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Don’t Fade and Die in AI Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://theultimatepartner.com/ebook-subscribe/ Check Out UPX: https://theultimatepartner.com/experience/ Matt Yanchyshyn, VP AWS Marketplace, Rekha Thangelapalita, Elastic GSI Leaders; Allison McFadden, Accenture AWS Leader; and James Kang of Nvidia join Ultimate Partner. In this panel discussion, leaders from Elastic, Accenture, Nvidia, and AWS dissect the urgent shifts in the ecosystem, emphasizing that partners must adapt to AI and agentic co-selling or risk fading away completely. The conversation explores the necessity of deep co-engineering, the power of multi-product solutions in the AWS marketplace, and how automated agents are now replacing traditional human sales pipeline progression. By embracing data readiness and strategic collaboration, organizations can survive the “token maxing” era, effectively scale their enterprise opportunities, and align with NVIDIA’s five-layer strategy to dominate the new cloud landscape. https://youtu.be/zUkL4Wqsa68 Key Takeaways AI agents will automate the majority of AWS partner co-selling attachments and opportunity progressions this year. Partners who fail to embrace agentic workflows and automated governance face the existential risk of fading into obsolescence. Successful multi-product offerings require a “blood to all organs” approach that benefits the client, the ISV, the GSI, and the hyperscaler simultaneously. Nvidia’s “five-layer cake” model emphasizes that successful outcomes at the application layer automatically drive growth for all underlying infrastructure. The “token maxing” phenomenon is forcing enterprises to seek cost-effective, open-model alternatives to scale their generative AI securely. Integrating GSIs and ISVs on the AWS marketplace significantly increases enterprise deal sizes and long-term customer renewal rates. If you're ready to lead through change, elevate your business, and achieve extraordinary outcomes through the power of partnership—this is your community. At Ultimate Partner® we want leaders like you to join us in the Ultimate Partner Experience – where transformation begins. Key Tags strategic collaboration agreement, data readiness engine, agentic co-sell, semantic layer, token maxing, five layer cake, accelerated computing platform, open models, cloud consumption, multi-product solutions, partner central agents, propensity data, automated opportunity progression, generative AI governance Transcript Matt Y and Panel Audio Podcast [00:00:00] Vince Menzione: You have a choice. You can embrace them and figure it out and get governance and, and make your data available. Um, use the partner, central agent, move to Agen Co-sell, or you can fade and die. [00:00:11] Vince Menzione: You can feel it happening. The ecosystem is shifting beneath us, the way Hyperscalers are partnering, how AI is remaking the channel and what it means to win in 2026. [00:00:22] Vince Menzione: Welcome to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. I’m Vince Menzi. Own your host. And each week I sit down with leaders at the intersection of technology, partnerships and outcomes. The voices shaping how ecosystems actually work. We talk about what’s real, what’s changing, and what it takes to lead in this era where the partner channel isn’t just part of the strategy. [00:00:44] Vince Menzione: It is the strategy because [00:00:46] Vince Menzione: being in the room changes everything. Let’s start. [00:00:51] Vince Menzione: We’ve got some amazing leaders joining us. So I think probably for a little bit of context, maybe just start with Rika. You can introduce yourself, your role and, uh, what, what you’ve been doing at Elastic. Yeah. [00:01:03] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah, sounds great. [00:01:04] Rekha Thangellapalli: Hi everyone. I’m Reka and I lead GSI Alliances at Elastic. Um, for the past 14 years, I’ve had the pleasure of building different kinds of partner ecosystems across companies such as SAP. MuleSoft, Salesforce, Coupa, and now Elastic. Um, I wanna thank Ultimate partner and Vince for having us here today. Thank you and the panel of these incredible speakers for joining me on stage. [00:01:31] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, very excited for the conversation today. [00:01:33] Vince Menzione: We love Elastic, and you’ve had some of your other leaders on stage at other events. As such, the quality of your leadership team is amazing. Thank you. [00:01:42] Rekha Thangellapalli: I wholeheartedly agree. [00:01:45] Allison McFadden: Excellent. Um, hello everyone. Allison McFadden. I lead our North America AWS practice at Accenture. [00:01:52] Allison McFadden: Uh, I’ve been there for five years, and truth be told, it was my first partnership role, my first formal partnership role. Uh, so I can take some tips from all of you in the room here today. Prior to that, I was 21 years with IBM, and I got into partnerships because my last role at IBM was actually trying to build. [00:02:14] Allison McFadden: Linux business on the mainframe, and I had to have partners. I had to have partners to help me with workloads to run there. So I kind of learned, uh, trial by fire. But I’m excited for the conversation today. Excited to be in this room and excited to talk about what we’re doing with, uh, elastic. Thank you. [00:02:34] James Kang: Uh, my name is James Kang. Nice to see and meet everyone here. Vince, thank you for the opportunity. Thank you [00:02:38] Vince Menzione: for being here. [00:02:39] James Kang: Um, I’m with Nvidia, so I help manage the AWS partnership at Nvidia all up. Um, I guess fun fact, I’m former AWS and so I see a lot of very familiar faces here in the front row. Uh, former colleagues and then current friends. [00:02:56] James Kang: And so, uh, looking forward to the conversation. [00:02:59] Vince Menzione: Great. Well, we’ll start with an easy tia. Matt. This is not directed to you, directed to the others. So what does a successful AWS partnership look like from your C? So we’ll start with Eureka. [00:03:09] Rekha Thangellapalli: Sure. So from an ISV perspective, I think we really are looking at three things. [00:03:15] Rekha Thangellapalli: Uh, mutual investment building together. And scaling together. So when we talk about mutual investment, elastic recently signed a five-year SCA or strategic collaboration agreement with AWS. And while that is a significant milestone in our partnership, for us, what matters more is what it represents, and that is really a long-term commitment from both companies. [00:03:39] Rekha Thangellapalli: Towards product engineering, um, and joint go to market initiatives to deliver value to customers over time. And that’s what we see is that the best partnerships really compound and they build upon each other every year. Um, they don’t necessarily kind of reset every year. Um, next we talk about building together. [00:03:59] Rekha Thangellapalli: So, um. When we talk about joint solutions, we want to deliver solutions that are better together and the customers have to see us that way. And so whether it’s search, observability, or security, we’re looking at taking to market solutions that we can’t or necessarily don’t wanna take on our own. And finally we talk about scaling together. [00:04:22] Rekha Thangellapalli: And this is where marketplace, for instance, plays a big role, um, when customers can draw down on their cloud commitments, transact online and go from, you know, pilot to enterprise scale adoption in hours, not days. Um, this is when really everyone wins. Um, and this is also where partners like Accenture play a critical role. [00:04:47] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, you know, the incredible amount of expertise that they bring, uh, the managed services capabilities and, um, their data assets actually play a huge role in having our customers realize that value faster. And, um, like Vince mentioned, at the end of the day, best partnerships are all all about creating kind of that. [00:05:07] Rekha Thangellapalli: Self-sustaining flywheel. And so it starts with investing together, building something unique, and having the customers realize that success faster because that success is really the only thing that’s gonna keep that flywheel going for everyone involved. I [00:05:26] Vince Menzione: absolutely. [00:05:26] Allison McFadden: Okay, amazing. I’m gonna riff off a few things Ika said, but from a GSI perspective. [00:05:32] Allison McFadden: A relationship with a WSA successful relationship with AWS looks slightly different. Um, so I think the first