And I am here with Soraya Cohen and she is a fantastic LED couture fashion designer. She just managed a most amazing LED fashion show with a whole bunch of models. We're all kind of backstage here looking at all the fantastic costumes. What's your favorite piece? Oh, my favorite piece is probably the first one I made. It's called Reflections and it has an Arduino running some lights in a really fun pattern and also a blue tooth feather from Eaterfruit that I can send words to. So I can scroll words across the front of the dress. That is very, very cool. So I wrote a book called Make It Wear It and it uses the circuit playground express for some of the programming in it. I think it's a really easy system for folks to learn and fun to play around with. So I really like clothes that don't just light up but they're really interactive and I made a piece last year called Conductive melody that uses machine learning and a Raspberry Pi and it has a whole sleeve of conductive fabric and you can play it like a piano. Wow. So I really like to kind of mel the like fun, elegant fashion with kind of cool sensors and lots of inputs. That's kind of the thing I like to do. That sounds like so much fun and if we want to find out more about all your stuff where do we go? Oh you can find me online at Ampt Atelier that's A-M-P-E-D-A-T-E-L-I-E-R and we're a little bit on YouTube but mostly on Instagram. All right, yay. Well thank you so much and thank you so much for forwarding the field of LED fashion which we are all never meant to be here. Thank you.


Lost Empire Herbs is an online store that offers a huge variety of natropics, herbs, extracts and other interesting supplements. But is it any good? Let's find out! Hey, what's up, Greg here, the founder of Your Reception. Welcome to my channel, where you can learn top secrets about natropics. Subscribe below to start your journey. So today we're gonna talk about Lost Empire Herbs. Now, this is an online store that is known for their herb extracts. They have a huge variety of different supplements and different forms and you know I've decided to do a whole review and see if this natropic online store is any good. So I've decided to order a couple of supplements from them and today I'm going to share with you my experience, the good things about this store, the bad things and at the end of this video I'm going to share with you if you should consider buying from them or not. Now, let's quickly talk about my experience with Lost Empire Herbs. So the first thing that I did is I ordered a couple of products. I ordered Lion's Min mushroom. I think there's a Bacopa Moneri or the Olorosa and of course I got this one as well. This is Shisandra Berry and this is the only one I have left here. I've tried others. I've taken all of them. So this one is that's left and of course when I got the product I wanted to do a detailed review and really understand and see if the store is good, if I recommand it or not. First of all, I was really satisfied with the delivery with their distribution. They were really fast with that. I'm based in Europe right now and they delivered the products to me in a couple of days, which is quite a big thing because it's really difficult to get all the supplements from the States to Europe. I mean, that's a big challenge nowadays, but they did a good job here and I was satisfied with that. The second thing is I look at the packaging and I think the packaging is all right. It's pretty high quality. There's nothing to worry about it, you know, that any other substances would get into this package or that it would be open or anything. So I was pretty satisfied with that. Another thing of course, I gave all the products to my team. They checked it out. They put in the lab. One of them I think was Bacopa. I'm not sure about it and they checked the purity of the ingredients and that was pretty good. I think it was perfect almost. So it was exactly as they stated. So there was nothing wrong with the ingredients and I was happy with that as well. Of course, I performed a small test. As I said before, I tried all the tropics. I even taken like the whole package of Bacopa Monerio of Lance main mushroom. Those are the new tropics that I really prefer. I really like and I always recommend to people and the taste was good, but it's in a powder form. So you have to mix it with something or preferably put it in a small capsule and take it with capsule. It depends what you like. Yeah, my experience with the products was really good. Nothing to complain about. What I also want to add here is that I reached out to the team of Lost Empire Herbs and their support was very good. They were quick with replying to me. I had some questions and some questions about the products and I was really positively surprised about that. Now, is there anything I don't like about Lost Empire Herbs? Yeah, there are two things. First of all, I don't like the design of their web store so much. I mean, I don't care about the design so much as I do about user experience. And there's so many things out there, so many subcategories and so on that slightly confuse me. So that's something I would like to improve, especially for all the beginners and all those people that are first time trying to buy the tropics because it might get a bit too confusing. That's my opinion, at least. The second thing is if you look at the packaging, you can see which ingredient is in, how much you have to take it, what's the recommended suggested dose basically. And that's it. But what I would like to add here is what are the benefits of each individual ingredients, which tropics you can stack it with, what you can expect from it, even maybe what kind of side effects.  But whatever, that would be good for users. And I would like to see at least the benefits, because they have so many ingredients, so many extras. And if you're a beginner, or even if you're experienced in the tropics and our food supplements, sometimes it's just too challenging to remember all the benefits that a single tropic or individual compound can bring. And it would be good to put this on the back, so it will be easier for people to know what they can expect from each individual compound. And those are two things I don't like about that much, or basically, I would like to see improved in the future, because it really adds additional value to people. By the way, guys, I have revealed seven special secrets about tropics that no one else will tell you. To get them, download my free handbook below. Now, I also checked what other people say about last empire herbs. I went through hundreds of reviews, and most reviews are very, very positive. So people really like last empire herbs because of all the reasons that I mentioned before. Now, I also found some negative reviews.  So there was a comment about, you know, I bought this, I took so many milligrams and nothing happened. And that's a big issue because it's really, we're talking about the tropics, we're talking about natural compounds, mainly, of course, we're talking about extracts, there are herbs in them. This is the extract of an actual herb that we have here in. And that's what last empire herbs offers, right? And it's sometimes really hard to feel any benefits when you take such supplements, at least in the short term, in the longer term, it changes a bit. But still, if you take 50 milligrams of frediola or say you might feel something, you might not feel anything. I don't like to see such reviews because they don't say anything about the quality of a brand. They don't say anything about the quality of the product. They just say if they experienced any benefits or not. And that's very subjective. So I wouldn't worry about that. Of course, when I was looking at our other reviews, like when people are complaining about the, you know, long delivery or something like that, that's something else that I would worry about. But with last empire herbs, my personal experience was really good. I had no issues whatsoever. I was very satisfied with the whole process with their customer support. The products are fine. They're really good. The packaging is good. So there's really nothing to complain about. And that's a good, good benefit. So guys, if you want to read more about last empire herbs and my experience with it, there's a link below, check it out. If you want to order any tropics, there's a link below as well. So just go ahead and check it out. Now, of course, I promised you at the beginning of this video, if I recommend buying from last empire herbs or not. So the main question is, should you avoid this brand? Should you consider buying from them? Or should you simply go on their web store and buy the tropics from them?  They offer high quality supplements, high quality in the tropics, high quality herbs and herb extracts. They have great customer support. Their delivery is fast. And my experience with the store was very, very good. All right, guys, that's it for this video. Thank you for watching. Don't forget to follow your inception on Facebook and Instagram. And I hope to see you soon.


