Hey folks, welcome to the podcast. So we're doing a special series of podcasts which I'm recording over Google Hangouts. So we're doing audio and video because for some unknown reason people don't want to come see me face-to-face right now. But there's always opportunity and the cool thing is I'm able to now podcast with people from all over the world. So we're going to get an amazing eclectic mix of people from different industries, different perspectives to share their story and tell us you know their thoughts and feelings on what's going on right now and all of that cool stuff. Hope you enjoy it. Please subscribe in all the usual places and enjoy. And we're live. Today I have the pleasure of being joined by Tiffany Olson. And Tiffany is president of Nuclear and Precision Health Solutions at Cardinal Health. Tiffany thanks for joining me. Well thank you, thanks for inviting me. It's really great to have an opportunity to see you and to talk to others virtually. Definitely. We were saying just before we went live that we've spoken a number of times on the phone and I'm not quite sure why we didn't just organize a video call to start with. Yeah you know it's interesting how much popular video conferencing has been. I don't even know if I had heard of Zoom prior to a couple of months ago but I can tell you that I now feel like I am an expert. I have a lot of different virtual backgrounds. I can do all the little hand signals and everything else on Zoom which has been great. So is your background real or is it virtual? This is my home office so this is my background. You know I have worked out of my home actually since my first job out of college and I've had offices but throughout my entire career I've worked both at home and virtually. My team that I manage, my leadership team, most of them are virtual and so I've always had a home office and I know how difficult it is for those who are just starting this adventure and home office especially when you have a family whether it be a husband or children or pets because everybody's got to get trained on the protocol. Yeah it's true. Also like the yeah you're right the protocol also of these video calls. I was speaking to somebody the other day and he has a big call with his team and you know some people switch their videos off because he can't fool someone to share their video with you and he was trying to get his head around how do I keep these people engaged? Am I boring them? Are they just checking their email? They just muted themselves and gone to make a cup of coffee? It's quite a new skill isn't it? So it's like a it's a particular thing to learn. Yes yes it is a very new skill very new skill. Now for me I will do video calls some of the time but not all the time because I'm a pacer when I walk I like to move around I like to maybe sit outside for a bit and if you're videoing it doesn't kind of always lend itself to that plus when you know you have to have good video habits you don't want to do other things when you're videoing so that's true. I'll look forward to more conference calling and live meetings but I think that's going to be a while. It's true actually I'm very fidgety I love getting up and like walking around and it's true and I never sit for so long because I'm always I'm walking around I'm going between meetings I'm in London so a lot of the time you can walk around so different meetings you know so this is a although I've adapted I prefer I think my my London office like routine you know the commute in and stuff. Yeah and you know that's part of the joy of living in a big city so I have two adult children actually both of them are home with me now which has been the gift that I received with COVID because I've you know when else would I be able to spend this type of time with my adult children but they live in Chicago so a very big city here and love getting out using public transportation all the time eating out all the time so it's a very you know it's a really kind of fun energetic mobile lifestyle and now they're in the suburbs with with mom and dad. Right so what are we doing? Right so your your near Chicago suburbs of Chicago? And Indianapolis and it's three hours unfortunately we don't have trains really that that go up there which would be fabulous but it's about three hours to Chicago Nice wow so you've suddenly got four of you living under one roof and you probably haven't done that for a while. I haven't done it for a long time now when my kids were born I worked out of my home and so I always had a rule I always had an office with doors and when the doors were shut mom was at work whether I'm two feet away or 200 miles away the same kind of good general practice is applied and so I've just had that throughout my whole career so I've been very very fortunate um in that uh you know it gets great uh I can usually do my work now I we do correspond with notes on the door so my note on the door is you know quiet on zoom uh versus you know the door is open it's a free for all anybody can come in uh so that that for me um hasn't been something that I've had to adjust to but I know a lot of my folks that work for me that are now at home never been at home and have really really little ones um and you know nobody has daycare right now so there's it's just a whole different way to work and if both adults are are working from home and you don't have an office then you know it's the fight for who gets the kitchen table. Yeah and what do you what are you expecting from from parents specifically with the young kids? I mean are you expecting them to be working a a traditional full day or like mom works in the morning dad works in the uh in the afternoon or something like that what's the kind of scenario? Yeah I would say flexibility is absolutely key so that you know and and for me it is all about flexibility and when my kids were younger I did have to flex my schedule um really around theirs you know it is what you need to do but I will say the one thing that I've noticed with COVID is there is no respect for anybody's time on uh digital devices so I'll get called later than usual, texts, emails, everybody's next to their device and so it's like you have to and what I've actually told my folks too that work for me is you have to develop your own boundaries and stick to them so if you need time away you have to develop that boundary yourself because nobody else has these boundaries anymore where before there was a rhythm people were on planes people were at a hotel sleeping people were you know there was much more of a um maybe a rhythm to the day and uh you know the emails would kind of ebb and flow that way now you know I wake up in the morning I'm at my computer at seven I'll have 35 emails I'm like what are these people doing they need to rest please well you know people are bored at home I mean what else is there to do you know a lot of the time you know I've had to uh you really have to drag yourself away from the computer or from social media and switch off and that means I mean you know if you're not lucky enough to live in a in a nice house or have grounds and how I'm outside space a lot of people in cities are in flats it's hard you know it is it's a very very difficult and here at least in Indiana so we have a stay at home only essential workers uh our grocery stores um you know I'm like an uh old person the mail comes and I'm like yes the mail's here get to run out you know somebody maybe see a neighbor and wave um but you know grocery stores the drug stores those are of course big events now um but uh you know for us um it's just really kind of that staying at home and and trying to trying to social distance or physical distance yeah yeah but what about what's the state of play where you are and kind of a bit more generally in the in the region yeah so uh almost I think with the exception of just a few states in the United States it is definitely stay at home there've really been some hotspots I'm sure on the global news New York California even Chicago Indianapolis the city that I live in in Indiana we're in the very very middle of the United States we've had some hotspots um and I think for me it really came home I have a very good friend of mine I belong to this women's CEO network um that I've been a member of for years and years here in Indianapolis it's a group of us about 35 of us that get together periodically and one of my good friends in the group um owns a logistics company and it came home for me how serious this is when she said that she had gotten an order for five refrigerated semis for the hospitals um and of course that's to help with um people coming in who unfortunately succumb to the disease you know I I'm I'm happy to say that um no one in my immediate family has been impacted at all I do have employees that uh work for me who either themselves or their family some of our customers we know have been impacted but uh so far I think the whole thing on flattening the curve at least has worked here which is which is good keeping the fingers crossed and then supposedly many states starting in May so just next week are going to start lifting we have a lot of hospital customers who are telling us that um they will start doing um optional surgeries so they'll they'll start doing some of these extra surgeries and procedures some of the clinics are going to start opening up again so we'll see then kind of what what happens because people still need general health care yeah and for those that don't know can you just run through what you and your and your team actually do absolutely so um my uh company that I work for is cardinal health so we are really a fortune 15 um uh company we do the wide spectrum of health care everything that we do is in health care I run a division for Cardinal called nuclear and precision health solutions so my particular organization we develop we manufacture we dispense prepare and deliver patient specific doses with radioactivity so doses that would be used for within a pet camera cardiovascular doses are are also very big for us oncology we make products for others also so not just ourselves so we are really the the leaders here in nuclear pharmacy in radio pharmacy drugs both diagnostics and therapeutics awesome and what's been your response then to to covid I mean you're you mentioned summer at home are you still manufacturing I mean what's the kind of the scenario at the moment yeah so as you can imagine we are one of the essential companies that needs to continue to stay open so we took a couple of precautions and we're doing a couple of things so anyone who can work from home is at home um anyone who is not directly involved in the manufacturing of our products and we run 24 7 so uh we have a lot of our people on um in our pharmacies we're located in almost every state in the United States um and so we manufacture because of the nature of radioactivity decaying we uh it's very important that we're close to our customers so in each of our manufacturing facilities we have staff there we've tried to stagger staff so that we don't have everybody at the same time do more shifts in case there is an issue we've upped our cleaning procedures we uh have of course provided personal protective equipment for our employees we've shut our lunch rooms down we've shut most of our conference rooms down um so that employees were asked to stay with that you know six feet away from each other when it's possible to do so um and uh really just making sure that we are taking care of not only each other but doing our best with our customers and I'm also happy to say that some of our customers have uh changed some of their procedures along with some government regulations to make it a little bit easier for our drivers and our customers to exchange product without having to stand in the ER line or just filter through the ER so with the help of customers and regulatory agencies it's it's helped up tremendously that's great and and do you test as well your employees so we are doing temperature checks uh we win in the United States the testing protocol you have to go through a physician to get the test if you are not a