so people i am back with another cyberpunk video and this one guys is pretty epic now the other day uploaded a video which was i think five or six amazing customization options for pc players which allowed you to do things to create characters which the game limits completely limits in that video i showcased a couple of mods one that gave your female v's a better cleaverage and the other one gave a better body tone so it was more muscular so you could see like a six pack on that stomach but today guys that just got a whole lot better now thanks to spawn zero from nexus mods for this incredible mod by the way which i'm pretty sure you people will agree when you see it it's also got a youtube channel as well called tough gamer i'll link that down below oh i'll let you know you're over there and the rock just fell out of nowhere well but i'll link that down below also i'll also link the mod too if you want to check it out i'm just pick that up if you let me yes oh no they're not the best i'll wait but yeah this mod what it does is it gives your female created v's a much bigger booty a much bigger chest a much bigger chest and a much bigger booty now we're going to do the way before and after so you can see what it looks like what your v looks like before considering when this mod is applied the difference is on area so as you can see here my panam my custom created panam by the way if you're interested in this mod i'll link that down below also but your v probably doesn't look like this but it doesn't matter what your female v looks like this mod works for them all so as you can see i mean it isn't like the early days where we were promised by cdpl would have so much customization options i mean we had body sliders back in the day well before they cut it all out and this that and the other but because they're quite out the third person cutscenes i believe they cut out half of the customization options for your character too because you ain't going to see yourself much but because we've got a photo mod we ride bikes we race cars we run around we take photos of ourselves it's a shame that those features weren't left in the game but with modders like this spawn zero you can create such badass mods we can do we can get what we want we can get that shape we want now i know a lot of people are scared to admit it as well this video will get so many dislikes because people are just ashamed to say they like the shape of a woman which is just bizarre to me but hey all each let on but what this does is it gives you a much bigger chest size and a much better sized boot hey now the pictures i first saw i mean i thought it's overly big it isn't realistic this that and the other it's going to be just out of control it's going to be wild but when i installed the mod it's actually pretty good and what we'll do is we'll do a before and after so you can see my v right here and i'll just quickly cut the video guys and then i will install the mod and you will see it people be prepared be prepared so there we have it people i mean as i spin around you will see the difference i mean it's like i said it's not overly over the top i think it's more or less perfect especially uh if you got if you like women with a shape of panam because you know how panam's most hey in this game is just out of control and wild but yeah i mean like i said this mod is actually quite good and the way he's done it is i think he's actually gone into the files and edited the bone structures to make things appear bigger which is crazy to think about and i wouldn't know where to start doing that kind of thing but um again shout out to tough gamer or spawn zero or nexus mods like i said this mod will be found linked down below if you do want to check it out now one thing i did forget to mention was this actually people um applies to all the female NPCs you'll see in this game or at least i think most of them now you will get you see that there you will get a little bit of clashing in terms of clothes because obviously the bone structures been stretched out so you may see a bit of uh uh like you see how the clothes are coming through there and they're clashing you may see a bit of that depending on what you wear i haven't actually tested that out to be honest um let's put them on now their hair trousers now they're fine perfecto they seem fine let's see you can see a little bit there so yeah you will you will see it here and there i guess there's not much you'll be able to do about that but it's still all good but yeah like i said let's see if i can actually get to a fast travel point so we can go and see an mpc just any random mpc so does that up there where is that all the way up there all my days all my days but yes i have seen this on my other female creative use as well but i thought i showcased to you guys on panthen because that's what we like that's what we like now i think this is just a start people i'm not going to lie if you read the guy's description about this mud he's going to edit for males he's going to do much much more for females so it's best you probably keep up to date with it by just put marking that your link down below i want to see a female she's down oh oh shit no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no if i shoot i need to put a weapon on geez i'm gonna run away i shoot him i'll shoot run away yeah you can see the shape much much better much much wow big on her big on her hers is extra sized wow let's go to the sea you have a proper look but yeah like I said as far as I'm aware this does affect all NPCs but um let's just go into the middle of let's go over here there's a lot of people over here is that my apartment one let's go there let's go there people and check this out check this out but yeah these mods now are just getting better and better and like I said we've CDPR dropping the resources to allow modders and things like that to improve on their skills we're going to see even better things people really are and I cannot wait and I cannot wait because in the reality these kind of mods are kind of kind of carrying the game so to speak whoa what's going on there then oh yeah I know I need to get to the city I probably spawn into the wrong spot textures and that loading in you gotta love this game people I see now she looks normal oh no she don't from the from the back she don't from the side she does which is cool there's all kinds of different shapes and sizes here people all kinds of different shapes and sizes but yeah I'm guessing this affects all the joy toys as well Judy Misty um Claire even uh who else is there probably Rita I don't know everybody every bad day well this is your kind of thing I know a lot of people don't like to admit it I mean I mean it's 2021 people it's 2021 and people still don't like to admit this thing I mean like I know my last video the one I said where I showcase the body shape for females better cleavage for females I mean that video got so many dislikes before the video was even live but yeah matter because I did say I written that uh I don't know how do I get out of here let me out oh there we go I wrote in the description that you need to hit me up on discord or twitter for the link because I didn't want to pin it in the comment section because the direct link took you to nexus mods but it had basically not safe for work images so I didn't want to directly link it in my video description so I said people hit me up on twitter hit me up on my discord and I'm not joking guys I sent that link out to probably 1500 people the two links so yeah yeah I mean you got a cushion to sit down yes you have yes you have wed just put a coffee out of that booty did you see that people that's pretty cool well yeah guys if you want this mod you know where to get it linked down below what you're doing panam cannot just like did I jump I must have jumped I'm an idiot and I did jump what am I doing we have one last look guys as you can see much much better let's be honest with ourselves here much much much better so yeah like I said if you want this mod it's linked down below again credit to tough gamer aka spawn zero channel and nexus can be found linked down below and guys I hope you enjoyed the video if you do leave me a like really helps out I'll probably need all the likes because I don't matter dislikes this video will get because people are scared to admit that they like that shape have I built a power man my hey ho is what it is but guys I hope you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one


