Thank you to everyone that is either at home or at work joining us today and a huge thanks to the LBJ Foundation for hosting Austin's energy innovation future. I cover Texas politics for KXAN here in Austin and at a time that the new Biden administration is settling in and already taking on a number of actions on energy, it's a perfect time to have this conversation couldn't come at a better time. So some housekeeping to start. This is how things will work. I will introduce you to each of our esteemed panelists who you just heard about. We'll share some opening remarks about Austin's energy future. I'll ask them some questions of our panelists and then we'll go to your questions where you can submit a question in the chat in the Zoom. So first up, we have Kali Taylor, the director of economic development and clean energy specialist for the Austin Chamber of Commerce a position she's held for the past five years before joining the chamber. She worked in energy energy's home solar division as the director of customer retention, a position centered on her passion for renewable energy. Her background holds a variety of positions comprised of 10 years of consulting, marketing, training and account management experience. I feel like I just introduced a prize fighter. So after all that, Kali, welcome. Thank you, thank you so much. I look forward to being here and John, thank you for that great introduction. I think that's a little bit, I feel like a prize fighter now. I don't know if I would have introduced myself quite like that. But great to be here. As you said, my focus at the chamber is focusing on bringing in new clean energy jobs here. So I think this could be a great conversation with Susanna and Dr. Rye today and look forward to it. Excellent and a perfect segue. Thank you, Kali. Next up, we will have Dr. Varun Rye. He conducts interdisciplinary research projects at the University of Texas at Austin which focus on energy systems, complex systems, decision science and public policy for the past 15 years. His research has been directed towards next generation carbon capture and storage fuel cells, oil and gas, plug in hybrid vehicles to name a few. As a testament to his success, he has presented at several important forums including briefings for the United States Senate, Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition and Global Economic Symposium. His research group's work has been discussed in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News among other venues which include KXN and local TV reporting. I'll turn it over to you, Dr. Varun Rye. Great, thank you so much, John, for having me. I'm really looking forward to the discussion. I really appreciate how stakeholders and members from different parts of the community that have really been active for years and years are part of this discussion. I'm looking forward to that. Thank you. Excellent, thank you, Dr. Rye. And for the past seven years, Suzanne Russo has served as the CEO of Pecan Street, a cutting edge data research and product testing firm whose mission is to develop an innovative pathway for Austin to increase total generation from low carbon sources. Prior to joining Pecan Street, Suzanne Russo was the director of Sustainability Initiative for New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development where she led the development of green building and sustainable retrofitting of municipally funded affordable housing. Forms named Suzanne, one of five women using technology to blow up social change. Suzanne, over to you, welcome. Hi, John, thanks so much for including me. I'm really excited about the conversation today with Kali and Varun and you. And I also wanted to say a big thanks to Sarah McCracken for organizing this great event. Sarah's husband, Brewster, actually is the founder of Pecan Street. He thought up the whole idea for this organization when he was a city council member. And it's been my pleasure to take over the helmet organization for the past two years. But I worked under Brewster before that when he was CEO of the organization. Awesome, thank you, Suzanne. And we'll get back to you here in just a second. Next up, we have Nate Ryan, an entrepreneur, business leader, and organizer focusing on the convergence of creativity and economic growth. In my notes here, I'm supposed to call him Mr. Ryan. He's the CEO of Blue Sky Partners, a consulting firm. Nate plays a critical role in helping companies take full advantage of the resources available to them. As an economic impact expert, Nate understands the numerous benefits the clean energy brings to industries across Austin. I'll let him share some of those thoughts. Now, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Nate. What are you? Mr. Ryan is my, well, like we said before, before we kick this off, Pastor Ryan is my father, but Mr. Ryan is also my father. You can just call me Nate. I feel out of my league here with Dr. Ryan, Kali and Suzanne. I think this is going to be really fun conversation. It's about the future of Texas and the opportunities that are in front of us and the future of the US when it comes to our ability to take advantage of not only what I think is the right thing for us to do from a environmental perspective, but turns out to be a pretty great economic investment too. So I'm excited to talk about all that. Excellent, Nate. Okay, so we will move on to some questions for our panelists. And I will first tee this one up to you, Kali, but anyone can jump in as they've got some feedback here. So as Austin has been experiencing tremendous economic growth over the past several years, what role does clean energy play in promoting growth, encouraging investment and supporting businesses of all sizes across the city? Kali? Okay, sure. Well, what role does it play? It plays an enormous role. And I'll go into some additional information, but I think one of the biggest things is Dr. Ryan and Suzanne, the work that they're doing when companies are coming into a town, they are a large reason that these companies want to be here. That's a large part of what drives people into Austin is the work that the University of Texas and the Con Street and organizations like that are doing with clean energy research were sort of renowned nationally and internationally for that work. And so I think that spurs investment as well because companies that are coming in and looking at the kind of research that's here, they're wanting to partner with these organizations, they're wanting to bring their companies here and be a part of this ecosystem that's been built by so many individuals over 20 years, the clean energy ecosystems and being built here by individuals from UT and the business world to bolster this kind of clean energy, they say clean energy reputation that Austin has. And so I think it plays an enormous growth. And also a lot of companies whether they're traditionally would be considered in the renewable energy space, it is a priority for most corporations these days to support renewable energy. It's part of their corporate renewability, their ethos. And so the fact that Austin Energy or municipal utility is so focused on renewables, that's a big part of it for them. But in addition to that, our regional utilities are as well. So I think it's huge. And Dr. Rai can probably speak to that too. I know that the Energy Institute at UT has a national profile. I speak to your colleague Michael Weber all the time. So what do you think is driving so much of that momentum? Great, thank you so much Kali for teaming that up and John for that question. If it is okay, and I wanna take a step back building off some things that Kali mentioned and three things I wanna briefly touch upon that we can pick up on later questions. One is just a couple of years ago we attracted Army Futures Command, one of the biggest efforts by the Army in the last several decades. And then just a few months ago, Tesla announced that they're going to be here. So you see both from the side of government as well as from private sectoral, the biggest and the most ambitious are coming to Austin. So that's very exciting. Many of the city of Austin and Austin energies and other work that is being done by our local government bodies and agencies really is helping build onto that. So it's not happening all organically. There's a lot of background work that happens. And as Kali mentioned, has been happening for the last several decades. So it goes back at least four decades. So that helps more and more companies and workers are coming here by the week. You all know that as a citizen of the city. And that's very exciting that because people of all professions are increasingly finding that this is both a place to live as citizens but then also provides them with the opportunity. And then it's really, I've been here in Austin live over 10 years now. It's a very, very special moment of time in Austin. They'll all look back 20, 30, 50 years from now and look back at this moment saying this was very, very pivotal. What got us here, what really got us here is I think fundamentally number one, and this will come back again is the community. A few years ago, I had the great honor and privilege of serving on Austin Energy's Electricity Utility Commission. And one of the single most important thing I always remember from the monthly meetings is the community. Folks from the community where always they're participating, sharing, providing input, being, providing activism as well. So this is a very, very engaged community. Where we are is fundamentally building on that community spirit. It will remain very, very important. I'll come back to that. Also lots of investments. A lot of the things that Austin Energy did, largely because of what the community wanted, also how city management really played into all of that. That's all been very, very, very important. Focus on innovation. You all already mentioned the work that UT does but then also Texas A&M, University of Houston, Rice, this is, I mean, Austin is in at the center of Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, which are powerhouses, global powerhouses in their own and historically and even today in many ways can be actually bigger than Austin. So that split very importantly, Dell, Samsung, this all started mid 80s and then have been playing out since. And then finally I'll just say on what got us here is this building of things on top of each other. And this did not happen overnight. It was, not everything was thought through, but then also there's some bigger pieces that are put in place and then the community really helped us that built. Very quickly, I just mentioned before stopping is how to get there, right? We are here in this moment. What we're really looking for is a massive socio-economic change, not just here, but in Texas and broadly in the U.S. and globally and that is essentially if you have to mitigate environmental impacts of energy production and use, John, you mentioned some of the actions of the Biden administration so early in its days is just a signal of what already has been happening in other parts of the world, including Europe and some parts of Asia. And that's going to grow shortly for the next years and it is going to require much bigger or deeper action. So we really need to continue the fabric of and focus of the community. Our extreme importance on equity and equal opportunity. Historically, I mean, is a