thing that we think of in the GSI Community common thread is that the client outcome and delivering value for clients is what we, what we’re striving for. Um, and so the partnership with AWS in that case, um, um, it has to, it has to. [00:06:01] Allison McFadden: Look like one team in front of our clients. So we have to show up indistinguishable, and that’s with AWS and with an ISV partner, it has to look like one solution in front of the client, especially moments that matter. So board meetings, um, you know, the time we’re gonna sign a deal, like we have to look like one team, uh, and keep our our client outcome, um, first and foremost in mind. [00:06:24] Allison McFadden: The second thing, and this is I think where the magic of all the people in this room comes into play. We can have as many discussions at a CEO level as we want. And if our client teams on the ground are not working together, it falls apart. Falls apart directly in front of the client. Yes. And that is a really hard thing to do. [00:06:45] Allison McFadden: So I’m passionate about the alliance work because that that work is what makes it happen at the corporate level. [00:06:53] James Kang: Cool. Um. I’ll start here. So in Nvidia is a accelerated computing platform company. Um, if you asked. Anyone on the, on the street about a year ago, what is ai? A lot of times they would say AI is, is open ai, or it’s philanthropic. [00:07:12] James Kang: Um, Jensen and I’ll, I’ll reference Jensen a lot today, um, because he is our leader, um, but he also sets the strategy in the direction for Nvidia. He talks a lot about AI in the metaphor of a five layer cake. And in terms of the five layer cake, you start off with the foundational bottom layer being power and energy, which sustains. [00:07:32] James Kang: All of our data centers, you move up the stack in terms of chips. So things think of Foxconn, think of TSMC. Next you have the infrastructure layer. So obvious choice is AWS, and then you get to the models where you do have the philanthropics and the open ais. But finally in at the precipice, you have the application layer. [00:07:53] James Kang: Ultimately, the reason why I mentioned all different stacks of the layers, the five layer cake, is the fact that the application layer is the most important. And so when you think about. Partners like Elastic or ServiceNow Trend, ai, CrowdStrike. Every time you pull from the application layer and you see a success, it pulls all five different components of that layer up. [00:08:13] James Kang: And so ultimately, as I think about success, it’s it’s being able to develop these co-sell wins at the application layer and really demonstrating that through extreme co-engineering and co-design with all the different application. Infrastructure, power and energy layers in mind. Um, Jensen also likes to think of himself not only as the CEO and founder, but also as the, the chief Marketing Officer. [00:08:35] James Kang: We are a very event driven company, and so at our big events like GTC or at big industry events like CES or Computex, he likes to show up on the biggest stage, biggest stages and showcase the partnerships with not only ISVs and GSIs, but also with end customers. And so that’s what I think about when I think of SA success. [00:08:56] Vince Menzione: That’s a really good point. You talked about, Allison, you talked about having an alliance strategy, or at least you teed it up, so I thought maybe we would go there for a second. Right? Like, what does a great alliance strategy look like and why is it important to the success of the partnership? [00:09:11] Allison McFadden: Man, I, uh, I have so many opinions on this. [00:09:13] Allison McFadden: We could probably be up here all day. That’s [00:09:15] Vince Menzione: okay. [00:09:16] Allison McFadden: Um, no, I think. Uh, there, there are a couple things, and the first one that comes to mind is focus. We cannot be all things to all people. Um, so when it comes to think about some of the, the work we’re doing with Elastic, we have a very, very clear point of view on what client problem we’re solving, what clients we want to talk to. [00:09:38] Allison McFadden: It helps if, um, from an ISV perspective, if there’s a very clear fit in. The Accenture portfolio or whatever, you know, SI consulting partner. You’re working with a very clear fit in the portfolio and we know what we’re not gonna go after, what we’re not gonna spend our time on because we have, we have this tendency, there’s millions of people. [00:10:00] Allison McFadden: The ecosystem chart that, you know, Vince, you showed up there, there’s so many connections. There’s probably more connections there than there are atoms in the universe, right? So, um. Defining what we do together and what we don’t do together is the first thing that pops to my mind. [00:10:19] Vince Menzione: Reka, do you have a perspective on it since we’re gonna, we’re gonna talk next about what you’ve done together, but, and I also wanna get mass perspective as a hyperscaler partner here as well. [00:10:29] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah, I mean from my perspective, I, I’m gonna, you know, kinda echo what Allison said is to be just maniacally focused. Yep. Um, because, especially from my perspective, so Elastic has three different solutions, right? We’ve got search, we’ve got observability, we’ve got security that map to completely different business units within Accenture. [00:10:47] Rekha Thangellapalli: And of course Accenture does a lot of things. And so, you know, when we first came together it was like. Okay, what are we gonna focus on? What industries are we gonna go after? Which segments are we gonna go after? Which customers, you know, um, outcomes are we trying to solve? And I think that sort of maniacal focus is the number one contributing factor to, to the fact that I’m like, up here on stage today. [00:11:12] Rekha Thangellapalli: Great. [00:11:14] Vince Menzione: Matt? Perspective? [00:11:16] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah, I, I, I guess I was trying to. To add something, uh, additional from an AWS perspective, uh, when it comes to, you know, what does a great alliance look like? Uh, AWS is obsessed with data, you know, in data we trust. And, and so the best, um, and, and this goes sales business problem, and it’s not just the engineering teams. [00:11:34] Matt Yanchyshyn: And so, uh, you know, Accenture does a good job of this elastic, definitely. And if you can come to the table with, um, quantifiable proof of the value of customer outcomes and partnerships. Um, you’ll win all the time and it’ll be a durable relationship with AWS ’cause we really are this data obsessed company and, and even the most senior sales leaders. [00:11:54] Matt Yanchyshyn: Uh, and so what I mean by that specifically is like if you, if you can show like your a RR to land an a RR conversion ratio, like in in numerical format, it’ll light up our sales leaders and, and they’ll be all, and they will co-sell with you all day long. If you can show the, I mentioned this earlier, like the AWS service, uh, whether you’re consulting company or, um, elastic and, and how the shape of customer accounts change positively when we work together. [00:12:15] Matt Yanchyshyn: That type of sort of quantifiable data works particularly well from an alliance perspective. With AWS as a partner, we, we really are like this data in sort of results out company. Um, so I, yeah, that’s just adding to the great points that were already made. I would say specific to AWS that that’s key. [00:12:30] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah. And I’m gonna bring up one more thing. I want to dive in on the, the joint value proposition, but you mentioned something that made a lot of sense and resonated to me about the organizations once you get out of partner, the partner world that we all know and love. Mm-hmm. Once you get down into a field organization or account management organization. [00:12:49] Matt Yanchyshyn: Not as much understanding and really organizations do a bad job here, honestly, in terms of enabling the field organizations. Do you agree? [00:12:58] Allison McFadden: I agree because I, I agree. And, um, you know, I think that’s one of the things, and, and I, I, when I joined Accenture, what we had was a lot of wicked smart architects delivering programs to clients in the field. [00:13:15] Allison McFadden: Very smart, very deep in AWS knowledge. Um, and that was awesome for the 10 clients they were staffed on and to get that understanding of how AWS works and I dream about lar, right? Like, this is a good, you know, but that takes real