Thanks, everybody, for coming. I'm Karanjit Singh from Kelton Tech. And I'll be talking to you about digital transformation using IoT and Drupal. So let's just dive right away. So what exactly is digital transformation? I want to start off with a little bit about the digital transformation, the IoT, and then kind of build it out to the work that we have done there. So what exactly is digital transformation? Of course, there's a lot of interest. There's a lot of talk of digital. You have Dries, you have Janet, everybody talking about digital. Essentially, it's about applying all these new technologies, the digital technologies, to create personalized experiences for your users and trying to reach all your customers. So it's essentially about personalizing the experience. If we were to just break it down into the point technologies that are being used in here, so obviously, we have had the social media. So all of these have existed for some time now and been used individually as point solutions, sometimes in combination. So basically, the social media is essentially about customer engagement, building brand value. Then it's about mobility. So everybody has to have a mobile app nowadays. But then again, mobility, you have a lot of things that have come along with it, like location-based services. Essentially, going from the desktop to essentially having a mobile storefront, personalizing things for your users. Then again, the whole analytics and big data and analytics that can go along with it. So you can essentially derive a lot of insights into your customers, do everything from predictive, prescriptive analytics. Most of these things nowadays, this is a game changer, and everybody talks about cloud. But one big thing that it does is it socializes or democratizes the use of computing power for people, for startups, who just with a credit card today can get up computing power, which is available to any large enterprise today, and then put together all the solutions and essentially create experiences, unique experiences for their customers. Now these things, these four have essentially been out there for a while, mostly being used as point ways. And the latest that's being talked about is IoT, something which is still a little way out, but already interesting things that are happening around there, which will essentially kind of have all sorts of sensors out there talking to each other and with people. And what essentially the digital transformation piece kind of does today, or this something happened, let's say the inflection point was last year, when it's not really about that one point solution, like just mobility or just analytics, but about a combination of these whole things, the whole thing coming together and basically providing a complete seamless experience, which is what essentially is the digital transformation. And we'll get into a little bit detail into what we're doing there. And in a sense, people are calling whatever is happening now in the whole digital space, which is the whole social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and the IoT, has pretty much the fourth revolution. So of course, the first one, every industrial revolution causes a lot of social changes, a lot of changes on the ground in terms of the way we live and work. So the first one, of course, was the water and steam, power. Then we had electricity. In a sense, the IoT system or computers in 1960s, 70s, is where it all started. It kind of looks the same. Everybody says, hey, it's the same thing. But what is changing this time around is basically the way everything is coming together and you are able to address and talk to a customer in a very unique personalized conversation that you can have with your customers. So essentially, previously, it was about simple digitization. And basically, that was the third industrial revolution. I was automating things. Most of the things that were happening, if you went to any enterprise or any business, was something which was behind its firewall, behind its premise. But what is going to happen now is basically a combination of these technologies, the innovation that can happen by combining this technology, is basically forcing companies to reexamine the way they do business because they're able to uniquely, in a very individualistic way, personalized way, able to talk to their customers, one on one. So just the internet of things, this is just a slide which talks about IoT. So IoT is basically linking the physical and digital worlds. Essentially, any part of our environment are natural systems, human systems, physical objects. They're soon, they're already. And soon, they're going to connect and start interacting with things, just some graphics around things. So essentially, your refrigerator will start asking you to get milk when the way back home. And if you sort of forget, then it will kind of replace your spouse for you and kind of complain to you. It's going to be who controls whom. So you could have things like these. You could have, hey, we just got to go out because my refrigerator and my stove have stopped speaking to each other. Or you could have cases where the machines will take over and basically threaten to cut off access to your refrigerator just because you're overweight.  So these can have very personal impacts on you. But that's just the lighter side of things. Essentially, the future of IoT, essentially, these are the numbers that we're talking about. We already have about 10 billion connected devices. But increasingly, what's going to happen in the future is, till now, we have not really concerned ourselves so much about, hey, is the thing talking to me? Is a sensor or a machine talking to me? But in the future, about pretty much 99% of everything will be interconnected and talk to each other. That's going to be the natural design principle. So everything from your street lights to your heart monitors to your dog callers, everything pretty much will become enabled with these kind of enabled and talk to each other. That's all. This is just the potential. I mean, just the raw numbers you're talking about. You'll have four billion connected people, four trillion revenue opportunity, millions of apps, and of course, billions of embedded and integrated systems. Of course, all of them are going to produce huge amount of data. So, you know, this is the huge potential that we're talking about. Now, as a company, Kelton Tech, we have been working in the whole newer technologies that we talked about, the whole SMAC space, for a few years now. And one of our kind of areas of interest always has been location-based services, especially in the mobility space. And one of the interesting things that's happening there was basically the whole indoor proximity technology, so essentially the beacons, which essentially enable devices to perform defined actions when you get into close proximity. So, one of the things is today, if you look at LBS, essentially what you have is a lat-long, but when you are in a building like this, you really do not know whether you are on which floor you are. So essentially, the whole proximity-based technology, we kind of Kelton Tech has married his expertise in IoT and LBS to essentially create, you know, digital experiences in the indoor navigation space. That's kind of essentially what we have done. So, you know, what does indoor proximity technology enable? So, these are some of the use cases that you can, you know, obviously envision. Some of them are already happening. We have been part of some solutions that are already out there. So, things like omnichannel shopping experience, you know, you're in a mall on which floor. Are you close to a particular shop? You can get some things. You have location-based promotions. You could have product display information. You could know what are the heat maps, where are your customers are. You could gamify their behaviors after you get some insights.  You could also do queue busting, you know, a session is running full. You could actually gamify the behavior and say something interesting is happening somewhere else or something is running empty. You could gamify things by giving out a little deal or information or pushing a notification. You could do crowd flow management. Of course, you can do a whole lot of monitoring at the back end as you are collecting a lot of this information. And obviously, you know, there's the whole security angle to it. So, you know, essentially what's happening is, you know, this is a period of great change in terms of the whole digital transformation space. And essentially, a whole lot of business models are getting disrupted, changed, a lot of startups by using the whole smack thing or disrupting large businesses. And of course, it's going to change and have very deep and meaningful changes into the way we kind of live and work. So some of our customers are basically using this whole indoor proximity technology that are helping them to, you know, define actions using iBeacons. And, you know, some of the reasons why people choose iBeacons over, say, GPS or RFID. Of course, you know, I already talked about GPS.  