll go with this but um there's an opportunity there and the reason why I think there's an opportunity right now is because we're reaching full employment when we reach full employment what does that mean for the country do we we need to come up with some new creative ideas in terms of not just attracting talent talent into the country but it's like how do we ensure that like we don't have an over dependence on the multinational um ecosystem in Ireland that we can grow our own companies so good just to finish up so we need I think we're doing a pretty good job I think we can do better to leverage our our tent in the world for innovation position our technological position as I say going over to Croatian a few weeks and the reason I'm going over is because they're afraid that they don't that if they don't change their attitude that they will be left behind and I think we have the right attitude in Ireland I think we can do more um focus on collaboration DTF is a good start I'd like to see the the the whole idea of a process for innovation not overly over over baron but a process for innovation looked at as well so we're good at kind of like it's like here you go here's some money for for creation your products and services but it would be good to kind of like actually give them training wheels or give them kind of like some guidance as well um and that's my point the process of innovation commercialisation and the tools again leveraging the ecosystem here scaling companies as I mentioned it's something that we do really really well why aren't we able to scale Irish companies um as as well as as the multinationals are able to lever itself and and then finally creating the environments to happen and that was that was the plan for um no ferry terminal in Dunleary so anybody wants to invest in a in a really spectacular piece of infrastructure that has a that has planning in place and is an opportunity there thank you very much


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Akara has improved the technologies curriculum by focusing on the core concepts. We had key ideas for technologies originally and we've built on those key ideas so we now have technologies core concepts, design and technologies core concepts and digital technologies core concepts. We're looking at creating preferred futures, focusing on students developing their thinking skills, so design thinking, computational and systems thinking. We're doing that through considering things like technologies and society, looking at systems, looking at data and we're also using processes and production skills. We're really focused on having conversations between the maths writers and the technologies writers about where is that duplication and how could we actually reduce that amount of duplication and ensure that one content description does the job for both subjects. One of the other major changes to digital technologies was as a result of revising or reviewing our ICT capability and that will now be known as digital literacy. Digital literacy really focuses in on online safety, privacy, security. We have developed a substrand in digital technologies considering privacy and security and we have a new set of content descriptions for that strand and that's to develop those skills or provide the opportunities for students to be able to develop those skills. The original content descriptions were very concise but they were joined in some aspects by an end. So there were two concepts being addressed in a content description or sometimes three concepts being addressed in a content description and that made it quite challenging for teachers to be able to unpack that content description and so the intent of splitting the content descriptions is to make it really clear about what teachers need to teach. It's really important we hear your views, we want to hear all your feedback as it is those responses that will help shape the Australian curriculum for the next generation of children. To give your feedback simply complete the survey. Thank you.


Hi and how are you all today? I am Priyanka and we will be doing this question together. It says express the following in the form p by q where p and q are integers and q is not equal to 0. So basically we need to convert these decimal that is non-terminating repeating decimals in the form of p by q that is fraction. So let us proceed on with our solution of 1 by 1. The first part which is given to us is 0.6 bar. Now in this type of question let us take x as 0.6 bar. Now on multiplying both the sides by 10 we have 10x is equal to 6.666 which goes on. Let this be the first equation and let this be the second equation. Now if we carefully observe we can write 10x is equal to 6 plus this can be written as 0.6 bar whereas we can also have 10x is equal to 6 plus this can be written as x. Right? So further we can have 9x is equal to 6 as x will get subtracted from 10x and we are left with x is equal to 6 by 9 which on simplifying gives us the answer of x as 2 by 3. So x is equal to 2 by 3 which we took as 0.6 bar. So we converted 0.6 bar into a fraction that is in the form of p by q. Right? So this completes the first part of the question and the answer is 2 by 3. Proceeding on further to the second part we have the expression as 0.47 bar. So again let us take x equal to 0.47 bar which means 0.4777 which goes on. Now on multiplying both the sides by 10 we have 10x is equal to 4.7 bar. So we can write which means that the number which we have is 4.777 which goes on. Now we need to multiply x is equal to 0.47 bar with 100 also to get 100x is equal to 47.7 bar which means now we have 47.777 which goes on. Now if we carefully analyze and let this be the first equation and second equation. Now on subtracting from second we have that is the equation 100x minus 10x in the left hand side and 47.7 bar minus 4.7 bar on the right hand side. Further this will be 90x is equal to 43 which makes the answer of x is equal to 43 by 90. So the answer to the second part comes to us as 43 by 90. Proceeding on further to the last and final part. Now in the third part we are given 0.001 bar. Now we have three numbers so let this be x. And now we need to multiply both the sides by 1000 so that we are able to move our decimal to this position. So now we have 1.001 bar. Now this be the first equation and this be the second equation. Now on subtracting first equation from second equation we have 999x equals 1 which gives us the value of x as 1 divided by 999 and this is the answer of the last and final part. And this completes the question also. So I hope you enjoyed the session and bye for now.


