So, Natasha, I'm really glad that you are taking the time to talk with me about the Universal Code of Conduct today. And I wanted to start out with the question of how did you learn about the effort that is going on to draft a Universal Code of Conduct? How did you get aware of this? Mainly through the strategy process 2020-2030 in which I was also involved, mainly concerning the question of harassment. What impact do you think it will have on the community? Well, your home wiki is the French Wikipedia, but within that wiki you are supporting a very special community, a part of the community, you are supporting women and also non-binary persons identifying as female. So what impact do you think this will have on this special community? I think it's already having an impact in that there are ongoing discussions about what is harassment, how to deal with it, and how to deal with people who use aggressive language to formulate their opinions. We have a founding principle, the fourth one, which is based on respect, but at the moment it's not applied. So having a Code of Conduct and discussing and debating about it certainly will bring awareness to the community as a whole about the need to moderate and to be careful about how we express our opinions so that we don't marginalize people in our communities because if we want knowledge to be available for everybody and if we want everybody to be able to construct that knowledge, we do need a diversity of representation. At the moment, on the Francophone Wikipedia, there are 10% women contributors and 90% others. So that means that a wide range of the population already is not represented. Now, if you look a bit more finely into LGBT person, trans person, that is even worse. And we need a specific effort so that these people are welcome and that they do not face aggressive behaviors. Otherwise, they do not contribute and we don't get to have their input in the construction of our universal knowledge. Do you think this applies also when we don't think just about one wiki, the French Wikipedia, but many people, many Wikimedians contribute to several projects, maybe several projects in their own language like wiki source or wiki quote, but also sometimes in different languages or they contribute to those projects that are not language bound like wiki data, wiki comments. So do you see that it might have a different effect also for those people who work cross-project-wise? I think when you start with a project, whether it's wiki data, Wikipedia, wiki source, you get involved sometimes politically in the movement, in the chapters and then it is a cross-project movement. I speak French, German and English and although I contribute mostly to Wikipedia, I came into wiki data because I needed to do queries, so it's a transversal project and if you consider the Francophone Wikipedia and I do use the word Francophone and not French, it's problematic that it's very Parisian-centered and French-centered and if you are Swiss, I'm not Swiss, I'm French and I live in Switzerland, but if you are Swiss or coming from Quebec, it's very hard to bring in your own opinion because people will talk to you about French institutions for the regulation of the language, for example, inclusive language and we are on the internet. This is our territory and we have to think globally about the internet and of course, nations and geography is important, but we are in a cross-cultural and multi-language project. For example, some contributors of Les Sampages created Noir-sur-Wikipedia and they are on two projects, Engren-Cinado-Wikipedia, I don't know if I pronounce it correctly because I don't speak Spanish, and they do wiki data and the Spanish and the Francophone Wikipedia all at the same time. So this is a perfect example because they are Afro-descendant and they want to decolonize Wikipedia using their own term, which I think it's important to let people use their own terms of engagement and not accusing them aggressively all the time of puff-pushing and being social justice warriors because these are not facts, these are judgments. Thank you very much for opening up the perspective beyond what you yourself are doing to those other perspectives of those women that work closely with you but have their own projects and have their own views and their own experiences and bringing this into this conversation. Beyond those questions of impact, do you have anything else that you would like to talk about now that the drafting has started, is going on, but that the Universal Code of Conduct is not yet finished? It's important to think how it will be enforced first of all from the things that I have read about in the open source community. In the open source community, all the main projects have had contributor covenants starting in 2003 and so we have a backlog of experiences about applying Code of Conducts. So I think, first of all, the Wikimedia movement cannot do without a contributor covenant anymore. It's incredible to think we have been doing without so many years and we have to think about, look closely into the open source experience to see what worked and what didn't work. And there are some things we know do not work. Like the worst thing on Earth we can have is a Code of Conduct that is not applied. A Code of Conduct which is not applied sends the wrong message. It means we have a Code of Conduct but we wash our hands and it's just there as a kind of washing, a Code of Conduct washing. And it gives a message to the wrong message, ambiguous messages to new contributors is that when they experience harassment and they think, oh there's a Code of Conduct let's see what we can do and then if they get a response that it doesn't apply go and see with your local Wikimedia, we can't answer this, because this and this and that without giving even an emotional response because what people need first is an emotional response beyond Technicity and we will examine this and then you wait three months. This is the worst thing that can happen. And then when you apply a Code of Conduct what works and what doesn't is that the all public and transparent option does not work because it is fragilizing the victim that is being harassed like all her, she's already, people are in a fragile state and you expose them to the community and community can just answer things out of the blue like you would have 200 contributors contributing one line but they do not realize how their words are going to be taken by somebody who is fragile and sometimes one word, one word is enough to make somebody feel very, very bad and it's not the intention that counts it's that for a person who receives 200 messages from different parts of the projects which are not connected which might not be nasty messages but all that together that is constituting of mobbing. What doesn't work is the all public option and what is important is how the accused person reacts because if this person goes viral then you experience a kind of gamer gate backlash where the victim is being accused of accusing the other of harassment and there everybody goes mad and nobody is able to decipher the complexity of the thing and then if you let it go at one point people will become so aggressive and angry you don't know whether you should not ban everybody at the end which is a total disaster and chaos so that doesn't work what could work and I think you need to think about that when drafting the Code of Conduct is you need the conversation to be private but you need the community to be aware of how it's going on of the process and maybe the community could elect people that they trust which would go to a kind of an arbitration community an elected body that would look at it with both new eyes and eyes from the outside and from the inside paying attention to the representativity in this elected council and then this elected council would issue an advice or decision I don't know and then post back this is what has been decided and nobody goes and fumbles in the dustbins of history and the aggressor and the victims are protected because an aggressor can change and maybe they don't want things to go public people can do things at one point and then they can change and it's not correct just to that anybody can go and take out these diffs and continue having arguments for years and years afterwards so although I'm all for transparency and openness after being involved in Wikimedia France Board of Conflict of Interest Management I did realize that not everything needs to go public and it's even dangerous but you need people to be accountable to be elected they need to be in accountability so that there's a process that people agree on and this is very important when drafting the Code of Conduct and I think you cannot just draft the Code of Conduct and not think about this in parallel Thank you very much for those insights and I hope you will also take part in the discussions and what we call phase two where we will be talking about how can enforcement work in detail who should be enforcing what what should be the reporting channels so I'm very much looking forward to that but for now I want to thank you and wish you a wonderful day Thank you very much for your attention and all the best of luck