huge part of the discussion is energy injustices of the past and how we don't want to carry those forward. And then finally our focus on investments and innovation. It's not going to happen. There are still many, many opportunities in hydrogen, in carbon capture and storage, in real earth, mining, recycling in grid and power electronics. There are big opportunities, but there are equally big problems that need to be addressed. And here in Austin, we have that moment to invest proactively. So I'll stop there, but thanks where we are, thanks what got us here and then it's a very important thing to keep in mind to go there. Yeah, Dr. Ray, you spoke to the two prongs, the private investment as well as government as a driving force of that. We know that private investment's going to drive innovation but governments, municipalities and central governments can really play a role in setting a tone for that equity that you talked about in this sector. And Suzanne, you probably can speak to that too with your work and in working with municipalities, governments to embrace this idea that cleaning energy renewable resources can be a sustainable and equitable path forward. Yeah, absolutely, John. And at Pecan Street, we really focus on trying to accelerate innovation around clean energy and conservation solution development as well as market adoption. And I would actually argue that government investment is really critical to drive innovation. If you look at all the work of the Department of Energy and RPE but also states like California and New York, California has the Epic program, New York has NYSERDA that for a long time have been investing even more in driving innovation around clean energy. Again, both in early development of products, providing support for startups, bridge funding and connecting opportunities for companies to come and learn about the innovative startups that are growing in those communities but also funding for demonstration projects which we know are critical particularly for clean energy when we need utilities which don't have a business model for the most part that really reward risk and innovation and technology. We need to have a lot of demonstration projects to look at how these new clean energy, smart home, smart building technologies are gonna impact the grid and how utilities can plan for them and take advantage of those emerging private sector investments around clean energy to make our energy supply more affordable, greener, more reliable as well. So I think as far as looking at the trends that have gotten us here in Austin to really be the clean energy capital of the world, Cali and Barun have done a great job in covering that and also a huge shout out to Cali's team because they just really work hard representing Austin and helping bring those companies here for all of us. But I think it also is just an indicator of the trend globally that clean energy is gonna be one of the largest sectors of growth around the world. And so both as a city and a state, I think we would be foolhardy at this moment where we really need a lot of economic development and growth to not be leaning 100% into clean energy. We are primed to do that better than probably anywhere else in the world. But we do need a lot more commitment from our state and from other community leaders outside of Austin to both invest in that R&D, but to continue to invest in the public universities that churn out these amazing researchers like Barun and his team that are drawing companies here and also the quality of life that the employees that these companies wanna have with really great public transportation, really great schools. We know what the pathway looks like to get there. I think just getting more public sector buy-in that clean energy is not political anymore, it's just the future of energy is gonna be critical to see that be realized over the next five years. But Austin's a fun place to be doing this right now for sure. And Nate, interested to hear from you too on the business side of things and you're consulting with the private sector, how did these conversations come up and play out with the businesses that are already actively pursuing these efforts and then also the ones that are just now catching up? What do you see? Well, I think there are two ways of looking at this, right? There's where is money being invested and how much of it, how what's the growth rate on that? And also just how does rhetoric shifted around it, right? So, the US invested 59 billion in clean energy projects in 2019 and that's up from 11.3 in 2005. So people know it's a good investment that those investment rates are going up quite quickly. And then the citizens for responsible energy solutions or CRES, they just released a poll recently that showed that 74% of Americans including 59% of Republicans support increased government action to boost clean energy development. 82% of voters including 78% of Republicans support providing tax credits to companies and individuals that invest in clean energy projects which obviously is gonna incentivize companies to be taking up those projects to keep that kind of stuff in mind. I just saw actually before we started this that they may have been released before but they're pushing it today that GM has a goal of being carbon neutral by 2040. They wouldn't be doing that if there wasn't consumer demand. They wouldn't be doing that if there weren't government incentives for them to move away from oil and gas. So I think that's a big deal. And we've seen movement federally with Biden's climate change executive orders of the last week like has already been discussed. And then there's bipartisan legislation that was passed in December with the Energy Act of 2020 and our own Texas Senator John Cornyn supported that which I think is great, right? I mean, that's a sign that this is not a partisan issue anymore as Suzanne said, this is just common sense. We have to move that direction. Things are already moving that direction. And from the standpoint of the way that our companies, the companies that we're talking to are thinking about this stuff, they understand that it's a growth opportunity. It's great for the environment. Yes, it's great for things related to climate and climate justice and things like that. And it also happens to be a pretty good plank as part of your business plan. And again, as has been touched on, I think central Texas specifically and Texas in general is quite well-primed not just because politically we kind of move in that direction anyway. And so therefore consumer demands gonna be higher but we're pretty well-primed just given the amount of land we have to work with, given the amount of energy related money that's already in the state and the desire for people who have maybe been working in oil and gas to continue working in energy related projects, that's an easier switch from the standpoint of maybe worker retraining and things like that. So yeah, I think the possibilities are quite endless and the clients that we work with and the people that we talk to in the business community understand that as well. Yeah, very well said. And I wanna get back into the politics of energy too, like you were speaking about especially what we saw in the campaign trail ahead of November, but also with the incoming Biden administration. We can get to that in a second. I wanna drill down a little bit more into Austin's future though too. So because Austin is a hub for next-gen renewable technology what opportunities do you all see in the near future for expanding our clean energy workforce here especially as we revitalize our economy after the COVID-19 pandemic? Anything? Suzanne, where are you gonna go? Oh, I was gonna say, I think Callie should jump in but I wanna make sure you talk about, Callie and I had an interesting conversation yesterday about this topic of the kinds of jobs that clean energy is bringing to Austin because it's unique in that it's not just high tech where you need an advanced degree to get a job with a company like that. There's a lot of manufacturing that's coming to Austin around electric vehicles and solar, but even in other kinds of technology like Apple has a large customer service center here in Austin. And so that's one of the really, I think beneficial aspects of bringing more clean energy development and economic development to Austin is the wide variety of jobs that we can get from that. But we had an interesting conversation because I had assumed that a lot of those manufacturing jobs particularly with the EV plants that are coming would mean we have more blue collar job opportunities here. So more equitable economic opportunities for our community. And Callie pointed out some interesting things that are driving a lot of the manufacturing those blue collar jobs actually outside of the city of Austin limits. And I think it would be great to talk about that on this webinar Callie, if you don't mind. Wow, okay. Thanks for doing that. You're welcome. Okay. And I'll be happy to touch back on that. I just kind of wanted to back up a little bit because it might be helpful to discuss Opportunity Austin which is the organization that I work for. So it is a five county economic development organization that has run through the Austin Chamber. And so our entire mission is to bolster the five county regional economy and create those diverse jobs. So in 2004, a lot of our local civic and business leaders got together and decided, okay because we were a tech town at that time, right? And so we needed to diversify the types of jobs that are coming here. And I think they've done a pretty good job since 2004 and doing that and expanding the types of industries that are here. And so that's kind of a little bit about where I come from but the funny or the interesting thing is Dr. Ryan mentioned this has been a concerted effort for the past several decades in renewables. We didn't just get here by chance. The city of Austin and Austin Energy they're the reason that I have the job that I have. They were focused on clean energy jobs. So that's why that is what I, that's why it's what I do for a living. And so the city of Austin itself is really focused on bringing these clean energy jobs, these manufacturing jobs. They want those types of jobs in the city. They want our workforce to be able to go whether it's direct to college or direct to employment. And so they're wanting to incentivize those jobs. Some companies, if they're seeking incentives it is harder for these lower paying manufacturing jobs for these large companies where incentives are really important to receive the Texas Enterprise Fund which is known as the governor's ideal closing fund because of the fact that these jobs have to meet the average county wage where they're locating in order to qualify. And so because Travis County has a very high average wage where about 72,000 now here in Travis County helps a lot of these lower paying and more equitable jobs don't meet that threshold. And so sometimes corporations are driven into lower cost areas or lower average wage areas. And so it's kind of a while the city is prioritizing it. Oh, and this is not, I wouldn't say this is for every company that this happens but there are some larger corporate institutions where those incentives really help you get off the ground and or it's a focus of where they're going to locate. So it's definitely a fact. It's an interesting thing. It's