effort and real work. Yeah. And it’s, it’s um, almost like being a language translator. [00:13:37] Allison McFadden: Yes. For me. Yeah. So, you know, I had to deeply learn AWS so that I could. [00:13:42] Rekha Thangellapalli: Sure. [00:13:42] Allison McFadden: Teach my account teams. My account teams are really smart. They know who they’re selling to. They know their customers. They know what their customers need. They do not know what AWS has to offer always because they’ve got 20 partners lining up to try to tell their stories. [00:13:57] Allison McFadden: Um, they don’t know how to ask of the AWS team or the elastic team or the Nvidia team. Yeah. What they need [00:14:02] Vince Menzione: this co-selling piece. Yeah. [00:14:04] Allison McFadden: And so that is where, um. We had to build that muscle even around our AWS practice, which was a huge practice at Accenture, but we didn’t necessarily surround it with that kind of enablement and um, almost deal coaching layer. [00:14:21] Vince Menzione: So Elastic and Accenture came together. I dunno which one of you wants to lead this part of the conversation, but you will, right? Yeah. So tell us about the genesis of this and why. And a lot of people dunno what Elastic does, but you do some really incredible work. Like I, somebody told me one day was like, oh, you know, Uber, like, that’s elastic, powering all that. [00:14:41] Vince Menzione: Like, we don’t think about that. That the engines that you have and the, the backend to the customers, huge customers. [00:14:48] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah, absolutely. Um, so when AWS launched this feature last, um, reinvent where basically it allowed, you know, channel partners such as Accenture to be able to bundle up their services, their data assets with an ISV solution and put it on marketplace, um, you know, Accenture and Elastic immediately saw an opportunity. [00:15:09] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, at the time most customers were doing gen ai. But they were running into the same challenge, which was that their data just was not ready. And by the way, this is a problem we were solving. Outside of marketplace. I think the, the feature that you guys launched just gave us a way to package it up and to be able to create this repeatable solution, which we call data readiness engine for gen ai and put it on marketplace. [00:15:40] Rekha Thangellapalli: And, um, this to me was a success because. Each company had a clear reason to invest. Um, so for Accenture, they were able to, you know, create a very differentiated services led offering. Uh, for Elastic, we were able to expand on our AI story. And for AWS, um, you know, it drives marketplace adoption, increases cloud consumption, all of that great stuff. [00:16:07] Rekha Thangellapalli: And customers, of course get. A solution to a very real problem that, that they were having. Um, and you know, the surprising part for me going through that journey was that, um. The pitching, the idea, getting the budget, getting the executive sponsorship was actually the easy part. The hard part was getting all three companies to come together, uh, to go from idea to launch in a very ambitious timeline of six weeks. [00:16:37] Rekha Thangellapalli: Nice. And so, you know, this was very much like. Doesn’t matter your title. We’re rolling up our sleeves and we are on this outcome together. Um, and so we literally built a RACI matrix, a project plan, and you know, we had daily standup calls for six weeks where literally. At least one person from each three of these companies called in, you know, got rid of any blockers and we made sure we were on target for that timeline. [00:17:07] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, and you know, at the end we had a successful launch. But I think my favorite part about the story is the impact that we’re having and, um. My favorite story comes from a global pharmaceutical company that, you know, had basically nine petabytes of data spread across six different continents. Wow. And by working with Accenture and Elastic, they were able to build that trusted foundation that their AI and their agents can, you know, kind of safely tap into and be accessible at scale. [00:17:41] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, so that’s my version. Allison. [00:17:44] Allison McFadden: Yeah. Well, I don’t have a lot to add. I just, I would say this is a good example of a couple of principles, right? One is having a forcing function is never a bad idea. Sign up for a big event, sign up. I’m like, I’m here with my, you know, Nvidia guys saying, sign up for the event. [00:17:58] Allison McFadden: It’ll make you move quick, right? [00:18:00] Audience Member: Yes. [00:18:00] Allison McFadden: Um, so that is one, but two, one of my mentors once told me, when you’re designing any kind of, you know, offering go to market motion, it has to get blood to all organs. If it does not get blood to all organs, it does not go [00:18:14] Vince Menzione: nice. [00:18:14] Allison McFadden: Um, [00:18:14] Vince Menzione: I love that analogy. [00:18:15] Allison McFadden: Oh, I love it. And I can talk all day. [00:18:17] Allison McFadden: That guy was brilliant. I love him. But, um, no, and, and so Elastic did a really nice job of bringing the tech to the table. Um, our team has to trust in that technology and its ability to scale, right? Um, because at Accenture we have to be able to deploy across 700,000 consultants. Um. And yeah, so I think those are the two, two things that really worked well here is we had, uh, trust in the technology solved a customer need. [00:18:50] Allison McFadden: Um, it drives, we don’t even talk about, like, yes, it drives marketplace revenue, but it unlocks work that we do that drives even more revenue to our AWS Friends. Right. So this is a, this is a, um, product that’s getting your data ready for AG agentic. It’s a messy problem that everyone’s dealing with, and it removes blockers for clients and it unlocks more, you know, ag agentic work on top of that. [00:19:15] Allison McFadden: So, blood to all organs. [00:19:17] Vince Menzione: So, was that the proposal going forward to say we need to have, we need to have trust in the solution. We need to drive significant revenue. It needs to be something all of our, you know, seven, 700,000 people. Can be a part of and help drive? Is that how you think about? [00:19:32] Allison McFadden: Yeah, and for us right now, um, it’s an interesting time for Accenture. [00:19:36] Allison McFadden: Our clients are asking a lot of us, and what it does is it having some of these accelerators helps us deliver cheaper, better, faster to our clients, which is what they’re demanding of us right now. Um, so it’s an accelerator to client outcomes. [00:19:55] Vince Menzione: James, what is NVIDIA’s role and how do, how do you enter the equation here? [00:20:00] James Kang: Yeah, it’s, um, it’s a good question. Um, I, I would say that Nvidia is probably one of the most misunderstood organizations in the world. Um, despite the, uh, the market capitalization in the valuation of the company, we have a very tiny organization. Um, what I mean by that is, um, if you think about. [00:20:20] James Kang: Salesforces and field sales organizations. Um, we’ll take Salesforce as the account or the customer. As an example, we have one account manager at NVIDIA that no, not only covers and is responsible for the relationship with Salesforce, um, but also manages. Automation Anywhere as well as DocuSign. Whereas at AWS, in contrast, like there are full armies and teams Yeah. [00:20:45] James Kang: That are supporting the Salesforce relationship. And so as you think about partnering and working with Nvidia, the focus has to be on really. Extreme co-design, but also being very prescriptive in terms of what are the very specific customer outcomes that we are solving for. And the guidance that I would give is bring in Nvidia into that equation and that conversation as early as possible because that [00:21:10] James Kang: co-engineering and co-design needs to be part of the foundational building blocks in order for you to come out with a end solution that checks all those different requirements. [00:21:20] James Kang: And so I think. Again, like going back to Nvidia, um, we like to talk about two different types of brains. A brain one and a brain two. Uh, brain One you think about the next quarter and making sure that you’re hitting the revenue targets for the next quarter. Brain two, you think about a long-term goals and potentials looking around corners and being very strategic. [00:21:41] James Kang: The saying