and strategy here at JSA. And on behalf of JSA, thank you for tuning in to our first JSA virtual roundtable of 2023, achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2030, tackling the key partnerships and technology to meet the goal. Such an important topic and coming off of the biggest PTC conference today, I can tell you firsthand that this topic is clearly at the forefront of our industry and critically important. And in case you missed it, JSA just launched the greener data directory as part of the greener data movement. It's a Rolodex of sustainability minded companies that serve the digital infrastructure industry and they're aiming to connect organizations dedicated to getting to net carbon zero throughout global operations. So be sure to check that out at greenerdata.net. A little housekeeping before we begin, as usual, part of our tradition here at JSA, the first 100 people that registered for today's virtual roundtable should have received lunch delivered to their door by now. So enjoy. And if you weren't one of the first, hopefully next time, so be sure to register as soon as you see our events populate here. And we wanna hear from you. So we wanna make this roundtable experience as interactive as possible. So in that chat box there, please add any questions that you might have and our panelists will get to those as they have time. And most importantly, be sure to stick around once our roundtable is over today. So you can join virtual networking tables immediately following for a very unique opportunity to talk face-to-face with other event attendees and this fabulous lineup of speakers that we have here today. So simply just join a table in the lounge area and just let the networking begin and get started there. All right, well, before we get to the fun networking part, let's get this show and conversation started. Joining me today, we have a spectacular roundtable of panelists here. We have Adam Kramer, he is the CEO at NetZero. Ashish Verma, the manager of Renewable Energy Policy and International Business at Adani Connects, joining us all the way from India today. And in case you missed it, Adani Connects was the winner of the PTC23 Award for Best Startup Organization. So congrats to Ashish and the entire Adani Connects team there. And we also have Andrew Roof, he is the director of sales and marketing at Geniza North America. So now that we gave those introductions, I'm gonna let these panelists give us a sneak peek into some of the main strategies that their companies are working on to take the most feasible and effective path to NetZero emissions. So Adam, why don't we get started with you? Yeah, Buffy, thank you so much for having me and really excited for this conversation today. By background, NZero is a carbon accounting and management company really supporting organizations around the world now on their journey to NetZero by helping them to not only understand their emissions in a real-time basis, something that is incredibly important in the telecommunication and data center business, right? Not to look at it on an annual average, not to look at it on a monthly basis, but to look at it on an hourly basis or a 15-minute basis. So not only we can support reporting and understanding of the emissions, but it'd be able to help with cost-effective interventions to reduce that impact for organizations. And we really have specialized a lot inside of the data center telecommunication industry, both my background, 10-plus years in the data center industry, along with our teams, about 100-plus years inside this space. So really excited to hear this conversation. And I would say I think your intro in talking about PTC is a great kickoff here because that was definitely, I think the transformation or the change from 2022 to 2023 of PTC and the conversations that are happening inside of this industry around zero about not just understanding emissions but getting it granular enough to be able to make decisions about this and whether it's for your organization as a data center operator or it's for your customers in the co-location space to be able to do this. It's been really exciting and really honored to be here today. Yes, we are so honored to have you and the common theme at PTC, I had the privilege of interviewing so many thought leaders there is that we're coming together and we're going to continue to come together to make this happen, to actually initiate the change. And I think that's what is so critical here today. So Ashish, let's turn it over to you. Thank you, Burfi, for having me. I'm Ashish Verma also. I take care of renewable planning and sustainability for Adani Connects. So Adani Connects is joint venture between Adani Group, which is a $200 billion company out of India and Edge Connects. So we are planning to develop close to one gigaward by 2030. So we are fairly new organization and we recently won the award, which is one of the most promising startup under the PTC award, which is a great achievement for us. And we just started our operations two, three months back. In fact, our first data center started live in Chennai, in India. So I guess one of the most important topic which globally we see is a net zero by 2030, 2050, 2060. We take cross that year. In fact, Corp 27 was one of the promising where global leaders were talking about the climate change sustainability, all those. At top of the agenda was of every businesses. So obviously the technology and the partnership, which is a two element where we definitely can achieve the net zero by maybe 2030, maybe by 2040, 2050. We depend upon the priorities of the business. So if I talk about the Adani Connects, so we are, so as a data center, we are resource guzzler, coming under the resource guzzler industry, where consume a lot of power, a lot of water, a lot of other resources also in terms of when we building the data center and operating the data centers. So one of the priority is obviously the renewable energy. We try to consume a lot of 100% renewable power in our operations. Second is water. We make sure that water is one of the unheard conversation, but more precious element in the planet without water we cannot live and we cannot operate, which is second. Third one is resources. We're building the material for the data center, be it cement, x, y, and other material also. So circularity is very important for us. And a fourth one is energy efficiency. So I believe energy efficiency is one of the element where the company should talk about and in terms of while designing and then we make sure that we design our data center so that we consume less energy compared, less resources compared to what the market is. So these are the three, four priorities which Rani connects is definitely doing to achieve the sustainability. In fact, we are the first company across the world which operating in data center, we already implemented our first ESG policy within the one year of operations. And we are trying to become operational net zero by 2030 by taking the 24 by seven carbon free energy so that every hour of every minute of electron we consume. And it has to be coming either from the solar wind, pump hydro or battery storage. So this is a basically we are aiming by 2030. It is, we already created a roadmap so that our customer and we self consume green energy on hourly basis. So look forward for this conversation and conference. Over to you both. Yes, thank you so much. And thank you for giving us all of those insights into what Adani connects is doing. Very, very impressive and critical. Andrew, over to you. Yeah, thank you, Buffy. As Buffy said, I'm Andrew Roof, the director of sales and marketing for a company called Genitza stationed in the North American branch of the company. But we're actually based, our world headquarters is based just north of Frankfurt, Germany. Genitza is an energy monitoring and management company. So we actually manufacture hardware that measures electricity and power throughout a facility. And we also actually have a software that pulls all that information and all that data in that we're collecting from the measurement points and be able to use that data in a user friendly fashion throughout our software there. And so energy efficiencies and energy usage is the core of our business, of course. And so with that being our core of business, that is also our focus internally as well. Obviously we're here focused on the net zero and Genitza has pledged as of last year to be net neutral by 2030. And it seems like it was a natural progression to make that pledge within the organization. We were already working towards that internally where we also help our customers work towards that as well. And so it just made sense for us to make that formal announcement, even though we're already kind of working towards those goals there. I've been with the company for about two years now and it's been a fantastic organization to work with, especially with their focus on not just the consumption of data or a consumption of energy, but also down to the level of the efficiencies and how clean that energy is coming into a facility throughout the facility and down even to for our data center standpoint, down to a rack level or server level and monitoring those energy usage throughout the whole facility there. And so we have a definitely a core product that focuses on those efficiencies and being able to make those gains that every organization can have using that monitoring type of level system there. And so I'm happy to be here, talking with everyone here and look forward to answering some questions here and talking a little bit more about what we're doing at Geniza and then working with, talking with Zero and other organizations that we've worked with in the past and to see how we can collaborate going forward here. Yeah, thank you gentlemen for those introductions and giving us a little more insight there. I mean, this is a global conversation. So we have all corners of the world here joining us for this important conversation. And I'm honored to be speaking with you gentlemen. So thank you very much. And thank you viewers for tuning in to this conversation.  