What happened? What was the incident where your kid in his swimming as well Tommy? You got the Jewel? Yep, so the kid, so I was at the centre parks and a man Gulham Nitesh was his name. He, my daughter comes running over to me, says Dad, Dad, some man's just grabbed my bottom. I said okay, and I video it, because I said okay, when you say grabbed your bottom could he have brushed past you by accident? Did he say anything when he grabbed your bottom? Like did he say sorry or she said no, no, he just walked off. I said okay could he have just accidentally, she said Dad he grabbed my bottom.   So as he comes up, I said oh, mate, who are you here with?  And he said what? I said who are you here with? And he pointed at these two blokes. I said, got any children with you? This is Santa parks. Got any children with you? No. Any women with you? No.  Yeah, so then I think, well, now I know you've done it, yeah, now I know you've done it.  So I'm holding him, lifeguards come over, they hold him, we wait three hours. So I sit there with my children, I've got, I've got my three children and two of their friends because I've got a day pass, we was in on a day pass because there's only up at Wobb and just up right from Luton. We're on a day pass, we're waiting, managers come and say, what's happened? I say, sexually assaulted my daughter, yeah, that man sexually assaulted my daughter, so get the police. Police come, they take my ex-wife now downstairs with my daughter, they ask what happened, she clearly tells them what happened, he grabbed my bottom, he'd done this, and then they come upstairs and say they need to see me. So I go downstairs and say, all right, I'm waiting and they say, we're going to be arresting you. I'm like, okay, I said, all right, I'm thinking, well, he has took a slap in the process. I said, okay, have you arrested him? And then I realized I haven't arrested him. I said, are you not arresting him?  And there's a bit, I start losing my health. So tell me your arrest, just tell, let me, let me know he's being nicked and I'm coming with you, yeah? They didn't nick him, they nick me for assault on him. They did not even arrest him, yeah? So then he's let go, well, bearing in mind that he, there's three men there, he's at center parks, they didn't seize their phones, they didn't do anything.  So as my wife said, I said, don't tell children we're arrested, tell them I'm helping the police with what's going on, yeah? So we go home and bearing in mind, I've been in jail a couple of times away from my children, as my daughter's driving home next day from school, I'm still in the police station, it comes on the radio, Tommy Robinson's arrested, my daughter then breaks down in the car. For me, it's upsetting because my daughter had done everything right.  She then has been made to feel that she's what she's done wrong, which is all I want to know, what you've done was right, yeah? But now daddy's arrested, daddy's been prosecuted, daddy's facing prison. But then from that, so what I've done is the original conversation we had with my daughter, I released it online, people were going mad because you could hear my daughter saying clearly he grabbed my bum, daddy grabbed it like this, he pinched it like this. So then I ring the police and I say to the police, what's going on? Yeah? And how come he hasn't been arrested? Do you not need to speak to my daughter? Yeah? He's sexually assaulted, what's going on? And then about two weeks after this, once they go through it, they get the CCTV, so they look at the CCTV, they see my daughter leg it out of the swimming pool, yeah? And they see him scurry off the other way, yeah? So then they nick him. Then they nick him, yeah?  He then got taken to court, he got prosecuted for sexual assault against my daughter. He gets prosecuted, he goes to court and my daughter has to give evidence, so she has to go and do this video thing, which is, I do actually now understand why some people in the balance of do they go through this, because it was horrific for my daughter then to be challenged and to go through it. So she goes and does this video evidence, he gets taken to court, they made, his defence made the whole thing about her dad, about Tommy Robinson. It was a jury in Luton, it was all about Tommy Robinson. The CPS woman said to my wife afterwards, he got hung jury. The CPS woman said, I do not know how he got hung jury, because he says in his statement that he banged his head, yeah, on the slide. He banged his head on the slide, he was disorientated and he was grabbing for the side, yeah? Of the point, that's what his statement says. It's actually assault my daughter. He got away, right? It's actually assault my daughter, not just to get away with it, but I got prosecuted. I got charged, I got taken to court because I was given 200 hours community service for it, 200 hours community service for slapping the people.


Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us for the return of our virtual spirituality series. My name is Jessica Colligan, and I'm happy to welcome you on behalf of Fairfield's Alumni Relations Office. With me this evening is Father Jerry Bloschek, who since the last time we did one of these Zoom events has both a new title and a new office. He is now our alumni chaplain and a special assistant to President Mark Nemek, and his office is here in Alumni House. And we are so fortunate to have him as an official member of our team. We've loved having him here for these past four or five months and are excited to continue to work with him, both on a daily basis and for events like this, which we're so pleased to share with you tonight. Before we get started, I just want to ask that you please keep your microphones muted to minimize any distractions. And I encourage you to use speaker view in Zoom rather than gallery view, just to keep the focus of your screen on Father Jerry as he gives his talk. We also encourage you to use the chat feature if you have any questions, you can either send them directly to me, or if you're more comfortable just putting them in the general chat to everybody. You can do that as well and we will try to get to as many of them as possible in the time we have allotted. And now I will turn things over to Father Jerry. Thanks very much, Jessica. I'm very happy to be able to see some of you and know that other old friends and colleagues, members of our larger Fairfield community and many friends who come to Fairfield for culture and for education and for spirituality. So I'm very glad to be with you. And I'm very, very glad to be able to talk about a topic which on the face of it can't sound very interesting and I'm surprised that we have so many people who are with us. The, the topic that we said we would talk about is understanding the universal apostolic preferences. I'll spell out what exactly those are but first let me give a little historical background so that we have a context to understand what it is in that that these that these universal apostolic preferences refer to. It may, it may not be something that you know but Jesuits don't meet very often as a group in the entire 550 year history of the order Jesuits have only gathered for a global or universal meeting, which is our supreme decision making body. We've only met 36 times in the history of 550 years. So, when we do it's very important. It usually is to elect a new superior general, or to assess where we are in terms of our internal life, or how the order and our institutions in our larger Ignatian family to whom we always feel very united. How are we doing in terms of our activities and our responsibilities to the larger church and to the larger world. So, indulge me for a minute when I take you back to October. To the 36th general congregation or major meeting of Jesuit leaders from the entire world. This took place in Rome, and we elected a new superior general. We replaced our retiring superior general, Father Adolfo Nicholas, with our new general, Father Sosa, Father Arturo Sosa, who was a professor of social sciences at our Jesuit University in Venezuela and Caracas, and had been superior or coordinator of all of our Jesuit ministries in Latin America. At this meeting, not only did we elected new superior general, but we did an appraisal of where we are, and where we think we should be going. This group of Jesuits put together a document, a decree we call them of our general congregations. And the title of that decree is Companions in a Mission of Reconciliation and Justice. I want to share a little bit about this document with you because I think it will give you the context for understanding where the very notion of coming up with universal, universal, apostolic preferences came from. And more importantly, even than that, it gives you some sense of perspective about the frame of mind or the assumptions that were in the minds of Jesuit leaders when they put this document together. But first of all, the document begins, the society of Jesus has always sought to know and follow God's will for us. It already states a supposition that the order is not just doing its business. It's not like we can say this is what we've always done. We've always had schools. We've always lived this way. We have our constitutions. And so, semperitim, always the same thing. That's not at all Ignatian. It's not at all at the heart of St. Ignatius. It's not at all at the heart of anything or anybody or any institution that wants to call itself Jesuit or Ignatian. Any institution and anyone who's affiliated with our institutions to be faithful to this style, this charism, this way of seeing the world to be in constant openness, in a constant attitude of adaptability and flexibility, to be open to two sources. One, as we continue to listen to what God tells us through the church, through its reflection, and through our own personal prayer and our own discussion and discernment together. And then by looking at the signs of the times, by looking at what's happening in the world, Jesuits and our institutions are always on the search for the modus. What is the better way, the more effective way that we can be of service to the people to whom God sends us? How can we understand more profoundly what's