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SAN FRANCISCO — RSA Conference 2025 "Sixty percent of the attacks we're tracking target low-profile vulnerabilities—things like privilege escalation and security bypasses, not the headline-making zero days," says Douglas McKee, Executive Director of Threat Research at SonicWall. Speaking live from the show floor at RSA 2025, McKee outlined how SonicWall is helping partners prioritize threats that are actually being exploited, not just those getting attention. In a fast-paced conversation with Technology Reseller News publisher Doug Green, McKee unveiled SonicWall's upcoming Managed Prevention Security Services (MPSS). The offering is designed to help reduce misconfigurations—a leading cause of breaches—by assisting with firewall patching and configuration validation. SonicWall is also collaborating with CySurance to package cyber insurance into this new managed service, providing peace of mind and operational relief to MSPs and customers alike. “Over 95% of the incidents we see are due to human error,” McKee noted. “With MPSS, we're stepping in as a partner to reduce that risk.” McKee also previewed an upcoming threat brief focused on Microsoft vulnerabilities, revealing an 11% year-over-year increase in attacks. Despite attention on high-profile CVEs, SonicWall's data shows attackers often rely on under-the-radar vulnerabilities with lower CVSS scores. For MSPs, McKee shared a stark warning: nearly 50% of the organizations SonicWall monitors are still vulnerable to decade-old exploits like Log4j and Heartbleed. SonicWall's telemetry-driven insights allow MSPs to focus remediation on widespread, high-impact threats. SonicWall's transformation from a firewall vendor to a full-spectrum cybersecurity provider was on display at RSA Booth #6353 (North Hall), where the company showcased its SonicSensory MDR, cloud offerings, and threat intelligence. "We've evolved into a complete cybersecurity partner," McKee said. "Whether it's in the cloud or on-prem, we're helping MSPs and enterprises defend smarter." Visitors to the SonicWall booth were treated to live presentations and fresh coffee—while those not attending can explore SonicWall's insights, including its February 2024 Threat Report and upcoming threat briefs, at www.sonicwall.com.

In this episode, we welcome Mitch Gross. Mitch is Global Director of Product Marketing at Aputure. In our conversation, he shares about his early days, career as a cinematographer in New York City, as well as his experiences working at top companies such as AbelCine, Panasonic, and Aputure. Mitch also offers tons of educational information about cameras, lights, and lenses — and other insights for filmmakers in the trenches. “The Making Of” is presented by AJA:Explore AJA's New Solutions for Next-Gen Production and BroadcastAhead of NAB 2025, AJA debuted innovative solutions for production and broadcast professionals, including the BRIDGE LIVE 3G-8 IP video bridge for remote workflows/streaming/backhaul, the DANTE-12GAM IP audio embedder/disembedder, and KUMO 6464-12G compact SDI router. Find out how your facility, pipeline, or project can benefit from the flexibility these new tools provide here.Vimeo NAB Event:April 7th | The Beverly TheaterA night of inspiring Vimeo Staff Picks, creative community, and drinks!Meet fellow filmmakers, NAB community, and say hi to the Vimeo team!7pm Doors open8-9pm Film screening9-11pm Vimeo Party — beer, wine, + bites!RSVP required. Free tickets hereIgelkott Studios: Redefining Driving PlatesSay goodbye to the limitations of array rig plates. Igelkott's precision-crafted single-lens driving plates deliver perfect parallax, seamless stitching, and true-to-life depth—no mismatched angles or post headaches. The choice of top filmmakers for flawless in-camera realism. Experience the future of driving plates at www.igelkottplates.comOscars Night Puts OWC Jellyfish in the Middle of the ActionOWC Jellyfish was front and center on Oscars night, supporting the behind-the-scenes editing and post workflows that brought the evening to life. From pre-show prep to real-time content delivery, discover how OWC's high-performance shared storage powered the Academy's digital team. See how professionals rely on Jellyfish when the pressure's on—and the world is watching. Read the full story »A New Solution Available from Videoguys…The SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is built for adventure, fitting seamlessly into your mobile lifestyle while delivering blazing-fast NVMe performance with read speeds up to 1050MB/s and write speeds up to 1000MB/s. Designed for content creators and on-the-go professionals, this high-capacity drive is tested and compatible with iPhone, making it easy to free up space on your smartphone. Its rugged design offers up to three-meter drop protection, IP65 water and dust resistance, and a durable silicone shell for extra security. Backed by a 5-year limited warranty, the SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD is now available in an impressive new 8TB capacity at Videoguys.com. Check it out here ZEISS Cinema To Present New Solutions at NAB 2025ZEISS Cinema is proud to be presenting our Scenario camera tracking solution at 2025 NAB CineCentral in the North Hall. Join ZEISS on Monday, April 7th at 2:30pm in North Hall for a hands-on presentation of how this technology can save you time and cost of IVFX, and post-production workflow. For more info, visit hereCartoni Celebrates 90th Anniversary with New E-Series Launch at NAB ShowCartoni celebrates the company's 90th anniversary at NAB Las Vegas. Find them in the show's North Hall at booth #N2539. Cartoni will showcase their latest support systems, heads, pedestals, and Lifto PTZ elevation columns in a retrospective ranging from the company's earliest 1935 cinema tripod (complete with a 1936 Mitchell NC camera courtesy of the American Society of Cinematographers) to their recently announced E-Series of broadcast/cinema Encoded Heads. Visit here Podcast Rewind:March 2025 - Ep. 73…“The Making Of” is published by Michael Valinsky.To advertise your products or services to 150K filmmakers, TV, broadcast and live event production pros reading this newsletter, email us at mvalinsky@me.com Get full access to The Making Of at themakingof.substack.com/subscribe

Send us a textHear from the Hitachi Solutions Team on All Things AI CES is the world's largest electronic exhibition in the world. And the number one topic on everyone's mind is AI. In the acres upon acres of technology – from robotic coffee makers and vans with built-in helicopters, to the latest solar solutions and video games – the topic of AI is inescapable. AI is everywhere you turn in this massive event, including at the Hitachi booth at 8317 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, where our team of data and AI experts are on hand, showcasing the latest in data, AI, and Microsoft technology. Two members of that team, by Sr. Technical Product Manager Dr. Michael Green and Stuart Morris, Director of Research and Development, took the time in our Exchanges podcast to share what they're hearing on the exhibition floor, and how Hitachi Solutions is solving them with the latest technology.global.hitachi-solutions.com

Provizio, the leader in mobility safety, has expanded its automotive portfolio with their software-defined antenna reference board using radar technology from Texas Instruments, a global pioneer in semiconductor technology. Provizio is on a mission to make mobility safer and more intelligent through affordable, advanced perception imaging radar that works reliably in challenging weather conditions. Provizio's cutting-edge software defined antenna solution uses the AWR2944 radar sensor from Texas Instruments. This solution sets a new benchmark for advanced imaging radar perception and safety systems in the rapidly evolving automotive landscape. At the heart of this imaging radar system is the integration of Provizio's MIMSO Software Defined Antenna Reference Design with the single-chip 77GHz 4D Imaging Radar chip from Texas Instruments. This innovative design transforms a single radar SoC into 48 virtual receiver channels, achieving sub 0.5° angular resolution and enabling precise detection and tracking of objects, including pedestrians, cars, and trucks. Powered by Provizio's proprietary MIMSO and SPTDMA technologies, the design delivers 20x higher resolution from a single chip, addressing critical challenges of cost and performance in high-performance radar systems. The design is on display at CES 2025 with a live vehicle demonstration at Provizio's Westgate Hotel suite location, along with the reference design shown in TI's booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center in North Hall, N116. Transforming automotive safety and perception The inclusion of this reference design is vital for advancing safety in mobility by making it generally available for automotive & industrial OEMs and Tier 1s. By delivering precise, real-time detection and tracking of objects such as pedestrians and vehicles, it enhances a vehicle's ability to respond to potential hazards. This innovation is a key step towards significantly reducing the risk of accidents, building added trust in autonomous technology, and supporting the development of safer, more reliable transportation systems. Speaking on the announcement, Barry Lunn, CEO & Co-Founder of Provizio said: "We have known for some time that 4D Imaging radar is key to unlocking safer driving and next generation ADAS, however cost has been a key challenge that has held back rollout across all vehicles. This work between Provizio and TI balances the perception and system cost challenges of high-performance imaging radar." Lunn added: "To achieve 0.5deg angular resolution using just a single TI radar chip is a testament to the proprietary antenna innovation of the Provizio development team and also the embedded power of the TI radar SoC." Dedicated to enable scalable advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving solutions, Provizio develops the future of radar. See more stories here. More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.

We bounce around between the West Hall and North Hall to give you a test of the chaos that is SEMA setup day!

This week, Tucker and Jess return after the bye week to catch you up on all things Dragon football. They recap the Dragons' loss to North Hall, review region standings, and break down the playoff picture. Listen to hear Coach Bennett's thoughts on the season thus far, along with expectations for the remainder of the season.  

Tucker and Jess kick off the show with a recap of the Dragons' region victory over the Dawson Tigers. Next, the duo is joined by Pickens County Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Travis Thomas. Dr. Thomas and the boys discuss his career in education, sports, and much more in an informative interview you won't want to miss! Tucker and Jess close the show with a lookahead to the upcoming matchup vs. North Hall.  

N2K Space is working with AWS to bring the AWS in Orbit podcast series to the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs from April 8-11. We'll be broadcasting from the AWS booth, number 1036 in the North Hall, Tuesday-Thursday from 9-11am. Andre Kearns, Marketing Director at Amazon Web Services Aerospace and Satellite Division walks us through what to expect at the AWS booth. You can connect with Andre on LinkedIn and learn more about AWS Aerospace and Satellite on their website. AWS in Orbit is a podcast collaboration between N2K Networks and AWS to offer listeners an in-depth look at the transformative intersection of cloud computing, space technologies, and generative AI. You can learn more about AWS in Orbit at space.n2k.com/aws. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. Audience Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA has contracted Intuitive Machines, Lunar Dawn, and Venturi Astrolab to advance capabilities for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV). Amazon Web Services has let go of several hundred sales, marketing and tech roles including at its Aerospace and Satellite division. Mitsubishi Corporation has been announced as a strategic partner and equity owner in Starlab Space, the joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Andre Kearns, Marketing Director at Amazon Web Services Aerospace and Satellite Division. N2K Space is working with AWS to bring the AWS in Orbit podcast series to the 39th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs from April 8-11. We'll be broadcasting from the AWS booth, number 1036 in the North Hall, Tuesday-Thursday from 9-11am. You can connect with Andre on LinkedIn and learn more about AWS Aerospace and Satellite on their website. Selected Reading NASA Selects Companies to Advance Moon Mobility for Artemis Missions Amazon Web Services lays off several hundred tech, sales staff- Reuters Mitsubishi Corporation Joins Starlab Space as Strategic Partner, Equity Owner in Joint Venture Muon Space Redefines LEO Satellite Constellations with the release of Muon Halo™ and over $60M in new contracts for 10 Muon Halo Spacecraft and Integrated Mission Services Hydrosat Awarded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Grant ESA's solar eclipse maker, Proba-3 We Secure £2.25m Investment To Accelerate Helix Products To Market Release Solstar Space Awarded $1.25 Million U.S. Space Force AFWERX/AFVENTURES Phase II SBIR Contract for the Slayton Wideband Space Communicator Scout Space to Deliver Owl Product Line of Advanced Long-range Vision Payload Systems Explosive green 'Mother of Dragons' comet now visible in the Northern Hemisphere- Live Science T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We will be broadcasting LIVE from the ilevelbrands North Hall booth hashtag#N2223 (2nd floor) and will be featuring guests from the expo floor just popping in. This is our 2nd year doing a show live from the show floor and we could not be more excited! If you are at the show, pop on by and we can try to get you on the show! Keep in mind, this show is on a special day (Thursday) at the usual time 2:30 PM Co-Hosts Alex Bayer and Wade Yenny with a combined experience in the CPG space of 35 years, chat about all things food and beverage in the market and share what's going on in their lives and any current events. They also do shout-outs and answer questions live from viewers & listeners during their show.

We swing by the North Hall to look at some of the new products at SEMA. If you haven't heard Renny Doyle and Dynabrade have come out with a new polisher. We swing by to put our hands and talk about this new polisher. Guest: Renny Doyle Detailing Success https://detailingsuccess.com Hosts: @JodySedrick and Rod Puzey The RoadFS Software Podcast RoadFS Software - https://roadfs.com

Don't get to the end of this year wishing you had taken action to change your business and your life.Click here to schedule a free discovery call for your business: https://geni.us/IFORABEShop-Ware gives you the tools to provide your customer with a unique and immersive buying experience.Click here to schedule a free demo: https://geni.us/Shop-WareUtilize the fastest and easiest way to look up and order parts and tires with PartsTech absolutely free.Click here to get started: https://geni.us/PartsTechBrett Kinsfather of Shopmonkey & Roy Wragth of Wragth Motorsports joins David and Lucas to preview their SEMA panel discussion. They plan to have legendary shop owners crack open their shop playbooks and share key strategies to running a well-oiled, high-performing shop.Make sure to join them on Monday, October 30 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm in Room N257 (Located on Level 2 of the North Hall).00:05:20 SEMA educational sessions, technology-driven speaker panel.00:09:53 Managed evening shift, integrated self-driving software. Learn and apply skills from various programs.00:13:09 Web developer Roy engaged with the SEMA event.00:17:32 Panel discusses shop software and misconceptions.00:18:36 Components of customer experience, setting expectations, shop organization, communication, technology usage, teaching and outsourcing work.00:21:46 Shop owners seek innovation and profitability.00:27:44 Daily influx of messages, automated responses used.00:29:19 Shop owners not fully utilizing available resources.00:31:51 People need encouragement to try new things.00:37:22 Networking and learning are worth the effort.00:38:46 Networking and stepping out of comfort zone.00:41:40 Monday, Oct 30, experts share knowledge.

Guests: Rachna Soun, Sam Fedorova (StrangeLens), Kate Fitzpatrick, and Chas Wagner Host:  Christopher Kardambikis Recorded on April 1st at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop Late Comeback Press Late Comeback Press is a micropress based out of Northern Virginia and is run by three Asian-American women. Late Comeback primarily focuses on mental health and representing Asian-American culture in its most subtle, authentic light and detracts from the palatable or exotic, as depicted in Western media. We build our zines intricately and by hand to represent the connection between our art, our identities, and our community, as pieces of us to you. Late Comeback Press StrangeLens is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores themes of dreams, the subconscious, and the Internet pop culture in the digital dark ages. She graduated from George Mason University in 2021 with a Master's degree in Arts and Visual Technology. Kate Fitzpatrick is an artist and educator based in Alexandria, VA. Fitzpatrick received a BFA in Painting from Clarion University of Pennsylvania (1997), an MA in art education from University of New Mexico, and an MFA in Visual Arts from George Mason University (2020). She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (2016) where she spent a semester in India working on an art curriculum with local arts teachers. Fitzpatrick is also an art educator who was honored by the Northern Virginia Magazine as a "Northern Virginian of the Year" (2014) for her creation and implementation of an art and yoga program for youth in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention center. In addition, Fitzpatrick received the Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year award by the Washington Post (2013). Fitzpatrick exhibits her work throughout the US and teaches for Arlington Public Schools. The Mirror Society Quartet Chas Wagner is a curator and organizer of The Print Party, specializing in independent magazines. Based in Pittsburgh, his work focuses on social activations of the print periodical; via retail pop-ups, bookshop lecture series' and the launching of a sport book festival (Bleed and Score) in Brooklyn. He thought about biking here on the 330 mile+ Great Allegheny Passage Trail, but the rainy forecast and heftiness of the books dampened the prospects of this dreamy ride. The Print Party Cap ABF The first edition of East City Art's Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market's North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023.  Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels.  Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market's North Hall titled "Capital Splash". More about the Capital Art Book Fair --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paper-cuts/support

Guest: Phil Hutinet Hosts:  Christopher Kardambikis and Jennifer Lillis Recorded on March 22 and April 6, 2023 Phil Hutinet, a third generation Capitol Hill resident, is the publisher of East City Art, DC's Visual Arts publication of record, which he began in 2010. In 2012-2013, his work east of the river at ARCH Development led to the founding of the Anacostia Playhouse and the Anacostia Arts Center, the relocation of Craig Kraft's studios and the production of the 2012-2013 LUMEN8ANACOSTIA festival. From 2015-2019 he helped coordinate the annual Gateway Open Studio Tour in Prince George's County. From 2013-2018, he also produced EMULSION, East City Art's annual regional juried show. Currently, he produces the Capital Art Book Fair, an East City Art project held at Eastern Market's North Hall. Hutinet has curated or produced over 150 group and solo exhibitions in his career. Hutinet's reviews, profiles and features are published regularly in both East City Art and Hill Rag. A sought-after speaker and moderator, Hutinet makes regular appearances at regional panel discussions and artist talks. He is often interviewed by national and international media such as the BBC, Capital Community News, Euronews, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post, WAMU, WJLA ABC News Channel 7/Channel 8, WTTG Fox 5 DC and WTOP. Capital ABF The first edition of East City Art's Capital Art Book Fair took place at Eastern Market's North Hall on April 1 & 2, 2023.  Over 30 exhibitors from across the DMV, the US and Canada presented books as works of art, editions about art or artists, limited run books, prints as well as DIY zines and graphic novels.  Exhibitors include artists, independent publishers, small presses, illustrators and photographers. East City Art partnered with Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and Hill Center to co-locate offsite programming during the fair. DC-based, award-winning artist Carolina Mayorga created an ephemeral, site-specific work using hand-cut vinyl pieces in Eastern Market's North Hall titled "Capital Splash". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paper-cuts/support