something that we're working closely with all entities involved to try and figure out how we can alleviate that to encourage them to come back in the city. But the good news is we have the five counting region and there are still tons of opportunities available there that are going to help central Texas to create these jobs as well. So I think we're still positioned in a good place. Well, and I just wanted to add, you know you mentioned Austin Energy has a goal we're currently at what 55% of our energy consumption is clean energy sources. We wanna be completely powered or we wanna have 55% by 2025. And one third are currently being powered by clean energy sources. We've got the Prop A past which means we're gonna be building out, we're gonna be replacing our bus lines with clean energy buses. We've got light rail coming in. There's gonna be a lot of job opportunities through that. I think with a Pete Buttigieg run Department of Transportation, there's a good chance that maybe we're seeing those that funding from the federal level come in exactly as it was planned. So I think there's gonna be a lot that are coming through public works projects that will be magnets to bring really great kind of blue collar work into Austin and kind of solidify its place here a little bit more because the maintenance is gonna be ongoing and things like that. And last thing I would say is just that I think one thing that we're gonna really have to think about as a city in regards to clean energy and climate and this is a big energy project in and of itself is more dense housing and things like that and that construction, the conversion over to clean energy could in itself be a really important step that we need to take. I agree, I think there's gonna be all sorts of, there's all sorts of potential within the city to continue to increase these number of jobs. And you know, you can't even say that manufacturing isn't coming to Austin because Tesla and because CapSim, which is owned by Chanel that has their manufacturing plant, Southeast Austin at Velocity Crossing, they are using only, they drilled a well to use only non-potable water for their organic skincare products. They have solar arrays on site. They're about one of the cleanest manufacturing operations. So that's just a small number of projects that it's not happening, but it is. It's just something that comes up from time to time but I still think we're positioned to continue to create. John, I know you wanna move on to the next question and a couple of things that came up but I do wanna highlight them. We have a very large oil and gas workforce in Texas. Some of that will continue. A lot of that could continue. You know, I mentioned hydrogen, I mentioned potential ways to continue to mitigate impacts of methane emissions and natural gas could have a very big future. Certainly, that would play into Texas' strength. While these changes happen, there is a huge responsibility nationally, statewide, locally also in Austin to work with our colleagues, our friends, our neighbors and this workforce to very responsibly and very proactively move them into these newer areas that build upon oil and gas strength or to invest very systematically to retrain, scale up and move them into newer jobs. That's not, you know, while we get very excited about here is all the growth and here's all the opportunities, we have equally big responsibility in making sure that it brings together the entire state and all our people. I think, you know, fundamentally, if we all have to, you know, it's a great opportunity for Austin and Austin has really been leading in many ways but the problem is global and there's no hope to address the global problem unless there is deep social commitment and support behind it and that will only happen when everybody, the masses really see this in their interest of family and this is not about money but this is about survival, right? So, you know, everybody has to, so I think that's a very huge point. We as Austinites have a big role to play in that the second point is growth. As a lot of this growth is happening and so, you know, I'll echo what Susan mentioned about, you know, Callie and her team and the city's work and really taking that effort to bring in these companies but, you know, showcase to them what different, you know, parts of the city really do them and I've been in several of those meetings. It's just fascinating to watch the process and be part of that and contribute, right? You feel in that moment that these companies are, you know, looking, they're very excited and they actually care about what we are all able to offer as a city. As we go down this path of, you know, really very exciting growth, well, you know, growth with a singular focus on money and economy has all sorts of distorting pools, right? Something I mentioned earlier is the aspect of community. Why are we here? Because of the community that Austin is, we have to make sure as these developments happen, as we grow, how do we keep that community?  From an Austin's internal perspective, I think that that's profoundly important. So these two things, how do we bring the masses together in this massive change? And then also how do we preserve and build on and keep the positive proactive community fabric of Austin? Well, and Dr. Ray, I think you kind of touched on the politics angle really briefly.  But you heard a lot on the campaign trail before November that then candidate Joe Biden wanted to transition away from oil and gas. And there was a lot made of that here in Texas as one of those kind of tentpole issues on the campaign trail, regardless of what the race was. But the market forces, which we usually look at to see how we're evolving and changing have been saying that we need to transition away from oil and gas for years. The impact on Texas that that industry had 20 years ago is not what it is today. So what are independent producers? Shell, for example, has said it needs to transition away from oil and gas. What is the market privately telling us about where this renewable energy industry has gone? No, I am curious to hear what, you know, all of my co-panelists are thinking on this. And, you know, I'll not talk about any one company in particular. You know, what is important to keep in mind, John, is these are all very large companies that have international presence, right? So this is not new for any of these companies.  Many of these companies have been experiencing that elsewhere, for example, in Europe, right? So it's a balance. It's a question of certainty, right? And as things become more clear, you know, you mentioned markets and, you know, companies are very good at following signals, right? And, you know, often, you know, already in this conversation, we have talked about government investments and incentives and direction more so, right? You know, government acts on behalf of the society and in the betterment of the society. And, you know, if we have clarity on what that direction is, you know, companies are very good at following that, but it requires that commitment and clarity. And, you know, we are starting to see that emerge.   Something that the jury is still out, right? Is, you know, it's, there is a lot of work in terms of what can be done with carbon capture and storage and hydrogen. There are, there's a lot of open discussion.  There is no single clear dominant solution that I know of that has been declared. I'm sorry, there's, you know, that cannot be said. Of course, you know, we all do our own scientific models and projections. We need, you know, we need to get there. And so, you know, there are multiple pathways where many of the work that happens across the world in major companies remains very important. And I'm seeing, I'm very excited every day. I mean, you know, meetings where I'm seeing new enthusiasm, interest and investments by corporations across the world in really thinking very deeply and trying to be part of this change. So I'm actually very excited. This is great time to be helping everybody but also, you know, being actually in the moment. And I'd love to jump in and just, I think it's important to point out that there are two trends that are happening right now on the investment side that are important to watch that can help accelerate and expand Austin's clean energy economic growth here. One is exactly what you touched on John and what Varun is talking about, which is that we have a federal government that has set clear policies very quickly that gives signal to the markets here in the United States that align with these trends that we've been seeing globally both again in policy around climate and decarbonization but also market trends in other countries. So we now have this clear policy, clear market signal here in the US that clean tech, that ag tech, you know, any kind of climate technology is gonna be a pretty good investment. And at the same time with we're at in our economy and a real need for rapid economic growth. We have a huge surge in capital right now in private sector investment that's looking for growth stage companies to invest in and clean tech and climate tech are where a lot of these investors are trying to put their money because we've got these clear federal signals. I'm gonna say at last that helped them know there's gonna be a certain market, certainty of market here in the United States for those products and also support on the research and development side for funding. So we have a moment that probably is really gonna last about a year with the availability and the excitement of a lot of private sector investment and growth stage companies in Austin particularly again is primed to take advantage of that. And a lot of the work that Cali and Austin technology incubator are doing I think are gonna set us up for even more rapid growth over the next 12 to 18 months. And again, I think there's huge opportunities statewide to capture these opportunities but that's gonna take more state-level public sector buy-in. I thought it was really interesting that during the Trump years where there was definitely not much support for clean energy projects, at least rhetorically that that is when you started seeing a lot of these major companies, Shell, BP and I think some of this boils down to the fact that states like California and New York have changed their standards and it's kind of forced some of these companies who have massive markets in those states to have to shift and that changes their calculus entirely for the entire country. But these large corporations were acknowledging that they had to move in that direction. They needed to move in the direction of clean energy and I think that means that the governments may be catching up to at least rhetorically where the private market was now and then hopefully exceeds it and put some of those incentives and funding structures in place. But another thing that I'd note is that the price of electricity from solar is like down 89% over 10 years. And that is due to the work that a lot of folks have been doing to kind of get that down. But I think now that those price points are getting so low on clean energy solutions, it means that you may have this sort of like very slowly and then all at once there's an opportunity for that, right? And I think we're starting to see some of that movement now. And I think that there's, I mean, again, just keep hitting it, hitting that gong that