internally is without Brain one, there is no oxygen, but without brain two, there is no future. And everyone at NVIDIA is trained to think in that brain two mentality. [00:21:52] Vince Menzione: Wow, Matt. [00:21:54] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah, I, I was just thinking I love the blood doll organs. Uh, and so just on, on that note, um, and, and, you know, the multi-product solutions that, that you, you built together, uh, that is a really good example of blood do organs because like we all know, that’s how customers buy. [00:22:07] Matt Yanchyshyn: They, they buy solutions and increasingly they’re looking for combinations of ISV, sometimes multiple products from multiple ISVs with services. Uh, often they’re buying it through a resell motion. You know, and they, and, and so that from a customer perspective, they want a single place to go. And so that’s the multi-product solution. [00:22:24] Matt Yanchyshyn: They wanna find everything they need, they need Accenture, they need Elastic to solve a specific solution. And I think where that’s headed is even more specific listings, like with AI powered listing experience, like, you know, elastic Plus Accenture for, I’ll make something up like a manufacturing workload. [00:22:37] Matt Yanchyshyn: And so this solution based. Uh, sort of buying is, is very customer centric. It’s what customers want. We all know that. But that’s, that’s the customer sort of organ, I guess. Um, but then, you know, you all have SCAs and those SCAs have marketplace commits. It helps if that gets transacted through marketplace helps the AWS relationship, you know that that’s an organ. [00:22:55] Matt Yanchyshyn: It’s the relationship. It’s, it’s the commercial construct and that you have, uh, that that’s another organ. You’re marketing people. They, that’s another organ. They don’t wanna land, uh, leads on a static marketing page. They wanna land a lead on a, a storefront with a multi-product solution that can actually convert and that you can actually buy it through that. [00:23:12] Matt Yanchyshyn: So the marketing person’s happy because they, they have less churn. Uh, and then, you know, our reps are happy ’cause guess how they get paid? They retire quota when they sell Marketplace. And they, we also, Jay McMain will tell you, that’s another organ called Jay or on, on you now. Um, [00:23:27] Matt Yanchyshyn: he’ll like that. I’ll call him up and tell him that. [00:23:29] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah, [00:23:30] Matt Yanchyshyn: but he, he’ll tell you, you know, don’t believe me. Obviously, never believe Matt, believe, believe the, the data and, and his data shows that. Those deals will close faster and larger if you use marketplace. So that’s, that’s a lot of organs. That’s the whole body. Um, but you know, when you have your customer happy ’cause that’s how they wanna buy your field happy. [00:23:45] Matt Yanchyshyn: Um, and, you know, the relationship happy and you know, your marketing team happy. Uh, and, and Jay happy. Um, and, and you know, I think that multi-product construct and, and the way you kind of use it to model a partnership and the way buyers ultimately wanna buy is, is really powerful. And so I, I think it’s, you know, it’s really a manifestation of how. [00:24:04] Matt Yanchyshyn: We kind of intend and to go to market anyway. Uh, so I think, you know, and thanks for leading the way, by the way. You’re, you’re amongst the very first, so that’s great to see. [00:24:11] Matt Yanchyshyn: So these storefronts are really helping this drive, drive this. Well, [00:24:13] Matt Yanchyshyn: that’s the next evolution. Like we’re talking about the multiproduct solution. [00:24:16] Allison McFadden: I’m JJ Accenture storefront. [00:24:17] Vince Menzione: Yeah. Oh, there you go. I mean, j and j Accenture storefront. [00:24:20] Allison McFadden: We’re gonna talk about that. [00:24:20] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah. I mean, [00:24:21] Matt Yanchyshyn: Accenture also leading the way yet again with storefronts. And so I think the combination of. You know, again, I was talking a lot about conversion. Yeah. And you know, buyers know sometimes they know what they wanna buy and, but if you really wanna convert that lead, you wanna land them again, something that combines, you know, elastic Accenture’s services plus software, but in a storefront that is, you know, surrounding with just the solutions they want so they don’t need to kind of go searching. [00:24:42] Matt Yanchyshyn: So, you know, ultimately reducing that time to close, I guess, really ’cause meeting the customer where they are with what they need. [00:24:51] Matt Yanchyshyn: So we talk about co-selling a little bit. We, Jay and I talk about this all the time. We gotta keep looping Jay in here, even though he is not even in town this week, but Reko, um, what does co-sell look like inside Elastic? [00:25:02] Matt Yanchyshyn: You’ve got, we talked about an incredible leadership team. I’ve gotten meet some of your leaders. Seems like you drive, you do a good job internally driving that. Let’s talk a little bit about it. [00:25:11] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah, and this is something I’m, I’m personally very passionate about. Um, co-sell is. Very much a journey, not a destination. [00:25:20] Rekha Thangellapalli: And I think step one for us is recognizing the different partner types that we have. Because at Elastic we work with, you know, OEMs, MSPs, resale distributors, GSIs, um, and they all bring something very unique. To the customer lifecycle and they all contribute very differently within, you know, our own sales cycle and sales process. [00:25:45] Rekha Thangellapalli: And so, you know, figuring out what is the unique benefit they bring, how do we enable them? So training and enablement is a huge piece of it, and so is making sure we’ve got the right metrics to measure success. Um, I know a lot of companies look at partner sourced as the north star, and that’s great, right? [00:26:06] Rekha Thangellapalli: Because that is undeniable. You can say, Hey, that would not exist if it wasn’t for my partner team. Um, but we’ve also noticed that when we bring in GSIs, it actually increases renewal rates. It significantly increases. Um, a RR over time. Um, it expands deal sizes and so these are very real metrics that we can point to, um, beyond just the co-sell and the partner sourced number. [00:26:32] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, so for us it’s looking at it from a very holistic perspective, but also catering it towards that unique partner and making sure we’re doing everything we can to set them up for success and setting up the partnership for success. [00:26:47] Vince Menzione: So clo close win ratios, deal size and renewal rates? [00:26:52] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yes. For specifically for geos size. [00:26:54] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah. [00:26:55] Vince Menzione: Very interesting. Allison, uh, what had to change internally to produce these co-selling? We talked a little bit about the field organization and enabling a, a group of, and, you know, account sellers that are very customer focused and enabling them on the co-sell side. What had to change internally to drive that? [00:27:13] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:27:14] Allison McFadden: I, I might have already alluded to this a little bit in a previous answer, but, um, creating the capacity to develop, build, and sell these solutions, um, inside of a large GSI, where billable hours is kind of the number one metric on the table. Um. Is part of the investment that we had to make within Accenture to get this done? [00:27:36] Audience Member: Yeah, [00:27:36] Allison McFadden: so expert technology time. So we have technologists that understand the elastic technology. We do similar with Nvidia, by the way, we. We released some of their time to go co-develop the solution because it has to hold technical water, right? It can’t just be a marketing pitch. It can’t just be, it has to be a real, um, what’s the there, there. [00:27:59] Allison McFadden: So in order to actually do proper co-sell, we had to release some of that time. Um, to invest in those partnerships. Um, we’ve also done similar with some industry aligned business development leaders recently, so we have freed their time up to go. Uh. Open new conversations, educate client, account teams, go to clients, have conversations. [00:28:26] Allison McFadden: Um, so that, that’s a new motion that we, uh, have just kind of recently made, um, to allow them, I love this brain