health care worker health care workers of course are getting tested all the time and so what we do is we have our employees take their temperature if they are feeling at all ill if they believe that they have contracted it we do have a security office within Cardinal that they contact and then we make sure that they quarantine themselves at home yeah brilliant and and and have you had many that have have become ill like have you seen it spread amongst your group much or have you so I would say overall we have really for the big numbers of of employees that we have globally we have over 50 000 employees we have had a small percent that have contracted the disease and so right now I think our precautions of what we're doing has really worked we also right now as far as what we know people are either self-quarantine because someone that they know outside of work has been impacted or they think that they've contracted it outside of work so again that's been you know really really good good for us and brilliant amazing and this and just also really interesting I mean this is obviously extraordinary times and I mean certainly in my lifetime I've never seen anything like it how how is your how have you had to adapt your leadership style for this I mean it's so many different plants going on how have you how have you adapted to it yeah well so I think that whenever there's a crisis and you have a lot of people who are very nervous being calm is one of the best leadership practices that you can do so it's being calm it's asking questions and it's making sure you have a plan so for me I individually will uh if I'm anxious about something if I have a plan and I know what I'm doing and I feel good about where I'm going whether it's whether it's something that's very difficult to do or something easy to do it's that plan that provides me the ability to be able to function and so for me one staying calm my direct leadership team we have check-in calls three times a week Monday Wednesday Friday we're just gonna start now going to two days a week these are one hour of getting everybody together we start with what is our hot list so what are the items that really have to address immediately and then we go around and it's 15 people and then we go around the phone and everybody has an opportunity to talk about the covid issues that they're experiencing and we start with first tell me how you yourself are doing because mental health is extremely important at this time tell me how your family's doing and tell me about the business so those are the three things and our practice that we start with and then it's really the plan um so it's uh you know then we can execute the plan and then they cascade that down also so it's staying calm even when there's that crisis and like you had mentioned before Lewis it's about being flexible it's about the flexibility that then you need um to give people because it is very unusual circumstances that people find themselves in definitely the mental health aspect is crazy I mean I don't know how accurately stats are but I heard that um that suicide for mental health in America has been up 400 percent and and calls to helplines 1500 percent yes you know it's it's it's a big issue and you know it was an issue before but I think I guess when when you can see someone face to face you can read their their nonverbal communication right when someone's at home maybe they're on their own they're not fortunate enough to to have kids and and a partner and stuff like that um you can't again you can't read it as well you know you can't get a sense of are they how are they feeling are they doing all right um how have you is there anything you've been you've been doing to kind of make sure that your people are okay or yes and actually thanks thanks for asking this so I am um one of the ambassadors with our human resource department on mind matters and we just launched this two weeks ago and it's really about making sure that people understand that mental health is about just how you're feeling um it's about if you're feeling anxious it's or angry or those types of things and during these times people that maybe normally wouldn't think that they need to seek help um may benefit by uh phoning in by having a conversation so it's part of launching um the helplines that we have the benefit lines where to go if you are immediately distressed so unfortunately the suicide rates are up um and you know as you can imagine during these times it's even more difficult for people who are struggling prior to uh they probably feel more isolated especially as you said if you're home alone um if you've lost your job all of these triggers that normally are difficult for people to transition are challenging in people's lives um even become more so with the increased deaths that are occurring um people that are individually impacted I had um an employee just this week whose father passed away um you know they can't have a proper funeral at this time so that grieving process it's it's very very difficult um to go through so we really want to make sure that our folks know where the resources are um and that it's okay it's really about taking the stigma away I also have been the um executive sponsor for our disability advocate network group for many many years and we've worked on trying to take the stigma out of you know mental health uh challenges but everybody has them the other thing that uh we encourage um there's really a couple of apps that provide help with the calm app which is my new favorite app that uh that I use it has sleeps so what it's so what is it so is it okay CALM yes CALM it's called calm and it is a app that uh uh has meditation on it it has sleep stories at night uh it has um music you know sound music um that you could have so I I utilize it all the time because I'm not a good sleeper to begin with and then you know just when I lie down that's when my mind starts whirling that's slowing down so it teaches people like me uh a little bit better habits and we also um as an organization as Cardinal provide the mind space app for people which is also a meditation app um and uh they just have to click within our website and they can get that I want to take up being like because it's it's it's from from people like speaking it's getting more and more popular is mindfulness you know just taking five ten minutes just to you know meditate calm your your head and have you seen the take of these up really uh increase yes yes definitely and uh even someone as skeptical as I was um and now you know the sponsor the office for for these apps so um I've been trying to push them on my family they won't do them but uh I'm like here listen listen it's a really great sleep story tonight well I've been you know I've been I've been beating the drum for um like good nutrition regular exercising good sleep for well to anyone who'll listen really and and for for my mental health um the exercise part um well all three are important but but when I exercise and I've I've up my exercise since I've been home I'm doing almost every day I'm doing something some movement that it gets the chemicals in your brain going you feel good and even if it's 20 minutes a little online yoga session or I do CrossFit online it's really it really ups my it really ups my happiness levels um it's it's great and so and then the other thing is is it's a good diet I've I've tried I think I'm eating more healthy now because we're getting like we're fortunate in that in London all the supermarkets are stocked and a lot of local ones are doing fresh produce so you eat fresh fruit fresh vegetable quality food and it really helps me you know it makes me feel good and then my mind's better and you know it's a good it's a good food and I've also been as well and I don't know about the US but again with with who's kind of taking back to COVID a little bit um you know if you if you do have a good diet and exercise when the sleep well your immune system will be better able to cope with you know with these viruses if you if you get it yes exactly exactly and you know it all goes together your mind which is that mental health and your physical um and what you're putting into your body all make a difference and I think it's it's it's hard when you're you know think of you know your life four months ago you're busy you're running around you don't always have time to eat well you're not next to a refrigerator you might buy fast food or you know candy bar instead of lunch or with lunch um and all of those things you know so um it is you know I I look at this as maybe taking an opportunity to reset some of those things too yeah yeah thank you mother nature for keeping us on our knees for the last you know a few months what really has gone up though if I'm honest is my coffee consumption I yeah because I me and my team love coffee and so I I bought them all a subscription to a nice uh speciality coffee bag they get it once a month which is really nice you all feel all drinking the same you know same coffee it's it's nice it's nice to receive a nice bag of coffee as well um but I've actually like just realized how much coffee I'm drinking I need to maybe cut down but it's crazy what have you found the the economic impact to to be because it feels like here and I know that that that Donald Trump is is being discussing as well we're at the kind of spot in in the world now where it's like the the economic impact versus versus staying at home what have you seen kind of you know local businesses national businesses and the effects that this has had yeah well we have um our unemployment rate which was at an all-time low prior to this is I think yesterday it was close to 12 percent which is really unfortunate because um you know as we all know the higher the unemployment rate the the harder the uh families have uh economically so we've seen um and I I have a friend who runs a restaurant where they've had to unfortunately let some people go they're trying to keep people as busy as possible that actually and they said um would rather do delivery because it keeps one of our people that much more busier so um you know we try to matter of fact we're having lunch um from their restaurant so ordering and then having it having it delivered but it's it's really difficult in um in that way I have a another very close friend who runs the united way here in central indiana which is I united way is global I don't know how familiar people outside of the us are with it but they help um many many non-for-profit groups and help with funding those groups well right away when this happened the city of indianapolis put an 18 million into a fund gave it to united way and united way is dispersing that fund really one is child care for people that are still working whose child care is no longer around and that's going to be an issue when people come back to work um is when do schools and child care happen after school care those types of things um also for just basic food some of our food banks here have done things where instead of having people come into the food bank they have the drive up they set a table outside people are driving up or walking up and they are going into the neighborhoods that that need them the most um so I think that uh hopefully as the economy and businesses start to come back that we'll see that unemployment drop um but I think that there are some businesses who probably can't recover from this um and unfortunately uh you know it always takes time then to look at what other businesses are propping up and need help um and uh you know hopefully the economy will will come back I think it'll come back in in step changes not in a huge not in a huge way yeah so maybe I mean one school's open and I I don't know about the US I'm really hoping end of May in the UK which is our half term um I mean I I really hope although I mean I don't think that many people agree with me on that so but I'm really hoping so because you kind of they get to a bit of a tipping point because you know in a really bad recession a lot of bad things happen you know yes yes and so I'd like to see a start open up and I spoke