I'm going to introduce our next title sponsor, and that's Microsoft. We're very fortunate to have Microsoft here in British Columbia. We've got two offices in Vancouver, Microsoft providing high-paying, rewarding jobs supporting BC families. We're very thrilled to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Washington to create a Cascadia corridor. It's going to encourage meaningful and results-driven innovation between our two areas. It's going to help grow our technology industries across borders, and we talked about cross borders. It's about inviting the world to BC. It's about creating and strengthening job creation. It's about global enhancing, global competitiveness. I'm honored to introduce our next speaker is Microsoft's corporate vice president, Julia White. Julia leads marketing and product management for Microsoft Azure security products, as well as our national cloud and data center marketing. She's a 16-year veteran. When we hear veteran, we think of grizzled in battle scars. I imagine she has those, but she joined the company as a product manager and moved her way up to that position. From there, Julia moved into different roles, leading departments, leading teams of business channel marketing and sales, and played an instable part of exchange online. Do you remember that exchange online a number of years ago? It was one of Microsoft's earliest and most successful public cloud workloads. Julia provided product management and technical marketing for Office 365 and helped publicly launch Office for iPads app in 2014. She wholeheartedly embraces change, unafraid of challenging conventional thinking and standing out from the crowd. Whether her determination comes from being taught how to run a family business from the family dinner table as a child, or her training as an Olympic hopeful synchronized swimmer, or from earning her MBA from Harvard Vision School at a time when very few were willing to leave Silicon Valley. Julia is passionate about technology and ensuring Microsoft remains forward-looking. Without further ado, please welcome Julia White. Microsoft Cloud allows us to access information from anywhere. Microsoft Cloud allows us to scale up. Microsoft Cloud changes our world dramatically. It wasn't too long ago. It would take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome. Now, we can do 100 per day. With the Microsoft Cloud, we don't have to build server rooms. We have instant scale. The Microsoft Cloud is helping us to rebuild and brain interpret our business. This cloud helps transform business. This is the Microsoft Cloud. Thank you. Thank you so much. No, thank you. Great to be here. Absolutely. Fantastic to be here. Good morning.  Obviously, there's a lot in that. As I mentioned, I've been in technology for quite a while. I started in the cloud long before it was cool. Actually, my first job out of Stanford was doing quick and online banking. If you can believe it, back then, no one was willing to bank on the internet. That's how early days we were, the predecessor of the cloud. From there, I had the opportunity to go from having Exchange Online, our very, very first mailbox in the cloud, to what became Office 365. Then more recently, moved over to lead our Azure business, putting the entire infrastructure business into the cloud. It has been an amazing and awe-inspiring experience and certainly humbling and a lot of lessons along the way as well. But as I step back and think about, we talk about in this industry transformation and disruption. It's just the first time it's happened. I want to put a little bit of historical context to it because it's certainly not the first time and won't be the last. If you think back to a revolution from the steam engine, completely transformed what the transportation industry looked like, opened up new horizons. Electricity, we can now suddenly work and play 24-7. We didn't have to have candles and go to bed when it got dark. We could fundamentally change how everything worked. Many of us, myself included, have lived through the electronic IT revolution. Microsoft was founded on the idea of a PC on every desktop. When that was just 30-plus years ago, that was considered revolutionary and now seems almost archaic in the idea of that. The next, the fourth industrial revolution we like to talk about is the digital transformation. This is fundamentally how every business, every organization is moving to a digital business. We recently had Jeff Amlop from GE, C of GE come on, talk about how GE is now a digital business. Lots more examples of that, but there's so much potential in what we're doing in this area. But I want to step back for just a second on that electricity because I think it's a good analogy. In the beginning, individual farms, individual factories had a water wheel to produce electricity or had a windmill to produce electricity, and that was the efficient approach to go. But then over time we realized there's this incredible economies of scale and this standardization across, and we can offer this as an overall utility. And there's two big transformations that happen. First, the admin electricity in general, we could go and work and play and do things that changed our lives. But then the switch from being independent up into having a consolidated holistic system. And I actually think this analogy is quite similar to the cloud and individual companies having their own data center today, but the prospect and the promise that a global cloud infrastructure can provide and the innovation it can unlock, to me that is incredibly exciting. And we're just in the beginnings. I know the cloud is everywhere and the cloud is big and people are talking about it, but actually we're still so early in the potential that it has in that area. And certainly with this comes change. If you were the candle maker before electricity, after electricity you go from being a necessity to being a novelty, and you had to adjust and adapt to that, but that's where innovation comes and it creates so much new innovation and jobs around it. So as we move forward, it shouldn't be as a surprise if you think about what's top of mind for CEOs in this time of digital transformation. And I can't tell you how much, I've talked to different customers around the globe and they say it in different words and say it in different ways, but fundamentally it's about this fourth industrial evolution of that digital transformation. And if you look from a CEO perspective, 86% consider digital their number one priority. And even looking across different factors happening from globalization, urbanization, other things, climate change, it's about that technology shift. And to me, this is why I love being in this industry, because it's always in the place of breaking through and making the impossible possible. And that's why events like this are great to bring us together and talk about what those possibilities can be and how we move all of us forward in that way. And this transformation is really relevant to everybody across all different industries. There isn't one kind of place that we can't see this type of transformation. I was actually just last week in Washington DC talking with a company doing research around MRIs and using the ability to do table side analysis and rendering and then using the cloud to do massive processing such that they were actually shortening the time that kids had to be in the MRI and getting much better imaging out of it. Great patient care, better outcomes, lower costs. There's one example. Public safety. Another one, very topical, particularly in the U.S. or better or worse.  Body cameras. In Azure, we're streaming body cameras so you can actually see what's happening real time in these frontline officers to make sure things are going all right. Lots of different opportunities there. And then certainly into IoT and what it's enabling with the device connected to the cloud. Think about oil and gas and refining and mining and we'll actually hear a little more about that today of how you can do things so differently with that type of sensor information coming off real time, understanding environmental impacts, understanding costs and benefits of that, understanding safety and health around something that in historical sense is going to be quite dangerous. So each industry, these are just a few examples, has this opportunity. And kind of the thread that we use through all of these is the new data we have. So much information. Back when I started in technology, data was scarce and power sat with data. That has completely changed. It's now open, widely accessible. So now it's about the insights. We all have the data. And things like AI are truly possible because of the richness and the robustness of the data and the compute power of the cloud. And so as we head forward into the AI capabilities in a very mainstream way, it's now possible the things we've been dreaming about for years as technologists now on the cusp. And when we talk about digital transformation, they tend to cluster in groups and ultimately digital transformation takes all of these shapes collectively. So let's try to break it down a little bit in how we think about digital transformation. The one you probably hear about most or see examples of is around engaging customers in new ways. Now we can put your entire company experience in your customer's pocket. That's very different than it was just a few years back. So thinking about how do you create these robust experiences. One of my favorite customers I worked with is Real Madrid, the football company. And they have this interesting thing that their customers are 450 million fans around the globe. So many fit in a stadium. So how do they create this experience that's rich and personalized and relevant to all of their fans even though they're watching from all over the world and working with them on this incredible customer engagement experience that they developed which is revolutionary in the football area. Certainly empowering employees, making sure that we're productive and satisfied and engaged. Their productivity around employee engagement changed dramatically. And there's lots of stats showing that engagement and output are very directly tied. So how do we create experiences that are rich, that are possible, the technology gets out of the way for the business to run in bridging those areas. Certainly a lot of opportunity and optimizing operations where that'd be using IoT devices and mining, connecting cars, other technologies where you can just run more efficient systems. And in this case also just take advantage of the economies of scale that the cloud offers even if it's just continuing to maintain your existing systems. And then transforming products.  