happening? How can we analyze more deeply? How can we respond more generously and more authentically to what the people of God need throughout the world and what the church is calling us to be? So if we have now universal apostolic preferences, therefore accept time and the fact that in 10 years we should be ready to re-examine those and say again, well, based on what we experience in the world, what we see, and also what the Holy Father and the bishops and the synods in the church are teaching us, how can we better respond? To God's people and their needs. In our documents there's, again, a turn of phrase which I find very congenial and very authentic to us. It says, in any Jesuit, in any Ignatian enterprise there is a holy restlessness. There is a certain kind of apostolic aggressivity. So simply saying this is what's worked. It would be anathema to Ignatius or I think to any authentic Jesuit mission or Ignatian work to say, well, that always worked in the past. That's what we've always done. Well, that's not the way we proceed. So we proceed gathering new information with a freedom, a kind of holy indifference that allows us to be free enough to do things in a way that is radically new if necessary, and that will challenge the way we've proceeded in the past. So it's useful to understand that that's a Jesuit Ignatian way of proceeding, discerning, gathering new information, reflecting, making a choice, and then reassessing the choice. Did that in fact yield the results we were looking for? And so I'll say more about that specifically. When Jesuits are making decisions and when Ignatian-inspired institutions are making decisions, I suggested or implied that there are two primary sources, and this congregation spells it out in its first number. As we search for God's will and what God is asking of us today, the congregation's document says we do so from the heart of the church. In other words, we always know who we are. I mean, in common parlance, people like sometimes to say, well, you know, I like the Jesuits, but I don't like the Catholic Church. Or, you know, there was an article years ago about Jesuit colleges that said Jesuits see Catholic, no. That's not true. No Jesuit and no Jesuit institution has any identity if it's not rooted solidly, creatively, reflectively in the heart of the church, which itself is always discerning. And God knows with Pope Francis, if Jesuits are inclined to restlessness and challenge, Francis is a great example of that. Francis is pushing us all to continue to ask new questions and to continue to ask ourselves how better do we proclaim God's word and how better do we serve God's people, especially those who are most marginalized. You'll hear that the priorities that the Jesuits are affirming and asking all of us who are affiliated with and who are stakeholders in Jesuit mission, the, the, the preferences that they're asking us to reflect on. You'll, you'll, if you, if you're keeping current with Pope Francis and the various discussions and the various reactions to him or against him, you'll hear that these are very much in line with what Pope Francis has in mind when he's leading the church. But now listen to this and this is quintessentially Jesuit indignation. So we look at the future we try to figure out how we should be at Fairfield or at Fordham, or at Boston College or at a retreat house, or a Jesuit social center, or in any Jesuit sponsored work at the Murphy Center what should we be doing will always always with the mind that we are identified with the church and its mission but then equally and totally Ignatian and inspiration is we make our decisions by gazing at the world. So we go away that we can hold ourselves up, put ourselves on ivory towers, or dispense ourselves from the hard challenging and exciting task of looking at the world as it really is. So listen to how the Jesuits who were gathered in Rome back in 2016 listen to how they phrased it. There's a world that has been groaning in labor pains till now there, quoting St. Paul's letter to the Romans. On the one hand, we see the vibrancy of our youth yearning for better lives. We see people enjoying the beauty of creation. And we see in many ways in which people use their gifts for the sake of others. And yet, our world faces so many needs today, so many challenges. We have images in our minds of people humiliated, struck by violence, excluded from society, pushed to the margins, and our earth bears the weight of the damage human beings have wrought. Hope seems threatened. In place of hope, we find fear and anger. So any discernment, any analysis, any decision about how we should allocate our resources and make decisions for how our institutions or our personal lives will proceed or based on that two fold rootedness in the teachings of the church and in a candid, honest, vulnerable look at what is really happening in the world. And I think none of us are feeling all that very comfortable if we were to say right now, if we were to do an Ignatian exercise of imagining our world and its suffering and its challenges. The background for making these kinds of Ignatian discernments or choices or deliberations doesn't end with looking at the sufferings and challenges of the world. It continues on in this way. We must always remember that, and this is again, it's a kind of a new way of talking in the history of Catholic spirituality. Saint Ignatius said that God is not over and above the world. It isn't that God is the cosmic clockmaker who started the world and then is going to somehow judge it at the end of time and only from now and every now and again, like a puppet master dips down and rearranges things or, you know, asks for things. Saint Ignatius says that God is the very life that is breathed into us and that God is constantly laboring in the world. And that God is laboring toward the flourishing, the health, the fullness, the beatitude of nature and of people and of societies and of individuals relating to him and to one another. So the core of Ignatian belief is that this world is not only a place that we can say is so needy and so challenged and so filled with suffering and conflict and polarization, but that the world is also the place where God is at work and that God is redeeming and freeing and saving the world. And something that may sound even more preposterous if we think about who we are and what our own limits are. The core Ignatian Christian belief is that inspired by Jesus and Jesus' spirit, people like you and me, people like you and me, specifically, concretely in all of our peculiarity and particularity are called to labor with God for the redemption and saving and reconciliation of our broken world. So we are invited not to throw up our hands and despair, but following and allowing the spirit of Jesus to motivate us, to animate us, to direct us. We are invited to make a difference and to believe that we are invited and empowered to collaborate with God in the healing of the world. The Jews have a great way of talking about this. You may have heard of the healing of the world. So that's what excites a Jesuit and that's what excites our Ignatian collaborators, that as we face challenges and we know we have to make decisions, we believe that we are empowered and called to do so. Okay, enough background. I've gone over this way too long. But at that general congregation, at that meeting of Jesuits back in 2016, when a new superior general is elected, he is given a mandate. The Jesuits don't like, as I told you, don't like to meet very often. And so what they'll say is, okay, Father General, you're the new general superior of the order. So we're going to give you some marching orders. And some of the marching orders that these Jesuits back in 2016 gave to Father Sosa was, we want you to look over all of our institutions, over all the Jesuits throughout the world, and we want you to do a careful inventory. We want you to consult widely, not only with the Jesuits, but with all of the lay people, women and men on whom we depend for the success and the vitality of our ministries, and also consult with all those other members of our sister churches, and of all women and men of goodwill, who are committed to the healing and redemption of the world, and to the revitalization of the spiritual sustenance of human society and cultures, consult with them, you know, speak with them and help us reassess in the face of all of the challenges of our broken world, where are the focuses, where are the directions that we as individuals and as corporate entities. And then when I say we, I mean all the members of the Ignatian family, what should characterize us as individuals, what concerns should, should turn us upside down and stretch us, what concerns, what questions should we be asking. I remember years ago I had a job at Fordham, I was the Vice President again for Mission and Ministry, and I began to think as I discussed with our faculty across 11 different schools, and it was my job to try to talk about, or to articulate what makes up the identity of an institution. And I came to the at least temporary conclusion or provisional conclusion that what identifies an institution is what are the questions that they wrestle with, what are the issues that an institution takes deadly seriously. What in earnest does an institution contend with, whether it's if it's if it's a parish