to a lot a lot of uh big companies here and they're talking about you know giving staff you know you can work two days from the office three days from home someone else does another two days and yeah you know mixing up and it feels like we'll get back over a period of time um what's fascinating is how the post-covid era will look like um you know what will we be going back five days a week to the office will we'll off basis shrink I mean it's going to be fascinating to see what happens yeah I think you know I have always been a believer in virtual virtual teams um you know I I am the I considered myself the conference call queen I could do a conference call from anywhere in the world um I think more people are now discovered that that is a possibility that you can have a virtual team and be productive um you don't always have to be sitting in the same office and so I think there'll be a lot more of that type of thing it'll be interesting to see what happens with commercial real estate um and what businesses shrink which ones you know distribution type businesses where you've got warehouses maybe those grow um and uh it's it's going to be interesting I think too flexibility in just things like childcare daycare schools um uh you know there there I think will have to be more flexibility from employers on what that looks like and and how to work with uh with individuals yeah you might even go more we have this thing in in the UK and the gig economy you know like the uber drivers or but people and so I mean you're already seeing the trend where people are opting for a number of of gigs a number of pieces of work rather than a traditional a traditional job and this seems to have given these some of these trends a big shot in the arm you know just really accelerated it and so I think we might you might see that you know more people opting for gigs versus uh versus permanent roles yes yes yes I I would agree I would absolutely agree and I think that this also could be a time where our huge cultural changes not only just kind of the work changes but the cultural changes on what people think are important to them how people use technology how they don't use technology uh how people want to work versus not you know versus leisure time that type of thing so I think all of those things are really going to change and uh you know you look at the retail stores many of them might not be able to make it but people still need clothes and they still need you know retail type goods but what is that going to look like in the future you know before COVID a lot of places especially department stores were kind of suffering with what does it mean to be more digital and all online they've probably had to now go through oh so this is what it would mean and now what is it going to look like for them in the future it's I think that'll be interesting to see what happens definitely it feels like this COVID has basically accelerated the amazonification of the world I mean I've heard 175,000 extra jobs or something that I mean you know as if they needed more sales so you are absolutely right absolutely right yeah it's funny and I know one one big issue I've heard a lot and you know from speaking to business leaders around the world is is is they all feel like they need to to quickly learn new skills now um because you know how they led before uh it's it's maybe it's changing a lot now you're gonna they're gonna have to manage you know virtual teams remote workers you know people coming in and out I mean it's a very different skill set I think you'll need in the future yes I would absolutely agree absolutely agree and you know you just think the logistics of getting a large office back to work we have Cardinal has our global headquarters in Dublin Ohio and uh you know the campus is very large we have several thousand people how do you get people back in when do you open up your your lunch rooms or your cafeteria logistically as as you said maybe some people are there two days others three and vice versa how does that look what what do you need to do and what kind of benefits do you need to give folks that might be different in the future than they are today and the training and what type of training now do we need to make sure to give our supervisors and the managers and the leaders in this kind of new way yeah and also if you're entering the workforce now I mean wow you know I mean because I'm always quite an advocate of um you know I'm into obviously flexibility and and all of these things but I feel that when you're entering the workforce from uni you don't know how to work right you've gone to school you've been told to you've gone to college university you've been told to suddenly it's like wow how do I actually work and so I've always been an advocate for you know like join join join a leader or manager not not the job you'll learn more from from then than you will from the actual task probably yeah you might not even see your manager now as it is a young person you might have to try and work out how to be productive sitting at home I mean yes yeah I think one of the one of the struggles actually it's something that I'm personally working with right now is how do you onboard a new person that's new to your organization that you hired during this COVID period of time so we have one instance where a gentleman had been interviewing with a lot of people not myself but a lot of other people I was doing some of the final interviews had to do them all virtually and now he will start in a virtual environment so how do you the onboarding of that the introduction the culture how do you get your culture across virtually so all of those things it's it's going to be new so that that's that'll be a new learning for me no it's really interesting because I've heard of companies that have you know cancelled offers that they've made to people and some aren't so keen just to do the full process with video others are it's a very uh you know it's very mixed um the onboarding process absolutely almost maybe it might be more personal I mean they get to see you in your home environment you know versus it gets a more formal work environment so that's that's quite interesting yeah yeah you know I also um I was just thinking too on kind of the onboarding so my children have a friend one who was supposed to sit for the CPA exam which of course is postponed and another one who is going into her third year of med school and they have a big exam between year two and year three that's been postponed so when those will occur when those will happen so you have this whole generation of these large tests you know you think of SAT tests or other college entrance tests that are need to get postponed and whatever that means or however that's going to look in the future it pushes back a whole group of people um later either in their career or in their ability to take the next step it's a shame they can't do it online there must be a nice uh you know nice platform it's a real shame it's a real shame there's a guy I spoke to uh a few weeks ago actually he just graduated as a doctor in the UK you know so it takes was it six years he'd done a he'd done a degree before he's been studying for nine and his um his graduation was on zoom and he wore a dustbin bag you know the black dustbin bag it's a it's a graduation cap he's got to make do I mean he's got to be adaptable and you know it's uh it's definitely a crazy world well it really really lovely to speak to you thank you so much for joining me and uh you know you guys seem to be doing some great stuff and yeah be great to meet face to face when all this is over absolutely absolutely they stay safe and healthy thank you you too bye now thank you bye bye


All right, can you guys hear me guys in the back on the pack roll? All right, so my name is okay. What we are my name is Rajesh. I work with pivotal and he's Brian So we're going to quick introduction. So what we're going to talk about today is Something that we've been building for well over like a couple of months now. It's a testing framework It started as a testing framework, but there are a lot of other stuff that we build on top of it. So Okay, quickly I'm based out of Michigan and I'm a platform architect my day job is Working with my folks in pivot from my for for motor company. That's my customer And I help them adopt cloud foundry. So again for folks who don't know Ford is one of the biggest accounts for pivotal and Brian is based on Minneapolis. Yep. So, yeah, I've been working on with quite a few companies in the Midwest area or so and so I've been able to help Demo and I show people a lot of really cool things about cloud foundry Then which is what we're here talking about today along with Node.js and all this stuff. All right, cool So so what we're going to introduce today is we call this project is X. Yellow Just a acronym we came across like your last week. It's a cross cloud monitoring and testing dashboard So it's a dashboard that we've been building. So there are multiple components in this dashboard. We're going to talk about And do a lot of demo about that dashboard today So going to the next slide What are we trying to do? What is the problem you're trying to solve here? So again, just a History of this project that started I would say around six months back I was working with some teams in Ford and Ford as you know, it's a it's a fairly big installation of cloud foundry multiple foundations and There's with multiple foundations. We have multiple challenges like hey How do we update and make sure that apps always running across the same app is running across all platforms? if you update the underlying build packs if you're underlying the update the stem cell and And all the service gets updated. So those kind of challenges that when you have large-scale installations that you come across And then how do you provide a visibility to the the engineering team the ops team and the and to the developers Across all these foundations. So with that premise, we've said, okay, maybe we should need to step back and say can we create a Across platform across foundation dashboard at the same time We also can we provide some kind of an attesting framework so that we can push the same kind of apps Across all these multiple foundations so that they can be they can be running these apps constantly To give that health of each of these foundations. So those were the two areas we started exploring And with that premise we like again said, okay Is this a problem that just Ford has or is this a problem like other customers have and when I started talking to other customers Most of the bigger customers that we came across they had similar problems like hey, they all started doing similar things So we Brian and me we kind of paired together and said, okay We should do something different and that's where the genesis of this project is so with that I'll hand it over to Brian. He'll actually walk through a story And give a demo, right?  