Speaking of new technologies, I mean, N-Zero was selected by time as one of the best inventions of 2022. I mean, that's a huge, huge accomplishment. Can you tell us a little bit more about the real-time carbon tracking platform? Yeah, and thank you for that really was special. What we're doing is kind of, so we're not a hardware provider, right? We're a software company and we're very agnostic as to the technology, but ultimately our journey to building the company that it is today started with electricity and understanding what is the carbon footprint of every kilowatt on an hourly basis based off the grid mix, based off of what renewables you may be buying and creating a level of understanding that hadn't existed before. And frankly, we've been really pioneering on a go forward basis, which is coming out of the data center industry, we were thinking, well, gosh, that's kind of the data we need to understand this because the world is moving beyond renewable energy credits or GEOs in Europe, right? They're really moving to understanding 24 seven CFE carbon-free energy, which includes of course all of renewable systems we've talked about, but also includes nuclear, right? It's about getting into carbon-free production. We're seeing so many advancements in this space. And so what we do is we get down, not just to pulling data from utility meter level, which we're doing on buildings across the world, but inside of a data center because of technologies like what Andrew's talking about is we can go tell you what the carbon emission is down at the rack level and depending on where you're metered down at the server level. And being able to actually pull that data in, push it back out through a bi-directional API and really support our customers in this journey. And of course that's electricity and that's overwhelmingly in the telecommunication and data center industry, the largest technically as an indirect emissions source, but it's the largest direct emission source controlled in the space. And then we take that same approach to the other emissions, right? We have inside of a, the common emissions we deal with refrigerant, right? For our air conditioning cooling, understanding water impact, not necessarily an emission, but something of really big interest, whether you're looking in the US and the desert Southwest where we're seeing more and more restrictions on water usage, especially for data centers. And that's one of the growing pushbacks that people are having, you know, in permitting and some of the other requirements and looking even at maintenance vehicles and understanding the emissions of this. Because at the end of the day, by creating an enterprise wide view of all of your impact, it gives these organizations the ability to pull levers to understand what that is. So for instance, if you're an organization in the desert Southwest and you can't do evaporative cooling anymore and you have to go far reduced on this, well that's gonna directly obviously impact the amount of electricity you need in order to offset that. Well, now you have a problem because you're gonna be dealing with more carbon potentially from your grid source. So how do you manage that? How do you deal with that? Other markets that may make more sense given where it is to use more water and less weight, right? It's understanding this and understanding that you're not gonna paint with broad strokes, right? We have to treat each facility separately. And so, you know, we look at Edge compute as a great example of that, you know, you deploy Edge data centers throughout a country, throughout a state, throughout a city. And they're gonna perform differently based off of different attributes and understanding what levers to pull there to drive that journey to net zero. So really, at the end of the day, what N0 is doing is providing this near real time. We say near because it does take some time to true up against grid mix, which is about 24 hours to settle grid mix and get that in there. But it's the closest to real time that exists, period, just because of the actual physics of how it works in market settlements. But to give people that real time type of data so that they can make decisions, understand what the effects are of operational or capital interventions that they're making to reduce impact and ultimately empower people on their journey to net zero in a way that's most cost effective, right? We gotta remember all running businesses here. We gotta make sure that we're dealing with the environmental impact, which affects all of us. And we have to do it in the way that's, you know, most financially responsible for our organizations. And there's a nexus for those two meat. Definitely, yes. It still is a business, for sure. And, you know, keeping our eye on the cost effectiveness and how we can still achieve these goals is critical. So I wanted to circle back to Andrew as we talk about, you know, all the different corners of the world with Janita being headquartered in Europe and Germany. So why don't you talk to us a little bit about some of the technologies that have emerged over the 18 months in that region to help the industry meet some of these aggressive net zero goals? Yes, absolutely. So we have two different aspects to look at here with Janita. One is our own internal company and the carbon footprint that we release from our operations. And then the other part is, you know, what do we do with our products or ourselves and how are we helping other customers and other organizations meet their goals from our products? So internally, we've made quite a few steps in this, you know, pledge to be carbon neutral by 2030. Two of the biggest ones that were kind of the easiest to check off, I wouldn't say easy even. I wasn't one doing it, but two of the biggest ones to check off, one of us, the lighting that we have within our facility, everything's LED lighting. And I think that's one of the easiest things that companies can step and repeat across the board is your lighting and even kind of focusing on what your HVAC systems are. Those are some of the big decisions. Now, not everyone will be in a place where they can change some of those pieces there. I mean, there are specific requirements, but Lisa, take a step and look at what your biggest energy consumption is, lighting is one of those. The other big step that we did was the energy we're purchasing from the utilities. And can you change that mindset of purchasing standard power or can you actually work with your utilities on purchasing renewable power? So we've actually worked with our utility, we're purchasing 100% hydro power within our facilities. So there's quite a few, being in Germany, there's quite a few hydro power stations that we're able to work with. And we're actually pulling in clean energy into our facility. And that offsets a lot of our carbon footprint just from electricity coming into the facility there. And so those are the two of the biggest, and I'll say easiest, but they definitely take some time and some effort and some cost there. But those are some big ones that we made as goals to offset our carbon footprint. And one of the other unique factors about us internally in our organization is we also installed some rooftop solar panels in our facility and our production facility and our offices there in Germany. And I think we have about 126 kilowatt hours available of solar and we're gonna be expanding our facilities and then your future. And so we'll most likely be expanding that capability too. And so even if there's ways that you just can't offset or can't reduce the amount of carbon at let's say a machine or a piece of your operation, if you can't reduce it just because of the nature of it, then maybe there's ways to offset it. And those solar panels are fantastic ways to do that, to offset some of those required carbon type of energy pieces of your organization there. And so those are some of the big ones. Of course, we have other little pieces that we've implemented in our plan. One of them is we're encouraging our own fleet of vehicles to be electric vehicles and encourage our employees to get electric vehicles as well. One of the unique things that I thought was actually quite clever of our organization is we actually have a bicycle leasing program for employees so that if you have employees near the office and they wanna bike in instead of drive in, there's actually some help and leasing bikes for those employees internally. And I thought that was a fantastic idea just to encourage not only just a carbon footprint but also encourage people to bike into work and give them a way of accessing those bicycles as well. I thought it was fantastic too. So just wanna point out a couple of those pieces there at least from internally our organization. The other part is our products itself. And so our products, of course, are used for monitoring power and monitoring power usage and the consumption. And we really wanted to keep a focus on what our customers' needs are, especially in this new world of carbon tracking have a scenario. And so we wanted to adapt some of our products and be able to be used for those carbon tracking pieces there. And so using up the energy consumption data points and having that data available for other softwares to collect and use, it was a big part of our products as well. So having the interfaces needed to take the data of consumption and be able to send it to another piece of software is something we wanted to work on. But also some of our software allows us, back to we released a new software last year, it's a cloud-based system that actually does count the energy carbon footprint as well. So you could have that CO2 counter as part of our software as well. So as you purchase those software, obviously energy usage is a big piece of that. Your quality of your power is a piece of that. But also you can now count some of your carbon footprint we use in the software as well. And then of course making that data available for other pieces. Not everyone needs that in the energy management system so that you might need to use that in your building management system or if you have a third-party software like the N-Zero system there, you can take that data and use it elsewhere as well. So. Thank you for the insights. I really like the bike, the biking idea. More and more companies should start adopting different practices like that. Ashish, let's turn it over to you when it comes to strategic partnerships and driving conversations and pushing the N-Zero progress forward within the data space. Can you give us some cheap partnerships examples that you're working on? So one of the elements for the data center be a developer or consumer is one of the elements is renewable power. So we are closely working with our parent company Adani Green Energy and Adani Group where they are one of the largest renewable power developer in the world. And they are into the green hydrogen battery storage pump hydro and all that cross the value chain of energy. So we are closely working with them to get the 24 by seven carbon-free energy kind of structure going forward because solar and wind is already available but how you can make scalable and the cost effective when you utilize the battery storage and the pump hydro in entire value chain of the renewable power solutions. So we're closely working with them. So first layer of action we started developing our own captive which is 4.5 megawatt of solar wind hybrid where we're aiming to get a 50% renewable power from day one in next six or seven months we will start getting renewable power. So this is the first layer of action and we also working with the couple of other industries leading companies also for fuel cell and the green hydrogen space so that we also get a clean backup power through the green hydrogen or fuel cell. So in fact, we did a pilot study in Chennai a one and a half years back to get a three megawatt of techno commercial study for the fuel