So I want to give an example of that transforming product. One of my favorites, a great customer of ours, Rolls-Royce, the airline engine manufacturer, traditional industry, and they called us a while back now and they were in trouble. They were about to lose one of their big customers, an airline provider, an airline carrier. And they're like, we need to innovate. We need to do something different. We're not being as competitive. So we worked with them. We went in, we saw what they had from the data perspective, what insights they had, how they were running their systems, what kind of customer engagement they had. And we built a completely transformative system that fundamentally has allowed Rolls-Royce to go from selling engines to selling engine hours as a service. Huge shift. They have a different business model now. They have different customer engagement now. So first, a global dashboard. So they can see every system across the globe. Every airplane that has a Rolls-Royce engine in it, they need to know where it is. If they're the service provider for those engines, they need to know where they are. They need to know what's going on. They need to have instant notification if, in this case, a fuel pump looks like it's failing in one of the planes in Frankfurt. Having that at that operations room, command center, so they can see exactly what's happening. But then they can also drill in using IoT and machine learning, looking and seeing specifically on that engine. What's the utilization? What altitude has been flying? What pilot's been flying it? Because there's differences, deep insight. So it's not just predictive maintenance. It's actual real maintenance based on the different attributes going on around that specific airplane and that engine so they can do the right kind of servicing. Obviously with planes, the two first things I have is a dangerous situation or a delayed situation. So these are very material in real time and critical systems. But then it's about how do you put it into your front-line system so all the insights are great but if you don't change your business, it doesn't matter. So working with Rolls Royce connected it right down to their field service system. So once they see that fuel pump, they figure out that that plane is on the ground and ready for maintenance, they can make sure they have the right person, the right part, and they're scheduling that replacement on time down to that assignment that the agent gets on their mobile app on the ground to go fix that fuel pump. Just an interesting example of how the technology and taking information they had but putting it forth in a different way allowed them to fundamentally digitize their business and going from a manufacturing company to a service provider. Incredible opportunity for them. Now, rather than talk about other customers, I thought we'd bring it home a little more local. So I'm actually going to invite Gold Corp up but before that I'm going to play a video so you get a chance to learn a bit more about the company but think about maybe the original industry of mining gold and how does technology revolutionize that. So we're going to roll the video and then I'll bring them up. At Gold Corp we're at the cutting edge of leading producers for gold mining companies. We're always trying to take the best avenue we can to make the most efficient and safe product. We work in a very complex industry with a lot of information. We're looking at new ways to innovate and to bring technology into the workforce. What I envision for the Mine Control Center is to have the geologists, the engineers and the dispatch operators working together in a central area where all the information can be integrated through the HoloLens. The Mine Control Center is going to allow everyone that needs to contribute to this concerted effort and be able to see exactly what's going to move where and how it's going to happen. The team is able to pull in the drill map and see the next blast set up and see where the ore blocks are located in the dig map and then understand where the priorities are to separate the ore and waste. The HoloLens is going to enable the communication between the Mine Control Center and the operator so that the operator will know exactly when it's time to switch directions or to stop sending a certain type of material or when to completely stop digging. Doing so is going to enable us to send the right material to the right destination and when you can do that we're going to get a much better return on the material that we're mining. This is a powerful tool for mine management. The Mine Manager can put on a HoloLens and walk through the daily plan. The Mine Manager is able to pull in all the information and analyze what happened during the day and get answers to any questions they may have about the production plan. The Mine Control Center can take what the Mine Manager was looking at and package up that plan that's been carried out for the day and it can be sent to any location in the world. Back at the corporate office the executive is now able to review and understand the plan in a whole new way. The most exciting part of this project is I can see some very tangible benefits and once we start using it it's all going to come together and it's just going to blossom. The partnership with Microsoft HoloLens can improve communication, it's going to improve mining accuracy and really it's just a stepping stone at building the mine of the future. Please welcome Luis Kenapare from Gold Corp. Vice President of IT. Don't trip on your way up. Thank you so much for joining. Thanks Julia. Now by the way that was the first time we've showed anyone that concept video. It's early work that's piloting doing on Gold Corp so thank you for letting us share that innovative technology that you're doing on that front. So I just wanted to show the HoloLens so let's talk about augmented reality a little bit and I know you're an early concept and you're exploring the opportunity so tell me a little bit about how you're thinking about applying that to mining in the original industry. Well Julia, you can imagine mining is still a bit backwards. We just started our digital transformation and as an industry we're a bit behind everybody else. Oil and gas and financial services everybody else have taken a leap forward in embracing technology and we're just a step behind but this is our opportunity to leapfrog and embrace some of these technologies and make them our own and I envision a mind the first time I went down to Redmond our account team took us to the demo center and I remember being down and looking at Mars. You had your HoloLens I brought Gail Lawson with me our head geologist and Gail just turned around and said we would have our stops our new mind developments being virtualized and now a geologist in Quebec could be looking at our mining in Argentina or from Vancouver being transporting yourself to any of our mines in a safe manner we keep talking about reducing cost of operations but I'm also very excited about this because it's a way to take people out of harm's way so mining is still a dangerous industry we still have people working underground and the more we can use this technology to make people safe and work from remote locations where you don't have to expose yourself to mining hazards it will be much better Absolutely, imagine using drones and HoloLens so they can be in the mine without being in the mine Economically, imagine if we could develop areas of the mine that you will not traditionally do because they're dangerous or they're unstable and you can't if you're not putting people at risk you could actually develop these areas to make your mines more profitable Now earlier we were talking about we might not know but in mining, gold particularly the hit rate is quite low it's less than 1% so it's an expensive endeavor to go and look and find the right places so I was interested in how you're using artificial intelligence and how you're thinking about using this new capability to help improve those rates Absolutely, well exploration is probably one of the areas that I believe is more rigged for a change Traditionally mining in general is very hard to identify a new ore body is very difficult and not only to identify it but also to develop ore bodies are deeper and deeper in the ground and it's a lot more complex they're not continuous, you have to do different mining methods to extract them and they're becoming more cost ineffective One of the things that we're evaluating is we're looking at artificial intelligence as a way to take all our exploration data and using these AIs to identify patterns that humans can find we're hoping that if we can number one, if we can make all these data structured because again we have balls full of data that are in paper if we can utilize all of these make it available to our geologists and somehow structure it and make it more consumable I believe our success of exploration will improve significantly Alright, then last area around the cloud despite being in what you're calling yourself a laggard industry but you've been using the cloud for a while so interested in how that's helped you and what ways it's impacted your business I was your first client in BC I was the first one to embrace artificial intelligence Thank you for that So we're the first company to move but we are certainly looking into it I have this vision of a mine that doesn't require servers that we can move all our technology outside of the mine and basically operate from the cloud I mean we operate in very remote locations and sometimes to maintain these systems is very expensive for us so the cloud could be a significant player we have to figure out how we get some of these operating technologies and IOT outside, once in a real time how we get them outside of the mine with latency issues but once we sort that out I believe that will be one of the first companies to fully embrace cloud Now you're using it for your employees and then helping your employees connect in a better way Absolutely, we have a lot of our systems already running on the cloud and a lot of our we're even looking at moving our European to the cloud as well in the following years but I have the dream of making that first mine that is 100% cloud You're on the cutting edge of your industry in that front Thank you so much for sharing some of your stories and the experiences