Thank you. This is my first visit to Brisbane and what an occasion I'm getting a Drupal South community here. I'm from the GovHack community and I am now part of this community. So this keynote mainly I'll be talking about like how the open source is helping Hackathon to promote innovation mostly from GovHack site. To start with just to give a bit of brief introduction about myself as the introducer already introduced myself. I am actually a solution architect from the Department of Premier and Cabinet have been in South Australian government for around 10 years but I am representing GovHack here today. I'm the board director of GovHack and the data lead for the national team. Also a little bit of what I have done in the last many years. Winner finalist and semi-finalist of many hackathons like Australian E-Challenge, Peachette Palace, Blockchain Innovation Challenge back in 2019, Traya Data International Challenge, Telesta Innovation Challenge, Sieg-Foxity and many more. I couldn't list them all. It will cover like multiple slides. So I'm pretty much very habituate with the hackathol world and that mainly brought me here that involved me with GovHack. I also am alumni of Carnegie Mellon University and the founder institute back in US. So it's gonna be a little bit of long presentation so that's why you don't get bored. I'm just saying what's coming and you can take into okay that's the specific point I went to her or you just continue. Okay so I will start from what is GovHack, how GovHack runs, what we do, what make us passionate and GovHack is about open data. So a little bit of about open data and how the open source is supporting hackathon and from GovHack perspective and what open source tools are using GovHack and some innovative exciting projects with a video at the end. So wait for it. Okay so the GovHack is the largest data hackathon in the southern hemisphere. We call it as the festival of ideas because we pretty much produce ideas from the from that today's hackathon. It's not two days a week and long like 46 hours and there are so many innovative ideas came out from GovHack last 13 years. Many of them came up as a startup and some of them were implemented in government. A little bit of history about GovHack. GovHack started back in 2009 from Gov 2.0 Task Force initiative from there started by John. Then it was like a gone sleep for a couple of years and it woke up after two years and in 2012 by Pia Andrews she launched a voluntary community driven fun hackathon and from 2012 it's moving on. Initially it was run by a committee then we formed an organization and now it is running by a board and a lot of volunteers across Australia and New Zealand. It's 13 years for GovHack. We have organized hundreds of events in Australia in New Zealand that definitely produce thousands of really valuable projects and many of them as I mentioned earlier became a startup. Many of those ideas have been implemented in different government agencies that created definitely the value we provide to citizen as a government. As I said GovHack is a 46 hours weekend hackathon event. It starts on a Friday evening with great event like everyone comes from different states. It's a local that means like every state and territory we run on the same day on the same night and same weekend. Definitely it starts a bit early in New Zealand and it starts a bit late on Western Australia but it's a local time base so 7 p.m. at New Zealand it starts and for Western Australia who is joining from Western Australia is 7 p.m. from them and it's a collaboration with multiple industries people coming together ideating throughout the weekend. Most important thing we say it's fun. Yeah there are prizes good prizes prize monies medals media coverage but what we evaluate it's fun because we have seen returning GovHack participant coming again and again. Sometime we say GovHack is addictive because once someone joined on that GovHack they keep coming and wait for the next year. The deliverable of GovHack is a three-minute pitch video published in some YouTube or any other video streaming platform. Well documented project description solving a challenge and the evidence of work that can include code base that can include designs, figments, wireframes. The project is judged by our judges. Judges not from GovHack the judges from sponsors so who are our sponsors. Our sponsors are all government organizations government agencies. Sometime we say like corporate organization like AWS Microsoft they also come but GovHack is specifically for government so we expect more government organization to come in and that happens every year from the state territories and also from the federal government and New Zealand. And the awards happen in every state. There is a state award night where the state winners and the runner-ups get the prize and medals from there and we have a red card national red carpet event every year. I'll just return back to Adelaide. I'm from Adelaide I forgot to mention. I'll return back to Adelaide and go to the red carpet award which is end of this month. So this is a very gorgeous event. Usually from government officials and ministers they usually come up there to hand over the prizes and the medals. So a lot of about GovHack because I just want to set the stage and what GovHack what we do now I'll jump into the next part a little bit more sorry for GovHack. So the GovHack 22 it was very special for us because it is a weekend event. People come together sit together collaborate together but last two years we missed most part of it because of COVID. So we had to quickly move into online event. So like 2020 it was all online 2021 it was few estates online few estates we organized it to have an in-person event and just two or three days before it or there's a lockdown moved online again. So it was challenging for us during the COVID but this year is very special for us because we came back to in-person event that opens the collaboration that opens the human interaction and that creates the innovation that creates locative projects. Another thing we initiated this year that was collaboration with the universities. So we are bringing a lot of universities within our platform because we know in Australia currently there's a skills gap. So a lot of universities taking the opportunity to use GovHack as a skill development opportunity and one thing COVID gave us that is online platform. So we identified we are now matured thanks to COVID to run an event online as well. So this year we tried hybrid that means people from another countries can also join and create a team and the people who are in person they can collaborate with them using Slack, Zoom and many other platforms. And from this year we started theme-based GovHack event that means that all the challenges will come around that theme. So we went for ESG this year the environment social and governance. Now I'll slowly move into the open source area. Hacker Space is our main platform where we publish our challenges where the participants submit their projects also register for the events. The interesting thing is this hacker's face is an open source platform. The code is available anyone can use this to create another hackathon like us and use the same platform. In fact we got it from one open source project and it has been developed for last four or five years now it is much matured. Now let's jump into the open data because GovHack is a competition with open data. So how many of you know about open data here any idea? Okay definitely. Okay so the open data initiative mainly in Australia it got popular from the Gov2.0 initiative where we know government has a lot of data inside but definitely that's not open for people to use and to ideate for businesses to use them and create new products, new ideas. So last 10-12 years government started open up their data and providing some level of data on open data portals so that we know what software data government has that can be used to create a new business, a new idea or a new solution. So open data is definitely available online on different data portals. Openly licensed anyone can use that. Data is mostly generalized that means it doesn't include any personal information mostly statistical information sometimes open API is available there as well and a lot of GIS data as well open data available in as a GIS layers in different portals. Published in open format machine readable it CSV, JSON, many open formats that is that can be used by a third party solution and freely accessible that follows the fair data principle that is findable, accessible, interpretable and reproducible. As I said about the open data every state and territory government including federal government has their own open data portal and in it's not only the state and territories also the local government city council they also have their open data that includes I can give some example like lakes where at the lakes their GIS data is there. We worked with a really good open data back in early that was a root crash data. I think now every state has a root crash statistics data that pinpoints which route which intersections are more dangerous and this data is regularly updated so maybe few months they actually push another new data sets there and as I was saying the open data portal this is a snapshot of our national open data portal data.gov.au you see there are like 100,000 data sets there it's a lot of data and it's you can find data related anything you just search you will find that whips up data there and you can use them. Definitely the data is on creative common license platform follows the prep fair principle as I mentioned earlier and agencies each this data is published by agencies each agency publish their data on a frequent basis and most importantly we know like during the COVID time what we did okay go to the portal search in Google okay how many cases in NSW today how many case we were very interested about this even news portals were getting up regular updated data from there so I believe like we have seen during the COVID the open data got more acceptance across people and people get more aware about the open data and the COVID check-ins multiple state sourcing how many check-ins happening every every day there is a very famous tool for open data portals all state most of the state territories use the second platform for their open data portal the open data portals images I was showing before most of them are created by second and they say open source product as well it's a very famous data management system not in Australia US government UK government Canada they also follow they also use second platform as their open data portal hackathon we all know about hackathon and last few years we have seen increased number of hackathons happening because of availability of online many people open a different hackathon online because now everyone is used to work from home work online and that's why we have seen a lot of hackathons coming up hackathons is mainly ideation creating a prototype and some cases it goes up to user testing level getting the real feedback from the user that can create a really interesting product definitely time box sometime one day two days sometime three days the outcome is definitely a proof of concept most of hackathon because that as a time box event you cannot create a product within a year or within a day or a two days time box time so it comes as a MVP definitely incremental way of MVP mostly customer centric and product market fit and proving a technology if the