cell. So, but the right now what happened even in fact the solution is already available but aren't they are economically feasible? So that is one of the challenge. So we have to do a lot of the partnerships scalability pilots then basically those solution going to be feasible but in fact maybe next down the line two or three years as a green hydrogen the cost is coming down and the fuel cell is going to scalable and so definitely this is something like as a partnership with the different companies we look forward especially on the fuel cell and the green hydrogen or the renewable energy which we already doing with internal companies. So yes by 2030 if you talk about yes we are planning to aim 24 by seven carbon free energy which I guess the role of Adam would also come into the picture where we were tracing the hourly basis of the energy consumption and then we make sure that we truly decarbonize the grid not just offsetting the grid because ultimately these are two elements because what happened even globally the renewable energy certificates was to offset those the emissions but as well as the grid is you also getting the other greener product much more economically scalable so I guess the 24 by seven carbon free energy through the partnership and much more you have to build much more authenticity in the system how you're going to consume how you're going to praise so I guess we are doing a lot of partnership with our internal team external team and we'll make sure that we'll achieve our goal by 2030 with the partnership. So this is one of the element which is the renewable power second is water and water we take very seriously because of the India comes into the water stress area majority of out of 33 states majority of states are water stress so in fact one of the data center where we started operating comes into the water stress area but by designing two years back our engineering team and the technology team comes together and they thought we should not use any fresh water for data centers so we are operating air cool chiller for that particular although the energy consumption is a bit higher but we make sure that if you talk about the value of energy and the water I would personally water is much more valuable compared to the energy because if you don't have water you can't generate the energy so we make sure that the water is something we have to do with the local partners and means for corporations so we should not use a fresh water for data center this is the one thing which we're doing with the local partners especially in the corporations in fact our new data centers are also exploring the partnerships how we can use the recycle water and then treat the wastewater and utilize the data center in upcoming data centers so this is one of the partnership which we're doing with the local government level third one is the energy efficiency side where we're doing a lot of engagement with the component manufacturers like your chillers, electrical panels other thing this is also because of 10 to 15% they also consume the energy and then so that our entire power uses effectiveness comes down and we have to build one of the best data centers so because on the average globally the PVE somewhere around floating somewhere around 1.4, 1.45 so we are also aiming to close to around 1.4 for going forward so the partnership, especially the use of energy efficient technologies is much more important fourth one is a leg of action which we are doing in terms of the waste because ultimately when your server racks and obviously you going to consume a lot of the data in next seven to eight years then we started consuming it but how are you going to recycle reuse and then we make sure that the component should not adversely impact the environment so there are a lot of you have to work with the recyclers and then the company who are into the recycling business you have to do a lot of partnership and you have to educate them you also get some education for that it could be the new situation for both the companies and planet also so these are a few things which we are doing to achieve not just the energy front we also make sure that the entire value chain off the emission and the sustainability we make sure that we take care of from day one well thank you for sharing that I mean partnerships are definitely critical in today's market especially when we're working towards achieving this aggressive goal Adam I know that you were working with a lot of ASA clients and other data centers on the partnership perspective why don't you talk a little bit more about that for us yeah thank you you know the biggest thing for you know are working the data center businesses you know moving into that 24 seven right is electric grids are dynamic so when the wind's not blowing your carbon intensity in an hour may go up right when the sun's not shining same thing and so that's really you know one of the areas is the potential electricity that we've really pioneered creating that visibility and why that's so important is as we work with some of our partners and I'll mention one by name because he was on one of the last JSA panels we did which was T5 right is not only to help T5 be able to understand their footprint which is really important for them for their reporting for their investors for all of this but also really more importantly and this is what we're finalizing right now is the bidirectional API so they can get this we as we pull data out at that server level at that rack at the rack level or at the server level is we will put that back in there and show customers because when you look at a data center as a building you may see a 95% load factor right so you're not gonna see a lot of movement but when you look at individual compute demands you're gonna see a lot more movement and fluctuation you're gonna see a shift in that load factor and it's that shift that today when customers are trying to understand their footprint inside of a data center they really have to just rely on saying great we're gonna take the e-grid factor we're gonna take the country-wide admission factor we're gonna apply that uniformly across our load as it existed for a year where we're saying no no what we're gonna do is we're gonna help you understand that high bond Pacific time right at 10 in the morning on January 26th you drew 10kw at this rack here's what that carbon intensity was at that hour and why that's so important and why we love our partners with data centers and we have quite a few data centers now we've grown a lot in the last year I'd say we're the leading carbon accounting and management company in the data center industry the reason we've grown is is because with that data and getting that back to customers now they can think about how they want to shift load right and how they're working on this because that also becomes very region only specific so an example of that is is you know 10 years ago in the data center you'd be like hey as much load as you can shift it to evening hours because that's gonna be the cheapest cost of power that's when we're gonna go run any big batch work we gotta do that doesn't you know it doesn't have to be done instantaneously let's run batch work well now if you factor in the cost of carbon the desert Southwest you're gonna wanna run those batches actually in the middle of the day one it's gonna be cheaper power two it's going to be anywhere between 30 and 60% more carbon more carbon free right it's gonna be 30 to 60% greener to do it during the day where I'm in the Northwest you're gonna wanna run those batches at night it's gonna make more sense it's gonna be greener and you're gonna have changing factors that affect all of these things on a regular basis but people can't change what they can't measure and the irony is is you know it's like we're in the date of business right like we talk about buildings we talk about electricity the other day the whole business is about data and so the more data that we can give to people and not just give them data right we don't wanna overwhelm them but give them data that is actually very actionable right it's prescribed it hey here's what the data here's the data here's what it's really telling you like let's translate it a simple action is gonna reduce your footprint by 20% on your work on your compute load what does that cost me nothing it might actually save you money and now you're empowered because you know this information and that's how we're partnering with data centers is not just to help the data center understand it but help their customers in the co-location space understand it and we're doing some really interesting things with some CSPs now too where we're able to start working all the way down to VMs and to be able to actually understand workloads on that based off of allocation of compute so it's advancing at a really accelerated pace and layering in this technology is giving visibility that people haven't otherwise had it certainly is moving at a rapid clip and it's definitely not gonna be slowing down anytime soon the industry surely has changed in the last decade right so thank you for all you're doing for all of our data center partners and clients and across the world to help reach these goals and make the world a better place truly So Andrew just back over to you when it comes to the planning and building considerations that are being reviewed when it comes to the data center so what's going on there and how are you know the design and the build and the process how are all those things being worked on to really help meet these future sustainability goals? Well I think Adam really hit the nail on that one it comes down to the data one you have to collect the data or get some kind of way of pulling in some information about your consumption of energy, of water as she said as well as an important one so if you have ways of collecting that data already and if you're an organization out there or data center that's looking at trying to get your carbon neutral or trying to make a pledge for carbon neutrality or even just trying to get more energy efficiency it comes down to having those pieces in place to collect data or at least generate the data on your facility the other part as Adam already mentioned there is what are you gonna do with that data? How can you take that information and convert that to actual items and information there so and that's kind of one thing that Genie said is focused on is