to talk about the trade and what his expectations are in regard to joining a brand new ball club. Josh, how surprised were you when you heard you were traded to the New York Yankees? I was surprised. I hadn't really heard my name or anything mentioned or tied with the Yankees organization. But I'm excited about being here and helping this team win ball games. You had mentioned in the press conference that maybe it takes a little bit of pressure off you. How do you see yourself fitting in that lineup? I think there's a lot of quality hitters in this lineup. For me, I want to continue to be myself and hopefully bolster this lineup to where it gives it a little bit more well roundedness. Brian Cashman said not too long ago you're a fiery guy. Maybe this clubhouse needs this. How would you describe your clubhouse presence? Honestly, I try to have fun in the clubhouse. But at the same time, I think for me it's about having conversations with guys and always trying to get better. How can I help the ball club? How can if I see something that someone else can do to improve the ball club and just having conversations about that and at the end of the day go out there and late on the line. You mentioned conversations. You were very clear you had one with Garrett Cole earlier today. How did that go? I thought it went well. I think both of us had the opportunity to talk to each other face to face. I felt like coming out of that conversation it ended well. What excites you about being a member of this Yankees team? I just think the amount of talent that's in this clubhouse right now. With this organization, every year you feel good about going into the season. Coming here and seeing the amount of talent that's in there, I feel very excited as well. You've been around a while. Obviously a shortened spring training. Another unique situation. It seems like the last two or three years have been unique. Any challenges you see in getting ready perhaps a little bit quicker? I think every day is important. I said that earlier to where when the spring training is five or six weeks long, you can ease into it. But right now we're getting thrown into the fire. We're still trying to be smart about making decisions. But at the same time trying to accomplish and get something done and get better every day. You've seen the Yankees Red Sox rival from afar but opening day. You guys won't be hosting the Boston Red Sox. Is that something that you're looking forward to? You didn't know that, but you are. Yeah, you always see it on Sunday Night Baseball for the most part. So it'll be probably pretty intense to what I'm guessing. Do you have any personal goals for this season? My goals are always focused on winning ball games. If I can go out there and help the team win and obviously staying on the field is going to be important. And how we go about that this year, especially with the unique spring training. I really have to talk to Boone about what they're thinking. But I'm assuming it's going to have a large role in this team. So I'm looking forward to that. You talk about staying on the field. Have you changed anything about your offseason routine to try to ensure that you're out there all the time? I just think it's staying focused in dietary stuff and trying to feed your body well and make sure that you're recovering and just taking care of yourself as much as possible. Josh, welcome and best of luck this season. Thank you.


I'd like to focus tonight on a fundamental shift that every single leader in this room can act on immediately. One that I've made a central tenet of my leadership. One that is core to this year's forum thanks to the leadership of our seven exceptional co-chairs. I'm talking about hiring, promoting, and retaining more women. And not just because it's the right thing to do, or the nice thing to do, but because it's the smart thing to do. In Canada, like all over the world, much of the economic and labour force growth we've experienced over the last many decades is because of women entering into and changing the workforce. But there is still so much room for improvement, and such enormous benefit still to be had. McKinsey estimates that narrowing the gender gap in Canada could add $150 billion to our economy by 2026. Research tells us that organizations with women on their corporate boards and in key positions of leadership perform better than those without. In fact, the Peterson Institute for International Economics just found that increasing the share of women in leadership positions from zero to 30% translated into a 15% boost to profitability. Recent estimates suggest that economic gender parity could add $1.75 trillion to the United States GDP. And in China, the GDP boost could be as much as $2.5 trillion, which is bigger than the entire Canadian economy. Ladies and gentlemen, to embark, to promote, and to retain more women is translated not only by an increase in your profits, but also by a greater diversity of ideas. In fact, women's inclusion can bring innovation to another level and facilitate the resolution of conflict. Encourage women's participation and your companies, just like your communities, will be stronger. Now, when we talk about getting more women into the workforce, the issue of pay equity comes up, and it should. It's vitally important. In Canada, we'll be moving forward this year with legislation to ensure equal pay for work of equal value at the federal level. And I'm sure there's a few of you in the audience who are thinking, I already have equal pay policies in place. This doesn't apply to me. But while I commend your effort on that front, it may not be good enough. For our own governments, pay equity efforts, while important, are just a first step, because equal pay for women does not mean equal opportunity, or equal treatment, or equal sacrifice. Paying a female employee the same as a male employee doesn't even begin to touch issues around family planning, promotions, or job security. Women do more part-time work and more unpaid work than men. So, how do we address that? See, when we dig a little deeper, when we peel back that outer layer, we see that there are a whole host of barriers facing women in the workplace. Removing those barriers will take effort, leadership, and a willingness to change the nature of work as we know it. What does that mean? What can we do? So here's where we need to start. It's time to take a serious look at parental leave and childcare policies. We should be encouraging women and men to make the best decision for their family situation. In Canada, we've given parents more options for parental leave and invested billions in affordable, high-quality childcare. But there's more to do. We've also introduced a really successful child benefit program that gives middle and low income parents more money every month tax-free to help with the costs of raising kids. And since the Canada Child Benefit gives more money to those who need it most, the financial impact on single mothers has been significant. Last year, nearly 90% of single moms receiving the Canada Child Benefit earned less than $60,000 a year and received about $9,000 in total benefits tax-free. And let's be clear, helping those families has been a key driver of Canada's recent stellar economic growth. Companies should have a formal policy on gender diversity and make the recruitment of women candidates a priority. You may remember that we introduced our country's first gender-balanced cabinet in 2015. The usual suspects complained, but guess what? Two years later, Christia Freeland and Miriam Montsef, who are here this week, along with their many female colleagues in cabinet, are serving the country with great distinction and have elevated the level of decision-making and debate for everyone in cabinet and in government. As corporate leaders, consider a gender-balanced board or gender-balanced project teams. Anytime we're looking for a new hire, we should be identifying women candidates at a rate equal to men. In Canada, when we look to fill appointments, we work to recruit people who reflect the true diversity of our country. And we have to make accounts of the efforts we make openly and transparently. In fact, we are at the point of adopting a law that would force companies constituting a federal law to divulge information on the subject of their policy on gender diversity. For example, it would include the proportion of women from their administration council and their higher management. Some other points to improve? We must understand that the responsibility to take care of the elderly or sick people often comes back to women. So, the creation of a program for the natural helpers who continue to reduce financial difficulties engendered by absence of work is an option we must face. And we have to recognize that aspects of intersectionality are always at play and require special and explicit attention. Here's an example. In 2016, among women who were newly appointed to the boards of Fortune 500 companies, 77 percent were white. Race, religion, sexuality, socioeconomic status, those are just a few of the ways that women are even further discriminated against. Finally, here's the really big one. Me too. Times up. The women's march. These movements tell us that we need to have a critical discussion on women's rights, equality, and the power dynamics of gender. Sexual harassment, for example, in business and in government, is a systemic problem, and it is unacceptable. As leaders, we need to recognize and to act to show that truly time is up. We must each have a well understood, established process in place to file allegations of workplace harassment, and when we receive those complaints, we must take them seriously. As women speak up, it is our responsibility to listen and, more importantly, to believe. Folks, treat these not as piecemeal alternatives to how things are currently run. Treat these examples as fundamental and essential shifts in the way we operate. As governments and as corporations, we were entrusted with a platform and a voice. Let's use them. Last year, with our neighbors in the U.S., we established the Canada U.S. Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders. The council just put out an important report, their first of five, focused on supporting and growing women-owned businesses. We need to listen to them and implement it. The advancement of women on social, political and economic levels is an important aspect of our presidency. The equality of sex and the comparative analysis between sexes will be integrated in all the themes, activities and results of our presidency of the G7, including in the ministerial meetings and during the G7 leaders' summit. I am very happy to announce that Melinda Gates and Isabel Udon will be the co-president of the consultative council for the equality of sexes of the G7. These two women are strong voices for the advancement of the equality of sex and the autonomy of women and girls, and this will therefore mean the equality of sex will be a priority in all of what we are doing at the G7 this year. I am pleased to announce that the co-chairs for the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council will be Melinda Gates and Isabel Udon. Both of these women are global leaders in the advancement of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, and so will ensure that gender equality is a priority throughout everything the G7 does this year. Canada will also, 2018 will also see Canada hosting Fortune's Most Powerful Women International Summit and 2019 will bring the Women Deliver Conference to Vancouver, the world's largest gathering on health rights and well-being of women and girls. So those are just a few examples of what we're doing to draw regular and frequent attention to the untapped potential of women and girls around the world. It's not a one-time thing, it's an ongoing effort to convene, to challenge, and to push boundaries. But that's not to say we've got it all figured out. In Canada, we need more women in politics, more women on corporate boards, and more women in STEM. And that's, of course, just the tip of the iceberg. So in reflecting on this, let me ask you, what are your challenges? And more importantly, what are you doing to address them? Ladies and gentlemen, the hiring, promotion and retention of women is something we can make happen today, right now. More women in leadership positions won't just grow our economy, create jobs, and strengthen our communities. It'll also lead to innovation and change in the workplace, innovation and change that workers desperately need.