or if it's a retreat house, if it's a social center, if it's a university, if it's a college, if it's a grammar school, what are the major concerns that without which this institution wouldn't be itself. Okay, so Father Sosa is told that he needs that the order is asking him to do this. So, one year later he begins the process. So in 2017, he starts a process where he invites every Jesuit region, every Jesuit superior, and all of our institutions to consult widely, and to come up with not a mandate that you not not priorities in the sense that this is more important and that is more important than B or C or D, but rather what are the preferences. What are the concerns that by preference, you give great importance to, and what are the preferences that animate and shape whatever enterprise whatever ministry whatever institution, you're doing. You know, as I go through them with you, it's not the case that, you know, Fairfield, for example, could choose a, it's like not a Chinese menu, you know, you don't choose a and then leave BC and D out. They're saying that any authentically Jesuit Ignatian work is marked by these fundamental concerns. And Father General Father Sosa will be saying, look, across the board. It's a problem in the next 10 years, not overnight to come up with a strategic plan, but to be wrestling with these and to be saying, as we continue to think, discuss discern, analyze, how do we incorporate these preferential concerns. Maybe that's the way to talk about it preferential concerns can't do everything, but Father Sosa in the order saying, these are so important that they have to be your preference. So eventually, they in a process of almost 16 months, they gather, they do all the work and I'm not going to bore you with what we did here in our own community to contribute to that effort. But every Jesuit group, every institution was asked to contribute. Anyway, so by January of 2019, Father Sosa was prepared to go to the Holy Father and say, look, here's what we've come up with. And here's what Pope Francis wrote back to him. Dear Father, your preferences are in agreement with the current priorities of the church as expressed through the ordinary teaching of the Pope, the Synods, the Episcopal Conferences. But then listen to what he adds. However, without a relationship with the Lord in a personal and communal life of prayer and discernment, these preferences will bear no fruit. That's what we need people like Pope Francis for. Yeah, it's all very good. Yeah, absolutely. You're online. But unless you continue to stay tapped into the source, the vision, the juice, this is not going to work. It'll just be another exercise in, you know, in futility. All right. So in February of February 19, 2019, Father Sosa issued the Universal Apostolic Preferences for the years 2019 to 2029, the first one. By the way, I don't know whether it's 730, you feel like taking notes or if there's anything, if there's any importance here that you feel you want to jot down. But don't worry about it, because at the end, Jess, Jessica is going to tell you that we're going to make available to you a copy of this, of the, of this, of this letter from Father Sosa of February 19. And you'll be able to go back and say, all right, when Bloschek was talking, it wouldn't make a lot of sense. But now I get it.  First, preferential concern. I kind of like that better. The first preferential concern is across our ministries in everything that we do to show the way to God through spiritual exercises. And a lot of you are here precisely because in one form or another, you've experienced this great legacy, this great treasure of St. Ignatius, the spiritual exercises, which are modulated, modified, adapted in a multitude of forms. And that's what Ignatius wanted. There's a certain form that he came up with 30 days in solitude, then he comes up with other ways of doing it. And then over the course of time, he said, you know, these have to be always modified and applied to people in their concrete specific circumstances. So we're told by this, by Father Sosa, we resolve to offer the spiritual exercises in as many ways as possible. Listen, providing many people, especially the young, the opportunity to make use of them and to begin or to advance in their following of Christ. I'm delighted to say that the Murphy Center for Ignatian Spirituality here at Fairfield has done a spectacular job, thanks to the talented directors, thanks to the visionary founders and benefactors that put the center together. For example, just so that you realize that this is not all building castles in the air, the Murphy Center, as some of you know, has a 10-week program where our students, members of our larger community promise to spend an hour in solitude every day and then see a spiritual director once a week. I wish we had time, or you can go on the Murphy Center's website where they do have a list of, I think there are a few videos and a list of testimonies, especially of our young people, our students. Right now, for imagine, 60 of our students have signed up to do that. Imagine, can you imagine 60 undergraduates taking the buzz out of their ears and not turning their machines on for an hour every day and then meeting with a spiritual director. When I had more time and more freedom, I served as one of the directors and I wish I could tell you, I wish I had time to tell you the stories, the transformative experiences that happen. But many of you have your own personal experiences of what can happen when with support and some guidance, we stop and we listen and we experience that God, who as I said in the very beginning of my remarks, we are confident is always working. God is always working in our lives and God's intention is always to bring us to deeper truth, to deeper freedom, to deeper love, and to watch that happen with our students is extraordinary. Right now too, and I'm going to stop because I could give examples all night. One of the great joys of the Murphy Center is the close alliance between the Murphy Center and our athletic department. We have 450 varsity athletes at Fairfield, every one of them goes through a day long retreat, where some form of the spiritual exercises is offered to them.  And all of them in the course of the year, go through at least a day of some experience of the spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius. And again, their witness their testimony is extraordinary and very inspiring. The spiritual exercises this rhythm, this insight this way of of of helping people encounter themselves as God sees them and helping them to experience God in others and in nature, and in the scripture in Jesus in new ways is. It's what we need to be about. So I'm happy to tell you that at least with preferential option number one, we're doing great. And I want to thank I know a number of our directors from the spirituality center the Murphy Center are probably on in our gathering, and I want to thank them individually, and as a group because they're there, they're in the trenches they are dealing with our students, day to day. Another quick example is Father Dennis and is working with our Egan School of Nursing, and with our young nurses, especially our nurses who work in critical care, and in hospice care. They have a program helping them to develop and strengthen their own spirituality, so that in their vocation slash mission as as healthcare workers. They have the spiritual thanks to our tradition of the spiritual exercises, they to gain a deeper familiarity with and ease, and ease in their relationship of finding God, even in the situations not even but exactly in the situations of human sickness and poverty and deterioration. Okay, that was preference number one preference number two preferential preferential concern number two. The language is is on the one hand painful but extremely for me inspiring. We pledge ourselves to walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, whose dignity has been violated in a mission of reconciliation and justice. We resolve to discern who are the most vulnerable and excluded persons in our midst, and to find ways to walk closely beside them. We confirm our commitment to migrants displaced persons refugees victims of war and human trafficking. And how do we do that, we do that in an institution of higher learning by improving our studies our analysis and our reflection, in order to understand in depth, the economic political and social processes that underline these situations. Do you understand so as a university. It may not be the case necessarily that that that that all of our resources go to immediate care in response to the sufferings of migrants and displaced persons and victims of sexual trafficking, but as an institution of higher learning it is eminently our duty and our responsibility to encourage our faculty and our students in their study of politics of advertising of chemistry of political economics or education to examine these issues and not try to pretend that they are not the aching wounds of the world. So we do everything we can for example when we are interviewing new faculty. We want to know what are your research interests. Are you going to be interested ultimately, if you want to be part of the mission of Fairfield University. Yes, be the most competent accountant you can be. Yes, be the most that the most competent chemist that you can be. But how are you going to allow the concerns of the world to work their way into your research into your teaching into the internships into the collaboration of research with our students. So, even in our core curriculum concerns for the causes of the world's woes and sufferings are built into our core curriculum, so that they are inescapable. There'll be no for them. I'm sorry. Oh my God, I do this so many times. The number of times I want to say Fairfield and I say for them. This proves to you that I have that I have crimson flowing in my veins so for all of my my Fairfield friends and alumni. What can I tell you, but here I am at Fairfield I love Fairfield. So, no Fairfield students should ever be able to say, we were never challenged about the reality of ecological degradation. Nobody ever asked us in our courses to think about the underlying political and social and economic and military causes of world poverty of inequality of income of wars and and and and displacement of people. It's part of what our professors are asked to work on. And we ask our students in a non ideological way. We're not interested in turning out, you know conservatives or liberals couldn't care less. I want, and we all want our students to be occupied by these issues, and not to be naively innocent, or a block headedly ostrich heads in the sand approach to the sufferings of the world.  