as we are planning on new facilities new corporate buildings and new setups there is part of the planning process is taking a step and seeing where can we start plugging in components for monitoring water usage for monitoring electricity or do we have enough space on the rooftop to put our HVAC system as well as solar panels and so those are some of the decisions that companies need to make and it depends on your environment if you're a data center that's in Santa Clara you're not gonna have a lot of space to put an onsite solar generation plant but if you're in Phoenix or somewhere else that has more land or Dallas wherever it might be that has a little bit more land you might be able to plan to have those power generation stations at your facility onsite there and so that's part of it some of the planning processes that we've reviewed with our facilities and it correlates across the board for our data centers as well when you're planning a site it's important to really take the time to spec out the right location spec out what you can do with that location and all the different pieces that come with it that spot that you're targeting to build your next data center what can you do with the space that you have and utilize that efficiency focuses and utilize some of the new vendors and companies out there that can help you achieve your goals of energy efficiency or carbon neutrality or even carbon negative in that facility so like I mentioned with the there's other ways to be creative on offsetting your carbon neutrality with helping employees as well and maybe even focusing on your vendors and that's another piece that I see in the industry is changing if you really look at take a step back and kind of look at what this carbon neutral push is coming from it comes from very little to no government push now this is companies that know that they're using a lot of energy they're using a lot of consumption and they want to do something better for the environment across the board and we're seeing so many companies that we work with as our customers that are making this change themselves there's no push from the government it's them making the change by themselves and so as we see more companies make that pledge and start really taking their carbon footprint seriously you're gonna start having more vendors that you're working with you'll have less carbon footprint as well and that will help your goals internally so the vendors that you're working with can also be part of that planning process too Yes, agree, I mean businesses only want to do businesses with other sustainability like-minded organizations in today's world for sure so it kind of leads me to Ashish here you know you need policy for Adani Connects how do you influence policy of your company to accelerate these sustainable approaches? I think those are fantastic questions so without policy I guess nobody works, right? that is something because you have to frame something so that the people have to be like following that process so like when we started our business in 2020 so we were thinking we had a discussion with our partners and then ecosystem our the parent company, our seniors and our customers also we thought the policy is which is something we have to implement from day one and obviously the globally if we talk about sustainability one of them realized the environmental social governance so we had a discussion with the couple of leading consultant and then we make sure that the policy has to from day one the policy has to well place so we took the commitment and then we implemented six or seven months back our first ESG policy and it has to make sure that every subject matter expert has to be followed and then operational team has to to implement while operating of those data center in fact our approach is not just operations we also take sustainability very serious at the day of when hit the ground during the construction and before the designing phase also so we make sure that every phase of the designing, construction and operation the sustainability has to be come into the pictures be a selection of the energy efficient equipment, how we basically treat the water how we consuming and constructing our data centers and then operating our data centers so this something is from the environmental point we also taking care of make sure that the social part should not mix and governance part should not mix entire the sustainability narrative so we make sure that environmental social governance come has to be into the parallel and then yes the policy which is something which I believe it is something like very important it's the internal policy and we also working with the government and some other the strategic the forum so that the right policies and right set off the narratives has to be come into the framework so that the every data center company has to abide by that so we working with the government and then the other stakeholders also that the right set of policies and best practices come into the proper guidelines well thank you for providing that insight there well looks like we're almost out of time and I think this conversation could go on and on but thank you so much gentlemen for providing all these great insight into what your companies are doing to reach the goal by 2030 so huge, huge thank you to you guys for providing these insights and viewers if one of our first 100 registrations today thank you for joining our virtual round table and we do hope that you enjoyed your lunch and make sure to visit us at jrpa.net for all of our upcoming VSA virtual round table we have the next one taking place on March 9th at 1 p.m. Eastern time where we will discuss defining greener data measuring carbon, PUE, water usage and more oh my so much to talk about there so that's it guys so thanks again for joining me for this wonderful conversation and thank you viewers for tuning in be sure to look out for a playbook of today's round table coming soon to JSA TV, JSA podcast on YouTube, LinkedIn, iTunes, iHeart, Spotify I mean we're everywhere so no matter where you enjoy to consume your content you will find JSA in the meantime, I will see you back in the networking lounge thanks again gentlemen it was a wonderful conversation thank you for all that you're doing to achieve our greener data movement which all of your companies are a part of so thank you so much thank you thank you


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In today's lecture we will be discussing discrete numeric functions a discrete numeric function is a function from the set of natural numbers which consists of 0 1 2 and so on to the set of real numbers let us write the definition somewhat formally let N be the set of natural numbers that is N equal to 0 1 2 3 and so on and let R be the set of real numbers any function f from N to R is said to be a discrete numeric function is said to be a discrete numeric function in practice we do not write discrete numeric functions as usual functions what we do instead is that we write them as sequences. So let us start with the function f what we can do is that we can evaluate it at all possible points of the domain that is the set of natural numbers and write the sequence of the results. So when I evaluate f at 0 I get f 0 then I evaluate it at 1 so I get f 1 then I get evaluate it at 2 so I get f 2 and so on I go on and somewhere much later I will evaluate it at some R so I will write f R and go on like that and we can put this sequence inside the first brackets to delineate their beginning and end it is to be understood that these are essentially infinite sequences then somebody may ask me that since it is infinite why are we writing like that like this one now the answer is that although they are infinite I should have a way of obtaining the expression for the rth element in finite time no matter how large the element R is or how long we take to compute the value of value of f R the most important fact is that the computation time has to be finite no matter how large now again in practice we have a more convenient way of writing a discrete numeric function we will denote a discrete numeric function by a symbol let us say a which will be typically a lower case later in the alphabet so a b c d but when in print we will be writing bold face bold face lower case a bold face lower case b and so on and when we are writing by hand then we will write a and put a underline to specify that this is a discrete numeric function now this a is a sequence whose elements are given as a 0 then a 1 then a 2 then a 3 and so on the general element is given as a r and so on and we close the bracket now we shall be doing this for other letters as well like lower case b bold face or b with an underline and so on so these are discrete numeric functions for us and in other contexts these are also known as sequences so we could also say that a is a sequence of numbers a 0 a 1 a 2 with the general term is given as a r now let us look at a look at an example consider the sequence a let now this is something that we will be doing typically over and over again in this lecture we will say that suppose a is a discrete numeric function and it is defined by a r equal to let us say an expression in r and then we will write for all r greater than or equal to 0 well we implicitly understand that a r is the r th element of a and r starts from 0 so we have elements a 0 a 1 a 2 a 3 and so on a r and so on and r will keep on increase increasing over the set of natural numbers so suppose I would like to know the first few elements of this discrete numeric sequence discrete numeric function then I take the first element that is a 0 and that is 7 times 0 square plus 1 which is equal to 1 then the second element that is a 1 this is 7 times 1 square plus 1 which is equal to 7 plus 1 which is equal to 8 then the third element a 2 is 7 times 2 square that is 4 plus 1 and this is equal to 29 and we can keep on evaluating like this at this point we note that discrete numeric functions may not be defined by a single formula it is also possible that these functions are different are defined by different formulas over different regions in the domain so let us take an example now here I denote the discrete numeric function by D let D underline discrete numeric function defined by DR equal to now see DR equal to 2 plus r for 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 5 DR equal to 2 minus r for r greater than 5 