you've had Absolutely So where does Microsoft fit in this in this overall digital transformation So I just wanted to step back for just a second and Microsoft is very much a values based company and at our core is this mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more So all of our innovations, all of our investments all our resources here and globally are about achieving that core mission and particularly in the area that I focus on so much of this is made possible and what we can do because of the cloud and what's happening in the cloud So I want to talk a little bit about what does that mean people talk about the cloud, what is it what's part of it and just how we're addressing it and have a point of view on what the cloud is possible to do So first of all starting with productivity and then really getting after that employee experience how do you create engagement but also across the supply chain across partners in the BDB area of how do you create great productivity experiences and then as we think about into business applications ERP CRM and historically productivity and business applications were very siloed and what you did in your email or your I am or your chat was very different than your structured business processes but we really believe these are kind of becoming more and more integrated and even as we now Microsoft recently acquired LinkedIn new capabilities of bridging those experiences and insights of how to connect people more effectively across business and their personal life as well Obviously the core of so much of digital transformation is around application innovation and invent that next incredible experience how do we create that new application on HoloLens that gets people out of the minds and into more safe areas those kinds of things from the whole spectrum and that's really where Azure Cloud Platform comes in to enable all different flavors of that and as we talked about data is the fuel of this digital transformation so enabling artificial intelligence in a first class way in a cloud model as well and then of course nothing can be done without great security and management across those pieces Now customers and partners use different parts of the cloud based on their unique needs and any combination and that's great, that's how it should be there isn't an all or one or one size fits all and how this looks and what you need for your unique situation but the thing I love about what Microsoft does is that no matter what part of the cloud you use no matter which technology problem you're trying to address we deliver it in a holistic way so they build on each other and we see those kind of things across and the three core promises around global, trusted and hybrid so from a global perspective we have data centers right here in Canada but we also have them around the globe we have 38 data center regions over 100 data centers across the globe we have more distinct regions than our competitors combined in terms of the geographical footprint that we have and we've done that very specifically because we knew that would matter to businesses here as well as in many other countries from a trusted perspective many years ago now when we were very first starting our journey to the cloud I thought for people to work with us and put their mission critical applications in our cloud they have to trust us and so we set up principles in the beginning the trust was made of compliance, privacy, security and transparency and that everything we do across our cloud would live up to those promises our favorite example of what we are willing to do in this space is that we actually in the principle of privacy of our cloud technology we sued our largest customer the US government because they were asking for information in the Dublin data center and we felt that was not right so we sued them and we won now you can clap almost two years we went to court with the US government and we won that case and that was incredibly important for Microsoft with the industry to make sure that privacy in this world is maintained and respected and so much of this area is still gray and we are committed to working in the front lines with the Canadian government as well as across the globe to make sure those standards are set and that we meet them and then in hybrid now people talk about what is hybrid cloud what does that mean and a lot of people say I know I call it hybrid washing they talk about hybrid as a way to say that's not how I think about it hybrid is about enabling every organization no matter what existing infrastructure you have today to take advantage of the cloud capabilities to bridge this generational shift in a way that makes sense from a security, privacy, economic perspective and that's why across all of our cloud services we have a rich consistent hybrid experience so having on-premises technology and cloud technology can live compatibility without the complex and cost that it can be otherwise across our entire stack so core, core investments in that area but of course the cloud is not just something by itself it needs to be connected to people and information and devices and that's where that connection comes from our cloud into the device world as well and that's from everything from IoT millions and millions of IoT devices to PCs to phones and then of course into the HoloLens which in our Microsoft Canada R&D center doing work right here on the ground in this area in such a fantastic market can't wait to see what this group of people in this area of the world can innovate around augmented reality now to kind of make that a little bit more real I wanted to first play a video but I'm going to then invite Modio who is a great new innovative startup to talk but let me first roll their video to give you an introduction to who they are we live in an increasingly smart and connected world yet more than a billion vehicles remain so incredibly unconnected the automobile is the missing piece in a smarter more connected world but change is coming your smarter more connected life is expanding to your car Deutsche Telekom and Modio have partnered together to give every vehicle a voice by harnessing Deutsche Telekom's leading pan-European network to connect millions of vehicles with Modio's cloud platform we unlock hidden data that makes driving safer, more reliable and less expensive through partnerships with manufacturers service providers and internet of things leaders we are revolutionizing the automotive experience soon our vehicles will communicate with each other sharing real-time data to increase efficiency and help save lives these digital conversations between vehicles, people businesses and cities will connect our world and drive it forward together we are connecting the vehicles of today for the journeys of tomorrow this is your car only smarter I'd like to introduce Keith Hawk to come join us for the CEO of Modio Kenny Hawk I'm sorry thank you so much pleasure to be here come on up I know you just recently released that video and not too long ago I went into market so give us a little bit about your journey that you've been on with your company maybe we can get a hand held up much better started in 2012 based here in Vancouver on House Street I took over a year and a half ago and the company started as a B2C company trying to sell new technology for conducted cars directly to consumers that wasn't working we shifted the business as most startups do and to B2C model and very much focus on mobile carriers and today happy announced we launched on schedule on budget with T-Mobile nationwide in November less than two weeks later launched with Georgia Telecom in Europe and we built all that on top of Microsoft Azure and in the process we grew our team from 15 people to 45 today and will be about 70 or 80 by the end of the year now what I think is so particularly amazing about your story of going from basically launching to going to a massive global system that's fairly daunting so interested in I'm sure people will be interested in what was that like and how did you have to think about that daunting or crazy maybe a little bit of both think about a small growth company deciding to launch with T-Mobile not just a few test stores but launched nationwide 4,000 locations, trained 24,000 sales people and oh by the way let's launch with another carrier less than two weeks later in Europe our investors thought we were crazy and we pulled it off you might have been crazy in fact in fact you pulled it off made you not crazy well you know when we launched I have to say we had very optimistic hopes and those were blown away by T-Mobile we blew through our projections in the first couple days our system went down to launch and have an outage in your first couple days and we had to call in all the way up to the CEO of Microsoft to come help us we said please we're going to shut down T-Mobile we need help we need an ASAP and the next day we had the A-Team from Microsoft up there Scott Guthrie, Mark Sims Mark stayed there for three days day and night almost slept at the office to get us back up and running and for a growth company to have that kind of support from a giant like Microsoft I mean to me it was unbelievable it's why I'm here today to personally say thank you for getting us back up and running absolutely and thank you for your business just thinking about what caused that from being a little startup in some level to being a global industry obviously only possible because of the cloud technology obviously I mean architect it in an efficient way but think about your technology choices we had to decide what do we do inside what's special and different and what should you differentiate on and what is just kind of context that you can buy the best from somebody else and we decided even though we're backed by Amazon it's kind of crazy Amazon's an investor and we're not built on Azure but what we needed the core was all in Azure and it was what we needed today is there we need in the future is in your roadmap and so we decided to not reinvent the wheel leverage off what you're already doing and do only the special things that are going to be differentiated from Ogeo and we also knew from the beginning we're building a global company here it's not a Vancouver company we're based in Vancouver but our customers are global so have that kind of scale was also important to us winning T-Mobile winning Deutsche Telecom winning the other carriers that were will be announcing later this year so we can focus on what we do different absolutely and one of the things we were talking