Texas has some of the biggest opportunities possible in this space because so much of its economy is already built on energy in general. I wanna get one more question for the panel in here. And remember, you can ask your questions for the panel here in the Q&A. We've already got a couple of good ones. So I wanna leave enough time to get to those. I think it was you, Callie, who touched on equity early on. And I'd like to get into that a little bit more. How does clean energy help underserved communities in Austin and what more can be done to make sure that there is that equity and access piece to this? Okay, sure. And I really think that Suzanne needs to chime in here too. Whoever wants it. Well, no, I will speak just a little bit, but Suzanne and the concierge are kind of leading the charge in something that is going to revolutionize the future. I mean, it's a huge priority for them, but I'll let her speak to that. What's happening here locally in Austin, I think we still have a ways to go as far as what we're doing with renewables and how they're serving our underserved community here locally, but it is a focus. And there are conversations in the city of Austin's Economic Development Department with Austin Energy to find ways to come up with ways where they can put more programs in place that where renewables are affecting or are helping those communities. But if you think about the types of companies that we have here, some of the ways that renewables are already affecting are these communities is like ICON, 3D printing. They print affordable homes. They're working with mobile loaves and fishes out for their community first program that is, so they're creating affordable homes for some of our homeless population here. And so then ICON is a very low emission manufacturer here. So you've got a lot of people in our innovation community and our startup community that are coming up with technologies that were there implementing it. It might not be large scale now, but there are tons of examples like the ICONs that are helping here locally just because that's what Austin is about, right? The people are great and they love helping the community. Suzanne, you wanna jump in there, she? Sure, thanks, Kelly. Yeah, so in regards to Austin and equity around clean energy, we do have a lot of work that we can do in that regard. Austin really is, I think there's two Austin's right now, and if you look here, you're gonna think I'm talking about North and South Austin, but we really have White Austin and then Austin's community of color. Austin is the most racially segregated city in the United States. And Austin Energy and the city have been leading the charge for the past year and thinking about what does climate equity mean? What does that mean when we really try to put that into the form of policies and investments in action as a community? And we have a draft climate equity plan that the city council, I hope, will be adopting soon. I think they will, that the city put together in collaboration with the community, with a few hundred community members that participated in that year-long process. And what that's gonna look like are a lot of the things that Kelly talked about, which is really thinking differently and more innovatively about what do solar rebates look like? It's gonna include a lot of the work of ruins team around community solar, innovative financing around electric vehicles and more public services rather than rebates for private citizens to be able to invest in clean energy and then participate in those markets. So I think we're gonna see a lot of really cool policy development at the municipal level that, again, Austin's gonna be a leader on nationally, really pivoting that climate movement around equity. And then more broadly, we at Pucon Street have been working for the past couple of years to think about how do we also pivot this just general early adopter model so that it's not focused around a typical early adopter profile which is higher income well-educated family which you're in the United States usually means white household. And how do we really create community-informed technology around clean energy and climate innovation that brings together a broader swath of the United States? So we're gonna soon be launching the Center for Race, Energy and Climate Justice where we're gonna seek to bridge a lot of those research gaps, data gaps, information gaps that exist just generally in the private sector around technology development and what does America look like and what does America want? And then also bringing to the forefront solutions for technology development, but also policy development that are gonna prioritize investing in communities and households of color. And so for example here in Austin, as I mentioned, we've got Austin Technology Incubator, we've got a really wonderful community that supports our entrepreneurs here in the community. But I think there's more that we could do to really focus our support and our resources around our local communities of color. Getting in and identifying black entrepreneurs and Hispanic entrepreneurs that are developing solutions that come from their unique perspective and trying to wrap the services around those entrepreneurs that are gonna go out and change the world but right now really lack of clear pathway for how to engage in these spaces, technology and clean energy that are predominantly white. So I'm excited about where we'll go over the next year and again, a huge shout out to Cali and Varun as well for their leadership in these spaces. Sounds like a great local news politics story. I'll be telling you in a couple of weeks. I wanna leave some time to get to some questions here. So if you have been sitting on a question, feel free to put it in the chat box there. Click the Q and A. I'll share these and whoever wants to jump in and go after them. I appreciate the people being patient with us getting to these. The question is, you mentioned incentives in Texas, renewable energy generation rides on chapter 313 tax incentives. Do you foresee any changes in chapter 313 or other incentive programs this legislative session affecting renewable energy in Texas or Austin specifically? I saw this one in the chat early. So I'll jump in. I've been waiting for this one. Yes, I mean, chapter 313 is going, if there are any changes to it, it's going to have a huge impact on renewables, right? Chapter 313 has been instrumental in a lot of our large scale renewable projects that have happened in this state. I could tell you our advocacy team at the chamber is working very hard to advocate for the funding of chapter 313 and to not eliminate that. So it's a huge priority for us. What we're working on. And what about additional incentives? Anyone have any ideas on what could potentially be coming either federally or here at the state level? I think federally, you'll see, you're already starting to see several things in terms of exactly what shape the incentives take or other programs. Those will depend, but you will see a lot more investment in incentives from the federal level, from the state level, not in terms of what will happen in this list, particularly, but in terms of going back to looking forward and really building up of the strengths we have in Austin, but really more broadly in Texas, this really massive experience, massive investment, massive capital, international workforce to build upon, how do we, and knowing that really the winds of change are very strong, right? Again, this is not new for our companies. They have been in the midst of this, for many, many years, but working with them and helping them to really reinvent themselves or reposition themselves, if you will, and also along with them, their employees and make sure everybody has a good and strong future. And that is where I really think a lot of thinking at all levels in Texas, local as well as in above is needed. What can we be doing to support things in future of the grid in power electronics? That's a huge area of interest that really plays into the strength of Austin and Texas and it's really a lot of the future everywhere is built upon a lot of things getting electrified, right? So that's a huge opportunity. I mean, Texas has great experience doing that. Can we play into that carbon capture and storage is has potentially a huge role. Texas already is a leader in that. How can we further accelerate that journey working with what else might be happening elsewhere? And then I already mentioned hydrogen and pathways for natural gas. These are very important things and they're not in hundreds of these things. They're big buckets of what you already know. How do we proactively and very systematically now come together and support this? I think that's going to be very important. Nate, do you wanna weigh in on that on the importance for incentives to drive that business investment as well? Yeah, absolutely. I think he's a controversial figure and lots of people have lots of thoughts on him but the governor was very excited to welcome Elon Musk in to Texas. I think the truth is that any kind of business growth is going to be incentivized in a state like Texas and anytime you can bring in kind of a heavy hitter in the business world who's doing some real innovation around anything, Texas is gonna be welcoming to that person and to that company. I think here in Austin, we have a real responsibility to make sure that Tesla comes in and becomes a constructive part of the community and that we are thinking about how they contribute from an equitable standpoint and things like that, that it's not driving displacement and stuff like that as much as possible. But it is a big opportunity and it is good and it does signal that I think Texas is ready for and is interested in that stuff. I think there are lots of political reasons for Texas politicians to kind of cater to oil and gas but that doesn't mean that they may not be making moves on the legislative side. I haven't seen anything yet. I should have done my research. I should have assumed that a question like this would have been asked but my assumption is that there may be some moves that move in that direction to further incentivize clean energy, to further retrain a workforce that maybe was previously working in oil and gas and as much as Texas likes to take the fight to the federal level, in most cases for things like this if it's a jobs related program which I know the Biden administration and the president have really, really focused on angling their clean energy and climate programs to towards being seen as a big jobs program, Texas is not gonna turn down money for jobs. And so I think it's looking pretty good. And I just think we're the only state in the lower 48 with our own power grid. We have a lot of power pun intended, I guess over what we can do with this. So yeah, I feel, I don't know anything specifically but I'm feeling pretty good about the winds of change as Dr. Rice said. Winds of change, we have a lot of power. And great podcast. I also said that we needed to drill down when having a conversation about oil and gas. So I think we've hit all the boxes on the bingo sheet this time. We're getting some puns and we've got some good like 80s rock, I don't know, vibes going. Electric conversation. We have time for one more question. I really like this one. So what do you recommend citizens, especially college students should do to