and r odd and DR equal to 2 by r for r greater than 5 and r even so we have got three regions one region is between 0 and 5 inclusive of 0 and 5 and in which DR is 2 plus r if you would like to compute DR for these Rs and we can start with D 0 which gives me 2 and then D 1 which gives me 3 then D 2 gives us 4 D 3 gives us 5 D 4 gives us 6 and D 6 sorry D 5 which gives us 7 and we have to stop here because we have come to r equal to 5 when r is greater than 5 and r is even so that is the case now D 6 6 is even and greater than 5 then it is 2 by 6 so it is 1 3rd and D 7 this is 2 minus 7 so it is minus 5 D 8 this is 2 by 8 so we will have 1 by 4 and D 9 this is 2 minus 9 so it is equal to minus 7 in this way we can compute first few elements of the discrete numeric function that we have defined now we will we will come to manipulation of discrete numeric functions what we see here is that we if we have several discrete numeric functions then we can add multiply or subtract them with one another and also we can have the ideas of multiplying some scalars to this discrete numeric functions by scalars we mean real numbers we will also see that we can do some other operations on these discrete numeric functions but first we start with addition suppose a and b are 2 discrete numeric functions so a is given by a 0 a 1 a 2 so on up to a r and onward b is given by b 0 b 1 b 2 so on b r and onward a plus b equal to c is also a discrete numeric function defined as cr equal to a r plus b r for all r greater than or equal to 0 thus in short if we have 2 discrete numeric functions and we add them element wise that is add the first element with the first element second element with the second element third with the third and in general rth with the rth then we obtain another discrete numeric function which is called the sum of the first 2 discrete numeric functions next we define multiplication this multiplication is also term wise so I write in short c equal to a dot b is defined by cr equal to a r dot b r for all r greater than or equal to 0 so this is the multiplication next we define scalar multiplication now by a scalar we will mean any element from the set real set of real numbers so that is any element in r is called a scalar so let alpha be an element in r alpha is called a scalar alpha times a is equal to c is a discrete numeric function defined by cr equal to alpha times a r for all r greater than or equal to 0 so this means that if we take a real number and multiply each element of the discrete numeric function by that scalar number and obtain a discrete numeric function then that discrete numeric function that we obtain is called a scalar multiplication of the original function by the chosen real number we can also define absolute value of a discrete numeric function here take a discrete numeric function a bar c equal to absolute value of a bar is defined by cr equal to absolute value of a r for all r greater than or equal to 0 now we go over to some examples example we take two discrete numeric functions one is given by a r equal to 0 when 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 2 and 2 to the power minus r plus 5 when r is greater than or equal to 3 and b r this is equal to 3 minus 2 to the power r for 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 1 and r plus 2 for r greater than or equal to 2 now suppose we are interested in checking the sum of these two discrete numeric functions we have to compute the value of a r plus b r for all r now a r plus b r when r equal to 0 and 1 gives us the value 3 minus 2 to the power r this is when r is between 0 and 1 now when r is equal to 2 then ar is still 0 but br is r plus 2 but r is equal to 2 so we get 2 plus 2 which is equal to 4 for r greater than or equal to 3 this the sum will be 2 to the power minus r plus r plus 7 so ar plus br if we write as cr in the corresponding sequence c is the sum of the functions a and b as I have told before I will be using the word sequence and discrete numeric functions interchangeably from time to time now if you would like to know the product of these two numeric functions we will note that ar is 0 for r equal to 0 1 and 2 so the product ar into br is going to be 0 for r greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 2 and then when r is greater than or equal to 3 the product ar dot br is equal to 2 to the power minus r plus 5 into r plus 2 which gives us ar into 2 to the power minus ar plus 2 to the power minus r plus 1 plus 5 r plus 2 so in short c is a dot b where cr is defined as 0 when r is between 0 and 2 r 2 to the power minus r plus 2 to the power minus r plus 1 plus 5 r plus 2 for r greater than or equal to 3 the next example is on absolute values for this we consider the discrete numeric function ar given by minus 1 raise to the power r into 2 by let us say r plus 1 for r greater than or equal to 0 now see if I put r equal to 0 so a 0 is 2 by 1 equal to 2 by 1 so it is 2 a 1 equal to minus of 2 by 2 which is minus 1 then a 2 is minus 1 raise to the power 2 2 by 3 so I have got 2 by 3 and a 3 is equal to minus 1 cube 2 by 4 so it is minus of half and so on now the absolute value of ar is simply 2 by r plus 1 for all r greater than or equal to 0 and if we define cr equal to absolute value of ar for r greater than or equal to 0 then the discrete numeric function c is called the absolute value of a so we have defined addition multiplication scalar multiplication and then absolute value operation on discrete numeric functions now we will define some other operations on discrete numeric functions which are called shift operations now we will be defining a shift operation by s s the question is what does it do we take a discrete numeric function a which is given by a 0 a 1 a 2 a 3 so on then we have ar and so on if I apply s on a I get a discrete numeric function which is called s a and which is simply 0 a 0 a 1 a 2 and so on if I apply s again I get a square a which is a discrete numeric function given by 0 0 a 0 a 1 a 2 and so on so the net effect is that s shift the whole sequence of the values of discrete numeric function by one position s s square shift by two positions and so on so I can think about si si a is 0 0 so on up to 0 I positions and then I have got a 0 a 1 a 2 and so on so if we would like to write down formally then we will write that si a is a discrete numeric function let us say b such that bi is equal to sorry not bi but should write br br equal to 0 for how many positions when r is greater than equal to 0 and less than or equal to I and then br is equal to a r – I for r greater than or equal to I here I instead of I we will have I – 1 because 0 to I – 1 gives me I positions so we could also call it a right shift operation in the same manner we can define a left shift operation which we will be writing in this way we take s and then we write s inverse so this is s inverse does something just opposite to s when it gets applied to a then we get a 1 a 2 a 3 and so on if I apply s to the power – 2 to a then I will get a 2 a 3 and so on and similarly so if I apply s to the power – I to a then my sequence will start from a i a i plus 1 and so on so we will write that the discrete numeric function b corresponding to s to the power – I of a is defined by bi equal to a of r here I am sorry it will be br br equal to a r plus I so let us check what happens so suppose I take b 0 b 0 what is it it is a 0 plus I is a I so this is the first element of s to the power – I a and indeed it is so these are equal then if I take r equal to this is for r equal to 0 if I take r equal to 1 then I have got b 1 which is equal to a 1 plus I which is again same as the second element so like this we will get all the elements of the shifted sequence and of course we will lose the first I elements now let us look at some examples of this shifting operation now we take a discrete numeric function a r given by 1 if 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 10 and 2 if r is greater than or equal to 11 and suppose we would like to know the discrete numeric function b given by s to the power 5 of a then as I have defined earlier br is equal to 0 for 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to i – 1 so it is 5 – 1 which is 4 and then it is a r – 5 for r greater than or equal to 5 now we have to see what happens to a r – 5 so if r equal to 5 a r – 5 is a 0 which is equal to 1 now if r equal to 15 a r – 5 equal to a 10 which is equal to 1 here we have to know that according to the definition of a r first 11 values of a r is 1 and that is corresponding to r equal to 5 to r equal to 15 and when r is greater than or equal to 16 it is going to be 2 so we can write br more explicitly as 0 when 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 4 is 1 when r is greater than or equal to 5 and less than or equal to 15 and 2 when r is greater than or equal to 16 so these are the ways to write now if somebody tells me to take the other way round like take probably s to the power – 7 of a let us see whether we can solve that problem we recall again our discrete numeric function which is a r given by 1 when 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 10 and 2 when 11 less than or equal to r that is r greater than or equal to 11 now suppose somebody tells me to find out s – 7 of a it is of course a discrete numeric function be defined by br which is equal to a r plus 7 for r greater than or equal to 0 so what what happens in this case suppose r equal to 0 then we get a 7 now what is a 7 a 7 is 1 r equal to 1 we get a 8 8 is 1 r equal to 2 we get a 9 a 9 equal to 1 r equal to 3 we get a 10 8 n equal to 1 r equal to 4 we get a 11 which is equal to 2 and so on we will get keep on getting 2 after after this so I can write br as 1 for 0 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 3 and 2 when r greater than or equal to 4 this is a sequence shifted by 7 to the power – s to the power – 7 now we come to a pair of very typical operations on discrete numeric functions the first one is called the forward difference forward difference the second one is called backward difference so for the beginning let us start with the forward difference let a be a discrete numeric sequence be a discrete numeric function or a sequence whatever the forward difference is a discrete numeric function defined by the forward difference of a denoted by ? of a is a discrete numeric function defined by the rth element of this function is a r plus 1 – a r and