one, brain two also, right? So to allow them to focus on brain two, because a lot of our time. Typically spent delivery issues, you know, getting my hours, where am I charging my time? And so just freeing up a little of that capacity to do this work, um, helps get us in this brain two mode where we’re not just living to survive. [00:28:56] Vince Menzione: I. So, Matt, you’ve removed a lot. I mean, one of the things I admire, I admire AWS for being first to market and removing the most friction in marketplace of any of the vendors. Really, truly that. You talked about some of the announcements. How does some of, how does some of this tie PC central agents propensity sales plays, MCP, how does some of this tie to how, how you’re thinking about the future? [00:29:18] Vince Menzione: And how to enable more motions like this. [00:29:20] Matt Yanchyshyn: Yeah. Well, I, I think if you know my boss, UBA Borno, uh, you’ll know that she has a maniacal focus on automation. Yeah. Um, and, uh, co-sell is increasingly automated. You know, you were asking earlier about propensity data. You can get that propensity data in addition to sales plays and, uh, opportunity scores through the partner central agents. [00:29:38] Matt Yanchyshyn: So things that used to require multiple calls to A PDM, if you’re lucky to have one. Yeah. Or a p sm. Uh, you, you can now get through, through these agents, you know, uh, tech Systems, TGS, they, they manage what, over 5,500 customer opportunities with agents that they built on top of our partner Central APIs. [00:29:55] Matt Yanchyshyn: Um, and work Span has built a whole product and business that’s right on leveraging, uh, our APIs, our capabilities to sort of tie into your CRM. So, majority of all opportunities will be progressed and managed by agents. This year at AWS, we already have a majority of all customer opportunities, all app have a partner attached and I, I took a personal goal for a majority of those partner attachments, not to happen from a human. [00:30:22] Matt Yanchyshyn: But from our solution matching engine. And how do you get recommended by that solution? Matching engine, having a healthy ACE pipeline, thanks to partner central agents and the integrations you’re doing. And in addition to being the specializations and doing things like multi-product solutions and ultimately closing opportunities, you dream of LAR and so LAR will help that. [00:30:40] Allison McFadden: It’s more like a nightmare. [00:30:41] Vince Menzione: And so, you know, [00:30:42] Allison McFadden: it’s more like a nightmare, but [00:30:44] Vince Menzione: nightmare. Well, it’s, it’s, yeah. Nightmare of Laura and, and. Nice dreams of PRM, but the, um, but that’s the loop, right? I, I think, uh, increasingly co-sell for us, and in my mind, is largely a hundred percent automated. Yeah. Except for what matters most, those most largest, most strategic, most complex deals. [00:31:01] Vince Menzione: Where our highly paid and very skilled salespeople are most effectively used. [00:31:05] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:31:05] Vince Menzione: You know, the days of, you know, this person with 20 years experience selling, clicking, progressing opportunities through a pipeline, uh, should be over. Uh, and, and we need those people out, out selling and, and co-selling. And so that for me. [00:31:19] Vince Menzione: Yeah. That, you know, we talk a lot about co-sell, but I, I’m obsessed with automating as much of the co-sell as possible. [00:31:24] Vince Menzione: I remember going back to the ex Excel spreadsheets and, and that, that seems to be be Viva became spreadsheet jockeys. [00:31:31] Vince Menzione: Yeah. [00:31:32] Vince Menzione: And, and they stopped selling. They forgot how to sell. [00:31:34] Vince Menzione: Yeah. And people spend all this time doing lunch and learns and things like that. [00:31:36] Vince Menzione: And then, you know. Then the salespeople rotate out after 18 months and, and it, that’s, that’s the old days. Uh, you know, the new days are, are AI powered matching algorithms, uh, ag agentic co-sell, using the partner essential agents to get your data and, and putting that data to use automatically and, and what sounded like magic. [00:31:51] Vince Menzione: 12 months ago is being done, you know, by partners at massive scale across thousands of opportunities. You can do it today. And you know, I, there’s a guy named another Mike, right? Mike another Mike who they have, there’s like a guy who’s doing all this and I’m picking on Mike ’cause I, I know their system really well and I know the guy Mike grew easily built it for them. [00:32:08] Vince Menzione: Um, but, you know, I think, yeah, again, in the days of having 10 people sort of doing lunch and learn could be replaced by one or two people, building agents, uh, managing a massive pipeline. And, and that’s the future. [00:32:18] Vince Menzione: Exactly. James, your perspective on what breaks with co-selling? [00:32:22] James Kang: Oh, what breaks co-sell? Um, I would say. [00:32:25] James Kang: It, it starts and finishes with just misalignment and a loss of trust with the customer, especially when you have multiple partners or stakeholders involved. If you’re trying to do a three-way deal with a end customer and you’re not on the same page, you’re not gonna get to a successful outcome on, on the backend. [00:32:44] James Kang: Uh, the fix is a much more complicated story. I would say that to take a step back, um. We’ve talked about the five layer cake. We’ve talked about where NVIDIA kind of fits within the equation. We are invested in the ecosystem and so as different players and application organizations win and see these outcomes for end customers, we celebrate that success. [00:33:07] James Kang: Um, and as part of that kind of ethos of where NVIDIA fits within the ecosystem, we wanna make sure that not only. Our customers, but our partners like ISVs and GSIs are set up for success. Um, we do not as Nvidia sell hardware or GPUs directly to customers We use. Hyperscalers like AWS as kind of our force multiplier. [00:33:31] James Kang: And similarly we think of ISVs and GSIs as the force multipliers in terms of our extensions of how we, we kind of leverage the relationships and build the trust with our end customers. And so going back to kind of the question, Vince, I would say that it all comes back to trust and being able to build that mutual trust. [00:33:48] James Kang: Um, a lot of what we do when we co-sell with AWS is really on the software layer. Um, we actually have more software engineers at NVIDIA than we have hardware engineers, which is a weird thing to say, um, because everyone knows us for our GPUs. But because of that fact, we are heavily invested in Cuda and making sure that Cuda becomes the foundational layer for how not only our ISVs and GSIs, but also our end customers are building. [00:34:12] Vince Menzione: Very cool. So Reiki, you and James together on this production. Versus pilot with the Gentech ai. Tell us a little bit more about that. Where, where are you in the process? [00:34:24] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah. So I mean, in general, what we’re seeing out in the market in, in relation to sort of AI and, and customer’s journeys is that, um, at least from an elastic perspective, um, we’re seeing people very much in production when it comes to, you know, kind of AI assistant co-pilot use cases. [00:34:42] Rekha Thangellapalli: So, you know, things like, um, software development, customer support is a big one. Um, any sort of employee productivity use cases where there’s. Still a human in the loop somewhere. Um, and there’s a very like, clear path to value. And so we see the customers being in production excelling there. Um, no problem. [00:35:01] Rekha Thangellapalli: Where we’re seeing people still kind of in the pilot phase is those fully autonomous workflows where there is no human involved. The agent is reasoning on its own. Um, accessing multiple systems and taking an action on the user’s behalf. And what we’re seeing is that it’s not the intelligence of the agent that’s holding it back. [00:35:26] Rekha Thangellapalli: It’s more about giving the right context to the agent and having the right. Security kind of governance controls in place for the company to feel comfortable in putting these fully autonomous workflows into production. And that’s really the conversation we’re having is all right, what are the controls you need in place? [00:35:47] Rekha Thangellapalli: For you to release this to your business unit. Um, and what is the context that the agent is needed before we can comfortably let the agent