Hello, welcome to the Chi Channel. Today we have a special guest, my good friend and mentor Stephen Sypes He is the owner of Summer Hill Pyramid Winery, and he's won the award for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and also you just got honored for a new designation. Can you tell me more about that? Yes, it was the announcement came out yesterday that I'll be called up on October 7th For the BC Restaurant Hall of Fame, which is so nice. I'm very excited about that. Thank you, David. Thank you Yeah, it's uh, they're honoring me for being organic and serving 200 people at a time, organic, and having hundreds of weddings, or well over a hundred weddings, all organic, and also for bringing in food to be allowed in wineries. Before I went to Victoria and lobbied for it We weren't allowed to have food in a winery, and then I also brought in the ability to have beer and cocktails, which was also not allowed in a winery. So I made some great strides there, and they're recognizing me which I am very grateful for and I'm very honored. I feel great. BC Hall of Fame, Restaurant Hall of Fame. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. Tell us, how did you get the idea of organic wines and organic food? Well, I came here with my four little sons from New York, and I bought the vineyard and we started to, I started to drive the tractor in the vineyard, you know, and the third day out, the vineyard manager said, okay, Steve, let's suit up. We're gonna spray chemicals today, and it was this horrific gramaxone chemical that killed the weeds for five years, and I said, well, wait a second, where does where do we get our drinking water? And we look out at the lake, and that's where the drinking water is, and this toxic stuff is gonna go into the ground here and seep right into the lake. I said, I don't want to do that. So he says, come on, we got to do that blah blah blah, so okay, I suited up and I reluctantly did it, and that was the first and only time I ever did it. And from then on, I decided, no, we got to throw all these chemicals away and go completely organic because this is a pristine valley, and and it's too magnificent to spoil with chemicals, and especially with young children and pets and and the drinking water and all that. I said, no, we can't do that. That's that's horrific. I later learned that we are the northernmost growing region, the agriculture region in the world that can grow grapes, and the grapes, chemicals used on grapes, is extremely toxic. So I thought, well, this is a wonderful way to get the organic movement going, and I want to be a leader in that, and I have been in that. I'm excited about that. So this is a book, All One Era. So tell us more about it. Yeah, it's a book I've just completed and just completed an audio book of it, which I'm very proud of because I thought about an audio book for a long time, and then and then it occurred to me, well, Steve, why don't you just read the book yourself in your own way? And I'm so glad I did because I ended up add living a lot and, you know, putting the words across emotionally from, you know, from the heart. So yeah, I'm proud of the audio book especially, and it should be coming out next week, I'm hoping. But there's a lot in here about my own experiences from birth, really. I was, how could you say, orphaned in the seventh grade, and I've been on my own since the seventh grade, which has been a gift in a way because I didn't have family, so the world became my family, and you know, we are all one. When we stop fighting with each other and start loving each other and start loving and appreciating what we have, that's when we'll cut through the chaos and we get rid of the fear and open up ourselves to be loved. The world will be a much nicer place. It's all around. So tell us more about the meditation you've been doing and how the pyramid enhances that? Well, the pyramid enhances meditation because it's a very wonderful setting for it. There are very few distractions. It's quiet. It's dark. You don't hear noises around you like you do normally. You are in a place of sacred geometry, and our bodies are responding to that because we are actually sacred geometry as well. We are a microcosm of the macrocosm, and these are all things that add up to an experience where, again, we become one with our bodies and one with life itself and the connectedness of the entire universe, and that vibration opens our receiving and there in lies the essence of meditation is receiving. Once we stop the chatter, we open up the heart. We are connected through our love, and that's where the sacred geometry enhances the ability to meditate. Most people, when they think about building something, they build a tool shed or a garden, but you build a pyramid, which is one-eighth the size of the pyramid in Egypt. So tell us, what made you do it, and what inspired you, and then the process of building it? Well, I've always been fascinated with sacred geometry. And I became more and more drawn to it through my dreams. I have very vivid dreams. They call them lucid dreaming. Yeah, and I had a lucid dream when I was visiting the sanctuaries and temples in Asia and all around Asia and Thailand. And one starry night, I was meditating all night, and I was proud of myself because the mosquitoes were after me, and I was able to not not be deterred by them. Well, Steve, you're doing it, you know. Anyway, that was the night. I got this amazing message that Steve, a pyramid, is fabulous. It reflects the sun, and it even means pyramid, fire in the middle. That's who we are. That's our fire. That's our love. That's our essence. And I wanted to delve into it, and I researched it, and I found a lot of wonderful things about it, and I talk about it in my book in detail, because when I had the passion to make sparkling wine, I visited the wineries in Europe, making the best sparkling wine, and realized that they have what they call a marriage period, where the original cuvet, which is sat in the bottle for seven or eight or ten years, is degorged, which means they take the dead yeast cells out of it, and topped up with a little bit of sweet reserve, and the melding, or the marriage, of the sweet reserve and the