help grow the clean energy industry and combat climate change? Who wants it? I'll say start a company. If you have a great idea, start a company. Try to make it happen. Don't be afraid. This is the time. I'll just say, a lot of what is happening is really your future. This is you all are starting to help build it and you will most certainly live in it. And really what we have seen from the youth in the last decade or so really taking this up and challenging us, the more grown ups to say, hey, why are you guys messing up with our future? And this is not limited to just energy, right? But this is also about information. This is also about how we interact as citizens and how we think about our exchanges and thinking of societies. And so you guys have, this is your future and we all are trying to do our part in anticipating that we have been all fortunate and literally the fact that we're all here. What has been the conversation? Well, how great a time it is for Austin. Aren't we also very fortunate? Yes, we play into it, but we're also very fortunate. We really have that responsibility to work with all the energy and dedication we have to make sure that we all are able to give you all the future in Austin and elsewhere for that matter that in the future you can have a similar discussion like this about talking about great times and great events of change. So this will not happen without you because this is your future. So do everything you can do. And certainly, as Susan said, one of the great things you can do in Austin is to start companies. I'd add three things. Yes, start a company. Two, if you're much smarter than me, which I would assume you probably are, get involved in science, start creating those solutions that somebody else, you can work with somebody else to run the business side of it. And then number three, if I've learned anything over the last few years, it's that politics looks scary, but actually like everybody's kind of making it up as they go. And so if you wanna get involved and advocate, I would highly recommend. There's tons of stuff happening here locally, tons of stuff happening at the state level, tons of stuff happening at the federal level. And it is worth it to jump in and get a feel for how to talk to lawmakers and interest groups about how to shape that policy as well. So it's only slightly terrifying for about three minutes until you start talking to a politician and you realize they're just like you and they're pretending as well. And know that those emails and those phone calls, they work. I mean, when members get those calls and those emails and they get pestered, they think differently. Callie, any final thoughts here? I was just going to piggyback on what Nathan and what you just said, getting involved is so important. I mean, it makes a world of difference. And one thing that I just remembered when we were talking about what's happening in the new legislative session, that's something to watch that I think would be of interest for people on this call is there is a new bill proposed in the Senate that is Senate Bill 170. That would require the Public Utility Commission to send feasibility of 50% of generating capacity in the state coming from renewables by 2030. So it's a stepping stone to carbonization. Might be one to watch. It might be for those people looking to get involved for the first time. That might be your first reach out because I think that would be a pretty important first step. And I think it's pretty cool. Something like that's even in the legislative session. Suzanne, final thought before we head out. Oh, Callie, you're so awesome. That was, I'm going to close with Callie.  It's going to be a good one. Awesome. Well, thank you to all of you. Dr. Rai, Suzanne Russo, Callie Taylor, Nathan Ryan, Mr. Ryan, we appreciate you. And thank you to the LBJ Foundation and Future Forum for hosting us. I will send it back to Amy Garza. Thanks, John. So many thanks to our panelists and giving you all your time. I just wanted to say that if you're not a Future Forum member, definitely take a look at our website for series of events, in addition to potentially becoming a member at lbjfutureforum.org. And just to let you know next month, we'll host a preview of the legislative session. And for members only, a live Q&A with Tanya Williams, who served as director of legislative affairs for then vice president, President Biden. More details are available on the website. Y'all have a great afternoon and certainly look forward to seeing y'all soon again.


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All right, so I'm Adam Baldwin. No, thank you. I Am definitely not this Adam Baldwin if you were here to see that Adam Baldwin it is at the pool on the roof So I'm this Adam Baldwin. I'm the chief security officer and yet a security lead for side brand lift security, and I'm on Twitter at Adam underscore Baldwin And we're gonna blow through a lot of slides. I got 59 slides and 20 minutes plus two demos.  Right, it seems like something I made up. I did actually I've seen it mentioned before but it's really just a variant of cross-site scripting So let's talk about cross-site scripting first just to give people in the crowd If you're offering the cross-site scripting a little overview it comes in three variants right reflected persistent stored or Dom so reflected is a part of your query Parameter is reflected back into the HTML and rendered in your browser. It's it's reflected basically back the clients Sending it it's getting the documents getting manipulated and sent back and rendered Persistent that payload is getting stored somewhere getting rendered back into the client and then getting sent back to the client and rendered at a Future point in time and then Dom where all of that is basically happening client-side the actual It's being manipulated client-side rather than the actual document or anything being stored If you want to know more there's plenty of information out there. That's not what we're going to talk about we're talking about a specific variant of persistent or stored cross-site scripting right and Where I saw blind cross-site scripting mentioned first was an academic blog post from years back But it's also known as like authenticated XSS. Basically what we're doing with blind cross-site scripting is we're throwing a bunch of payloads out there Into various inputs in the application and we are looking to see if we get any response back So blind press it Just gonna stop saying that blonde cross-sites blind blind. Ooh It's a different challenge It's not like blind sequel injection where you actually get some type of immediate feedback timing or response Alerts whatever you have no idea where your payload is going to end up. You don't know whether your payload is going to execute or when So you have to think ahead about what you want to accomplish with Basically stored cross-site scripting right? What do you actually want to? Get out of what you're doing and The key piece here, and this is what XSS.io provides is you have to be listening You have to listen and listen forever Because that input is going to persist someplace in some database and at some point in time some developer is going to screw up and render that in some browser someplace Not properly encoded. It's going to happen. It happens all the time so What I like to think about Blind cross-site scripting is it's the Carly Rae Jepsen of Cross-site scripting attacks. It's call me maybe right it's a You might get a call back. It's throwing stuff against the wall and thinking that it might actually call you back So let's take an example from a recent penetration test that I did that was completely black box I only had access to the public-facing interfaces of all of their web applications and I wanted to see basically how I could cross that that barrier that trust boundary between the private Admin customer service Portal and the public-facing chat application. So that's me and Basically what I what I did was I set up a chat session with customer service rev And included in that customer in that chat and every single payload in my name and description in the body I put uniquely tagged Basically script payloads right script source equals some unique identifier and that's all I did I did a very simple straightforward and I went to see if they called back it didn't so the chat rep got this and it was also stored into the database I had no idea if they kept track of this stuff or not It's just what I did. I threw this stuff out there and I left left the XSS.io listening and Time passed actually a couple of days and time passed and Our chat representative. This is what I surmise based on talking to the client is they've got a little search interface for their their Chats and a little the customer service rep searched for something and it pulled the the payload out of the database and rendered it in her browser Little evil payload there and Bazinga, right? We got a call back So it sent it rendered your browser and send me back information about that application not that Exciting but the fact that I I now had a connection to Her session right? I was for all intents purposes her right? I knew where I could put input into the application I knew it was a description field of that particular chat none of the other fields triggered just a description And I knew exactly where I could put it to then get Send some other payload Happy me So steps to sort of a successful XSS exploit with you know blind across a scripting It's you have to chaot carefully choose the right payload for the right situation And you have to really really get lucky It's basically magic you throw crap against the wall until you know it might stick And the reason I say you have to pick the right payload is because if you go to say like HTML 5 sec You know more and those guys have just piles of payloads that you can use in different variants. There's just Just hundreds and thousands of different variants you can use But if you think about it, why would I use it like a CSS type variant injection attack in a first name or A description field I wouldn't so that narrows down your payloads even even more What I found is just the most basic of payloads just basically You know script source is really really effective in most situations I tried a variant of like a peros or a bird proxy plug-in that Basically rendered all these different like it and for every request I got it enumerated all of different injection points and then did you know Thousands of payloads and the ones that came back were always the really really simple ones So I just I've just stopped doing it I just use basically a few manual payloads and it's really really effective for me So you plan on your you'll your payload will be used in your in your application think about it Where's a user agent being stored? Where are these various headers that your client that you're sending to the application? Where's it going to be stored? How are they going to use it? How is it used in a reporting interface? If you think about those things, you'll you'll think about and you'll know you'll be able to kind of plan what you want to actually inject Will you be getting a context of a user that might have access to useful information is an application you actually care about? Those are some things to think about here's some nice targets that I found a log viewers the log headers exception handlers things