technologies work and interestingly govac also follows this not the first image the second image so a specific challenge a specific project can be solving four or five challenges published in govac so maybe the first challenge is for the first image the skateboard and then detect the project with another challenge with another challenge and this way the whole product creates multiple solutions for multiple challenges it's a one project that solves multiple challenges and how open source is helping hackathon and how it can be more promoted definitely need the support from leadership from the organization as I work for in working government definitely in government as well need the leadership and that visions go into open source use more open source products and use more open source platforms and the team building exercise is very important that creates the profession there is another slides coming for professional development which facilitates the term team building and most importantly where those ideas goes are those ideas are getting implemented integrated integrating into a product this is very important we keep track of our all govac projects and try to find out what are the success cases from there most hackathons run based on themes as I mentioned from this year went for theme-based govac as well most sometime is only open source sometimes economic recovery or sustainability there are so many hackathons available now at this at this time with different themes last few years we have seen themes around like covid recovery and like ESG as I mentioned govac this year govac drives a design thinking approach creating a solution from a challenge statement definitely the double diamond of the first cycle the challenge and then the problem definition at some level of development not a full full phase product and not delivered the deliver comes a post implementation of the hackathon driven projects and open source in the hackathon projects how it helps not definitely because it is a time boxed ideation event so there is no time to reinvent the wheel using the project that is pretty much a starting point and then adding more course adding more modules with that adding more features and that creates a solution at the end and then using the libraries in govac not only govac across all the hackathons is most of the projects are open in govac we promote sharing codes because it's open source it should be open source we use definitely open data open API is a lot of open APS coming up nowadays especially last two years ABS the student board of a statisticist they opened a lot of open API so it's not only CSVs or data dumps you can get real-time data and our projects are using them and then the open content and like Drupal South community like open source community govac is a huge community the most important thing is like govac has diversity so the youngest one we have seen is a four-year-old kid like this size and the oldest one we got someone from age from their 70s joined there so this is open for everyone from all ages they can come sometimes the whole family come kids and husbands and wives and coming to there with dogs and pets and this spend a fun time over the weekend and that's the beauty when the diversity comes the innovations comes from there because people have different minds and also govac is for all the skill sets it's not like a coders it's not like a someone from service design someone from project management a good team size can be five with some coders with some service design with some business people because we have seen they created a team with five people all coders they created awesome project but they didn't win because they don't know how to present it so that's why a ideal size team size is five with multiple skills and that promotes the innovation and we have people from diverse culture background and from all the industries govac not only govac all the hackathons have been used as a professional development opportunity in different organizations even in government at this at this moment corporate professional development programs mostly includes hackathon on their program and some of the agile frameworks even promote hackathon as the innovation is spring as I said before govac projects are all open source they are findable accessible and all follows the creative commons license last 13 years govac produce thousands of open source projects most of them are responsive web applications lot of data visualization because all about open data lot of IoT projects some mobile applications also came up from there most of the tools used in govac are open source so we can see some of the logos a Drupal is also there and these tools have been used by gov hackers for last 13 13 years some of the few projects I'm going to just quickly run through a very good mobile application that is solving the taxation problem for people finding out the tax help centers another one I can remember a real-time heat consumption website created by a team from city of paramata that's not a coding project that's very interesting for revealing the historical figures using a board game that used I think the South Australian Museum photographic data but it's still open data but a board game from there and identifying the best place to generate the ocean current electricity some carbon dioxide emission metering tool the second one is a project from Hobart finding out the tool that's driven by AI and machine learning and geosensing to find out the flood alerts in city of Hobart a city cell control identity platform there will be video coming later on on this project and smart trap to notify food fly movement out the project how gov a promoted open source challenges by provided by our sponsors they also just them projects are solving those challenges and using opens various open source tools and how gov a key from promoting open source is promoting adoption of open source tools and platforms into government the success a lot of successful startups came up from their government gov specifically for gov hack government agencies publishing their special data sometime so it's promoting publishing of open data to for for gov hack and is promoting publishing open data to for the agencies and creating the adoption of open source product in public sector one interesting project another another interesting project is patent toy patents toy it was from Canberra from back in 2015 using the IP Australia huge dataset and it was finding out searching a searching tool from their huge dataset of okay if there is any patent available on there you will get some of the the link is there some of the publication on that on that specific project and IP Australia implemented that one as well that's a Drupal project back in 2018 using gov CMS data visualization it was a visualization tool of gov CMS data provided by the challenges provided by federal government now the video time let's see the video runs effective communication with the public regarding health advice and safe handling of data are more important now than ever government data and communication across state governments is fragmented which can cause great stress for Australians especially neurodiverse people or those with mental disabilities changing advice is hard on those who rely on routine and this has real health impacts our solution did you keep an online service that securely stores encrypted data keys and provides relevant messaging and the did you keep API multiple related data sets orchestrated to provide an information powerhouse the did you keep secure ID provides Australians control when sharing their personal information with government and business entities the app uses an encrypted ID wallet and users can select which personally identifying information is included in the data package the sign-in process is encrypted and signed with public keys so that only the authorized parties can access the data vulnerable residents are at risk of falling prey to online scams that have arisen out of covert this helps to mitigate this the dashboard allows users to add update and delete data view restrictions by state and this also leverages exposure site and sewage surveillance data sets to provide relevant alerts did you keep implements the did you keep API to demonstrate some of the possible use cases the API provides a platform for governments to provide important health information to Australians and accessible and standardized format features include active and historical covert contact tracing sites vaccination availability and booking locations and real-time restrictions by state this demonstrates has state and federal government data can be collated standardized and published by an open data method as a scalable solution some people simply don't have access to the internet so did you keep offers a physical card for some people who don't have phones or computers available people can provide a form submit their ID for verification and opt to select which data keys to share by default covert 19 and a swift change to a more digital economy has turned spotlight on how we can better provide information to residents across Australia the did you keep site and API will result in increased awareness improved health outcomes and provide benefits to a number of industries such as travel infrastructure healthcare aged care and education additionally relevant and timely information will reduce fear and anxiety no more checking lengthy contact tracing lists every morning as state borders open up did you keep will help Australians keep track of what restrictions are across the different states and the measures they can take to protect their health and well-being did you key aims to achieve increased digital and information security and better health outcomes for all Australians solutions like the did you keep site our path to freedom as we chart a course to the covert normal era name of the agency this project has been used as a proof of concept on one of the government department and now government 23 the DCL government is already finished back in August the government 23 how people can get involved can be it's a voluntary event so can anyone can get involved as a volunteer as a mentor as a participant partnering and definitely anyone on the spot as well because the sponsors keep us alive the website is there and there is a board email that's a red carpet event back in 2018 in Sydney so another one is the next one is going to happen in few weeks time as I said and that's pretty much