In this Their Story podcast episode, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli are joined by Dimitri Vlachos, CMO at Brinqa, a company focused on vulnerability risk management. Dimitri discusses how the Brinqa platform helps businesses consolidate their findings and vulnerabilities from various tools, manage the remediation process, and communicate risk to business owners. The platform aims to mature cybersecurity programs by breaking down siloed views and enabling security leaders to discuss vulnerabilities in the context of business impact.The conversation highlights the importance of translating cybersecurity issues into business terms and emphasizes the need for consolidation and effective communication between different teams and tools. Dimitri shares how Brinqa is addressing this challenge by helping organizations tie their various cybersecurity tools together and better align their cybersecurity strategies with business objectives.During the RSA Conference, Dimitri expects to see growing interest in consolidating and managing security tools more effectively. He also anticipates an increasing number of professionals looking to change traditional vulnerability management approaches and better address the risks associated with different tools. If you are intrigued by the conversation, you can find Brinqa in the North Hall during the conference or book a meeting with the team to learn more.Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more: https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-storyGuest:Dimitri Vlachos, CMO at Brinqa [@brinqa]On Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvlachos/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/DimitriVlachosResourcesLearn more about Brinqa and their offering: https://itspm.ag/brinqa-pmdpConnect with Brinqa during RSA Conference: https://itspm.ag/brinqa6gp5Hear more stories from Brinqa: www.itspmagazine.com/their-stories/see-all-of-your-security-findings-in-one-place-act-on-them-precisely-a-collection-of-brinqa-stories-from-rsa-conference-2023For more RSAC Conference Coverage podcast and video episodes visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2023-rsac-san-francisco-usa-cybersecurity-event-coverageAre you interested in telling your story?https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

In this Their Story podcast episode, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli are joined by Dimitri Vlachos, CMO at Brinqa, a company focused on vulnerability risk management. Dimitri discusses how the Brinqa platform helps businesses consolidate their findings and vulnerabilities from various tools, manage the remediation process, and communicate risk to business owners. The platform aims to mature cybersecurity programs by breaking down siloed views and enabling security leaders to discuss vulnerabilities in the context of business impact.The conversation highlights the importance of translating cybersecurity issues into business terms and emphasizes the need for consolidation and effective communication between different teams and tools. Dimitri shares how Brinqa is addressing this challenge by helping organizations tie their various cybersecurity tools together and better align their cybersecurity strategies with business objectives.During the RSA Conference, Dimitri expects to see growing interest in consolidating and managing security tools more effectively. He also anticipates an increasing number of professionals looking to change traditional vulnerability management approaches and better address the risks associated with different tools. If you are intrigued by the conversation, you can find Brinqa in the North Hall during the conference or book a meeting with the team to learn more.Note: This story contains promotional content. Learn more: https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-infosec-storyGuest:Dimitri Vlachos, CMO at Brinqa [@brinqa]On Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dvlachos/On Twitter | https://twitter.com/DimitriVlachosResourcesLearn more about Brinqa and their offering: https://itspm.ag/brinqa-pmdpConnect with Brinqa during RSA Conference: https://itspm.ag/brinqa6gp5Hear more stories from Brinqa: www.itspmagazine.com/their-stories/see-all-of-your-security-findings-in-one-place-act-on-them-precisely-a-collection-of-brinqa-stories-from-rsa-conference-2023For more RSAC Conference Coverage podcast and video episodes visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/rsa-conference-usa-2023-rsac-san-francisco-usa-cybersecurity-event-coverageAre you interested in telling your story?https://www.itspmagazine.com/telling-your-story

In this episode, host Raghu Nandukumara sits down with Illumio CTO and Co-Founder PJ Kirner, to discuss Illumio's founding story, taking a data-driven approach to innovation and market validation, and what RSA attendees should be thinking about as they gear up for this year's conference. --------"I do think we fell off the bandwagon with all this implicit trust in the environment…All these things that were just allowed to talk to each other implicitly—no one ever thought about, you know, let's turn this into explicit trust? That's a place where I think we definitely needed Zero Trust to help us along that journey." - PJ Kirner--------Time Stamps* (0:47) The Illumio founding story*(11:39) What do submarines and cyber resilience have in common?*(14:55) Overcoming implicit trust *(24:40) Validating ideas with data* (36:13) What a CTO hopes to see at RSA--------SponsorAssume breach, minimize impact, increase resilience ROI, and save millions in downtime costs — with Illumio, the Zero Trust Segmentation company. Learn more at illumio.com or visit us at RSAC in San Francisco, between April 24 – April 27! You can find us in the North Hall, at Booth 5778.--------LinksConnect with PJ on LinkedIn

The scapegoat from the Battle of Ridgeway.  It wasn't Alfred Booker's fault, yet the outcome still ruined him.  Leading into the historic North Hall of Hamilton's Armouries.  The old fashion way to punish the soldiers.  Related to a once balcony, since removed.  --- Get the inside scoop @ghostguidedaniel on Facebook & Instagram CONTACT FORM

Earlier this week we had a bonus episode that was a bit shorter, so I thought this was a good chance to re-air one of my favorite episodes from last year with Seth Goldman about prepping for Expo West (which is less than 1 month away!). We have five other great episodes with Seth from last year available as well. Be sure to stop by the Eat the Change booth in the North Hall if you attend Expo West this year, and while you are there, stop by Startup CPG's booth and come say hi to me and the team in person. Happy Expo prep! This is the first episode of a very special new podcast series from Startup CPG. Seth Goldman, Startup CPG's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, will be joining us once a month for the next few months to talk about hot topics in CPG. Today we kick off by talking all things Expo West. With twenty-one Expo West events under his belt, who better to answer our community's Expo West questions! You may know Seth as the co-founder of Honest Tea and author of Mission in a Bottle, and Seth is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Eat the Change, Co-Founder of PLNT Burger, and Chair of the Board for Beyond Meat. Listen in as Seth covers how to stand out among thousands of brands, how to craft your ten second pitch, a simple yet game-changing follow up/lead tracking plan, how to maximize Expo West even without a booth, why you should treat everyone like the most important buyer, and more.

Welcome back to Backcourt Violation! This episode I spoke with North Hall assistant coach Austin Thompson on how he go into coaching, why he loves it, and what his team is going to look like next year. We did also sneak a little NBA talk in, just so you guys won't forget what this pod is all about. Hope you enjoy the conversation! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/backcourtviolation/support

NADA (NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION) IS THE BIGGEST SHOW IN AUTOMOTIVE FOR DEALERSHIPS, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, & TECH. In today's digital changes and limited inventory, transportation becomes urgent conversation. This is an ATI live special event.

On the ground in Anaheim for Natural Products Expo West 2022, the Taste Radio team reflected on a pulsating first day at the annual trade show, which returned live for the first time since 2019. They also commented on notable brands and products exhibited in the event's bustling North Hall and Fresh Ideas Organic Marketplace Tent, including innovative plant-based, probiotic and savory sips and snacks.  Show notes: 0:25: We Have A TikTok House. It's Really Bacon, Right? Yes, There's A Drinkable Kimchi. – The team explained why their Airbnb's back patio would be a perfect backdrop for TikTok videos, reflected on the palpable energy and excitement felt in the aisles at Expo West and talked about why the event was a useful platform for both booth and “backpack” exhibitors. They also gushed about an upstart chocolate brand and a couple early-stage and innovative beverage companies, why a plant-based bacon threw everyone for a loop, Jacqui's review of a vegan caviar and which two functional drink brands are now leaping into the growing pool of pops. Later, they chatted about a striking new line of probiotic beverages, a mouthwatering ube spread and a preview of things to come from GT's Living Foods. Brands in this episode: Super Coffee, Happy Moose Juice, Doozy Pots, Sir Owlervick's, Bon Appesweet, Wildwonder, Waju, Avafina Organics, Planterra Foods, Joolies, Whisps, De La Calle, Vina, Teaonic, Vive Organic, Spindrift, Not Your Mother In Law's, Sana, Savorly, Qula, Xicama, Fila Manila, Little Green Cyclo, GT's Living Foods

Matthew and Nick Wavra join the podcast to discuss everything that goes into job estimation in commercial HVAC. Nick has a lot of fieldwork and project management experience, and Matthew has marketing, software, and sales experience, which helps bring in and retain clients. Commercial estimation begins when a mechanical contractor asks for a bid on a job. The estimators go through the spec books, bidding documents, and any addendums to come up with takeoffs and a price. The estimator seeks approval from manufacturers to build the materials, and they use software to come up with an estimate. The pricing updates weekly to stay current and accurate in an economy that's currently facing inflation. Estimators develop takeoffs for materials and labor; each material has some sort of labor attached to it, though the labor estimates may need to be adjusted as conditions change.  Commercial contractors may make mistakes when they miss equipment or elevation considerations (when estimating labor). On-screen takeoff options significantly reduce the risk of creating mistakes, so it may be unwise for contractors to do takeoffs by hand instead of using software to help. Matthew, Nick, and Bryan also discuss: Sheet metal price increases Software vs. man-made takeoffs DX piping vs. chilled water boilers Estimation in HVAC vs. refrigeration CRM (customer relationship management) Developing a commercial HVAC estimation training course Finding a niche in the HVAC estimation business Look for Nick and Matthew at the AHR Expo 2022 in Las Vegas! They will be at booth N9142 in North Hall.   Learn more about Matthew and Nick's business by visiting hvacestimation.com/ or by calling Nick directly at (238)-900-6330.  If you have an iPhone, subscribe to the podcast HERE, and if you have an Android phone, subscribe HERE. Check out our handy calculators HERE. Check out information on the 2022 HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium/.

For a special Halloween episode, our first-ever guest Bob Watson returns to the show to share an SRU ghost story about how the late Emma Guffey Miller, a trustee from 1933-68 and influential campus and national political figure, might still be lingering in North Hall.

Bio Trevor Flow- Head Baseball coach, North Hall HS in Gainesville GA Since he arrive at North Hall, he has been a part of a 193-64 overall record. In his first year as head coach of the Trojans, they finished 24-7 and made it to the Sweet Sixteen, in year 2 the Trojans finished 21-16 and made it to the Final Four, in year 3 the Trojans were 12-4 and ranked #1 in AAA before the Covid shortened season. and this past season, the Trojans won the 3 AAA State Championship for second time in school history and set a school record for wins in a season. Coach Flow earned Region Coach of the Year honors during the 2018 season and AAA Coach of the Year in 2019 and 2021. On the show we go over the vision of the program, how he stays on top of things by being extremely organized, and how to teach "attention to detail." Time Stamps 01:00- Vision of the program 18:00- Rules/Standards 25:00- Favorite team building activities 29:00- Offseason Outline 32:00- Pre Season Outline 37:00- Attention to detail  42:00- In Season Practice 54:00- Last Things Resources Obstacle is the way- Ryan Holiday Good to great- Jim Collins Extreme Ownership- Jocko Contact https://twitter.com/TrevorFlow https://www.trojansbaseball.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this Encore Episode of the Passive House Podcast (originally aired as Episode 37 on May 3, 2021), guest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Katie Faulkner, founder of WestFaulkner, an office with a mission for sustainable design. She is also a director at PT-Tech, a division of Placetailor in Boston whose initial focus is on the design and prefabrication of retrofit panels for triple-decker homes.Katie has been working as an architect for more than 20 years and was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2020. Her work is motivated by an interest in sustainable, modular construction, centered on the intention to reduce risk and improve cost control. She was a founding partner of the Boston-based firm NADAAA, where her projects included the Daniels Building at University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design's North Hall, and the R+D Center at the Beaver School. More recently, she was a Vice President of Design for Katerra, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype.Mary and Ilka's conversation with Katie ranges from the career opportunities that prefabrication opens up for women to the urgency of deep energy retrofits, and much in between. Her early work in healthcare design led to an abiding interest in optimized project delivery models, while always keeping sustainable design front and center. Katie's decades-long experience is well suited to her current collaboration with Placetailor to bring to market cost-effective bio-based retrofit panels.At the end of this encore episode, Mary, Matthew Cutler-Welsh, and Zack Semke discuss major Passive House conferences and events coming up in Fall 2021: 25th International Passive House Conference (Passive House Institute) Part I: September 10-12; Part II: September 14+15: https://passivhaustagung.de/en/Tower Retrofit Symposium 2021 (Passive House Canada) September 22-23: https://www.passivehousecanada.com/tower-retrofit/PhiusCon (Phius) October 12-15: http://phiuscon.org/South Pacific Passive House Conference (PHINZ + APHA) November 25-27: https://passivehouse.nz/2021/06/09/spphc21-cfa/

Join us on a voyage of discovery as Curators Jack Aguero and Brent Meyer take unPACKed with PMMI listeners on a journey through the evolution of packaging and processing. The pair explain how they tackled such an enormous endeavor, where they found help along the way and a slew of other interesting tales that eventually led to the first of its kind PACK to the Future Interactive Exhibit debuting at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the North Hall. To learn more and to register, go to packexpolasvegas.comSupport the show (https://pmmi.org/my-pmmi)

In this episode we talk to David Bishop Head Football Coach at North Hall High School. Coach Bishop is starting his 8th season as the head coach of the Trojans.

Bio Current Head Coach at North Hall High School (GA)2021 AAA Georgia State Champions!First as a head coach  2013 won 3A state championship as assistant coach 116-33 overall record  first year (2018) as head coach the Trojans finished 24-7 and made it to the Sweet Sixteen in year 2 the Trojans finished 21-16 and made it to the Final Four,  year 3 the Trojans were 12-4 and ranked #1 in AAA before the Covid shortened season. Region Coach of the Year honors during the 2018 season AAA Coach of the Year in 2019 Constant LEARNER! A DUDE!!   Notes Keep a card and write down any learning point throughout the game Extended column - these things that can help us or hurt us in the playoffsBecome Practice plans  Hope to cross off items as we go If I am going to ask a kid to get better I need to be specificIt's on me to be specific Write MAY on their bullpen ball The playoffs are like a high wire - regular season is low and then as you get longer in the season the wire gets higher and you have no net! Team goal of 950 field %Outfield - NO GAPS Infield - can't play infield without good feet 200 ground balls a day -  Only throws full speed or DON'T THROW Game speed feet if you can't throw game speed Your expectations as a coach turn into players' actions! Positions are rented! You better watch out for the teams that fight for positions When you get to the point of vulnerability you don't back down from confrontation More time in the weightroom, long toss sessions, bullpens, any chance you get to get to know each kid because you can't talk to each kid the same Your kids need to know that you don't have it all figured outNot scared to tell the kids I made a mistakeLet a pitcher in too long Send a runner or didn't send a runner It can't be a one size fits all Big difference between knowing the game as a player and knowing the game as a coach There is no substitute for experience How do I extend the 21 outs on my side and shorten them on their side Most coaches don't trust their players preparation, when it turn it is the coaches who prepared them, so it's really the coaches failure in preparing.  Would you rather win a game 10-2 or 10-6?10-2 you lost an opportunity for you to find something about a kid 10-6 you got an opportunity for you to find something about a kid Know you players and their identity (move power hitter to leadoff spot based on his identity) Video breakdown and character talk When they leave the program I want them to know I love them and be better people and have more than an identity than baseball players Character card - values of the people in our program will possessThis is your card about you as a man in this program If I take it we talk about, and I give it back when I see they make the changes Reached out to staff as characteristics of what our kids need the most Made hard decisions based on the character of a kid - addition by subtraction  Surface - element cardSurface - fence, grass, backstop, etc Element - wind, temperature, sun, etc Team meeting before practice Character talk before practice Feel the heart beat of your team and see what would be generic for the guys and figure out what works Don't be scared to fail and think the coach is “cool” Twitter - @trevorflow Email North Hall social media is a dialogue for myself The more I coach it's not competing against the other coach, it is coaching/playing against the game and ourselves You got to go out and play chess not checkers!! Advice from other coaches through the coaching community  

On Episode 37 of the Passive House Podcast, guest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Katie Faulkner, founder of WestFaulkner, an office with a mission for sustainable design. She is also a director at PT-Tech, a division of Placetailor in Boston whose initial focus is on the design and prefabrication of retrofit panels for triple decker homes.Katie has been working as an architect for more than 20 years and was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2020. Her work is motivated by an interest in sustainable, modular construction, centered on the intention to reduce risk and improve cost control. She was a founding partner of the Boston-based firm NADAAA, where her projects included the Daniels Building at University of Toronto, Rhode Island School of Design’s North Hall, and the R+D Center at the Beaver School. More recently, she was a Vice President of Design for Katerra, focusing on a mid-rise mass timber housing prototype. Mary and Ilka’s conversation with Katie ranges from the career opportunities that prefabrication opens up for women to the urgency of deep energy retrofits, and much in between. Her early work in healthcare design led to an abiding interest in optimized project delivery models, while always keeping sustainable design front and center. Katie’s decades-long experience is well suited to her current collaboration with Placetailor to bring to market cost-effective bio-based retrofit panels.Mary, Ilka, Matthew Cutler-Welsh, and Zack Semke discuss upcoming events that can be accessed here: https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/passive-house-week-in-preview-may-3