about backstage is Microsoft and Deutsche Telecom also run a what we call our German cloud Microsoft did that it's run in Deutsche Telecom to offer another level of privacy for the German market and something we're both jointly working on we discovered backstage so lots of connections in the German black forest and it's really important to keep data in Europe stays in Europe data in North America stays in North America and we thought a lot about privacy and you know just to if you're wondering what we do all the car companies are advertising connected car you know to track your car bill to find your car bill to know what's going on with your car but for half a billion cars that are out there that are not connected we want a very easy way to connect them that's what we give the carriers a very simple way to connect up your car and put high speed Wi-Fi in there so when something is wrong with your car instead of just getting an orange check engine light we tell you what's wrong how important it is can you fix it later do you need to fix it right away how much you should pay for the repair and eventually insurance companies will give you a discount for having that in there and in this very near future you'll have a message at the end of a trip saying you know Julia as you're driving down the highway your car slipped around that corner it's time for new tires for your car BMW 525 I and based on how fast you drive and how wild you drive we want you to get the performance tire it's in stock at the lowest price at this shop click here to have it installed or we can come install it at your office compared to waiting till you have a flat or a blowout on the highway so saving time saving lives and proving teen drivers is what we're all about that's fantastic now you're in a very I think very exciting space and what's possible and I do feel like it's we're doing setting scene credible innovation but it's still early so what you know if you had to predict looking forward what would the few things in the future might look like well I think that in the past we've had to take care of our cars you know something goes wrong we have to take care of it in the future I think our cars are going to take care of us they're gonna let you know it's time to get new tires they're gonna find you a parking spot they might even reserve one ahead of time instead of figuring out which of the three different reward systems you use when you go to the gas station your gas is already paid for you already are getting your points and you're finding a place that has the best price and then the other thing I think about just is a growth company the biggest thing is talent and getting great talent and to hear Premier Clark talk about the things that they're doing here in British Columbia and what Prime Minister Trudeau is doing for innovation in the future I love building a company here talent is the key and getting great talent has just been awesome in Vancouver fantastic thank you so much for sharing the story and for your partnership thank you and I love it's a very real experience but to me what's possible before the cloud a small business like that would have had to build incredible infrastructure or make all kinds of different partnership arrangements now they can just do that and overnight become a global success and that to me is what again is so exciting about the technology space all up so in transition we're thinking about Microsoft in Canada specifically if you're not aware we have an incredible investment here locally and around the country and just to highlight a few but over 2,000 startups that are in our Canada BizSpark program and this is actually Modio was part of one of our BizSpark startups but investment in technology and resources and expertise to help your startup grow and take advantage of technology in the best way possible and of course it's going to be unique so they're going to be working hand in hand on what everything from that business model might look like to how you use the technology we obviously have a huge thriving partner ecosystem which is wonderful 12,000 partners across the country doing a range of things whether it be augmented reality apps to helping people run their data centers more efficiently and work and transition to the cloud in that front as I mentioned earlier we also have two data centers here in Canada an early investment we made several years ago both in Toronto and in Quebec City to make sure that if you wanted to run in the cloud in Canada and you wanted to make sure all your information stayed within Canada we made that possible for you and so something you can take advantage of along with tapping into the overall global infrastructure as well and something I'm actually personally excited about is actually that Microsoft was from a diversity and inclusion perspective we rated number four as one of the best places to work in Canada in the Microsoft Canada team so fantastic work on that front as well as Mayor Clark said more work to be done in bringing more women into technology but I love to see that progress we're making as a company but also as part of the local ecosystem here as well and we've had a long and fantastic relationship between Microsoft and the local Canadian government as well and that's part of being here today and a major investment we've made together as Premier Clark mentioned the Cascadia Innovation Corridor bringing the best of Seattle's cloud city together with incredible innovation particularly in augmented reality apps thrilled to see the new investment and tax incentives they're working around continuing innovation in that area to kind of bring those two places together across our two cities we have over 12 million citizens we can help and drive more social and economic viability for as well and one of those key investments in establishing this innovation corridor was investments in the University of Washington as well as in the University of BC to work together and collaborate particularly on social and socioeconomic issues that face collectively in that area and again we're still early on this journey and there's so much more potential in the partnership here overall but I'm thrilled to see our two cities working hand in hand to drive greater innovation for our corridor but ultimately for the world and all of the customers we serve around the globe so with that thank you very very much for having me today and enjoy the rest of the conference


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Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside to Him. If you've been keeping track, then you probably realized that I never posted a makes video in July showing the things that I made in June. And that's not because I didn't make anything in June. It's simply just because I never got around to filming the video. I had so much going on on the channel already. And I was also planning for the big announcement on Instagram which is I am hosting a sewing challenge called Social Mashup with Lori from Girls in the Garden where we're challenging everyone to combine two or more sewing patterns to create one garment. And there's a ton of really great prizes. The grand prize is a FAF sewing machine which is really, really awesome. So it's an Instagram only challenge. So head over to my Instagram to learn more about it or stay tuned to this channel because I'll be talking about it a lot more here in the next week or so. But today I'm going to be showing you everything that I made in June and July. Just kind of get you all caught up on all the things that we made. But before I get into that, I do want to tell you about today's video sponsor which is Fashion Fabrics Club. If you guys don't know, Fashion Fabrics Club is an online fabric retailer. They have a ton of fabrics online, like a ton of variety, all kinds of different types of fabrics. They have everything from swimwear to jacquard. They have costume fabrics. They have special occasion fabrics. They have our favorite tensile. They have faux furs and flannels and home deck fabric. Honestly, they have tons and tons and tons of different types of fabrics. And on top of that, those fabrics also happen to be really great quality fabrics, which I know is very hard to find online, especially at a price point that we're all kind of comfortable with. So the things that Fashion Fabrics Club really prides themselves on is variety of fabrics that come in really great quality and are affordable for everyone. So they were super generous and sent me three different cuts of fabrics. I was so excited to get them. The first one is a jersey knit in this really pretty like baby pink color. This is like 98% rayon and 2% lycra. This is really great for lightweight cardigans, maybe even like a trapeze dress, not anything super fitted. This is very lightweight, but most ideal for like t-shirts, which is what I will be making from it. It is less than $6 a yard, which is awesome for rayon, you know, my favorite fabric. It's super, super soft. I absolutely love it. And look at that gorgeous drape. Love that so much. The next one I got is super fun. This is kind of like a bouquet, but it has this orange stripe. And then there's also like a metallic thread running through it as well.  