I'm going to be walking around and get lots of slides to go through. I'm really excited to be here. When I was given which shot, I chose right after them. Typically I'll teach you nine at this time. So I'll just have to do lunch. So I hope I'm going to get you active, just like more than my year-night. Cutting through the waffle. I've got a lot of slides to go through. So I hope I haven't set myself up to fail here. I'm going to just start with a bit of context of what I want to share and a bit about the school first of all. I want you to think about common sense approaches, workload and worldviews on everyone's agendas, and that's my takeaway really. Teach your toolkit, please tweet. I will put my presentation online at the weekend, so don't worry about trying to write everything down now. I want to have this rolling question for you. If you could observe someone teaching you what it would be and why, and we'll get you to think and share later in the session. So characteristics are in London, central London actually, in the north of Westminster, it's actually the street next door, it's Camden. Our local landmarks, the Beatles, Zebra Parsons, thrown biscuits away in London Zoo, Sherlock Holmes, and the American School for London are our closest school neighbours and the most expensive school in Britain. So that kind of puts you into context. Some figures. We have capacity for 1,500 students, 95% ethnic minorities, 83% AOL, 61% pupil premiums, so challenging circumstances. We hit the highs for those quintals on the after-bed dashboard, so hopefully that puts you into context. Our school, just like your school with great kids, we all deserve the best opportunities in life. This time last year, we saw the buildings as a design technology teacher, it's a fantastic project to actually watch this process take place during my time since I've been at the school in the last year. So it's been very interesting watching the school getting demolished onto a new site. This time last year, we packed absolutely everything away. I remember at one point, you were having to work out a strategy in terms of deploying remote controls for a new clever touch screen, so absolutely every aspect of new buildings are a brand new building, needed some kind of strategy. 35 million pound PSF, one of the last to get through, so we're very lucky, our kids are very lucky. In the little plot of green grass at the bottom was a sixth form centre that wasn't part of the original plan, but thankfully 350 by six form, we've got a nice space for them too. Teach Me London, we did last March last April, it didn't coincide where everyone's different holidays, but essentially most people's Easter holidays are 350 people from all over the country from 20 to 20 today. So it's an invitation if you're there in London, Wednesday, 23 of March 2016, it will be the greatest teacherlet to see if you can do that ever. Straw fold, so hands up, who I'm an avid blogger, hands up who blogs, hands up who's tweeters, hands up who doesn't do either, let's see them face a good split. Primary teachers, secondary teachers, FE, consultants, companies, just a classroom teacher, any classroom teachers, no leadership responsibilities. OK, one, two, fantastic, thank you. So characteristics of a waffle, this was in the TS last week, I don't know about you, but it made my blood boil. Members of the government appointed groups to investigate how to reduce teacher workload and believe the burden could be eased if teachers understood the benefits of what they had to do. I don't know how you feel about that, but that's the headline, so it's very frustrating to say the least. So how are we losing sight of what's important? Are we doing things for off-stead? Are we managing rather than leading? Are we evidencing rather than teaching? Don't get me started on that one. Knowledge versus skills, textbooks versus iPads, we're losing sight of things of what we want to do. So here's an image, what do you see? Are you looking at or looking for? David, the damage from this was a bit of a handbook, he was a primitive con-de-scene, a bit of terminology, and the change of act towards four totally changes the perspective of observing teachers. And we need to move from this model from the top left to the top of our bottom right, where things that we do are reliable and valid. So to cut the waffle, improve and teach your wellbeing, teachers and learners should trump everything that we do, everything. It's simple, so easy to overcomplicate things. So I'm going with a model Mark-Plan teacher, which I'll explain later. But we need to demand high expectations to remove bureaucracy, evidence trails. I'm going to share some of the things that I've done too. What can off-stead source in two days? You know? Well-being a priority is a challenge. It's a big priority in my school. It's a big priority for everyone. Consolidate. All the different curriculum reforms, exam changes, there's so much that the teacher needs to do that after we get the head out. We need to consolidate and slow down. And it's certainly the case where I work. And then, you know, we've all got experts in the school. We need to look more inside rather than outside. The current landscape was divided when I talked about this a year ago. Off-stead or ourselves, I've only believed that part of you have a lot of blogs to do with this. We've freed the burden of lesson graders. But one day in the room where we all sit, so, do we grade or not grade lessons? I showed this to you a year ago, and you can see it's from a national conference. And there's been various other things since. But essentially, you can see the vast majority of people, about 26% of the time, where schools went to no grade models. I believe it's approximately 50%. So you can have a hand-up in the room. A hand-up in which schools do not grade lessons. OK. So I would say that's the vast majority. OK, thank you. If you could observe someone who would it be and why, I'm going to take it back through a timeline. So just before I start working for in February, what we may have been used to in the past, feedback would have been based on this. The vast majority of the focus in the teacher's life would be putting it on the observation. That one off performance. The full-time class teacher would need to remind themselves that we work typically 20 hours a week, 38 weeks a year, 760 hours. I'm going to take it back through a timeline. 760 hours. But we only judge them on 3 of those hours. Or typically. So how do we do that? And then we put them in a box, then we share that with Ofsted. We give them a grade, we give up a percentage. But maybe we should start to look at quality in different ways. So I'm going to suggest different models to you today. And as a result of that dialogue online, Tom Sheridan who was here yesterday, David Dow, Tom Bennett, and Sheena Lewis. And we were invited to Ofsted, I think online, and we were called The Famous Five, which was far from it. It was a landmark. Ofsted, but if you start to get teachers into the boardrooms around the tables, we'll start to hear our views. And from that point, Mike Cavamog was the ex-director, suggested no more braids on the evidence trail falls. So we had no more braids, and it was great. There was a pilot in the Midlands in 2014, a report they've still yet to publish, so I hate to add. And then in September 2014, we had no braids. So I like to think there's no, this is the predicted model now, where we're looking at overtime rather than the one of performance. And in school, Thascin did an imposition as a point on the deputy head, September 2014, we were brave, we removed lesson grades straight away. However, there's no silver bullet in this presentation. I don't know all the answers, but I do. And what just works for me, might not work for you. Things you might want to take away, things you might want to just think a load of nonsense. An open versus closed model. What is a good teacher? Other things to yourself. What is a good teacher? This crushed it harder. How do you know? So here's some suggestions. Open versus closed formative versus summative, to develop, to inform, to support students, and closed, to measure teachers, to report on teacher quality. So how do you evidence a good teaching? So we've got the open, closed model. So Government, give or take a million pound here or there, 80 billion pounds across the country. We're always going to be held to account with the teacher standards. We've got a framework for appraisal capability. Then we've got this open model that we're trying to start towards in schools on the ground. So how do we know how do we evidence? So we're in a bit of a dichotomy all the time. The impact it has on individual teachers and classrooms. So I'm going to be starting to share and compare with each other. How do you evidence quality of teaching in your school? So it's complicated, and there's probably lots of different models in the room. So here's my suggestion. Progress over time. So again, a bit more terminology across the nation. I move away from one of classroom performance towards more valid sources. So I'm going to explain some of the things that I've done in my leadership role. But here's a diagram. You can see teaching is one part of it. Student books, a lot of the work samples, talk to kids looking in the books. The teacher owned data, so you've got a document that I'm going to come back to in a moment. Our learning policy. I've talked about the open and closed model at the bottom right, but we use the term technicality, so schools might do it differently. We have senior leaders in the Middle East who are all the time supporting and challenging where needed, and kind of getting a feel for the school technically.  And then most of all student conversations. So those are things that we're looking at and I'm hoping that this term to come out of the source. But what it's not, it's not a single lesson and it's not one-off judgments. It's certainly not in my opinion. And here's a great quote from Kevin Barthle's Canada's art head teacher Dan Westlund. There is no progress with the lessons there is only learning. After framework, it talks about skills and understanding that inspectors will be looking to see from the students. Where progress is mentioned, it's not something inspectors look at from the students, but it's about effectiveness of monitoring and looking to see from the teacher. So hence the data. And you'll notice in the learning course that you hopefully picked up the door, you'll see in the mark section a secure overview. So September 2017, 2014, I would call it my lottery day to come up after a lot of blogging. I was very happy that Ofsted strangely came to visit. It was my third week in post in a new school and we were with the information we were to share it's very interesting. So there's an impact on achieving versus teaching and learning. And given the new landscape that we're in, it's very interesting. It's very significant. It's often liked what we saw in our classrooms but our headline results didn't determine the overall teaching and learning grade. And if our results would have been higher then so would our agenda on teaching and learning. Fair enough. I'm looking at a qualitative or quantitative model here of teaching. Not just within schools but also externally. Outcomes require improvement and teaching and learning cannot be better. So the question is what significance would actually no-brain have anyway on an overall judgment. Tom yesterday, he didn't say this but he said this to me in the past he once attended a conference where I've seen and either said that 85% of his lessons are good or better. So are we losing sight of our professionalism? So in the room it looks like we're moving to our new model which is good. And then he said this, lessons are more normal you see more regular lessons, people tend to sow the fret less and more open to cultures and you start to see a typical pattern of what's going on around the school and it's a much more supportive model. So just briefly, 30 more seconds if you can observe someone who would it be and why. Share teacher. Thank you very much. Who would you observe? Good teacher, bad teacher. 