make the decision on the user’s behalf? Um, James, I’d be interested to hear what you’re, what you’re seeing in the market [00:36:03] James Kang: plus one on all things context. I, I would even go so far as to say, um. [00:36:09] James Kang: H how many folks in the audience have heard of token maxing? Like this new term? [00:36:13] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah. Yeah. [00:36:14] James Kang: Um, I’ll, I’ll give a very specific example of, of Uber that went public. With the example of Claude, like they allowed all of their employees to use as many tokens as possible, and within the span of four months, they exhausted their full budget for the year, and so they had to pull back, and now there’s a cap on every employee. [00:36:33] James Kang: I think the number that’s circulating is $1,500 per month per employee, and so I think that is at least. In this multi-phase evolution of where we’re going to be and where we’re today, cost has become kind of the prohibitive force in terms of agentic AI at scale. Um, I think we are working on some very creative solutions in-house and Nvidia. [00:36:55] James Kang: Um. And we saw some really dynamic announcements this week when it comes to all things agent core, um, where we want to focus on very nimble ways for customers to be able to execute and go to market. And one extreme example of that is our investment within our open model strategy. So Nvidia, not only, again, providing GPUs, we actually offer our own op open models, which we call our Nitron models. [00:37:21] James Kang: And through our Nitron models, we are allowing customers to really develop and fine tune their own proprietary models in a cost effective manner. So right alongside the frontier models like OpenAI and Anthropic. It’s not a if then, it’s not an either or statement. It’s a, it’s a permutation, it’s an and So we’re giving you a cost effective alternative to not only bring your AgTech applications at scale by training on Nibo tron, which is open source, but then once you’ve kind of finished and fine tuned that specific training job to be able to. [00:37:53] James Kang: Go ahead and utilize your frontier models, whether it be OpenAI or Claude. And I know there’s other partners here that are providing those kind of different model capabilities. And so I think for us it’s, it’s a matter of choice. We know that this market is dynamic. It’s gonna be evolving over the next coming months as well as the next coming years. [00:38:10] James Kang: Uh, but we believe that we are positioned for a really unique dynamic expansion of AgTech use cases over the, at least the next three to six months. [00:38:20] Vince Menzione: Allison, for the partners in the room who are glazed over right now going, what do I, what do I do over the next 12 months? [00:38:26] Allison McFadden: Should I wake everybody up by saying, yeah, please. [00:38:27] Allison McFadden: Say go hurricanes. [00:38:28] Vince Menzione: Yes. [00:38:29] Allison McFadden: Is there anyone, anybody? Everyone’s like, boo. I get to leave the parade today to go home to parade. I live in Raleigh, so we’ve got our parade on Saturday. Nice. [00:38:39] Vince Menzione: Nice. [00:38:40] Allison McFadden: All right. Wake up. Um, all right. So for the $50 million partners in the room, um. $50 million is not small. You have something that works. [00:38:50] Allison McFadden: Right. This is great. What I would be thinking about is, you know, we’ve talked about focus before, but really doubling down on, you know, what is, what is your industry, what is your client like, ideal client that you serve. And build, um, almost that kind of community. You know, the, the clients we have move from firm to firm to firm. [00:39:17] Allison McFadden: And if you’ve done good work at one, you’re gonna follow ’em to the next. Um, so build that client demand in a specific place or specific client profile that is just like really knocking it out out of the park for you. Um. Scale with marketplace, right? So if you, I, I love some of the data that you were sharing in your talk earlier, um, because it’s like no overhead scaling mechanism. [00:39:45] Allison McFadden: I mean, it’s, it’s fantastic. Um, Accenture, other GSIs like us, we are investing in marketplace. So we’re investing in resources, um, to help us. Use marketplace more with our clients and we’re gonna capture, right, those storefronts. And if you’re present on marketplace, you’re gonna be able to catch, uh, yourself in that wheel. [00:40:09] Allison McFadden: So I think those are the, the kind of couple of things I would say is focus, focus, focus to drive that client demand and use scaling mechanisms like marketplace to really kind of, uh, accelerate. [00:40:24] Vince Menzione: Matt, anything to add there on the. [00:40:26] Vince Menzione: Well just, you know, Ja, James, you, I love the token maxing reference in Uber and it reminds me, you remember when cloud came out and everyone was like, oh, all these people are, are gonna use the cloud and costs are outta control and. [00:40:39] Vince Menzione: Um, a lot of people pulled back from the cloud and, and a lot of those companies no longer exist. And it’s similar with, with, uh, token maxing, like, oh, these agents are outta control. You have a choice. You can embrace them and figure it out and get governance and, and make your data available. Um, use the partner, central agent, move to agent to co-sell, or you can fade and die. [00:40:58] Vince Menzione: And, and that’s, that’s where we’re at. Uh, is, is the, the companies sitting here today embraced the cloud years ago and won. Uh, and and there’s a set of companies here today who are gonna embrace agents in the, for both buyers and sellers, and will win. And there are those who won’t and they won’t win. And so for me, it’s like we’re, we’re at a, we’re at a crossroads. [00:41:18] Vince Menzione: And, and if you’re gonna win, you gotta leap into that, you know? I love it. And, uh, and, and, and it’s, it means the cost of experimentation is so much lower now. Development and, and even business development or software development is, is agent enabled. And so you can take risks, you can experiment and, and you have to, it’s, it’s an existential moment. [00:41:37] Vince Menzione: Agreed. We’ve got a couple minutes left over for any questions. What do you think? Sure. Are there any here. I think there are a couple. Yeah, we’ve got, we’ve got a co-sell question I’m sure coming up here. [00:41:51] Audience Member: Um, I’m Cassandra, I’m the CEO of Partner Tap. And one of the questions I had was, I think, you know, the co-selling between the sellers is where things get. Really, really hard when you’re multi-partner. And so when I was listening, um, with, you know, the Accenture and Elastic together, you talked about how you had, you, you had to get these BD business development people. [00:42:22] Audience Member: Um, is this a new team that is over the client team? And how do these teams interact like with the elastic sellers? Are you doing a lot of coaching to the field and then with if AWS sellers are, are involved, like what is that whole picture? What does look like, [00:42:43] Allison McFadden: like [00:42:44] Audience Member: on the ground? I mean, that is the hardest part, I think, and that’s what we hear. [00:42:48] Allison McFadden: It’s so, it’s so, it’s so tough. Um, and I will, I’ll just say, so our business development leaders that we now have kind of. Expanded their capacity. They have always been, they have always been there. Um, but they have not been well resourced. They haven’t, they haven’t had very clear kind of job description. [00:43:12] Allison McFadden: I’m gonna say I, in the past they have been kind of focused on partner relationship. And so like more like an alliance manager and maybe working on some of the data. Right? So when I say I have nightmares about Lars, because we’re always trying to increase the LAR for Accenture and, and they were focused like in those detailed weeds of like trying to pass ACE and trying to call the PDM and all this stuff. [00:43:39] Allison McFadden: What we are doing is really pivoting them to be proper sales, business development focused on client outcomes and focused on. Technical skills to be able to describe what this solution is to the field. So, um, and because we need, I have many, many questions about, I gotta get agents to work with Eurogen co-sell so that that part somehow goes away. [00:44:05] Allison McFadden: So that’s a, that’s the thing we gotta solve still, but, um, so we’re pivoting them to be kind of driving. More of that co-sell enablement with the field, um, and taking that message