I'm going to just give you the third, because the third will introduce me to another example that I want to give you. So the third to accompany youth in the creation of a hope filled future. This third preferential concern says young people, if you're looking at the whole scope of the globe now, not necessarily here in Fairfield County, but if you look at the world. Young people, most of them poor face, and even our students do in their own ways, face economic insecurity, increased political violence, multiple forms of discrimination, progressive degradation of the environment. What Father Sosa with the approval of course, of the Holy Father says across our ministries, and in every country, again whether it's a parish or grammar school high school, whatever we have always we should be trying to quote, create and maintain spaces for youthful creativity for encounter for discerning the path to happiness by contributing to the well being of all humankind. There needs to there must be there will be says Father Sosa and the Holy Father in any Ignatian inspired institution, a special preferential concern for youth. Now, here we are, we're a university. So that's right up our alley. But how we do it matters simply because our customers, the people who pay the checks are young people and their families doesn't mean that we've accomplished our mission. We're still going focus on our students and on their total integral human well being and growth is what we must be about. And that's if any of you went to Jesuit colleges and universities, and if you're still bothering to listen to a broadcast like this, it must mean that you had some positive experience of that that you experienced people who were concerned about the growth of your mind, not only in your professional preparation but also who cared about you as a human being and understood that you lived in particular and peculiar circumstances. Maybe you had economic needs back when you were here, or when you were some other Jesuit college or high school, maybe you were going through your own personal psychological sexual social challenges. There was somebody who understood and who cared and who was there for you and who let that be clear. In other words, I hope that somebody respected you and loved you and cared for you. Now, powerfully, Father Sosa says, to accompany young people demands of all of us who work with them authenticity of life.  You lose all credibility. If you're a fake. When I first started teaching in university way up in Syracuse, New York, one of the old Jesuits said to me, I was telling him how unprepared I was I didn't know this and I didn't know that. And he said, look, just just be honest and be transparent and be authentic because the kids always smell a fake. If you don't know something tell him you don't know it. We're talking about something broader still when we talk about authenticity of life. So we want as our student life. We want our student personnel folks, we want our faculty, we want our public safety officers we want everyone who works here to live as best they can authenticity and honesty. And it says here spiritual depth and an openness to sharing our life mission to share with our students our own journey and to share with them as is appropriate who we are and why we do what we do. So you see the kind of vision of a community of care and creativity and tough learning and demanding education that Father Sosa has in mind in our ministry to youth. The last and I'm going to go through this briefly I'm going to mention it only because I want to come back and tell you about an initiative that I think explains or demonstrates our commitment to number to be to walk with the poor the outcasts who are most vulnerable who are most excluded and to walk with youth. The last and again, this would be a topic for a whole other set a whole other session. I have so many wonderful faculty colleagues who are working to implement this. It is to collaborate in the care of our common home, which is a quote, which is a reference to Pope Francis's encyclical letter a lot to see our responsibility for the care of our mother the earth. And the call is to collaborate with others. This is nothing that that you know, we on our own can do to collaborate with others in the construction of alternative models of life that are based on respect for creation and on sustainable development, capable of producing goods that one justly distributed. Ensure a decent life for all human beings. Maybe at another time. In fact, if we do this I'd like to get to get together my really admirable committed colleagues who are many of whom teach in our environmental studies program. Or on our campus sustainability committee. I would love for them this issue was so important and candidly I know so little about it. And they know so much. Maybe, maybe just we can get them together and talk to our, our friends here about the motivation and the implementation of this of this preferential concern. But what are we doing for to walk with the outcast to walk with those who are most vulnerable. And what are we doing a special service to our youth. I think you have probably heard through the Tom Tom's, or if you follow the Connecticut Post, or if you got the message from Frank Carol, the chair of our board. We've been working over the course of the last 18 months on an accessibility of the presidential the president created a committee to examine access increased educational access, because we are convinced that as as a Jesuit Catholic community, the most, most important, most effective instrument that we have to respond to the needs, especially of the most vulnerable in our own neighborhood here in bridge in the greater Bridgeport area is to move toward slowly carefully to move toward a two year junior college in downtown Bridgeport that would provide access to education to a population which has been for generations, seriously neglected and underserved. These would be Pell eligible students, that is to say their families live under a certain government established level of poverty, and mostly young women and men of color first generation families refugees, who are capable, who have the desire and the intrinsic ability, but who haven't, who haven't been prepared to find admittance to a 62 to a four year college, and whose, and whose, and whose preparation is very likely not going to be accomplished in one of our existing state community colleges. So we have on the basis of a wonderful community and wonderful junior college established and sponsored by a Loyola University in Chicago, a Rupe college, we here at Fairfield have developed our own distinctive model of what we working hand in with Bishop Kajano, and the diocese of Bridgeport, how we will provide this bridge this new opportunity for educational access to new generations of the kind of people by the way for whom historically Fairfield was created. You may know enough about our university and some of you may say exactly from that kind of a family, when the Jesuits up in New England decided when they noticed when they discerned when they spotted the reality that there were many, many generations that there were many families, Catholic families as industry expanded in the 2030s and 40s here in Southern Connecticut the Jesuits said they need they need a college. They need educational access we want to give them the best we can. And so the Jesuits began to creep around downtown Bridgeport, looking for land to buy to open a college. And yes, land was too expensive in downtown Bridgeport, but there were two contiguous estates that were up for back taxes up here. And so in Fairfield, and so the Jesuits bought these two pieces of land, but the intention was always to provide educational access in an atmosphere of academic rigor, pre professional focus and care of the whole person, giving these young people of the previous age all that they needed to realize their potential, and to achieve their success, and to become, you