I Generally just kind of get a feel for things are getting some stuff set up then you start hiring More developers and why isn't the transitions building out? See start hiring a few more people as you're going along the project gets bigger and bigger and pretty soon you have a whole bunch of developers and then you Start building up a bunch of different apps, which at first seems pretty simple I you have five apps to deploy and manage. All right. No big deal Then you start introducing cloud foundry which makes running those microservices a lot easier for you I you have a lot of resiliency built into there, but still you have to You have the one foundation then I have to monitor your apps make sure everything's up and running So you get everything all deployed there and then great five apps still real easy. I've been no longer having to Worry about running these on like a local laptop or something like that. You got the platform to actually manage everything for you but wait You know probably have like say maybe a dev space a test space Staging prod maybe a few other various spaces offer that one applicator for that one big a application So now you have four Or you have four spaces five apps and now you have 20 that 20 apps You now have to monitor which depending on who's monitoring that might get to be a little more Interesting because then they have to go into the various spaces make sure every app is up and running And then once you start worrying about somewhat of redundancy, maybe you want to have a couple cloud foundry foundations 2345 foundations serve across the globe then all of a sudden you have basically a microservice sprawl So now you have X many foundations times X many spaces times X many apps I guess to be a lot of apps to monitor in this case say 40 apps now you have to monitor So you have to log into in this case two different foundations across the few different spaces That's like a full-time job for someone to just go through and just make sure everything is up every day So some of the answers we want are some of the questions we had going into this were How do I keep track of all my apps? Are they running? Should they be running this maybe have like a DR zone that's maybe supposed to be cold that you want to make sure That's apps aren't running in along with just knowing so we're like Keeping track of all your apps knowing where they're running are my apps actually healthy or not Because maybe they're flapping what I'm going up and down or maybe the health checks are Actually failing behind the scenes, but the app's still up Maybe they can't connect up to a database or something that kind of stuff is Great for operations to build know and right now is a little bit hard Especially when you start talking about multiple cloud foundry foundations So with that we'll go to a quick demo Of what we've actually been working on So here is Right now I'm logged into one foundation This is a quick little app that we've been working on to be able to just go pull apps from every every space within your Foundries that you have actually configured. So in this case, I have one foundry configured I can actually go and click on one of these apps and it'll actually go out and Grab some more information about it figure out how many how many instances of the application are actually supposed to be up and running and What its memory limits are set to what services are bound when it was last updated and such that way if just As a as an administrator you can easily go and see at a quick glance what's actually happening with that application along with if Right now we're checking like just a slash health endpoint to see if the application is actually up and running And if it is we actually display the status right here Along with if an app is actually stopped in a stop state. It'll actually show up as a red little tile here So this is so right now. I'm logged into a single foundation and if I go and log into a couple more foundations So these are right now are just a can just configured in all JSON file We're eventually gonna do something else. We're not sure yet But if I go back to apps now This will actually go and pull apps across all those foundations that were that I'm actually logged into so you can see in this case This app this application just is actually currently stopped So not gonna be like it too much for details on that That so if we have a couple different apps are stopped we can also see what foundation they're actually a part of what org and what space Along with we are also pulling in Some concourse pipelines as well That we're we're using for actually deploying some of these applications. So in this case We'll use one that we have set up for Ford since we have our four guys here So if we go in here, we'll see that we have three different pipelines If there is something currently going on in this pipeline, we would actually see similar to how concourse Has a little Rectangular thing around whatever is currently happening that'll show up say like right here or so in the app Or just in this little tile and if there is something that was wrong There would actually be a little red red slice in there as well That's I We are we just started getting into the concourse part. We're still trying to flush out some of the details about that, but we're Very much new to how this is gonna work So we've been constantly changing a lot of features in the last even week or so We've we're working on this even today right before this so I was happy that everything was actually staying working So I guess I can go all right sure we go and go look at the apps again and See that everything is everything is green again. So this is very useful We think this concept is gonna be very useful to be able to monitor across multiple foundations along with We have a search So if we want to say just look at the canary apps that we have deployed You can easily just go through and search for that Along with I can just turn off other foundations and see just one foundations worth I can I we started Thinking of other things that person might want to filter on such as me build packs See if apps are started stop stuff like that, but we're still working on all the various permutations of Cool things that we can add to this Let me just take a pause here Can you hear me? Okay, so yes to add to what Brian was saying, you know The basic UI I mean we are we're trying to build a minimalistic UI to get started So things that we thought were important was like a search So I should be able to search for the same app across let's say four different foundations or I should be able to filter that by Give me all apps in a specific foundation or give me all apps which are let's say node apps or Java apps That are or maybe apps that are running Redis service or rabbit MQ service. Those kind of filters are available What we also would like to see actually as extension is what additional things that you guys, you know Who are managing multiple foundries? What do you guys think is important, right? I Is it a filtering is it sorting searching? Is it actually going against specific kind of profiles? Any additional metrics? So what we also doing is we are look every app that we are deploying If they have a slash health endpoint, so we are querying the slash health endpoint So if you go to a canary Java And if you see on the details section that is a status up So it's basically if it's a spring boot actual trap. There's a slash health endpoint that automatically is added to it if it's not a spring boot and someone is deploying some Custom apps that we are actually again in case of Ford We are telling all app developers to have a slash health endpoint They can write some custom data on that endpoint and we can show that that kind of custom data Like whether the stat with the app is really up or not up And you know those are the ideas that we have but we would like you know this kind of a community project like hey What do you guys think was important for you guys? just either see on your Panel or even the details page All right, so you know continuing on that theme, you know again we are thinking about Kubernetes like project cubos announced this week Should we look at Kubernetes clusters should we bring in Kubernetes as a cloud operator? Who was actually tasked with managing multiple cloud installations just not PCF or cloud foundry But you might have Docker swarm you might have Kubernetes You might have even services marketplace. You might actually want to see hey What are my common services and plans across all my foundries right? Do I am I actually having you know, let's say a gold plan for Redis Some kind of a quota and usage or a size number of a size Across all foundry. So those are the ideas we are kind of thinking about again Most of this feedback is coming to us from our customers. So we would like to hear from you guys What what do you guys want to you know, see in this community dashboard other thing that we are looking at is? Reports and again working with Ford Ford is actually You know doing for does a lot of elaborate analysis on the usage of the platform Like how many containers are deployed? How many are active containers or active AI's and how many are Inactive and how many of them are using let's say one gig and plus of memory and what is the gigabyte hour usage? And those kind of reports are then used for some charge back model So we're thinking of let's pull all this data across all foundries by Organization because you know most of the customers we have seen they look at org as a business unit and That that might be useful to a mechanism to pull that data and give reports around gigabyte hour usage on container and Then also capacity planning like let's say if you are looking at this What should be additional IS? Capacity like how many Diego cells I am running or how many nodes I'm running or how many Hcds or go routers or whatever those Metrics that we are pulling we can pull that and give some additional capacity metrics again the idea behind this dashboard is You know solving a problem of scale like if you have multiple foundries How can you bring all that data together if you have one? Yes, you can go to like apps manager or ops manager and you can get details about that But if you have multiple and your distributed team how you can bring all this data together So this is what we are trying to do what we want is feedback Q&A Questions, so this is our demo and talk track So The dashboard is the radiator dashboard which which Brian showed right and there's a test harness Which is basically running all the test the canary test so that multiple Components underneath that we haven't talked about the architecture yet So the dashboard is one micro service or one service, which is we are we are deployed in like it's built in NodeJS and react Then we have proxies for cloud foundry proxies for CI servers different proxy back-end servers and Then we have concourse pipelines running under a separate project So you have concourse all your concourse pipelines which are actually running all these different apps That's a separate project So there are multiple components in this if you go to that git repo that we just put it on on the Whereas of the first on the first page you will see all those different projects. Yeah Correct. So that's a good question. So what we have we are doing is that that app could the Card in the middle can be down, right? And that that basically means that the app itself is down In the stopped state. So we are looking at the state of the app stopped start or basically I don't know what's other states stop. Yeah, but then if you are looking at the health the slash health endpoint So the app might be running But it might not be able to connect to a back-end service in that case the slash health endpoint would show you Whether it is not able to connect to a database or connect to a red is or whatever it could be So there are two points of failure One is basically the app state itself and the other is the slash health endpoint. Yeah, right right now We're not actually color coding based off of if the application started But unhealthy because it can't connect up to a database currently We're not actually color coding the tile differently because of that That's a future thing Only so much time in the world All right And same is with the you know with the pipelines. We are showing right now You know one of the things that in working with Ford They wanted to know is the app might be actually a version of the app might be running But then we are pushing a new version of the app and that pipeline might have failed, right? So what what we want to show that on that screen is In fact, if you log out and log in to let's say another team, I can't do it right now Oh, you can so yeah So if you if you can log out and log like if you log into another team or the we can have multiple servers So if you log into multiple other server, you can see that one of the pipelines is down And that basically means the app might be the earlier version of that might be running But the newer version that you are pushing that by that pipeline failed, right? So you can have multiple Failure points a new app cannot be deployed a app that is existing the app might be stopped or a app might be running But the underlying