I think that those are way to jazz up an outfit with minimal effort. You can wear jeans and a t-shirt and then throw this on top and you look like a million bucks. So I've got a couple different little crop jacket patterns that I have in mind for this. It's definitely going to be one of my fall ish sewing plans. So stay tuned for that. It is no longer available on Fashion Fabrics Club. I accidentally posted about my haul on Instagram and there was a run on this one in particular. So I'm sorry about that, but they do have a lot of really great fabrics that are very similar to this one. And I will link a couple of them in the description box for you. And then finally, they sent me this little beauty. It is like a little white blue and I don't know, some kind of like version of red striped Oxford fabric. It's actually a blend of 65% cotton and 35% linen. So it gives you that really great lightweight, breathable, easy summer fabric to use. This is perfect for any kind of buttoned-down top or any kind of structured top that you're wanting to make. The willow tank obviously comes to mind. It's also really great for skirts and dresses. It's fairly okay considering how light the colors are, especially if the skirt is a little bit flared. So don't you know, I went ahead and whipped something up out of this fabric as soon as it came in. And this is the first of my makes that I'm going to show you guys. So this is the cutest little short dress that I made with this adorable ruffle top. I mean, obviously with the stripe, I just had to find a pattern that was going to highlight that. So I found one with princess seams and a beautiful kind of like quarter or half circle skirt. I didn't worry too too much about lining up the stripes. They're close, but I could have done better. I wasn't really trying though. But anyways, it is half lined and just like a really lightweight cotton. And I think she is super, super cute and adorable. The fabric was suited for this pattern perfectly. And like I said, if all of this were one solid color and the ruffle might kind of blend in, but because it is a fun little stripe, I did turn the pattern piece of the stripes. They wanted them to run the length of the ruffle, but I turned them the other ways to just to make sure that you could absolutely see all the stripes in this fabric. She's super lightweight. She's super comfortable and super, super easy to wear. So if you are interested in grabbing the knit or this little guy, I think this one is less than $7, like $6.95 or something. So you could have a whole dress for $14. It doesn't get better than that. If you're interested in either of those fabrics, I will have them linked in the description box for you. Otherwise head to Fashion Fabrics Club and check out their huge assortment and variety of fabrics that are really great quality and at a very, very affordable price. And even better, you know, I have a coupon code for you. That's sort of my way of saying thank you and Fashion Fabrics Club way of saying, come try this out.  Nothing is off and limits. No restrictions. There's no expiration date. So you can shop till you drop till the end of time. The coupon code is THEHEM15. So head to Fashion Fabrics Club and let me know what you end up getting for yourself. Tag me in your hall picture or leave a comment in the description box here. I can't wait to hear all the fun fabrics that you guys discover on their site. So moving right along, my next make is actually my refashion. So I use Simplicity 8880, the top that the human model is wearing. And I was able to use this dress that I got at Goodwill to make this super cute little top.  I need to make more of these actually. I really, really like this top. I will say though that the arm elastic, this part here, was a little small for me. So make sure to measure that on yourself. I had to let it out by like an inch or more. So because it was just like way too constricting. But either way, I'll tell you more about this whenever I do my formal video review. This pattern I'm talking about today just because I mentioned it before. I can't remember which pattern it is. I swear it's a Vogue. I'll try and find it and put it into captions here. But initially this dress was not being worn because the skirt on the outside is a pleated skirt. But on the inside, it was like a more fitted skirt for the lining, which was never comfortable. It was never easy to sit down. I didn't enjoy wearing it. So I just chopped off the skirt hem and made it just a bodice lining. And there's no skirt lining at all. This fabric is pretty opaque. So that was the solution. And I've been wearing it a ton already ever since I did that. So I was just really happy to be able to spend a few minutes and kind of preserve a garment that on the outside looked really good. But on the inside was super uncomfortable to wear. So that's that one. Next up I have, what is it, Butterick 5639. I made this version here. I think straight up that version. Yeah. Yep. I think it's this version completely. I just was loving those deep, deep pockets. Little secret though, I made it out of a double brush poly instead of a woven. The pattern says you can use stable knits. Double brush poly is probably pushing it in terms of what would be considered a stable knit. Stable knits are probably more like Ponty and stuff like that. This is a little bit stretchier than that. But I don't know, I just really wanted it in a knit. So that's what I did. I just added a center back zipper, which this one has a center back zipper. Okay. So I preserved the center back zipper. You don't normally put zippers in knits, but I just really wanted to make sure that I was going to be able to get into it. And so here she is. I love this double brush poly. Super comfortable, super lightweight. Polyester isn't the most breathable fabric. So I'm not going to say it's like super cool in the summer. But I think that these colors and tones are a little bit more fall like anyways. So I think with like a sweater or lightweight jacket, this is going to get me a ton of wear in come fall. So and I love, love, love the deep, deep, deep pockets. Okay, next up we have McCall 7602. This little guy here. And if you remember my plans video, I was talking about how simple it would be to take like view C or A and just extend the peplum by like a foot to make a dress. And that is exactly what I did. Here she is. Super cute. You may recognize the fabric being the same as the pink fabric from the dress I talked about two dresses ago. And it is, they both came from Joanne. This particular one, the blue one I've seen in the clearance section at my Joanne as recently as last week. So you may still be able to get it. It's like a ray on twill or something like that. It's midweight, really easy to work with. And I just thought that with the kind of horizontal pattern that's going on, it would be great to highlight this little ruffle. So I really love it. I ended up making no changes. I don't think I didn't add a pocket or anything. So yeah, she just drapes and hangs beautifully. And I kind of really love wearing her. I will say though, I made this at the very beginning of July. And since then I have lost a little bit of weight. So she's already too big by like maybe a couple of inches. So I am toying with taking her apart and tightening her up in the side seams. But with this flounce, that will prove to be a little bit challenging. So it's not just something I can just whip out in a couple of hours. I really kind of have to think about how I'm going to alter that with the flounce. But either way, after I made that one, I was like, okay, we're going to start to sew clothes for what my body will be. And so one of them, the first shirt dress is a little bit like snug in the waist. But I know that it'll be a couple of weeks and I'll be fitting into it fine. This one, I made a little bit more snug as well, but I've already kind of grown into it. So that's good. But here she is super cute. Another little sundress, this one with a little bow shoulder detail, which I'm obsessed with. This one has pockets. Lovely. And I did a pretty little purple button, a little lilac button, and it matches my nails. That's exciting. This is a seersucker, like a rainbow seersucker. This is the fabric that I got from the Vogue summer swatch catalog. I saw all of you guys commenting that you ran out and got your own swatch catalog, which is awesome and exciting. Thank you so much for doing that. You're going to love it. You really are. I cannot wait to get mine the next time that they all come out. So the pattern for this one is M7950. It's VUD down here at the bottom. I opted to not do the little cutout, but maybe one day. I just get nervous about how the bodice is constructed. I've made one of those before, that red jumpsuit. I don't know if you remember that. And it's fine, but I don't want too many of them in my wardrobe if you know what I'm saying. But I did think that the rest of the pattern was super cute with this version here. And obviously you can like swap out the straps and do all kinds of fun different things with it. So anyways, that's that. And then I also made, do you remember my little like play suit idea where I was going to take a chambray and make a top and shorts out of the same fabric and kind of have like a mock jumpsuit or a mock romper kind of thing out of it? Well, I did that. It is Simplicity 1887 for the shorts and Simplicity 8090 for the top. The top is Vue F without the lace detail. And I don't know, I have mixed thoughts on how this turned out. I, first of all, the shorts don't fit great. There are some good issues. I feel like the crotch curve in the back was not deep enough. So I did deepen that, which helped a lot. But then I don't know, there's something else funky going on with it that makes them not super comfortable. It could be that the fabric is a little bit lightweight. I'm not sure. And then the top being so kind of voluminous at the bottom, I don't know that it's super flattering. I'll just leave it at that. But I do have separates. So even if I don't wear them together, I do have a chambray top, which is really cute to wear with jeans, white jeans, blue jeans, whatever. Super cute. And I just love the little gingham green button detail that I did on the back. Super cute. And then here are the shorts. So I want to like this pattern, but I don't know, maybe it's this that this front part is like flat. I don't know. I don't know exactly what it is, but there they are. And yeah. So those are everything I've made for the past couple of months. Oh, there's this guy. I almost forgot. I have this too. This is kind of still a work in progress. You can see here how this is like puckering the fabric. The pattern said to fold it under and top stitch. And I just think that this fabric is not very well suited for that. So I'm going to cut out a lining from the bodice pieces and try and create like a proper finish on these arm size and neckline. Hopefully they haven't stretched out too much. The pattern I used is M7160. I did basically the sleeveless version of B and the skirt from C, which by the way, is sort of a pattern mashup. I mean, but we are asking for you to do two different patterns, but it's the same concept. So I just love the fabric and I love what I did with like the placement of the pattern. I think that that is oh, hello. Hello, showing some cheek. I added a little pocket on the side. So I do think that this will be a beautiful dress. I just have to sort whatever's happening here. I have to sort that out. So I'll get that done hopefully here in the next couple of weeks. But anyways, that is going to do it for me today. I hope you all had an equally successful couple of months with your sewing projects. And I will be back very soon to chat with you guys about my plans for August and to talk to you a little bit more about social mashups. So much fun. I'll see you guys soon. Bye.