A teaching idea for the future-perfect continuous tense includes a survey. Here we want to be able to find out the duration of an activity at a certain point in time for the future. A sample question might be, how long will you have been learning English for by the end of the year? At the end of the activity we should be able to identify who will have been learning English for the longest and who will have been learning English for the shortest amount of time. Please bear in mind that the future-perfect continuous is one of those rare tenses that we don't often use. This does mean that we're quite limited in the range of activities that we can use with our students.


This video is for all of you coaches and service providers who particularly provide some kind of experience or healing or transformation to your clients, but you don't teach as much to your clients or at least you don't think you do. All right, so before I give you ideas, by the way, I want to encourage all of you who would like to comment below to share if you are a coach or a healer or you don't see yourself as a teacher or you didn't comment below with your best or your one of the best pieces of content that you've created. If you've kind of overcome this block, this limiting belief, if I may say, of coaches can't create content, coaches aren't supposed to teach, I am a, you know, or maybe you're a healing facilitator or some kind of experience facilitator, like I don't teach, I facilitate experiences. Oh, really? Okay. All right. If you've overcome that block of why don't teach and then you started to create content, please comment below with one of your best pieces of content so that others can benefit from your example. All right, so first of all, the coaches and other experience providers who are not creating content consistently, to you, I say that you are holding yourself back from a much greater potential that you could have, both in your business, but also personally, as just a fully actualized human being. Now, why do I say that? Well, because, well, let's talk about the business part first, because I think that's easier to understand. We all know that those who are more top of mind, the service providers who are more top of mind are the ones more likely to get clients, right? And what's the, what's, what's an easier and most, and also most noble way to be top of mind is to be creating content consistently, because then you're always adding value in the social media space or to email newsletters or on the internet in some way, and you're always adding value. You're, you're adding ideas, entertainment, your own personal expression and stories, et cetera. So, so definitely by creating content consistently, like I tried to model, you get clients consistently as well, or more likely to. Well, and I, I've been doing this stuff, consistent content since at least 2015. And ever since then, my, you know, client base has gone up, up, up, up every year and waiting lists, et cetera. So it's obviously good for business. But let me now talk about why briefly, and then I'll go into content ideas for coaches. Okay, I'll share that with you. I'm not a teacher. I'm a coach. All right, let's talk about that. But, but the second idea about why content creation is so crucial for reaching your greatest potential as a human being, as a self actualized, a fully sort of authentically expressed human being is that when you articulate your experiences, your ideas, and also the experiences and ideas of your clients, obviously keeping them anonymous. But when you articulate, when you practice articulating ideas and sharing experiences, you practice expressing yourself authentically, right?   When you're writing, you hone your writing voice.   If you're not creating as and publicly sharing, you're greatly holding yourself back from that potential of becoming smarter and becoming more articulate and authentically expressive. Okay, so that's about being a self actualized human being. Everyone should be creating content. I'm serious. Every human being who is able to, all right, should be creating. Should I don't want to like judge, be judgmental. But I really just think that every human being who can, who does something in the world, especially in terms of work and session and helping others, can reach more of their potential by creating content consistently, whether it's writing, speaking, recording, art, whatever it is. Okay, so the other thing, a third reason, business, good for business, good for your self actualization and third, it's good for humanity, right? So instead of people, you know, people post many shallow things on social media, things that are not, yeah, things that are maybe entertaining or whatever, that's fine. But when you share of your authentic experience and learn and practice articulating things at first, well, to me, I feel like I'm always doing it imperfectly, including this video, right? Doesn't matter, doesn't matter, imperfectly, just do it. You add more valuable experiences and stories to humanity, to the consciousness of the world. And you may, you know, positively uplift and impact other people, even if they never buy from you or hire you or like your thing, you're positive impacting humanity by doing so. So hopefully, by this point in the video, you are more convinced, I'm just trying to not trying to persuade you, but hopefully you're more inspired to say, okay, even if I'm as coach, I'm not supposed to teach people, I'm not supposed to be a subject matter expert, or maybe I'm an experienced facilitator, facility healing experiences, I don't teach. Okay. By this point, you're like, well, maybe I could, maybe I could say something. So let me give you three ways to create content. Okay. Way number one is the next time you are with your clients, okay, or with your group of participants that you do some healing for, the next time you're with them, notice what comes out of your mouth, notice any word or phrase that you utter, really, I mean, you could literally record yourself. You know, you, you're not recording them. You just use your phone or whatever, put on voice memo or, or record yourself and, and notice what words and phrases come out of your mouth with a client. Now, I'll take a hard case, right? Like, let's say, let's say that the coach will argue with me, George, I don't teach or consult with my clients. I help them discover their answers by asking powerful questions. Oh, really? Okay, great. Those questions themselves are content. Hello. Okay.  I mean, first of all, let's say you were asking a client some kind of question to help them elicit some answer from themselves. Well, when you are asking them the question, there's already some context that you and the client have gone through that makes the question meaningful. And the coaches, please comment below with examples of a powerful question that you, you know, more questions that you ask your clients so that we can actually give examples here. Cause I'm a little known secret. Maybe I've never gotten any coaching training. I've never gotten any training as a coach, a teacher, consultant, mentor, you know, never gotten any training at all. We're taking a class. However, I have worked with many, many coaches. I mean, I started really in 2009 as a, as a marketing consultant, consulting for coaches. Okay.  So I know you're supposed to not teach, not give advice, but you give powerful questions. Now that any question that comes out of your mouth has a context for why does that question matter? Why, why are you asking why does it matter? Okay. And what situations could that question apply? For example, that question could apply to help someone discover answers for their relationship or for their work or for their personal growth or for their health challenges or whatever. Okay. So you can literally, if it's a single, just take one single question, okay, why does that question matter and how is that question applied in various situations that you could illustrate to say, well, this is why the question matters. And these are the possible, here are a few examples of possible answers that might come out of the, the client. And this is why it helps them to move forward. Right. I mean, right. So, so like I said, anything that comes out of your mouth has a context that as you describe that context, why it matters and what is the possible, you know, pathway that is led from that question. That's brilliant content. Okay. So that's way number one, like I said, is record yourself so that you can notice whatever utterance comes out of it. I'll give you, I'll give you another example. Okay. Let's say you are a spiritual group experience facilitator. I'm not a coach. I'm not a teacher or teacher or consultant. Georgia, I, I facilitate healing experiences in a group. Fine. And I can't create content because it's all experiential. Really? Okay. Let's record yourself.  That's content right there. What's the, what's the purpose behind the exercise? What is the root tradition that the exercise came from? Why, what kind of benefits does it have? What kind of examples have you seen of people who use that exercise or that experience and how has it manifested some kind of difference in their life, right?   Well, I'm not going to come into your experience and you not saying a single thing. And I'm just like, I don't know what to do here. Of course you're saying something that all of that's content, right? So that's, that's way number one is record yourself in, in a client experience and notice what comes out and write or speak about the context underneath. That's all content. And then number one, number two, and I have to look at my notes here because I took some notes here. Number two is even though, even though you are not supposed, okay, actually, I'm sorry, I'm going to back up a little bit. I'll say that the second way is to, now I said the first way is to record yourself, right? And study that. The second way is to record a client or group session experience. Now, I know it's all confidential, all private stuff, there's intimate things that are shared in client sessions. However, some of your clients may and participants may be open enough for you to record it as a sample for others to know what it's like to experience coaching or to experience this healing group experience. Okay. And if, you know, you can even give them a, you know, bonus by saying, hey, you know, you could tell a client, listen, what, let's say a client, if you believe would be open to something like this, right, then you ask them, hey, could I give you a free session? Yeah, a free session or same thing with group participants, hey, I'm going to create a free group experience for the purpose of recording a sample of what it's like. So the client knows it's being this client participants know it's being recorded and number two, that it's going to be a sample. So encourage them to not exactly ham it up, maybe, but, but just to be aware that others are watching or going to be watching this to understand what this kind of experience is like. So have them, have them encourage them to be more expressive, in other words, so that they can, you know, it's a more, it's more interesting thing to watch instead of so much processing just inside their own head, but just to express more of what they're processing with their experiencing. So that's the second way is to record, again, some of, you know, and if you don't have clients to ask this or or you're shy about asking your clients, ask friends, post it on social media, your friends, your Facebook friend or Instagram or wherever you're on social media or email a couple of friends, hey, could I, could you give me a favor and allow me to record if you want to, you know, get, would you be willing to allow me to record a sample session and what it's like to work with me. And so record those. And you don't, you know, obviously later on, you can watch it back and go, hmm, are there particular segments that are interesting? Well, you can cut out those segments and use that as content, whether that's video content or podcast content or you could transcribe it into some kind of blog post. So that's the second very powerful way, because when people see or hear or read an actual experience of what it's like to work with you and you can keep doing this again and again and again, you might, you might really kind of catch this wonderful bug of sharing experiences.  