You really still do not know where exactly you are vertically. So you have accuracy. Obviously, these devices are low energy. Only they work on proximity. So you can set the proximity, it's five meters, it's 20 meters, whatever it is. So there's a whole lot of privacy. It's not like they're beaming your information all over the place. Obviously, there's the integration and usability. So what we have as Kelton Tech is basically, we work with a lot of customers and build a generic sort of platform, which we call the Kelton Tech location-based gamification analytics and rich messaging engine. That's kind of what we have built. Essentially, it's a framework or accelerator that we have developed that helps basically has features like rich push notification. Can provide you navigation assistance. Let's say you're in an airport. It can pretty much take you to your gate. It can do real-time analytics. You arrive for your flight just half an hour. It can pretty much give you navigation assistance and give you notification to say, hey, rush to your gate. And you arrive three hours early and it can pretty much give you deals and gamify the behavior to get you to your favorite restaurant, your favorite shopping spot in the airport. Obviously, since it's a framework or accelerator and the use cases are that I could take it to a lot of, and I'll talk about the use cases. We needed capability at the backend where I could quickly configure the locations, what sort of messages need to go out, what sort of behaviors need to happen. So we have basically a CMS-enabled backend. Essentially, it has to be scalable, customizable, and it is IoT ready because we have basically used the whole proximity and interior navigation. Kind of a couple of use cases. I already talked about using it in travel and hospitality. You can use it in retail and e-commerce. So essentially, at your malls, you can use it at entertainment centers. You can use it at events and amusement parks. So you can help to modernize all these things, like just to give you a little example. One of the things that we've actually gone and done some work with are museums. So today, if you go to a museum, it's pretty much a paper-based system or you have fixed tours. Now, once you have beacons there as IoT devices, which tell you what the exact location is, using our platform, you can pretty much configure, let's say you're at a museum. You pretty much know that I have only got about an hour to see whatever I want to see. You can pretty much go to the application, tell it that I'm only interested in two exhibits. It can create a dynamic navigation for you, help you with the timings. It can also do some little deals and stuff for you. So that's the kind of application. You go near and exhibit pretty much as you approach it because it's a proximity technology. I can set the proximity when you're near this painting by like only about two meters from there, pretty much on your mobile, it'll pop up all the information about that particular exhibit for you. So those are the kind of use cases that we've worked on. This is essentially kind of the architecture. So if you see on the right side, as I said, we have a CMS as a back end, obviously that's Drupal today. So that's Drupal. Of course, we have the gamification engine, the analytics engine, of course, a location engine and a messaging engine. Of course, all of this is exposed. It's headless, so it's all exposed via web services, which are working with a mobile device. So that's the device that a customer is actually using. Let's say you're in a museum or you're in an airport or you're in a shopping mall. That's the device that you're using. And that's the one that interacts now with the IoT devices, which are iBeacons today, but our platform can support all sorts of newer technologies that will come up there. So this is something that we have actually done for a customer called VenuIQ. So essentially, they wanted to do the same thing, but a specific use case was about a conference like this. They want to do attendee check-ins. They want to provide navigation assistance. You can do networking, so you know who's attending. You can network with them, locate them. You can actually send out promotions and advertisements, so you can kind of gamify some of that. And you can do a lot of other gamification. Some sessions are running full. You can pretty much inform people about, hey, there's another interesting session happening or the other way around. You can have, so this was the client requirements. And essentially, their use case itself, we have something, we've built it as a platform. So essentially, they can actually use this for the kind of applications that we've talked about there, which is conferences and exhibitions, museums and galleries, parks, retail stores, hotels, restaurants. So that's the kind of use case they are building out. So there are a couple of them that are already working on or have done POCs. Now coming back to the question of, hey, so we're providing a digital experience using IoT, but why Drupal? Of course, apart from the fact that we love Drupal, Drupal has some advantages. So of course, if you see the evolution of Drupal, Drupal was basically built to essentially build websites. But then slowly, integrations were built into it, and Drupal can interact very well with third party applications. There afterwards then there was the whole thing about Drupal became responsive and essentially it's today ready, mobile ready. And then now the next approach that has opened up is essentially, which is what we are actually using, which is Drupal as a service platform using headless Drupal. That's kind of what we are doing. So if you go back to the slide that I had here, essentially we're using headless Drupal, exposing things by web services and then having the mobile device which are actually talking to our IoT devices, which are iBeacons in this case. Pretty much that's the whole solution that we put together. And of course, all the strengths that come with having a CMS, we are able to easily configure it for different conferences. In fact, this application was at Tycon last week. So we were doing the complete, the whole KLGAM platform was deployed there. It was the mobile, I mean, people know it as the mobile application for the conference, but it was pretty much doing everything that we talked about. We were actually at the NASCOM leadership forum, which is NASCOM is the industry body for Indian software industry. We pretty much did it there. And we were at the IIT global leadership conference as well, where it was deployed pretty successfully and we got some great feedback. So coming towards the end, essentially why were we using Drupal for IoT? So essentially it's a strong CMS, allows us all the flexibility that we need in terms of configuring. It's a stable and mature system. It's scalable. And of course, has a very active community. The other thing is, of course, it provides seamless integration. We are able to easily integrate and collect data from multiple IoT devices. We are able to expose data has flexible APIs. We were able to easily integrate with third party tools. And the other thing that we're not getting there is as we kind of put this kind of platforms out there, essentially starts getting used in malls or starts getting used by enterprises at their stores, obviously you're going to have a huge amount of data that is going to get collected. So we can integrate this very easily with MongoDB at a later date or technologies like that, which will allow us to handle the big data and the complex data challenges that will arise with it. And of course, apart from all the other functionalities that we have written there. So that's kind of our rationale for using Drupal as the backend system for the KL game platform. So my session was half an hour, so I had to really rush through since we were a little late. Thank you. That's cool. So if you have any questions, I can answer them. Mahesh is my colleague, so you can both address any questions. Just a question, is this your current platform is on Drupal 7 or 8? Right now it's on Drupal 7. Is there any reason why you didn't use it since it is on there? That's because we were working on this for almost the last one and a half, two years now. So Drupal 7 was the only one at that time. But yeah, we'll migrate it with Drupal 8 very soon. Yeah, but we've been building this for almost close to one and a half, two years now. What protocols are these IoT devices using to communicate? What protocols are the IoT devices using? Well, I do not have that information handy, but they come with some authoring tools along with the sensors and things, and then those are used to integrate with the mobile. And the mobile application is the one that actually talks to Drupal. So REST APIs, yes. So because it's not just about mobile, we've also done an integration with Google Glass on the front end, but Google decided to shelf the project for some time, and we are in future whatever kind of new variables come up since it's on headless, it can seamlessly integrate. Were you familiar with Drupal before using it for IoT stuff? Because I wanna know if there's any other things that you could recommend or that you would recommend to Drupal instead for the IoT. Yeah, so we have been working in Drupal for more than close to 10 years now. We started using Drupal 4.3 or 4.7, so those were the kind of versions. So that's how old we were in the Drupal, yeah. So Drupal is one of our core expertise areas, but other than it, we do work in very large spectrum of things like web, social, mobile analytics, cloud and internet of things. So all the spectrum of digital technologies that Karanjit showed, we work across all of those. Again, on the web itself, apart from Drupal, we work with WordPress, lot many flavors of PHP, Java, .NET and everything. But Drupal was a kind of a natural choice because most of the times when you're building a platform, what happens is you need to deploy the platform and create the solution for the client very quickly. So Drupal gives some nice out-of-the-box flexibility like user management, permissions or roles and handling of the content, et cetera. So Drupal was a kind of a natural choice. Two different questions. Do you have API call management? And that's the first question. Can you just be a little louder? Yeah, do you have API call management? Like for example, Apigee or any other like third party, Apigee management interface? And second one is, is there any use case in terms of healthcare industry using IoT? Yeah, so I'd like to take the first question. Second question, I'll leave it to Karanjit because we have done one of the largest M governance rollouts in India in healthcare sector. So Karanjit can give some nice examples of how IoT can benefit. The first question in terms of the API management, we currently are not using any third party tool or anything. We have basically using what Drupal provides and extended the APIs a bit to make it more friendly for the mobile devices in faster responses. But eventually, yeah, we may explore in future, like if any third party or a specific API management is required. Yeah, Karanjit, do you want to take the next question? Yeah, so actually, yeah, healthcare is another, so yeah, I'd listed all that and one of the things that we've been thinking for a while now is essentially healthcare because again, the whole indoor proximity location is an interesting use case. Just as Mahesh mentioned, we've actually done one of the largest mobile-based public health, ego governance initiatives in India about 10 million people already on the platform. And one of the things that we are talking to the public health officials in India is about, today they do a lot of things in terms of measurement of your blood pressure and things like that. So those are interesting use cases and there is interesting work happening in that space. There are startups which are building sort of IoT, maybe the more advanced Fitbits, which are more specialized. So we are working with them and that's something which is an interest area. That's something that we can easily plug into the platform because essentially it's standard based and the whole backend is all there. All we have to do is essentially enable it, just enable it and connect it to the platform. So yeah, all right, thanks for your time. Yeah. And we are at booth six to four. If any of you have any follow-up questions or anything that comes to your mind, we are at six to four, so glad to discuss with you anytime. Thank you.  