know, productive, and, and accomplished contributing citizens to our area. That's how we started, and that's what we're going to go back and bridge to go back to Bridgeport and do. So that's how we're going to try to implement. And the implementation of these of these preferential concerns, how they're going to be incarnated. It's not a once a once for all decision. We are going to be returning to these again and again. And whenever our provincial visits, whenever representatives from the Association of Jesuit colleges and universities visit us to assess and to grade us on whether or not we are faithful to our the criteria that they will be using will include and be chiefly structured by these, these preferential concerns that we've been talking about. Likewise, very soon we'll have a New England colleges and universities assessment as well. And they asked specifically, what is how do you define your mission and your and your orientation, and we will have to even explain to our secular New England college and universities colleagues, how these criteria which we say identify us are are shaping our curriculum, our hiring, our promotion, our, our scholarly productivity and our service to the larger community. And I better stop now just we have one everybody to sleep. I saw one of my friends that I'm not going to identify my friend has a nice glass of what I what I take to be a Pinot Grigio, and I wouldn't mind having that here now but what can I say. So, you have one question and so far we'll see preface is it by saying this may be more of a question for her parish, but she's asking is the church considering evolving rituals within the church or within mass services that reflect a more universal inclusion. That has, well that you know that you're right it's not even a question for your what's a question immediately for your parish, but it's a question of the bishops are given tremendous, tremendous authority over the worship in their own dioceses and the local, the I'm sorry the American bishops would be taking up these concerns. Now by inclusivity, do you mean the role of women.  All of those are terribly important questions, the topic of cultural inclusivity and the proper role of women in in liturgical life and in church life. Yeah, we don't we don't get to say what happens in your local parish. We do get to say to some degree what happens in our own campus ministry. By the way, if you haven't met our wonderful new Fairfield alum, director of campus ministry, Father Keith much Kiewicz, a macos I think he says, we should bring Keith on and you can you can throw a few of those questions at him. Well that's actually a great advertisement because we will have Father Keith on December 14. So that will be market calendars now I'll send. I'll make sure I include that in the follow up email so we will have an opportunity here from our new campus ministry director. And as I said, or as Father Jerry said, I will be sure also in the follow up email to include a copy of Father Sosa's letter so you can read through all of this a little bit more thoroughly and I think. Father Jerry, I have a feeling that once people get a chance to really read through that they and digest everything a little bit more. There may be some more questions so to your point maybe we do some follow ups on the specific preferences like you know the climate concerns and all that going forward so we may find that after this people are having more questions so we could certainly do follow ups. I've also you know I've also blithered on a long time so people are probably you know doled into into into a weariness but the Board of Trustees is going to be making a definitive decision very soon on what's going to happen with our proposed two year college. And if that's approved, then we'd have a lot of exciting things to share with you. As I say I think we should do more on ecology and sustainability, and we have wonderful colleagues who can do that.  You think that Jesuit said nothing to do except ask you to think about more things right, but this is also the Ignatian year. When Father Sosa, who is apparently very energetic has asked us also to be thinking through the life of St Ignatius and how it has implications for our own personal lives and for the living out of and the incorporation of the preferential concerns. So we're in the middle of the Ignatian year. I thought I was going to talk to you about that to tonight but I realized I had bitten off more than I could chew. So I dropped that. And, but I will tell you, as a commercial that in late January and early February, we're going to have an online book club. We're going to be studying and reading together. Can you can you can you see this. We'll send you this information to just we'll figure out how to let you know this is the autobiography of St Ignatius. So over the course of four or five meetings, we're going to chop it up. You're going to read it. I'm going to give you some notes I'm going to suggest some avenues for reflection. I'm going to put it together it's not going to be me at, you know, a talking gray head it's going to be all of us sharing what we learned how we were impacted, how we were inspired, as we looked at the life of St Ignatius, as he recounts it himself. So that's coming. Any more questions before we before we wind up anymore. Any questions at all. If you have anything that I can see, but if anybody has anything feel free to chime in. And if not, as I said, we will certainly have other opportunities to follow up on this and to have further discussions about specific preferences if that is something that is of interest to you. So once you have a chance to look over Father Sosa's letter if there's anything that comes to mind certainly don't hesitate to ever send it my way and if it's a question specifically for that you would like Father Jerry to address to you. I'm going to arrange to do that and I will share that with him, or if you just have thoughts for future events like this that you would like us to do we're certainly open to those suggestions as well. Yeah, that'd be great idea I mean if there are things that you would like as as the extent is our extended family of parents present and past of of participants in different programs from the Alumni Affairs Office or from the Murphy Center. All of us who have somehow connected. I always on this. This is not magical thinking but I really do believe that when people are drawn together it's not by chance. And so we have something that we're sharing, and we have something that we're building on and so let's see where all this leads. Okay. Yes, sir. Oh, my friend, Bart she and Bart. How are you from Bart is coming to us from Summit New Jersey. Father, did the congregation consider the issue of recruitment. You know, Bart, they did, but I don't think they they didn't put together a specific document or a specific. recommendation. And I think it's important because at the same time that I keep saying to our trustees and to and to and to senior leadership here at Fairfield that the the enduring and effective and commitment to the identity as a Jesuit Catholic University depends in the first place on the senior leadership, the trustees, the benefactors, the alumni, the alumni and everybody who makes up the community, the community. Now, in that community. I think that the role of a certain number of relatively active relatively competent Jesuits is significant right like I try. I, we did everything we could to make sure we got Keith as campus minister, we did everything we could to make sure we got Father Paul Roark as as a Vice President for Mission and Ministry, because we believe that these, these people are really living connections to the great tradition. What do you think for what should we do for recruitment. How did we miss you by the way. I would, I would plead in my defense. Mr. Sperry Catherine. Bart's wonderful wife. But can I tell that can I tell them the truth that we may not have got you but can I tell them. Bart's father, who was a judge. Was he a he was a federal judge Bart state court judge state court judge in New Jersey. After raising his family, and once he became a widower entered the society of Jesus as a Jesuit brother. So brother Bart. I'm sorry for 26 years. 26 years how old was he when he entered 67. He became a Jesuit brother at 67. And touched, touched the lives of any of us touched profoundly the lives of any of us who were raised by Bart and the other brothers the brothers had a irreplaceable role. And the fact that speaking of vocations the fact that we don't have a lot of Jesuit brothers vocations, you know that we have brother Jonathan Stott who teaches in the physics the chair of the physics department. But we have a terrible scarcity of Jesuit brothers to the great dereliction of the society. You're going to turn me off I can see it. No, no, never. I don't see any more questions just seeing some thanks and some kudos to you Father Jerry so thank you so much for another wonderful event thank you all for being here. And as I said keep an eye out for that follow up email later this week we'll have a link to the recording if you want to listen in again, we'll have the letter for Father Sosa, and just a couple of other reminders and links for upcoming events. Thank you and we'll tell you more and we'll tell you more about the January February program. Absolutely.


Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering Sapphire Now. Headlines sponsored by SAP HANA Cloud, the leader in platform as a service, with support from Consolink, the cloud internet company. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Peter Burris. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Orlando, Florida for SAP Sapphire Now. This is SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE, our flagship program where we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, Peter Burris. I want to thank our sponsors, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, Consolink, really appreciate the support. And we're here with Steve Convy, who's the Accenture Managing Director Global Lead, Accenture SAP Business Solutions Group. Basically, you run all the Accenture SAP stuff, which is a big deal as the SAP entrenched in a lot of big clients, a great business. They run, their software runs pretty much the world in terms of software, that's pretty much 2%. What do you guys do in the practice? First describe what you guys do, then we'll jump into it. All right, well, John, Peter, thanks so much for the invite, great to be here. So the Accenture and SAP Business Solutions Group is a venture between SAP and Accenture, all about doing co-development of business applications, specifically for industry use cases. So the idea here is that leveraging the power of all of the technology that SAP has with HANA and their IoT platform and all the great industry knowledge that Accenture has, identify those things that are going to make the biggest impact in the industry and then do co-development, design, build, take it to market and implement it for our clients. So it's not just an Accenture practice, it's a joint venture, so it's actually a different entity? It's not a separate business entity, but we have separate divisions both within both of our organizations that focus entirely on this subject. And this is a technology-focused development? I would say it's a cross between focus on business needs and the technology enablement. So SAP, we've been here since 2010 watching this evolve and not a lot of messaging changes from previous years. Obviously, the cage was much more, and the buzz was strong yesterday, the keynote. Nothing really stood out, and other than the Microsoft CEO on stage, it was pretty cool. Other than that, it was the same game, but the integration game has been up-level for SAP this year, you're seeing a lot of it. The HANA Cloud Platform as a Service is really strong for startups. What are enterprises doing with it? Can you share your thoughts on that? Because now you're seeing the integration piece for rapid development. You're seeing people saying, okay, I got to move faster, but I have all this process, change management. Kind of older. Yeah, so what our clients are telling us is that they have their large ERP systems. They're looking for the roadmap to move to the cloud. They're looking for the roadmap to move to digital. So every organization's trying to become a digital organization for lots of different reasons. Leveraging in memory database, databases doing advanced analytics, trying to improve the customer experience. What they recognize is they got to be multi-velocity in the way that they build applications. They know that there are some applications which are pretty sturdy and don't require a lot of change, but there are many applications, usually the customer-facing applications that require change very, very quickly. So they're looking for SAP and Accenture and other organizations to help them become a multi-velocity organization in terms of how they develop apps. So SAP's done a fabulous thing in building out the HANA Cloud Platform, basically a development platform on which you can build applications very, very quickly, leverage all of the in-memory computing, leverage the cloud, and then bolt on applications and make changes to them in an agile way. What Accenture has done is recognized that we need to develop, have a development capability that mirrors that. So that's why the Accenture and SAP Business Solution Group exists, basically do agile development on the HANA Cloud Platform for the benefit of our customers. We saw yesterday a startup came on, some deep from InnoAptiv, and they went from startup to 150 employees literally in two years with the HANA Cloud Platform. That's really awesome. It shows you can stand up a venture with technology so the speed was critical, right? You can see just they just flowered up. You have any examples with enterprises? I mean, obviously, speed is important. What are some of the benchmarks that you've seen in terms of enterprises? I mean, obviously, startup has a clean sheet of paper, a little bit faster, okay, given that. But enterprises, what's some order of magnitude speeds that you've seen in terms of stuff that's been evolving and flowering out of the HANA Cloud Platform? Well, a couple things, talk about Accenture for a moment. We started our rapid application studio in January, and we've ramped up to 50 HANA Cloud Platform developers to date, targeting to be at 300 by the end of the calendar year. That's a pretty quick ramp up, as quick as a startup business, and we're a $31 billion corporation with... That's record. Yeah, that's pretty fast. But what I think our clients are telling us is that there's a hybrid model that they want to use to implement technology. They want to have their own expertise in house, but if they're not in a position to be able to acquire talent that quickly, they want to be able to leverage organizations like Accenture to be an arm of development for them, and they want us to have a very, very close relationship with SAP so that we can jointly come to them with a joint vision for what digital looks like for them, and then help them figure out how to get there very, very quickly. So Steve, one of the things that distinguished what we'll call, might call the first generation of digital, which is basically the digitization of operations, of digitizing the operating model of the firm, is a lot of new process, or a lot of relatively well understood process, finance, HR, but how do you apply technology to it? And Accenture and a lot of other companies with SAP... We dove in there to help. Took care of it. But the truth is, there really wasn't a lot of opportunity for differentiation about how you handle your operational processes. So the whole notion of sharing intellectual property and doing it really well in one industry and then doing it for somebody else in another industry wasn't that, it wasn't too tough for a lot of customers of the year. When we talk about engaging customers, you're talking about the crown jewels of the corporation. How are you... Customers, suppliers, and employees, right? The whole thing. How are you demonstrating to your clients that as you work with them with SAP and other technologies that the intellectual property that you're jointly creating with them, that you're co-creating in this rapid way is going to stay as close to them as possible, even as you go off to other firms in an industry to try to help them as well? It's a tricky question. And a lot of times the question around intellectual property gets overblown. I think the shelf life of intellectual property these days is about 18 months. After 18 months, the copycats are out there and the intellectual property's value is actually significantly less. I think the trick is if we've got some great idea that's going to create industry differentiation for you, you can't take two years to get it into the marketplace. You got to have development cycles that are measured in weeks, not in months or years. So I think the trick is working with customers and arguably there's an element of trust to this, right? Working with our trusted customers, SAP and Accenture together working with our trusted customers, coming up with an idea and not taking two years to implement it, getting it into the marketplace and have it make an impact on their business very quickly because you know the EIP is going to be stale-dated in 18 months. Well, on that thread though, it's interesting because it brings up a good point that it kind of made me think about the collaboration space, because not collaboration software in general, but essentially your studio is a joint development effort with SAP and that seems to be more of the trend now than ever before. People are working together to create stuff. That's absolutely correct. And it's not just SAP and Accenture working together because we're working in an agile environment. So generally when we do these projects, there's a client involved. And so we've got a client involved, some sort of charter client involved, being involved in the rapid design sessions, being involved in testing, and being involved in doing the postmortems on the POCs. And you're seeing cloud SaaS platforms and even platform as a service enabling a lot of cool stuff. So it kind of brings up the question of what off-the-shelf means, that term used to be off-the-shelf technologies. Well, if they're 18 months of IP to your point, 18 months, or generally speaking, the off-the-shelf term is interesting. What is off-the-shelf? How are people actually collaborating? What software are they using? What techniques, virtual workforces? I got a group in India and