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I have to say that as Chef de Mission it will be an honor to be there with the team. We are taking 165 athletes to Rio in over in just three months and today we are here to announce the 12 players who will be and who have been nominated to compete for Canada at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. A lot of us that are based here at the Oval and in Victoria we're fortunate to have great trainers to work with us and we're training five, six days a week and so we're really thankful for facilities like the Oval and for the people that support us. Rest assured that I hope that all our fans and friends and family know that we're putting in hard work to give us a chance to bring home gold. We announced the members of the Canadian Paralympic rugby team that's going down to Rio in September and today they announced the team members here from British Columbia. They also presented the Richmond Oval and the City of Richmond with a countdown clock that's going to hang here in the Olympic Oval so that will be great and it was just very inspiring to hear all the athletes talk about their dreams for Rio as they're getting ready to hit the road to Rio.


What is going on, everybody? Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ. And we're also going to be talking about one trade that I made today on the 8th of January in 2018. But before we do talk about these topics, for all you new viewers out there, my name is Astos, and I make videos dealing with swing trading, day trading, long-term investing, and my personal philosophies and strategies when it comes down to investing and trading in the stock market. So for those of you guys that want to learn more about that, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, and subscribe. And follow me on Instagram, as well as on Twitter, and join our Discord group chat, as well as our Facebook group. All of those are linked down below in the description box. So today, guys, we had a green day in the stock market. The Dow Jones was up 256.10 cents, up 1.09 percent at the close. The S&P 500 closed the day up nearly 1 percent, up $25, and the NASDAQ composite closed the day up around nearly 1.85 percent, up around $55. And what do we notice in terms of the Dow Jones and the S&P? Both of these have broken critical resistance points on the 180-day four-hour chart. And we're going to start off talking about that in this video. So over the past couple of trading days, we've been having a lot of upwards push in the markets. This is mostly due to Trump tweeting this morning that the trade talks are going well. He actually issued a little bit of news last week about that as well. The Fed's easing up on interest rates. That's what they said in the meeting last week. These are all positive, short-term news that could be potentially pushing up the stock market right now. And we also talked about in yesterday's video that the Dow Jones was right at a resistance from the sell-off that we saw last year in 2018 in March and February when we sold off from $227,000 all the way down to around $23,500. In yesterday's video, guys, we were right around this resistance and we clearly broke out of this resistance during today's session with, again, having a 1 percent day up $256. So the next resistance point that we have to keep an eye on now in terms of the Dow Jones is going to be right here at around $24,100. This was from a sell-off that we experienced back in June from when the Dow sold off $25,000 and $300, $25,300 all the way down to around $24,100. This is the next resistance that we have to keep an eye on for the Dow Jones. And obviously, next is going to be around $24,500. So like I said in yesterday's video, guys, and the video before that, we've been having a couple of green days in a row due to the short-term news and I do expect a pullback to come one of these trading days coming up. We obviously don't know when exactly it's going to happen, but I think we're going to sell off pretty hard coming soon. And each day that we have a green day, we're pushing up more and more into overbought territory on this Dow Jones and pushing us closer to these resistance points. So again, guys, just to keep an eye on this one right here at $24,100 and the next one's going to be at around $24,500. And if we take a look at the 20-day chart, we noticed that this pattern is still intact, this pattern of higher highs, higher lows, we can clearly see the Dow is still on this pattern. So for us to see any downwards push right now, any downwards reversal trend in the Dow Jones, we would want to see a break at least