Downtown Main StreetDMI422 Main StreetLa Crosse, Wisconsin54601(608) 784-0440Transcription for SEO only. Art Fahey joins us on this DMI podcast. Downtown has the college area, which is always fun for people to enjoy. I think of such a variety no myself for not being your lacrosse centering at the multiuse building sign in one day we might have a sports vacation shown the remaining efforts. The organic farmers conference and turn around and get high school basketball games coming in or entertainment that comes through so I think the shield of the varieties were small town feel people come in they feel safe will crosses embraces and welcomes all our guests and then realize how important our guest coming to the Aryans are local people coming to the downtown area are so I think is quite a warm reception everybody coming to the area so I think were unique in the beauty that we got as well) features a lot of things that neglect communities would look at art, say, is the director of the La Crosse Center in downtown La Crosse and a lot of things are happening down there, including the remodel of the La Crosse Center. Let's talk a little bit about the remodel to be tells is going on with the lacrosse in her care is the process it's going to take about almost 2 years to get completed. We had a renovation remodel of the arena, so this new seating in their sound system, lighting, HVAC, dressing rooms, locker room concession stands have all been remodeled were to be going in the outer court order that goes around the buildings that people have to go outside to navigate to the building and we put up a new North Hall called a noteholder call and that is ready to go. We are at now is called the punch list time where construction guys are going through. They really have turned the keys over for us for those two particular rooms that we still have construction guys are better available and you will a midway point through the first phase of the construction for part that still continuing as a number of meeting rooms and a volume that overlooks the Riverside that scheduled for the end of November to be completed and that there continuing with that process over the front Street area, which is adjacent to Riverside Park and will assign the building so we move along very well. You know it. If you ever look for a no light in the middle Kovacs and the construction crews that stay healthy throughout last actually progressed very well and very quickly. Overall, no work on time and on budget. It always is all good things there. As far as the overall construction venue absolutely destroys positive things to be on time and on budget. So art what will the impact of the remodel have on the downtown La Crosse area well you know when forecasting this we had economic impacts of increasing but the center could do for the downtown area in the range of $79 million a year that on top of already the 18 million it was doing so already and admit hi $29 per year economic impact for the area here. So now this is something that certainly has a direct impact on hotels and restaurants and shopping locations that are near to us by others sent ripples throughout the county. So it's something that can be beneficial to West Wisconsin because we slowly ramp up and get out of this code. People start meeting again and I will see the effects of this in our success with a lot of things we have here have been and made multiple small events and we see that continuing and we do have a large marquee event that comes through the multiple small vents is obviously the core of our success for the La Crosse Center, how many employees work for the La Crosse and well test test test code is created all kinds of fluctuations in pre-Covid, we had 15 full-time at about 300 part-time. So when we got in the Covid all, unfortunately, all part-timers and all were just the work form and we went from 15 full-time down to seven full-time now that were slowly coming back were starting to make plans and we have an escalating plan to add people back in. Based on the floor business. Now we we will have again somewhere in that 15 to 19 range of full-time people. Once we are considered at full steam and will be in at 250 to 300 part-timers again. Once we have everything back in place in the world stacked some consents and normal art. Let's look forward to the future to pass 2022. When things are back to running normally. What is the future look like for the La Crosse Center while you know what we've got is new meeting space is a different kind of meeting space here and were anticipating know that that will bring a different clientele down to us and always got a lot of floor space to tradeshows and go along with this and breakout space were looking for a lot more regional type of business coming our way, which I think was an area that we hadn't been delivering which certainly can be done now and we could see things coming out based on the Minneapolis are based on the lighting as well as island in Wisconsin to come our way related to some right things and some exciting things that you would be opening up the doors as you go along here and there's certain events that are to be large events that will also come our way here that will take up the entire building with the La Crosse Center expansion and everything art is La Crosse and are still going to be hosting like the big Moses vent that comes every year. Yes, that definitely was going to 2022 there making plans come back and be with us and is a featured event that does come to the building. A lot of people are aware of it and continue to come our way and so were looking for a long-term relationship will continue with the organic farmers organization part which have an impact as the downtown La Crosse area have when you have an event committed. Let's say the WIA basketball tournament was very important that our neighbors in the downtown area and are involved in greeting people just seating for 500 people in relation to the downtown and they're going to go out and have a cocktail and maybe a meal, and maybe do a little shopping you know you really set many people in a downtown you can quickly see where the restaurant that's 50 to 75 tears to be filled out fairly quickly, so they just need to be aware know if what were doing when relation peak, which is great communication between us and the commission has grown the downtown organization and DMI to let these folks know that they're coming to be in town and you will probably feel the effects of sin on hotels or to three days parking all comes into play. So we need to partners in the downtown area know to be able to welcome those folks = insane welcome this organization in the town and given the hospitality La Crosse is known for. Because these people are taking and not just La Crosse, and it is taken whole community. So art how much of a factor is that having a vibrant downtown is trying to sell the center to the prospective new client. I think that's important now. Each community got their own little sales point La Crosse certainly got ours without saying you know this but the back door and get the Mississippi River Riverside Park right here. Not hardly any community in the state of Wisconsin I can talk about the Mississippi River. So your features here that we sell are important to know in comparison to others.That's why Vince move around taking those different things the city has you know we have things like the DMI what they do is they get the message out to all the membership and those are the ones downtown Main Street. To me those are the people that are wrapped right around this year and what we do and what they do you know are joined at the hip. If you will, and so the value of DMI having a communication and filling storefronts and giving people things to do once they leave our building that's important is if we didn't have a downtown. It was thriving like it is and how it can really make our guests coming to town to go for a little when I go Baptist because it is not much going on but the way our downtown is its active it's lively it's driving snow so DMI is a great job

On our 6th episode we talk with Coach Trevor Flow of North Hall HS. We discuss what it takes to plan and execute championship level practices. In order to play at a championship level you must practice at one first. You can find coach on twitter at @TrevorFlow. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

GHSA Week 12 and TSSAA State Playoff Podcast. Featured Guest Fannin Head Coach Chad Cheatham Sponsored by Acker Travel Company By Dream Vacations Hosted by Voice Of The Fannin Rebels Tim Towe, Coach Mark Stone and Coach John Spargo Intro to Show Fannin Head Coach Chad Cheatham- Talks about the team winning the region title, going for undefeated season friday @ Dade County. Region 7AA Preview. Fannin @ Dade, Gordon Central vs Model WJRB's Chris Mathis , Union-Gilmer and Towns and Washington Wilkes. 8AA Playoff Talk Team FYN Sports RJ Casey talks Pickens County Football and Region 7AAAA Playoff Outlook Tim Towe breaks down the 7AAA Games between Cherokee Bluff and White and North Hall and Dawson. Discuss Region 7AAA Playoff Outlook Seth Cain Play By Play Announcer for Gradick Sports and Radio Voice for the Haralson County Rebels. Seth talks Haralson County Football and Region 5AA Playoff Picture Sports illustrated's Matt Ray joins the show to talk Georgia/Tennessee Recruiting. The Coca Cola Red Zone's Jeff Cate joins the show to talk TSSAA Playoff's with the crew --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bio Head Baseball Coach of Glynn Academy in Brunswick, GANational Elite Infield Camp partnered with Trosky BaseballCreator of Mongero Monday’s Creator the Dirt Brothers - Elite infielders26 years as a high school head coach 2017 he guided North Hall to the first ever state championship in school history3 time Region coach of Year2 Time Georgia coach of the year2017 National Coach HS Coach of the yearAuthor of “Winning Baseball” a book and video series of baseball fundamentalsIncredible teacher of the game! Show NotesKids haven’t changed!!We set the tone and expectations for kids and kids will respondIf you are organized and they know you care you can build the cultureThe big change has been the parents and travel/showcase baseball with a lot more selfishnessTeaching the kids what I want them to know!What are we trying to get out of this from a personal perspective, Constantly trying to reinforce what I want them to understandYou can’t assume! You need to teachPersonal goals come behind the team goalsHave a resume with me so I can share with college coachesBrick by brick - how we build our championship seasonFeeling good is overrated!! If your behaviors are not matching up with your goals, then you need to change your goals!!Commitment, self motivation, and completely drivenSame consistency on and off the fieldI am not intimidated by people that are smarter than me, I encourage it!The big 5 (routines of core drill work)Short hops, ozzie drill (knees), 3 step, 5 step, choose your hopCheck out his YouTube channel! Once you build routines then players can execute without coaches being aroundTrain them up so they can build their routinesThrowing routines are huge! Each position has a specific routine to help them get better!Understand the WHY!! Not just that you saw it on TwitterThe mental game is hugely underratedWe define the 6th tool to train the tough mindAllow your kids freedom and permission to fail to be free some being tightHave a blend of giving freedom and your expectationsFacebook “Winning Baseball” - Mongero Monday’s; everything involved with coaching“Trosky Tueday”@CoachMongero on Twitterwww.CoachMongero.com Dirt Brother Baseball YouTube channelSirius XM radio show - complete player developmentThe dull pencil is better than a sharp mind!

• Coach Drennan talks about his Assistant Coaching days in Football Under Coach Harbin and Coach Lunsford (Baseball) • Coach highlights hitting a Home Run off Kyle Godfrey in Baseball Practice • Discuss at length the 2004 Season (1st year as Head Coach) (Highlights Players of Week) • Honoring Brian Wells in The Gilmer Game 04. 35-16 Victory. (Coach’s 1st career victory) • Thrilling 18-15 Overtime Victory @ West Hall. Avram Allen Game Winning Field Goal. • Narrow loss to #9 North Hall 12-1 on year 14-10. • Senior Night Victory vs Chestatee 34-14. • All Decade Players Jack Caldwell, Bill Mull, Avram Allen and Josh Curtis conclude their Rebel Football Careers. • Discuss at length the 2005 Season (Highlights Players of Week) • Highlights the Robbinsville Game where Matt Hensley and Ryan Dailey team up for 1st D# TD in Coach’s tenure. Ryan Deal’s Robbinsville prediction. • 21-6 Victory over Gilmer, 31-3 victory over West Hall. • Narrow loss to Jaybow Shaw led Flowery Branch 7-0 • All Decade Player Chad Scearce concludes his Rebel Football Career. • And Much More! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Fiona Smyth is a legend of the Toronto arts community. A true renaissance woman, she's a sculptor, a muralist, a book illustrator an animator, an art teacher and an independent comic book artist. If you're a Toronto resident, you've probably seen her work without even realizing it. Her murals adorn iconic locations like Lee's Palace's Dance Cave and Sneaky Dee's (which is known to Scott Pilgrim Fans) where she designed their sign and bonehead cow logo. In 2019, she was inducted into The Giants of The North Hall of Fame as part of Canada's Doug Wright Awards for indepedent cartooning along with the late Inuit cartoonist Alootook Ipellie (1951-2007). Her psychadelic and fluid drawing style has graced a who's who of Canadian publishers, newspapers and magazines since the time she was a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design, (now OCAD University) where she now teaches a new generation of students how to make comics. She is best known for tackling feminist issues, including issues of sexuality, gender and idenity throughout her entire body of work, which spans 30 plus years. In 2018, Koyama Press published a retrospective of her career from 1985-2018 called Somnambulance, which features excerts from her comic Nocturnal Emissions, published by Vortex Comics, as well as work she did for Vice, Drawn and Quarterly, Exclaim! Snipe Hunt, Taddle Creek and even Urban Outfitters' Slant Magazine, among others. Other work includes Cheez 100, collecting the first 100 strips of her series Cheez that was published in Exclaim! Magazine, her first and only graphic novel, The Never Wheres and two critcally-acclaimed sex education books for kids written by renowned sex educator Cory Silverberg, What Makes a Baby? and Sex is a Funny Word. On the podcast, Aaron finds out how Fiona was recruited to create the Sneaky Dee's sign, what about her childhood and catholic upbringing pushed her to explore feminism in her art, what makes her work for kids different than her work for adults, what her southern good ol' boy pen name is and how it felt going from a punk student with a D.I.Y. ethos that's skipping class at OCAD to teaching at OCAD and becoming the authority she used to rebel against. Plus, find out if Seth lived with her, where she saw herself among the “Holy Triumverate” of Toronto's autobio artists (Seth, Chester Brown and Joe Matt) in the 90s and what it's like to be featured as one of Canada's Big Four comic artists in the recently closed This is Serious: Canadian Indie Comics at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Oh, and she reveals that she and Cory Silverberg are working on a third sex education graphic novel covering puberty. Also, did you know she wanted to be a realist painter?This episode of Speech Bubble with Fiona Smyth is sponsored by Hairy Tarantula and Bam Coffee Co.@fionasmythlukkieFiona's FacebookFiona's blogFiona's TumblrFiona's Giants of the North Hall of Fame Write-upFiona's Zines OnlineWhat Makes a Baby?How to Comission Fiona Smyth for a ProjectLearn How to Make Comics from Fiona – Starts Jan. 25, 2020Society of IllustratorsWeird ThingsAlbatross Soup – a short film by Winnie Cheung with illustrations by Fiona SmythBradley of Him by Connor Willumsen – Koyama Press

Technically, STEAM is an acronym: science, technology, engineering, art and math. But for the California STEAM Symposium, that "E" could easily stand for "empowerment". And the seventh annual California STEAM Symposium is set to happen in Anaheim, December 9th and 10th! Glennon Stratton is the STEAM Program Director for the Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation.   CDEF is co-hosting the California STEAM Symposium, in partnership with the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls and CSU. The focus of this annual conference: how to combine the five areas of STEAM to engage students in learning.   And like the 2018 edition, this will be an exciting and creative two days. More than 250 breakout presentations are scheduled, at the Anaheim Convention Center's North Hall.  A maker space will be offer regular class sessions, both days.  Exhibits and keynote speakers will spotlight innovative approaches to teaching--and to learning. Robotics, rockets and maker lessons are on the agenda.  So are art lessons which bring geometry and science to life.  Animation, Space Station exploration, and even a murder mystery (featuring teachers as "suspects"!) will be subjects attendees can explore. While geared towards education professionals, the conference is for anyone who understands the importance of STEAM awareness in the twenty-first century. Members of organizations that promotes STEAM awareness will find the California STEAM Symposium time well spent. Glennon talked about the California STEAM Symposium and the concepts behind a more customized approach to empowering students. On this edition of Over Coffee®, you will hear: The origins of Glennon's passion for education and improving lives; How a non-classroom teaching experience made him aware of the power of interdisciplinary education (a/k/a STEAM); The concepts at the root of a hands-on learning experience and results Glennon has seen, with students; What attendees will experience at the 2019 California STEAM Symposium; A summary of the 2019 keynotes; How one of those speakers uses a pop-culture approach to teaching students science concepts; A highly empowering STEAM application Glennon observed, while working in as a project manager in Portland public schools; A closer look at some of the 2019 sessions (including one that tells participants, "math can be fun"); What Glennon himself has learned, in the past year, from his work with students and teachers; His advice to teachers implementing a STEAM approach in a classroom; Glennon's own experience with math being fun!; How to open reading for students so that it's magical, rather than a chore; A look at one of the science-oriented sessions; Who, besides education professionals, can benefit from attending the California STEAM Symposium; One of Glennon's favorite experiences from preparing for the 2019 California STEAM Symposium; Unique presentations which will be led by students themselves; The critical component to getting around the challenges facing underserved students.      

Welcome to the 2019 IIEX North America Conference Series. Recorded live in Austin, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors and speakers at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Marc Macellaio, Vice President of Sales at Fuel Cycle. Contact Marc Online: LinkedIn Fuel Cycle [00:00] Marc Macellaio, Fuel Cycle.  This is the second interview I did on site at IIeX with Fuel Cycle.  Fuel Cycle is a marketing research cloud platform that allows you... They have their own set of solutions and also you can plug in some external tools that you might have as well in your research portfolio.  You know for me, this is probably one of the more interesting businesses. When I think about my next thing, I definitely feel like there’s an element of their API-driven marketplace yadi-yadi-yada that is real interesting.  But I’d encourage you to think about the last 12 years that they’ve been in business: how they have evolved and stayed, not just relevant, but actually move more, more towards the cutting edge of technology and adding value to our ecosystem.  Enjoy. [00:50] I am sitting here with the head of sales, Marc, at Fuel Cycle.  Marc, thanks for joining me on the Happy Market Research Podcast.    [00:56]   Thanks for having me.  Really appreciate it. [00:57] Alright, cool, man.  What do you think about the show?  IIeX, this is Day 3. I’m a little tired [01:02] I’m a little tired, but we’re having a blast.  A lot of energy and really innovative tools out there. [01:07]    You guys have a nice presence in the North Hall, I think, or South Hall. [01:10] Yeah, one of the two.  The one with the big, orange pillows in the couches, everything, yeah.  Can’t miss us. [01:16]   Right, totally.  So, were you at last year’s IIex?   [01:20 I was.        [01:20] What do you think about the difference in venues?           [01:21] I love this venue.  Obviously, it’s larger, more space.  I think more energy. I mean it’s easier to get around and a...  The last year just getting too large, I guess, people kind of getting shoved out.  So this has been great. [01:34] Have you been able to attend any sessions? [01:36] A handful of sessions, yeah.  Mainly, I’m kind of working the room, working the booth, that kind of thing.  But, yeah, a lot of really good information around and talks around AI and sort of what’s next around market research.  So really cool. [01:46]   So, let’s talk about Fuel Cycle.  You guys are a, from my understanding, a comprehensive, end-to-end research technology platform that allows community management and then you also have your own tools for conducting qualitative research.  Is that right? [02:00] That’s correct, yep. [02:01] And then, in addition to that, you have the capacity through your API’s to interact with other third-party tools like Voxpopme or SurveyGizmo or whatever. [02:11] Typically, when people work with us, they’ll say, “Hey, we want to build a community.”  And so, we’ll put together a community that allows them to do both the qualitative - discussion boards, diary studies, live chats, video IDI’s, video focus groups (mobile, by the way).  But also, it comes with our SurveyGizmo partner Quant Solutions. So, it allows them to do again the quant and the qual and connect all the data in one community environment, right? [02:34] Got it.  It makes a lot of sense to me.  So, how long have you guys been working with SurveyGizmo? [02:38] Last probably three to four years now.   [02:40]    OK, good.  And how long have you been around?  ‘Cause you’ve really been popping for the last two years.  I didn’t hear a lot about you before. [02:46] You know about four or five years ago, we revamped our whole platform, calling it really Fuel Cycle, and it’s really changed the game.