I usually take my clients off screen for privacy purposes, but you'll see in many of my videos, I'm essentially answering questions that literally I have clients there on the call and they're usually in a group program. I'm answering a question or challenge that they pose. Some clients are happy to be on screen and I ask them that and they're happy to. So you can see these examples on my YouTube channel. Okay. That's the second way is sample sessions or group experiences recorded, you know, as to to give people a real grounded context for the work that you do. And by the way, those sample sessions don't have to be like all about selling. It could, it could be some, some useful experience that the viewer or the listener can feel some kind of healing from it or some kind of uplift or benefit from, from watching or listening to that sample. Okay. And the third way, the third way is this. Even though you tell me that you don't give advice as a coach or you don't teach, you don't, you're not a subject matter expert. The reality is that sometimes you do get advice. Let's be honest about it. Let's say that you have a client who's really, really stuck. Yes. You, of course, I know you ask powerful questions and you give them, you walk them through exercises, which by the way, our content as well could be online courses when you leave people through exercises. Anyway, so sometimes the client's really, really stuck and you just have a gut instinct that, you know what, if I could just offer a few possible, possible ideas for ways to move forward, maybe they could pick from one of these or they can have additional ideas based on what I suggest, you probably have done that every, almost every coach that I know has done that to some extent. Well, that's content right there because the reality is this. I mean, no matter how much you want to be purely question asking and exercise facilitating and no, no answers from me, only from you, dear client, no matter how much you like that, okay? You still have a belief, a framework for how to move forward in life.  Or let's say, I'm gonna use leadership as an example, might be a little easier to understand.  You don't tell people answers you listen from. And one of your clients is, okay, so I think what I'm gonna do, I think my answer is that I'm gonna have to just be more harsh with my employees. I just have to make things more painful for them so that they'll just have no choice but to, and you as a conscious leader of consultants, you know, I mean, maybe from the studies you've read and from the training you've gotten and from the clients, other clients you've helped, you know that there's chances are there's a much better way forward than causing more pain or suffering to employees. I'm using this as a facetious example, right? Causing more pain.  Could I, can we see if there's an alternative way of doing it? Because you have some framework in your mind for what's a harmful way to move forward in the world and what's probably a more beneficial way to move forward. You see what I mean?  Obviously, you don't want them to cause suffering, right? You want them to cause more positive uplift and transformation and connection with others, right? So you have a framework for that. Yes, you can ask powerful questions and guide them and you try not to tell them the answers but you do have a framework, of course you do. And so that framework, if you're willing to admit that to yourself, that's content right there. Talk about various parts of your framework. Why, why? You can talk about why bosses should, you know, why you don't believe it's helpful for bosses to use punishment to try to motivate their employees. I mean, that's a kind of an extreme example, right? But you know what I'm saying? There is a framework. I'll say, I'll use the relationship example. I brought that up earlier. Let's say someone says, oh, you know, that means I have to just be more, I have to nag my spouse more. I think I just have to keep reminding them that this isn't done, this isn't done, this isn't done. And then they'll finally do it. That's my answer. You might say, well, you know, maybe you have a framework that relationships work better when the person practices deeper listening, practices, you know, physical affection or whatever it is, you have a framework for it. Talk about that framework. Even though in your client session, you're trying not to give them the answer in your blog posts, in your videos, you can certainly talk about your framework. Because by the way, the person who consumes your content and gets inspired by your framework is an even better client, is even better fit for us as a client. So let's stop kidding ourselves and say, coaches can't create content, come on. I just gave you three very useful methods to discover, well, as a coach, right? How can you discover those answers from within yourself? Anyway, I hope this is helpful. And like I said, last thing, please feel free, those of you who are coaches and experienced creators who are not supposed to teach, you just facilitate experiences, right? Comment below and give us an example of one of your best blog posts, maybe something that clients found helpful or just did particularly well, blog posts or videos or podcast episodes or something like that. So that way it gives others some examples of what to work off of. So thank you so much for joining me for this and I look forward to your comments below. Thanks.


Morning everybody, this is something new for me this winter. Christmas is over and we're on the countdown to next Christmas. This Christmas season I was able to install my new steering wheel that I got from Jim as well as the matching shifter knob here. I still gotta clean up the cables a little bit but that didn't know how to do that before. Now I know how to do that. I got a little bit of a wind coming out of the south here. So it looks like my steering wheel is not quite centered because I gotta give it a little bit of extra pull this way so that the wind doesn't push me onto the shoulder but if that continues to be like that next time I'm home I'll have to adjust the steering wheel just a little bit so that it's centered a little better. I think it'll be just fine. I'm bob tailing, I'm on my way to pick up an empty step deck, 53 foot.  We're gonna be working hard now until the baby's born. Just quickly getting settled into the truck. I don't have a lot of time. I have an empty step deck behind me just like I told you. We got the new steering wheel, we got the new gear shifter put on here to match. I have the blue bar for on here as well but I'm just gonna hold off on installing that for now until I can get a cover for down here.  Otherwise it'll be like blue and chrome. So I just decided to keep it chrome all the way up for now. But that's fine just the way it is. I have the other piece in my shop. I also got a kettle from my wife for Christmas. She's like I was hoping for. So we're back to making coffee in here and making food in here. And that's a one liter kettle. The other one was only a 500 milliliter. So half of that. So I've got double the amount of water now or double the amount of hot water in the truck. So I can make soup and coffee at the same time. Right on. Let's go to Canora, let's pick up our load. Let's get down to Minnesota tonight before it starts snowing or something crazy like that. I really love this steering wheel. I think it suits the truck great. It's got the blue LEDs in the back as well. I'm getting a few more of those to put under the dash in the front here as well. That's an upcoming project. Got my extra plug outlets here now. Nice little blue one to match the truck with little buttons there. So I can turn them on and off. That way I don't have to constantly dig between my cups here to get to the lighter plugs there. Plug in the phone, charge that up, buckle ourselves in so we don't fall out. We are officially off Christmas vacation now. I didn't book any time off for New Year's. So if we get home for New Year's, we do. If not, that's okay, I didn't book it off. It's on the weekend, so we'll see what happens. Here you'll the chain right now. It's about a two hour drive to Canora and we'll be driving into the night tonight. Probably get to Brainerd around 10 o'clock tonight or so or maybe a little earlier, we'll see. Hopefully nothing goes wrong and our border clearance goes through in a timely fashion. Time I have booked off is paternal leave, March 17th. Like you all know, Brits due date, our first baby, is April 1st. That's also my birthday, so I'm about to get the best birthday present ever. But I'm going to be taking off two weeks before that just in case the baby comes early also to make sure the nursery is prepared and ready and that we are prepared and ready and that Brit is prepared and ready. And then we'll see how the birth goes. If I only need to take two weeks off after the birth, that's great. If not, then I'll take another four weeks after the birth, so it'll be a total of six weeks and then it'll be back to work. So until then, I'm going to be working my high knee off to make sure that we can financially swing that. We shouldn't have any problems and we should be good. It is our slow season here at work, but we'll make it work. Inspection when we know everything is good on our truck. No, I do understand why they do it because there's a lot of guys that try to get away with equipment that's not fit for the road.  