This awesome heat, looking pretty good. If it's okay with everybody, I'll keep it in this mode because I have some tabs on the top and I want to jump over to it. It's gonna be a lot easier than the escape kit. So it'll be at least a little bit more simplistic as it were. So I'm here to talk to you guys today about Drupal as a platform for the U.S. government. My name, about me, I'm Dave Gallaruzzo, the CEO of Figleaf Software.  But I'm the CEO of Figleaf Software, classically educated in computer science, math, and economics. I'm an old style desktop developer. I moved to the web like everybody else did back in the 90s. I got my start in whole fusion. I actually still work it, believe it or not. Very, very old, 20-some years. You know, ago I started playing with it on diskettes and now I'm doing Drupal. Added it on as part of our business back in 2010. Primarily because of the government, government started to look at open source about five, six years ago, really seriously. And at that point we were working for clients on platforms that they were purchasing for lots and lots of money, right? The government said, well, let's look at this open source thing. And what was kind of interesting was luckily for everybody, they got confused between open source and open data and so they started doing open source platforms when open data was really the initiative. But that's okay, we'll do both, right? It's no big deal. I'm someone that stays close to the code and the infrastructure, just because I put a code on and a nice little fig leaf shirt. This whole computer science thing right here, I did that because I love it. So I actually teach our module to have a course at fig leaf and, you know, I'd stay real close to what we do on the Drupal platform. Probably a little more than I should and to the detriment of my employees, I really hate the fact that I stick my nose in probably a little bit too much. Will here works for me, he'll tell you that, so. So why am I here, right? What am I here to talk to you guys about today? I'm here to talk to you guys about Drupal as a platform at the Department of the Interior. It's really a business case study for what we're doing out at DOI right now and the work that we're doing for these guys. And it's really digital transformation in the public arena. It's the whole idea behind why we're chatting today. Department of the Interior, as you may or may not know, is one of the largest government agencies out there. It's very, very big. They have a very large number of bureaus that are under them. One of our marquee clients is the National Park Service, which is a bureau within DOI. And we've been working in that environment since 2004. Park Service is a gigantic animal, billion-page views a year, lots and lots of traffic, 99.999% up time, et cetera, et cetera. But the Department of the Interior themselves, because of all the bureaus that they have, we've managed and built DOI.gov back in 2009. They actually had what we called in the beginning, right? What there was at the Department of the Interior was a lot of chaos, right? And what do we mean by chaos? And frankly, there still is a lot of chaos there. But it's much less than this gigantic black screen with the red writing and everything that I've got up here today. The Interior Bureau's, in 2009, had a lot of different things. This is Bureau of Reclamation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Parks, OSM, USGS, Geological Survey. They're still kind of out there on their own. Park of the Interior, all of these guys, Bureau of BIA, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, et cetera.  But Adobe call CQ, then I'll call Adobe Experience Manager. And what I call a gigantic thing to implement, right? It's a big, big, big lift. I don't know why the government would spend half a million to outrify a software package just to manage it. Not saying BLM did, but they paid a lot of money for it. And then Minerals Management Service, which is now called BESI, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, they're on ECTRONIC. Now, luckily for us as a contractor, CommonSpot and ECTRON are things that we work, right? We've got a dot net business and a whole fusion business. And we're still running Parks on CommonSpot. DOI was on this CommonSpot platform. The problem is there's a lot of stuff here, right? Not only is there a lot of stuff, they had to stand up and keep the Denver Data Center going just for these guys out of place to host. It's a lot of money to keep the data center going. Tons of money. Not only that, they were responsible for everything. Parks is still running in that data center right now. It's going to move to AWS eventually. If contractor that they're using can figure out how to just get everything up into the platform, right? Hey, us. But that whole Denver Data Center thing was a gigantic, and has to be gigantic, costs up for the government, right? Lots and lots of money to put stuff out in that data center. Lots and lots of people to support it. So what they decided to do was they decided that they wanted to move forward. They wanted to go from this, which is what the website looked like in 2009. About a year right after the inauguration of President Obama here, you can see the screen. What they did is they went from that to this, which we built for them in 2009 in six weeks, unfortunately, because the big boss wanted to win for the first stage of the union. It had to have a brand new website up there for the Department of the Interior. So we had six weeks, a really crappy Christmas, and I spent all night on my birthday pushing this thing into the Denver Data Center while my wife had a great, nice, home-made, open-up green highway for me at the house. Great. Didn't get beat down for another day. Well, we went from this to where they are today, which is this. This is their new site in, I'm actually gonna kick over to it. It's in Drupal. It's fully responsive. It's really a very, very nice launch for these guys. It's too bad we didn't do this in 2009, and we didn't build this in six weeks. We'll talk about that. It took a little bit longer to launch the new DOI.gov website. But what did we do? And how did we actually make all of this work? What did we do to sort of bring it all together? So, DOI moved forward with this idea, and this is something we actually had influenced. The first pictures I showed you, I don't know jargon, right? 25 years in the Marine Corps. So, I'm a firm believer, and I'm not saying that other people aren't, but for me, the government dollar and how it's spent, it's a big, big deal. We supported DOI.gov with one developer for six years. One guy, the main DOI.gov website. He was a full-time dude. He's the guy that actually moved from Cold Fusion and CommonSpot over to Drupal, and he now supports DOI.gov on the Drupal platform, which is actually a pretty cool story, right? But, for a very long time, we supported them with one person, why? Because it was economical for the government. A lot of other large integrators, they have a whole team, right? Seven people, et cetera.  Because if you don't, what's gonna happen is you're gonna get locked in.  So we said, take that platform and separate it. Do a procurement, just to figure that out. Focus on your platform, and then after that you can issue procurement to build out your websites, right? To do the sites within bureaus. But start with a platform. So DOI decided to move forward. Now they thought about a lot of different things. They looked at Adobe, I don't know why they did, right? Because that's a big spec. For Adobe, they spent millions of dollars on the software alone, just to get it actually out there, and they really don't need what comes in that package, okay? For them, the ability to track what people are doing is not nearly as important as just having a nice experience actually come in and get data from the department of the interior. Now for our friends at Park Service, maybe a little different, because Parks does make money off of us. Even though we pay taxes, people come to Parks and they pay money to get in, and it goes into the budget, right? But that's okay. They provide a great service to the American people, and to the people that come from other countries to visit and go to our parks, okay? So, VOI decided to actually put a platform together, and they made some choices. They put a procurement out. And in the procurement, what they decided was that every one of these agencies, when they wanted to, right? VOI can't force them. And if you work with government agencies that have software, you'll figure that out. So most of these guys, especially these guys, right? And these guys, and by the way, these guys, right? To them, they aren't even part of Interior. It's, you know, hey, we just kind of exist and Interior is on top of us, but they're not the boss of things, right? I see, that's the thing. However, when they started looking at a platform, if they said we're gonna push something like a Gobi, forget it, right? All these guys over here were like, you know, excuse my language, Mike, right? I'm not gonna play that game. But when they said, hey, let's talk about Drupal, then everybody just stood up and took notes, right? It was only a few years ago that the platforms put together. It's Drupal, it's government, right? And all these agencies doing it, it's been proven, et cetera, et cetera. So what they did was they put a procurement out and they just bought a platform and they just bought what their host did. So they put Drupal Platform as a service together. It's running on IBM software. So IBM is their vendor that manages the actual platform. Phase two went in with IBM and took the open public distribution and they made it into something called open DOI. So they customized it, right? So we now have a distribution running within that environment and that built off of the