Charles Eagan and Eric Cornelius: BlackBerry and Cylance Just Makes Sense Is a Terminator T-800 an endpoint? Is Voltron an endpoint? Could we have prevented a lot of damage to the Earth if Tony Stark had just installed a BlackBerry Cylance endpoint protection solution on the Iron Legion? In this week’s episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson chats with BlackBerry CTO Charles Eagan and BlackBerry Cylance CPO Eric Cornelius... two people charged with leading the charge to combine BlackBerry and Cylance into a security solution that will protect every Thing under the sun. Take a walk with them as Matt finds out what the future holds now that BlackBerry and Cylance have come together. If you are in San Francisco for RSA, make sure to come say hello to Charles, Eric, Matt and a lot of other interesting security folks Tuesday night at the Digital Shadows Security Leaders Party, Tuesday, March 5that 6.00 pm.  Cylance will be at Booth #6145 in the North Hall. Swing by to see demos of Cylance’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform which provides advanced endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response capabilities. Join us to see for yourself how the Cylance AI Platform delivers business value and outcomes you had been told were impossible. You can also snag some of our giveaways while you’re there, so come on by.  About Charles Eagan Charles Eagan is the Chief Technology Officer for BlackBerry. In this role, Charles oversees the standardization and integration of all company products and is responsible for the advancement of new technologies and partnerships, with an emphasis on defining BlackBerry’s Enterprise of Things platform as well as driving innovation within emerging markets. Charles was previously the Global Head of Electronics at Dyson Ltd (U.K.), focused on IoT device deployment. Prior to that he served as BlackBerry’s Global Head of Device Software, and spearheaded development of the BlackBerry 10 operating system and the transition to secure Android. Charles was formerly Vice President of Engineering for QNX Software, where he concentrated on the automotive and embedded markets. He also worked at Cisco and directed development of the seminal CRS-1 carrier routing system. Charles is a noted speaker, thought leader and IoT expert who has been at the forefront of new frontiers in digital connectivity for over three decades. He graduated with honors from the University of Waterloo (Canada) with a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and electrical engineering minor. About Eric Cornelius   Eric Cornelius is the Chief Product Officer at Blackberry Cylance. In this role, Eric drives product and innovation. Previously Eric served as VP of Innovation, Director of Critical Infrastructure/ICS and Technical Director of Incident Response/Critical Infrastructure at Cylance. Eric brings this wealth of knowledge and long history as a security practitioner, consultant, trusted advisor and product builder to his work in elevating our product development initiatives, and to leading our product management and corporate development teams. About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line.   Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us wherever you get your podcasts including Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio as well as ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/category/podcasts.html iTunes/Apple Podcasts link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insecurity/id1260714697?mt=2  GooglePlay Music link: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ipudd6ommmgdsboen7rjd2lvste  Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review! 

This week Rose and Phil join Harrison to discuss a three-stage cryptocurrency mining attack using Mimikatz and Radmin in tandem. The team also discusses the Cr1ptTor ransomware, an unknown North Korean threat actor targeting US universities, and MarioNet. Some of the team is heading to RSA Conference next week so make sure to stop by Booth 4421 in the North Hall to say hello. Get the Intellgence Summary at https://resources.digitalshadows.com/weekly-intelligence-summary/weekly-intelligence-summary-22-feb-01-mar-2019.

Rick Holland: Analysts Make the Best CISOs In this week’s episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson has a chat with Rick Holland, CISO at Digital Shadows. Rick took a unique path to the CISO role, following a distinguished career as an analyst at Forrester. They touch on a myriad of subjects including Rick’s Security and Risk Playbook for CISOs Rick Holland is hard to miss online. You can hear him regularly on the Award Winning podcast ShadowTalk. He also blogs regularly and will get up to some mishceif on Twitter.  If you are heading to RSA San Francisco, make sure to come and say hello to Rick, Matt and a lot of other interesting security folks Tuesday night at the Digital Shadows Security Leaders Party, Tuesday, March 5that 6.00 pm. Cylance will be at Booth #6145 in the North Hall. Swing by to see demos of Cylance’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform which provides advanced endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response capabilities. Join us to see for yourself how the Cylance AI Platform delivers business value and outcomes you had been told were impossible. You can also snag some of our giveaways while you’re there, so come on by.  About Rick Holland Rick Holland (@rickhholland) is the CISO and Vice President of Strategy at Digital Shadows. Rick has more than 15 years’ experience working in information security. Before joining Digital Shadows, he was a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, providing strategic guidance on security architecture, operations, and data privacy. Rick also served as an intelligence analyst in the US Army. He is currently the co-chair of the SANS Cyber Threat Intelligence Summitand holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of Texas, Dallas. Rick regularly speaks at leading security conferences across the globe and has been interviewed by industry and business media including BBC News, CNN, Dark Reading, Motherboard, NPR, The Register and Wall Street Journal. About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line. Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us wherever you get your podcasts including Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio as well as ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/category/podcasts.html iTunes/Apple Podcasts link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insecurity/id1260714697?mt=2 GooglePlay Music link: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ipudd6ommmgdsboen7rjd2lvste Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!

On today's show, I chatted with my friends Alex, Josh, and Jackson from the Cedar Rapids-based band Running In Place. We talked about all sorts of stuff and they played a few songs live on the air!You can check these guys out pretty much everywhere:facebook.com/runninginplacebandyoutube.com/channel/UCY6Plt4lAA0cwfFnHYf_YvQinstagram.com/runninginplacebandtwitter.com/runninginplace3facebook.com/Alexschultemusictwitter.com/AlexSchulteOnZWe'll be back on KRUI (krui.fm) at 4pm next Sunday (2/10)! Blast it on your car radio so the whole neighborhood can listen!This month's iHearIC concert will be at Java House on 2/22, featuring performances by Alexandro Cazares & Sean Miller, Dodge Street Duo, Tyler Katz, and Jennifer MacBain-Stephens! RSVP and invite your friends: facebook.com/events/749082328818100The January concert videos (Maul of America, Treecloud, The Twisted Roots, Wombat) are here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGA6kZJDK6qR1k89UdZLnlEWVwfCfZSz5Order yourself a shirt or print designed by Iowa City artist Vero Rose Smith on our bandcamp page: ihearic.bandcamp.com! Every single product is unique and beautiful. Subscribe to our patreon for as little as $1/month to get a discount code on all purchases: patreon.com/posts/ihearic-prints-23495803Check out these other shows coming up in the area:University of Iowa Dance Department Faculty/Graduate Concert @ Space Place, North Hall (2/7-9 8pm): facebook.com/events/1053556088153870Ross Clowser Trio @ Clinton Street Social Club (2/7 8pm): facebook.com/events/404921426931984Iowa City DSA Fundraiser with Midwest Waves, Dryad, and Good Morning Midnight @ Public Space One (2/10 5pm): facebook.com/events/2088353138122091PHDJ, Purchase, Tailgating for a Funeral @ Yacht Club (2/15 8pm): facebook.com/events/928128930710793Soul Sherpa Valentine's Day Dance @ Tailgators in Cedar Rapids (2/15 9pm): facebook.com/events/1139430606238762(btw invite Justin to stuff on facebook to make sure he knows about it)Direct mp3 link: https://archive.org/download/20190203Ihearic60/2019-02-03%20ihearic%2060.mp3ihearic.compatreon.com/ihearicfacebook.com/ihearictwitter.com/ihearicyoutube.com/ihearicinstagram.com/ihearicihearic.bandcamp.combit.ly/iHearICiTunesbit.ly/iHearICGooglemixcloud.com/iHearICsoundcloud.com/ihearicbit.ly/iHearICStitcherihearic.blogspot.comRSS: feeds.feedburner.com/ihearic