Why is this guy on the brakes? Why are we slowing down, man? Construction speed limit's 70, not 50. Just talking about how we're always in a rush. Just getting the sticks put on the flat bed here right now. I've got 12 of these eight footer stacks. We've got two, four, six of them on here so far, so half of them. And then I have four more stacks of nine footers, I think that are going on top of these here. Losing our sunlight out here already, but that's okay and we will work in the dark. I've called ahead to the receiver down in Minnesota. They're expecting me there tomorrow, late morning, to close to noon, maybe a bit early. Doesn't really matter. It's first come, first serve anyways, but they like to know that we're coming and he knows me. All I gotta do is I'm Josh, Blue Kenworth, Blue Tarps. He knows then that I'm one of the guys that'll help him. That I won't just sit in my truck and unload, I'll help him get the donage off the trailer and make things go as quickly as possible for both of us. I hope that's a reputation I'm earning there. That's what I try anyway. So we've got eight on here right now. Not done tying it down, obviously, but once he comes with the rest of it, we'll work on that. It's a little bit slow moving here. I think he's gotta dig my stuff out from underneath everything. There's two more going on top of that there yet, so I was able to quickly snap this hub cover on this morning yet. So that's fixed. I have another one to replace the other side because that one has a little bit of a dent in it. It was like that when I bought it, but no big deal. I don't know if you can see it or not. Oh yeah, you can see it. I've got a dent in there. I got one to replace this too. I can do this either tonight or tomorrow morning. Sometime on this trip, I'll just have it inside the door here. It's right there. Took care of the other one first because the other one had actually popped off. So that was a lot more obvious, right? A lot more obvious than that was on there. We got that fixed up. We got the steering wheel installed. We got the shift knob installed. Making progress. Good, the good kind progress. As for my marker lights, they were delivered today, but I didn't have time to run and get them. Obviously we're working, so these fenders, fender signals will be replaced as well as all the marker lights on top of the cab and on top of the sleeper. That'll look pretty nice. That'll be a project for the next time I'm at the shop and have time. Whenever that'll be. And then these will be replaced with clear lens LEDs as well. I already have them marked off on Amazon unless I find a better deal on them somewhere. Got those two straps on there just to hold the tarps down. They're not actually holding the load down. They're just stopping the tarps from flapping too much. And that's that. We got to get going. We're already cleared at the border. So our customs broker is on the ball once again. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. We're about six hours away. So it's seven o'clock. We'll get there after midnight. Yay. Great. Loving the steering wheel. It's hard to keep it clean though. Hard to keep it clean. I got some dirt on it. I got to keep those fingerprints off of it. It's hard because I touch it all the time. Kind of have to, you know. Yeah. Oh, I think it looks way better. I got a comment on, was it on Instagram? One of you was telling me now I need to replace all the wood paneling in here with blue. There's gonna be this piece in here, around there, the little pieces on the door there. I love that idea. I think I'm gonna go with that. See if I can. See if I can get a replacement trim that matches this blue. Has to be the same blue. Otherwise it's gonna look weird. Because this matches the paint on the outside of the truck, right? And it also matches my sleeper theme. Matches the whole truck theme. That's why the truck is called old blue. Cause it's old and it's blue. Let's get out of here. It's gonna be a bit of a late night. At least we're trucking. Morning coming. A lonely road. Old blue, sing your song down this lonely road. We're sitting at about 79,000 pounds gross. It's pretty well split between my axles. With my drive axles being slightly heavier, it gives me better traction. Climb up these snowy hills and not gotta worry about spinning out. The steering wheel is very comfortable to hold too. The other one was a little thinner. That was a little worn out too, but it was a little thinner. This one's a little bit, just feels a little bit better in my hands, you know? I think I might have to realign it just slightly to the right though. Very slightly. I think it's just a little off center, a little bit too, like pointed to the left a little bit. I will do a whole trip on it, see how it is. Maybe it's just my eyes now. It's an easy fix if it is a problem. They put up a nice big new sign over here. To all the transport trucks, no engine brakes down this little road. Apparently a lot of us have been singing the song of our people past these residences here a little too often. Now they said, nope, no more. No more singing here, guys. Gotta wait til you get to that road down there. That's trans-Canada. You can sing all you want down there. Believe me, we will be. You just can't sing down this little downhill here. This is where I always liked to. So once again, I'm going to be crossing from Fort Francis, Ontario into International Falls, Minnesota. I hope nobody's coming, this is that blind corner. Night, it's a little bit better because you can see their lights coming around the corner if they are before you see them. Definitely feels good to be rolling again. It's for sure. One kilometer, slide right on. Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 11. Leaders, slide right on. Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 11. Turn right in 410 meters. I'm gonna take my tarps off out here this time. There's three guys inside already all waiting to get unloaded and one guy has to get reloaded. It was gonna be a little while so in the meantime they said I can take these off out here. It's a nice warm, calm day. Not a big deal. I'll get these off and then we'll just get in ourselves unloaded for more lifts to go. Then I gotta back out. So we're gonna end today's vlog here and we'll start tomorrow from the same spot. So don't forget to subscribe and tune in tomorrow. We're heading to Duluth, Minnesota from here.


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Create your own brilliant UIs with the software development skills for embedded hardware platforms. CGI Studio is providing a complete and well-established toolchain for UI creation. To give you an idea, over 50 million vehicles in the state-of-the-art and ambitious automotive sector are already equipped with CGI Studio. My name is Reinhard. I'm the CEO from the Candero Group. Hi, I'm Dagmar. I'm the marketing manager of Candero. And how long have you been doing this technology? Oh, that's amazing. We are doing this almost 20 years. So we entered into the mobile phone market where we already had our footprint with HMIs already on very low-end devices with 8-bit chipsets. And later on, we added our stuff into the automotive area. And this started in 2009. So we started with 3D creation and later added 2D. And that's where we are now. We have a tool which is called CGI Studio and which is awesome to create real, good, embedded HMI applications. And you are doing some launch here for the embedded world, right? What's the news with that? Yes, correct. We are showing our latest developments, which is based on no coding approaches, really easy to transfer from the graphical designer to the hardware itself. So we are showing here our latest developments, which are really, really amazing how you can use it. And really, you can speed up the development. You can save costs. You can save time. It's great. So what we see here is one of our latest HMI solutions. We are going to showcase it in the embedded world. This solution has been created with Next System and Data Module. And it's a haptic human-machine interface. So all the buttons, all the sliders here have intuitive touch feedback. So we see here an excavator user interface. And here we see an interactive cache point. And you see that it has an intuitive touch feedback. So also people with visual impairments can interact with this use case thanks to this feedback. Here we have an Autic CMAP and also integrated sound effects. Here we see a mixing console. Yeah, and all these graphics have been implemented with Candera CGI Studio, also with the smart Photoshop in Porta. Can you talk a little bit about the story in terms of the automotive industry? You've been, you're supplying in 50 million cars. So there's a lot of car manufacturers that are working with your technology. Yes, that's right. So car manufacturers all over the world, but also tier ones all over the world are using our technology. So as I said, we entered... The beginning was to have a 3D engine because we have been asked by German car maker, hey, can you support us on this? And we said, yes, of course. So it was more a garage-startage project that we had in 2009. But this is how we rolled it up. So we added this cool 3D stuff and later on 2D and all the peripherals that you need. And this is what was our winning strategy to really achieve this global market footprint. And here in the video, I see that you have this whole user interface system and you're talking about code, maybe not necessarily to code, and then you can just import graphics from Photoshop and it just, how does it work? Yeah, so we usually had a Photoshop in Porta, which it was not handy to use and in the past we added now artificial intelligence for this. So it's quite easy. If you have the Photoshop file, you can buy artificial intelligence, you can, the techniques is deciding which content do you have there. And it's automatically combining the graphics with the logic in the tooling. And this is some huge step because in the end, you don't need a high professional software engineer to do this. So a graphics designer can do it, but even you or me can do it. So it should be quite easy and it is very easy to bridge this gap between how to get the graphics from the artist to the target. And this is, we call it no coding approach. This is a word that we also phrase that we also define for the market, no coding. So if you want to have a really fast, easy prototype, you can do this without any coding. You just change some parameters.  