service might be down Yeah, so I think the Genesis as I said the Genesis was like when you do synthetic monitoring you have you have a app Like you you are writing apps custom apps and you're doing some synthetic monitoring against that, right? one of the things the Ford teams were actually that you have multiple cloud foundries and they were tasked with is like when you deploy any new service Or you change any underlying component make sure that everything else all the apps are running on them They are always running right they are always hot. So how do you solve that problem? So that's the reason we said okay We should come up with like list of 10 20 use cases which are kind of smoke test Bundle them and then deploy them in all foundries so that we are consistently testing the same apps in All these different foundries so that was the like the primary use case driving this particular dashboard App teams took that and said okay. This is looks really nice We should actually extend this use case and can we write our own custom apps and have slash health endpoints And then we can use the same thing that we don't need a synthetic monitoring tool any other questions Yeah, right right now Right now we're doing it on click just because there's just some latency involved with doing that for every single one of them We just haven't quite got to that kind of point yet. So it's it was easier both time-wise and for us and Just request time to actually just go and click on it right now But yeah, eventually we want to have a bit better summary just within tile Then build a click on it to get like a more expanded summary or just have that be something you click on the tile And it actually expands or something like that So we're still trying to figure out exactly how the UI should look for some of these things, but yeah It trying to make this so that's more you can just look and see what's happening Especially being able to pull me back maybe like a an application version or something like that and having this in the tile Is a little card as well so that you can search for like say canary java or something like that And then you can see all the instances of it and you can if you're returning back Say like an application version or something like that or commit hash or something like that You can easily see that something is different between these two or three four five however many you have So we are there's a good question We all these apps that we have built actually they are all stateless like you know We are purposely not storing any data because if you want to get data Then you can always go to a like a apps manager or ops manager or some and get some data, right? Because if we are going to start storing like time series data, it's gonna be too much of data And we are going to replicate that data So I think we'll solve that problem like by saying okay if you need historical data Then you'd launch into from that app into a specific console for that app Maybe like a apps manager or something rather than actually trying to store data here and trying to replicate data I mean at till this point we are like Consciously thinking of not storing data Just pulling data and me making it stateless But at some point we need to store some data then we'll start thinking about what is the best solution to start? Yeah, we figured start start simple then go from there And we also don't want to be another source of truth for data as well We figure that most most all the data that we really need we can pull from the cloud control or API pretty easily along with If we start pulling apps from say like kubernetes or docker swarm or something like that I trying to have a little more uniform interface for that. I It's kind of where we're trying to go for that and if we could avoid having to store a state Or a kind of state that would be great But obviously at some point in time we're gonna want to be able to Store some little bits and pieces here, but we just haven't quite figured out what scope you want to actually store data yet All right any of the questions so Couple of things we want to point out before we like wrap this up is You want actually feedback, right? So there's like a feedback form If you guys can go back and submit some feedback and tell us what's important for you guys Who are using cloud for me that would be very helpful for us. So prioritize things And yeah, if you need code We'll send out the the whole the source code of this repository and how do you install this and how to start using it? And we're also we're also pointing the slides up on the schedule site thing as well So I look for that after this presentation should actually have the updated slides We're out. We're modifying slides pretty much up until we got to the presentation The ones that are up there right now are a little bit stale Should be updated soon after this then Alright, thank you


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So yeah, these are our names. I'm Alessian and he's Christian. We are both from Kunmari University. We are PhD researchers and We work with sound my background is in architecture and his background is in sound design, so I am interested in space and how space is used and how sound actually is part of this kind of use of the space And so we'd like to present you some of the project we are working on and And some we are worked on previously and some future directions as well So there's an important component that is the Design methodology for this kind of objects which are very physical and their way to be played It really depends by how they are designed and how the sound is designed as well So we're gonna talk about The technology we use for for these objects. So the first Creation is a is a broom. So There's an Arduino which is controlling all the input from the sensors on this broom including an accelerometer and an embedded speaker and the idea was to create a Sensitive object which could interact with the space and was an everyday object, which every person could use But I was mostly interested in how The interaction with the floor and the space could come out of the expressivity of the instrument So I tested this Mozi library for real-time audio on Arduino and and Later I changed a bit the design of the interaction including a distance sensor to control the pitch and Some kind of gesture sensing as well and you can see some examples from And after this experiment I went into Like trying different time from for this instrument But I was really interested in what people could think if you actually play an instrument like this in a normal house And what can happen? So I had many interesting Opinions from my musicians friends, which thought I was a bit crazy So Yeah Already said that the second experiment was Odette with Lidati Odoru and in this case we wanted to experiment with Kind of skeleton tracking from Kinect and we wanted to create an alter ego mirroring a movement of a user And in this case the user had to become part of this kind of dialogue this performative interaction in front of this image So the participant in this case was becoming the puppet master in a sense and the The shadow created by the object and the lights and also the sound was part of the Performance so when people could come and see this scene they were thinking what's going on and they wanted to be part of this kind of dialogue and The interesting thing is that the object was kind of fascinating in a sense, but also made by a very Common materials as bubble wrap It was clearly a closed anger with an Arduino and some servo motors which also produced sound which was very creepy and The sound I decided to program in super collider. I used an already existing flute Patch, but it was creating kind of different pitch of sound. So when you were waving your your arms In the air then you were creating like spooky sounds kind of 80 You also have a video to show So it really seemed like a ghost And it was really In terms of understanding how I was working it was really clear to see all the connection Which was also part of the of the design of the of the piece in this case the like In this case The Kinect was in a black box Below the the wings so we used to call them kinetic wings at the beginning So we were experimenting with kind of responsive structures And then we decided to like play a bit on this kind of personification of the character playing in front of you You were also animating and we use open and I for the Kinect libraries and processing So processing was sending serial messages to Arduino And from this I believe like Okay, so I'm gonna talk about this one briefly now. So this instrument is called the air harp So the idea behind the air harp was that it was originally started out as I'm this true box project So the idea was that you had a box on the table And it was all up to the person interacting with the box to figure out how to play this instrument and I really wanted to Design something that allowed the person to make music pick it up and make music within less than 10 seconds basically So this is the way that you interact with the instrument I'll actually try and give you a live demo first So basically it's completely embedded. So battery speakers and all this are in the box Nine physically model strings going across the length of the box and then there's some physics simulation which Changes the position of the string of the object which in turn plugs the strings based on the orientation of the device So the idea is that the interaction should be very very natural and very easy to understand This is also the second generation of the air harp where we laser cut this this nice front panel Reason we did this actually was to let the sound come out of the box because initially we just had one single f-hole on the front And so that was nowhere near loud enough to amplify the instrument So here's just quickly how it works. We've got a virtual mass on two springs And as you tilt the box we can derive the resulting gravity forces that would need to push this mass across the strings And this is all there is to it basically And here's just a picture of the inside. We've got a single accelerometer a bella board, which I'll come back to later Battery and two speakers and a line out and the potentiometer that does nothing. Okay I think I just went through all of this okay, so Physical physical modeling of sound is really useful for this kind of thing because it does a lot of the work for you You just tell it and I'm gonna put in This much force and it's gonna behave exactly how I expected to within the constraints of this physical simulation But I found especially coming from a sound design background that this is often not enough And I wanted to be able to perform Environmental sounds as if I was performing an instrument So here's a picture of somebody spring WD-40 on a door hinge And I say no don't do that Because I can use it for making synthesizers. So the idea with this project was to Use a trackpad to a very simple input mechanism to produce squeaky door sounds And so there are two approaches you can take you can either physically model the entire system Here are some papers that use equations right from tectonics seismic research to produce the sound of friction I Took a different approach to this which is to kind of approach the sound of a door like synthesizer kind of like a modular synthesizer where Instead of thinking about physical processes you're thinking about oscillators and filters and you name your parameters according to what you think It sounds like and it's a bit of a iterative design process. So this is the block diagram of our squeaky door model I've got an impulse train generators and amplitude modulation bunch of band pass filters and resonators And I should say this model was Developed based on Andy Farnell's prototype So I'll just play a video of this So over here you can see the trackpad Position the position of my finger as I played it and here you can see the parameters moving and how they are mapped to the parameters I won't play the whole video, but you can look it up later. Watch it yourself Okay, that's the wrong