original cuvet takes place in sacred geometry throughout most of Europe, in the form of Roman arch-sellers. There are miles and miles of them. In Spain, Côte-de-Nu has over 35 miles of Roman arch-sellers, where they marry all the cuvet with the dosage. So I thought, oh, we're gonna build a Roman arch-seller, and then I realized my dream about the pyramid, and I started to see that a dome, a Roman arch-seller, and a pyramid are all forms of sacred geometry, and I also realized that perhaps the most precise would be the pyramid. It's oriented to the north. It has no ferrous metals in it. It can be built out of organic materials. So on, and I realized too that we have a lot of sandy soil, and it's not easy to build Roman arch-sellers. So I built the first pyramid in 1989 while we were making the base cuvets for the first sparkling wines, and we went to Europe and bought equipment, and gosh, launched the winery after that, and then we had a wonderful start by every visitor. We took them to the pyramid, show them, let them feel the essence of being in a sacred geometry chamber, which you can really feel it, especially if you're sensitive. Like I walk in there, I start tingling, and a lot of people do. And then we come back, and we taste the exact same wine, bottled on the same day, and served at the same temperature, one bottle having been in the pyramid and one not, and everybody would say, wow, that's amazing. That's like two different wines, and it was, and it still is. We still do that experiment at the four festivals every year here at Summerhill. Spring, summer, fall, and winter wine festival. We go up to the pyramid and bring down a barrel of red wine usually that's been sitting in the pyramid for a while in barrels, and then we compare it to a barrel that's here in the warehouse, of the same exact wine, bottled on the same day, not bottled, but harvested on the same day, so they're tank samples.  These are like two separate wines. Over 90% vote for the pyramid one. How long do you put it in the pyramid? You know, a lot of people ask that question, and we always say 30 days minimum, because that was the prerequisite of Europe for marrying the dosage with the cuvet. So we try to keep it 30 days, but ironically the sparkling wine, that one best sparkling wine in the world in France, had been in the pyramid for more than three years. So I don't know. And then alternatively, I did a live broadcast on CBC Radio with a picture of organic orange juice that I made the night before, and I poured two glasses and put one in the pyramid, and everybody taste-tested it live on the radio, and everybody said that the orange juice that was in the pyramid overnight tasted more like fresh squeezed, and they voted for that one. It was 10 out of 10. So yeah, one night or three years, I don't know. And I myself go there many times when I'm feeling the weight of the world. I mean, I just get relieved because it's, I don't know, it takes you out of the world, out of the 3D. It's a place where I don't know, you like to be, you want to be there, and everybody wants to be there. You can call in ancestors, anybody. It's a really beautiful little chamber that sacred geometry makes. Available to use. I'm surprised that we don't use it in, you know, to more of an extent. I mean, I can imagine nursing homes and hospitals and classrooms with sacred geometry versus all these boxes. Nature has no boxes in it. Why do we not use sacred geometry? You can even do it in a grid form and put it in the walls, in the floors, in the ceilings. You know, it's it's conducive to meditation, which is conducive to Tai Chi and exercises and yoga that invigorates the body to be a receiver. Again, the same wording that I use, but basically highlights the loving universal consciousness that surrounds us at all times, that we tend not to acknowledge or not to bring forth or not to let in. So yes, it's conducive to allowing in the loving universal consciousness that we have at all times. So Stephen, you're very in touch with nature. You're very in touch with spirituality and consciousness and meditation. So tell us what your view of is of Chi and of life force. Chi and life force are, to me, the important ingredients to the word knowing, which I would say is a capital K, because they invigorate the body to become a vessel of receiving. It opens our feminine receivership. Doing yoga and Tai Chi and doing all of the beautiful things that you do opens up our bodies to be how could you say? Vibrationally receiving the connectedness and the guidance that we all have at all times. We are all guided at all times. This is the most beautiful thing. I do a lot of things all day from them and all night to be in that space. I many times don't sleep at night. I meditate. And when I awake, I try to go barefoot even in all the weather, standing in the snow with my bare feet connected to the earth because that alone is a great experience to be with the electromagnetic energy of the earth. And of course the ingredients of the earth itself, the trace minerals, which is what plants grow on and we animals grow on. So yes, and that in sun gazing, to me are the two glorious things that I cherish every day. To be with, I call my son Ra, it's uniting ourselves with the universe. We look directly at Ra, half an hour from sunrise and within a half an hour of sunset and it does not hurt your eyes. I've been to my eye doctor many, many years and I've been doing it for over 20 years almost daily. So it does not hurt the retinas of your eyes and it's, if anything, it's healthy. My prescription's getting better. Yes, and while you're in that state of communication with Ra, the sun, you realize that this is our star. This is our star with all the planets revolving around him, her, with all the life that we have here and the life is not possible without the sun, right? And therefore we get thanks to Ra for giving us life. It is the gratefulness for life.  