public, proven distribution, et cetera, et cetera, that we can use, right, customized, right? So they have this environment running. IBM manages that environment, much like, you know, OQI does their environment or a plaque measure, anybody else can host with it. But it's dedicated to the Department of Interior, right? So they stood it up and dedicated it. They ran it compliant, all the good stuff that you want to actually have, all those buzzwords that we need to have. What's all buzzwords compliant, right? It's just a big thing. We gotta have that, we gotta have buzzwords. Phase two spent the time working with IBM to get everything stood up, went through a series of workshops with the Department of Interior to put some levels of functionality into the platform. And luckily for us, we partner with them very, very closely to work on the site buildouts, right? So when we went down at the site buildout, we became best friends with them, said, hey, let's work together, and it's been really wildly fantastic. One of the lucky times when we actually worked with other companies seamlessly worked together, all right? So first they built this platform. Now, the way that they did it was very agile, all right? It's cloud hosting, which is out of DOI's hands. It's extremely agile. So DOI's like, I'm done. I'm not worried about this. I don't have to worry about the disk array going down, like they did in Denver, at least once a month because it was an old array and somebody needed to move into a new array. You wouldn't believe the chicanery that would go on. It's, you know, if I can package the email and actually sort of share it, it was always very funny. Drupal is open source, right? Which is a big deal for the Fed community. People love it. It works. And it's got a good reputation, we know that. The SLA for uptime was only 9.9% where they get the month for free. And that was a big deal for the government clients specifically was the ability to say, if I'm not up to my SLA, I don't pay for the month for host, right? So that's, you know, that's also a way to make it a lot cheaper for them. And that easy creation of Fed websites for Drupal. I'm a little disingenuous. I don't know that it's all easy, but it's efficient. How about that, right? We have a place to go, and a place to stand up, new sites when we want to, right? And when we can't. The cost. You don't usually see this in talks, but I'll throw it out there for you. For the feds, they were able to, their past setup was a quarter of a million bucks right there. Their DOI.gov migration, that was about $330,000, right? With content. With content. I'm gonna talk about content a little bit. The VESCE migration is 210 grand. However, VESCE has a big content issue that we're dealing with as a separate contract. I'll talk to you guys about content in a minute. Just frankly, of all the things we talk about here today, that's probably the most important thing. And then Bureau of Land Management, so DOI and VESCE and BLM, and DOI, OIG, are all in the mix, right? Either in-depth or they're live. They're only paying about $11,000 a month, okay? For these four sites, and then when they add a fifth and a sixth and a seventh, they're still paying $11,000 a month. And they add a eighth site, they're still paying 11 grand a month. Think about that for a minute, all right? That's not a whole heck of a lot of money for the department and the interior to host. Pretty much every bureau except Park Service, right? If Parks wanted to go on the platform and move over to Drupal, then they would have to see an increase because they'd just take too much traffic, right? If Parks is spending not awful amount of money on Akamai anyway, just to front their service. DOI's actually got Akamai in front. We don't take the traffic, but it's really there for an integration point for that. And by the way, we've actually integrated Akamai into the platform. So for every one of these sites, any time you make a content change, call the Akamai API directly, right? It's part of the push and it invalidates the content so it makes its way for Akamai as quickly as it's gonna make its way to Akamai, right? That's another great thing in the Fed. You know, when they're working with CD-Ed, every time we've worked with LineWide, level three, Akamai, CloudFront, they expect the evaluation to be automatic. I'm like, there's this whole point of presence sitting around the planet where it's got a proper game. It's not gonna be automatic. We're gonna wait a few minutes, right? At least a few minutes. We'll have real-time content, then we'll pass it away. So, and then the developer support, we have a full-time dev. He's really only supporting DOI.gov, I should put that, DOI-OIG is the office of the Inspector General for the Department of the Interior. They have their own separate website they didn't use to, but they do now. Lots of infighting over there, so to say. A lot on their own, right? So, Miller and Oliver, it's actually dedicated to just being there to support these guys. Same guy supported the old site. So, they invested about a million and a half so far, right, to go through this. Now, we'll talk a little bit more about that, a little bit later on, because we can actually take all of this and site-builds, you're gonna pay that with ours.  But it's really the past setup and then the build, it's really the hosting where they've taken a gigantic return on investment. The build-out stuff, we put it in there to say, hey, this is how much it'll cost you. If you're working with an agency and you wanna do something similar, these costs are in line, right? So, the way they set this up, which was really good, is they set up what's called a blank list. They set this up, which was really good, is they set up what's called a blank and purchase agreement with five companies, about 40 companies competed to get on the BPA. This is a separate contract from the platform contract, right? We're not crossing the streams, right? There's a new Ghostbusters movie coming out. We're not crossing the streams, right? I don't date myself on this one. You should have seen my original picture of why are we here. It was Admiral Stockdale and like nobody's been in over that. So, I'll be a certified Drupalist. This is the biggest rub for the companies that competed on it. Why do they have to go through certified, et cetera, et cetera, right? We can talk about that all day. My people have gone through the certification. Why? Because for the department of interior, it's the only measure they have, right? Yes, I know, you guys work with great companies, you've built 50 sites and you've done everything under the sun and you've got things that are really fast and tens of clients and everything, that's also fantastic. But when the government's procuring, there's no, they can't accept it, okay? The only thing they can do is take a measure. They said, the measure for us is obviously certification. That's the problem. And when I told you guys, when they all pitched you loans, to use my language about having to go through certification, I said, you're all gonna pass. They all did, they just didn't want to take this, right? So, at the end of the day, that was your requirement to be on the BPA. And it shut down a lot of organizations that were out there. And there was a lot of having involved. But it is what it is. That was not something that I suggested.  Everybody had that government experience. We had a lot, not only we worked with the L.I. We were actually in the Fort Bank, B.G., West of America. Of course, we worked with Parks. Large-scale projects, right? You have to at least have some experience playing around in the field. I'll talk a little bit about some of the particulars for each of these sites in a minute. And then we just compete with each other for the business. Some compete better than others. That's a separate issue. But everybody goes in, puts task orders in to do the sites, right? So, that way the government gets their best talks. And what they do is they'll come to us and say, we want to move Bureau of Land Management. How much money do you think that would be? And then we'll tell them what we think, and they go to all the other people, all the other BPA holders, and they tell them what they're going to think. And then they'll fund enough money to cover the site, right? So, they know they can get their site, and it's predictable. That's a big return on investment for the government because a lot of times, they'll go in, it'll be a T&M, and all this extra money gets added on, et cetera, et cetera. They just do it with this Plattey contract. Some of the particulars. So, how did we make it happen? So, how long did it take? The platform was less than six months. Facebook and IBM built that out. They did a great job. Worked together very closely. I should have put this in the bag, but I didn't, which is, when IBM, because IBM didn't have this background, right, of doing this, they didn't think that, you know, the old spaghetti sauce was pretty good, it's in there, right? Pretty good, it's in there. Well, when it came to the platform, solar, it's not in there. So, they launched you to the platform out and they didn't really have a search. They said, we'll just use USAI.gov for every single bureau. And, somebody along the way didn't think to say, excuse me, right? I need something a little bit better. You just use USAI.gov, which is not very good, right? It's okay, but it's not very good. But, they did build it in less than six months. DIY.gov, we did that in about six months. We started it last January. We were done for the 4th of July, which was pretty cool, we're gonna launch it. But then, the secretary of the interior that was worried about security held the site for two months, right? Because they just got in trouble with the OPM breach. Because OPMs were running their data out of the Denver data center, and it was breached. So, the secretary of the interior was like, you know what, I don't want anything out of the public eye right now. So, it's just kind of a little bit bad. That scene, we started earlier this year. It's supposed to launch at the end of June, probably next launch. So, we'll launch whatever it is and then sort of move it forward. The only thing about DIY, 15,000 distinct pieces of content, that was an automated migration. But the content management system they were in were an expert in. So, we easily sucked that data out and pushed it in. It was, you know, we did that completely automated.  