like that That log your request your post body things like that Customer service apps chats tickets forums anything moderated anything that you've got that cross the trust boundary where you've got the any user that's going to be rendering in a different context and I don't know how that slide got in there, but I'll let you take it in and if you want to play around There might be something With this particular application Got it, okay So blind XSS management is a giant paint in the ass to deal with generating unique Identifiers for all these different payloads and keeping track of them. And so I basically wrote a tool I was lazy. I wrote a tool. It's counterintuitive So XSS that IO can help. So what is the XSS that IO tool? It's basically a tool to Deal with cross-site stripping exploits. So sometimes you need all the space you can get I'm gonna make XSS IO public so that anyone can create and have available payloads online at that domain and and use them 24 hours a day. It doesn't I mean basically it'll be up all the time I hope It's you don't need a short URL and I'll demonstrate this you don't actually need like XSS.io slash Some unique identifier like if you're using you know bit.ly in your your payloads your you have an extra like five characters There for the the GUI and you don't have to have that because we do some basically refer a base reader X Which I'm sure somebody here. I'll find a way to break and ruin that but whatever exploit the exploit creator it's a snippets for common tasks and you can quickly sort of just create stacked up exploits weaponize your your once you found a vulnerability you can weaponize it very quickly and We've got the dead dropper blind XSS manager. It's a simple API. You say I'm dropping This type of payload at this location and it gives you an ID back and that's all that's all you need And it's a quick super fast API. It's built on top of Node and Redis You know we can talk about architecture after the talk or whatever if you're interested. So let's do a demo if this works We're gonna demo a vulnerability in Nagios enterprise Basically Okay, what the hell is that Okay, so here's this quick tour as fast as we go here snippets snippets are basically reusable code blocks, right? They're just they're literally just functions That's what that's all they are there But job script function that does a thing and calls a callback and that way we can stack up We can just say do this do this really small thing and do the next thing and the next thing the next thing You can chain them together Load value by selector as an example is really useful for say finding a CSRF token from some page Here's our exploit list. There's nothing there because I dumped the database before I came up here And here's the exploit actually creator And we'll get into that second. Here's the redirect view and the dead drop. So let's actually Drop something in Nagios XI so there's a configuration manager that You can access if it's public Normally you see it's you have to be logged in to access it. What we'll do. I've got actually a Just a little Firefox plug-in that'll make public too. I don't have it quite polished yet But let's say we want to get a drop for a username Have username Get ID Paste it in there. It's the first one, right?  Oh, do we jerk? and We're just gonna log in log and fail right great, but but that got stored someplace that got put into a log So let's log into Nagios and And actually trigger that so if we look At dead drop we got one we got one dropped. We don't care about anything doesn't call back So I don't bother showing anything or storing anything or whatever It's not gonna Nagios configuration manager Okay, so if we happen to go to Config manager log these are happens to go In there we've got obviously we got some injection happening here And if we go back to the Explorer, please work We actually got a call back. So we got it says that at Nagios.example.com slash this URL We put it in the username field. We actually get a bunch of data back, and this is horribly ugly I'm trying to find a good way of representing this data but It's it's difficult. I'm actually logging the entire HTML contents of the page the source IP that called back the window.location the Session cookies all that stuff it gets it gets loaded right So let's let's sort of weaponize this particular thing So this is the page that called back the window.location and Let's quickly first thing we want to do is we want to create an exploit and say okay We want to we're just gonna simple thing of finding the CSRF token of one of the pages Just because that's what we've got planned so we look we can load a value byselector at a particular URL this particular URL we want is We'll load that URL Our selectors our input box and name equals NS NSP and That returns value and let's just alert that value and so this one snippet returns value and we can just say okay I want to drag You know basically the return value of that into the input of this other snippet and it goes That's okay Generator right there Now let's go and Let's say we have limited space So let's say we actually need every single character for XSS.io. We can't have any trailing anything Let's show the refer basically working in action as well And so we're gonna add a redirect from that particular URL that gets loaded and we're gonna read redirect that to Of course, I didn't copy the frickin Interexploit lists will copy the unique identifier For that and so we're going to So we're gonna say if anything comes into XSS.io from this refer Load this redirect into this page basically load load our payload right and that could be a beef hook That doesn't have to be something from XSS.io. It could be whatever You could load up XSS chef, you know from from koto. You can load up whatever you want. You can redirect into whatever So let's save it pray this works If it doesn't work, there's a space after that So now that we have that let's go back and redrop Let's just drop script source equals and let's just do so you can do a pretty pretty small payload and I'm actually logged in but it it still dumps it in there's a failed login So we load up the log We should get another Oh cool.  What's that? And when I when I dropped it so it did a post back Let's see Let's bracket that's bracket and bracket.  So let's look just quick Aha, you don't need it You don't need it backslash backslash will use whatever the current protocol is So you can make it even shorter but No, I know what I know what frickin happened This thing right here It's a bug. It's I knew it was gonna bite me. It basically It doesn't strip spaces So I Break things. I don't build them. Yeah, whatever Okay, so that's the failed demo. It's should run. There's some bugs. I love contributions I'm gonna make the code base public on GitHub and people can attribute It needs some polish, but it's there Like I said, whenever we were refreshing that log to these dead drops were calling back So we got 18 events in each in each individual time. It actually is called back we've got We've got more events more more sessions more whatever how much time? All right, so that's Blind cross-excripting. That's XSS.io again some bugs. I'm not gonna debug the demo anymore I have a special treat however That maybe will actually work And if they both fail, that's great. I've got another tool to announce CSRF.io To basically deal with CSRF attacks. It's kind of a you know, I Gotta show my slide because But wait, there's more okay so Let's do this quick CSRF.io is basically you can create little scripts of CSRF style attacks, submitting forms, loading content, whatever Here's just a few that are out there and you can make you can make them public whatever We are going to try Does anyone here have a ZTE 890? one of these Anybody don't be shy raise your hand, please You have one? It's it's um, yeah, ZTE 890 Verizon Don't click on any link I send you So this particular so let's just show the tool quick basically this particular vulnerability is Puck locking out the sim so you have to go get a new one if you If you do it too many times, right? So what I did was it submits the form to vz.hotspot, which this thing conveniently gives you so even if you change the internal IP address it you can Reliably hit the device every single time from the outside Pause for X seconds and let's redirect back to the URL So all we're going to do is we're hit the form hit the form hit the form What I was going to try to do is connect to it and see if it would actually Kill it, but who knows if this thing will actually even work 890 I've never fully tried this out because I didn't want to break the device before I Had to two F nine two Four a five. Oh, don't join that. Okay, so here we are online Apparently that's the test. All right, so let's hit the exploit URL and see what actually happens See if it actually does it Incorrect popcode, huh cool If you get the timing down right that that doesn't pop up So if you get if you can short it out. Yes, it's connected to it Keeps refreshing Time it might not be right, but it will keep repeating the form over and over and over again If I could actually connect to it it will would check the count Anyway, it's a useful tool that could quickly copy you can literally copy the request response right from like firebug or something and drop it in to the CSRF that I have a form and submit the request and just it's at that point it's it's It's out there in public and you can send send the link. So basically a couple of horribly failable demos and Oh This came up. I don't have internet Hey, that didn't fail And that's it


friends and welcome to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida and today we're gonna do kind of my new weekly process of placing I mean placing orders. I've been placing orders so much I think that's what I'm supposed to be talking about but anyway um of how I kind of plan my week. I've been trying to get this video up for you guys but the shop has been busy and if you're you know new here I do have an Etsy shop and I sell basically functional stickers, budget inserts and things like that so let's get right to it.  