It is the sun, and the moon reflects the sun, and so on, and the planet itself. We give reverence for all that we have and it is an incredible thing that we have, you know. Consciousness, I call it loving universal consciousness, L-U-C. That's the beautiful thing about sun gazing, is you actually have a dialogue, and again, that could sound crazy, right? It depends on how you take it, but if you take it in the sense that when you conjure something with, with respect and perspective, you can, you can have it come to you, right? Let's say as an example, you conjure yourself, getting aboard a magic carpet and floating. Well, that's ridiculous, right? But you know what?  Pretty soon, even though you know you're only conjuring, you're actually on the carpet, in some perspective, in some way, right? In your mind. In your mind, yes. And that is a, I would say, a tool that I have used many times because in conjuring and creating, in imagination, it's another thing that Albert said, imagination is greater than knowledge because blah, blah, blah. In that imagination, there are no limits.  You know, here we are locked into the 3D, three-dimensional, but there's 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and beyond that we can enjoy. There's no limit to our imagination and to our understanding and capital K knowing this of who we are, and we are very, very beautifully grand. All of us, all of us, and very equal. There are none, none stronger or better than any other. The business of bowing down and worshiping other people and other people as deities and all that stuff. Take it with a grain of salt because every one of us has the ability and well, take that back. Every one of us is divine. We are divine. Divined all one forever beings. Being a young entrepreneur myself, what's one piece of advice that you would give someone who is starting a business or just starting out or thinking about becoming an entrepreneur? Well, I think empowerment is a wonderful way to go.  Many of us who are leaders have the same pitfall. We think that, you know, we have to get in there and do it all ourselves. And that's been my, you know, problem. And everyone else's problem. We think we know how to do it better than anyone. But no, it's really good if we are lazy managers, so to speak.  The one that lets other people rise to the occasion, as my dad would say, and see the vision and say, yeah, let's do that, right? Like, to get our insects back, we have to go organic. So we'll not stop at McDonald's. And we'll stop at the organic restaurant or the vegan restaurant or the little Asian restaurant down the street where you know mom and pop are growing their own vegetables in the backyard. Yeah, and they're not using any chemicals. Let's go there and let's make our own garden. You know, that's the way we got to eat now. That's the way we got to think now to save the planet, save the world. It's the same with education too. I mean, I love alternative education. I don't like cramming all our kids into one classroom and making them, you know, have to abide by all the rules and making a lot of kids very upset and they're turning to their screens. And this is a whole other tangent. I don't want to go into it, but there are a lot of wonderful things that are happening today. All I think we need now as entrepreneurs is to set out some wonderful visions, some enlightened, if you will, thoughts that will bring everyone up together to a great crescendo of manifesting and working with nature and working with our own selves and being holy unto ourselves. Yeah. If you were to start everything all over again, what would you do? I would make it a lot simpler on our behalf. We have a beautiful vineyard here overlooking the lake and all of the grapes that I have here, I personally planted on my hands and knees and I went to France and Germany to buy them. They're the highest end clones that make the best sparkling wines in France and Europe. Had I done it differently, I would have just made sparkling wines, not reds and whites and any other because I'm devoted to sparkling wine, and I would have just made them from the grapes that I have in this vineyard and kept it very small and very high end and not had 170 employees and huge things like we have now. It's a great thing we have it. I'm not upset about it, but if you ask me that question, my honest answer would be I would have kept it small, just kept it as a sparkling wine house only, which is my passion, and if I did introduce food, which I think totally goes with sparkling wine especially because sparkling wine goes with any food, I would have had gourmet, organic food, and again kept it small. Instead of 200 seats and 100 weddings a year, maybe 40 seats, 50, okay Steve? Not too much. Sometimes our visions tend to get bigger than we imagine. Well, yeah, and the bigger you get, the bigger you want to get again because now the next thing is to buy more grapes, make more wine. Hey Steve, you ran out of this wine, how come? We need that one. We've got to go out and buy more grapes and make more wine. So that's the way it is in mushrooms, it gets bigger and bigger. How can you balance the spirituality with business success? That's a good question. Sometimes you have to tame it down so you don't appear to be crazy and also you have to be, you know, people want to listen to somebody who's like themselves, that's a natural thing. So you don't, you sort of fit in and work the whole thing and I'm at home with everybody and everything. I can put on a business suit and a tie and black shoes and polish them up and, you know, be in a limousine for gosh sakes if I have to. If that's the way to get to the crowd that I need to show the vision to, that's the way I'm going to do it, right? Yeah, it's, I would say just being open and flowing with, going with the flow rather than trying to modify and control.  There's, as again I say, there's only two emotions in the world, love and fear. So we'll always choose the high road, always choose the love road. Thank you David. Thank you for inviting me and I'm looking forward to seeing all that's going to happen because whatever you envision, it happens. So far so good. And I'm very excited to see that. Thank you so much. It's an honor to, to do this interview with you. Thank you and if I may make a plug for my book. Yep. Anyone who wants to read the book, Amazon.com. It's $12.21 US, which is 12.21 is the date of the end of the Mayan calendar, 2012. And it is the beginning of the All-One Era.