below, I would say around $22,600. So we're about 1,000 points off right now from a break of trend. Actually, this would be the second break of trend. Actually, the first break of trend would be once we're starting to head below roughly $23,300. Once we start to break this previous higher high and get closer to that higher low that we were just talking about, that's going to be getting closer and closer to that break of trend in the Dow Jones. So, guys, keep an eye on it. We're still at the higher high portion right now. Wait for a pullback coming. It's coming, guys. Trust me on this. We're going to be seeing one in the next couple of days. It's just inevitable, right? We saw a pullback here. We've had a couple of green days in a row. I think we're going to see another big pullback either tomorrow, the next day. One of these days coming up, we're going to see a pullback. So if we see here on the S&P 500, very similar, right? We bounced on this higher low, we pushed up, made a higher high, and now we broke this 20SMA or rather the 180SMA on the 20-day chart. And if we're taking a look at the longer-term chart here, we broke the 50SMA on the 180-day chart here with the next resistance being at around $2625, which we saw a triple bottom at a little bit earlier. This was during October and November. And obviously, we saw a break of that pattern. This is when we saw that huge panic sell. And once we found that bottom, obviously, we've had those couple of green days in a row. And like I said, guys, this higher high pattern is in effect still. And we are probably going to see a pullback in the next couple of days. And we're either going to break this trend, meaning that we're going to break this 50SMA support here. Because I think if we do pull back, the support is going to be on this 50SMA. And if we break that support, we break that 50SMA trend line, that's going to be a good sign that we're pushing down. And we could be continuing this overall downtrend that we do see on this chart on the 184-hour chart here. And if we take a look at the NASDAQ, this one is still at a resistance under the 180-day SMA, although it has been on this higher high, higher low pattern over the past couple of days. This is the only one out of the three that is still under that simple moving average resistance, which has been a strong resistance over the past couple trading weeks. We can see it got rejected here, got rejected here, got rejected here. And this is the fourth time that we're testing it. So it could potentially get rejected. And just because we've seen it get rejected there in the past does not mean that it's going to get rejected again. But since we've had all these green days in a row, like I've been saying, I do expect to pull back one of these days, it's going to come in my personal opinion. So judging on this closer term chart here, just like the S&P guys, just like the NASDAQ, this higher high, higher low pattern is still in effect. We see the low at 5820, next low at around 6165. We popped up, made a high at around 6565 today. And the previous high was at around 6400. So until we see a break at least below around 6300 to test this next support at around 6100, this uptrend pattern is still in place for the NASDAQ composite. So overall, guys, on the entire market right now, like I've been saying over these past couple of videos, I expect a pullback, whether it's tomorrow, the next day, next week, I expect a pretty solid pullback in the overall markets because we're at critical resistances, we're nearing resistances, and we've had a bunch of green days in a row. And once this short-term news kind of fizzles off, I think selling is going to occur again. And I really think, sometimes, guys, I think to myself, a lot of people out there think this as well. Does Trump just tweet in the morning before the market opens to push up the markets to really just play with investors' heads? I think he really does this sometimes to be completely honest with you guys because he tweeted this morning and he tweeted something like trade talks with China are going very well and the markets ended up doing very well today. Does this correlate? I personally think it does a little bit, not to the fullest extent, but I think it does a little bit. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think on this topic. Does Trump have an effect on the market? What do you think? That may be a cool topic to talk about. So what did I trade today, guys? If you're a part of the Discord group chat, we were talking about JNUG this morning and that's exactly what I ended up trading. And if those of you guys that don't know, JNUG is a gold-based ETF. It trades based on slash GC. And pretty much, guys, whenever slash GC is going up in price, that's when JNUG is going up in price as well. So just to take a look at the JNUG chart very quickly before we do hop back into the slash GC chart, I'll show you guys exactly where I ended up trading this one. So we saw that we pretty much sold off pretty heavily from yesterday's close in terms of JNUG. And this is mostly because the gold futures actually sold off pretty decently as well. I think they sold off like five or 10 points from yesterday and that obviously dragged down JNUG to open up the market. And that opened up a nice little profit margin from yesterday's resistance. That opened up nearly a 6% margin of profit here on JNUG. And I actually ended up getting in JNUG right on this bounce here at $9.50. I took an initial position in JNUG. I actually did not add more money into it because it shot up very quickly, guys. I actually got out at around $9.80. Once we broke that resistance from yesterday's close, I figured that was a good exit point for JNUG. And literally, guys, once I literally took my profits, I posted this in the chat as well. We saw a pretty sizable pullback in JNUG right down to where I almost bought in, right? Right at around $9.58. So if you guys were able to trade JNUG today, let me know. This was a very, very good play throughout the entire day. And this trade got me around 3%. We'll be able to see this right here from about 9.50 up to around 9.80. It was nearly a 3% trade right around a 2.93% trade on the day for JNUG. So if we jump back to the GC chart so we can get some more context on what happened here, we can see this is where the dump occurred from around 12.85 all the way to 12.80. That opened up the margin for JNUG. And then we obviously started to see some push here, some higher highs, some higher lows start to form that little uptrend from around 8am up to the market open. Then we obviously saw that massive spike. And that's where I believe I took my profits, right? If we see the time correlation. Or was it this second? No, it definitely was not the second spike because that was at 12.30. I was already done trading by then. But yeah, it literally was right here at about 10.15. This is when we started to see that spike in gold. And that is what was pushing up JNUG very, very quickly from around 10 o'clock, 10.15 up to around 11 o'clock. So within 50 minutes, literally 40 minutes rather, JNUG was able to shoot up around 4%, 5%. And I was able to capture around 3% of JNUG. So let me know down below, guys, what are you trading? What did you guys trade today? Did you play some options? Did you trade inverse ETFs? Are you doing any swing trades during these green days that we are seeing in the market? I would love to love to know. So let's take a look at some larger cap stocks to see what is going on with some of the bigger names. Let's take a look at Apple. This one's right under that 50 SMA resistance still, like we were talking about in yesterday's video. And it's getting closer to that overbought territory. And I love looking at Apple all the time, guys, because it's one of the biggest companies and it's one of these stocks that I use to gauge the entire market, right?  Apple's cut their revenue and this is going to have a huge effect on the market in my personal opinion. So Facebook today actually broke out of this 180 SMA, very strong day actually for Facebook, up nearly $5 up 3% on the day. Amazon had a pretty solid day as well today, up 1.6% up $27. Netflix did decent as well, up $5, up 1.56%, but it's still trading at the top of this downwards trending channel here that we see indicated by this trend line. So this could be a rejection zone for Netflix and it's also extremely overbought here on the 180 chart. Google is doing pretty well and it had a $7 day today up 0.7%. Microsoft had around a $7, 74 cent day rather up 0.7%. So some of these large cap stocks, guys, they're at resistance points, they're at the top of their downwards trending channels, and they're all at really critical points right now in my personal opinion. So let's take a look at some other stocks that have been doing very well or ETFs rather in this case. So we've been seeing a lot of movement in UWT and I'm very interested in actually trading this one heading off for the rest of this week. And this is a crude oil ETF, meaning that whenever crude oil is going up, that is when UWT is going up as well. So today, 6% day on UWT, guys, up 66 cents. And this is mostly due to crude oil doing pretty well for the most part today. Why I like UWT a little bit more going forward