to the field rather than being there, waiting for questions to come in from the field, waiting for like our field teams to discover, oh, I saw something that we’re doing with Elastic, like on a press release on LinkedIn. [00:44:30] Allison McFadden: Right. So we’re kind of trying to pivot them to be more proactive. [00:44:33] Vince Menzione: Very cool. [00:44:34] Rekha Thangellapalli: Yeah. And uh, Cassandra, that’s an excellent question because I think. Multi-party, you know, sort of tri-party offerings. The hardest part is operationalizing it at scale, right? Yeah. And so for this particular offering, we are basically having three routes to market. [00:44:51] Rekha Thangellapalli: So one is seeing how this offering fits into our existing elastic go to market. And so I am constantly enabling our field sellers to say, okay, within our three field sales place, here’s exactly where this fits in. Here are, you know, uh. Keywords that you hear in customer conversations where you bring up this offering and here’s a process of how it works. [00:45:14] Rekha Thangellapalli: Um, exactly At what sales stage do I bring in Accenture, how, you know, what are the roles and expectations? Right? So that’s on the elastic side. We’re doing the same thing on the Accenture side. So we’re doing a ton of training enablement and lunch and learns, and we’re also looking at how do we fit into. [00:45:31] Rekha Thangellapalli: Uh, Accenture’s AI transformation projects, we are the semantic layer, right, of their enterprise brain. And so it’s a whole different sales motion, um, and, you know, having the right assets, having the right process again to make sure that that goes smoothly. And then finally, we’re going directly to the customer. [00:45:49] Rekha Thangellapalli: So we are launching multiple external campaigns where, you know, if the customer raises their hand. We will, we will line up immediately. Right. Um, and so, [00:46:01] Allison McFadden: I mean, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t say how important that third leg of the stool is. ’cause the second part, she talked about getting into our catalog is the first thing. [00:46:09] Allison McFadden: ’cause my BU business development leaders have the catalog. Right. And that’s what they’re selling. So what Elastic has done has gotten into one of those offerings and then. If we have a customer that asks for it, that is the fastest way to alignment. That is like the number one thing that we respond to [00:46:26] Vince Menzione: customer at the center. [00:46:27] Vince Menzione: This is great. Well, I think we’re up to time. This was a great session. I want to thank you. This is what a great, what a great group. [00:46:34] Vince Menzione: Thanks for listening to the Ultimate Partner Podcast. If today’s conversation resonated, share it with a partner leader in your network. 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The memory chip industry has historically been plagued by vicious boom-and-bust cycles, but Micron is taking aggressive steps to rewrite the rules. In this episode of Chip Stock Investor, we discuss Strategic Customer Agreements (SCAs). We break down the "take-or-pay" contracts, explaining how they protect Micron from the sudden order cancellations and double-booking panics that burned the industry in 2022 and 2023. With competitors like Samsung and SK hynix also completely sold out of capacity, Micron is actively leveraging its position to lock in upfront cash deposits and secure its long-term financial runway. The Take-or-Pay Mechanism: How Micron's new agreements force customers to either take delivery of the product or pay a pre-agreed minimum cancellation charge to protect Micron's bottom line. A $100 Billion Backlog: Exploring the massive pipeline generated by these SCAs, which are expected to make up about 40% of Micron's total revenue over the next five years. Locked-In Terms: A detailed look at the five-year contracts for hyperscalers (running from calendar 2026 through 2030) and three-year contract terms for automotive customers. Pricing Safeguards: How these contracts are structured using floor prices, ceiling prices for existing products, and fixed rates to stabilize revenue against market volatility. $22 Billion in Upfront Cash: Why tech giants and hyperscalers are depositing billions directly onto Micron's balance sheet to guarantee their spot in line for memory chips. The Albemarle Blueprint: What Albemarle's long-term lithium contracts can teach us about how Micron's SCAs might help them weather future oversupply environments and market downcycles. Resources Mentioned:For a growing library of tools for your analysis of semiconductor companies, visit chipstockinvestor.com. Don't forget to hit follow on Spotify so you never miss an episode!

On Episode 310 of The Six Five Pod, Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman unpack the biggest stories from the week, including insights from Qualcomm Investor Day 2026, OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño AI chip, Anthropic's Micron partnership, SpaceX's massive Reflection AI compute deal, Sakana AI's new Fugu orchestrator, and why memory is emerging as a critical layer of AI infrastructure. Plus, Bulls & Bears covers NVIDIA's $25B bond offering, Apple's MacBook price increases, Micron's record quarter, and Cerebras' first earnings as a public company. The handpicked topics for this week are: Qualcomm Investor Day 2026 — The Data Center Debut: Pat and Dan break down Qualcomm's push into the data center after the company took the stage with Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg as named customers. They unpack the new Dragonfly platform, including the C1000 250-core data center CPU with PCIe Gen 7 and CXL, the AI200 and AI250 inference accelerators, and a novel High Bandwidth Compute (HBC) architecture that stacks compute under LPDDR memory at dramatically lower cost than HBM. They highlight Qualcomm's ambitious growth targets: $15B data center revenue target for FY 2029, an increased total non-handset revenue goal from $22B to  $40B, and a shortened timeline for automotive revenue by two years. They also debate the identity of Qualcomm's unnamed hyperscaler customer and why its robotics opportunity may be flying under the radar. (The Decode) OpenAI and Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño, OpenAI's First Custom Chip: A photo of Sam Altman and Hock Tan holding a wafer and packaged die kicked off OpenAI's reveal of Jalapeño, a custom inference chip built with Broadcom and slated for late-2026 deployment. The chip reached tape-out in roughly nine months, which is an aggressive cycle for an ASIC of this size, and uses HBM3E memory. Pat takes a victory lap on his long-standing heterogeneous compute thesis: every hyperscaler and now every model lab is building accelerators, and the XPU efficiency argument has played out as predicted. Dan frames OpenAI's broader move as existential: they cannot serve frontier models at premium margins if compute remains constrained. He flags that OpenAI is trying to do everything from chips and fabs to social networks and browsers, and that its IPO is now delayed. (The Decode)   Anthropic and Micron Sign a Strategic Multi-Year Memory Agreement: Anthropic and Micron announced a multi-year supply agreement for HBM, DRAM, and SSDs, including co-designed next-generation memory for AI workloads, along with a strategic investment by Anthropic in Micron. The pattern mirrors Samsung and SK Hynix's pre-funding Anthropic in May, and follows OpenAI's Jalapeño as another frontier lab moving to lock in supply chain control. Dan frames it as the same circular financing playbook NVIDIA ran two to three years ago, but with the ball now in the memory triopoly's court. Pricing-floor agreements with no ceilings, customized rather than commoditized memory architecture, and demand running well past the previously assumed 2027-2028 horizon. Pat notes that the rumored 14% free cash flow margin at Anthropic makes the strategic investment math work cleanly for both sides. (The Decode)   SpaceX Signs $6.3B Compute Deal with Reflection AI: SpaceX inked a $6.3B compute lease with open-source AI lab Reflection AI, at $150M per month from July 2026 through 2029, giving Reflection access to NVIDIA GB300 chips inside the Colossus infrastructure. Combined with the $920M-per-month Google compute contract and existing xAI commitments, SpaceX now has a contracted backlog larger than most public AI startups' entire revenue base, with some calling it the largest commercial AI infrastructure provider at $80B in contracted revenue. Pat reads it as XAI failing to land with