Hey everyone, Nico Carver here. I just arrived at a very dark, rural location right on the border of Oklahoma and New Mexico. I'm here for the Okitex Star Party and it's going to be great. I'm going to be here all week and I'm going to share the experience with you. I've been here a few days now. We've had exceptionally clear weather, it's been an amazing star party. This is a Bordel 1 location. You can see the extent of the star party below. There's plenty to do here. You can go hiking during the day. There's nature. I've seen giant grasshoppers, tarantulas. But the main event here is of course stargazing and for me astrophotography. And there are many other astrophotographers here. Some with really cool setups that I've been happy to explore with people. So I think that's really the reason to go to a star party is to meet people and to get fresh ideas because there's a lot of really excellent amateur astronomers and astrophotographers out there that come to these and are happy to share both their views through sometimes giant dubzonians, hand-built telescopes, really custom cool telescopes. And so there's a ton to do, a ton to learn. There's also usually scheduled talks. So I was one of the speakers at Okitex. I presented on Whitefield astrophotography. This was an amazing night. The one that I'll always remember. This is on the southern coast of Iceland. It's called the Jökul Sarmann-Gracier Lagoon. And I call this my first star party because you can really see there's a bunch of photographers over here. And they were from all over the world and people from Japan, Europe and people with all kinds of different setups. This time lapse was a little bit more challenging to put together because tours kept coming in on buses and when the tour groups came out they all had their cell phones over taking flash photography. And so whenever there was a flash in my time lapse it would sort of really sort of distract from the beauty of the scenes. Question is how do you tell how much light pollution is in the sky? There's a lot of good ways to do it. One is just with our eyes. John Bortle developed the Bortle Scale which is a way to just do it with your eyes and that ranges from Bortle 1 to Bortle 9. So here we're in a Bortle 1, when I'm in Boston I'm in a Bortle 9 which means the brightest guys. And so right now it's the Twilight Hour. There's actually a giveaway going on right now. So a lot of people are at that but then right after the giveaway ends they're going to come out here onto the observing field, start setting up their telescopes getting ready for the night. This has been an amazing gift for me as someone who lives out on the East Coast. So you know from my channel if you've been watching that a dark sky for me is like Bortle 4. And this again was a Bortle 1 sky so it's just really something else when you see that many stars and so many deep sky objects that I'm familiar with I can make out just naked eye. Like you can sort of see the outline of the North America nebula in Cygnus. You can see the lagoon is pretty well defined. The star clouds and the Milky Way of course really pop out but there's plenty of others. The M31, M33, so many cool things just to sit under this sky and just take it in.


Paxton claimed in the beginning of 2017 that he had a damaged aortic heart valve as a result of rheumatic disease he acquired as a child. He had open heart surgery on February 14th to replace the broken valve and treat an aortic aneurysm at Cedar Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He needed an urgent second surgery to fix a damaged coronary artery the following day. The next 10 days saw a decline in his health and on February 25th he suffered a fatal stroke passing away at the age of 61. He was cremated and buried at the Hollywood Hills Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Paxton's family sued Ali Coinajad, the surgeon who carried out his procedure, for wrongful death one year after Paxton passed away. They claimed that Coinajad employed high risk and unconventional techniques.


Honored to have Mr. Trent Salo joining us. Trent is his second season as performance director for the Detroit Pistons. Hopefully everybody is watching the last dance, which had a great feature about the bowls and pistons rivalry. Native of Rudyard, Michigan, Salo earned his bachelor's degree in exercise science in Calvin, where he was a two-year captain and starting point guard for the Knights as a junior and senior, not playing basketball against you, Trent. So first up, Trent Salo. All right, hey everyone, thanks for tuning in. My name is Trent Salo and I'm a physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach, currently working as a director of sport performance for the Detroit Pistons. And for the next 15 minutes, I'll be discussing return to play considerations in the NBA. Before we get started though, I do wanna share a bit on where my interest in return to play came from. So I'm gonna take you back. It's 2011, my senior season at Calvin University. It's actually our first scrimmage of the year. Catch the ball and out of the pass, sprinting full speed down the court, do a step back, move into a jumper and snap my fifth metatarsal. Now, of course at the time I'm devastated, but looking back, it was this injury and having to go through the return to play process as an athlete is what sparked my interest in how these decisions are made. And so what I did is I took this interest to my next stop, which was the University of Kentucky. And while going through my graduate studies and exercise physiology, I tried to view the return to play continuum through the lens of a strength and conditioning coach, you know, what I was studying at the time. And then taking this interest to the University of St. Augustine, you're going through my graduate studies as a physical therapist and viewing the return to play continuum through the lens of a medical provider, a physical therapist. And from there, basically trying to improve my decision-making process as a clinician and then as a group at each of my stops along the way. And we continue to try to do that with our team here in Detroit. And so as you can see, I'm considering myself a generalist in nature, which of course is why I was stoked when I thought David Epstein's book range come out. But I think this is why I have an affinity for studying and refining the return to play process is because I've seen it holistically and generally from different vantage points, you know, as a player at Kelvin as a coach and now as a clinician. So I'm excited to be here today. I'm really passionate about this return to play topic. There's some excellent presentations coming up after mine as well. So let's get started. Objectives, the first one is to identify key stakeholders and terminology within the return to play process. Two is we'll talk about a bio-cycle social framework that captures some of the key elements. And then the third one is discussing the importance of shared decision-making across multiple disciplines when it comes to return to play. Quick disclaimer. So we're dealing with the human body here, which of course lends itself to some inherent uncertainty. And you'll likely leave this presentation with more questions than answers, but hopefully we'll be able to address some of them in the Q and A session afterwards. Return to play stakeholders and terminology. So everybody on this slide in some way, shape, or form is involved in the return to play process. Now some of course are more involved than others. The general manager, the head coach, the physio, the surgeon, but at the same time, fans, family, media, they're all wondering when this player is going to return. And so I put this slide on here to raise awareness of the vast plethora of individuals who are some way involved in this process. And especially at the elite level, how we have to communicate differently with each of them. From a terminology standpoint, return to play is an overarching phrase that is often used, but really what it consists of is three distinct phases, as you can see on the screen here. Return to participation essentially describes returning to practice, turning to training. Return to sport is returning to gameplay and returning to performance. This stage basically extends the returning to sport, but it's characterized by the athlete performing at levels similar or above their pre-injury. An excellent presentation coming up on specifically the return to performance aspect.  Let's take a look, decision-making framework. So how are return to play decisions made? Return to play has seen a surge of research in an attempt to understand this whole process of how these decisions are made, particularly in the ACL and concussions, but really in all aspects and looking holistically at the continuum, and particularly the end stage of who's making the final call when the athlete can return. Traditionally, it's been the physician. So as you can see the study in 2011, are they the team of physicians' responsibility? Surgeons, medical doctors were primarily the gatekeeper and the final decision-maker, but what we're finding is more and more studies come out and they're moving towards the shared decision-making process, which we'll touch on briefly. So let's get into the specific framework. So the framework is called the strategic assessment of risk and risk tolerance for return to play decision-making. It was created by Dr. Ian Shrier out of McGill University and it consists of three steps. The first step, individual risk assessment. Step two is activity risk assessment. And step three is tolerance to risk assessment. And so what these three steps do is it provides a bio-cycle social framework that captures and discusses key elements to be considered in the return to play decision. Important to keep in mind though that the decision itself is not solved within the model. It's not a plug and play. It's not gonna tell you what to do. It's not prescriptive. It simply organizes the information available into assessing risk for a particular outcome and assessing risk tolerance for that outcome. And in my opinion, one of the benefits of the framework is it makes a lot of the hidden assumptions more transparent for the stakeholders, particularly the key decision-makers. And so in talking to Dr. Shrier