is because crude oil is at a critical spot right here where if it breaks this resistance, guys, if it starts to push back and test the $50 range, the $55 range, you know, that is a reversal pattern for crude oil, meaning that UWT is going to become a very solid play over these next couple of weeks. But what I want to caution you guys on with crude oil is that it does seem to be a little bit overbought right now. And it being at a resistance does tell me that this could pull back slightly, right? Do I think it's going to get back into this downwards trending pattern, not quite yet based off the technicals, but I'm also seeing that we could pull back based on these technicals, guys, due to it being overbought and due to it being at this resistance, although we are slowly creeping above it, we have to keep an eye on it though, right guys? Just keep an eye on it tomorrow, pre-market, you know, keep an eye on the futures, the entire market in general, large caps. Because if you're doing this, you're keeping an eye on all these stocks, guys, it gives you an idea of where the market is pushing early on in the day, and you'll be able to plan your trades accordingly, which is super, super important when it comes down to, you know, trading stocks and just planning and strategizing in general. So that is what I'm looking at, guys, you know, very critical point for crude oil and UWT. Another one that's critical right now, in my opinion, is the natural gas-based ETFs. We look here, we can see that natural gas is actually consolidating right at that support level from back in September, right around the $298 to $3 range. So what am I looking at here, guys? If we do break this 50 SMA resistance on the 180 chart for natural gas, and the reports indicate that they're bullish for natural gas and you guys, well, I'm going to be trading you guys, right? It only makes sense, especially if the reports are coming back bullish and if we break this trend. So natural gas guys, you guys in general, they're at the top of my watch list, you know, heading on to the rest of this week and next week and really just this entire month, guys. I'm very interested to see if natural gas is going to start to push back up because we've seen a ridiculous sell-off, right? We've seen an insane sell-off, honestly, guys. It's lost about nearly $2 in the past couple of weeks. So, you know, if it recovers, we'll be able to play you guys for a pretty major profit, guys, because, you know, if this is flying back up to the 350s, 340s, hypothetically, right now, you know, you guys is definitely going to double in price from where it is right now because remember, guys, it's a 3x leveraged ETF. It moves three times as fast as the underlying asset, which is natural gas in this case, right? So keep an eye on those very interesting and just all the inverse ETFs and market ETFs that we play a lot on this channel. Let me take off this blue chip stock tab here that I do have this watch list. I made a little watch list for blue chips because I'm looking to add money very soon, guys, within this next year, you know, in some more blue chip stocks to build up my dividend portfolio for the long term, but that's a whole different topic for a whole nother video. But these market ETFs, I haven't talked about these in a couple of days, these are very interesting plays as well over the next couple of days, right? If we do experience a sell-off in the market, you know, TVIX and SQQQ, which are two short ETFs, meaning that they go up when the markets are selling off, they're going to be fantastic plays. And if the market continues to push up, we'll be able to play QQQ as well as UVXY, which are two ETFs. Actually, no, UVXY is a short ETF as well. QQQ and TQQQ are bull ETFs, meaning that when they're going up, the markets are going up, and obviously when the markets are going down, these are going down. So, that is my game plan, what I'm seeing today in terms of these charts, guys. I expect a pullback in these next couple of days, whether it's tomorrow, the next day, the next day, next week, we don't know, but I do expect one coming very, very soon. Drop a comment, let me know what you guys think about this. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. If you did, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, subscribe. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter, and join the Discord as well as the Facebook. I really appreciate all the love I've been getting, guys. All you guys out there watching this video, I appreciate you so much, you don't even understand. So, I'll catch you guys in the next video. Thanks again. Peace out.