Of course, there is also a way of additional coding if you really want to do this because we want to be open for all types of engineers. And I see that you have all these SOC supports, TTI, Renaissance, ST. All these have a big market in these kinds of long-term support SOCs that the car needs to, or the washing machine needs to be for 10 years, right? Or 20 years. Yeah, yeah. The washing machine, maybe not, but the car for sure, yeah. So of course, so this also needs a high quality implementations for these target systems because you have to support this over a long period, as you said. And this is the clear expectation in the automotive market, but this is also our quality stamp that we are bringing with CGS to it. And this is in our DNA to deliver high quality and brilliant products. And Dagmar, maybe you want to introduce a little bit what's kind of like your exhibit for the embedded world digital? What's the new launch and everything? Actually, we try to give an overview about, let's say, all the products and from the automotive industry, but also industrial devices. And we have two, let's say, brand new features. We're going to show one. We saw it before in the movie. It's a haptic HMI solution. And we created this with two hardware partners. So this is the next system and data module. And maybe you can skip to the movie. Yeah. And we can have a look at it together. All right. Is it into this? Yes. At like three minutes or? Yeah. It's at three, 20. Yeah, exactly. Perfect, perfect. So yeah. And as you see, this features several different use cases. We have here an excavator user interface and all the buttons and sliders here. They have a haptic feedback. So we will see this later on a little bit. It's hard actually to show it in a movie, but in a few seconds you will know what I mean. So here when we have a look at it, this is a cache point, digital cache point. And this has been created, especially to support people with visual impairments. So it gives a strong haptic feedback. And together with, let's say, the voice support, those people will be able to use this cache point without even seeing the interface. Is it like a shell that's kind of glued onto the display or how does that work? And it's just a vibration of the display or? It's a vibration. It's a special technology and it gives an intuitive haptic feedback. Yeah, you feel it directly on the finger. You can feel it. This is also something that's very useful and automotive, right? When people are driving around, they want to know that they're touching something. Is that also for this kind of market? I think haptics is an absolute trend over all industries. Yes. So I think the HMIs, they want to not only use the visual impacts, but all the senses we have. Yeah. Nice. And you've been going to the embedded world for many years? Yes, for many years. But this time, the first time, it's a digital event for the first time. So this is new. But of course, we have a virtual stand there, virtual booth, we're showing different products. We did a great movie shooting before in the company to do a movie of all the use cases. And we will also have a speaker slot on the 2nd of March, where one of my colleagues will talk about the next generation of HMI development. So this will focus on what Reinhardt says, so our smart Photoshop importer. So easy import of graphic files and transformation into full functional HMIs with our smart Photoshop importer. And I see their Infinion logo and some boards. There's a lot of partnership going on there, right? Yes, yes. This is the second, let's say, novelty. So we have recently been certified from Infinion as the first HMI tool partner for Traveo 2. So this is, yeah, great pleasure for us. And for this, we had to implement the use cases you see here. So a full digital instrument cluster with a media cover flow in the middle and a head up displays, yeah? So this was the task we had to fulfill and yeah, we did it. Nice. And you have colleagues here also in the call that maybe you can show a little bit because you're talking about without coding. So that means thousands of companies can get into it without having to learn something very advanced maybe or very complicated or and just start, maybe they can just start to prototype and then get more deeper into it or? Yeah, they can start to prototype. And normally, it's in the age of migration it's a two-step process. So the designer creates the artwork and then the developer has to create the HMI and with this tool, we can close this gap. So the designer will be able to do the whole process without any support from developers. All right, so we can get into that very shortly. Maybe Reinhardt, you might talk a little bit into what kind of partnerships usually might happen out of an embedded world. Is it like the chip makers, the G partner? I saw logos like Microsoft and all these like there's all kinds of partnerships that happen in different levels. Yes, of course. So of course we have our customers where we which we also see as partners. There are the tier one suppliers, they are the car makers. And of course, we're also working together with the chip manufacturers because it's essential to understand where they are going, what they are bringing to the market. And as Dagmar said, now we send opinion guys, we did, we are doing this now for almost two, two and a half years. And we also have a different history also with them because some part of this guys also have been part of our company some years ago. And therefore it really makes sense to really have these partnerships to understand where is the industry going and also to be a early follower to really be able to support the new techniques that is coming in. I think we fulfilled this quite, quite good with the support of the Infinion Travejo too at the moment.  Yes, so actually we started in 2006 to enter the automotive industry by developing an infotainment system. But this was not with our tooling, we used the different tooling. So in the end it was a competitor tooling not at that time but now. And we launched that together with Ceteer One. Yeah, for a big US car maker we launched a European series in 2007, 2008, 2009. And based on our experience that we gained there and also from the mobile phone area we talked to other car owners and they asked us, hey, it seems like you can do something on your own. And then this is how the thing started.  So this is the bunch in the automotive area but we are also delivering now with our tooling solutions for white goods or for home automation. So it's a broad spectrum that we are currently covering. How do you integrate with the Android for example or Microsoft solutions and it's like a layer, a skin? Yeah, we are integrating into Android like an application. So we are an own application with an own context where we are also supporting all the Android interfaces and where we can connect to the outside world but where we also can use our own rendering technology especially for 3D, we have a very strong engine and this is a real good combination with Android where it comes to have 3D content creation. And this is how we're entering also into this and we are campaigning part in this Android universe. How do you make sure that things just work because when you're in a car and it's like a display, really like 199.99999% just has to be reliable. Yeah, it's all about testing, what can I say? So we cannot only develop so we are covering the whole cycle. And as you can see here, for example, we also have remote testing possibilities. This is just what you can see here. But of course, in the end, all the developments, the products, they have to run through all the techniques and test mechanisms that we have to fulfill the high quality expectations. And this is clear. And can you talk a little bit about your company? You are in Austria, right? And is that the headquarters? Yes, so actually the company here was established already in 2000 and then we switched to the automotive every morning 2008, 2009. So here in Austria, we are around 50 people, but we also working with suppliers in Austria. And recently, two years ago, we changed our ownership. So we are now part of the Arts Park Group and the Arts Park Group, the headquarters is in Japan. And there is one division that's called sales, is they are making or they are market leader for manga toolings and also very, very addicted to graphics and all these things in parallel. There is also our Kendera Japan, where we have another 40 people for product development and also for customer support. And for the other regions, we have a location in US where we're supporting our customers and for special regions like Korea, China, and also for Japan. We're working with distributors and this was many years and this is a quite good setup for all of us. And so there's a lot of things that just work smoothly, I guess, in your solution. Maybe you can introduce your colleagues here on the call who will talk to us to some of the details about how this works. We have David here. David is our product manager. So he joined us last year and it's quite amazing what we already achieved because he was looking on all the product development from a completely different angle and this was quite amazing what we achieved. Now we also have Patrick on the call and Patrick is one of our software engineers who is also working with the customers, with the product and yeah, good to have them here in this call now. So maybe David and Patrick, maybe you also gonna be screen sharing or showing some of the solution and talking about it? Yes, Patrick will show something, a sample and I can talk more about the product and our strategy. All right, so maybe I can go back a little bit here to the screen sharing and maybe you can talk about... So what do people get? I saw on your website people can get a free trial, for example. Yes. And go from there. That's right. Yeah, we have a free trial for sure. Our tool is mainly focused that you can create easily brilliant HMIs. So this is our goal. In the past, it was mostly that case that you need a strong software development background to create HMIs. This is now changing because you see it everywhere, everywhere at this place on all devices now you have more and more features, you have smart devices, you need these features somehow to be accessed by the end user. This means the demand for HMIs is rapidly increasing. This also means that not only the engine, where we are coming from, we have an excellent performance on hardware, we have a broad spectrum of supported hardware devices. This also means that we need to improve the process of the HMI creation. With that, we focus now really on the creator and this means that you go away from the designer. Sorry, you go away from the software developer to the designer. So the designer should create the HMI without any software development skills. This means as Reinhard already said, the no coding approach, which is very important. Also, the approach that we try to make the import and creation as simple as possible. Therefore, we created the smart importer. This will then Patrick show. This is basically an importing tool where you create during the import with an AI. This is the import process, a fully working HMI solution, just with a few clicks. So from the Photoshop file, which was delivered from the design department, to a fully functional HMI just in a few minutes. And this is a kind of a revolution, you can say so, because this also means that you do prototyping directly on the target hardware, directly on the screen. You can try out things, which is creating a space for experiments and also creativity for the artists. And as the designer is using our tool, you can also then have a faster process, more agility on developing it. So the process itself is changing to complete a new paradigm of HMI development. It is a little bit the holy grail of the whole tech industry to have