You know, I have somewhere a Batman mask that I was going to wear for this video, but I don't know where it is. But if you've been a viewer of mine for years, I have worn my Batman mask in a couple of my videos in the past. I think doing, like, Caden Live and maybe some Python videos. But today I'm going to talk about why Batman and Spider-Man and superheroes such as that wear masks. And how that relates in a way to open-source software, or at least proprietary software. How about that? So, why do Batman and Spider-Man wear masks? Now, you know, there are other superheroes like Iron Man. He wears a mask, but that's part of his armor. It's, like, not originally, but nowadays, you know, current Iron Man, everyone knows who Iron Man is. But Batman, even though he now has, you know, all this tech in his mask that allows him to do other things, like see things. Originally, why did he wear his mask? You might say to scare the bad guys, because he stresses a big bat. But even before, the first time Bruce Wayne went out as a vigilante, he didn't wear a Batman mask. He wore a regular mask. And Spider-Man, they wear the mask. The answer. The obvious answer is they're hiding something. They're hiding who they are. Now, why do I bring this up in a video about free software, open-source software, and proprietary software? Well, there have been a number of times where I've talked to developers of proprietary software, and I usually ask them why don't they release the source code. And it's obvious that they don't completely understand how open-source software works and free software works and the differences between the two and the similarities between the two. Because they don't want people to see the source code is the answer. And I ask them exactly what are you trying to hide? And then they get all defensive. Well, I'm not trying to hide anything. I go, well, that's whether you're releasing your software on your free license or an open-source license, or you can even have the source code available and still be proprietary software, go to almost any internet website, any website on the internet. And there is going to be a JavaScript in that page. And you can, in most cases, go and look at the JavaScript. They do a lot to scramble it up and make it look messy because it is messy. When you do it like that, when you're purposely trying to hide something, it gets messy. That, technically, according to the, what are they called? The open-source foundation? The open-source initiative? Their definition, that's not, there's certain criteria. That's like for years, I always thought open-source software was just the source code was available. And that's not the case if you're going to be technical about it. Open-source software has to follow some guidelines and rules. So just because the source code is available doesn't make it open-source software, but that's a whole other conversation. So my question is, why are you trying to hide by not sharing the source code? Because, again, it could still be proprietary software and the source code would be available. And they get all defensive. Oh, I'm not trying to hide anything, but that's exactly what you're doing.  I'm trying to hide it. Spider-Man puts on a mask to hide his face. Batman puts on a mask to hide his face. And, you know, in the comic book world, some people have issues with that, others don't. And whether they're doing it for a good reason or a bad reason, the reason they're trying to do it is to hide their face. They might have different reasons for wanting to hide their face, but they're trying to hide their face. Nonetheless, if you are not releasing the source code to your program, you're hiding it. You may have a good reason for that, and that's what I'm asking. What is your reason for hiding it? And I have never once heard a good reason. People have reasons, mostly that don't make sense. Things like, oh, well, if I release the source code, then people could take it and then, you know, then they'll be able to be in my competition and I won't have a business anymore. Well, first of all, it all depends on what license you use. If you use a GPL license, then any changes they make, you have to get back. It only benefits you. And just because someone has the ability to go out and do something similar to you doesn't mean they're going to. It reminds me of years ago, I saw a talk by Lady Aida or Lady Aida, however you say her name, Lady Aida of Aida Fruit. I don't remember her real name, but she was giving a little speech at a college. And she talked about how when she first started releasing her projects under an open source license, that she would get all these emails from many people.  And she would get all upset. It's like, oh, what did I do? But then as time went on, she realized that most of these people aren't going to do that. It takes work, it takes effort. Even if I share my source code, it doesn't mean that everybody in the world is going to take it and become my competition. And if you use the right license like a GPL license, anything they add, they've got to give those changes back to you. Unlike something like a BSD license where they can take it, and I say a BSD license, there are different BSD licenses, but general BSD license, these ones that they call less restrictive than the GPL license, allows someone could come and take your source code, add stuff to it and not give back to you. And that's one of the reasons I don't like licenses like that. The GPL license protects you and it protects the end user because the end user can now share and any changes in the future, they know they're going to get in the same with you. But my point going back to the whole mask thing is that if you're not sharing your source code under whatever license you're sharing it under, you are hiding it on purpose. You are purposely taking it and hiding it. And the only reason I personally can think of that is because you're doing something malicious or you just don't completely understand what you're doing. It's like you just heard I shouldn't share so you're not sharing. You've heard that someone's going to take your software and you're never going to get it back again. And it's either a complete misunderstanding on the developer's part, on how things work, or they are up to something malicious. And of course, you know, there's proprietary software and everything. There's also open source software and pretty much everything. It's hard to avoid. So obviously, there is proprietary software in my life, but whenever possible, I try to stay away from it. And of course, I could do better. Most of us could. But going back, if you are a software developer, sharing your source code only benefits you if you do it under the right license. And even if you don't, it's still beneficial most of the time. If you release it under a license that is free and open and doesn't allow restrictions, doesn't allow someone to take that source code and close it up. That means anybody who uses that unless they're keeping it from themselves because the GPL is not an end user license agreement. And license, yeah, end user license agreement. Or whatever they call it. Like whether you agree to when you're installing proprietary software. It's a distribution license. So someone is required to follow the GPL and allow these other licenses such as the different BSD licenses or MIT license or Apache license. These are distribution licenses. And it doesn't really say anything about how you can use it. You have the freedom to do whatever you want with how you use it. They're talking about distribution for the most part, at least with the GPL. I'm pretty sure the other ones are the same way. And the fact that I could take your program, I could take your source code under the GPL, make a bunch of changes and not share it with anybody. As long as I'm using it myself. The second I let somebody else use that software, I am required by law to give them the free rights to change that and modify it and give them the source code. So yeah, I could take it, make changes for myself and just be like, I'll be like Prince. Prince passed away just over a year ago, I believe. He supposedly made all these different music videos and locked them away in a vault. And never share them. In fact, Kevin Smith made some sort of documentary for him that he locked away in a vault. So those are his, you know, you can do that with the GPL software.  But the second you give it that software to somebody else, you're required to share that source code. But if you're hiding it, maybe you have a good reason. I have just never heard one. I've heard BS reasons. Some people will go, oh, security. Security has nothing to do. If there's a security flaw in it, there's a security flaw in it, whether the source code is open or not. Now, if it's open, that gives people an opportunity to easier find those flaws, which, depending on the person, could benefit them, benefit you in the way that someone will find it and you can patch it. I suppose a evil person could find it and use it for malicious action. But the thing is, that flaw is already there and either someone's going to find it or they're not. But security is security. The software is either secure or not. And every software project that has any amount of size to it is going to have some sort of security flaw in it. And it's just a matter of time until it's found. But just because the source code is available doesn't mean that it's not secure. But if it's proprietary, if you're not sharing the source code, what are you hiding? That's my question to you.  That is the point. People argue, I'm not hiding anything. You are hiding it. You are hiding the source code. My question is, why? Why are you hiding it? Because you're hiding it for a reason. So when I say, what are you hiding?  It's, why are you hiding it? And what are you hiding? So, that's it. Thanks for watching and I hope that you have a great day.