In 2019, myself and two other friends traveled to Johnstown, Pennsylvania with the goal of hearing as many stories as possible about the lives of the people who are trying to bring the town back to greatness. Cambria County, Johnstown's county, represents exactly the population that Donald Trump claims to be his target audience. Hello Johnstown, thank you very much, this is going to be a great evening. A former industrial hub seemingly abandoned by the modern American economy in a region that Trump is trying desperately hard to win. In 2012, Cambria County swung slightly Republican, but Trump won uncomfortably in 2016, making the county one of his strongholds in the state. Now to be fair, most people that we spoke to didn't really care that much to talk about national politics due to the polarizing nature of the 2016 election and Trump's election. The few that did mention the election didn't have many compliments for Trump. Johnstown is however not representative of the entire county, and given the Republican lean in 2016, it is likely but not certain to go red this year as well. Regardless of who wins the election, one thing was made absolutely clear by the citizens of Johnstown.  They are taking matters into their own hands. As long as this holds true, Johnstown certainly seems to be on the up and up, regardless of the results of the election. Throughout the past few years, Johnstown has seen a number of new businesses open up downtown with a focus on social justice. One such business that we had the pleasure of speaking to is Hope Cycler, a local bike shop downtown. The shop's owner, Jared Bunk, told us the story about how he removed with his two hands the piles of dirt in the old wood flooring that covered up the previously blighted property. Now the shop is beautiful and ready for business. Still, while the success of the shop is important to Bunk, the real goal that Bunk holds is the ambitious plan to create a donation system for people to donate bikes to give them to people who wouldn't normally have access to transportation. He tells us this story about how he gave one such bike to an individual who then was able to go from one edge of the city to the other in a single business day, something that he had previously never been able to do before. Back coupled with Bunk's idea to create a donation system for kids where they could receive these bikes and actually enjoy the new outdoor recreation amenities that are now available in the city, Bunk's ultimate goal is to help revitalize the region and to give people access to transportation that they normally would not have. We really enjoyed hearing Bunk's story and we have no doubt that Hope Cycler will be a success in downtown Johnstown and will lead to a greater revitalization of the region. In fact, if you're interested, you should check Bunk out at Hope Cyclery on Instagram. Johnstown's story today is all about businesses channeling the resilience of their steel heritage into projects that serve the greater Johnstown community. We had the honor of interviewing one such group called the Center for Metal Arts or CMA, a premier blacksmithing school in Johnstown that was actively engaged in the recent community development efforts that we were witnessing. Started by passionate educators and blacksmiths Dan Neville and Patrick Quinn, CMA attracted students from all over the world, including Norway and Canada for their blacksmithing courses. Quinn and Neville forged the tools actually that their students learned with, providing a hands-on experience for their students. Personally, I enjoyed photographing their machine shop and the classes the most. At the time, I was learning different aspects of lighting and their shop was the perfect trial run. I was just amazed by the history and grandeur etched into these mills. But what really got us was their vision for what was beyond just blacksmithing. They imagined the space to be one day used for international conferences for curious blacksmithers. They were building dorms for students to inject a spirit of community, something very unique to Johnstown. And it was a beautiful coincidence when at the end of a project, Carlos, Elliot and I actually watched them win a grant award for their community efforts in Johnstown's redevelopment and the grant that they received for their ongoing work. They represent the Johnstown of tomorrow and we cannot wait to see what they do next. Johnstown loves its sports. More specifically, Johnstown loves its baseball. The Martellus Pharmacy are Johnstown's foremost amateur baseball team and compete every year in the national triple ABA baseball tournament held in the city. Every year, Johnstown plays and every year, Johnstown loses. That is until 2018 when the pharmacies won their first triple ABA title in 74 years. You see this guy? His name is Boston Bradley and he was part of the historic team in 2018. When he speaks about what winning an amateur baseball tournament meant to the town, it is clear that the community is close-knit and fiercely proud to be from western Pennsylvania. Cambria County might be quite split on the issue of politics, but baseball is certainly the one thing that brings all inhabitants of Johnstown together under one roof. We actually got to see the 2019 edition of the baseball tournament in person as it occurred while we were there. Pageantry, sportsmanship, intensity, and camaraderie were all present in full force throughout the entirety of the tournament. Funny enough, we were actually there during the opening game and we actually managed to catch one of the game balls. Nice little memento, huh? That's it, that's it!