title basically so the model was designed in pure data and We use touch size from a surface to control the model And The main thing here is that if you want to perform environmental sound don't necessarily go for physics simulation And think about it more like a synthesizer. I'll just hand over back to Alessia after those experiments you saw before I decided to Start being a serious person and do some like kind of soundscape research in Related to architecture and so I decided in London to look at the area of Greenwich because of the architecture there and The river and a lot of green and so I was interested in how A location which is quite known and used as a restorative Place by many people including tourists could be understood in a different way Just because of its sound and so I organized a soundwalk which is part of my PhD research Who's updates you can see at this link and And I decided to embed the recordings in an interactive object and I decided to use fabric for this The the idea behind the fabric is that you can immerse yourself in this situation Recorded by someone else just touching the correspondent buildings and this is possible because I used conductive thread and An embroidery machine we have but it can be possible also just doing by hand And so for every one of these places I associated one of the recordings I made so This can be done With Bella because Bella allows you to to detect the touch and also To do some nice fading which is very natural and it's what I wanted for this object because after the strange Sounds coming out of the first two pieces. I wanted something a bit more relaxing to be my part of my research And so in this case You have the surface of the fabric which is kind of the conductive part you can touch and then There's a layer of insulating fabric with some holes and then the same capacitive part Which is sensing the touch goes to traces which go to this red ball and PR one-to-one and So I had to stitch all these wires And put them in place there and everything is going through I square C to Bella and Please help me like programming the code to To read these things in real time But it was amazing that everything could work just by plug in the cables because the fabric is actually really resistant compared to some other electronics So in this case, there's a strong meaning because I'm trying to look for interfaces that I can bring to other People which are not so familiar with what I'm researching which is sound and acoustics related to architecture and try to to bring something intuitive to them and This is also what like the methodology of use for another project So I went To China recently and we were supposed to create music boxes in a local village So I was really interested in like The sound environmental sound there because it was very relaxing with mountains and river But also I was interested in the local music. So I decided to record these sounds from local people and My partner in in this project is Shen. She wanted to have these Music boxes very tiny objects projecting shadows and this shadow was supposed to be the local Decoration patterns that they also use in weaving and so after some research the project had to be delivered in Seven days basically and so I tried to find the easiest way to To to be able to have local people interacting with these objects and and see the reactions And so I use in this case Arduino and other fruit soundboard and an accelerometer and So everything had to be embedded in this box, but the interaction should be like really straightforward and It worked well because even kids could get it easily. I have no sound So they understood immediately There was this other feature you could connect two boxes and play another song just by sensing a magnet and It was really interesting to go with these boxes There are spaces in there like social relax spaces just used for gathering and talk about local affairs of a village and just sleep there or chat and relax and They were really interested in hearing of course their music and they said this object is too simple for us We want our decoration you have to carve something on the sides because we we don't really recognize this cube as something which is ours so I needed to To be helped by a girl another design student explaining what they were saying and Was interesting to see how different people also were Giving different advice on the boxes. So they were saying embroidery is gonna be really expensive You don't have so much money for that amount of time Yeah That's it So you just rotate the side and change the song and then if you put it back to its original position then It stops working. So it's it's really simple thing, but I thought that for in my case, it's important like to do more in the research part like gathering the right sounds and then Leaving the design to the minimum, okay, then I will go back to Presentation Which is still okay? I'll talk about the lightsaber in a second But basically while Alessio is doing all this amazing soundscape research I was in my research group developing this board called Bella, which is a audio platform that works with the Beaglebone an audio framework really And this is what we've been using for lots of these projects. We've been talking about basically So the nice thing about this board is that you've got extremely low latency Audio output. So that means if you press a button, it will take you less than Less than two milliseconds or less than a millisecond sometimes for the sounds to come out of it Which is very fast And also the sensor Bandwidth the resolution is very high and the sensor analog sensor sampling rate is very high as well Which is at audio rate. So this allows us to make some very very The objects with a very very high level of expressivity in the interaction so to demonstrate this we built a lightsaber So you might notice that this lightsaber doesn't look like lightsaber. It's just a cardboard tube And this because we want to focus Only on the sound we weren't interested in the in the lights and so on So the way this works is we've got Bella inside one end of the tube and the battery and These are all the components that we're using so we've got an accelerometer over here a piezo desk over here a speaker our Bella board and the battery And so we used a piezo desk to detect hits on the sword So when you're swinging the sword around and you hit against the surface it will go You know And as you move around with the accelerometer We use that to we integrated the accelerometer value to get a velocity reading and we use that to produce the iconic lightsaber sounds And I'll just play a quick video which I may skip through a little bit which explains how this works So lightsaber is one of the most iconic sound effects. Everybody knows lightsaber from their childhood And I'm just gonna skip forward. Now these delay lines are a variable delay. So okay, so basically what we did was we Just go back here Okay, so one Ben Burr designed the lightsaber is what he did was he played the sound of a TV hum Coming through a speaker and then he used a very long microphone like a shotgun microphone and recorded the output as he imitated the swings of the Jetta is with their lightsabers in the film and We replicated this process inside pure data. Are you all familiar with pure data? For those who aren't it's basically Digital processing language a visual language where you connect lots of components to each other with cables And we can use this on billa basically so we reproduced this idea of Doppler effects delay lines and And movement using the PD patch and Then assembled it all inside lightsaber cardboard tube Unfortunately, we don't have that one with us to demo today I'm just gonna move straight on here, which is I'll just quickly wrap up this actually so basically what we're interested in is How does it feel to interact with the lightsaber when you have this low latency? What would feel like if you actually had a lightsaber? What would sound like and so on? and this is something that was really Made possible through the low latency and through the high bandwidth resolution sensor data Okay, so this is the final instrument will show you today, which is called we call it the vanguilla sizer Also known as the shaker and The reason we called it the vanguilla sizer was because we wanted to make an instrument that contains Literally just an accelerometer a billa board a speaker and a battery so something could hold up Something that you just requires the most minimal kind of interaction basically so So it's a couple long story short basically we started by making a synthesizer that emulated Vanguilla says soundtrack to Blade Runner and the synthesizer settings he had And then what we did then was we had a very iterative rapid process of switching between the patch designing the sound and designing the Sensor mappings to the sound and because Sound and sensor you don't really distinguish between them when you're programming for a platform like this It made it very easy to prototype stuff very fast So Basically what I'm trying to say with this one is that if you have very very rapid very iterative design Then you may end up with some strange results, but it will be very very carefully designed because you've had a very very short iteration stuff Okay, so just to wrap it up here are some little nuggets of wisdom. We thought we'd collected by Working on these instruments. So a keep it simple There's an enormous amount you can do with Just one single sensor Almost all of these instruments were showed today work with one single sensor or two sensors And we find that constraints are often extremely useful in making an engaging experience also Have this desired experience in your mind when you design the instruments Obviously people will misuse it or use it in unexpected ways, but if you've got one Design principle in mind, then you'll come up with something very strong Don't buy us to focus just on the sensors or just on the synthesizer, but think of the whole instrument as a whole And it will help otherwise. It's very easy to forget about You know, how am I gonna map the sensor range to this parameter and oh actually doesn't actually sound the way I expected it to and so forth And finally as I said before make sure you're comfortable with your design development environment and make sure you have a fast The ability to have fast iterations so the more quickly you can see the results of what you're prototyping the better your results will be and I think that is all of it from us. Thank you Can I just ask is the next speaker in the room right? Okay, if you want to come up You could ask Anybody's got one question that they want to ask Okay, this person here Hi, when you think about a Musical instrument one of the things about an instrument is predictability I mean, I know if I do this thing I will get this response each and every time and that would enable me to perform and have the same thing happen Several times most of the things you've shown me seem to be much more like I don't know what's going to happen I mean, could this be an instrument that someone could perform and consistently produce a repeated outcome Okay, so Yeah, the instruments we showed there was an element of unpredictability and they're actually designed some of them on the Principle of I am I don't know what this thing is, but I want to be able to find out very quickly what it is Because they're unpredictable in the first in this discovery phase doesn't mean that They're incontrollable. It still means they can learn how to use these instruments. So for example the vangelicizer with a shaker and a Few days after we designed that we realized oh, we can do this twisty thing. It sounds like a pizzicato string orchestra basically and This and that is completely repeatable and the same applies to lots of the other instruments as well So I don't know if the answer is a question but basically If you design it carefully, it will be controlled and repeatable. It may be strange, but it's repeatable and you can become good at it So we're gonna have these two instruments around if you want to play with them. Otherwise, thank you very much