Tubit Verified is a verified computing platform as the name might indicate. So what Verified Computing does is it takes these compute functions that you've built much the same way you would build a serverless function that you might deploy on the edge or you might wanna deploy anywhere and it makes that function trustworthy by verifying the code that's executing, verifying the data that goes into the function and verifying the outputs of that code. Hi, this is your Supreme Pathya and welcome to another episode of TFR Let's Talk. And today we have with us Blaine Sims, head of product at Tubit Blaine. It's great to have you on the show. Hi Swap, it's great to be here. Yeah, it's my pleasure to host you here today and this is the first time I'm talking to someone from the company. So I would love to know a bit about the history, the history of the company, how old is the company, what problem that you folks are trying to solve for the market. Absolutely, Tubit traces its origins back to 2015. We started as a research project. Our founder, Dr. Jason Toich is a researcher in computer science and game theory. So some of the work that he's done has been really important in the world of Web 3 to contribute to the question of how do you make blockchain scale? How do you perform compute in Web 3 that may not happen on a blockchain directly and make that compute secure? When you look at blockchain, how have you have seen the evolution of blockchain and how your industry is leveraging these technologies? You know, blockchain, I think when it, you know, when blockchain started hitting the scene, again around that 2015 timeline, for example, was when the Ethereum blockchain was still very, very new on the scene, really a lot of excitement because it seemed truly as a disruptive technology. The reason that blockchains were created was to facilitate transactions between parties that had absolutely no basis to know each other or to trust each other. And while that in many contexts is equated with cryptocurrency and indeed a lot of blockchain technology originates in the world of cryptocurrency, I think what's really caught fire since then is this notion that there are all sorts of different types of interactions we have, transactions we have, whether as individuals or as businesses, where our assumption of trust is really one that gets harder and harder to understand, you know, that basis for trust as we, you know, as our world becomes increasingly digital, our transactions become, you know, natively digital, how do we actually, you know, keep good records, which is where blockchains come in, but also, you know, create very highly automated and trustworthy, you know, compute-based processes around those transactions, which is where Trubit comes in. Can you also talk about, of course, in this space, new technologies, new paradigm shift, new jargons keep coming up, we talk about JetGPT a lot of these days, Genetic AI, earlier we were talking a lot about Web3 and there are a lot of misconceptions about Web3 as well. Talk about what are some of the emerging technologies that are of your interest for your industry, for your space? The blockchain industry itself, right, or the Web3 industry more broadly, which includes blockchains, but is broader than blockchains, obviously has been a hot topic in itself, but I think what we're really interested in is now the convergence between this concept of decentralized trust and new technologies like Genetic AI. Where we see this convergence taking place is primarily, you know, think of the world of the enterprise, right, that's going to increasingly be, you know, building critical core business processes on top of AI technology that they have no control over. There's really only a handful of companies that have the compute resources, that can even procure those resources to begin with, that have the models trained, that have the expertise to build and run these models. So that kind of relatively small group of AI providers needs to be trusted by a huge group of enterprises and what's the ability to trust? How do you know that the data that's being fed into a model that might be specific to your business? How do you know that that data was actually used in the model? How do you know that the requests you're making of that model are being processed accurately and the results you're being provided back, that you have proof, you know, a chain of custody, if you will, for that entire transaction, particularly if you're in a regulated industry. So this emergence of generative AI, which is, you know, again gonna be outsourced by most organizations to other partners, has a lot of different components, if you think of it as a supply chain in its own line, a lot of different components of data being supplied and computing supplied, that intersects well with what we've been working on in the Web3 world, which is how to build trust amongst different parties that really don't otherwise have a basis to trust each other. When we look at, once again, modern infrastructure environments, workloads, I mean, depends on what somebody is doing, of course, we talk a lot about cloud. We talk about a lot of, you know, technologies that are underneath, but we don't talk much about the computer itself, so talk a bit about what kind of technology you're seeing when it comes to kind of, once again, emergence, evolution of the whole computer and we can also look at from the Web3 perspective. I think in, you know, in cloud-based compute, what we're seeing really top of mind with the developers that we talk to are a couple of, you know, really, I think key trends that, you know, depending on where you say it, you might, you know, be skeptical of them or you might really, really be embracing. The first trend in cloud-based compute is serverless compute. Serverless compute, right, is this notion that you can reduce your code down, abstract it down to kind of its most atomic function level and then deploy that code as a function on someone else's server. Typically, you know, these are servers within the large cloud computing companies that we all know, but then there's an extension of serverless compute that's equally interesting that's going on, which I think some might say is, you know, is it an evolution beyond cloud-based compute and that's edge-based compute, which takes this notion of serverless compute and extends it even further and says, well, maybe you don't need these function codes to run inside, you know, an Amazon or Microsoft cloud. Maybe this function code can run on edge servers at the very, very closest point of contact with, you know, with the consumer that's using those compute services. These two trends, which I think are interrelated, really tee up the, you know, the compute world for what we think is an evolution completely beyond cloud compute, which is an evolution to decentralized compute. So once you've made your code compact enough and small enough that it can run anywhere on any one's server, and once you've deployed that code in many, many different places so that it runs as close as possible to, you know, to the client that's gonna consume the output of that code, the next question is how can I get that code