that is why it is called the forward difference and this is for all r greater than or equal to 0 why forward the reason is that if you check the sequence values a 0 a 1 a 2 so on a r then a r plus 1 and so on so come to the first position I am looking forward I am looking forward and checking how much increment happens in the forward direction so I am writing a 1 – a 0 in the first place in the second position again I am looking forward I am writing a 2 – a 1 and at the rth position I am again looking forward and I am writing a r plus 1 – a r that is why it is called the forward difference the backward difference is when we look backward so it is like this we again start with a discrete numeric function a starts from a 0 a 1 a 2 a r a r plus 1 and we insert a r – 1 before a r and so on because we have to look backward now now when I come to the first position come to the first position I look backward there is nothing I write 0 when I come to the second position I look backward I find a 0 so I write a 1 – a 0 when I come to the third position that is a position corresponding to a 2 I look backward I see a 1 so I write the difference a 1 – a 2 and so on so here we will write the backward difference as this it is defined by the 0th position it is 0 and from 1 onward it is a r – a r – 1 for r greater than or equal to 1 this is the backward difference so if we start with with a forward difference sorry if we start with a backward difference the sequence will look like this is a backward difference the first one is 0 in the second one is a 1 – a 0 the third one is a 2 – a 1 we go on like this then we find a r – a r – 1 and after that if we venture forward we will find a r plus 1 – a r and so on if we apply S inverse on this S inverse will shift one step to the left I will get the sequence a 1 – a 0 in the 0th position a 2 – a 1 in the first position a 3 – a 2 in the second position and a r plus 1 – a r in the rth position and so on and just a brief recall of what we define just before in the name of forward difference we see that this discrete numeric function is nothing but the forward difference so this is nothing but this therefore we have a nice relationship between forward difference and backward difference as this in this lecture we have first discussed the definition of discrete numeric functions we have also shown the connection between discrete numeric functions and sequences of real numbers second we have studied some manipulations of discrete numeric functions we have checked addition multiplication scalar multiplication and taking absolute value then we have checked shift operations which are going to be very important in the context of discrete numeric functions shift operations and lastly we have checked the forward difference and backward difference and a relationship which connects the forward difference with the backward difference through the shift operation which is this this is one left shift of the backward difference gives me forward difference this is all for this lecture thank you


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Hi, my name is Brooke Williams I'm an associate professor of the practice of computational journalism here at Boston University. I'm excited to tell you about the justice media co lab that we launched thanks to pit UN. We're doing interdisciplinary data driven investigative reporting collaboration with data scientists and journalism using computational methods to do projects for major news partners. It's actually a collaboration across the university. I'm a faculty in the College of Communication in journalism and partnering with faculty of computing and data sciences and BU spark, and then the BU hub we couldn't have done this without them. It's a cross college challenge, encouraging interdisciplinary work among faculty and students were made up of 30 students in the spring and the fall with 16s. We were able to build a scaffolding and enabling graduate students and others to get involved as paid project managers. There's two professors one from journalism one from data sciences, and we have a growing number of news media partners and we teach both in the spring and the fall as a course and then offer also a summer paid internship program. Our partners are expanding we have local partners, you have national partners and one example was a look into a potential disparities racial disparities and the rest statewide hearing Massachusetts. Let's go ahead and take a look at a national reckoning over race and policing we decided to take a closer look at who's being arrested in Massachusetts. What was your takeaway. I want a little bit more to feel like a teaming up with students at Boston University, we analyze new arrest data posted online as part of a criminal justice reform. When did this, you know, effort to look into this and train officers start, we then took questions to leaders and law enforcement and experts on bias and policing. I wasn't surprised, but I was very disappointed. We saw in hall with the ACLU reacting to our findings that show black people consistently arrested and disproportionately high rates, compared to their share of the population. As you can see students had a chance to really work with professional news partners on these projects. Another example was for CBS Boston, looking at coven relief loans and whether they were equitable. In distribution. Let's take a look at that. Sure that minority owned small businesses are getting their fair share of the paycheck protection loans good evening to you on David way. And I'm Paula Evan a partnering with students from Boston University's justice media collab our team found many of these businesses were left behind when the PPP loan program first launched WVZ chief investigator Cheryl fiat shows us how one local advocacy group is stepping in to help out. We have learned a lot and look forward to continuing to grow and provide these computational investigative reports to to local media outlets and national media outlets. And some things that we are working on and are excited about building trust with editors is it is a fun challenge. And, and also a students really want a chance to publish. So, determining what stories are doable within the semester and which ones might need to go beyond the semester and then building a scaffolding so that they can extend beyond the semester, even with a perhaps a paid internship, or a paid position as a project manager, and then embracing students from other disciplines and the end what they can bring to the table. We've had students from education from public health from music. And then professors also are acting as editors which means we're the wrong call all the time. And it's been a great fun and we look forward to growing the justice media collab here at you and thank you so much.


Thank you again for my thanks to all of you for being here. Today for us and the police department is the most important and significant day of the year. 29th of September each year is the day when we remember and pay tribute to those police officers who have given their lives and the cause of their duty in providing for the safety and security of the people of Queensland. And today particularly we remember sadly two of our own in the last 12 months for us. The 12 months, here's the 12 months from the 29th of September each year. And firstly that the sergeant Daniel Stiller, who was killed on the 1st of December last year inducting a white lad escort in Central Queensland. And six months to the day later with us, Detective Senior Constable Damien Leading on the 1st of June this year, Damien died after having been shot three days earlier being the first to respond to police officers to an armed robbery in Prague with civic crimes happened in the Gold Coast hinterland. Both Damien and Damien were two of the finest, most decent people of your ever wish to have to meet. They were also outstanding police officers. They gave their lives providing for the safety and security of the people of Queensland and particularly others. Today as we have in the past we pay tribute to them again and the 137 other Queensland police officers have also given their lives in the course of their duty over time. The total here is 139. I wish and hope that that total would never grow. That never again would we have to add to the list of names of officers killed on duty. But I also know and we all know in the police department the practical reality of that is the fact that you can't do a job that provides for the safety and security of others in the world and the environment we live in without putting your own safety at risk no matter how capable the officers are. There comes a time when the dark forces of faith combine in particular time places and for us our worst time is with us in a loss of equality. I'd also like to pay tribute today to the police officers throughout Australia as well. Dan and Damian's names this morning in a dorm service were added to the list at the National Police Memorial in Canberra. Dan, Dan Stiller was number 749 and Damian Leading was number 750. So in total the 750 officers throughout Australia here we also remember the day. Thank you and happy to take any questions. Commissioner it's, is it particularly hard for Queensland this year two deaths in Queensland none in any other state or even New Zealand? That's correct. It's the case of course that we wish that we could go through every year and any given year without anyone being lost at all. So we would never want to lose anyone. We didn't want to lose our two officers. We're grateful that in every other jurisdiction and in New Zealand no police officers have been killed on duty this year. We only wish it hadn't happened here. At three years our last officer was Fred Irwin who was shot in the field in 2007 and we're always grateful that every year that goes by that we don't lose anyone but regrettably that risk is always going to be there. Damian Leading's death is obviously really tragic and in such violent circumstances do you think that that has brought it home for a lot of Queenslanders because I think there are a lot of sort of members of the general public today with flowers and a part of the service? We're always grateful when we lose an officer. We're always grateful for the community support and that particularly in the local community where the officer is from is always quite significant. But even we I guess were just completely overcome almost really