something that's whizzy weak and where anybody who just has ideas can like maybe like here in the video is showing like some, is it? But it's hard to make it real, right? Like are you succeeding in making it real that somebody really can do a lot just with no code? Yes, this is I think the biggest challenge. The challenge to create a tool which fulfills the demands of the HMI creator. So as said in the past, it was mainly the outcome, the end user who was expecting high performance, a good looking HMI and so on. But with the requirement of software engineers and the process, how to create it and the gap between designers and software engineers, the process itself was not optimal. We aim to bridge the gap between the designers and the software engineers and this can be on the one hand achieved with no coding. For sure not in all cases, designers would do all the things. For example, if you think in automotive market, a canvas needs to be connected. We also aim to make this as easy as possible. So that also designers can do these. But it's also important that our tool still allows the capability to be open. Open in that case that you can extend it on your needs. Also to react on new technologies coming up. Reinhard mentioned augmented reality head up displays. For example, these are for sure other requirements than a static head up display. So in that case, you need to find ways to be so open with the tool to allow integrating new technologies as soon as possible and also let them access to designers, to people who have no software skills on a high level to integrate this in a low level detail really on the controller itself, for example. And when I look at your video presentation, there's all these logos that show up right there with all these SOC providers. And I guess they, especially in the recent years, they keep adding more and more performance to these. And are you able to have a no coding approach that takes the whole at least a high percentage of the potential performance and still be easy to develop? Yes. Our goal is also to support this on low end MCUs. Still the market has not only high end SOCs with a lot of power and graphical power and a lot of memory available. You're also talking about the MCUs. And even in that case, you use our tool in a no coding approach, create your HMI and then you can easily test it on the hardware, on the platform itself. And then you can do performance optimizations. Even for performance optimizations, we provide tools so that users can easily optimize the performance, for example, how much space in the memory is required for bitmaps and so on, how to improve transitions and so on. So we provide this tool bundled in our tool chain so that people with no coding skills can use it and improve it even on these low end devices. At CGI, it means computer graphics, right? It's like, what's it called? Not really? A lot of 3D or? It's a cluster graphical interface. If I remember correctly, it's not computer generated graphics or interface. It's becoming, or the reason for that is because we're coming from the automotive sector, from the cluster itself. So therefore the name is, it's easy to mix, but it's a historic approach that it's another meaning. But what I mean is that there's all these GPUs and all these chipsets and people wanna do all, they have all these kinds of ideas. They wanna do the person to move and all these things. And I guess maybe you have a timeline and people can animate and they can program what happens and everything. Typically, we orientate for sure not on our idea, how it could work. If you're looking, for example, in the gaming industries, there are large products available with very strong user base. So how to use that, how to implement things there, it's always a good starting point. Moreover, we have special conditions in the automotive industry where we are following, for example, safety. This is not relevant in the gaming industry, for example, which also is provided with our tool chain. And to do so, so we follow standard approaches like all tools that we have similar usability patterns on the one hand to make it as easy as possible. And on the other hand, have specific features from automotive or industrial areas like safety, for example. And your colleague here is on the call, so Patrick, what is Patrick going to show? Patrick will show us the smart importer. This is our importing tool with the AI. So basically, we start with the Photoshop file and Patrick will show us how to bring this Photoshop file. So static images and organized in layers to live with just a few clicks. And we also have some video in our YouTube channel available where you can see creating from a Photoshop file a motorbike class really go down to the hardware which is extremely fast done with our tool chain. So he shows us the first part until the simulation on the desktop computer because there is currently no hardware available next to him. So, but trust me, it's very easy. We just download the asset. If everything is prepared on the hardware or engine they are loading the asset and it's running as well on the hardware itself just with a few clicks and you saw it in the video and also Anna showed it. We have remote simulation capabilities. You don't need even to connect the database bus to the application to really do the first testing on the hardware. So because in living HMI in an early stage allow you to get more feedback or in better impression user acceptance tests or something like that to get an early feedback during development to be able to adopt it let's say most brilliant HMI you can design for your hardware for your target and for your customer. Nice. So maybe Patrick are you going to screen share the demonstration or? Yes. So maybe you can click on the share screen and add the screen here so we can see or maybe you can introduce yourself also Patrick what do you do? Hello, I'm Patrick Anderson and I'm a software engineer here at Candera. So let's see your screen. Do you see how to share it? Right there. Yes. Maybe you can share an application. There. All right. So this is live right now on your desktop, right? Yes, correct. This is our sync composer and I will now show how quickly and easy it can be done to create a living HMI just from a Photoshop file. So I will select the Photoshop file I would like to import. So are you using some kind of AI or how do you know what needs to be imported? How is it just like a standard way? Yes, this is our smart Photoshop importer and we can see here the preview of the Photoshop file and if I select an item, this tree structure here again is organized the same way as within the Photoshop file with the layers for example and click here on the airbag telltale you can see this up here and now an AI will detect the control that is the most probable to correspond to this item here. So in this case, it would be a telltale control. All I needed to do here is simply click apply and I applied the logic to this now control. So you have some kind of AI system in there that knows this stuff and that can guess what needs to be the function for each of the different graphics or? Yes, correct. I will do the same here for... And I'm guessing maybe thousands of different things will be recognized or? I think so, right David? Yes, basically we assist the user that the AI is predicting with a certain probability which control it is. You see user at the beginning you have a huge set of different contours, gauges, progress bar buttons, telltale's radio buttons and so on. So the AI is trying to understand or analyzing the content of the selected layers in the Photoshop file or not only Photoshop file we support much more than Photoshop so we can also use for example, Sketch, Azure RP or other tools so we have an open architecture behind that. So the AI is using the visual data coming from the import file, taking that and trying to calculate what type of control this is. If you find the control, for example a gauge control and you assign it to it, the AI automatically assigns the data behind this control to a fully functional HMI element. So you're not importing bitmaps. For example, if you have a gauge, a gauge background consists of several layers, the gauge needle for example, but it's still static. You don't import it as a fully functional HMI element. The AI analyzes it, calculates with a certain probability what it is, a gauge or let's say a clock or a button and then it tries to apply the information, the bitmaps to these controls and on input you don't get the bitmap, you get the fully functional HMI control. So this AI is I guess maybe gonna constantly be updated with a new knowledge that you might have on what your customers wanna do. Privacy reasons or connectivity reasons, the AI is running on the desktop computer of the user. We also thought about an automatically shared AI where all user base from us can use it, but automotive industry is very strict regarding communication outsides and so on, moreover use sending really assets the bitmaps to the AI for analysis. This means the privacy is very important because one of this, let's say the assets of the next car, how the user interface looks like of a car which is released let's say in two years, it's very secret to be honest. So therefore it's not good when you share this picture over the internet with an AI, therefore it's running locally on the computer. This also means that the retraining of the AI is hardly possible. We have a solution in mind where it could be, how it could be implemented so that you can retrain your AI but they're coming up several AI related programs like overfitting and so on. So how to do that, but we are working and thinking on that that this can be improved and automatically learning and learn your designs, what you're designing and then adopting because we have a user feedback already so we are showing the top five results in the list and yeah, it's quite powerful. It's assisting the user and the goal is that the import of assets is easy and this assigning also is done automatically with the import. But maybe what I mean is that with the software updates you might improve this in the future, right? So you might, maybe there is some way where they can some car give you feedback if they want, right? And then you know that this is more like this kind of stuff. Yes, so if for example, introduce new controls, I don't know any control which is not yet available let's say for an electric car, battery control which is showing the charging state. And this is a specific control because it shows different states but it's charging or it's going to be empty or running so on. If we offer some control like that we for sure will train the AI with the release supporting this control. So yes, we will extend this with every release, every update and improve the quality of the AI step by step. Maybe you can show some more demonstration in the right there in the app. Yes, I'm going to continue now assigning for example this gauge control here. Really easy again, we would here have the possibility to do layer