This is my extension planner which is kind of a mini HP size I'm not going to call it a mini HP I'm just going to say it's the mini HP size because I designed it myself. So here I have some stickers I happen to look up at Michaels and they had some of these capital sheets design stickers here and this little photo thing here is where I keep a lot of my go-to stickers that I use a pen and a tweezer so these are my mostly go-to so I didn't feel need to kind of bring you know all my little stickers out this time. Now also I have this little notepad desk pad from cloth and paper let me move some stuff up away so I've been using this it's been very helpful it stays here on my desk so when I'm down here doing business work or things for the shop it's right here even things that I may need to remember right now me and my husband are sharing an office so the other day I was here doing my work he was doing his and he mentioned an appointment for my son he needs to have some surgery on his knee so I just jotted that down right here so the first thing I've been doing is writing everything here now I've been trying to hold on to the past few pages but I'm just going to rip that out since that one came out and these are just the past few weeks and I got this in my um subscript april subscription box fro cloth and paper so with this one I don't do a lot of highlighting but I make it bold and I use this pen as a paper made ink joy gel point zero excuse me 0.7 so it will be the week of the 18th now I gotta look at a regular calendar to see what the end date is I know it's Memorial Day weekend so I think the 22nd so I'm just going to look at my month you hear yeah so it's the 18th through the 24th okay so Monday being the 18th I want to use some date stickers let me see if I have some of those so here are some date stickers from the happy planner I just took them out because I no longer use the happy planner stickers but I do love their date stickers and some of their functional items I want to see if this will be that'll be big enough these will be too big so I'm gonna lay these dates real quick I'll probably speed through okay so now I have my dates I go into my personal planner I go to the month of May and see if there's anything on this week that I need to take care of and my car no got fish back another month my t-mobile so I want to use some checkbox stickers well I made these circles let me I was trying to make these circles to sell in my shop but I just could not get them aligned right they're okay for me but I don't think they're okay enough to sell they just came out kind of wonky and I didn't want to continue to waste any more paper so I'm going to use these anyway because like I said I'm okay with it I just don't feel comfortable selling it and I like to have a kind of top three or top five things so I know I'm going to put down like five of these and sometimes even if I don't have uh five things I still list you know the five dots or five functional stickers or just five as you can see a little that's with my pen so I'm noticing I have actually I have a zoom on the 19th I have a zoom on the 22nd and that's one is for me from me and my clients and this other one here is with the Michelle okay I have t-mobile do this week which they have put back my bill but I don't wait for it to add up my mom's been helping me pay it but I just want to note it here so right now that's what I know okay so because I've not been using this like to plan weekly and I just get certain things what I need out of there but I have my extension planner which pretty holds much everything that doesn't hold in there so I go through I go through my extension planner and I go through my inbox to see what's in my inbox I have like my shop ideas things like that so for something that I need to do so I see inventory insert so I need to update inventory and then let's see what else is in my inbox I've been trying to do two to three videos a week I failed last week but it's okay we're back on it so then the top priorities for me I'll continue to go so what I do is for the top priority excuse me I'll go to I've already checked my bills on my other calendar so I'm gonna still go through here and double check because a lot of times things are in here and it's not on my other calendar so from May and this calendar just remains plain not a lot of fluff it's just to be functionable client zone I got that so actually I have a zoom get that zone okay so nothing is there so then I go to the weekly past weeks and whatever didn't get done gets moved to the next week so let's see this was last week and I got a lot done but this week my priorities looking at this list like what is a priority to me I have an email list I need to make and actually I had two so I've done one my planner because I've been wanting to reduce some stuff from my planner like put some new deco and stuff in and I just haven't had a chance so oh lord have mercy foul unemployment Jesus Christ see that's why I look at because some things are just a running priority which is foul unemployment so we got that there so today is Monday the 18th so with sales sales excuse me announce collab and then thinking of now announcing the collab I'm doing a collaboration with Anika over at Anika Creative Closet and Sandi over at Planner Craving you guys that sale will start on Friday for Anika and myself and Sandi's will start I believe the 23rd through the 25th so I'm gonna go ahead and put that down collab starts and then I'm gonna probably make coupon for collab on Thursday and I can actually do it now let's see I'll announce collab today is Monday so I try to put down walk workout it doesn't always get done well it hasn't been getting done but I like to list it because the more I write it the more I'll see the more I'll do it okay film okay so that's all I like to not put too much down what I found with um functional planning and being that I'm a lister I cannot list too much because it becomes overwhelming so just a top few things once I knock those out then I'll add to the list so it'll look a little slim at first but then you see it starts to look like that it starts to get a little busy and I start to add stuff once I knock those little few things out so tomorrow's Tuesday what's going on Tuesday I don't list my son's zoom and um google class is because he is kind of self-sufficient at first I had to list them but I don't necessarily have to do that so on Tuesday I want to tackle my mail so I need to shred mail and two two dollar Tuesday starts two dollar Tuesday starts okay so I'm still looking at this from last week so what needs to be carried over um I need to make a promo calendar and I think Tuesday is a great day today's not the great day to do that because I have some other stuff I have to do oh also today I need to um get in zone one y'all I stay in zone one I got it the cluttered to my liking needs some more but I just need to just do the everyday things so zone one is my kitchen um so that email is from the two three so we're gonna film on Monday we did that so I'll put film on the Wednesday two dollar Tuesday ends and then I'm gonna put in field orders right now I don't have any orders my queue is clean cleaned out but sometimes they'll come in for two dollar Tuesday so I'll fill them and then I'm gonna put them here as well just in case orders come through let's put a little dot I'm gonna work on cleaning up my planner on this day because once I get it cleaned out reorganize I may film a flip through okay so that's it for right now and then now I just think of things that may come through um here we have a zoom the 19th okay yesterday the 19th am I tripping wait a minute nope today's 18th zoom and then I just kind of go to my stickers for my zoom stickers and put some papers oh and I'm glad to see y'all I have to look at I have to look at my stickers to kind of remind myself of stuff okay tonight ti and tiny and the family hustle comes on that is about the only show new show or um new show that comes on that I watch or reality TV wise goes and I just love them and I was telling someone about my TV stickers because I decided to make this sheet and they will be an actual Tuesday is because my husband got rid of my cable we just do fire stick now and I used to to record the show watch it in the morning so now I have to actually watch it when it comes on some of you these cutlery stickers because I like to list dinners that way I can go back and see what we had for dinner that way I don't repeat a lot of the same things over and over I'm gonna put this box stickers here for shipment in case I need to ship to ship and then the zoom stickers so we have a zoom on tomorrow we have a zoom on the 22nd I'm doing a zoom with my clients my hair clients just to kind of keep them informed on when I'll be back to work and exactly the new protocol because I'm still not working so it's it's just it's a whole mess you guys so but it's on with clients so I'll be so glad I'm not I'm not gonna say that let me stop telling the story I won't be glad to go back to work because it's going to be a lot of extra stuff going on and a lot of extra from me and I haven't been working so by you guys placing orders I really do appreciate it because it's helping me while I'm not working it's just doing you know it's helping you know a whole lot to be honest okay so we got field order okay so make coupon for collab and then normally on Saturday is when I kind of I don't really chill but it's my pamper day my self-care day and that's the day I do my hair nails or whatever so sometimes I do my hair during the week so I'm just gonna put self-care and if my hair is already done by then or my nails don't need to be done or I gave myself a pedicure this past Saturday I'm going to start implementing something else like skincare or something like that Sunday is a relaxed day if something comes about then I just add it there Thursday I can't think of anything else but to make this a coupon for the client sales so now going into my extension planner I pulled out this weekly sheet and it is from simple and trendy okay and I already have the dates highlighted of the week I normally do that a weekend in advance so that it can drive okay so first thing let me switch pens because I like the highlight so that pen I don't feel is a good one to highlight so for this weekend on as you can see I don't really add a whole lot of stickers to this is very simple I need to file unemployment and matter of fact I need to do that today okay we have zones oh you know what else I forgot you guys I need to clean my fridge see I just need to find a day but this is the on there to do so I'm just looking back two videos these are things that are important to me so right now I'm putting my one so again this pad stays on my desk so when I'm down here I can drop things down on it if I need to it has mainly all my Etsy stuff that I need to do on it this one stays my planner so when I'm upstairs I have this planner with me I'm looking through it I'm writing in it daily doing my daily planning I can go back and see what needs to be done excuse me I can see what needs to be done or has been done and then I have it right there on me on me and then if it's something that is here it'll be on here and then I'm like oh okay I need to go downstairs and maybe print orders or make a kid or something like that okay so this week file unemployment we got that zoom I'm gonna just put it down well no so we need to update inventory I gotta put the videos on here so I can see it a couple times I write things over and over because sometimes I truly forget and I have to see email list collapse sale $2 Tuesday so I'm looking over here promo calendar and I like this insert because it's like listing it's almost like right in a grocery list I go in there and I can check it off appropriately and then just move it and it's not a whole lot of fluff I don't have to worry about decorating it or anything like that it's just mainly me making a list of what I got to do for the week it is my favorite kind of pre is how I pre plan so I'm looking I'm just gonna put field orders we're gonna go ahead and claim it okay do I got collapse sale I do self care and I gotta find some more stuff to add to my self care because I have been slacking I know I need to go to the grocery store this week I just don't know what day okay laundry something I noticed that I didn't put down now today is the day I really need to do laundry so I'm going to just go ahead and add it it may get pushed to the mar but because I don't want this to fill up it was too much for me um anybody needs to call email so okay to see I want to put a new deco sheet I have the art I just need to make them okay