I mean, I just start off by saying that whatever you saw in terms of that video right before this presentation started is not the kind of games we make. For people around here who know our business, Games24.7, we run a skill gaming platform in our business. We do actually have a casual game studio and I'll definitely talk a little bit about that through this presentation. To start, you know, when Neha came and told me, Neha and saw in our team about me talking about the future of gaming experience, you know, I'm a big student of neuroscience and interestingly as it turns out, the parts of our brain that light up or that go to work when you're thinking about the future are also the same parts of the brain that go to work and light up when you're thinking about the past.  You know, I probably started playing games in the 80s, started on the Atari playing Pac-Man. I think everybody here has probably played that. I remember this was also probably in the 80s that I used to go to my grandmother's house in Delhi and would beg, borrow and steal to play Mario Bros. And then in the 90s, early 90s, late 80s, early 90s, I was a proud owner of an Intel 386 on which I could play Prince of Persia, you know. That was my gaming journey as a, I'd say an adolescent, a teenager. And that's where my mind went back first. And then I started thinking, if I'm going to talk about gaming experience and what the future looks like, you know, how do I compare the past to the future? And so the first thing that I thought of is what our gaming experience, who is a gamer, what are they experiencing when they play games? And again, you know, the neuroscience that I love kicks in. And really what happens when you're playing games is dopamine release. And depending on how good the game developer is in terms of designing reward mechanisms. And to be clear, it's actually not reward mechanisms, it's anticipation of rewards that kicks off dopamine in your brain. And dopamine makes us feel good. Makes us feel really good. No surprise that, you know, well-designed games, people want to play more and more and more of them. So how have gaming experiences changed for a gamer? It's going to be pretty damn hard to compare in terms of, you know, dopamine release that I was experiencing when I was playing Prince of Persia back in the late 80s to what somebody is experiencing today when they're playing Dota or when they're playing GTA. Pretty hard thing to do. I mean, if you ask me, I was feeling pretty damn good playing the games that I played then. I was hooked to those games. Are people today having a better time? I don't know. But what has changed, what has really changed, and this I have personal experience of, is I'm definitely fighting a lot more with my children about them playing games all the time than my parents were fighting with me, you know. And that's primarily, I think, because game consumption per capita, game production per capita has just grown exponentially. I just don't think there was that much content back then. And the two main factors in my view that have driven this explosion in the gaming space, one, you know, no points for guessing, Internet and the second is mobile devices. What the Internet and mobile devices did is two things essentially. One made it super easy for thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of game developers across the world, easy and cheap to bring content to players globally. But the second and far more important thing that I believe that these two developments have done is made games a truly social experience. It's only now that we're starting to discover the power of what multiplayer gaming experiences can do. And the biology behind this is also, by the way, very, very clear.  You know, we definitely enjoy that social interaction a lot more. So when I walk into my 15-year-old son's room when he's playing Fortnite, what I see is very different from what you would see walking into my room when I was 15, playing Prince of Persia. My son has headphones on, a mic.  He's laughing. He's chatting, strategizing, sometimes screaming, cursing, banging the desk, you know.  And to me, you know, at least until now, that is the most profound change that has come across as gaming. That's certainly not the experience that I had when I was playing games. So what does the future look like? You know, a lot of exciting things. I think cloud gaming potentially transforms, you know, what the landscape of console gaming looks like. I'm certainly no expert at console, so I'm going to stay away from that. AR, VR, super exciting. Personally, I think a long way to go, because one, those devices are still cumbersome, and two, they're still pretty expensive. And three, to my experience, and I have one of those at home, still not super user-friendly. There's still a ways to go in terms of these devices. The thing that I'm most excited about, the thing I think is changing the landscape of gaming as we speak, and is not really a thing of the future. In fact, something that's changing profoundly the way our society functions today is machine intelligence. And by the way, I don't think there exists any machine today that can navigate the traffic in Bangalore. I don't think that's going to happen in a long, long time. But there are certainly machines today, and I can tell you that because we're building some of them, we've built some of them, that are able to deliver far superior gaming experiences than what human beings could potentially do. A little bit about our business. I'm co-founder, co-CEO of Games247. Our operating ethos is a business we describe as the science of gaming. Our foundations, the foundations of our business are based on the principles of science. So not a surprise. We've invested a lot in machine intelligence. Today, machines in our business are optimizing our acquisition campaigns. What's the best place to spend dollars? What's the best creators to spend dollars on? They're optimizing our retention campaigns. They're optimizing our product experiences. And how are they doing that? They're doing that by personalizing. To me, personalization is not just the future of online gaming. It's not the future of gaming, but it is here now. And if you are a game developer, if you're thinking of developing games, whether in the space that I operate in, which is largely games of skill and some casual gaming, or you're thinking of building AAA games, you're thinking of building casual games, if you're not personalizing experiences for your users, five years max, you're a dinosaur. You don't exist. So what is personalization and how can machine intelligence help you personalize experiences? Where can you personalize? My answer to anybody who asked me that question, whatever your imagination allows you to think of, wherever you can use machine intelligence, use it. So let's take a simple example. And a simple example is let's take any game. Any game could be Candy Crush, could be Dota, could be a mid-core game like Clash of Clans, could be a game like Rummy or Fantasy Sports that we run. The first and biggest challenge a game developer has is how do I treat a new user? Some new users come on your platform that already know how to play the game. Some need significant hand-holding. Some need a little bit of hand-holding, and you can go right across the spectrum from knowing nothing to probably knowing how to start playing as soon as they get into the game. It's not really hard anymore to build machines, and I'm not talking about for people who understand segmenting and clustering, you know, obviously all of that is helpful, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about building machines who are able to look at how a player is behaving in the first few seconds, maybe a minute, minute and a half of their gameplay experience and can determine from that it's just like a live person trying to teach somebody a game would determine, hey, I think this guy needs more help, so let me explain to him how to go about playing this game.  That's what machines can allow you to do, and that's where the fun starts. Once you've done that part, now you can get into very interesting things like level design. Some of us might be very good at the game that we're playing, some of us not so good, some of us have a lot of time, some of us don't. So how do I create the best experience? Some player, let's say me, who's really struggling, the machine, by looking at how I'm playing the game, how quickly I'm playing, how many mistakes I'm making, you know, can determine, hey, this guy needs a lot of help, let me take him up the level curve slowly. There's some other player who's doing really well, and if I have to keep him engaged on the platform, I need to take him up the level curve far, far more rapidly. Now this is not something you or I or any individual human being can do at the scale at which games operate. It's just not possible. But we can, we can definitely design intelligent machines that are capable of playing the role, of making those kind of choices for players and delivering awesome game-playing experiences for them. That's really the power of machine intelligence, and it doesn't stop there. At UGames, which is our casual game studio, we've certainly used machines to figure out how to upgrade levels for users, but more than that, we're now able to use machine intelligence to build levels for users, to actually design levels. On our Games 21st 7th side of the business where we run our skill gaming platform, we've now built machines which eventually, hopefully over the course of the next two, three years, will actually make creatives, not just conceptualize them, but actually make them. Today, these machines for us are advising our designers, our artists on how to make better creatives based on performance of those creatives when we run them on Facebook or Google and so on and so forth. So, all in all, I would say that if you're looking ahead, if you're imagining what the future of gaming experience looks like, and if you're not thinking personalization, I mean, if you're thinking personalization, you're not thinking machine intelligence, you're going to run into serious challenges. That's our view.  Automation and intelligence. Automation and intelligence. Automate as much as possible, bring as much machine intelligence into stuff as possible. My view, the future of competition, and this is not just competition between gaming businesses, I mean the future of competition between businesses in general, is competition between who can build smarter, faster machines. That's the future. Now, when somebody talks about machines so much, some of the people start to worry. They worry about machines taking over our lives, machines taking over our jobs, machines probably getting intelligent enough to fight with us, or machines potentially fighting machines. That's the pessimistic view of the world. My view is more along the lines of this. I think machines are going to help us lead better, more productive, more efficient, more fulfilling lives, and probably, and hopefully, maybe even find better versions of ourselves. I'm going to stop there. Thank you very much.


It's just giving up four runs and one inning. Three games in a row, I think, I've given up a couple of runs in just one inning, and you really don't want to do that. So yeah, that's kind of the bad part about the outing today. There were some miscues behind you defensively. Is it even more of a mental grind when you're required to get more outs? Is it even more of a mental grind when you're required to get more outs? Well, in that aspect, in the last game, there were a lot of things, but that was the case this time around. So I thought I'd focus on the part where I can control myself and throw it away. So I didn't feel that difficult. Not much of a grind just because I've kind of been in that type of situation a couple of games leading up to today. And my thought process is that it's something that's out of your control. So you just have to kind of let it go. So that said, no, it wasn't much of a grind as far as mental egos. What are the lines?