mapping. For example, as David mentioned, the background consists here of multiple layers. As you can see here and will then be automatically merged to become the background of the gauge control. I can even set basic properties here such as the name for example and some other properties. And that's it basically for this gauge control. One more item that I would like to assign here is this so-called text value that should then later reflect the value of the gauge control but in this written form. Is it able to identify the kind of like the font type and do all the numbers automatically or do you have to design every number? Yes, this is possible. So the font settings are imported as well so that you're having not a bitmap imported. You have really the font imported on that location or a text, not a bitmap. And so what you're doing right here is showing what would happen for like the automotive industry but this works for so many different embedded devices. Absolutely, yes, that's right. So not only automotive so whatever you want to create you start typically in a design tool therefore we not only support Photoshop but also other tools or even prototyping tools so you take these samples and can easily import it into our tool to create a first prototype directly on the hardware or with CGI studio. It would even allow to do rapid prototyping within our tool because as it is a no coding tool you can import the assets from the designer create here a prototype with different scenes with some logic, transitions, animations and so on and do this directly in our tool test it on the computer, record a video for example send it to the manager for feedback it's defined, this is how it's working or really bring it down to the hardware in a really early stage of the HMI development to see how it's behaving on the screen how it's looking, is the contrast fine and so on. And I guess the final shipping product does it need to be reoptimized by software engineers or you just ship directly because you want to have very optimized code on the let's say washing machine or something like that, right? Because it needs to be booting fast running instantly and reliable and everything? Absolutely, so we're coming from the automotive industry with a very large scale or large volume of devices created with CGI studio therefore you invest much more into optimizing every little frame in the hardware you try to go for the cheapest possible controllers the lowest possible memory footprint and so on it depends on a project, so on the one hand it's easy to integrate the first HMI prototype for example you can use for prototyping different hardware platforms for example a more powerful one and then start optimizing or go directly with the target so let's say low end MCU for a wide good for washing machine it doesn't make sense to add a quad core as to see for example you would aim for let's say very cheap MCU in that case there are anyway some things to consider how much memory you have you cannot load fancy HD graphics into a two megabyte flash and show different scenes and different pictures and so on so you have to consider this from the beginning but therefore we also provide tools that the user see how much bitmaps you're already using you use let's say 1.5 megabytes of bitmaps you have this kind of transitions we also show the limitations of certain controllers so if you select for a controller which does not support rotating for example this is also a rotating of bitmaps this is also reflected in the tool itself so then you would be not able to rotate it because the controller cannot do it and maybe if Dagmar you can talk to a little bit about I guess you have training materials and you have videos and people can... how can your customers learn more and do all the stuff I think part of it to get a first impression is on our YouTube channel which I would highly recommend to get a brief introduction of the tool and part of tutorials are integrated in the tool itself so CGS Studio comes with I think a huge amount of tutorials there's a support site that will lead you through the single steps and yeah, so maybe I can put you in there again what do you think is kind of like do you talk about the roadmap, the future like your customers when they see this they probably think they probably have lots of ideas and things like what they want for the future and I guess there's a big roadmap and what you might introduce in the future yeah, David, would you like to answer should I do it whatever you want for sure we know exactly where we want to go so we have here a huge advantage we not only deliver the product to our customers we do for our customers even HMI projects this means that we have in our team people using our tool which is a very valuable resource so when we optimize the tool in the development we do it also for our coworkers which is quite good to be honest the pain during the development what things are not so good where you can improve things so this means that we already got a lot of valuable feedback the reason is to improve the product but there is always space for improvement and we're looking exactly for that how to make it faster we get feedback from our customers where we work very closely together with them so we get also feedback from their side so we try to understand everything we try to find out where to faster, easier the collaboration, the team sizes are changing how to bridge the gap between designers and software engineers so there are a lot of things where we are looking at and for sure what we are focusing right now is a kind of a revolution which is ongoing as I mentioned the software developer is not the one who is creating the HMI of the future it's really the designer this means that you need a tool which has less software skills and also the user onboarding is a very critical phase so if you look at design tools the tool should orientate on design tools as we want to really make it easy for designers to start with our CGI studio so all these things are considered is the future roadmap so we want to make it as easy as possible the onboarding easy and also the workflow to be faster create HMI as easy as possible like in the past maybe the software engineer was doing something on one side and the designer was doing something on the other side and they had to talk together but is there something to say about the future being somehow more design oriented and what design becomes a bigger role yes absolutely so the design is the part of the HMI development the user experience the user interface so the designer has a very important part before that the limitations were the designers had always very good excellent visions how an HMI could look like or should look like there were always limitations on the one hand from the hardware how much memory you have and so on but with the increasing technology and the rapid steps in this area the designers also get cheaper which means the designers get more possibilities more memory, more performance to use this also means that the software engineer who is implementing everything to bring out every little part of performance is in another role so the designer will take over more and more parts of the HMI development what are we looking at here in the video this system right here this is it's a project we did together with Cisco so we did the GUI implementation and they gave the hypervisor technology so this is what we see here so there's also some virtualization stuff happening in cars yes so we implemented here you can see also the Android application so this is an app on Android running where you can really interact with the car so it's full 3D so this is one big strength but coming back again to the Cisco stuff we implemented an infotainment system and an instrument cluster based on their hypervisor and we also showed that we of course can also support these systems quite easily and people your customers might buy this suitcase the suitcase is more for demonstration purposes but it shows really with the embedded hardware the displays it really shows the interaction here you can see the controller with the software in it and it's quite quite nice stuff to show to potential customers and as you were saying before in the video you do all from microcontrollers Cortex-M to Cortex-A from all these different suppliers there's a big range here right? yeah of course there's a big range but we also see the demand for this range so you can see on the high end if you look more on the luxury vehicles you see the high end processors but if you go into the budget cars they are the microcontrollers and we are supporting both I think this is a big strength from us that we can support the wide range with the same tooling approach so you can use the same approach even if it's a low cost MCU or a high end GPU so it's the same stuff and it needs to be security in all this right? and some of these new SoCs have more and more secure elements and the SoC maybe you have considerations in how to make the UI secure all the way yes we are talking here about ISO 26 026 and it's we covered that in a way that we have a parallel render pass in CJ Studio so from the tooling to the target you can use a secure render pass to fulfill this security requirements and this is how we have solved it with our tooling alright so even with virtual trade show you can show all the latest stuff that you're doing right here and videos on YouTube yes and do you have a Facebook also? yeah we are on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter we have an own YouTube channel and yeah there are several ways to interact with us and I think Embedded World I would really recommend that people meet our virtual booth and also David's speaker slot because we will talk exactly about the stuff we talk today and yeah it's quite interesting how does it feel to have 50 plus million cars out there in the world using your technology? it's great when you go into the car you can point it that's from our side it's really good it's great alright but now there's also they're even talking about they're kind of like talking about trillions of ARM processors eventually to be launched in all kinds of IoT devices everybody wants to interact with them with nice graphics right so this there's a big opportunity for you right there right? it's a huge market outside there and we definitely believe it's growing not only in the automotive industry there will come up other areas in industrial applications where this will become much more important in the future alright so thanks a lot and looking forward to see millions more devices doing interesting stuff and people able to develop some interesting angles is there some other topics we didn't cover that you wanted to talk about? I think we're good right? anything else from you guys? alright so thanks a lot that was really cool to get a deep insight into what you would show in the world, in the middle world it's really not some conferences so people are going to try to show everything they do virtually alright so thank you for having us thanks a lot