3, 2, 1. OK, I'm going to ask for the feedback. Stephen, any of those I know if I could spot who would you observe and why. I've gone to see John Thompson. John Thompson. Anyone else want to call out who would you observe and why? You. Excellent, thank you. Tom Bennett. Tom Bennett. One more please this side. Head of English at London North for this presentation. OK, great, thank you. The January. So one year, sorry, a term in. First term in post. Requires improvements. Lots to do. If you know Clinton kids we've had a lot of press coverage for lots of different things that have been very stressful on our staff. So we're trying to support our staff trying to encourage them to take more risks at the same time we've got external pressures not just the media but also in terms of how we're judged. So towards a landscape that lesson grade a challenge, a challenge for us all. Looking at rather than looking for is a much better model. But how do we train people to be able to do that to be reliable and valid? So a lot of investments needed and that we give sophisticated people not just to our students but also to our teachers so that they can actually improve and they've given time to do that and that we revisit that regularly. Not just three times a year. So the challenge, remove the fear. It's difficult when we've got a closed model where there's accountability as teacher standards we need to have some kind of standards. Risk taking. The learning policy that we're going to talk about briefly towards the end is risk taking. I don't want it to stifle creativity. We want staff to do their own thing but we want to have a common approach in certain aspects. And in the staffs and coaching ventures we invest in iRiskars Connect the video coaching system and we're going to want to stop it and we'll start them slowly and hopefully share and practice staff when the fear dissipates and we'll start to want to observe each other. So these are some of the tools we've used to help bring all the nuts and bolts together. Mint classes are seeding plans so you'll see that on our planning section of the learning policy for majors to help teachers get secure overview of their own data and Blue Sky for our teachers to record all their CPD events and their observations. The other aspect that you're familiar with is that it allows you to collect all your evidence and things like that if you're appraising. Lesson study, good model, a huge amount of time to be invested. Some models where I've seen it work is that staff are paired up in two to three's and they regularly meet every 15 minutes once a week to keep topping up all the different aspects of their observations and feedback. So it's a nut that I've yet to crack in my new skill but that's where we want to go with this next term is to start to develop some of their models for triangulating planning together, observing together and reflecting. In April, blogging again Sean, thanks for the game you're one to one very kind of him. For me this is evidence of what blogging can get so you can get to round tables and start to have discussions. These are some of the things we've talked about and my issue at the time when I blogged about an invalid judgment from us at the point of view was that they looked at a raise online this time last year, unvalidated data. When I met Sean in April there were schools in the same context same background, same results but out of total different officer judgment. His one sentence was this he said there will always be one percent of error because humans are involved and it's not reliable and is it, it's not 100% reliable. And there you have schools that a judge requires improvement for whatever reasons and we're still using a model that's not quite robust. So, what is good? Good teachers you'll have your views, these are mine are subject experts, okay? We need to top up our knowledge all the time for a kind of reform, we need staff time to consolidate the CPD in the past. We have some weekly CPD every Wednesday we'll have some time till about one period sometimes it's all together sometimes it's differentiated sometimes it's in faculties and we make sure that they get regular time to consolidate knowledge. So doors open, we have these signs around we have staff to kind of showcase or celebrate the things that they're doing and we want them to keep reflecting which is the next one. I firmly believe reflection is a default characteristic for all teachers and that's why I started to do online and in the room that Rubar God will know that I like to reflect properly and it kind of leads to you developing your own repertoire. Teachers accept no nonsense they cut through the waffle they've got high standards they own their territory even the most difficult kids. They don't jump through hoops they take risks, good teachers and there's no I used to have several thoughts about Maverick teaching and on by I would probably consider myself to be but through my experience it's not to observe thousands and thousands of lessons that there is a place for teachers to be somewhat Maverick but not if it's going against what the whole school is trying to achieve. So there's a time and place all teachers if you engage with CPD but schools must give methods for teachers to be able to do that and we need to collaborate and share because there's so much expertise within our schools and sometimes teachers just need that and lots so that they can then get to be greater. Lots of this going on this was our national research this was our journal what works our first time we've probably had about 15 teachers right to publication we've had 15 different workshops this time in June this year sharing what works with our projects through MPQML, MPQSL, MAs, PhDs and things like that so that was fantastic I hope to get two of those out in this academic year. Run in thought again if you could observe someone else who would it be and why because if you could be pushing to our staff don't waste your time there are a lot of things that are wasting people's time staff that are working 56 hours 60 hour weeks so marketing is broken I think it's not between my school I think it's nationally and I've blogged about this before the funding formula seems a different aspect but until policy changes where teachers have less than 90% of timetable in a classroom you get more time to marketing plan nothing is going to change I just think it's going to be more waffle from the government so five key stakeholders are marketing parents, senior leadership inspectors, teachers and the child parents love the markets so they get their red lips senior leadership love the marketing too big peril lips inspectors get the biggest teachers cry in the corner child in the middle not really know what's going on doesn't get feedback doesn't have to improve and this came out through I think David's asking Locker online through blogs plan to teach Mark was the original model we all go to university trained to come and teach we go through these laborious lesson plans we were told we have to plan to the lesson stick to lesson then we teach it and then we mark our books afterwards but by flipping the model it totally changes how you approach your lesson planning so that's why I'm learning policy you should hopefully have a copy that works in that way so that's how you form your planning and then your planning to actually allow you to be able to teach one year ago I posted this tweet progress over time and the removal of lesson breaks has it been replaced and redrafted the frenzy of the market so I blogged a while ago about the market frenzy you can see the result for itself and it's an old tweet now but it's pretty conclusive it's the new thing it's the new workload frenzy so it's marketing and acting feedback so I'm trying to now trigger the market frenzy so how do we address this market frenzy up to focus on what's important here to get so priorities in my school here's our learning teaching and learner policy it's a one page summary behind it will be the detail now already this detail is 20 pages long and I know no one's going to read it so I've got to make it concise I've got to cut the waffle out and go straight to the point so if we've moved to Google we're a Google school it's superb for workload there's no more saving version 12 version 13 version 14 of different documents as you work it's there online and it's live and the first week I was using it in September you can see staff start to collaborate on the same presentation for kids too it's just superb so if you're not using Google I would highly advocate it for you you can see on this document you haven't got it on your cheap paper but the blue hyperlink leads to information behind so it's not as often things like that we hope the one page summary will be fashion displays and the staff will know it not our students necessarily but our staff and again I want to emphasise that we don't want everyone to do the same model we want to have some consistency to help raise standards we introduced an MER cycle it was unknown in the school but more importantly to study the workflow and the workloads so staff knew what would come in in terms of trying to improve the skills that we did so that's on my blog if you want to grab a copy but in terms of mark here's the first section of the mark policy secure overview teachers knowing their data inside out okay the student progress formative so we introduced the yellow box again it doesn't have to be yellow it's just a mechanism for direct feedback in student books and it allows the teachers I'll show you some examples it allows the teachers just to focus on one aspect of the work rather than marking everything marking should be regular before we edited this it said 6 and 12 and all different numbers if you're an art teacher versus a maths teacher because you show the students a different answer time so we just change it regular that's it if marking is not happening then it's not regular how you define that is up to the curriculum it's proportionate to the curriculum time then the marking code now on a recent work sample which I'll show you we found that the marking code is still developing and again we're not going to meet teachers over the stick we want teachers to mark books but more importantly we want students to act in the feedback that they receive so a reminder about marking after a feedback we know if it's meaningful, sophisticated, it can aid progress significantly and Mary Mayer brilliant, high quality, not chocolate at its fewer things done really well I looked at a couple of weeks a new marking policy and still I've got teachers just ticking ticking ticking absolutely wasting their time and no value to the student board server so it's just best not to do Ofsted does not expect to see a frequency Ofsted does not expect unnecessary written dialogue I've written about verbal feedback stamps it might work for you, my opinion I don't think they work verbal feedback should be verbal you shouldn't be sending books to prove something for someone else that's my opinion so should you be marking every work? no you shouldn't how often should I expect to see feedback when it's needed I think teachers are a bit trust we've got to let them do it so how would you reduce the marking burden for teachers in your school what ideas would you have 30 seconds please, go ok yellow box so a great idea yellow box indicates the area you're going to make your improvements so it's for the teacher and for the students size of the box can determine how many improvements can be made so here's some examples these are markings of two weeks ago from a work sample so you can see if the yellow box students put them to work no evidence that the teacher has acted on so that no evidence that the teacher has looked at that at the moment ok so interesting and again keep in mind evidence trails triple marking those kind of issues too here's an English example you'd expect lots of marking code or a marking code