with the huge response from the public and the community that was generated after the death of the particular senior constable Damian Leading we are extremely grateful for that support. Damian's death seemed to touch the floor. I thought there were quite a few messages in there. I thought it was the community saying we support you. I thought as well I'll be talking about this and Sonia, Sonia Leading Damian's wife were they had two children. Hudson was nearly two when he was killed in his race. He was only a few months old. So I think that over to it was you know young people, young families and it certainly was something though that was quite extraordinary to see and it was an outpouring of grief and support that we indeed were extremely grateful for and meant a lot to the family and meant a lot to other officers. There were family members here from officers who were killed ten years ago. Obviously through ongoing support from the police service and obviously due to the police officers' thousands as well is that something that you can promise to the leaders of the officers on which day that in ten years time you'll still be there and helping others as much as now? Well I certainly believe so and I hope so. Culture and tradition are important parts of any organisation for the police department. Culture and tradition are really important and in my view you can't ask people to go and do the work that they do to provide for the protection of the board of community put their own safety at risk and in some places give their lives up and it's just another job that there has to be more on that. There has to be a sense about it that we value people and when we say things like you're part of a police family and we'll never forget you and we'll look after your family and it's a treat and a reality to that and I believe there is, I believe there is and we're also very grateful for the support of the community in the role of the media and letting the public and the community know about some of these things it's so important as well. So a day of mixed emotions for us it's really important to do this I thought the service today in the March for fine tributes to all 139 officers but what is important is that we continue to do this each year and continue to do it on a daily basis in terms of the support to the families. How aware are the police officers of the West End Base in the time they're going to Toronto? Is that the forefront of their minds? It's a really good question, I thank you for asking it. Every time a police officer starts a shift they don't know what's going to happen. In some ways that's part of the enjoyment of being a police officer. It's the challenge of not knowing what you're going to confront and the challenge of being able to meet and deal with whatever that is but there is that sense of uncertainty and you can never take away the risk and danger. But what is important though is that they have to back themselves they have to be confident in their ability to deal with whatever they confront. If they didn't then that wouldn't be a good thing at all they'd go out and they'd be uncertain they'd be unsure and you can't have that set aside the dangers. Police officers when they start each shift have to be confident, not arrogant or overconfident, a regal testable but they have to be quite confident in their ability to deal with whatever they face and confront. Without that you wouldn't have the quality of person that you need as a police officer.


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Thank you for the opportunity to be with you this this afternoon. I think this has been a great forum Already tweeted about it. Believe it or not, and that's one way I guess to to communicate and You know people back at the ACC can tweet to 10,000 people. So I mean this is We need to communicate the challenges and the opportunities that we have and I know These would So I think this is a great forum so What you will see is Won't be much different of some of the thoughts that you had here Bob Roberts a Previous chief at Baylor College of Medicine. I think it's a great for us to be able to do this in a duo I want to thank Bill Arjun here and Mary Ellen Belly-Voe who really helped also put this presentation together Well, what we'll address in the next 30 minutes before we get a bad sign from Terry is The diseases, I mean, what is the landscape that we're dealing with in cardiovascular disease? I know I know Donna had a nice preamble to that Will give you a feel for a survey that we did and our practitioners What are the current offerings and what are the future directions that the college is doing? So I'll do about 10 minutes then Bob will do 10 minutes and then we'll finish with another 10 minutes So this is the landscape from a cardiovascular disease point of view and we have to put it in the context of genetics genomics Mendelian diseases from HCM to long QT Marfan familial diet of cardiomyopathy in fact and you can add some more to it Unfortunately the most common diseases that we deal with and cardiovascular medicine Do not belong in that area Otherwise we would have been having a very different conversation this afternoon so the most common diseases More than 90 percent probably 95 percent of the diseases that we deal with are more of the complex genetic type So I think that pauses a challenge and that's part of the challenge that our practitioners and I just want to remind you I think this is an opportunity. I think was just you know talked about one is that The college represents 43,000 individuals professionals And in those professionals are the majority are physicians, but also nurse practitioners nurses and also has a Reach for international we have about 6,000 international members So whatever we decide whichever way from an education point of view and impact will have some Global impact in addition to the whole cardiovascular care team that we're dealing with And Donna also mentioned some pharmacogenetics opportunities and still challenges although they seem Very easy to apply if you look around in practice How many people are applying for pharmacogenetics to to this area of warfarin And clopidogrel is is still a minority Now, let me share with you a survey 150 cardiovascular professionals and these are across the board if you will representative of these 40,000 members meaning I would guess although I don't know exactly the numbers that maybe 20 25 percent are in academic practice And the other are various kind of practices although you need to know That probably cardiology and other specialties is the practitioners are going into a different model which will impact how we talk about genetics and order genetics, which is more of a employed model 70 percent of cardiologists nowadays are employed one way or another either in academic institutions or hospital systems And only 30 percent are in private practice the traditional model and things are still evolving So the impact of what we do certainly would affect what we're dealing with so To the question of what is personalized medicine to the physicians that are answering Genetic testing is the most common, but it's interesting what personalized medicine and it has some meanings To that particular person is their age group Their gender yes molecular diagnostics race Comorbidities and social economic status. So when we talk about personalized medicine Indeed, it probably has all these connotations and we're we're focusing mostly on genetics genomics today But when we personalize it obviously it has to take many of these other things Now to the question of percent of patient asking the cardiologist about personalized medicine The bottom line is about six percent of these patients now There is a heterogeneity depending on where you are if you're a referral center Obviously patients are coming in because of that But this is from the survey is about probably six percent of these patients are asking questions regarding Their own condition and probably about genetics about it Now percent of patients that cardiologists are using personalized medicine Not much different about seven percent It depends of where you are at times 20 percent of the patients that a cardiologist can see maybe in a In a really big referral center for hcm or other diseases I think that could be but this is in general about the same So we're talking about a conversation Somewhere somehow or at least on the radar screen which could be improved depending on the situation about six to seven percent The future of personalized medicine as to these individuals The vast majority are just not sure because they are a bit confused as to where is the field going going forward Now do they have hope for the future? Most of them put these categories to the future role of personalized medicine going forward Somewhat larger or much larger However, if you ask them and this is really if you want to ask me what is the bottom line This is the bottom line that we as a community have to address is What are the challenges to clinical implementation of personalized medicine one patient outcomes data Tell me that indeed it will change the outcome if I do this test or I do something different payment reform Looking at value who pays for what I think that the value question just came before CME Needing more knowledge regarding what are we talking about here Guidance from professional societies about 50 plus Patient education At the ACC we have a cardio smart.org. This is where our patient education portal And we'll like to infuse more and more data and information and patients asking questions regarding that But we still need to do quite a bit of that guidance from regulatory bodies Update to medical school curriculum Which is I think is important so and other so I think all of them in a way are relevant And and I think we have to whichever way we take this conversation We have to address Several of these challenges that we're dealing with and I really think that was to me among the most revealing Because these are individuals in different kind of practices from academic to private practice Rural or urban and I think they're asking and They're wondering About the situation they have hope for the future But they have quite a few challenges for us to take forward Now I'm going to ask bob to come and and tell us about some of the new discoveries and realities regarding Some of the diseases and cardiovascular medicine particularly where genetics has some