They didn't add it all in their contents and some of the stuff they had ended up getting moved over. Sort of an important thing to know. But the design was done ahead of time. So, it's not a six month project, right? I think they spent eight months doing this design. And that's a nice design that any of you that actually know Drupal and have actually themed in Drupal and worked with Drupal know that theming this was not easy for my people, okay? And it's got all this collapsible menu thing. I mean, it's... And at the time, nobody was thinking of building them ahead of the site. So, theming this was actually a bit of a challenge. The site is very deep. So, because it's very deep, you have a bit of a challenge with how we're doing. Not only menuing, right? It's a lot of stuff. But we have to have the obligatory picture of the secretary there. I had to come here. So, we've got the venues with the pictures and, you know, that, and I'll tell you another thing. We had to have Agnes in the platform but customizing taxonomy to drive breadcrumbs. They still have breadcrumbs in their site and to actually have breadcrumbs and to have proper URLs, right? We had to do that through taxonomy customization, which is probably the best way to do it anyway. But they go into their taxonomy. They actually place, you know, what they want the URL to be for anybody that chooses that taxonomy value. And then when that person adds content to that taxonomy, they automatically get a URL and it's just taken care of for them. So, different types of content can be in different parts of the site. For anybody who's played with Drupal before and done any Drupal Dev, you know, that's actually a bit of a challenge in the platform, right? So, creating content on the back end, right? It's all dynamic. Making those URLs actually work where you've got the same content site in two different places. It could be a challenge. But you don't want people hard coding their URLs otherwise you can't go in and just make a global update, right? Seeing that thing, right? It's 7,000 pages in, they've all hard coded to go. I'd like to make a change. It's not gonna happen, all right? So, DOI, again, this design took them a while to go through it, but they were not, we weren't contracted at that point, they were still building the platform. So, it's a little bit of a, but we did our part in six months, right? But they only gave us PSDs. So, we really had to do the majority of the work. Photoshop costs. Bestie, Bestie will launch in June, but it won't have everything they need. And we'll talk about that in a second here. There's over 19,000 to 50,000 content, which strategy was done by SRA, the government contractor ahead of time. And they gave us 120 PowerPoint slides and said, here's your strategy. Thank you very much. We've been waiting seven months for this, but that's all right. It's true, they were supposed to be done last July, they didn't hand it over to us until January of this year. And when they handed it over, Bestie still said, we want our site by June. But wait a minute, because time and space is in tune. That's one of the lessons learned. And then BLM's gonna go live at the end of July, but we'll probably still have functionality. So, we'll launch them and then there's gonna be some things missing. And then, OIG. We did this in eight weeks, all right? Now, this is one, but you can tell why, watch. So, that's an eight week website, right? But it was right off of open public, we're open DOI. And it was when we walked in, they had a very limited budget, they only had 70 grand, 500 pieces of content. They had a customized reporting system. And this part right here is the piece that on the contracting side, when you're playing with the Feds, make sure everything's included. This required solar, but because solar didn't make it in, there was this, I don't even think, it's a matter of fact, I get it back and check, I don't think, this was a year ago, okay? And I'm pretty sure this still doesn't run off solar and I didn't have to add solar to the platform because of contract problems. So, if you're playing this game, you need to make sure that platform has all the little bits and pieces, or you have something in the contract to make sure you can add to it, all right? Probably would've been easier if they were set on something like OIG, right? Number one solar would've been there. Hey, would've been a problem, but it would've been more expensive, all right? Anybody that's interested in that, we did actually try to pitch a platform ourselves with Aquia, and I can tell you what that cost was, and I'll tell you offline, all right? It was definitely more than $11,000 a month, though. That's for sure, believe it or not. But anyway, so this part right here is the customized piece, but the rest of it's very straightforward. Actually, I was the tech leader on it, right? I dragged my Team Food and Agile framework, we launched from start to finish in eight weeks. 700 hours estimated, 705, took 715, all right? But we built it, all right? We got it running, so it was a good deal. So how do we do it? Things that actually work well. We did Agile framework mostly, see the air quotes mostly, right? The government wants Agile, there's more air quotes out here, but they don't always actually understand what that really means, all right? Still some aspects of waterfall, they always want you to build a spec, and they're waiting to Agile for that, let's move forward. Short pops, we just said, hey, we're only gonna have six months, that's it, you get what you get, forces the time, time, timeline, contractually have to get it done, we say, hey, we only have this much time, too bad you can't have that, deal with it. Our friends at OIG said to me, I was in the meeting, they said, when are we gonna talk about making this look like Whitehouse.gov? I said, when you triple your budget, you're talking about it, right? And you go, Whitehouse.gov, today, you can get this, all right? So that forces the client to continue to be realistic. You might not think that actually works, but it does, right? But it puts a lot of pressure on everyone. Rapid prototype, all the iterative development, hey, every week you see something, right? Or every two weeks, here's something, here's a little something. Short wins, we show something, they're happy and they're not complaining. Not like the old days where you wait till the end, you go, hey, look at this, it's great. And they go, no, it's not real great. And then the platform, we have a good starting point. We have the platform. So again, what worked, the agile framework, mostly fixed-speed contracts, you gotta do this. The platform is up all the time, it does not crash. The client's pretty easy to work with for lucky, that's what worked. But the ability to calculate ROI, previously they were in the Denver data center, they have to employ staff to manage the center, now we're kind of wondering that's if they walk away. And one more thing that worked really well was this, security, right? Good ol' OWAPZ attack proxy. They hammered the living daylights out of DOI.  But not a single flaw on the security side. And it hasn't been hacked, right, so there we go. Now be mad, I might as well just shut up, I'll just go ahead and close the front of the business and kind of move on if it got hacked. The pain points, there's no drushing the platform. If you're a developer, you know these pain points. It's not automated, it's not like doctrine, where I can drag and drop from dev to staging to prod, and that is a problem, right? So IBM's screwed it up, this platform. And there's a rudimentary reporting. It's not sitting out there where you've got 5,000 clients, like one of these other guys where you just drop things in. So it's been costing, again, I went to my house and I felt for 70K, I'm sorry, right? We had just enough time to get you up and running, get your stuff new, make it work, make the changes that you want, right? So we did run into a lot of that. They would just say, I want everything and you can't have it, there's a little bit of a problem. This is the biggest part. I should have just done 30 minutes on contact preparation, right? PDFs have to be five-way compliant for the Feds. It's a requirement, okay? It's a lot of work, time and money. DOIs are not, so they're in trouble but they don't have the budget. They went to the budget, the budget says, hey, we don't have the budget for it, so you can't sue us, right? No problems. But unfortunately, Vessie, we have a migration contract that's more than the actual development of the site. There are 11,000 PDFs that my team is working on, 15 people right now going in and fixing PDFs and tagging content for migration. Unfortunately, we'll still do automated migration so we can't and PDFs have to be fixed by the end. I'm not talking about migrating it in. Everybody forgets this, it's a big deal, right? The Bureau of Indian Affairs right now has 12,000 pieces of content and 9,000 PDFs to make things. They're gonna fix all their PDFs and make them five-way compliant by themselves. 8,000 of them are not compliant. It's at least 30 minutes of PDF, right? That is really important, especially if you're dealing with a federal client. I can't overstress it. Usually I'm right on time and I'm right at 30. Any quick questions about what we just talked about? Anybody have anything? It's a very basic showcase, right? We're just talking business, but. Yeah, so who owns the platform now that's gonna be shopped around outside DOI? Okay, question, who owns the platform that's gonna be shopped around outside DOI? DOI owns the platform. So technically it wouldn't be shopped around, but other agencies can come to them and say, can I host with you guys? And they'll actually let them host at FJC, the Federal Judicial Center. They'll let them host with them and they'll just charge it with a thing. It's like they've stood up their own government office, as it were. So I've been using IBM Soundslayer and I do everything myself. How do I get IBM to set up a platform for all of you guys? I have 11,000 dollars for them. I'm serious. That is the only way you have to pay them. All right, in DOI's case, they wanted that business. So they said, they'll do what they bought. 11 grand is, they bought the business. That's fine, buy lots of things, right? I'm sure it was choose and things like that. They bought the business. So the only way to get them to do that, that's a bad answer, unfortunately. No, it's honest. Yeah. Question? Thank you all very much for your time. I really appreciate it.


Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP Buzz Chat interview and I'm talking today with Matt. Hello. Christian, how are you doing? I'm doing well. How are things there? Very well. Thank you. I love you. You've got the... It's like what background is that? It's the first Zoom background that I found. All right. There we go. Yeah. Yes. So a lot of you out there might be recognizing that background. I don't know what city that is. I recognize some of Microsoft's generic backgrounds from like Seattle area, the Puget Sound, but that one I don't recognize. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Little secret for you. I actually work in my master closet. I call it the cloth office. And so that's why I always use virtual backgrounds because it's not a great backdrop for... Very nice. Very nice. Well, yeah. Well, hey, that's... There's pros and cons to using the real versus virtual, but... Well, for folks that don't know you, Matt, who are you, where are you, and what do you do? Yeah. So Matt Jemison, I am based out of Indianapolis, Indiana. And as far as what I do right now, I am the head of intelligence solutions and Microsoft 365 apps at Decada Pharmaceuticals. And what that means in a nutshell is I'm working a lot with Power Virtual Agents, doing a lot with generative AI and Azure Open AI. And then my team is also responsible for custom Microsoft 365 development. So very cool. Well, you know, so I've interviewed a couple of people and that's for the other half of my podcast that are in the healthcare industry and talking about a lot of what they're doing with AI. They're just a natural fit for that kind of... For the complexity of the data that pharmaceutical company owns and manages just makes sense that you to automate that, that you check in the AI stuff. Absolutely. Yeah. And we're going through the process of making sure we're doing it the right way, the right way, aligning with our core values and being really strategic about that. But it is a great time to be a part of technology right now. A lot of exciting new things to play with, really every day or every week. It seems like there's something new.  And it's actually been kind of slow the last couple of months. And if you know the Microsoft ecosystem, of course, Microsoft people are on vacation the entire month of August. There's generally like shuffle, people are promoted, there's reorgs that kind of happen. And so it's a slower news cycle. There is tons that's going on, except within the Microsoft ecosystem in the last month. Yeah. Yeah. And I know there's a lot of excitement about the upcoming Power Platform conference. And then before you know it will be at Ignite. And so there's definitely a lot of big hitters for the rest of the year that I'm looking forward to as well. Well, what was your journey to becoming an MVP? So what's your origin story? Yeah, no, it's an interesting one. So I, in 2008, went to a company that was looking for a .NET developer that was interested in learning SharePoint Moss 2007. And so I got fully immersed into that experience, building WSPs, feature receivers, event receivers, packaging it all up and took those .NET skills and worked out really well. And so worked there for about two and a half years. And then I moved on to consulting for the first time in my life. I would remain at that company for 12 years. And I was doing the SharePoint Saturdays really in the Midwest. So I spoke at several in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois having a blast. But my career kept taking off in the consulting world. And so I kept year by year getting a little bit further away from the keyboard and got to a point where I was the managing director of a Microsoft consultancy at this firm. And so I was no longer getting to really play with the technology like I had in the past. So I made a tough decision a year ago that I wanted to make a change. I wanted to get back to the keyboard. I wasn't ready to hang it up. And so I actually joined to Cato Pharmaceuticals, like I said, in that position to help them lead their Power Virtual Agents work and really haven't looked back. And I would say it's really reengaging in the community, getting back to being committed to blogging, to user forums, to speaking, just helping others. Right. I love being able to help someone else that's looking at a problem. They're not sure how to solve it. I think that oddly gets me excited when I have a problem. Like I love that challenge. And so it's really been an opportunity to get closer to the technology and then get back to sort of what I was doing. Like I said, back in the early 2010s with SharePoint Saturdays and whatnot and was fortunate enough to get selected in July and just having a blast with it. That's great. And as we were talking before we started recording, so you also had the benefit of a lot of MVPs within your org. And so with that, I'm assuming that Takeda is pretty supportive of MVPs, recognizes the value of having MVPs on staff and let you play in the community. Yeah, absolutely. There are a lot of great MVPs there. Dave Feldman, who runs our group, the Intelligent Workplace, extremely supportive, Darcy Reed, and just Chris Kent, right? Who's also on my team. They were super supportive and it was great to sort of have people to chat with about what it looks like and what it takes. And so I think that having those mentors and coaches has been great. So what are kind of your passion topics now? What are you speaking on, presenting about, writing about? And also, what are your main contributions? Are you more a writer, presenter? Yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, I do love to code. I've got that background, right? But obviously working more into Power Platform, it's getting into more no-code, low-code. Heavily invested in Power Virtual Agents, heavily invested in Power Automate, right? By extension with that. And then really, really doing a lot with Azure Open AI. So I've done some of that through those mechanisms, done some of that through Azure Functions. I've done some work with Prompt Flow. That's some of the additional topics I really want to get into the blog. And I think Azure Open AI, there's just a lot of opportunity there looking at what's coming, what we have already. And so just trying to understand how to create that generative AI journey for everyone. So I would say that's where I'm really most passionate. I'm actually going to be in Boston next month at CLAB, New England Day is talking about prompt engineering. So it's going to be an introduction to that, just to understand it's really the foundation right of utilizing generative AI. So that's the next convo I've had. And I've done a lot with Azure Open AI PVA type topics as well. You know, we hear it.  You also, you're more and more content people talking about co-pilot. But what about, but the Azure Open AI stuff, like directly if you want to go in custom build solutions and learn about that, like what is that journey? Where do people get started? Where organizations that are interested in that? There's a lot of great resources online. Of course, the program still believe is one you have to apply for. You know, I think getting accepted into it is something that can happen fairly quickly. You're most likely going to start out with the GPT-35 Turbo model and GPT-4 access is a little bit more limited. So there may be a wait list, but there's a lot of great content on Microsoft site and there's also the Azure Open AI playground directly in Azure. So that's gonna give you a chance once you get the resource stood up to go in and start looking at having chat conversations. That's where you can sort of tinker with the temperature and different settings right to fine tune kind of the conversation. You can look at your system message which is sort of your overall general instruction for the whole chat, you know to set the tone for the bot and you can play with those. You can select pre selected ones. You can do image generation with Dolly. So you can do all of that with writing any code at all. You get right into the UI. So that's a great way to just get started and sort of see what does this look like. But then out of that too, here's somewhat recently is sort of the bring your own data idea. And so you're able to create indexes with Azure cognitive search, including even vector now. And so you can bring your own data in there, use the, what's called the retrieval augmented generation or RAG pattern to start to ask questions that you can provide on demand context from your own information so that the actual model is able to answer those questions based on your data. What's really cool about that is is you're not actually fine tuning the model. You're just giving it a snapshot of the context it needs. I like to say it's almost like giving it the Google search results and saying, can you find the answer based on this, right? The best results, you know from maybe more of a traditional search. The vector is great, but even keyword searches type work well. And so there's a lot of power there, but it's a great way to get started. Like I said, and it doesn't have to feel daunting. You don't have to know Python to get started. You don't have to be familiar with REST APIs necessarily, but you know, if you are, there's a lot of opportunity there as far as building custom applications. Well, that's been some of the most exciting demos, the richest demos that you've been seeing around kind of Microsoft's own application of the technology with co-pilot is being able to point it at your actual working docs. I mean, one thing, and I love that there's this whole, you know, the expectation or adoption curve of like chat GPT and people's reaction to it until they, you know, this is the best thing in the world. And then what kind of garbage is this doing? And then at the end it's like, oh, now I understand how it works, how to better use it. And so there's the adoption goes up. But the whole concept of being able to look at and you know, my existing data, I mean, I'm so excited for the day when it can look in my, of course, security trim, but look in my email, look in my SharePoint and Teams content, look at my chats and all that, and then I can then start, you know, asking questions and getting its help based on that, the real time, you know, learning versus data and chat GPT that was trained in 2021. Absolutely, yeah. And that 2021 dates key, you know, I think when I first got started my biggest question was, when are they going to retrain it, right? But the reality is, is even if they did, you know, as soon as they retrain it, it's