this week he's exchanging emails. He said, look, this framework is based on simple principles. But what it does is it requires synthesis of information from different sources on multiple outcomes, which is not always an easy task. So simple framework or simple principles that we'll touch on here. So let's get to it. So this is the framework in its entirety. As you can see, step one, step two, step three. Essentially what it is is step one is what the tissue can handle. Step two, what the activity demands. And step three, the contextual decision modifiers. Let's dig a bit deeper on step one. Step one looks specifically at assessing the tissue health. Looking at the patient demographics, the symptoms, past medical history, are they weak, is there some swelling in there? What does imaging say? And we do this because we wanna synthesize this information on the load the tissue can absorb before injury. And again, it's tissue specific. We're talking about just the tissue that's healing from injury. So that's step one, step two. Step two is basically the demands of the activity the athlete is returning to. The type of sport, the position, what limb dominant they are, what competitive level they play. They have the ability to protect it, wearing bracing or padding, functional tests. What is the assessment of the other tissues that could have potentially deconditions during the period of rehab. And then psychological readiness as well. So step two, what we look to do is look at the stress of the activity. And if it's greater than the capacity of the tissue, you know, that might be a problem. A quick example of this is the, you know, step two differences between return to participation, what you're looking at the demands of practice. And step two, looking at the demands of returning the sport or the demands of gameplay. Okay, so step one, looking at tissue health. Step two, what are the expected tissue stresses? And step three, so step three is the contextual considerations that need to be kept in mind. The decision modifiers, the threshold for acceptable risk. And so how I like to put this is you're looking at an athlete who sprained his ankle and it's the preseason. You know, if they're not doing very well, if they still have a little pain, you're less likely to clear them to return to play because it's the preseason. Now, compare that to game seven of the NBA finals where that athlete is still having a little bit of pain. Well, we probably would be willing to accept a little bit of risk, more risk on that. And so that's what step three deals with. You know, the pressures the athlete may be having, you know, if they're masking the injury, if there's a conflict of interest, you know, so we have to assess, you know, how much risk are we willing to tolerate? An important consideration though with the risk of re-injury is only one of several outcomes that affect overall health or well-being of the athlete. When we talk about re-injury, yes, that's important. We don't want to re-injure our ankle if we just sprained it, if we're returning to play. But at the same time, we need to keep in mind potential socioeconomic impact, potential mental health impact, because sometimes the risk of re-injury, if it's greater than socioeconomic impact than mental health, well, yeah, we don't have to return to play. But there's scenarios where a player needs to play because he needs to make money. You know, maybe he's got to play and he gets a bonus if he plays in 60 games in the NBA season, the last game of the year and he's at 59. And so these are the challenging decisions that have to be made and these are considered in step three of the framework. So here's my attempt at a schematic, you know, drawing the process from start to finish when it comes to return to play decision-making. And so an injury occurs, you go through a period of reconditioning, eventually you have the return to play evaluation, which consists of step one and step two of the framework, taking into consideration step three, the risk tolerance. And you really have two decisions here. The first one is if the risk of re-injury, step one and step two are less than how much risk you're willing to tolerate, not the easy decision, the athlete should return to play. Now, if the risk of re-injury is greater than the risk tolerance, well, that's also an easy decision, the athlete should not return to play. And so very simply, the objective of the start framework is to arrive at a decision based on whether the risk assessment exceeds one's risk tolerance. Now, let's talk about who's decision is it? You know, who, return to play, who's decision is it? This slide basically says everybody has their own bias. And so in a high-performing organizations, clinicians and decision-makers are able to set aside their bias to be as objective as possible, but not always as easy as it sounds. So keeping that in mind. An excellent commentary here, return to play in elite sport, a shared decision-making process. This is getting into this phrase shared decision-making and where return to play is currently and where it's headed. And so there's three people in the decision-making process, the athlete, the healthcare provider and the coach. And they each contribute something a little different. The athlete, main contribution obviously is subjective. Yes, I feel ready to go or no, it doesn't feel quite right. The coach main contribution contextual timing of the season. You know, the coach says, gosh, we need to win some games or I'll lose my job or it's my best player, we need them back. And so his contribution is contextual. And then also healthcare providers, our main contribution should be objective as we evaluate health status. And we make the athlete and coach aware that regional options exist, you know, what those options are and guide them to making the best decision. And really that's what shared decision-making is all about. Another commentary Marcus Walden and Claire Ardern from Sweden and talking about this decision-making process and how shared decision-making is where it's headed. And, you know, unbiased is underlined here and talking about previously because we need to bring unbiased opinions to these decisions even though we all have our own bias. And the second paragraph there, basically talks about these decision-makers need to be established as early as possible because it's, you know, especially when you're in elite sport when you get to the end stages of rehab and you're looking around saying, well, who should make this decision? You know, that needs to be established early on in the process before that environment or before that situation is reached. And so I just wanna finish here these next couple of minutes talking about our approach in Detroit. Martin Buchet put out an excellent article outside the box and we tend to follow that, you know, looking for the right people, getting the right people on the bus before you move the bus. And that's those type three personalities in an organization. And from there, we look at our athletes as people first, athlete second, you know, we focus on what they can do when they're injured, not what they can't do. You know, the return to play process is a part of one of our three pillars under the injury management pillar and a couple of hashtags, a couple of words that we would describe that pillar as the, you know, principle-based, criteria-based, athlete-centered, objective, et cetera. You know, I put objective in there twice simply because we were trying to bring as much objective data to the decision. And then this slide from Kramer, Recovery from Injury in Sport, basically just depicts the different providers that are involved throughout the entire process and then comparing that to how we do it, you know, we want our key stakeholders involved in the entire process, for coach involved as soon as possible because each of them are our key when it comes to the end decision-making. And so we feel they should be a part of the process from day one, you know, obviously some more than others early on and then versus later on, but important for those three to be, or closer to be involved the entire way. This slide here is, we try to use a team of teams approach. You know, when I say try, you know, we're in the early stages of it and it takes time for it to grow organically, but we're establishing small groups of people around each athlete. And what that means is, you know, return to play starts day one, you know, strength coaches, we're doing contralateral limb exercise, three-legged bike, you know, the sport coaches doing stationary ball handling if the athlete can't handle any impact. And so this is how we operate in these small groups of people or small pods around each athlete. And how do we make return to play decisions? Well, we use the same framework that we just discussed. I just want to finish here the last minute or so of asking, would you allow this athlete to return to play? And really I'd like to present this because it shows the challenges we face in professional sports when it comes to decision-making on return to play. So let's take a look. So would you clear this player to return? He's your best player, two-week status post grade, two lateral ankle sprain, a figure eight measurements indicated he's got some swelling, range of motion's not quite there, a little bit of pain walking, strength isn't quite there, some pain running and some good amount of pain cutting. Most of us would probably say, no, we don't want to return this athlete, he's not ready yet. But what about if it's a playoff game and the head coach and GM need to win now or else they lose their job? This is just one scenario that we face in professional sports all the time. And so it's just, it's one of many, one of many potential scenarios that we face that we have to deal with and provide objective information and make the best decision. And so the take home message here is return to play is a complex process, particularly professional sports, but it boils down to risk assessment versus risk tolerance. It requires shared decision-making and it requires a formal structure to process and process to guide the interactions between the individuals. So a lot of time appreciated everyone for tuning in. We'll look forward to hearing from you during the Q and A.