but you can see a stamp good work there's a green box I'm not going to be fussing what colour it is I'm not going to be going to different colour pens just common sense then you can see the space a bit of the marking code space of students to actually act on the feedback given so what we found is that no matter what we're asking ultimately we want to see the student act on that feedback this is an old form I've logged back a couple of weeks ago it caused a bit of controversy with a few people so this has evolved over the last five years from my point of view this is an old one this is the most recent one but now I'm going to actually tweak it further just to have question 2 is there evidence of acting on feedback nothing else is needed because if that's not happening there's no marking take place marking code would be pretty obvious and the other boxes are mechanisms to allow acting on feedback to happen then there's the issue of practical subjects that don't have books so that needs to be taken into account too so we've used this form we did another version so we did high and low this was for observations going into the room talking to the teacher getting the back story talking to the kids finding out what's going on why I just want this to work you've been here for six weeks we have another form we took 15 students across this A3 we did a sample of the teaching and learning team we invited middle leaders we've done it but they found it a very interesting and valuable process so the next stage is to introduce this into our minds tonight's CPD bring your best books, that's fine but let's have a look at how your marking is developing to help yourself your workload and also help the students we Irish the students so we're trying later we've gone to observations we've looked in lessons we've talked to the teacher and the students we've taken books out of class into a room so we're going to share the switches with our staff in January again, if you could observe someone who would be in Y so on to the plan again, keep telling staff don't waste your time this is my lesson plan example from about five, two thousand and eight so seven or eight years ago when I first started my new job sat down with inspector I opened up the file that I'd been given because I'd only been there three weeks and to my horror there was three page lesson plans in there why because it might have been the old model it's how we bring up our NQTs it's what we're told at university and there's an issue there I think because what happens there is not in reality what actually happens on the ground and the need to plan whenever we go away so if you look in the plan section evidence of planning doesn't mean a lesson plan I don't want to hover up lesson plans I don't bear a middle leader so five minute lesson plan five minute lesson plan so something I've driven a lot of you on the left you've got DKL so Jude N right depth of head in west London dawn of lessons on the right hand side you've got the three pages of the forest lesson plans and in the middle you've got the five minute lesson plan and what is widely the great fact is it focuses on what's important obviously the cognition in your head the thinking behind lessons there's a lot more detail for some kind of framework to write down to share with someone if you wish to do so it's a great model stickability I'll come back to later in the top right hand corner if I lost it tomorrow I'll probably tell my teachers not to give any lesson plans whatsoever I will make them hopefully consider this as an option but again I'll tell them not to waste the time so there's our planning be clear and precise Deborah appeared to me's wrote a book notes from a front line talks about lesson objectives students waste 30 plus hours a year copying lesson objectives lessons lesson but two we find quite important the Y test you're doing this Y it's amazing even when my head teacher Alex asked me why you're doing this in your lesson it makes you think and that's the part that needs to happen before the lesson takes place on the cognitive side evidence of long term planning so it's from schemes of work plans not one off lessons quality first approach what the teacher does in the classroom in the first instance is what makes the biggest impact differentiation over time not in a one off lesson seated plans of said mint class we want to know where our students are going to be sitting so we want them to build in some routines and some typicality but it's not free for all until teachers get that place where they can start to take risks start to be creative we have time flying staff so hopefully we have time I'm going to introduce an idea that you can use as a flying start our teacher plan access our first version of this we don't want everyone to use it we have some staff that want to do online kind of planning that's fine but we want evidence off over time the teach doesn't matter who NQT or experienced teacher like myself which all we do we can our approach to teaching and learning this is the culture I want to establish keep telling them not to waste the time we're still fighting from the book sample the still teachers wasting the time adding to their workload we're all teachers of literacy so in our lessons and our teaching we accept teaching as a lifetime craft we want us to be razor sharp and we want people to be explicit about the outcomes keywords could just be one keyword it might be breaking down that keyword the definitions where the words originated from how it links to prior or future knowledge to go with the learning this is the risk taken side of things more important the learning plan if kids get stuck on something or you want to be off the lesson plan we want our teachers to do that and Jim Smith the lazy teacher working harder than the teacher I spoke to almost two of us who can send these trying to drill it into them you should be working harder than the teacher and then finally stickability, ensuring learning is stuck and testing it testing is actually safe to learn doesn't mean regular cleaners it just means that the student you actually know if something is coming back to the class in the next lesson so you should have a blank piece of fine playing paper with you if you don't you can grab on or use the back of the learning policy whatever you can and could you write numbers 1 to 10 on it this is an example of a flight art art in my class it works really well it's something that you can introduce to your own staff it certainly gets consecutive it helps them settle it allows them to focus on literacy it allows them to focus on prior knowledge or things to come so numbers 1 to 10 everybody be prepared to let go of your paper at some point you might want to write your name on it ok 1 to 10 want you to spell these words please spell them to me thank you for listening word 1 waffle word 2 workload word 3 wellbeing ok now what I'd like you to do crunch it into a snowball 10 seconds go 10 9 8 6 4 3 2 1 in my class if you don't have a piece of paper you're out ok open the piece of paper up can you spell check those 3 words bit of literacy spell check those words if they're incorrect go for the knocks and rewrite the prep spelling please 20 seconds get organized write your name on it where you're from should be two people's names on the paper now start to say hello to each other include the hashtag SSATN C15 to your photo word 4 simplicity simplicity word 5 priorities word 6 teacher 3 open it up words 1 to 6 please now we're going to do word 7 to 10 to finish off take it back to your schools a language teacher don't do this in class it's superb that's great ok you've got 6 words can you spell check those 6 hopefully they're pretty easy if they're not across the map if they're spelled incorrectly re-correct them last we're going to do four more words word 7 mark 8 plan word 9 teach and word 10 trust easy easy 10 seconds go 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 grab a bit of paper it's yours to keep between the photo later on so all I do in my class she might have a little visualizer I'm people who are really good for that on your desk get the kids to throw it into a bin I'll try and hit you on the head credit or points or stickers whatever you do in your school for the kids to get all the right words not everyone hits the bin it allows you a lot of time to focus on the ones that beat the target to break the activity for kids flying star so quality of teaching teaching clarity of stickability this is the solo line test what do you want students to learn and why stickability for me now in my lesson time what do I want students to stick what do I want to take away what do I want to bring back so to finally finish off if you could observe someone who would be in why they will give them answers but my answer is myself not from an egotistical point of view but if you have a mechanism in place such as iris coaching a manager where staff can have some kind of tool to be able to watch their own teaching that surely is going to be the best way that they can improve their own teaching there's no better feedback than watching yourself so I'm sure there's more cheaper than iris is expensive and there's other platforms out there and other tools but I'm sure we can all get away and give teachers the time to be able to observe each other teach and themselves more specifically so that's my answer to film yourself and if you look after your staff your staff will look after your skills so that's hopefully what we're aspiring towards and from a blogging point of view hopefully I can show a little bit of evidence that people at the blog will know that if we can organise ourselves we can move policy and we can start to see people getting to round the table which is great people expressing their views online the DfE I'll have three sorts of the DfE officer they do tell me again that the feedback was just great the DfE tell me that they find it difficult to connect to senior teachers across the country which is quite frightening really but SLT chat, the Twitter account is very good with a few people Trans on Twitter regularly why because teachers aren't to share or senior teachers specifically the key issues that are important for all of us so let's cut through the waffle thank you everyone