out of date, right? Something else comes up. And so this idea of being able to plug in data, you know, real time, I think is really powerful and it creates a lot of great opportunities when you look at saving time for individuals at companies and really just getting people what they're looking for, you know, and I think taking things off of people's plates instead of being asked, you know, what does this particular policy look like? Who should I contact having to go through that process, you know, everyone working in different time zones, you know, waiting two days to get an answer, the ability to have a bot that can talk to you just like a person and get you that answer quickly. It's fabulous. Yeah, there's so many interesting applications. I mean, I've been, you know, as long as I've been an MVP, even back when I was a Microsoft employee, one of my agitations was task management and Microsoft not taking task management across the various applications seriously. I came from that background, project management, building, you know, project portfolio management systems. That's how kind of found my way into SharePoint back in 2004, 2005 was actually doing a project server deployment, which never worked, never fulfilled the promise, the reporting, the analytics side of it. Back then, I don't know what it's doing now, I'm not gonna, you know, talk about that, but that kind of found my way into SharePoint, but so much of that was, you know, don't tell me, organizations asking, the leadership teams might, for the, where I was consulting, companies were asking, it's like don't give me the information that I know to go and look for, tell me, you know, what I'm not asking for based on my request. So it's, again, it's kind of the core of information management problems is the search experience, is the information discovery process. Yeah. And we're really just moving into that next realm of the search experience. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's really exciting to think about two, three years from now, maybe sooner, you know, how would the traditional Google type search, right? Taking that from a page of results again, you know, looking, clicking on the first link you think is right, scanning the article, seeing if you can find the answer you're looking for to just asking direct questions and getting direct answers. You know, once we get to that point, it's just a huge game changer for productivity across, I mean, personally and professionally. Yeah. Well, and two, I mean, again, one of the coolest demos is when you look at, like in Excel, in Copilot and Excel or just having the AI capability to be able to go in and tell, say, well, looking at this massive spreadsheet, looking at this data, you know, piece of data, what do I need to know about this? What are the trends that you're seeing? What are the three relevant things I need to be looking at with this chart and for it then highlight that? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, pattern recognition in our complex confusing data is a huge thing. Now, I would love to be able to, instead of training the model, just be able to point it at a website and have it go and do a read and then based on the information it's been trained on what it's able to go and scan from that site, that would be a nice little add-on. And I guess you get some of that with Bing and with Google's new AI capabilities, but well, very cool. Well, so what are your other community activities? Again, you mentioned participation with like the user group stuff. Were you involved? Are you an organizer of some of those things? I'm not an organizer yet, although I would say anyone listening that needs help, please feel free to give me a call. Organizing user groups, moderation on forums, I want to continue to give back to the community. So I've spoken recently at the Kansas City user group, the Boston user group, mentioned collab days. And then as far as forums, love the Power Platform Community Forums from Microsoft and regular visitor on the Power Virtual Agents Forum as well and Power Automate. And so spend quite a bit of time there and then my blog madjimison.com and also post those on Twitter. And so that's really where a big focus has been for me, but I'm looking to expand honestly and see how much more can I help? That's always my last question is where people find you, but you just outlined it. Of course, we'll have the links. If you want to get in touch with Matt, you can find him out on, we'll have his links out on the blog and it'll be on the podcast as well as out on YouTube. So, well, Matt, I am looking forward to seeing you. I will probably see you in Boston here in a few weeks. That sounds great. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to it as well. We'll talk to you soon. All right, thanks, Christian. Bye.


Hello friends, the 7 star Hissui in Tabflosion Terrorite Event is now back in Scarlet and Violet for its second phase. We're going to go through all the details of this event as well as the best Pokemon to solo this with in your game. So if you missed this 7 star Terrorite Event last weekend it is now back in Scarlet and Violet for its second phase running as of recording this video from the 10th of November until the 12th for its final time. It will be appearing in the games. It is going to be level 100. It will have its hidden ability and the moves infernal parade flame through our willow isp focus blast with additional moves to Sunday day. It will have that mightiest mark of course the main reason for picking this up while you can and of course the first time we are seeing Hissui in Tabflosion available catchable in Scarlet and Violet. It is only catchable once per save file and it will have a modest nature with that fire terror typing. The big thing about this outside of being able to grab the Hissui in Tabflosion is the item drops. You're going to be able to get a lot of really high cost items, level up candies and also those vitamins, terror shots, ability patches and other items that you're going to be able to sell for a lot of money or just stock up on which is going to help you out for the upcoming Indigo disc release which is happening next month. So a really good event to farm and of course we'll go over some of the best solo Pokemon in today's video so you can do that in your own games. So to access this in your games you're going to need to come down to your poker portal then come down to Mystery Gift and check poker portal news. This will connect you to the internet of course and update all of your terror dens in the areas. Do be able to locate it on your map after doing this and head out to it. For the builds that we're going to feature in today's video of course we've already featured some in our previous video but we've got a couple more to feature today. They're going to make soloing this a little bit easier for you and just some different options of course. The first one is going to be Cantonian Ninetales. Of course those of you with the DLC pack part one that you'll mask you can have an easy way of getting the Volpix and Cantonian Ninetales in your games otherwise you might have to trade with friends if you haven't got the DLC packs already all imported in from home if you've got access to it from previous generations. So Cantonian Ninetales fire type it is going to have the terror type ground. Shellbell is the held item make sure it is level 100 make sure you do hyper train all of its IVs so they're all at 31. Do that in Montenegro. Of course all of the builds will be done in the description as well if you want to take a closer look at them after the video. Then the move set that we're going for with this Cantonian Ninetales is going to be snarl, nasty plot, fake tears and terror blast. Flash fire is the ability that's a big important one on the Cantonian Ninetales that's going to give you immunity to all the fire type attacks and the willow is coming out from the Hissui and Typhlosion. EV spread is going to be 252 HP, 252 special defense with a modest nature with the rest obviously EVs put into special attack. I do get asked in the comments section quite a lot what the vitamin numbers would be for this EV spread so it will be 25 vitamin in HP, 25 vitamin in special defense and then you're going to use the two health feathers in HP, two clever feathers in special defense and then the rest which are going to be the six leftover which will be those genius feathers which will all be put into special attack and make sure it has got that modest nature but that is the Hissui and Ninetales. We'll jump into the raid in a moment and I'll show you exactly how this one works. Next one up is Dash Bun, I think a really good option not as consistent as maybe a lot of people expected to be, still a good option it can run through the raid pretty quickly but I've tested this quite extensively and it has been hit or miss most of the time but decent option going into the raid but in my opinion I think some of the other options are a little bit more consistent if you are aiming to solo this to farm for the items in your game but the Dash Bun really good build none the less going to have that fighting, terra typing on their metronome as the hell I am level 100 of course as well. The only move that you're going to need on this one is body press and an EV spread of 252 in special defense and then 252 in defense. This one's got a bold nature so just make sure that you've got a nature that's boosting that defense stat so you're getting the most out of body press and the ability well baked. So the basic premise of this build is going to be just to spam body press that's all you're going to do throughout the raid. The Typhlosion, the Hissuin Typhlosion will spam will a waste very early on in the raid so you're just going to be getting those defense boosts every time you hit by a fire type move which is boosting the power of body press you'll get to the stage where you can terasalize and you're going to be doing really good damage at that point before the shield goes up and just continue to do that after your stats are nullified because you'll get those boosts back. You just have to be careful about the infernal parade if it does burn you. The Hissuin Typhlosion is going to be doing a lot of damage and it can slow you down. It can put you in a position where you're going to need to go for a heal chair and it also can knock you out with two infernal parades if you are burned. So you need to watch out for that. You need to make sure you are timing those heal chairs and you don't really want to lose your terasalization because it is going