Russia all over the world. So you have that kind of virtual development. I think the key is the term off-the-shelf probably is going to die a slow death here because it's not about business applications anymore. It's about platforms. I mean, most organizations out there in the technology world are trying to build platforms on which things can be built very, very quickly. And the idea of off-the-shelf being good because you don't need to customize it, you just turn it on, that's going to go by the wayside because development is so easy, so simple, so quick. Well, I might take a slight exception to that in this way, that certainly if you got to generate value for a customer within 18 months, and at that point in time, the intellectual property starts diffusing, then the tradition of having three or four or five years to make money on a release starts to go away. So you've got to be really targeted and really focused in what you're doing. There may be smaller opportunities, agile opportunities to bring off-the-shelf microservices or capabilities or even SaaS to bear. So SAP might be kind of a platform and you folks might be able to plug stuff into it. So I definitely agree from that standpoint, but really what we're talking about is a pretty significant, a consequential change in the underlying structure of the software industry. Well, that is S4HANA, right? I mean, in the future, you will have a basic business platform that does, you know, the same thing that off-the-shelf on-premise did, but it's in the cloud now, right? And so all of the headache and the issues with doing application management services and managing the IT infrastructure around it is going to be a thing of the past, right? So SAP is definitely headed in the right direction. And the other cool thing that they've done is that they're building industry clouds around that base system, that base S4 system. As a matter of fact, you may have seen that Press recently, Accenture announced, and SAP announced a co-development effort to bring S4HANA and several industry clouds to market quickly, right? There's several of them in the products industry and several of them in the resources industry. But what I think is really cool about that is, so now you've got the basic underlying finance, supply chain, HR core systems. You've got industry clouds, which are focused on the basic blocking and tackling required by a consumer goods company, advanced planning and basic and things like that. Yeah, all the vertical needs that they need is customized domain expertise in there. But then they built the HANA Cloud Platform as a development tool to leverage all of that technology, but build something industry differentiating. And it's not monolithic, it's agile, it's quick, it's easy to develop, right? So, the future is in building. It's modern. Yeah, it's modern, exactly. So let me ask you a question about industry. So the basic concept of industry is, a firm has a certain organization of assets that has a relatively high asset specificity. In other words, this set of assets can be applied to this purpose and not other purposes easily. The many ad programming and software, you reduce that asset specificity. So that now that specialized set of assets is not as big or it's not as expensive as it once was. Does that start, I mean, obviously, so right now we're already seeing examples of firms going from, you know, hopping from one industry to another to serve their customers better. What is the future of an industry orientation as you see it? For Accenture, industry is everything. One of the things that clients tell us over and over again that they value in a partnership and a relationship is that we speak the language and that we understand not only what their needs are, but we have a view to the future. As a matter of fact, we've gotten very serious about this and built industry digital roadmaps for all of the industries that we do business in. And what that is in plain, simple terms is... Playbook. It's the playbook. Yeah, it absolutely is a playbook. It's a, here's where you are today, likely. Here are the industry trends and issues. You're going to be dealing with not only today, but the disruptive issues and business models and technologies that are likely to come down the pipe. This is what you're leveraging. This is what you're not leveraging. And this is where we think you should go. And it could be several paths, but it's the idea. It's the road to digital. And it's the road to getting incremental industry value out of your investment in software. Well, that's critical because when you have cloud, you have agile. You need to have that guiding principles or the 20-mile stair. You got to know where you're going. You might navigate a little bit, but there's an attack here and there, but for the most part, that's critical because you're taking a little bit more small steps. So I love that. Can you give an example of projects that you've done with the rapid development that kind of fit into these roadmaps? You mentioned a few. You know, there's two, that's great. I got a couple that come to mind. There's two disruptive pieces of technology or trends, things that are going on right now that I think a lot of organizations are grappling with and trying to figure out what the heck do I do with this? One of them is artificial intelligence. The other has to do with image and pattern recognition and all of this is another, effectively an IOT, right? It's another set of data points to feed everything that you want to analyze, understand, and then take business action against, right? So there's two POCs that we just are in the middle of completing. As a matter of fact, if you head over to booth number 114, you can see a couple of demos of them. One of them is- Is that your booth? Yeah, that's the Accenture booth. One of them is the digital assistant. So this is Accenture teaming with SAP and teaming with IPsoft around their Amelia platform. It's an artificial intelligence platform and basically we've created a digital assistant for the maintenance and management of user requests against your SAP system. So basically the use case is I forgot or I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up a general ledger account. I basically call up Amelia and Amelia walks me through the process of setting up a GL account. And the cool thing about Amelia in the artificial intelligence platform that IPsoft has is that it learns. As use cases come on stream, Amelia learns the new use cases, learns how to solve those use cases. So that's a very interesting thing. And that's right in roadmap too. We look at chatbots, you look at some of the automation going on in business process. That's kind of right in line. In artificial intelligence, you're right. The chatbots is a great example where it's evolving so quickly and it's getting sophisticated so quickly that organizations all are trying to figure out how do I leverage it. So that's the one use case. The second one is around image and pattern recognition. The specific POC that we build is for the utilities industry. And so it's a drone technology with camera and with digital feed back into a system that we built on a HANA Cloud platform and into S4 HANA. And it flies over power lines and it identifies when it sees a potential fault or short in a power line. Today, that effort is very dangerous, very time consuming, and it only covers about 10% of the total grid. With this technology, you can cover close to 100% of the grid, take all the danger out of it for employees and increase the amount of information that users have. It gives them a view, a new view into the world. Final question for you. The AI, we could use some of that, Leonard Deere from theCUBE, the producer. Got your text, he texted me on my iWatch. Final question, what's your plans coming up? What are you going to do this year? Any big events you're going to? What's the expansion plan around your group? What activities you got going on? Share with the folks watching. What you guys plan to do? We just finished a two day off-site with SAP in Waldorf, Germany, around the plan to launch and to grow this application studio. So we're just very excited about going out to our clients, SAP's clients, and identifying those key use cases by industry, and then getting those through our rapid application development. We have approximately, I think the last count was 20 in our ideation phase, and we've got eight that are sitting in prototype and several that are in the market right now, and with us growing from 50 to 300 developers by the end of the year, we want to make that pipeline a whole heck of a lot bigger. Well, we'll certainly keep an eye on you guys. Great examples, great digital roadmap, and then applying it. Love the AI, love the drone example. That's right in line with putting a toe in the water and testing some of these new technologies. Sure, IoT's will be a booming practice. That's a whole nother thing we can spend an hour on. Steve, thanks so much for sharing your insights here. Pleasure being here. Thanks, guys. We're live in Orlando for SAP Sapphire. I'm John Furrier with Peter Burris. We'll be right back at this short break. You're watching theCUBE. There'll be millions of people in the near future that want to be involved in their own personal well-being and wellness. Nobody wants to age in a way that...