not to just run on, you know, Amazon or Microsoft or maybe, you know, CloudFront or Faptly's Edge, how can I truly get that code to run anywhere? And then once I wanna do that, once I wanna say there literally could be, you know, not just tens of thousands of edge points of presence but millions of them, that's when we get to this question of how do you secure that? How do you make that code trustworthy? And we think from the security and compute side alone, that evolution is what takes us into this questions of decentralized compute that Web3 is solving. And then we talked a minute ago about the business evolution that's taking place about needing to really more and more trust someone else to write key code that's running your business. Those two things we see kind of merging together to be the perfect storm for Web3. When we do look at all the adoption of Web3 technologies, what kind of major challenges that developers face and how you folks kind of help them tackle with some of those challenges where we can also talk about the new announcement that you folks are coming out with. So it's a great time to talk about Trubit Verify. So Trubit Verify is a brand new platform that we're announcing now. Trubit Verify is a verified computing platform as the name might indicate. So what verified computing does is it takes these compute functions that you've built much the same way you would build a serverless function that you might deploy on the edge or you might want to deploy anywhere. And it makes that function trustworthy by verifying the code that's executing, verifying the data that goes into the function and verifying the outputs of that code. So what we do in Trubit Verify is have a platform that manages that verification process, manages the mechanics of here's some code that's served up anywhere really on the internet, if you will, but here's verification that's going on. We're gonna have multiple compute nodes run the code to see if they agree. If they don't agree underneath the hood, we do low level verification. This is Jason Twitch's big invention, right? Something called the verification game, which is using game theory to incentivize the people that are running the code to behave properly, but when they don't to be able to point the finger and say, okay, I've gone down to the machine code level and I can prove step by step who's right and who's wrong when this code is executing. And then I can come back if someone has a disagreeing result and say, okay, I know this node was right, this node was wrong. And as a result of all that, I can bundle up all of those results, provide you back with the correct answer as the person that's running that code and also do something really important, which is give you proof. I give you a certificate that says your code was run correctly. These were the inputs. These were the outputs. And that certificate is what allows you then to convey trust to whoever is dependent on your code and your data. Can you also talk a bit about the benefits of kind of decentralization for developer? Of course, when we look at decentralization, we can look it from a different perspective, decentralize workload, decentralize environments, decentralize architecture. What kind of decentralization you are looking at and what kind of benefit you see there are for developers? What we find is the number one reason developers move into Web 3 and move towards decentralization is they're looking for transparency. Again, this transparency might be because they are running transactions or have a business that in of itself has no underlying basis for trust. So they need to be very, very transparent about the transactions that took place for that business and about any of the code, which is where Trubit Verify comes in, any of the code that contributes to those transactions. The API calls that you might need to make to an upstream service or to move data or move a transaction downstream. The movement of data from one place to another, including across blockchains. And then those backend algorithms and AI models that really, really impact how a transaction takes place. The transparency around that is what brings folks to Web 3. What they find when they get to Web 3, though, are some really important other things. Web 3, decentralization as an entire concept, is extraordinarily resilient to failure. There's literally not a single point of failure in a widely deployed blockchain or verified compute network such as Trubit's building because there are generally tens of thousands, if not more, independent parties running that network. And a lot of different ways to get around even network routing issues, things that can even plague the largest in most successful cloud companies. And then the final point is efficiency. Again, this is one of the drivers perhaps for serverless, but it gets extended even further in the Web 3 world. Why pay to have your code hosted all the time, particularly if it's something that it was only occasionally being used when it can be ready and waiting and just called on demand? So the efficiency aspect brings developers to Web 3 as well. And then obviously, Web 3 as its own phenomenon has some interesting businesses that have emerged there, like the Metaverse, et cetera, that have a lot of people really interested in that as well on the consumer side. So one of the things, as we were building Trubit, verifying that we did was really spend a lot of time talking to not just folks that are interested in blockchains, but folks that are actively building Web 3 applications. And we defined that as applications that leverage, either directly leverage a blockchain ledger or leverage decentralized compute as part of their design. And what we found are that there actually are all sorts of really hard things that developers have to do in order to get an application up and running. And they have to make kind of a lot of compromises and take some shortcuts to do that. And so that's what we really wanted to focus on when we were building Trubit Verify is how to bring transparency into these areas starting within Web 3 alone, where developers weren't able to actually make their application as transparent as they wanted. Maybe they are using a blockchain and the code that they're writing is too complicated or too expensive to run on a blockchain. Trubit Verify allows them to run that code transparently and then have that certified proof that they can then attach to the blockchain. Talked about API calls before. The other thing that we really found is the way that Web 3 developers are told that they should be securing the code is by writing these really complicated things called smart contracts, Trubit Verify allows you to write your code in JavaScript or in Rust and these languages are most likely used to working with on your own and tries to help you simplify this process of getting transparency into your code. And that's where I want to head next, which is just from Trubit's perspective, what kind of use cases are there? Of course you can or cannot name some of the companies that are leveraging your technologies. If not, then just give us a glimpse of the use cases that you folks kind of cater to. Yeah, absolutely. So