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For the last year and a half. I've been an emacs user I've been a happy emacs user and I'm not really looking to go back to VIM But I do keep up to date with some of the development and the things that go on with VIM and especially with Neo VIM And one of the cool things about Neo VIM is there is a lot of graphical front-ends to Neo VIM people are writing GUI clients for Neo VIM and one of the ones that I've heard about here recently and I wanted to take a look on camera today is Neo VIM which is a graphical Neo VIM client written in Rust now Neo VIM is available for Linux Mac and Windows just like Neo VIM is available on Linux Mac and Windows You can run Neo VIM on all the operating systems the source code is hosted over on GitHub You could build it yourself for those of you that are running Arch or an Arch based system You can find Neo VIM in the Arch user repositories They also have installation instructions for those of you running Debian or a boon to based instructions here on the GitHub page Neo VIM of course is free and open-source software. It's licensed under the MIT license and their GitHub page is Really nice because instead of just having screenshots They actually have animated gifts displaying some of what Neo VIM can do and the main thing that Neo VIM provides Is these cool animation effects especially when your cursor is moving? So that is the big thing it provides the other big thing it provides is smooth scrolling now Let me switch to my desktop and let me launch Neo VIM I'm gonna launch my bash rc here in Neo VIM and the two big claims to fame with Neo VIM The neat things it provides that you know standard Neo VIM in the terminal does not provide is the cursor animation So if I'm just moving down you really can't tell when I'm making small movements, but let's say I make a big jump I'm on line 24 right now. What if I go to the first line you see the really neat animation? You can tell exactly where that cursor jumps to because it had that almost sliding effect where in standard VIM or standard Neo VIM that cursor jump is immediate and Unless you really are drawn you're not your eyes not really drawn to where that cursor is moving a lot of times Sometimes the cursor can get lost so these animations although they are for effect, right? They had a little bling to your Neo VIM. They actually do serve a purpose. Let me move down 10 lines Let me move down 10 lines again. Let me move back up Of course, I can you know click with the mouse and move my cursor and it's really neat I like it follows you around everywhere if I wanted to select some text You know when I'm selecting text the cursor just jumping around now The other big thing was the smooth scrolling and I'm scrolling with the mouse wheel right now And that is very smooth scrolling right there's no jitters no jumps. I mean, it's just smooth as butter I would almost switch to Neo VIDE from regular Neo VIM just for that smooth scrolling effect I'm not even kidding now. How do you configure Neo VIDE? Well, Neo VIDE remember is just a graphical front-end to Neo VIM itself so Neo VIDE just reads your Neo VIM config You're a knit dot VIM that should be in your home directory slash dot config slash in VIM That's the file that controls Neo VIDE as well.  So in my config I didn't have any settings for GUI clients and you have to have settings for GUI clients Otherwise, you know, this thing will not be configured in any way. For example, this is my color scheme This is basically the doom emacs color scheme the doom one color scheme that doom emacs uses I had implemented that into my terminal and into my Neo VIM config But the problem is I didn't have these lines here like GUI foreground GUI background I had C term foreground and C term background for the terminal base Neo VIM But I never bothered adding GUI colors for anything because I never planned on using a GUI front end So I had to go in here. I had to spend a little time in this config To set all my colors to match what was going on in the terminal version of Neo VIM So I needed to add that there was also some other settings You may need to add some mouse settings If you want to be able to grab text like I'm doing here with the mouse Make sure you have set mouse equals a is what I'm using for that setting Also, you need to set GUI options for your GUI font If you don't have a GUI font set Then it's just going to default to your standard system font your standard system Monospace font because most people unless you have ever used a GUI VIM or GUI Neo VIM client You've never set a GUI font because your fonts are set of course by the terminal emulator What the font is set in that so you're all going to go have to add that line there I set mine to source code pro which is an open-sourced version of source code pro and this wasn't hard I mean I had to spend I don't know ten minutes Maybe adding some of the various GUI options and the GUI color options and things to my config But now that I've got that done. I mean everything everything works fine I could actually use Neo vibe and be happy with it like I could strictly be a Neo vibe user Now there are a couple of things that do bug me a little bit with Neo vibe One of them is even though the get a page talks about it can display colored emojis again I it seems to be broken here on arco linux Maybe it's broken on all arch based systems But it doesn't matter what I set the font to even if I set my font Which right now is source code pro if I set that to joy pixels or noto color emoji or any kind of colored emoji font Then though these fonts wouldn't even display regular character text characters. All they do is display emojis I still can't get emojis to render. So I have this file here on my system Moji dot text. Let me cat it out here in the alacrity terminal alacrity doesn't handle colored emojis that well But it does display them as these little black-and-white Unicode glyphs here, which is fine that is still better than the way neo vibe hands will set because That is that same file and you know each one of these headings There's a line of emojis up under it But you know none of the emojis display not a single one and again That's displayed with source code pro which probably wouldn't display on many way, but it really doesn't matter what font I've set that to I've set it to a dozen different fonts many of them again strictly emoji fonts and it still Doesn't render emojis at all one other minor gripe It's not a gripe to me because I don't really like transparency But for those of you that like transparency and your terminal-based neo vim Transparency is great because most of your terminals allow you to set the background of the terminal to be transparent Which is really nice, but here in neo vibe. What you have to do is set the entire neo vibe window as Transparent and that's 95% transparency there or opacity there and You know it just bleeds through a little bit and I've got it set to such Such minor transparency just very minor transparency because if I set it to light the text is actually transparent Like everything in the window even the status bar is transparent So it's completely different than neo vim in the terminal which just the background itself is transparent But the bar and the text and all of that is not transparent at all And so you really can have some readability problems with windows like this that don't have you know standard Transparency they basically make the entire window transparent. So I personally wouldn't use Transparency in neo vibe since it doesn't have true transparency. It's the same reason I don't do transparency in e-max e-max is the same way if I set transparency in e-max the entire e-max window Is transparent including the text and it just causes problems with readability, but those are minor gripes for me I would be just fine with neo vibe how it is I mean it uses all of my neo vm key bindings is again It's using the neo vm config and you can see the cursor move around when I move around the splits Let me open up another vertical split and if I you know move to that split and then move to that split You know, it really does have some nice animation effects I've got to give it that and by the way the cursor effects. There are different cursor effects you have Well, here's an animated gift You have this one where you get a little trail of characters following the The cursor and that one's called the rail gun effect They've got a like a dozen different cursor effects that you can choose from Let me see if I can show you some of these so let me get back to the desktop here Let me close one of these splits here and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get into command mode I'm gonna do a colon and then let G colon neo vibe underscore cursor underscore VFX underscore mode well, that's a lot to type and then Equals and let's try the rail gun effect So that this is the rail gun and you see I've got little bubbles appearing outside the The cursor when I most that's really neat Looking back at some of the documentation some of the other cursor effects torpedo Pixie dust, let me see if I can get those to work as well So I'm just gonna get back into command mode and let's up arrow to get that last command and let's change to Torpedo and see yeah. Oh, right That's kind of like the last effect itself It's like on steroids now it moves quicker and a lot more bubbles trailing it Let me do the colon again and go back up and let's try pixie dust just trying one more Cursor effect here and let's see what that does Okay, and you get some dots some trailing dots, but they're very minor. So this is much more minimal So if you like less bloat with your animations pixie dust might be the one So that's just a very quick look at neo vibe a graphical neo vim client written and rust and I think it's cool It's got a couple of nickels, you know for those of you that want true transparency and colored emoji support They're kind of iffy right now, but for me, I don't need them I just need a working text editor and as a neo vim text editor It works a hundred percent a matter of fact it works a hundred percent and it provides a couple of things that honestly I really love I love the cursor animations visually when you're jumping in the large amounts of distance with your cursor The animations really do help and I love the smooth scrolling the smooth scrolling for me because I do a lot with the mouse wheel That would make me You know what I'm probably not going to uninstall neo vibe from my system What I think I might do is I'm gonna go ahead and leave it on my system I'm gonna go ahead and alias vim on my computer to actually just run neo vibe now before I go I need to think a few special people. I need to think the producers of this episode I'm talking about absy Dallas gay blue Mitchell Allen a commie archery charge 30 show Dave the other David Dylan Gregory Lewis Paul Scott with Steven Wesson Willie these guys they are the producers of this show They are my high-steered patrons over on patreon without these guys. You wouldn't know about neo vibe You wouldn't know about it The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well All of these names you're seeing on the screen right now each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen help support My work over on patreon because the distro tube channel is sponsored by you guys the community You want to help me out look for distro tube over on patreon? All right guys Peace We need a neo vim front-end written in a Haskell