EP160 - CES 2019 Recap, and NRF Update Episode 160 is a recap of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show, and an update from the Nation Retail Federation Big Show. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 160 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, January 14th, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 160 being recorded on Monday January 14th, 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your clothes Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:40] Jason a welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason's is one of those rare episodes where we are actually in the same room. Jason: [0:47] I know it's super exciting I've always enjoyed getting the opportunity to spend some real life time with you. Scot: [0:53] Collie time yeah yeah so we are live live life here from New York City I am looking out of Jason's fancy hotel room and I can see the Empire State Building which is home to many Amazon stores and fulfillment centers near in New York. Jason: [1:08] And there's a Starbucks in that building that delivers. Scot: [1:13] Leave it to Jason to know some Starbucks trivia. Jason: [1:15] I'm desperate to find a way to work in a building. Scot: [1:18] What is January weather in New York City that can only mean one thing we are here for the national retail Federation Big Show that are at Big Show and in that Spirit tonight's theme is trippy parts are are fearless reporter Jason has been traveling the world to bring you the latest and greatest information about what's going on out there I'm in first you want to cover he is you went straight back to back I think from Vegas to New York by past the family so hi and bye guys and he is going to start out with ACS report and tell us what's going on there and then we'll jump it in her up so what's good to talk Jason with what were some interesting things you saw at CES that had retail implications. Jason: [2:03] Yeah so I feel like there was a fair amount of retail specific stuff at CES this year while the number of retailers had boo, and so a lot of the Chinese retailers in particular had big boost to TSO Ali Baba had a big boost there for, Services they would promote in the US are like, their supplier services in their B2B Services they have a an alternative to AWS in China that they would offer to Western companies that want need to host Platforms in China, but the bulk and they had one novelty they were showing and a new, voice translation capability that was real time audio translation so Google kind of made some Buzz at the show by announcing these this new generation of their, translate that lets you talk in your phone at transposes it in another language, but you hang your phone into someone they can read it in their language speaking their language and you can kind of hand the phone back and forth so Alibaba came up with this technology we're in real time you talking to him. And the guy next to you here's a translation in his native language and speech back to you so I got to speak to someone who is in need of Mandarin speaker and like. [3:29] It mostly worked it's not like the grammar is a little, monkey but you could totally get the antenna. Scot: [3:35] Is like a translator where you speak and then you pause and it speaks and then the other person speaks and you pause so it's got like that and if you. Jason: [3:42] So that the Google when is the definite pause in this Ali Baba one if you're speaking long enough they will get the translation before you finish. Scot: [3:53] It's hard to like keep your brain going while the things speaking in a foreign language. Jason: [3:59] Intended for remote interactions they're demoing it in a you're standing right next to the person but you are kind of in a isolated Booth so you only heard. But it's remarkable how well that technology is getting the Star Trek Universal translator is basically here. Scot: [4:18] Or the Babel Fish. Jason: [4:20] Absolutely so but half of Ali Baba's Booth was focused on, predominantly consumer electronics and Home Products that Ali Baba designs manufactures and sells on the platform so in addition to being a retailer and a service provider, Alibaba is a product manufacturer and then their own hand sets that are sold in China they have a bunch of like, smart home appliances and things and their pitches. Scot: [4:51] Is there. Jason: [4:53] Leveraging all the data and warnings from their their voluminous shopping interactions to identify needs in the market and design these products, and I into a half a booth was dedicated to promoting those products and potentially selling those products in New Markets, and I say that because that's a amongst all these retailers so jd.com, which is like the second biggest e-commerce site in China Alibaba zapier Marketplace they don't actually sell their own stuff other than those, products that they make jd.com is primarily a direct seller so they're more retailer that, sell wholesale products in China they also had a big booth, same story half their Booth was dedicated to products manufactured by jd.com sort of reinforcing this theme that, retailers that had the most intimacy with the consumers have the most inside that they can use to make the most relevant products, what time is also showing some of the retail technology so, in China jd.com is doing pretty significant amount of deliveries via drone in so they were showing all their drones. Scot: [6:11] The drum Vehicles usually say drown people. Jason: [6:12] Usually when we say drone people think of the quadcopter that's flying packages and jd.com. Scot: [6:18] Does have a like high payload quadcopter and they claim. Jason: [6:19] Does have a like high payload quadcopter and they claim that they make, thousands of deliveries a day with these things in in remote villages, but the way higher volume stuff is they have autonomous vehicles these little mini size Vehicles even smaller than like a smart car that are mostly like storage capacity and it's kind of like, shopping cart the drive to your house and so those things are kind of interesting they were showing some of the, version of Amazon go type technology so they have vending machines that use facial recognition and so you've you've basically like storage a WeChat credential, and you walk up the vending machine you just open the door take whatever you want and it it authenticate you with your face and charges your tencent account. For the purchases so that was interesting. Scot: [7:15] Alibaba has technology like that too for their The Coloradoan o and said omni-channel they call it online and offline 02. Jason: [7:23] Yeah online to offline and and Alibaba definitely has initiative facial recognition they have pay with a smile that, like I Smile as a gesture after the face recognition to to initiate transactions I didn't specifically see them demoing that in their Booth this year, definitely. [7:43] The Chinese providers are like big ecosystems of of these interesting Services some oriented at Commerce of some sort of broader than that, the third Chinese retailer there that would be even less familiar to listeners unless you spend some time in the Chinese market is, I called sooning and they're the largest brick-and-mortar retail are in China there a conglomerate that owns a bunch of different kinds of stores, the biggest chain is like 1700 consumer electronics and home appliance store so sort of like a Best Buy in China, they had a booth and in their Booth they were primarily showing technology that they had developed for experiences inside of retail store, they were showing produce displays for a grocery store that way all the, the produce inside they detect when the weight on the Shelf changes so they know an apple got picked up for a banana got picked up and they have a digital sign that shows you, product content relevant to that banana what form the banana came from how many days it'll be fresh all those sorts of things that a lot of in-store analytics so they were using video system to measure store traffic and I grabbed while time and all that sort of stuff. [9:01] They had a, at self-checkout experience they had a virtual try-on experience where your body was mapped in 3D and so they, apparel on you that's not paper towels in front of you it sort of on your body and is you turn you see the profile and all that sort of stuff so they had all these, different retail vignette showing technology that they had developed for their stores and what was interesting / peculiar, a bunch of these people had badges from Palo Alto California from sooning I asked and they said they had a R&D lab in Palo Alto they have no, that's out of Asia like they're mostly in China that a few stores in like Hong Kong there. Scot: [9:48] There depends in the booth. Jason: [9:49] There comes in the booth they're not trying to sell any of this retail technology to other retailers they're not trying to license anything outside of their home market and so. Scot: [9:58] It baffles me why they would send it. Jason: [9:59] Cuddles me why they would spend a bunch of money and have a booth at CES I mean it, my Boost at CES just to generate PR going to be Western press. Scot: [10:15] Maybe there are a lot of people go to CS cuz there's the component that is good place to go get little Lego blocks right so maybe they were trying to get, component vendors to say hey come up with a cheaper screen for our future digital self or something sometime sometimes those kind of conversations. Jason: [10:32] Totally viable that that would be a good place to like find new vendors and show them some of the things they're working on it. Scot: [10:38] Expensive way to do it so well these guys gaited in like a retail technology or like you stumbled upon them as you walk the moon. Jason: [10:46] Yeah mostly you would StumbleUpon I'm so that, the Busa TSR sort of loosely grouped by use case so most of CES is into big venues the Las Vegas Convention Center which has three big Halls the North Central and South Hall, and then the Sands convention center which is still called The Sands convention center but it's actually not connected to the Venetian Hotel, the North Hall in the Las Vegas Convention Center is mostly Automotive so none of the boots I mentioned are there the central Hall is sort of the original CES Hall it's all the television and home entertainment and. Berkeley the biggest longest running consumer electronic companies have boots and exhibited forever so that the huge Marquee booths in the central Hall are Sony Samsung and LG, so Ali Baba had a very big boost, in that Central Hall not quite as big as like those three but the next step down from those three, The prominent location and I presume that was cuz they were trying to emphasize their home entertainment products predominantly. Southall was computers audio technology drones and Robotics in their way, retail Pavilion so none of the. Scot: [12:15] So none of the companies I. Jason: [12:16] Engine wear in the high-tech retail Pavilion the high-tech retail Pavilion was. Scot: [12:18] Small. Jason: [12:21] A small splattering of Technology vendors that had sort of Point Solutions so there was like, vendor that was doing like virtual makeup there's a vendor that's doing geolocation in the store, and some reason why even more preferred vendors of vendor that sells vending machines that clean your eyeglasses while you wait that they're trying to sell the retail stores. In the most Buzzy thing in the in the high-tech retail Pavilion was a bread box in an autonomous Self Service vending machine that bakes the bread and then dispenses freshly baked. So the bread. Was kind of a hot Buzzy thing but like if you walk this high-tech the billion at CES it feels. Scot: [13:12] Small subset of what you'll be here in New York at the. Jason: [13:13] Subset of what you'll you'd see here in New York at The Innovation Pavilion in inner mouth. Invite if you're going to exhibit one showing you're one of these small vendors CES does not feel like the right show to meet a bunch of, retailers that would be interested in your products so I didn't spend a lot of time there sooning and JD were in that Southall, the so those were all the sort of retail Focus boost and Walmart does have a booth in that Southall that was sort of just outside the high the high tech The Village, and it's basically their jet booth in it's basically recruiting sellers for the jet / mart Walmart marketplace, for the first time. Amazon had went from no real booth at CES that's in small presence in the past and. Scot: [14:09] We've had Marketplace boots where they recruit sellers. Jason: [14:12] Voice Booth before they've had like the treasure truck and then the last several years they, if that works with Alexa in a million votes in the show 4000 both sent one gaze exhibit space so the first thing they did, talk about it this on the show before but a gimmick than Amazon does the corporate headquarters is they give away free bananas, 2 employees and random people walking by their headquarters in Seattle, exhibit hall there was a Amazon banana stand giving away free bananas that just felt like a brand building thing and they had like a social media contest where they're encouraging you to, tweet out the banana stand and in Winsome Echo prizes. Did I saw they did not have a Marketplace booth that a dedicated booth in the automotive section talking about Alexa for automotive integration, I said I was in the North Hall it had the biotin which is a Chinese, vaporware all electric car that was debuted last year that's a new models this year and Amazon had that in their Automotive section the outside of BMW in there and they're talking about cars that have heavy, Alexa integration in the dash as the cabin 10. Scot: [15:32] Yes I borrow the Amazon Alexa Auto is supposedly shipping I don't know I couldn't I did not get invited to get in. Jason: [15:40] I confess I did not try I probably should have. I feel something that I feel like you called me out of the podcast thanks for. Scot: [15:48] You really let here. Jason: [15:49] Exactly the first episode this year that you didn't. Scot: [15:52] Mock my title. Jason: [15:54] You're like mocking me for. Scot: [15:55] I think if you're a chief creative digital strategy officer you would have had this figured. Jason: [16:01] I would have figured out how to get a Amazon how to enter. Prisoners of the Amazon Auto is a device you can plug into the auxiliary audio input in your car that that sort of, is a OEM Alexa that you can add to your car the people are up ridiculous got her excited about, so they had this Auto thing they were that was mostly probably targeted other car manufacturers to you know convince them that they should be using Alexa, in the Sands Amazon had a huge exhibit, demonstrating all of the devices that have Alexa integrated into them and that was a super high traffic Booth so Amazon had a huge footprint at the show through all these different booths. Scot: [16:48] That's how you tweeted a toilet from that exhibit. Jason: [16:54] I treated a Kohler toilet that has Amazon in. Scot: [16:58] That was not a. Jason: [16:59] That was not actually in Amazon's Booth it was in coolers booth that we do all definitely need this toilet has a automatic. Open and close function in so you can use Alexa to put the toilet seat down which could potentially result some marital problems and some some relationships. Scot: [17:14] No problems in some relationships with the. Jason: [17:18] Use case is by. Just to have an Alexa in your bathroom so you can do things like run the water set the mood lighting play music do you know it's more of a bathroom control than a specific toilet control. Scot: [17:31] But if you ask me it's a pretty crappy integration. Jason: [17:34] Balloon pump. Fancy bday in it so you can do things like pre-heat your toilet with. For people that live a different life than I I do. Send anywhere couple other boots that had some like just interesting retail vignettes in them so Qualcomm is a big chip manufacturer there would have called ingredient company they make, Epson ink a lot of the devices we use in their most famous for making Wireless chips that are in a lot of the cell phones for a long time they were in Apple phones but now there's a big falling out in so I don't think Apple phones use Qualcomm chips anymore. Mom was showing a whole set of retail use cases that were. [18:20] Enhance by the coming internet of things so they made a simulated music festival and they showed examples of digital signs. [18:30] We're Dynamic can change based on the composition of the crowd they're using video Analytics, image of the crowd and their departed and they're doing sort of artificial intelligence digital signage based on all of these these signals that the signs were in taking they Envision that you would have morrible beer carts in this music festival, and all the mobile beer carts knew exactly how much beer they were on had left and they knew, the crowd was in the area where the cart was in so they could do things like, say hey we have too much beer over a year in this part of the Pavilion and there's way more demand over here but let's tell the cart to move to where the demand is order replenish, I meant to do those kinds of things they were showing up pretty robust. [19:20] Digital fact egg use case which I've talked a lot about my Affinity for digital fact eggs, downsides of most digital fact exhibitions today is that use proprietary Wireless Solutions so you put these tags on your shelf and you have to buy a hub, from that manufacture or a bunch of hugs that, speak over proprietary frequency and protocol to all the tags to Qualcomm things hey these tags are big thing there ought to be a lot more of them but they out of use Open Standards like Wi-Fi mesh and Bluetooth sobaka, showing some reference designs for that they're showing a lot of video analytics to measure the crowd and know how many people. [20:02] I was enjoying the music or not and you know they had to use cases where they would change the genre of music is the crab is losing interest and things like that, yeah so they were they were I wouldn't say any of the customer experience words were perfectly Polished but they were you don't thinking about how. Well then you could change the retail experience which is which is interesting to me Panasonic. Scot: [20:27] I just wanted to detect when there's more than a hundred people in the store and caught more cash registers. Jason: [20:35] Obviously if you have those video analytics like they're certainly are simple people counters that are they exactly there's too many people in line at the cash register but your. Scot: [20:43] Got your right light. Jason: [20:45] The proactive way to solve that problem is know how many people came in the store know what the average dwell time is and be proactive like once once there's too many people in line it's kind of too late. Scot: [20:54] I feel like there's all these people cuz they're on the mountain they think about all these user experiences and women really nailed some of the basic ones yet down the kind of at the bottom of the mountain. Jason: [21:03] I think that's up for sure theme of these two shows is that so I could see to show a lot of the bells and whistles and there's still a lot of blocking tackling to be one, Panasonic had a like an additional the Consumer Electronics they were showing a new pickup Locker so a buy online pickup in-store, at a locker experience. Scot: [21:24] And they're trying to solve. Jason: [21:24] They're trying to solve a very real problem. Walkers for produce so they had lockers that were refrigerated and lockers that were freezers and so they're in their Vision was, you buy the groceries they partition your groceries into cold and Frozen, put them in these refrigerated automated Walkers and so it sort of like Amazon Locker for perishables. Scot: [21:50] That's something that's like active in Japan and they're trying to bring to other countries or is it was. Jason: [21:55] I think the Panasonic probably isn't used anywhere I think it's a brand new product that they Envision selling to retailers so we'll see if that gets any traction they also had like. A common theme in CES in a shiny bauble a lot of people talk about is blockchain so they had a. A food cart that was an autonomous vehicle that drove the produce to your house and it had self checkout and it had blockchain for all the produce so you could you know know the, you could verify the origin of all the produce in them anything was recalled or something like that a little silly and more forward-looking that interesting that they, spent a bunch of the space and they're super expensive CES Booth to think of these sort of retail vignettes and then much more interesting to me. [22:46] John always has a big booth there despite the fact that way, Cameron sales are decreasing dramatically as everyone uses their smartphone but, built-in their Booth a bunch of, Instagram photo opportunities and you walk around CES and people were standing in line for like 30 minutes, picture taken in a bathtub full of yellow ping pong balls or in a swimming pool full of rubber duckies or you know all these these different like super colorful well-lit vignettes and very much reminded me, might there now he's dead a dedicated Instagram experience tours things like the Ice Cream Factory in San Francisco where people pay forty bucks to, coincide a venue that has a bunch of pretty sets to take photos of themselves to share on social media in, it's great experiential we talked a lot with retailers about creating opportunities for digital souvenirs for your Shoppers and it and the Nikon booth just seemed like a particular good example of, of creating these these digital experience as a sort of mementos of your visit to the booth and it seems like a smart tactic for retailers to be thinking about. We've heard of some retailers even using the amount of the social media that their physical store generates has a kpi which is interesting and then last. Scot: [24:15] And then last there's a. Jason: [24:18] Avenger there it's been there for a couple years called physics and physics is taking up the mantle of Google Glass so they, glasses that you wear that have an augmented reality display that are primarily intended for industrial purposes so, car mechanic to wear that has like schematics of the automobile well while they're working this year they, they debuted their first consumer product which is $1,000 clone of Google Glass as a much higher res screen that's much bigger, I wouldn't say it looks any better than Google Glass much more processing power behind it and, not sure they're ever going to sell a lot of these but it was interesting the created a bunch of vignettes for how people might use them in one of the vignettes was a shopping vignette where you could put on their prototype glasses walk into the setup store, and they would everything all the product packaging you look at. [25:22] The physical packaging with digital information like is a gluten-free is a kosher all this sort of things and I do think that, augmented reality. A for product information is really interesting sort of thing people are way more likely to use their phones that they already own and carry with them than they are to use these for project glasses but it was a nice visualization of the con. Scot: [25:48] Yeah I wanted to tell me where on the Shelf to find it cuz my wife wants a very specific thing and then I spend like the bulk of my time finding that very specific thing. Jason: [25:56] They absolutely did have that use case like we caught wayfinding we're essentially. You about a list in the the classes have sort of GPS directions saying turn left turn right and walk you to the to your wife's items so she that would definitely approve the wife approval factor in your family. Scot: [26:12] Awesome I need all that I can get. Jason: [26:14] Yeah so that was a lot of the stuff that jumped out at me as being particularly retail specific at the show. Scot: [26:20] Cool and so as you know I've been thinking a lot about the future vehicles and I saw there was tons of interesting news that came out of Cs around autonomous vehicles in electric vehicles one thing that's kind of the summer I saw lead with the CEO of waymo was out there saying hey the sky prior to see us become admitted in an interview with reporter he doesn't see us getting to 100% autonomy so they've been running these vehicles millions of miles even like tens of millions of simulated miles with the finding are they to do okay in perfect stereos but things like tree shadows and then as weather gets bad like Randy Rhoads they do really poorly, it's one of the things I saw out there was kind of more limited autonomous vehicles so shuttle service that will go from point A to point C kind of thing did you see any of those when you write CS. Jason: [27:18] So an interesting Cadence you Tennessee at CES is, people show very early prototypes of stuff it's not going to be in the market for many years right tires used TV is the sort of example, before there's ever any content or you could ever buy a TV that has 8K resolution, there's a bunch of 8K TVs that are kind of Novelties so that when you're when you're you go there and it's like a magic there's a TV with twice as many dots as you've ever seen before you can't buy it for several years but it's cool though. Scot: [27:49] Look at this picture of an apple spinning with some cool water blobs on it. Jason: [27:55] Next year is it gets closer to reality there's there often are way less of those TVs because the the few, being shown now are, really store close to release and they're usually pretty rough because even though they've commercialize this TV in the ready to sell it and they have things they didn't have the year before like a price they still lack any content right there. Of examples and almost feels like it loses traction as it's getting closer to commercialization and then you come to the show the third year and it's like, ATV 8K TVs are ready for the general public now every TV you see is a k and that's sort of the the the Cadence so in autonomous vehicles last year felt like the year when, everybody had autonomous vehicles just for the novelty of it and so like, all the car manufacturers are showing and Thomas Vehicles a bunch of companies we've never heard of where showing autonomous vehicles and all the ingredient companies like Qualcomm and Intel were mainly talking about how their chips are driving autonomous vehicles in video which does a lot of the, the heavy processing for the vehicle like everybody's talking about it this year. Middle year there was less autonomous vehicle hype the autonomous vehicles shown. [29:19] Completely commercialized or ready for Primetime that it felt like the vendors were having more practical conversations with them so it like. TVs can probably iterate faster than a trama vehicles. Scot: [29:30] Very fast. Jason: [29:33] Saying you shall expect that we're all be driving autonomous vehicles next year but it feels like we're in the middle of that cycle so. Scot: [29:38] Cycle so. Jason: [29:41] The consumer car companies were away last emphasizing that autonomous vehicles the BMW's and in Honda's Ford Tollbooth last year was dedicated to autonomous vehicles that wasn't true this year. A lot more B2B autonomous vehicle use cases were being shown and it was like public transportation people movers it was a lot of these autonomous drone delivery of package, on public roads or in hotels are all these different use cases like that in the world bunch of commercials, like use cases like there's a lot of people that are pitching like, way before we have truly autonomous vehicles will have commercial trucks that are autonomous on the freeway and they hand over control to a remote operator, when I get off the freeway for example and so there are more of those kind of use cases. Scot: [30:38] I think it's interesting cuz I'll be a freak we have the news on when I'm like working and I'll hear some talking head come on and say you know, we should plan on vast unemployment in 5 years cuz of all these we won't need truck drivers and Uber drivers and everything, we've lived the Commerce experience for 20 years and we're at fitting on whose numbers look at 15 to 20% penetration so, I think you know I think that's a little bit further out than people think it is I think they're the kind of reading too much into. Jason: [31:12] Everything I say is not going to put truck driver like 50,000 truck driver short of what we need right now right away. Scot: [31:18] Same time. Jason: [31:21] I can't hire enough truck drivers in they're all like escalating pay and competing with each other and so the premises if the trucks can run at honesty in the freeway but then, operator has to Take Over Control. Scot: [31:32] Take Over Control. Jason: [31:33] To drive it off the freeway to the the store or the DC you still need people. A person can now manage more trucks they can essentially they have more delivery capacity for their labor and so the. Scot: [31:48] The premise is. Jason: [31:50] What's close the gap between supply and demand like probably doesn't like obsolete a bunch of jobs in the foreseeable future. Scot: [31:59] But even then I go back to like my previous statement like my cell phone drops out a lot right jack making calls and, I get really nervous of some guy in Phoenix driving a truck across five trucks across country in, is is LTE drops out when he's on the ramp there I'm not sure where you can quite ready for a lot of these guys take a lot longer than people think. Jason: [32:26] Absolutely well in there like they talked about like there's three fundamental technology platforms that need to happen that haven't happened yet. They're all saying that like for their. Scot: [32:37] Brittany practical for there to be a lot of autonomous. Jason: [32:39] To be a lot of autonomous vehicles, Gambia islands like the vehicles actually have to talk to each other and know where they are right and so not only do you need that good Wireless communication that you mentioned like you can't have the LTE but it's there's way more connections cuz I'll. Scot: [32:53] Way more connections cuz all the vehicles are two paragraphs. Jason: [32:55] And so the premise is that when 5G is Broad we deploy the next generation of Wireless technology. Attributes that are more friendly to autonomous vehicles it's faster it has way more capacity for more devices and most importantly, has way lower latency which is super important for like you can't you can't have the wireless going there's a dude in front of you and then have 130 millisecond lag before you hit the brakes. [33:26] Where it where we see you're away from 5G being deployed at all much less like ubiquitously deployed and for your point, maybe it'll work as well as promise maybe it won't there's a huge. No One Believes that these things can be autonomous by just using cameras and sensors they all need this light our technology in the light our is kind of like a laser version of radar, and there's a lots of controversy like the best working lidars are super expensive and have some negative side effects like, potentially could blind people and they could ruin, regular CCD cameras and so there's actually this big problem the vehicles need regular cameras and lidar and the lidar actually burns the the regular cameras, signs of light are there way safer for devices and eyeballs but it has range limitations and things like that, that's tough to be figured out so I totally agree like I think cars are going to have more, amenities for easing driving in the near future but I like yeah I don't think we're just going to be like picking picking menus on Google Maps and and arriving there. Scot: [34:39] Switching gears pun intended there another thing you touched on was voice and I remember last year you kind of proclaimed it was the year that Amazon kind of stole CES arrest reports that apple with their Siri platform in a Google with their assistant platform I tried to kind of catch up to Alexa at CES this year although Apple didn't have a booth which I think was one of the first time so how would you score those three kind of contenders and how they did. Jason: [35:11] Why would I should go back two years I'd say 2 years ago. Scot: [35:13] 2 years ago. Jason: [35:15] Amazon had to show to themselves until they tell you what they didn't have a booth but they were, embedded in their bunch of products that work with Alexa 2 years ago and last year the hand, who's that work with Alexa turned into thousands of boost that had products that work with Alexa so again Amazon didn't really pay for a booth but they got huge buzz and footprint in their logo was everywhere on the show Google show, last year but it was mostly with an advertising present so they had their own booth that they paid for the page. There their logo on all the trans in Las Vegas and all the taxis until you're just looking around Las Vegas you go oh man I saw a bunch of Google. Scot: [35:58] Google logo. Jason: [35:59] And I saw a bunch of Amazon logos but I would argue Amazon dominated because, all the Amazon logos were free and they were in products you could buy and the Google logos were mostly, paid advertisements for for a handful of Google products that did not have huge penetration so now fast forward to this year and I feel like, continue to make progress the Google is starting to catch up so the most common thing you would see now in a, is in Words with Alexa and works with Google Assistant logos side by side it was on, we agreed on the treatments and so there are lots of Brands where support for both products were in there to remind listeners which kind of two tiers of products there's products, Alexa in it so it actually like is the assistant than you usually can talk to it, and there's products that work with Alexa right like so a light bulb you know works with Alexa Smart Lock Works with Alexa a Bose or Sonos speaker, probably has Alexa built into it the toilet odd we had Alexa built into it. Scot: [37:19] They're both so you can you just kind of switch conversations and haven't OK Google / Alexa conversation. Jason: [37:25] So they the ones that I saw mostly had an interface in you selected one of the other like I assume you could pretty seamlessly toggle back and forth but it wasn't like, you could use either utterance and Trigger either assistant and way more common was devices that worked with both than that had both embedded in it like a lot of appliances like a refrigerator, might have a smart assistant embedded in it that you actually bought one ski or the other you bought the Google Assistant version or you bought the Alexa version. Scot: [37:58] And I've noticed you haven't said Siri in this conversation. Jason: [38:02] So I sew a Amazon his net, Apple has never had a booth at CES or at least in modern era has never had a booth at CES they many years they winzy yes because they launch the iPhone 11 years ago, during CEO never one time and they sucked all the announcement out and Walt Mossberg was at CES and Steve Jobs called him and said hey we're having this event and I really think you ought to come mini cannons wall, wces and go to the the first iPhone announcement, and their many years when the most prominent product category at the show is stuff that worked with iPhones or that work with Apple products but Apple's never had a booth and again they did not did not, for home pod this year so they still didn't have a booth I'm sure they had sweets where they were talking privately but there is very little. Siri stuff embedded in products and to my knowledge I didn't see any products where it was like. Google Amazon or Siri it felt like a two-way party the one place where Apple in are two places where Apple integration showed up heavily, the the Sands has a hall dedicated to home automation and apple has a platform called home kits. Scot: [39:26] So that every exhibitor. Jason: [39:28] In the home automation section probably had a logo saying it was home Tech compatible and again Appleton have a booth in that section that homekit was definitely the most prevalent. Call for home automation and then surprised that Apple pulled off at this show. Who is famously sort of Walled Garden company. A good experience you have to buy all our products if you want Apple TV you have to buy an Apple TV if you want Apple music you have to listen to it on the Apple product I'm so proud to show, you saw those walls are eroding, Apple actually launched a skill for Alexa that what you listen to your Apple music on your Amazon device which is unprecedented in shocking and then you got to CES this year and surprise. Scot: [40:19] Apple in embedded. Jason: [40:19] Embedded are play in most of the major TV manufacturers platforms so you now can get all the, Apple TV content on a Samsung or LG TV without needing external hardware and the, very likely is going to have a meaningful impact on Apple TV sales, Roku is already destroying Apple TV in terms of market share in this will probably make it worse, everyone's assumption is that Apple's about to make a major content Play Everybody expects Apple to have a pay-per-view video offering, in the near future the complete compete with Netflix and the, how has essentially as you can already buy individual content from Apple Apple is essentially made this decision that they can make more money, as a Content publisher and they want to have his brought a market for their content as possible so they made this dream that, from being a Walled Garden to being a open system that works with as many providers as possible. Scot: [41:26] We've talked about it seems like things are thawing between Apple and Amazon these know so let's see, Prime TV showed up on Apple TVs I think was the first thing and now we're seeing them kind of so the skill being Alexa there's an apple music skill on Alexa, yes it would be interesting to see you could you have one of these Amazon Alexa TVs and get to some apple content to say say to Alexa hey ask Apple to play. Jason: [41:57] Yeah absolutely seems like it's heading that direction the one that gets voted on and off the island a lot as there's a few Alexa devices with a screen like the Alexa show and various X Alexis enabled YouTube to be on or off of those things in at the moment you can get YouTube on your Alexa show. Scot: [42:15] So anything else from CS that you want to hit. Jason: [42:20] So we touch on a couple of these in so I'm not going to Deep dive anyone but just us or the Highlight if you walked away from the show and said hey what. Scot: [42:26] Walk away from the show and said hey what were the. Jason: [42:28] Themes of this year show. Underpinning in this whole show is there's this new thing coming that's not quite here yet called 5G and so falling that same kind of. Nioh release actually released last, a ton of 5G height with fake products this year there were fewer boost talking about 5G but they seemed very close and the the carriers have all announced that they have, it's now and they're going to be doing appointments throughout the year and it don't have sort of meaningful penetration of 5G by the end of 2019 now that, you can take multiple years to have the kind of 5G coverage that we enjoy the day with LTE which is the 4G network. It really feels like we're at least a year away from meaningful consumer experiences and in fact there's like controversy. Scot: [43:22] Factors like controversy this the earlier. Jason: [43:24] IG this happens with every new iteration AT&T has rebranded some of their for G, at work is 5G and they they got like a lot of funny social media Burns Teemo, a funny video where they took a iPhone in AT&T iPhone and it showed the, you have 5 bars of 4G LTE signal and they they wrote 5G on a Post-It note and like, put it over the icon on the iPhone and said hang on a minute I'm doing a AT&T upgrade and it was sort of a joke that they just rebranded 4 G is 5 G, so so that's coming everyone thinks that's going to be a huge game-changer when you can have a thousand times more devices connected, and all those devices can have a hundred times faster bandwidth and they can have you know at 10 for a hundredth of the latency that we currently have its. [44:24] You have to stop thinking about it's going to be a better cell phone and started thinking about, no one's ever going to store files on the hard drive anymore by computers I'm going to need hard drives you're just like everything's going to be on the cloud and be able to come very quickly to your ubiquitous 5G signal and so, the talk about other use cases that will change there's a ton of examples of leveraging improvements in visual search and video analytics and so there's a, they talked about how I Google Maps spent a fortune, turn cameras on cars and driving all over the country to get the images for Google Maps there's a company that sells the dash cams to all the taxi drivers. Scot: [45:08] And they're like. Jason: [45:10] We have GPS in the car we have all this dashcam video we can extract video from all the cab drivers in crowdsource better images than Google, and so there's a lot of. Qualcomm using video. To do crowdanalytix tons of Booth had this experience I hate where they they use video to try to infer the the mood of the, the audience and hey we can show happy content to the audiences sad, another number boost showing like we can tell old people and young people and sick people in healthy people and change the content there's a lot of controversy over that stuff. Scot: [45:46] What is clear the technology. Jason: [45:49] LG to quantify video and turn it into actionable analytics is like is incrementally improving and video visual searches is going to be a game-changer for a bunch of stuff, so that was a big Trend a big Trend was, a bunch of vendors shifting from their Walled Garden approaches to open system so Apple was the most dramatic but in the old days Samsung would try to make it use Bigsby and do everything with their smart home protocol, felt like the manufacturer is kind of thrown in the towel on being walled Gardens and, for several years there's been a connected home and a connected Health Hall at the Sands Hall but I tell people, if you walk around the TV Hall the central Hall at CES it feel, Legend Mall of America on Christmas Eve like it's super stressful it feels like you don't have enough room to breathe and walk and when you go to the Sands with this newer Technologies I connected home and connected health. Felt relaxing because like there's more room it was West busy and this year felt like the year when those Halls flipped that like was much of. Scot: [46:56] Her comfortable and less chaotic. Jason: [46:56] Unless chaotic in the central Hall showing all the home video technology and it was wall-to-wall energy and Chaos in the connected home and connected health so very unscientific lie, it feels like those categories are really starting to get some traction. Scot: [47:13] And apples playing that in addition dumb could have helped get right so what did you see a lot of your healthkit kind of stuff. Jason: [47:24] Homekit literally had a dedicated part of the hall so all the products that work with homekit when one place the connected Fitness area had a lot of, products that support an apple healthkit a ton of apple competitors so I got to see the new, new watch has an EEG in it and if you start having irregular heartbeat I'll be able to save you if I choose, ton of ieg products and frankly some of them that make more sense like blood pressure cuffs that also do an EEG like so there was stuff that work for that ball there was stuff that competed with apple there were sensors for every, Endeavor you could possibly imagine so if your baseball player we've got you know censored enabled baseballs they, I can judge how well you hit it with the bad if your fisherman. Scot: [48:16] We'll put a Fitbit. Jason: [48:16] A Fitbit on your fishing pole to measure the quality of your casting whatever you want to do, there's a way to quantify it and digitize it in a way you never could do them. Scot: [48:31] Anything else from CS. Jason: [48:35] It seemed like the big the big meaty stuff I know that's a lot of lot of content but it's it's the biggest trade show in the US it's a hundred and eighty thousand people. Scot: [48:44] It feels like there's more more overlap between all the worlds which is interesting you know five years ago there would be no retail kind of stuff. So speaking retail to switch gears and come on over to NRF so did you get here Saturday or Sunday. Jason: [48:58] I came in Saturday. Scot: [49:00] So you have been here much longer than I am I was only able to come up today which is Monday so. Jason: [49:07] Wasted most of your day with me. Scot: [49:08] I did unfortunately so tell us what you've been I saw a lot of selfies and things from the show floor so so what have you seen here it interrupts the New Berlin kind of really into the show but what have you seen that you want to share with listeners. Jason: [49:24] Trans obviously Amazon go has a lot of traction and Buzz until one of the things you see here a lot are our alternatives to Amazon go so some of the. Scot: [49:34] Those are what I would call a legitimate Amazon go tape. Jason: [49:35] Legitimate Amazon go type experiences where they're sort of just walked out technology so there's a bunch of big exhibitors that have built little mini stores and can kind of demo that experience, claiming they can do it with a fraction of the cameras and cost of Amazon go and it's really hard in these controlled environments to know whether there, that's hyper or reality but a lot of vendors are claiming they can do Amazon go for a fraction of the cost and then there's a ton. Scot: [50:03] Wingo. Jason: [50:03] Climbing on Amazon GoPro alternative when really there a scan and pay alternative. Scot: [50:09] So which it is a useful and go. Jason: [50:09] So which it is a useful and good experience in and of itself I'm not knocking Scan & Go I get slightly annoyed when people try to say. The equivalent of grabbing your milk off the shelf and walking out the store without doing anything is grabbing your milk finding the barcode launching an app in your phone a mean a camera at the park, it's a it's a it's a either there different use cases but. Scot: [50:35] But they're a lot about I've seen tons of robots wandering around some of the same platform has been here for like 4 years now. Jason: [50:44] So there's like a lot of the traditional automation like most of it, dedicated Logistics so we've talked before about Amazon has these Kiva robots there's now a lot of alternatives to Kiva the other, fulfillment centers can use to automate them would say there's more of those this year and what they're now is is a bunch of robots that people are hoping you'll use in the store, so there are robots for wayfinding you come into the front of the store, you say my wife told me to get this specific item in the robots is follow me and walks to the store and gets it and there's multiple competitors they've been here the last couple years, pictures of all the shelves and they do planogram compliance the Campbell Soup is where it's supposed to be we're out of this SKU we got to get more they're all doing some some, liability compliance as well now they're taking pictures the floor to make sure there is not a trip and fall Hazard or things like that there's robots that will. Scot: [51:44] Robots that will. Jason: [51:46] Replace the instacart people in the store it seems pretty far-fetched to me. Scot: [51:50] Robot. Jason: [51:50] All around with the customers and grabs products out the Shelf to fill a shopping cart. Scot: [51:56] Robotic shopping carts. Jason: [51:57] Birds that follow you around so you don't have to push your own shopping card and use but items in the the autonomous vehicle that's chasing you around the store, a lot of robots. Mostly feel like super expensive kind of Ivy bells and whistles right now like some of the the warehouse automation is like, super effective in high Roi for for high-volume warehouses but a lot of the stuff I think is, interesting but not something we should expect to see in high-volume in stores in the near future. Scot: [52:31] That reminded me I kept seeing this video at CS of the Sluggers that would follow you around and then the video it literally runs into 4 people. Jason: [52:44] They tell you you can't bring on the plane. If your luggage has a battery in it you have to take the battery out of your luggage so if you're, luggage is also a Killer attack robot it seems like there's going to be some interesting, conversations with the FAA. Scot: [53:01] But yeah. Jason: [53:01] But yeah there's a lot of robot to CES like in terms of density robot, he's probably even more robots at interrupt this year so the robot guys are here in full strength there's a. Scot: [53:16] Money is gravitating around. Jason: [53:17] Is gravitating around the problem of apparel returns so a big reason people return a pair. Scot: [53:22] Apparel is. Jason: [53:24] Is because it doesn't fit, and tell you that they bought two sizes and returned one or they bought it expecting it to fit and they didn't so there's a bunch of companies that are using your smartphone to try to take measurements. Help you pick the right size the first time there's a bunch of companies that are having you upload your image in your measurements so that you can be busy. Scot: [53:47] You can visualize the clothes. Jason: [53:48] You can visualize the clothes on your exact body type, stuff like that that is a big Trend this year a lot of hardware and software around optimizing Logistics and reverse Logistics so vendors thinking about how to optimize returns, a ton of digital in-store in digital shelf stuff, so I every year say oh this is going to be the year of digital fact tags and so far I've mostly been wrong I'm doubling down yet again I think there's more reasons that digital fact tags will take off this year and little boys at Amazon, is using them now and it's like I could open a bunch more stores where them in Sam's Club is using them in Walmart is piloting I'm in Best Buy's piloting on the streets trying to see some real traction from, retailers that other retailers are likely to follow and the technology is getting better. Scot: [54:43] But there's a lot of other. Jason: [54:44] Digital shelf technology Kroger has developed a digital shelf that can run Co-op ads on the Shelf Edge until you think about what a big advertising platform Amazon is becoming, has a lot of. But in the store so they're trying to monetize that traffic by creating opportunities to run ads next to the real-time products so those kinds of digital shells or super interesting, the same train we saw a video analytics at CES we definitely see here that all the traffic meter guys but there's a lot of other use cases now for, analyzing video streams to do various things in the store and not so much on the show floor but in a lot of the content I was able to capture one of the big themes that's emerging this year that I really agree with is that one of. Challenges we have in Commerce is an erosion of trust between the retailer and the consumer or the brand in the consumer, I feel like, yeah with all the negative Facebook press and you know the the never ending stream of breeches like there's a lot of reason to really be worried about, the level of trust you've earned with your consumers and a lot of reason to believe that that's that's a limiting to your Market opportunity so I'm not sure anyone had the Magic Bullet for, learning that trust back or retaining that trust. Scot: [56:09] I like the fact of. Jason: [56:10] People are starting to have a conversation about explicitly trying to solve the the trust game. Scot: [56:17] Call any us some good thematic stuff anything specific to specific retailers on the content side. So I think you were at the big Gala and it seems like a lot of the winners of that Gala event or digital native Oracle Branson Center. Jason: [56:34] Has this sort of their Hall of Fame that they called the list and every year about 20 people get inducted on to this list, and they're like influencers and power Brokers and innovators and disruptors that these different categories and you know most of those almost all of those awards are targeted at retailers and so on the past you have, you know the CEO of Nike winter the CEO, Macy's are you know all these these these sort of traditional retailers in this year the overwhelming majority of retailers that won an award where, small are digital native Brands the two batters of Warby Parker where the power Brokers and the women from a way you know was a disruptor inside, it felt like a huge transition from the the traditional Legacy retailers to the the digitally native Brands which is coming. And then a bunch of the retards give key notes to be honest like it's mostly not that interesting to attend the key notes from the CEO of all these retailers because. The job not to share secrets and you don't get elevated to that level of seniority unless you're really good, that kind of Public Communication and so. Scot: [57:55] Kind of Public Communication and so. Jason: [57:58] Mostly commercials you know focused on Public Information and it doesn't feel like there's a lot of like secret new inside or advice or learnings that get shared by the CEOs of these kind of events, I might be cynical. Scot: [58:12] Yes of the one-piece Contin I saw was a professor Galway or Galloway, yeah I wanted like jump off a cliff. After that it was like super depressing. Jason: [58:21] I feel like he made you sit with. Scot: [58:22] Grab the Grim Reaper so everything is terrible and we're all going to die so thanks for that. Jason: [58:28] It's up here is not a retail apocalypse guy I think he felt like our government and our society was going to collapse. Scot: [58:33] But other than that retails going to be great. Jason: [58:38] Better-than-expected year. Scot: [58:40] Wow wow the whole society Falls. Jason: [58:44] Exactly what we'll try to find you some some Beverages and help you help you start feeling better about your future and that is a. A place to use it cuz we have used up our a lot of time as a reminder of anything came up on the show you want to discuss further or you have any questions for us we encourage you to go to Facebook and will continue the conversation there as always the biggest, appreciation you can give to us is to jump on the iTunes and give us that five star review I know there's still a few listeners that listen to the show every week that haven't made the truck over to iTunes and now would be a terrific time to do it. Scot: [59:24] Yeah thanks for joining us everyone and we will be back with the some more news from an RF later this week. Jason: [59:30] And until next time happy commercing.