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Live from New York, it's theCUBE. Covering the IBM Machine Learning Launch Event brought to you by IBM. Now here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to New York City, everybody. We're here at the Waldorf Historia covering the IBM Machine Learning Launch Event, bringing machine learning to the IBM Z. Brian Smith is here, he's the Vice President of R&D and the CTO of Rocket Software, powering the path to digital transformation, Brian. Welcome to theCUBE, thanks for coming on. Thanks for having me.  So pretty large company, give us the background. Yeah, so I've been around for, this will be our 27th year, a private company. We've been a partner of IBMs for the last 23 years. Almost all of that is in the mainframe space. We're focused on the mainframe space, I'll say. Around 1,300 employees, we call ourselves Rocketeers, spread around the world. We're really an R&D focused company. More than half the company is engineering and it's spread across the world on every continent in most major countries. Okay, and so you're essentially OEMing your tools, as it were, is that right? And no direct sales for us? About half, different lenses to look at this, about half of our go-to-market is through IBM, with IBM labeled IBM branded products. So we've always been, for the set of projects, we've always been R&D behind the products. The partnership though has really grown. It's more than just an R&D partnership now. Now we're doing co-marketing, we're even doing some joint selling to serve IBM mainframe customers. So the partnership has really grown over these last 23 years from just being the guys who write the code to doing much more. Okay, so how do you fit in this announcement? Machine learning on Z, where does Rocket fit? Yes, so part of what we announced with today is a very important piece of technology that we develop, we call data virtualization. Data virtualization is really enabling customers to open up their mainframe to allow the data to be used in ways that it was never designed to be used. So you might have these data structures that were designed 10, 20, even 30 years ago that were designed for a very specific application, but today they want to use it in a very different way and so the traditional path is to take that data and copy it to ETL, it's someplace else they can get some new use or to build some new application. What data virtualization allows you to do is to leave that data in place but access it using APIs that developers want to use today. They want to use JSON access for example or they want to use SQL access, but they want to be able to do things like join across IMS, DB2 and VSAM all with a single query using an SQL statement. So we can do that with relational databases and non-relational databases. So it gives us out of this mode of having to copy data into some other data store through this ETL process, access the data in place, we call it moving the applications or the analytics to the data versus moving the data to the analytics or to the applications. Okay, so in this specific case, and I've said several times today as Stu has heard me, two years ago IBM had a big theme around the Z13 bringing analytics and transactions together this sort of extends that. So great, I've got this transaction data that lives behind a firewall somewhere. So why the mainframe? Why now? Well, I would pull back to obviously we're seeing more companies and organizations wanting to move applications and analytics closer to the data. And the data in many of these large companies that core business critical data is on the mainframe. And so being able to do more real-time analytics without having to look at old data is really important. There's this term data gravity. And so I love the visual that presents in my mind that you have these different masses, these different planets if you will. And the biggest massivist planet in that solar system really is the data. And so it's pulling these smaller satellites if you will into this planet or the star by way of gravity because data is, data is a new currency, data is what the companies are running on. And so we're helping in this announcement with being able to unlock and open up all mainframe data sources, even some non-mainframe data sources and using things like Spark that's running on the platform, that's running on ZOS to access that data directly without having to, to write any special programming or any social code to get to all their data.  One of the questions I guess people have is, okay, I get that, it's the transaction data that I'm getting access to. But if I'm bringing transaction and analytic data together a lot of times that analytic data might be in social media, it might be somewhere else, not on the mainframe. How do you envision customers sort of dealing with that? Do you have tooling to help them do that? We do. So, so this differentiation solution that I'm talking about is one that is mainframe resident but it can also access other data sources. It can access DB2 on Linux, Unix, Windows, it can access Informix, it can access Cloudant, it can access Hadoop through IBM's big insights. Other feeds like Twitter, like other social media, it can pull that in. In the case where you would want to do that is where you're trying to take that data and integrate it with a massive amount of mainframe data, it's going to be much more highly performant by pulling this other small amount of data into next to that core business data. So I get the performance and I get the security of the mainframe. I like those two things, but what about the economics? Yep, so a couple of things. One, IBM when they ported Spark 2 ZOS, they did it the right way. They leveraged the architecture.  It was rewriting it to be highly performant on the Z architecture, taking advantage of specialty engines. We've done the same with the data virtualization component that goes along with that Spark on ZOS offering that also leverages the architecture. We actually have different binaries that we load depending on which architecture of the machine that we're running on, whether it be a Z9, an EC12, or the big granddaddy of a Z13. Can you speak to the developers? I think about, you're talking about all this mobile and Spark and everything like that. There's gotta be certain developers that are like, oh my gosh, there's mainframe stuff. I don't know anything about that. How do you help bridge that gap between where it lives and the tools that they're using? Yeah, the best example is talking about embracing this API economy. And so developers really don't care where the stuff is at, right? They just want it to be easy to get to. They don't want to have to code up some specific interface or language to get to different types of data, right? And so IBM's done a great job with ZOS Connect in opening up the mainframe to the API economy with RESTful interfaces. And so with ZOS Connect combined with Rocket Data Virtualization, you can come through that ZOS Connect same path using all those same RESTful interfaces, pushing those APIs out to tools like Swagger, which the developers want to use. And not only can you get to the applications through ZOS Connect, but we're a service provider to ZOS Connect, allowing them to also get to every piece of data using those same RESTful APIs. If I heard you correctly then, developer doesn't need to even worry about that it's on mainframe or speak mainframe or anything like that, right? The goals that they never do, that they simply see in their tool set, again like Swagger, that they have data as well as different services that they can invoke using these very straightforward, simple RESTful APIs. Yeah, can you speak to kind of the customers you talk to? You know, there's certain people out in the industry. I've had this conversation for a few years at IBM shows is there's some part of the market there like, oh well the mainframe is this dusty old box sitting in a corner with nothing new. And my experience has been the containers and cool streaming and everything like that. Oh well, mainframe did virtualization and Linux and all these things really early decades ago and is keeping up with a lot of these trends with these new type of technologies. What do you find in kind of the customers that how much are they driving forward on new technologies, looking for that new technologies and being able to leverage the assets that they have? You asked a lot of questions there. So the types of customers certainly financial insurance are the big two but that doesn't mean that we're limited and not going after retail and helping governments and manufacturing customers as well. So what I find is talking with them that there's kind of the folks who get it and the folks who don't. And the folks who get it are the ones who are saying, well I want to be able to embrace these new technologies and they're taking things like open source, they're looking at Spark for example, they're looking at Anaconda. So last week we just announced at the Anaconda conference we step on stage with Continuum, IBM and We Rocket stuff. They're talking about this partnership that we formed to create this ecosystem because the development world changes very, very rapidly. For a while, all the rage was JDBC or all the rage was component broker. And so today it's sparking Anaconda are really in the forefront of a developer's minds. And so we're constantly moving to keep up with developers because that's where the action is happening. Again, they don't care where the data is housed as long as you can open that up. We've been playing with this concept that came up from some research firm called Two Speed IT where you have maybe your core business that has been running for years and it's designed to really be slow moving, very high quality, it keeps everything running today but they want to embrace some of their new technologies. They want to be able to roll out a brand new app and they want to be able to update that's multiple times a week. And so this Two Speed IT says, well you kind of break them off into two separate teams. You don't have to take your existing infrastructure team and say, well yeah, you must embrace every agile and every DevOps type of methodology. What we're seeing customers be successful with is this kind of Two Speed IT where you can fraction these two and now you need to create some nice integration between those two teams. So things like data virtualization really help with that. It opens up and allows the development teams to very quickly access those assets on the mainframe in this case while allowing those developers to very quickly crank out an application where quality is not that important, where being very quick to respond and doing lots of A-B testing with customers is really critical. Yeah, Waterfall still has its place. As a company that predominantly or maybe even exclusively is involved in mainframe, I'm struck by, it must have been 2008, 2009, Paul Moritz comes in and he says, VMware, our vision is to build the software mainframe. And of course, the world said, ah, that's great, mainframe's dead and we've been hearing that forever. And in many respects, credit to VMware, they built sort of a form of software mainframe, but now you hear a lot of talks about going back to bare metal. You don't hear that talk on the mainframe. Everything's virtualized, right? So it's kind of interesting to see and then IBM uses the language of private cloud and mainframe is joking, the original private cloud. So my question is, your strategy as a company has been always focused on the mainframe and going forward, I presume it's going to continue to do that. What's your outlook for that platform? Yeah, so we're not exclusively by the mainframe, by the way. Okay, so. We're not, we have a good mix. Okay, so it's overstating that then, it's half and half or whatever, you don't talk about it because you're a private company. Maybe a little more than half is. Okay, it's significant. It is significant. We've got a large proportion of the company on mainframe, ZLS. Right, so we're bullish on the mainframe. We continue to invest more every year. We invest, we increase our investments every year and so in a software company, your investment is primarily people. We increase that by double digits every year. We have license revenue increases in the double digits every year. I don't know many other mainframe based software companies that have that. But I think that that comes back to the partnership that we have with IBM because we are more than just a technology partner. We work on strategic projects with IBM. We'll oftentimes stand up and say, Rocket is a strategic partner that works with us on hard problems solving customers' issues every day. So we're bullish, we're investing more all the time. We're not backing away, we're