to slow you down so much. And like I say a decent option going into the raids a decent build and something I did want to feature because it gives you a different option. The next build we're going to feature for consistency in these raids is going to be good where we have featured this and the next three Pokemon in our previous video. So if you want to see how they actually interact in the raid you can go back check out that video. It'll be linked in the description of course and you can see how to use these Pokemon in the raids. But we've got the Goudre here which has the water terra typing shell bell as the hell that I am tearful luck rain dance acid spray and weather ball weather ball can be interchanged for surf scald or even something like muddy water if you would prefer hydration is the ability on there with an EV spread of two five two in special attack two five two in special defense and the rest in HP with a modest nature. Next up we have the manafee as well going to be water terra type on their level 100 again shell bell as they held item move set is going to be rain dance tail glow or that can be take heart fake tears and surf hydration is the ability on there with an EV spread again of two five two in HP two five two in special defense and the rest put in special attack with a modest nature and finally one of my favorites is the Vaporeon again with that shell bell held item terra typing is water level 100 rain dance calm mind fake tears and surf or the move set with an EV spread of two five two special attack two five two special defense and the rest put in HP with the hidden ability hydration. You're going to need an ability patch on your Vaporeon to be able to get access to that but they are the builds as I say they're down in the description if you want to take a look at them but lots of options for you to go in and solo this raid with over the weekend grab yourself the Hissui and Typhlosion now turn zero we're going to come in it's going to launch off a willow waste that can be into any one of the four targets but not to worry it's not really an impactful turn especially because if it's into you you've got that flash fire ability so it's not really going to affect you at all now what we're generally waiting on here is that turn where nullifies its stat drops on its side of the field so kind of burning time here going to use snarl for the first three to four turns until we do see that turn because we're going to lower the special attack on the Hissui and Typhlosion so it's not doing as much damage as it normally would as well as ticking down at a tracelization counter at the same time meaning that we're going to be able to tracelize just that little bit quicker as well as kind of give us a little bit of a buffer so we're not taking as much damage you can see the focus blast doing negligible damage there from those special attack drops just bear in mind when it does nullify the stat drops on its side of the field we'll be hitting that little bit harder but after that turn hopefully like I say turn three or four we'll be concentrating on going for those fake tears it's a little bit like the setup with the Vaporeon if you watch that video if not then we'll go through it here and that's the turn we're waiting on remove negative effects from its side of the field now we want to concentrate on going for those fake tears we're in a pretty healthy position at this stage so we're not needing to worry about getting knocked out this turn or the next turn so we should be able to get three off and if you get lucky like we do there with that focus blast it can miss it's not the most accurate of attack so we'll go for another fake tears and ideally we're just getting the special defense down on the Hissui entire fusion to minus six you reduce it by two stages every time you use a fake tears so three of those it will be enough and we'll be able to take a focus blast here it does decent enough damage but like I say we're not in any danger of getting knocked out this next turn but big thing that we want to do is just make sure that we get these drops off before the shield goes up as soon as that shield is in effect we are not going to be able to use fake tears any longer so we need to prioritize it at this stage we use three of them now now what we want to do is we want to just go for these snarls because we have to wait for the shield to go up which should happen after this turn and then we are waiting on it nullifying the stack boosts on our side of the field before we set up our nasty plots infernal parade coming up but because of these snarl drops that we've already got onto the Hissui Interflosion doing really not much damage at all there's the shield set up now we've got about two to three turns now before it kind of removes the stat boosts on our side of the field so we want to wait to set like I say our nasty plots up after this turn takes place so we'll just keep spamming the snarls it's just going to mean that you're going to be able to kind of tick away your tracelization counter it does steal some of your taro damage so it does mean there's a few extra turns to go before you can tracelize but at the same time you just want to be reducing the attack power on the tyflosion the whole time with these snarls as well as waiting for that one turn where it does negate the stat boosts on your side of the field and after that you're going to be in a good place just to set up those nasty plots and then run through the rest of this raid so there's the turn we're waiting for nullified stat changes and abilities on your side of the field now we can start setting up not the fake tears the nasty plots so we want to boost our special attack by two stages every time we use this we want to use it three times in total and then we're going to be able to kind of tracelize and start cutting through this soon tyflosion pretty quickly like i say you might get fortunate some turns with the focus blast missing do that's a bonus it's going to quicken things up for you and even if through this process you are in a position where you get knocked out don't worry too much you just want to be in a healthy position you want to wait for the turns like we have before you start going for these nasty plots and then you're going to be in a great spot to start cutting through it tracelizing and then really doing some huge impactful damage and you can see here i'm not taking too much damage at all now if we're in a healthy position here you make a judgment call and go for an all out attack chair we've got those nasty plot set up we've got the fake tears on to it go for an all out attack chair we know we're not going to get knocked out unless heaven forbid we get a critical hit this turn hopefully we don't see one that's the worst that could happen but we knew if if it isn't a critical hit we're going to be able to take that now we're in a spot where you can see the stats on the hasurean type flushing minus six special defense we are plus six special attack we've got that all out chair active and now we can tracelize and now we can go for a terror blast into the hasurean type flushing and why we chose terror ground on the nine tails is you could go terror rock but then you'll be weak to the focus blast so that's kind of one of the reasons why the ground is probably one of the more beneficial types and if the sun's in effect if you've got terror water it's going to be weakened so you kind of this is probably one of the best terror types to go for in my opinion like we'll see yeah enough to break the shield there we're in a good spot with the the raid timer as well and with one more terror blast you only really need to use two terror blasts throughout this raid with the cantonia nine tails and you're going to be in a great spot we do take a focus blast but again because it's a minus three special attack it's not really doing too much damage with one more terror blast we'll be able to pick up the raid and close this one out and i would say it's probably about the same sort of speed as the vaporion build and it's very consistent it's probably is just as consistent as the vaporion and the gudra in my opinion um but for those of you that are a big fan of cantonia nine tails is going to be a really fun one for you to use and like i say i've used it throughout the weekend and had a lot of fun running through the raid farming for the events with this particular pokemon and it is as easy as that so if you follow the kind of the guidelines there are going to be variations as you know with these rng can play a big factor in them as well but it is easy as that to do with this particular build so to respawn the dens all you're going to need to do is come into your home menu then down into system settings down into system down into date and time make sure you synchronize clock by the internet set to off click into date and time and just toggle through with a hit that okay button don't change anything in the settings and then just come back into the game and all your dens all respawn and that will mean that the fire seven star terror then will respawn as well so you can just locate it on your map and then head straight over to it and continue the same with any one of these builds and you're going to have an easy time doing it farming this event over this coming weekend so that is everything for today's video friends i hope you've enjoyed it i hope you find something new builds that we featured in today's video very useful of course like i've mentioned they're all down in the description below but let me know what your favorite pokemon to farm this hasuin typhlosion is and if you've got anything different that you've been using i'd love to hear we had some great suggestions on a previous video the people have been using and relying on but if you've used any of these let me know if you've got your own builds that you've been using let me know as well i would love to hear but with that it will be the end of the hasuin typhlosion seven star terror event after this weekend and it hopefully means that we will get one final seven star terror event announced if not more before the end of god this comes out i don't know if we'll get anything announced this sunday when this event ends but hopefully we do if we do of course we'll cover it here on the channel as soon as that does drop but thank you so much for tuning in friends have a great rest of your weekend enjoy this raid event while it's still running and i will see you all in another video very soon so until then take care of yourselves and bye bye


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