Lock Haven University (LHU) in Pennsylvania will soon allow students to keep pets in one of the school's dormitories. The LHU is introducing a pet-friendly program by the spring of 2019. For the program's launch, pets will be allowed to live only in the university's North Hall dormitory. This pet-friendly program is expected to benefit the students. According to a study, having animals on campus can help students cope with stress and depression. Pets may also make students more receptive to counseling services. With these findings in mind, the LHU's North Hall director hopes that the program will lead to students' social and academic success. To ensure the program's success, the LHU will implement strict rules for students who will bring pets. Only animals that have been with their owner for at least three months will be allowed on campus. The pets must also be at least six months old and must no longer be able to reproduce. Moreover, owners should submit their pets' medical records. Some of the permitted pets are fish, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, cats, and certain breeds of dogs below 40 pounds. The pets will not be allowed inside other campus buildings. Additionally, all dogs and cats must wear certain IDs and should be kept on leashes while on school grounds. Even before the launch of the program, many students have already expressed their support for it. One student commented that being able to bring a pet to school will help make students feel at home. Another student pointed out that having a pet to play with will be a good pastime for most students.

Feeling Gorgeous Health and Wellbeing Fair is being held at North Hall, Loxwood, West Sussex RH14 0RJ on 7th October to raise money to buy beehives and beehive training for the parents of some of the most vulnerable children in Kisiriri in Tanzania thereby giving them another form of income.Annette Gardner who is the organiser of the fair sponsors a child in Tanzania called Alyhaji and talks to Jill Bennett about her involvement with World Vision and why she felt the need to sponsor a child.

We’re all counting down to the RSA Conference  in San Francisco April 16 – 20, where you can connect with the best technology, trends and people that will protect our digital world. Attendees will receive a Varonis branded baseball hat and will be entered into a $50 gift card raffle drawing for listening to our presentation in our North Hall booth (#3210). Attendees that visit us in the South Hall (#417) will receive a car vent cell phone holder. In addition to stopping by our booth, below are sessions you should consider attending. You’ll gain important insights into best security practices and data breach prevention tips, while learning how to navigate a constantly evolving business climate. Sessions Discussed: Protecting Enterprise Data with the National Security “100 Coins” Approach     Turtles, Trust and the Future of Cybersecurity The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation—Beauty or Beast? Hacking Healthcare Live: Bits and Bytes Meet Flesh and Blood Decision-Maker Dementia: How Today’s Security Leaders Stay Lucid Panelists: Cindy Ng, Mike Thompson, Kilian Englert, Kris Keyser

CES 2018 Day 1, North Hall

ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for week ending Nov 20, 2016 is highlighted by guest appearances from Schneider Electric’s Channel Brand Development Leader, Stacy Kimbell and Steven Guzelimian, President of Optergy. Also featured, Local 449 Steamfitters’ new Training Facility Grand Opening and PA Governor Tom Wolf’s pipe cutting ceremony; Ask a Controls Expert with David Cates; AHR Expo 2017 Innovation Awards update; Siemens’ EcoView End-to-end Energy Management Solution; Sierra Monitor Corporation’s IIot-ready BACnet gateways, routers, and network explorers; and ControlTalk Rewind with Josh Bradshaw. ControlTalk NOW’s first guest, Schneider Electric’s Channel Development Leader, Stacey Kimbell tells us about My Energy University, one of the best kept secrets in the industry. Energy University is a 24/7 website with over 200 courses that attendees can receive Continuing Educational Credits and course certificates to further their careers. An amazing wealth of content, these agnostic courses are usually 45 minutes long with a course test at the end. Anything and everything relating the HVAC and Building Automation industry. Truly, an invaluable asset available to every member of the industry. Honeywell’s Roger Rebennack and Renick Brothers at Local 449 Steamfitters’ Training Facility Pipe Cutting Ceremony with PA Governor Tom Wolf. the ultra-modern $20.2 million facility will be well-suited to train tomorrow’s Steamfitters and features four Honeywell WEBs-N4 building automation training stations that are connected to the facility’s boilers, chiller, and other building equipment. Ask a Controls Expert with Stromquist’s own David Cates who answers an inquiry on a combination gas valve. A combination gas valve is used to control gas pressure and provide safety features. Controlling the pressure is required to avoid fires and explosions caused by too much pressure. If the pressure is not high enough, though, the appliance will not get the amount of ignited gas required for it to function properly. AHR Expo 2017 Announces Innovation Awards Ceremony. WESTPORT, Conn., November 16, 2016 – As a highlight of the 2017 Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo), to be held next January 30 to February 1 in Las Vegas, the 2017 AHR Expo Innovation Awards ceremony has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 31. From 1:00 to 2:00 pm in Las Vegas Convention Center room N253 (on the second floor of the North Hall), the 2017 AHR Expo Innovation Awards will honor the most inventive and original products, systems and technologies showcased at this year’s Show in the categories of: building automation; cooling; green building; heating; indoor air quality; plumbing; refrigeration; software; tools & instruments; and ventilation. Siemens’ EcoView EMS is an End-to-end Energy Management Solution designed specifically to meet the energy management needs of restaurants, medical offices, retail shops and other small commercial businesses. Already at work in many facilities across the United States, EcoView is a proven solution for lowering energy consumption and bills. Wireless technology, drop-in thermostats, and cloud-based applications make it affordable and simple to install and use. It also provides great visibility and control of HVAC and lighting from one central point, which helps increase productivity. Sierra Monitor Corporation Bridges BACnet to the Cloud. Milpitas, California – November 17, 2016 – Sierra Monitor Corporation, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high-value infrastructure assets, today announced that its industry-leading BACnet gateways, routers, and network explorers are now “IIoT-Empowered out-of-the-box” and are shipping with new software that allows customers to securely register, access, and manage their field-installed products from Sierra Monitor’s FieldPoP device cloud. Josh Bradshaw on ControlTalk Now The Smart Buildings Podcast ControlTalk Rewind: Josh Bradshaw. If you missed the October 30th ControlTalk Now Smart Buildings Video Cast, you missed what Silcon Valley Tech Guru Josh Bradshaw had to say about how Silcon Valley is influencing Smart Buildings. No worries you can hear what Josh had to say right here right now! Josh tracks the newest technology coming out of Silicon Valley. Josh’s blog WorkTechWork is the go to place for people interested in the latest IoT technology trends and everything from sustainable energy, wearable technologies, smart homes, and smart buildings. Josh Bradshaw’s mantra is “Don’t work for technology… make technology work for you.” The post ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending Nov 20, 2016 appeared first on ControlTrends.