not decreasing our interest or our bets on the mainframe. If anything, we're increasing them at a faster rate than we have in the fast- Well, this trend of bringing analytics and transactions together is a huge mega trend. I mean, why not do it on the mainframe? If the economics are there, which you're arguing that in many use cases they are because of the value component as well, then the future looks pretty reasonable, wouldn't you say? I'd say it's very bright. At the Anaconda conference last week, I was coming up with an analogy for these folks. Just a bunch of data scientists, right? And during most of the breaks and the receptions, they were just asking questions, well, what is the mainframe? I didn't know that we still had them and what do they do? So it was fun to educate them on that. But I was trying to show them an analogy with data warehousing where, say the mid-90s, it was perfectly acceptable to have a separate data warehouse separate from your transaction system. You would copy all this data over into the data warehouse. That was the model, right? And then slowly, it became more important that the analytics of the BI against a data warehouse was looking at more real-time data, right? So then became more efficiencies and well, how do we replicate this faster? And how do we get closer to not looking at weak old data, but day old data? And so I explained that to them and said, the days of being able to do analytics against old data that's copied are going away. ETL, we also mostly say that ETL is dead. ETL's future is very bleak. There's no place for it. It had its time, but now it's done because with data virtualization, you can access that data in place. And so I was telling these folks, as they're talking about these data scientists, as they're talking about how they look at their models, their first step is always ETL. And so I told them the story, ETL is dead and they just kind of looked at me kind of strangely. Well now the first step is load. Yes, there you go, right, yes, load it in there. But having access from these platforms directly to that data, you don't have to worry about any type of a delay. So what you described though was still a common architecture where you've got, let's say a Z mainframe, it's got an InfiniBand pipe to some Exadata warehouse or something like that. And so IBM's vision was okay, we can collapse that, we can simplify that, consolidate it. SAP with HANA has a similar vision, we can do that, I'm sure Oracle's got their vision. What gives you confidence in IBM's approach and legs going forward? Probably due to the advances that we see in ZOS itself where handling mixed workloads, which it's been doing for many of the 50 years that it's been around, being able to prioritize different workloads, not only just at the CPU dispatching, but also at the memory usage, also at the IO all the way down through the channel to the actual device, you don't see other operating systems that have that level of granularity for managing mixed workloads. And the security component, that's what to me is unique about this so-called private cloud. And I'd say it was using that software mainframe example from VMware in the past, and it got a good portion of the way there, but it couldn't get that last mile, which is any workload, any application with the performance and security that you would expect, it's just never quite got there. So it's, I don't know if the pendulum is swinging, I'm not, that's the accurate way to say it, but it's certainly stabilized, would you say? There's certainly new eyes being opened every day to saying, wait a minute, I could do something different here. Muscle memory doesn't have to guide me in doing business the way I have been doing it before. And that's this muscle memory I'm talking about of this ETL piece. Right, well, and a large number of workloads in mainframe are running Linux, right? You got Anaconda, Spark, you know, all these modern tools. So the question you asked about developers was right on. If it's independent or transparent to developers, then who cares? So that's the key, right? That's the key lever this day and age is the developer community. That's right, given what they want. You know it well. They're the customers of the infrastructure that's being built.  We're excited to be here. It's an exciting day to talk about machine learning on ZOS. You know, I say we're bullish on the mainframe. We are, we're especially bullish on ZOS and that's what this event today is all about. That's where the data is. That's where we need the analytics running. That's where we need the machine learning running. That's where we need to get the developers to access the data live. Excellent, Brian. Thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. Thank you. And keep right there, buddy. We'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from New York City. Right back.


Well I think another part of technology is it creates this artificial filter between us and the real world. So whether it's changing the way you look, changing the background, it's becoming more and more virtual which of course creates a mask between us and our real identity and then of course showing others that real identity and being vulnerable. What's up everybody and welcome to the show today. We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure you guys get notified and in order to do that you're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. The book proposal was done four years before the pandemic and what I had seen and felt was that we had lost the humanity when we were connecting with each other that it became all about the technology all about the clicks and likes and followers rather than that intentionality that rather than meeting people and building long-term relationships the kind that I learned from my parents back in the late 60s early 70s and of course February 2020 when I started to write the book I was going along my merry way and then of course in March of 2020 all we had were the clicks and likes and followers so in some ways I kind of had to go start all over in terms of the intentionality but I will tell you back maybe seven years ago a friend of mine told me a story that stuck with me and she said when she would take her 10 year old and 12 year old to the bus stop in the morning and she would hug them goodbye and send them on their merry way they would get up on the bus sit in their respective seats and as soon as they sat down their heads would bob down to look at their handheld devices and every other child on the school bus was doing the exact same thing now AJ Johnny I can tell you I don't have amazing memories of my school bus right I mean like I don't know about you but I will tell you that I wasn't I was talking to my classmates it's amazing how much we live on our devices these days and I know the book is full of research to show that was there any research that you found that was really shocking about how lonely and disconnected we are currently well I mean there's so much but I would say one of the most telling things that I learned was the fact that if we make a life filled with meaningful connections both personally and professionally we're gonna live longer we're gonna be healthier well that's certainly one we've been seeing a lot of research on and we've even had some guests on to talk about that the other thing with technology that you mentioned is with the clicks of likes and shares putting out great content is one way to get likes and shares but being rude having snapback hot takes and just being outrageous gets you more shares than likes than great content and because of that it changes our frame and how we deal with other people because in the real world if you did these things you would get punched you would be excluded you would not find connection however but online this is getting you notoriety it's getting you followers it is getting you power and the and I have noticed this and I've told AJ this we've come to the same conclusion which is we're going down this road with all this technology it's all experimental for everybody we don't know what the long lasting effects are going to be I would say that we're starting to see the effects on our society is happening all around us but you mentioned about bus memories like I don't want to get the end of my life because of all this technology that I found to help me with work only to realize that I wish I would have spent more time being present with others enjoying my life and reaching for goals and building things we drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that you're gonna have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell and if you've gotten a lot of value out of this make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends no I couldn't agree more and the thing is also something to be conscious of the next 15 years the platforms are going to change anyways so if we are basing our success on numbers now they're only going to change in another few years so I mean it is in some ways a futile effort and it you just made me think I was actually the beginning of 2020 in Antarctica and I'll never forget that everyone on the boat all they did was take pictures and it was like stop just look think of what you're gonna you know there's whales and penguins and you're missing it because you have this ginormous camera in between you and the animal but anyhow what you just said Johnny just made me think of that I go to concerts all the time and I see people watching the concert through their phone and the 4th of July just happened I live in Vegas and I even caught myself filming some of it because I wanted to send what I was seeing to somebody I was like just enjoy the moment well and I do also think I mean I am non-antitechnology and I am certainly a user of various social media platforms both personally and professionally but I don't consider that connecting okay there's a means to an end and I will tell you I have been to three weddings of people that I met on Twitter but to me the goal is if it's someone who's meaningful to me to get it offline um now of course the last year and a half that has been very very very very difficult and my hope is if we can get this damn country vaccinated we might be able to get back to normalcy I like to call what we're in right now is like a normal normalcy well I think another part of technology is it creates this artificial filter between us and the real world yeah so whether it's changing the way you look changing the background it's becoming more and more virtual which of course creates a mask between us and our real identity and then of course showing others that real identity and being vulnerable and being honest and open with them and what we really loved about the book was really breaking down what are the steps it takes to get back to connecting and I'd love if you could just unpack for our audience the gather ask do method because it is so powerful and it's certainly in line with what we teach here at the art of charm I love it and I just love the name the art of charm whoever came up with that kudos well interestingly enough when you write a business book you have to come up with a methodology and I did some deep soul searching because I have a mask a tremendous community over the years and I founded my current company um the only company ever founded at age 48 I'm now 56 and over the last eight years 95 percent of the business has been in that so what that has told me is the connections that I have built since my early 20s actually