new deco sheets I'll put sheets because I have a couple of art um and that looks like it's it so from here is how I plan my daily okay I know it's not a lot it doesn't look that cute so here I have this insert which I also have it in my um I know I get compliments on my planner but to me I feel like sometimes it's not understandable for others but it's understandable for me and that it looks a little junky but it's understandable for me let's see we can check in here we go and I want to redo my um dividers so also like I said I have it here and this is what a journey looks like I really don't do a lot of decorating to it and I've been testing out new ones so I'm going to do this one probably off camera because I really haven't been looking at to be honest with you but here I track my habits so if y'all want to let's go ahead and do it too why not I don't know if I'm gonna do it in this one or this one let's try this one for a change so I just don't want to make the video too long so what I'll probably do is speed through I know it's a it's a kind of a process that's why I haven't really filmed it because it's kind of new especially with the pad um it's fairly new to me I do add a little bit of deco in here very very little so um let me get this out okay you guys so I figured I've already laid the dots filled in the calendar here so again I'm just transferring information so that I see it in more than one places so I'm just copying basically what's here or on my other calendar so I just get a sticker if it calls for a sticker that one didn't go down the way I wanted to but yeah but really the stickers really remind me you know of what I gotta do I just love these TV stickers the retro stickers I had I made some modern TVs but they look just like computer monitors so I decided not to do those and I love these eyeglass stickers you guys let me tell you um I think my facebook group is listed below in the info bar info bar check it out because um my shop not my shop my um group is listed there and you should join there are some perks to joining my um group they're getting first dibs on $2 tuesday things like that uh special discounts so you might want to check it out now this is like my first time using a whole whole lot of color but I really wanted to use this um little sticker kit here and I love some leopard honey oh payday tomorrow is payday let me list that here so I will add a little more stickers here but to be honest with you I'm just I enjoy a good pen and um tombo like I said I just need it to be functional for me so that I can see everything like I need to know what is what and where it goes and where I need to be and what it needs to do so that's that so I have a build you on the 21st that there I'm glad that's black and white yeah I just wanted to use some of these stickers they were really cute like I said I still like stickers I just don't I just can't be distracted by them so I really like the more functional and minimal stickers um let's see so what I like to do because today is Monday so I've already done a sale for $2 tuesday to my group I'm going to I've already um scheduled it to be listed so I'm going to take this highlighter sticker and use that to highlight I did announce my collab I can just highlight that I mean these highlighter stickers are perfect okay now what else do I need to do let's see Wednesday what's on it for Wednesday we got film and again I treat this one just as I do the pad I write it here and if it's something that um needs to be added I'll add it you know I just it just I need to see it because I'm not at this calendar if that uh makes any sense to anybody it makes sense to me like I said I have to write things down numerous times to see it and I need to see it over and over as a reminder uh let's see Thursday a coupon for collab sale and then sometimes um what happens is let me show you something else that I like to do with these corner stickers so if you order these corner stickers for me here's a great way to use them so you can kind of make a box like what I did was let's say here I want to bring this down and you just kind of make a I call it a window with it cooperate please so this is how I make a whole separate window for what I want to address or I want to highlight I mean somebody may have thought of it but I think I thought of it I've never seen it and so I called the window and then I can put in here here some fancy writing or a quote or a list and it's just highlighted in that little box can you guys see so I like that okay so now more important things so I've played a little bit with stickers um here's the things that I daily track and this was last week I think no this was the first week yeah I didn't do too good on tracking stuff last week but I like to check um whether I walked or worked out I like to track my IGs I have 5Gs 5Gs um I have about five um IGs I have workout IG I have personal IG I have a hair IG Norris Cove and I got rid of one so I think I'm down to four oh and a nail IG no I didn't I have my nail account so I only worry pretty much about Norris Cove and my hair one so I tracked that to make sure I posted those two um I had no spend on planter stuff so these are some of the things that I track um also my Facebook group I like to make sure that um I'm keeping my group members engaged and you know posting something um to help them show them how to use stickers or how I'm using my stickers or you know my spreads or they get first things first there so I make sure that I do that um I have two minute hot spots and I try to do it every day really 15 minute tidy I try to do that every day I skip some days where I just want to be lazy and then I have journal and my affirmations and really those two kind of go together okay and then here I like to list my dinners like what did I cook and my reasoning for that is I can go back the same as here I can go back and look and see what we had make sure that I'm not repeating anything and then here I do to clean sometimes I use a sticker and I'm thinking about making me some for that so now I'm going to go in with one of my highlighters and I think I'm going to use a different one today I normally use pink but I think I'm going to use this one because it'll match kind of my highlighter stickers so what I do is I just highlight this oops I like that and then I just kind of divide these up and make them their own and I'm sorry I don't have the number to that sticker I mean to that tumbo and so here is to pay y'all my husband's office phone is going off he's out the office so that's how I'm recording and then I put this week and I do have some of this week stickers but I'm just not going to look for them here I put next week and then here is to buy sometimes I mean I have anything to buy but I do know right off the hand I need ink for both my printers Lord hemorrhage and that is a bill I don't know what I believe gotta make a way ink for printers I need to order more paper more sticker paper I may want to buy one more artwork to hold me over for another week or two and this week to pay we have t-mobile I've already paid the other steps I don't need to list that and promo calendar so what I do with the this week on this calendar on this particular weekly sheet is my top five it's pretty much over here so I'm just listening walk and work out I need to tackle laundry I'm gonna be that right there next week so I'm just looking through this one and I'm going to make again and then I look at next week I have XM radio do and my car insurance do XM comes out on the 26 car insurance comes out on the 28th so I put those there and those that's all that I have listed there now I just go in and double check this calendar I mean it's a whole process and I'm sure this video is long but I appreciate you all for rolling with me so yeah it looks like that's all that I have for next week and if anything comes up oh you know what matter of fact my son has surgery next week he may have like some pre-op things to do prep for it and then see here I'm gonna put on Sunday prep for next week I'm gonna try to get these weekly videos up you guys a little sooner but it's hard so that's it okay and then I start playing my dailies because my dailies I do enjoy just taking the time to kind of play in daily I have shown you how I play in daily I'll try to remember put it in the cards or put it in put the link below for you guys and then this is how it pretty much looks right now I do want to kind of spruce her up a little bit let me look in here and see well so we've got to spruce her up some and because we use this brown I'm having something right here so I'm gonna use that there and it's crooked y'all I still cannot play a sticker I mean I don't get it whack only a sticker gosh oh I love this little hat honey yes okay so that's about as much deco as she gets I need to keep these clean in case I need to list anything the boxes I don't mind adding anything because like I said I try to keep my plans as minimal as possible I will take this take the sticker I will take this one to add to my payday so that I know how much I get paid I love total boxes so I can just do that I could have just used another box okay so that's it you guys I know it's long but that is my weekly process so I'll unless it changes anytime soon I probably won't be sharing that whole process again but it is my new process so going forward I probably will just share maybe one me planning either in here or either here or here and then I do have my business calendar I didn't even show that because that's another whole beast okay so maybe that's what I'll do next to show you how I plan in my business calendar for the week I haven't been really using it that much because this one has just been doing everything for me which I really like as y'all can see I changed the cover out so yes I'm just trying to stay afloat okay you guys again thank you all so much for watching if you're new to my channel you enjoyed today's content please do me a favor hit that subscribe button also hit your notification bell so you can come back for more functional uh functional planning budgeting all that great stuff and I would love to have you and welcome you to the code thank you so much for watching I'll see you in my next video bye


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My name is Krim. I'm a fourth year international finance and accounting student. It's now 7 a.m. in the morning and I'm now going to catch the train to go to the office. I'm now working as an intern in the LG Electronics European Tax Chair Service Centre. So my main responsibility as an intern is to prepare the entrusted report and fight to the tax authority and also support in the VAT monthly report and other other ad hoc tax report. And today is my last day so I'm going to show you like how is a day look like for them for me as an intern. So let's go! Start working at half past. We have lunch break at 12 p.m. Sometimes after the lunch we also went out for a walk and at 1 p.m. we went back to work again. After this past five months I can truly say that internship is a really good opportunity for the students to apply like all the theories into the actual practice and also like to develop your skills like flexible like soft skills and also to broaden your network. So I hope you guys will spend this time well and play as much as you can because we are there to learn right. So yes all the best for your internship!