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a:hover{color:#8f8f8f !important;} www.fullcirclemusic.orgFCM007_-_Relationships_with_Steve_FordDuration: 00:50:21You're listening to The Full Circle Music Show. The why of the music biz.Chris: Welcome back to the Full Circle Music Show, it’s Chris Murphy and I'm sitting right beside Seth Mosley. How are you buddy?Seth: I'm good man. It's a busy week, lots of good stuff going on over here at the studio. And I’m excited to take just a few minutes out of our schedule to talk to one of our favorite people in the industry, Mister Steve Ford.Steve has been a guy that I've known for a long time, was one of the people that I met moving to Nashville in the music business. And we've talked to a lot of people on the creative side so far but we haven't yet talked to anybody on the label side. So, you think of the guy that sits in a dark room with a suit in a corner office, that's this guy! Except for not, he actually sits in a what is a pretty awesome office, he's the general manager of a label company called Centricity Music; has been pretty massively successful in the past couple of years and really since they opened. But, he's a really great leader and speaks to what they look for in a good producer, in a good artist, in a good team member at their label.So, if you're wanting to get involved in the music industry, this is a great episode to listened to. I learned a ton and I think you will too.Chris: You know, being a podcast junky, it's nice to meet a fellow podcast enthusiast as well. We had some great conversations in the episode but also talked a lot about our favorite podcasts on and off the mic. He's just a great guy, great to get to know him and I really appreciate Seth you setting this up. Another great interview and I can't wait to listen to it.Seth: And you can check out his company at centricitymusic.com. They have a lot of great artists that I think you'll dig.Audio clip commencesHey podcast listeners, something is coming February 1st 2016. Have you ever thought about a career in song writing or music production? We have created a couple courses with you guys in mind. We've been getting a lot of feedback on people wanting to know more about how to become a song worker; how to become a professional music producer or engineer. These courses were designed to answer some of those questions. Go to fullcirclemusic.org and sign up there for more information.Audio clip endsChris: You were saying earlier before we started rolling that you were a podcast guy.Steve: Oh yeah, big podcast guy.Chris: And, you've heard this podcast before?Steve: Yeah. I've listened to the first three.Chris: Okay. So, can I ask you to go out on a limb and give us a grade so far?Steve: You know what? I'd give them a solid B+. I want them longer. That's my thing; I want to go into the background. I want to hear when you did Brown Banishers which is funny because I've worked a lot with Brown but you didn't get past Amy Grant.Seth: Sure.Steve: I mean, this is the guy who worked with from everybody from Third Day to Mercy Me to Why Heart, he's done everybody like come one there are stories there. I tell people I'm on the corporate side because of Brown Banisher because of how he worked. I was an engineer in LA for ten years and he would come out and mix records with us, it was at a little place called Mama Joes and I would see him on the phone going, “Happy birthday sweetie.” Later knowing that it was Ellie; missed her first walk and all of these other things. And when my daughter was born, I was like, I can't do this. I needed a life and so I started praying and Peter York calls. So it’s because of him so it's fun to hear some his stories. I did a lot of records win Jack Joseph Puig and–Seth: And you were engineering at the time?Steve: Yeah. I was an engineer at LA.Seth: And at the time that was really engineering?Steve: Oh my gosh.Seth: You were cutting tape and…Steve: Yeah! I've cut a lot of two inch tape, quarter inch tape, half inch–Seth: Stuff that I hope to never do.Steve: You don't have to, Jericho does it for you.[Laughter] Seth: I don't know if Jericho has ever cut tape? In school he did.Steve: Now, I feel really old.Chris: Is that kind of like when you're in a biology class and not in any other time of your life will you need to dissect a frog but you just have to do it for the experience of it. Is that what it's become cutting tape?Steve: I don't know if you have to do it even that. It's sort of like this legend of starting a fire with flint, you know? It's sort of like, “Yeah. I used to cut tape.”[Laughter] Seth: I mean there's probably a resurgence. I would imagine knowing the process of what coffee has become and how artists.Steve: Yeah.Seth: I think there's a big thing in maybe it's the millennial generation or whatever it is but I think people are drawn back to slower, older more hands on processes it seems like than just pushing the button or going through the drive through–Steve: And somethings, don't you think, in some things its like just give me the button. Give me the filter on Instagram.Seth: That is true! That's true but then you've got the whole wave of people roasting their own coffee beans now and then they're grinding the with a hand grinder, and then they're putting in a… And, I'm saying this because we have like three artists that we work with; that come in and they bring their whole coffee apparatus.Steve: And they measure how much coffee goes in, weigh it?Chris: Yeah.Steve: My son has one of those has a scale that weighs, how much coffee goes in. Oh yeah just …Chris: Yeah, I thought you were going to say some of the artists that you work with, they actually bring their own barista in the studio because–Steve: I'm sure that will happen.Seth: That’s kind of a prerequisite to be in a band. There has to be at least one barista.Steve: True.Seth: In the band.Steve: There has to be one business guy in every band and one guy who can make great coffee.Seth: And then the guy who can actually play the instruments.Steve: Yeah. Then the artist.[Laughter]Chris: And then the fourth guy on base who just knows how to shape everybody's beards. He's more of a grooming guy.Seth: And sometime there's a drummer.[Laughter] Steve: You don't need a drummer; there are machines for that now.[Laughter] Seth: Yeah. I mean, just take us through a little bit of your journey, you started in L.A.?Steve: I was born and raised in L.A.; read an article when I was 14 years old about this guy named Sir George Martin. And I was like, “What? You can do that for a living?”Seth: Who is George Martin?Steve: He produced this little band called the Beatles, probably never heard of…most 20 year olds haven't heard of them so…Chris: And then isn't true that he went on from there to write The Game of Thrones?Steve: Did he? I'm not a Game of Throne person–Chris: Okay that's R.R. Martin, sorry.Steve: Wrong one. But I mean, you read about these guys and you sort of open a door into a new world that you didn't know existed. And so, I was 18 years old, junior out of high school walked into the recording studios and started from there.Seth: So, you didn't wait to have some sort of a college thing to get internships?Steve: My mom was like Reeds parents which was like, “That’s a nice hobby but let's make sure you have a backup plan, a plan B.” And so, I still went to school, I still went to college did all of that. Don't ask me my grade point average because I was going home at 4 o'clock in the morning, waking up at 8 to crawl into my first class, it was terrible. But yeah, my first job in the recording studio, I was making $500 a month from 6 o'clock to 3 o'clock in the morning.Seth: Living in L.A?Steve: Living in L.A.Seth: And that probably paid for a tenth of the rent?Steve: Maybe.Chris: Or, just the gas to get around?Steve: But I loved every second of it. And then from there you sort of work your way up. So, I did that… Like I said earlier my daughter was born and I was like an engineer’s life is a hard life in LA especially. Those were the days when you'd pay $1,500 a day block booking a studio; you booked a studio and you're paying $1,500 if your there six hours or eight there 24 hours. And a lot of them stayed 24 hours, and you just have next, next, next, next.Chris: And you've got to be the first guy there.Steve: First guy there, last guy out, yeah. You're sitting there winding tables at 6 o'clock in the morning going, “I just want to go home.”Chris: When the bug caught you, from that point until the time that you walked into that first studio and got a job, what skills were you harnessing?Steve: None.Chris: Just reading liner notes?Steve: Yeah. Lying in the floor, reading and going, there's one in North Hall and I'd write it down on a piece of paper because I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and start looking for them. Hey man that where Bill [inaudible 8:50] studio is or whatever the studio was and start. There wasn't really a whole lot you can do to prepare for it. It's no like in high school you go, “I wonder what class…”  I was in all the choirs and all the music stuff and that didn't prepare you for it. Probably the greatest skills for a studio engineer especially a starting one is being attentive, being hungry, being prepared and that depends on who you're working with.When you working together with somebody so well, I'm sure you and your team, they know what you want in advance and plugin something in before you even have to ask, that’s just working together. I've told a lot of wannabe engineers who want to go to some of these very expensive schools, don’t do it. Take that money, live on it for two years and go give yourself away for free for two years. You learn more two years in a studio than you will however long you go to one of the expensive ones.Chris: Yeah.Steve: It's just doing it. Just aligning the tape machine which is once again, it's like starting fire with flint again, knowing the lines taped but you learn by doing that.Chris: Absolutely.Steve: You learn by making a lot of mistakes. I recorded a lot of bad drum sounds.[Laughter] It just happened and then you go, “Oh if I do this, its better.” And 10,000 hours man, it takes 10,000 hours.Chris: Again, I think that it's not that schooling is necessarily a bad thing but the way that you learn in life versus the way that you learn in a classroom is different because for the most part, a classroom will deduct points for the stakes and if you’re in the–Steve: That's true. Good point.Chris: Yeah. I heard that -actually going back to our love of podcasts here- I heard Tim Farris on his podcast talking about the fact that he was going to go to, was considering something like Princeton or Harvard or something to go get his MBA. And he thought instead of doing that -or maybe this was advice given to him and he took it- instead of taking that couple hundred thousand dollars worth of whatever I needed to go get my MBA. I'm going to invest that in myself, very similar to what you're saying. And I'm going to use that to live on so that way I can go and I can intern for that company that I would never be able to if the money mattered that much. Because once you get out of school its like, “Oo I've got to go do something with this.” But if you've got the money set aside to go get the MBA anyway, it goes a long way to really feeling free to not have to pay that rent or pay that car payment that you could really dive in.Steve: And most people never use their college education for what they use. I had a meteorologist specialist. She had a degree in meteorology for TV and she was my marketing assistant. And you go, “I want to see what you spent four years doing versus what's your grade point average or what's you major.” I don't care about that stuff.Seth: So to fast forward to today, you are general manager of a very successful record label. When you got to hire somebody to your team, do you even say, “Hey, send in your resume. Where did you go to college?” Or does that not even cross your mind?Steve: I do want to see that. Four years in college gives me the impression that they follow through, they finish. You’ve said it before, finishing is such a hard art in today's world. To have somebody who finished is very valuable. Do I care about your grade point average? No. Do I even care about your major? No. Because if you have the right work ethic and the right heart, I can train you to do other things but I want to see how hard you're willing to work.Seth: So, a college degree still carries some weight but maybe it doesn't carry the weight that people think it does in terms of having the training because you kind of have to relearn it all when you get out into the real world.Steve: Exactly. Most college students that I see haven't learned anything that’s a really good use at a record label. My last five hires at Centricity have all come from internships. Now, I've had a lot of bad interns. I've wanted to fire a couple of interns, that's pretty bad when you want to fire somebody who works for free.Seth: What defines a good intern and what defines a bad intern?Steve: A bad intern sits on Facebook until you give them something to do and then they do exactly just to the letter of the law of what you asked them to do, hand it in to you and then get back on Facebook. A great intern does what you do and says, “Hey and I thought about this. And what about this more?” You give them to go to D and they go to G; then you give them to G and they go to S. I have a girl in my office, I asked her to do one thing and she says “Oh by the way while I was thinking about it I did these other three things that will help you out.” That type of proactivity and thinking ahead is so incredibly valuable. Like having somebody patching in your compressor before you ask for it. They know where you're going so fast that they're working ahead of you. And for all of those out there, that's old school once again patch bays.[Laughter]Seth: We have a small patch bay, we have two patch bays actually so we're probably on the old school end of things.Chris: It looks very cool though. It's looks kind of old science fiction movie.Steve: Spaghetti.[Laughter] Seth: It's like a telephone operator kind of thing. I heard a thing on…man, we keep talking about podcast, we're all just podcasts nerds, dude. I think that’s what we do for a living is listen to podcasts. And I heard one last night, they did a study of millennials; if you had a dream job, pick out of these choices what would be your dream job. Number one was the president; number two was a senator; number three was a successful athlete; number four foreign diplomat; five was a CEO of Apple; and then the last choice was the personal assistant to a famous actor or athlete. And 45% I think picked that one, hands down.Steve: They have no idea what that job looks like.Seth: They don't but it also speaks to they don't want to take the responsibility. Like, when you're that person, when you're the boss, they want to have a boss and maybe you can speak to a little bit to that but I feel like when you were talking about the internships, the ones who go above and beyond are the ones who are willing to take some responsibility and say, “Here's an idea” and just put it out there. How many interns would you have to get, to get that one good one?Steve: Probably 10 to 15.Seth: 10 to 15 to 1?Steve: Yeah, to 1. I think that’s what it is.Chris: Wow.Steve: Yeah, that's what it is. And I heard you, I think we had the conversation, there's such a different work ethic in today's young adults. And part of it is my fault, I'm a parent of a young adult they've been given everything in their whole life, they haven't had to work for anything. You want that iPhone! Here's that iPhone. You want that? Here's that. The art and the craft of working, the labor of getting something is a lost art, I think.Seth: So, would you go back and do those things differently?Steve: For my kids? My kids had to work.[Laughter]Seth: So, you weren't saying from my experience, you weren't–Steve: I’m saying that personally and much more of…[Laughter]What we made our kids do is like when they wanted that $100 American girl doll is you buy half, we’ll buy half. And all of a sudden they're digging out rocks in the backyard at $1 a bucket out of the garden. Because you want to give your kids what the value of work is and that's that doll at the end.In our world, I sat with an intern once and he was irritating everybody in the office. He's that guy who only asks questions because he wanted to tell you how much he knew. An intern needs to be quite and listen because there's a lot of information that flows around… And then they find the person that they can go to and go, what did that mean when he said this? So, what did that mean or… Come to me! I've told everyone in my internship, feel free to come to me and say, what does it mean when you said that? Versus this guy would come to you and tell you everything he knew. So, I was sitting him down one day and going,  “Man, you're irritating everybody. The whole office wants to prove you wrong.”Seth: You literally said that?Steve: I said that to him and later on, “I know I do that. I'm just trying to figure out where I fit and trying to find a job make $100, $120,000 a year and start in the music industry.” And I said, “You're in the wrong industry, man.”Seth: Go into finance!Steve: Go into finance, or go be an architect somewhere I guess or something. It was just about wanting to make as much money as his dad did, now! This generation wants to start where their parents have gotten to right now. I've seen it with artists, I've seen it with interns–Chris: They don't want a drop in their lifestyle that they've become accustomed to.Seth: A luxury once had, becomes a necessity.Steve and Chris: Ooohh.Steve: Very nice.Seth: And I'm very guilty of that. You fly first class once and you feel like a swine by sitting in coach.[Laughter] Steve: I've flown private jets twice in my whole life, in my whole career both times sort of accidentally. And man, once you do a private jet and you don't have to go through security and you’re just like, “Oh, I want that.” I say this all the time about artists. The worst thing you can do for an artist is start them touring in a bus because that's the expectation and then you know what happens? Is they got on the bus and they’re, “This isn't a very nice bus.” There are people in vans like when you were out in a van, to be on a bus, to be able to sleep horizontally would be the greatest thing ever and just because you started at this place and then you get into private jets. Everybody needs to start their first tour in a Silverado truck and then the next one to a bigger–Seth: Graduate to a suburban!Steve: A suburban would be great, then a 15 passenger old church van that you bought for $5,000 that the left side of the speakers don't work. And then, you work your way into a [inaudible 19:58] van and then into a bus. Then you're grateful for everything that's better along the way.Seth: It's more about the process than anything.Steve: Yeah.Seth: And getting there.Steve: A wise manager once said, his job is to make his artists life better every year, just a little bit better. I'm like, that's a good goal. That's a good goal to have.Seth: It is. So, your transition, we shipped about 20 years–Steve: We skipped through it very fast.[Laughter] Your transition from doing that 6pm to 3 in the morning thing in LA, you had your baby…Steve: Yep. My wife and I were praying at that point going, “God, please give us some sane clients or open another door.” And I just worked probably two months before with Peter York–Seth: And for those out there listening, was this at a record label you got your first…Steve: I was working with Peter in the studio and he called me up and said, “Hey, are you interested in A&R?” And I started in A&R in Sparrow…what's that 87, 88? Right around there and we were still in Chatsworth, California, spent time out there with him. So, I’ve been at Sparrow, moved from Sparrow to Star Songs and then back to Sparrow when they came up. Started in A&R worked my way into the marketing side, artist development side… So, yes back to Sparrow went to  Mer and worked my way up to Vice President at marketing at Mer, was general manager at [inaudible 21:34], general manager at SRI and now general manager at Centricity.Chris: Wow.Steve: It's been a long journey. If you’d ask me to 25 or 30 years ago, were you going to be general manager at Record Label? I would have laughed in your face.[Laughter]Chris: Because you didn't think it was attainable or because you didn't want have this job?Steve: That was not the path I was on. I thought, I was going to be producing records and engineering records.  Jack Pueg is still mixing great great records out there and I thought I was going to follow that path. God had something very different in mind which makes me laugh going I was talking to [inaudible 22:09] this morning and I can't believe I’ve been doing this, this long. When you're now an industry veteran it means that you've been around a long time.Seth: But I don't think looking back and I don’t want to put words in your mouth but you don't strike me as one of those people that's looking back and feeling like you’re working in the corporate side of the industry because you never made it on the creative side.Steve: No, no.Seth: You don't strike me as that at all.Steve: I made that decision for my family. What's funny is I've learned more about engineering and more about mixing and more about mastering being on the corporate side of what we're trying accomplish and why trying to do what we're doing. I learned so much about that. And for the first year or so, I was mad at God going, “Why did I just spend 9, 10 years in studios, in dark rooms working long hours if this is where you wanted me?” But realize, every day of my life in the last 27 years in the corporate side I've used information I learned in the studio. Sometimes we can't ask God why until you're 20 years down and you go, “oh I get it.”It's the path he puts us on, he brings people in and out of your life. I remember a girl over at Sparrow she was an accountant, that was her thing she loved accounting and God put me with her to learn that whole budgeting, it was only like for four months and then we were separated again but once again she changed my perspective and my life for the next 20 years. So, you don't know if these people that are coming in and out of your life are for a short period of how they're going to impact you.But yeah, I've sort of worked my way, I was one of the strange guys everybody wants to be in A&R. I started in A&R and left to got to marketing and then got back into it as I moved back up into the but everybody wants to be an A&R guy, hang out in the studios and have dinner with the artists which is not what an A&R guy does.Chris: Well it's the perception out there–Steve: Yeah, exactly, that's what they think.Chris: Just like you saying the artist is going to be in private jets.Seth: And for honestly if somebody's out there, can you break down what exactly what it is A&R. What is that? What is that job?Steve: A&R, we [inaudible 24:27] airports and restaurants which is [inaudible 24:28].[Laughter]It’s artist and repertoire. It’s basically looking for artist, finding people that have a seedling of something. Sometimes you don’t know what it is. We’ve all got our standards of what we feel like will lead to success. But finding that, nurturing it, grooming it, it’s sort of the mustard seed put into the ground, pat around and hopefully something really great grows out of it. Sometimes the plants don’t live, sometimes they give up. But it basically the music made by the A&R guy, we have one of the best in the industry in Centricity. When he’s done, when the music is done, he hands the baton over to me, and I go everywhere from there. But it’s his job to make sure we have hits, we have songs that work for live or work on the radio, an artist that’s got uniqueness to him that fits differently than everything else in the market place and sometimes it’s just plain old dumb luck. We’ve got all those where we’re like, “We though this person had everything they needed, was need for success and it didn’t work, and this one over here it’s that seedling and it’s just growing like crazy.Seth: Yeah, sometimes you don’t know or probably more often than not, I would think.Steve: How many songs have you worked on and said, “Man, that’s the hit.” I have a memory of I will eat my shoe if this is not [inaudible 26:04][Laughter] I believe you owe me a shoe eaten.Seth: I’m wearing Nikes right now. I have a feeling that this material is not organic.Chris: I was going to say, whatever you choose make sure its biodegradable.Steve: I was going to send you a shoe after one particular sock.[Laughter]We’ve all got them dude.Seth: Oh yeah, totally. I think more often than not and it’s honestly becoming a theme on this show is, we’re all just kind of winging it we’re all just guessing. So, my question to that is, I mean, it sounds like there’s a lot of responsibility placed on the shoulders of an A&R person. They’re the one that’s finding and nurturing talent and ultimately seeing what songs make it on records.I think a lot of people listening in our podcast audience, we have a lot of producers and writers and people outside of the music industry but then there are also probably some people who are just wanting to get in on the music business side and people who maybe want to be in music marketing or be in music management or maybe do what you’re doing someday, run a record label. You said what you look for interns, what qualifies a person to be an A&R person?Steve: Wow. Interesting. There are a few A&R guys you should interview. A great A&R person is able to inspire an artist beyond what they’ve every thought they could do. A great A&R person knows how to get a good song to a great song. We’re no longer in a society that good is not good enough, it has to be great. A great A&R guy can go, “You know what? There are seedlings, there are moments in here that are really great.” But you’re missing the mark I these two or three places. And then, coming in and sitting side by side with a producer like you and making sure that… I think that I’m a big movie buff and A&R guy is sort of like an executive producer on a movie where you put the team together and then sort of let the team go make the music. So, it’s the right producer for the right, for the right song and for the right artists and then let them shine where they go. It’s very much putting the pieces together. They’re not usually playing the music, they’re not [inaudible 28:34] musicians, they have to have a really good song sense and I think one of the skills an A&R guy has to know is, it’s not about them. They’ve got to know their audience, know what they’re making for because all of us have a tendency to gravitate towards music that’s on the fringe because we listen to so much stuff that all of the stuff in the middle starts mucking up. There’s a big muck in the middle. So, “you know what I like? I like this thing way over here or way over there.” Where a normal consumer listens to 10 records a year, the middle is the sweet spot for them. So, an A&R guy that understands who he’s trying to record for is very important.Seth: That’s very good. And, you said that they have to have a great song sense, that is even a sticky situation because why is one person’s song sense better than the other? Is that determined by track record? And, if you’ve never done A&R before, how do you prove that, hey I know a hit when I hear one?Steve: You know what? Our history of…John Mays is a 25 years somebody took a chance on him 27 years ago and said “You’re a great musician on the road, let me bring you in here.” Part is the relationship, you know, can they sit and hang with an artist? You know, you’ve been in these mediums. Where it’s like can you move an artist from A to Z while making the artist think it’s their move? As a producer it’s the same skill set of can you get an artist to bend without knowing that they’re bending? Or being able to move–Seth: All the artists out there, they just had a–Steve: I know they had a convulsion.[Laughter]And all the producer are like, yeah![Laughter]But that’s part of it, of like how do you get a song… because you don’t want to tell an artist, “You know what? This song sucks.” You just want to say, “Let’s work on the chorus. The chorus isn’t paying off hard enough, let’s make it lift better. Let’s make it shine.” Whatever it may be, moving them away from, “I love this, this is my baby. It’s beautiful.” To let’s keep working on this song.Seth: So, it sounds like it maybe starts with who they are as a person. Are they a good hang? Are they a servant? And then, the music kind of just follows and that taste follows.Steve: Our young A&R guy over there, he went through our radio department so he was listening to radio hits, radio hits, radio hits. And part of it is… There’s marketing guy named Roy Williams, I went to a seminar with him and he said he has a friend that works at General Market Record Label to pick all the singles and I’m like, “How did you learn this?” And the guy basically said, “Since I was five years old, every week I’d get my allowance and I would go buy the number one song in America.” And so for his whole life, he poured into himself hits. This is what a hit sounds like, this is what a hit sounds like, this is what a hit sounds like.Seth: That’s pretty good wisdom, right there.Steve: And so, at a certain point you go, you got to know our music, you got to listen to our music, you got to know what a hit sounds like. I’ve heard a lot of kids come though “I hate listening to Christian radio.” Then why do you listen to Christian music? How many people in country music go, “[inaudible 32:11] but I hate country music.” Get out! You’re not going to succeed.[Laughter]But they almost wear it as a banner that I hate Christian music in our market place. We have an open concept office and I’ll try to listen to two hours of Christian radio every day in my office. And if I’m listening to it, everybody in my office is listening to it too; more for this is what a hit sounds like, this is what radio sounds lie. If you’re trying to meet a need at radio and you don’t know what they’re playing, how can you meet the need? So…I digress, sorry.Seth: No, that’s gold. That’s all gold.Steve: I think you nailed it in your earlier podcast when you said, this is a servant industry. It really is. And in my life, it took me a lot of time to figure out what my calling was. I knew I wasn’t an artist but God, what does that mean? And I was walking through Exodus with my kids when they were very young and hit Exodus 17 where God say to Moses, they’re out of Egypt heading towards the Promised Land and they hit the Analcites, God calls Moses up to the hill top; arms up in the air he wins, arms down they lose. But what never caught to me until I was reading it, Moses took two people along with him Aaron and Hur and I love to say I am the Hur in the Moses’ life. It’s my job, what Hur was up there to do is to hold Moses’ arms up, that’s all he did. When Moses was weak, when Moses needed help, Hur held his hands up. That’s my calling be a servant, be there to hold your hands up. Some people know Aaron “Aaron, you know, Moses’ little brother.” No one knows who Hur is. If you’re okay standing, holding someone’s arms up and no one recognizes, you are created to be in the music industry. Because you’re not in to be the rock stars; we’re in the back of the room with our arms folded, looking at the person on stage going, “Yeah. I was there to hold their arms up.”Chris: That’s wise. One of my favorite movies is That Thing You Do, I don’t know if any of you have seen that.Steve: Yeah. I’m the guy that goes, “You look great in black.”[Laughter]Chris: Has anyone told you that?Steve: Yeah.Chris: But, one of my favorite characters in the movie, and they’re filled with them. Anybody out there that hasn’t seen it, it’s a great movie.Steve: Please, go see it.Chris: But there’s Horus who’s basically the A&R guy that sees them in–Steve: In the camper-[Laughter]Chris: Yeah, he lives in a camper and he’s essentially the A&R guy. But he sees them in a performance at an Italian restaurant or something and comes and buys their album and get’s them to sign a little deal. And then at the end, when they get signed to a major label and they’re going out to play these state fairs, Horus leaves and the main character drummer of the band says, “We don’t want you to leave.” And he goes, “My [inaudible 35:27] is done. I’ve done what I’m supposed to do.” And then move on to the next thing and so he wasn’t meant to ride that out the whole movie; he’s there for a specific piece to move it from A to C. He’s the B part of it, the Hur of that story so to speak.Steve: Nowadays, you’d call them just production deals. You start working with an unknown artist who has a little bit of talent, you start developing them and then you start shopping them to record labels. And then you go, my job here is done. They then take the baton and now try to make to a national artist. If you make 2 out of 20, 3 out of 20, you’re in great shape. You’re a hall of fame baseball player if you hit 3 out of 10. And you’re a hall of fame A&R guy if 3 out of your 10 are hit artists.It’s a cycle, you have the young artist going up; you have the artist at their peak; and then you have some that are on their way down. And you’ve got to keep that circle going because any artist that’s been at the top is going to be past its peak and slowly work its way down, and you got to have the new artist coming up behind to grow into. So it’s a continual cycle of in the music industry. The circle of life in music would be that.Chris: I had a mentor –Scott [inaudible 36:48] if you’re listening I’m about to talk about you- but he always talked about how life in the ministry or in a career is kind of like looking at life or the people that you interact is like a watching a parade go by. There are things that are right in front of you, there are things that you just saw, and there are things that are coming down. And to really appreciate what is happening in the parade you have to absorb it all. And so there’s a little bit of grabbing from each of those in order to get the full experience of it all.Steve: And the bigger what’s right in front of you, the bigger those artists are in front of you, sometimes you don’t have time to look behind and develop what’s behind and what happens is with a lot of these record labels and I’ve been at these where, man they’ve got the big, and they slowly slipping. The [inaudible 37:32] slowly start getting past their prime and they haven’t developed anything behind them and then you’re in trouble because you’ve got this machine you’ve got to feed and you haven’t created for the future, it’s only for the present.And so, every A&R guy wants to sing but some of the big labels, the big artists, the A’s are so big that’s all they’re paying attention to. We’ve all seen it, we’ve all seen artists where we say, “Man, they’re amazing” but they got lost in the shuffle and that’s the sadness. We forget that we’re playing with people’s lives, especially on the record label side their dreams.I signed this band at a label and they were 18 years old when I signed them and 21 years old when I had to drop them. So, their dreams had come true and shattered by the time they were 21. And it’s just hard when you start thinking about that stuff.Chris: That’s true. And if you think about it there are some people that are fortunate enough to have a full career in the music industry and there are some people that have a three year window kind of like a profession sports guy or those things. There’s a window and the once you pass it, yeah but the guy is only 24 and the band is only 21. What’s coming up for them?Steve: You know what, I think it’s a catalyst of those people leaving or burning out, is balance. You guys have said it; I can walk through a record label at 8 o’clock at night and I can tell you which employees will be gone in a year because they have nothing to put back into themselves. The music industry is a take industry, it just continues squeezing and it just wants more and more and more. If you have one they want five; if you have five we want ten; if we have ten we want twenty, and it’s never enough. My poor radio team goes, “Hey we got number one.” And I’m like, “Great. How do we keep it on number one for another week?” It’s never enough and so you continue squeezing out what this industry does, if you don’t have a ministry, if you don’t have a relationship, if you don’t have friends that give back to you that don’t care what you do  for a living and basically go, “Yeah, yeah. You do music, how are you?” You know, if there aren’t nursing students at the college that you got to that are your friends, you’re going to burn out.  Because there’s nothing giving back, there’s no one pouring into you. Sooner or later the candle ends, there’s no more fuel and it juts burns out.So, I try to keep my staff saying, I want you to go to concerts and date people and go home at 6 o’clock and have a life. Because if you don’t have a life you have nothing to come back when you come back tomo