have come back to health and it wasn't like I had a crystal ball all the way back then in fact it wasn't even part of the dream or hope but what I realized is as I was doing the soul searching is I actually did have a methodology and that is what the gather ask do is and that's the components of the book but I will say that the underlying theme but beneath gather ask do is this notion of leading with how can I be of help to others and this does not mean not taking the oxygen mask first but in other words it means leading with help help will come back come back to you so in the gather phase the first and most important component is to do some self reflection and connect with yourself and really do a sense of deep dive in what are your hopes and dreams over the next four years four months even four weeks and who are you going to want to connect with or reconnect with that is going to help you meet those goals and then in addition that you can be helpful to notice it's that reciprocity okay also during that time in the gather phase what are your secret sauces what are your superpowers that you can bring to the fold and lastly what are you going to do to ensure that you break that hermetically sealed bubble in other words how do you ensure you're doing everything in your power to meet people who don't look like you sound like you the same age as you the same color race etc so that is the gather phase and I would go so far as say we are in a very good kind of reset moment in this world where we might be able to use this methodology the next is the ask phase and the ask phase is learning to ask the meaningful questions of others so that we can learn about their hopes and dreams and think about how we can be helpful and if you listen carefully which we are woefully bad at doing myself included we can get to the do phase which honestly is to me the most fun and that's when you take all that data that you listen to and then you become responsive reliable trustworthy and follow up on the you know what sh it that you're going to do to be that person


Hello there! I'm Sandy Alnach with a crazy art video. I'm going to be painting with coffee and tea today. I've seen people paint with coffee before, and I thought it would be an interesting thing to try. So I went to the McDonald's and picked up some coffee there. I went to Starbucks, and I got a double espresso, double shot, and I got some tea. I made some tea in a cup with some Earl Grey and let it steep for quite a bit of time. And I also let all three of them cool way down because I didn't want to paint with something hot. I didn't know what that would do to my brushes, so I made sure I let them completely cool off. I got out a straw because I was just thinking about my good brushes and do I want to do anything with them or not. I thought, oh, I could grab a straw and drop some color in.  And you can drop it from a high height if you want to get a real splatter that looks like a, you know, super coffee drop kind of splatter. If you're doing that on a card or something, that would be fun. I've seen people do all kinds of stuff with this, like spill some coffee or tea onto a piece of paper and then see what they can make out of that. Here I was deliberately trying to make some flowers, just a tall garden. That was just a little vision I had in my head, but you could do all kinds of crazy things too. You can see that the McDonald's coffee being just straight up coffee was kind of a medium brown. The espresso adds the darkness and the tea is very light. So you can experiment with all different kinds of liquids and different amounts of, you know, you could let it sit there for a long time and let moisture soak out of it to make darker coffee or darker tea. You could use different kinds of herbal teas that will give you different colors to paint with. Just, you know, lots of fun you can have with leftover stuff to paint that you're not drinking that you could just paint with to just make some art out of them. Just make sure that you wash your brushes really good. I did decide to be bold and stick my brush into the espresso, maybe not the wisest move, but I made sure I rinsed it really, really well afterward. And on something like this, I actually wash it with some soap and not just with water just to make sure, because I don't want to ruin a really good brush. So using one of my needle nose, needle nose, little tiny brushes has a really long point on the end of it and dropping in some lines for some of my stems of the flowers. And next up, I'm going to add some more of the espresso because I wanted some more darkness. Everything seemed to be getting mushy and puddley and lighter. So I threw in some darker color and depending on what brand and what kind and how long it was steeped and all kinds of things, you can get all sorts of different amounts of brown in them. I also had some instant coffee. I had gotten this a long time ago when my mom came to visit. My mom drinks coffee and I don't, but she likes instant. So that was in my cupboard from like 10 years back or something, I think. It's been around forever. And I thought, oh, I could use some for this. I could add both depth and texture. And I wasn't sure what this was going to do. Was it going to melt into the liquid that's already there? And it did to a good extent. It mixed in quite nicely and added a little bit of granulation to it. And I took my brush and added some more stems and a couple more flowers and things just to have fun and play around with it. Now one of the things I realized is that all of this is incredibly soppy, soppy wet. So debating whether or not to dab off some of those pools of coffee or if I wanted to just try to heat dry it all. So I took my heat gun and started trying and man, this stuff took forever. However, the thing that I think was cool is that it darkened everything. And if you think about roasting coffee, they do that with heat, don't they? I don't know much about coffee. I don't drink coffee, but when they roast coffee, I'm assuming roasting means heating. And heating is going to make it richer and darker. So the colors were getting darker as I was heating them up. And as I go through the other layers and reheating stuff, it just gets darker. I ended up with this really rich dark painting. But I wanted more of the texture. I was losing the texture because all that moisture was melting out all the coffee grounds. So I left it a little bit damp and I was going to see if I could put more coffee grounds on it while it was damp. Would they melt in or did it need to be puddley for it to melt out? And what I ended up doing was sprinkling the grounds on there while it was damp and that held some of them in place. But some of them of course went wherever because I'm not really careful in how I sprinkle things. So I did have to add some water to it. I did a little spritzing with water after I was done. But you could do this kind of a thing for a card if you're a card maker. You could do all kinds of beautiful things. You actually can paint a stamped image with it. You know, get a stamp of some coffee or something and make a coffee themed one that way. It smelled really good in the studio while I was painting this. I love the smell of coffee. I just don't like the taste of it so I don't drink it. And here I am spraying away at all of the little grounds and letting them just kind of start to melt into the painting a little bit. When it was all finished, it ended up with crusty grounds on the top. So if you want to actually preserve this painting, it's not going to be archival or anything. Mine ended up lumpy on the top and I didn't brush it all off because I kind of liked all that texture. I don't know what I'm going to do with this. But it was fun to do. It was just something fun and crazy to paint with.  So if you do that, please be sure to post it and tag me. I'd love to see what you're making. Thank you so much for visiting. I will talk to you later. Bye.


Once we've secured the entire spine during our rowing, we set up with that knee on the bench, that hand on the bench, and we straighten everything out. We make sure our rib cage isn't side bent to one side more than the other. We make sure we're looking symmetrical on each side. Once we've done all of that, there's still more to go. And again, hopefully this is illustrating how complicated the rowing movement is. If our force comes from the ground, we have so many joints that we have to go through. We have to secure and we have to make sure they have the right mobility and the right stability in order to get that force all the way up through the shoulder, through the elbow, through the wrist, into the hand, into the dumbbell that we can then row. Now once I secure the spine, the next step is the scapula, the shoulder blade. So the shoulder blade is what's dictating how the shoulder works. But as we've talked about before, there's stuff before that, right? The rib cage is dictating how the shoulder blade moves and the spine is dictating how the rib cage moves. And it all kind of plays together, right? You can't have one without the other and they go bi-directionally. It's kind of this vicious cycle of one messes up then the other messes up. So what we're trying to do here is we're trying to teach our shoulder blade to move with us as we row. Now the big thing when we're talking about the three-point supported dumbbell row, we got one hand on the bench, one knee on the bench, we have straightened the spine out, we have taken away any asymmetry in the rib cage. And then from there, what we need to do is we need to kind of cue a little bit of a reach, a little bit of a push yourself away from the bench as you row. It's gonna feel like you're turning and actually that's what you are doing and that's what I want you to do. I want a slight turn. It's easy to talk about generating too much mobility during the row, but I'm not really, or too much momentum, sorry, generating too much momentum during the row, but that's not my concern here. First and foremost, I wanna make sure that you can find the mobility, that you have the positions that will allow your muscles to turn on so that you can make a big strong back instead of just grinding your shoulder away, right? So in the row, that motion requires a little bit of a rotation, right? If I turn this much, that's too much. That's more rotation than I need. That's more turning than I need. But if I rotate the other way and I try to row, I'm not gonna be able to get that full squeeze that I'm looking for in the row.  When I row with my right arm, that shoulder should come back and the other one should come forward about like one tick on a clock. So instead of being at six and at 12, maybe I'm turning to being, let's a better example, instead of being at three and nine, I'm then instead turning the hands so that I'm at four and 10, okay?  And you can play around with that. You can try to find the one, the amount of rotation that allows you to feel those upper back muscles the most. And I would encourage you to do that because I can use the muscle, if I treat myself like a bodybuilder, I can use the muscle to teach me if I'm doing it correctly or not. And if I feel when I do my rows, I should feel it in my upper back muscles, the muscles between my shoulder blades. And so if I initiate that row and at the end I really squeeze those muscles and I can feel them and I don't feel other stuff like I don't feel my low back arching up or turning on or stiffening up, then I can be reasonably certain that I'm doing this exercise effectively.