Trubit Verify, announcing this product, our first live use case will be coming online towards the end of this year, which is a supply chain based use case. So there's a supply chain consortium in Europe that's built around the luxury goods industry. This industry is one of the first industries to actually adopt blockchain technologies. You mentioned hyper ledger as a technology that's been around for a while on the enterprise side of blockchain. It's one of the ledgers that's being used in this project, but there are other ledgers as well. And so what this project needed was a way to move data securely from one ledger to another. And Trubit Verify provides that. We provide an auditable kind of certificate that allows any of the participants in this consortium to see data that may have originated on hyper ledger move to any of the other blockchains that are part of the consortium project. So that's one use case. We've got other kind of earlier stage projects in the entertainment industry where we're working with a group of major recording artists who aren't trying to completely change the way the industry operates at this point, but they are trying to make the royalties that they distribute for their songs much more transparent so that all of the parties that they work with that are part of those royalties can see exactly what money came in and how it was split up and have an auditable record of getting paid. That project's working with us to do all of those calculations to show the calculations, have that proof of compute to show the source of the data to prove that the data wasn't changed when they receive it from API calls that they make and then to show proof of payment that when they finish the calculations and made calls to their payment APIs, those calls are also recorded with a transcript and all of that is available for inspection. I want to hear from you a general high-level overview of market industry, not as specific to your industry, where the technical trends are heading and then you see, hey, you know what? These are some of the things that creates a lot of opportunity for us at the same time. These are the challenging areas that we are looking at at the same. We talked about serverless and edge compute before, obviously Web 3 as well. This, I think at the moment, I think a lot of us are fixated on the changes that are coming with the shift to generative AI. I mean, the top to bottom, if you haven't contemplated how generative AI might change your job, you've probably been busy, very, very busy doing something else because it's very top of mind. So in the world of generative AI, the challenge is when you set aside maybe surface concerns that the code will write itself and none of us developers will be a code ache, and I think nobody's truly hopefully worried about that. What we do see underneath that hood though is this ability to scale up, the ability to do so much more with the help of AI that it puts a lot of pressure on our supporting processes, on our processes like security.  You think under the hood, these security checklists and compliance procedures, really in many cases, yes, they're somewhat automated around the edges, but they're very, very manual processes. How does those processes scale? How do you know whether it's AI that's written your code or it's written somebody else's code or a model that you're gonna be calling into, how do you know that that's secure? And how do you do that when that code's being generated that maybe a thousand times the pace is what we're seeing right now as some of the AI really hits stride? The second challenge within AI then is the data. There's well-documented cases of garbage in, garbage out in terms of the data that's fed into models, just being regurgitated back and being very inaccurate. Maybe in some of the use cases we see for chat GPT as consumers where we're just having chat GPT write a letter for us or something along those lines, it's not a big deal, because we can see those inaccuracies, but as you see AI being really used in industries like medical science where AI is doing diagnoses or where AI is being used to make critical financial decisions, that question of is the data good is another area where trust becomes very, very important. Do you see where the data came from? Do you see how it was applied, et cetera? So there's just a couple of things kind of relative to that trend that we're thinking about. Lane, thank you so much for taking time out today and share these great insight, the announcement of the new product now. So this whole market where it's heading, what challenges there are for developers and how you folks are helping solve them. Thanks for all those insights and I would love to chat with you again soon. Thank you. Thank you so much Swap. Really been a great conversation. Thank you.


So, you have seen many awesome presentations here today and all of them will be available for you. We have filmed every presentation also, so all the films and presentations and photos and stuff will be available for you. The films will be on YouTube, on the Agile People channel. And you will also get a follow-up email from us stating exactly where you can find what you can find after this conference. So, we are at the wrap-up. A day goes so fast, doesn't it? It's amazing. I'm going to hand over to my colleague, moderator, to do the Mentimeter. Try it again. You're already familiar with our little feedback friend, Mentimeter. And I would love for the wrap-up to not just get our opinion about the day, but to get an opinion from all of you on what you learned, what you will take away, what was inspiring for you, because that was one of the needs that we tried to cater in many sessions today. So, I would like to ask you to sign up to menti.com and use the code again. It's a different code, so yes, you need to sign up again and put in the code. And please press the little hard sign to sign up and then we can get started. Since we're all about inspect and adapt, I know we need to leave on the slide a little longer than we did in the morning. It kind of looks like we're getting ready to move on. Any objections? So, the first question to you in the audience will be, what's the most important message that you will take from this day? So, it's about trusting people, interactions, taking care of people, going wild. We have a need to do it together. A lot about feedback. Start doing, I like that one. Getting real. Agile is hard, yes. And a lot about humans. Thank you. And it's a lot about small steps as well. So, what are your key takeaways from all the sessions that you visited, all the interactions you had so far? It's also about people, it's about experiments and learning from failures. There is no cookbook, yes. About visualization, about direct feedback. Also, small steps here. That we are human beings. And that we really need to trust people. If we're looking at the world cloud and how to summarize the whole conference in one word, that's not a big surprise, it's a lot about people. And one very important thing also for us as like the conference team is that you not just get inspired today by what you hear, take something with you and change the ways of