School is in session, and Maps, Olive, Matthew and Stephen check out Gotham Academy #1! NOTE: There is some strange noise on Stephen's track this week. We have no idea how this happened, and we haven't had it repeat. We apologize, and we hope it doesn't happen again. GOTHAM ACADEMY #1 Writer: Cloonan, Becky Artist: Kerschl, Karl Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $2.99 SOLICITATION: WELCOME TO GOTHAM ACADEMY! Gotham City's most prestigious prep school is a very weird place. It's got a spooky campus, oddball teachers, and rich benefactors always dropping by...like that weirdo Bruce Wayne. But nothing is as strange is the students! Like, what's up with Olive Silverlock? Is she crazy or what? Where did she go last summer? And what's the deal with her creepy mom? And how come that Freshman MAPS is always following her around? And is she still going out with Kyle? P.S. Did you hear the rumor about the ghost in the North Hall?! GOTHAM ACADEMY is a new, monthly teen drama set in the shadow of Batman and the craziness of Gotham City, with new characters and old plus a secret tie to Gotham's past Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

School is in session, and Maps, Olive, Matthew and Stephen check out Gotham Academy #1! NOTE: There is some strange noise on Stephen's track this week. We have no idea how this happened, and we haven't had it repeat. We apologize, and we hope it doesn't happen again. GOTHAM ACADEMY #1 Writer: Cloonan, Becky Artist: Kerschl, Karl Publisher: DC Comics Cover Price: $2.99 SOLICITATION: WELCOME TO GOTHAM ACADEMY! Gotham City's most prestigious prep school is a very weird place. It's got a spooky campus, oddball teachers, and rich benefactors always dropping by...like that weirdo Bruce Wayne. But nothing is as strange is the students! Like, what's up with Olive Silverlock? Is she crazy or what? Where did she go last summer? And what's the deal with her creepy mom? And how come that Freshman MAPS is always following her around? And is she still going out with Kyle? P.S. Did you hear the rumor about the ghost in the North Hall?! GOTHAM ACADEMY is a new, monthly teen drama set in the shadow of Batman and the craziness of Gotham City, with new characters and old plus a secret tie to Gotham's past Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers VIP. It will help ensure Dueling Reviews continues far into the future!

Recorded on the afternoon of the 19th of March 2014, live from the foot of the escalators in North Hall of the Moscone Center, One Life Left presents OLL vs Gamasutra Show #3: THE THREEQUEL. Hosted by Scantlebury, Byron and Curran, ably assisted by the rich tones of Kris Graft (EIC, Gamasutra) and starring Terry Cavanagh (Distractionware), Manveer Heir (Bioware, very handsome), Alex Fleetwood (ex-Hide&Seek), Peter Molyneux & Jack Attridge (22 Cans), Erin Catto (Blizzard), Matt Piersall (Gl33k), Daniel Benmergui (Storyteller / Ernesto), Sean Vanaman (Campo Santo), Rupert Loman (Eurogamer Network), Mare Sheppard & Raigan Burns (Metanet), Geoffrey Zatkin (Eedar), Chris HArvey (Drinkbox Studios). Music from Jredd (Silence), Frostbitewaveform (The Thaw), Kommisar (Caduceus), Laffe the Fox (Left Alone In Outer Space), Stinkbug (Afternoon Out).

Episode 4. Presented by Ste Curran, Ann Scantlebury and (eventually) Jenn Frank, sitting opposite Gamasutra colleague Christian Nutt and special guests Greg Rice (Double Fine), Patrick Hackett (Double Fine), Bennett Foddy (QWOP, GIRP, Pole Riders), Matthew Luhn (Pixar), Ben Liu (Pocket Gems), Daniel Cook (Spry Fox), and Anna Marsh (Lady Shotgun). One Life Left's relentless schedule continues with another special show, recorded live on Thursday lunchtime at GDC2013 from our temporary home at the foot of the North Hall escalators in San Francisco's Moscone Center. Topics include how to stay motivated, the creative process in big and small studios, cross-media pollination, mobile gaming, life / work balance, and some more brainstorming around our hug-game "concept". It's midway through the conference, we're losing our voices - our minds have somewhat gone too - but we'll get through this together, team, and continue regret nothing except the limited number of hours in every brilliant day.

One Life Left's second broadcast from GDC 2012 takes place inside the North Hall thoroughfare, but don't let the background chatter distract you from today's amazing panel. On that amazing panel today: ACADEMIC WITH POLEMIC Ian Bogost (Persuasive Games) DANCING KING Matt Boch (Harmonix) FOXY CREATOR Daniel Cook (Spry Fox) ARTISTIC CURATOR Sarah Brin (Too many jobs to list) PORK-PIE JOURNALIST Alex Wiltshire (Edge Online) EDITOR AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Kris Graft (Gamasutra) The panel discuss today's sessions, the things they're excited about for the next week and try to find a theme for this year's GDC. There's an illuminating discussion about "gamification",  the manifold purposes of conferences like this and advice on how to get everyone's Mums / Moms involved in videogames. Download / listen here.

This was a blast–a chance to reconnect and ruminate with my old North Hall pal Sofia Klatzker-Miller. I think that I may have first encountered the idea of signal and noise in the title of a song by Peter Gabriel, … Continue reading →

Smartboard, Smartroom, Faculty

Smartboard, Smartroom, Faculty