Hi, I'm Hannah, and welcome to the University of Greenwich campus tour for the Avery Hill site. Here we are situated in the Dome, which is the student hub for all the students who live on site and also study here. As you can see over here, we have the candy shack bar, which is where students can come to socialise with their friends and there's also on-site drinks, which are very cheap, which you'll really enjoy. We also have an on-site gym, which is in the Dome, which is free for students to use who live on site or at £110 a year for students who don't live on campus. We have the cafeteria behind me, which is open 24x7 ready, so hot foods and cold foods all throughout the year. We like to focus on sustainability, and we use reusable cups. So next time you visit, make sure to bring your cup and you'll get a discounted drink. For now, we are just outside the Dome where you'll find the student living services, which are to my right. And we also have the student village shop, where the students can go to buy their weekly shopping or just little bits throughout the week. We also have the Amazon lockers, which they can use at their own convenience, which is really good for when you get your parcels. And we also have the lingerette, which is open 24x7 every day of the week. Here we are at Argencourt, which is situated at Avery Hill campus. Here you'll be able to cook with your friends and live and do anything you like. It's a very relaxed area, and we live right in the heart of Elton, where you can experience anything, such as the local restaurants, the view cinema, which was recently built last year, and you could do anything you like with all of your friends, and the parties here are great as well. Oh hi there, welcome to one of the flats in the shared facility Argencourt at Avery Hill campus. You'll have everything you need to live your life out as a student. Avery Hill is a great place to live because you'll live right on campus and you'll never be late for your lectures. And it's also a fantastic community where you'll be able to meet friends and enjoy all aspects of university life. Welcome to the David Fussy building, where we have three state-of-the-art clinical simulated hospital wards, where you can experience anything you need for your degree. These mannequins are extremely realistic, that you can feel the veins and everything, and it's just a testament of the technology that we have here at Avery Hill campus. Also in the David Fussy building, we have a huge sports hall, which is perfect for any sporting activities you may be interested in. And it's also great for sporting careers. As a university, we aim to be sustainable, so we've installed 100 salar panels across all of our campuses. We also have bees located at every campus, so make sure you keep an eye out for our campus, honey. And here we have our brand new library, open to all students seven days a week until midnight. It's perfect for study and it's the coziest place ever. This is Barrow's Farm, where our sports and paramedic sciences subjects are based. It's also not a farm. The university has two hybrid coaches taking you between Medway and Greenwich campus. Also, if you choose to live at Avery Hill campus, there's a free bus that will run every 30 minutes to Greenwich campus in case you have classes there.


Well, good morning. It's a pleasure to be here. It's exciting to see so many of you and hear some of these presentations. My name is Eric Bremen. I was born in Venezuela, a country that by any measure should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, not just by aggregate GDP, but by individual prosperity. Unfortunately, when I was 14, I had to leave my country of birth. Initially, I pursued a better educational opportunities, but I never went back due to the lack of opportunities in general. I started on a quest as a young student from high school onwards to university to think about why is it that a country with so much potential such as Venezuela ended up with so much misery and poverty and what I could do to help rid the world of poverty itself. I realized that I was looking at the wrong question, that it isn't about how you end poverty, rather how you catalyze prosperity. Thus, over 20 years ago, I started on a quest for how to drive maximum prosperity to the most amount of people anywhere in the world. I started a company called New Way Capital, which ultimately led me to where I am today to start Prospera. So Prospera is ultimately a governance platform for parallel societies, because what we realized is that a lot of the underlying issues that hold back development that drive prosperity, but also keep us from having flying cars and living to 200 and the most cool innovations that we hear about is generally a lack of regulatory and legal environment that is supportive of, as opposed to creating friction for the best amongst those in society, the entrepreneurs, the inventors, the innovators. So Prospera set out to build a city with the optimal legal and regulatory environment to maximize human prosperity. But we quickly realized that to say let's build a city is relatively easy, but to actually go through the process where it's been multiple decades and there are many steps and the core infrastructure necessary to even start on a project like this is invisible. It's about politics. It's about agreements. It's about regulatory frameworks. So I want to mention to you a few of the projects that we have. I will be going deeper in this presentation into our first city on the island of Roatan called St. John's Bay, but I did want to highlight a journey that we've been through to share it with you and also to invite you towards the end of the presentation to join this very important journey. This scale at the horizontal is by no means at scale. The steps include not just going from an idea to signing LOIs, getting memorandums of understanding of which we have several, but then there's this legislative step that must be engaged upon if you're going to do this in the context of partnership with a sovereign nation, which itself can take three to five years, if not 10. Our first project on Roatan has gone through most of these steps and we're currently receiving our first movers and on a quest to reach critical mass defined by the operational apparatus being cash flow positive. All of this is built upon an infrastructure of legal regulatory tax dispute resolution, security and infrastructure services, which add up to these four pillars. These four pillars within Prospera provided as a service enables us to play in the governance as a service space. We needed it for our first city, but we're able to offer it for multiple cities running on the same open source governance platform to make the process much more fluid, consistent and optimized for innovation and prosperity. The four pillars revolve around the regulatory environment, which is an open source approach with full reciprocity over all OECD countries and a growing list of peer countries. The ability to propose new regulatory frameworks, if you're in an industry that does not already have a sufficiently supportive framework anywhere in the world, or the ability to operate without a prescriptive regulatory framework and simply under common law as long as you recognize you have no corporate bail protection. There are some taxes, but the very low, very simple and very straightforward to comply with any disputes get resolved through arbitration exclusively and we have an in house arbitration center to service you with a relatively low cost and high speed. And all so called public services are offered privately and for profit. The quest to build our first city has led us into a number of achievements that we're extremely proud about, including having raised over a hundred million dollars so far to build the first city over 1400 residents physical and digital. We have over a thousand acres incorporated into the special jurisdiction with over 160 companies incorporated and over 4000 jobs that have been created within the local economy. Let me tell a little bit about where our first city is at in Roatan because it's amongst many places, not only beautiful and underrated, but I think a very strategic location for a project such as this. To start with, it's on the western side of the Caribbean, so away from the hurricane belt, which is nice and very attractive. We have direct daily flights from Miami and Houston in the US, so it's very accessible almost anywhere in the world. You can get to one of those two hubs within one flight away. It's a mostly English speaking population, former British colony, less than 100,000 people live there. Yet the size of the island is one square mile larger than the island of Hong Kong, where almost 1.5 million people live, occupying less than 30% of the surface area. On the island of Roatan, we've started building this, what we hope will be beautiful city, as a place to build with real people in the real world and in a real jurisdiction. Many of us, many out there that want to do parallel societies or new city projects, need a place to actually start building in reality. We've begun this quest after a decade plus of legal, regulatory, political, diplomatic efforts, breaking ground in the middle of COVID with our first building, which we call the Beta Building, it's a mixed use facility which has been now occupied entirely by offices. Currently working on our second major project, which is a mixed use tower as well, 14 stories, residential and commercial. Having in parallel negotiated and finally closed the acquisition of a pre-existing under-built resort of about 400 acres, which gives us access immediately to not just a beautiful golf course, but wonderful beach club amenities, a hotel in which we're hosting conferences, we're already booked the entirety of Q1 of next year. We have a school within the jurisdiction, my kids, I live there full time, my kids go to the school within the city in partnership with Guy Post Montessori. We even have our own Bitcoin Center with a Bitcoin ATM, the only one and first one on the island of Roatan. And I could go on one of the other amenities we really enjoy revolves around golf and this is our own version of top golf hitting right onto the Caribbean Ocean. But how do we scale? How do we go from having done this incredible amount of work over the last decade or so to create the foundations so that now we can build up the first of what we hope will be many cities? Well, our approach revolves around opening up and creating special districts and inviting alternative and additional network and parallel societies to come and build with us. Nomad earlier mentioned that they're building one of their nodes within Prospera and we're open to many, many more so that in reality what we think of as a city is a community of communities coming together in pursuit of innovation, in pursuit of your own visions, but in an environment that creates generalized prosperity. We'll be launching a pilot project called Beyevul, helping online communities become on land communities. Encourage you to take a note of this QR code or when you have a chance to Google Unreal Engine, Sahadid, Prospera and Roatan and you get a deeper dive of what this project is all about. But in short, the ability of turning online communities through an online configurator into ultimately a physical location where you can co-live, co-work and pursue your vision in reality. We're proud to work with many of you already and look forward to 2024 being the year where we break ground on several special district projects. We are also launched the city builders network earlier this year and this is if you can't move or if you don't have a network society per se then you can join ours in the context of helping build the city through decentralized efforts. Most major projects can be decentralized if you bring down to the tasks and let the community participate. So very excited looking forward to hosting you in Roatan when you come visit. There's more information in this QR code. Thank you very much.