working within your organization. So, we ask you to name one concrete action you will take after today. I already see a lot of great ideas on Kanban boards, communication, love, I like that one. Self-management, booms, networks. Caring less about agile and more about people. Rethinking our compensation models. Quitting, why not? A lot on starting small, trust again. Keep calm, sleep well, very important. And drink some Agile. Yeah, we'll come to that in a second. Thank you very much for your feedback so far. Yeah, and we will actually collect all your answers and you'll be able to download the results from Mentimeter, so we'll share that in the email Pia just been talking about as well. So, we are also trying to collect a lot of stories. Maybe some of you have seen it. It's Sonja Blingnaut and Mika Ljöte who is doing that. And everybody who submits a story will be able to download a free book, a job people book. And I would like Sonja to come up and help me to describe why are you doing this. And give me a microphone. Yeah. Oh, take this one. Why are you doing this? Thanks for being here. Well, you guys heard Dave Snowden speak this morning that we can mobilize people to change narratives, not necessarily work towards a goal. And we really want to be able to create a landscape very similar to the ones that he showed this morning to help us understand what does the Agile HR landscape look like today in 2018, preferably all around the world. But so far we've only managed to gather 55 stories, which is a bit depressing. So we really want to ask you guys to help us. What we would love to be able to do is to publish a report and potentially maybe even do it annually around what is the state of Agile HR, what are the stories that's coming out of our organizations. So we're not only asking for HR people to share their stories. We're actually asking for anyone in an organization that is impacted by HR, whether or not they're agile or not, to share the impact that that is having on them. So if we can ask you guys to please tell your own stories into your own experiences, but then when you go back to your organizations, maybe if you can commit to gathering three or four in those organizations as well, then we can go from 55 to hopefully around seven or 800. So we would love if you guys would help us with that. Thank you. Thank you, Sonja. Great. Fantastic. Now, over to our competition. Very exciting. Jesper, would you come up on stage and share the results? Yes, yes. So I guess it's the thing that everybody's been waiting for this entire conference. So finally we get the results here. So we're going to give away two books for Twitter and one from Instagram. And the first winner in the Twitter competition is Shane Heast, actually. Shane, big applause. A lot of tweets actually. Thank you. Well, when we were counting, it was above 60, and then we had to stop counting because he just kept posting, so... So, winner number two also for Twitter, but for a lot of engagement here, is Petra Liesmons. Thank you. And both of these two persons actually already had a book, but... So you can fight them for the books afterwards. And lastly for Twitter now. Hopefully this person doesn't have a book then. Yes, Instagram. Katarina Frankander. See her? Thank you. Thank you. Great. Thank you Jesper. That was great. Now, we have tomorrow another day because this is not the end. So we have deepening workshops and we have four different workshops to choose from. Some of them are already fully booked. And I think actually that all of them are fully booked except for the agile cooking workshop. Is that correct team? Maybe. Anyway, there is still chance to put your name up there on the other side of these glass windows on one of the workshops for tomorrow. Even if you didn't plan on going to one, maybe now you feel inspired to do that. So there is still a chance to come tomorrow, even if you didn't plan to do that. So we will meet here 9 o'clock and we will continue until 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon with a break for a common lunch and common also Fika pauses so that you can mingle with all the other people from the other workshops as well. No, we go straight to the respective rooms. So there is no collective thing before we start the workshops tomorrow. Go straight to your room at 9 o'clock. Yes. Oh, yes, double check where you will go tomorrow. There will be signs on the wall, I guess, of where to go tomorrow. This place is so huge, so inspired. I have been here many times, but I still walk away and don't know where I am. I am lost here. It's a terribly confusing place, but very beautiful and nice. But this is not the end, you know, because we do have a date set for next year already. It's just one year away, so you don't have to wait long. It's on the 21st to the 24th of October next year. We will do pre-conference workshops as well, and we will do a main conference day and also deepening workshops next year, like we did this year. If you want to speak or if you have some suggestions of who you want to hear speak, please come to us with those suggestions, send us an email or contact us in any other way. And we will take that into account. Or if you have a pre-conference workshop that you would like to run, or if you know somebody who has a great workshop that you would like to attend, let us know that as well, because we are here to please you, right? Azure People also actually has a meet-up group, and now we started a meet-up group, umbrella, so that we have now how many meet-up groups? I think it's five or six already that we have. We have two in Germany, one in San Francisco, two in Sweden, and one in Thailand. Wow. So we have many meet-up groups. If you want to start a meet-up group in your city, we will sponsor with yearly fee, and we will support you with speakers, network, and stuff like that. So it will be easy for you. We will make it easy for you to come together and discuss these important topics. We can also contribute with webinars and speeches via Zoom and so on. We have a lot of talented people in our network. And for the Azure People group here in Stockholm, I think we have 1,300 participants now, or members. And we regularly meet and discuss these important topics. It doesn't cost a thing. It's all free, and we do it because we love to discuss and to talk about these important topics. Agilepeople.se, there you will find the schedule. Thank you very much. I think there is something missing now. What could that be? Oh, yeah. The Agile Ale. Of course. So we will have a beer over here in the bar if you prefer without alcohol. That's fine. If you want beer or whiskey or something else, unfortunately, you have to pay yourself. But the Agile Ale is for free. Drink one or two beers with us before you go home today. And there is also without alcohol alternatives, of course. Like soft drinks and stuff like that. So with that, I would like to thank you the conference team. Thank you very much. And for those of you who I see tomorrow, I see you tomorrow. For those of you who I don't see tomorrow, I hope to see you around. Or we'll meet next year. Okay. Thank you, everybody.


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