developers, consumers, or enterprises, leaving SpaceX with a pot of gold worth far more as wholesale capacity than as XAI's own training compute. Dan flags that Google owning 7% of SpaceX ahead of an IPO is not accidental, and the open question is whether this becomes a Nebius-style infrastructure trade or a full-stack Google-equivalent platform. (The Decode)   Japan's Agentic Orchestrator Sakana AI Ships Fugu Plus and Fugu Ultra: Japan's Sakana AI released Fugu Plus and Fugu Ultra, an agentic orchestrator built on a multi-agent MOE approach that routes workloads across multiple underlying models rather than training a new frontier base model. Sakana claims agentic capabilities on par with or better than top frontier models at significantly lower input/output token costs, similar to the DeepSeek and GLM cost-undercut narrative. Pat compares the architecture to OpenRouter and notes the developer-facing parallel to Perplexity Computer's model-routing approach. Both agree that models themselves are no longer moats, and suggests the real moat is the harness, tooling, connectivity, looping, agentic stack, and total compute availability. Expect more sovereign agentic plays from Japan, the Middle East, and elsewhere on the same template. (The Decode)   The Flip — Is the Era of Memory as a Commodity Over? Daniel takes the FOR side: memory has moved from commodity to strategic AI infrastructure, citing 16 multi-year agreements covering $22B in committed volume booked through 2027, 84.9% gross margins higher than NVIDIA's, the technology barriers of HBM yield/stacking/packaging that only three companies can clear, and demand drivers tied to HBM as the binding constraint on every AI accelerator rather than to elastic consumer cycles. Patrick takes the AGAINST side: long-term agreements and SCAs signal a commodity in a strong cycle, not a structural rerating; nearly every relevant memory standard — DDR5, MRDIMM, HBM3/3E/4, LPDDR5X/6, GDDR6/7, LPCAM2 — is JEDEC-standard and therefore commodity at the pin; and CXMT's China DDR5 production ramps in 2H 2026 with Lenovo already shipping and HP and Dell qualifying. Custom HBM4 and Qualcomm-style HBC are where strategic memory genuinely lives. (The Flip)   NVIDIA's $25B Investment-Grade Bond Offering: NVIDIA priced a $25B multi-tranche bond offering on June 15, its first investment-grade debt sale since 2021, with seven tranches maturing between 2028 and 2056 and $85B in orders against an initial $20B target. Dan reads it as raising when capital is cheap, and oversubscription is real. NVIDIA doesn't need the money, it has a gold balance sheet, and is establishing a credit benchmark rather than funding CapEx. Pat agrees the optics are clean, but flags the irony of NVIDIA, with negative debt, borrowing while the stock trades like dead money at a sub-20x forward P/E. Both note that NVIDIA's underperformance reflects the market's skepticism on memory-as-strategic and on NVIDIA's own capex pace relative to the buildout opportunity ahead. (Bulls & Bears)   Tim Cook Calls Apple's Memory Crunch Price Raises on MacBook and iPad "Unsustainable": Apple announced MacBook and iPad price increases of up to $300, with Tim Cook telling the WSJ the memory cost environment is unsustainable. AAPL fell ~5% on the news, the broader rally was momentarily wiped out before Micron held the gains by close. Dan frames it as a moment when the market saw who is going to pay for the AI buildout: the consumer. He notes Apple's pricing power and inelasticity test is now live. Pat traces the backstory to Apple's negative-margin pricing pressure on Micron during the 2022-2023 memory downturn. The question is whether consumer-price blowback will eventually flow back to the memory vendors. (Bulls & Bears)   Micron Blows the Doors Off Fiscal Q3 — $41.46B Revenue, 84.9% Gross Margin: The memory story continues as Micron reported its largest beat in company history with fiscal Q3 revenue of $41.46B versus a $35.69B consensus, EPS of $25.11, year-over-year growth of more than 340%, and a record 84.9% gross margin that is roughly 10 points above NVIDIA's. Q4 guidance came in at a $50B midpoint against a $43B consensus. The 16 multi-year strategic customer agreements add up to $22B in committed volume, with most contracts containing pricing floors but no ceilings on most of the volume — a structurally asymmetric setup. Pat notes 95% of the beat came from price, not units, which reinforces his commodity argument; Dan flips it as the early innings of an NVIDIA-style run that puts Micron's 2027 profit on par with Google. (Bulls & Bears)   Cerebras' First Earnings Report Since IPO — Revenue Doubles, Margins Compress: Cerebras (CBRS) reported its first earnings as a public company, doubling year-over-year revenue and beating the top line while missing EPS, but the stock sold off hard amid gross margin deterioration. Core revenue came in at $191M, up 12% sequentially, with a $194M Q2 guide that is essentially flat, core gross margins at 47% guiding to 36-38% and 38-41% for the year, and operating margins flipping from positive 2% to a guided -30% to -32%. Customer concentration is shifting from Core42 and G42 (86% of FY25 revenue) to OpenAI, which loaned Cerebras $1B and gets paid quarterly in warrants. Pat flags that Cerebras' uncontested speed claim is no longer uncontested with Groq, TPU v8i, and Tenstorrent putting up real numbers. Cathie Wood is down 52% on her position. (Bulls & Bears) Watch the full video at sixfivemedia.com, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you never miss an episode. The Decode Qualcomm Investor Day Lands the Data Center Pivot — Microsoft Deploying Qualcomm HBC XPUs in Azure (Per Satya Nadella) + Meta MOU on Three New Qualcomm Datacenter CPUs (Per Zuckerberg); $3.9B Modular Acquisition; Dragonfly Brand + AI200/AI250 Roadmap; HUMAIN 200MW Ramp; Qualcomm to Become Largest Automotive Silicon Company; Targets $3B Datacenter Revenue FY27, $35B by FY31 https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/qualcomm-investor-day-detail-data-163247063.html  OpenAI Begins Vertical Integration — First Custom Inference Chip "Jalapeño" Unveiled With Broadcom June 24 (Hock Tan: As Good as Blackwell + TPU; ~50% Cost Savings; Late-2026 Microsoft Deployment, 10GW Multi-Gen Roadmap); Daybreak Cyber Stack (June 22) Confirms the Platform Shift https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069770172802773292  Frontier AI Labs Are Now Financing Their Own Supply Chains — Anthropic Locks In Multi-Year Micron HBM/DRAM/SSD Supply + Micron Becomes Series H Investor; Same Pattern as Samsung + SK hynix Pre-Funded Anthropic in May; $965B Post-Money, $47B Revenue Run-Rate, October IPO Target https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-and-anthropic-announce-strategic-agreement-scale-next  SpaceX Signs $6.3B Compute Deal With Reflection AI — $150M/Month July 2026 → End of 2029; NVIDIA GB300 + Colossus 2 Capacity; SpaceX Now Largest Commercial AI Infrastructure Provider With $80B+ Committed Compute Revenue Through 2029 https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/spacex-reportedly-grant-reflection-ai-162749237.html  The Sovereign AI Stack Lands — Japan's Sakana Ships Fugu + Fugu Ultra Multi-Agent System (June 22) That Beats Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on 10 of 11 Benchmarks; Designed Around US Export-Control Risk; Completes the Three-Bloc Sovereign-AI Map With Mistral Compute (Europe) + DeepSeek $7.4B (China) https://www.datacamp.com/blog/sakana-fugu  The Flip Is the Era of Memory as a Commodity Over? FOR: Memory is now strategic AI infrastructure with multi-year supply lock-ins. The cycle dynamics that defined the last 30 years no longer apply. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/06/60062500/micron-earnings-could-echo-nvidias-2023-moment-says-futurum-ceo  AGAINST: Memory is cyclical and priced for perfection. This print is either step change or top of the cycle, and the second one is more likely. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/apple-macbook-ipad-price-hike-memory.html Bulls & Bears NVIDIA (NVDA) $25B Bond Sale Anchors the AI Debt-Finance Boom — First Bond Offering Since 2021; Joins Alphabet $80B, Amazon $27.5B, Meta $30B, Oracle Stack; Dan: "Locking In Cheap Capital While It Can" https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/nvidia-record-us-25-billion-131039687.html  Apple (AAPL) Falls −5%+ Thursday June 25 on Confirmed MacBook + iPad Price Hikes — Tim Cook RAM "Unsustainable" Comment Lands as Real Price Action; Apple Hikes Erase Micron-Driven Tech Rally Mid-Session; Memory Beneficiaries (SanDisk, Micron) Surge; Analysts "Mostly Nonplussed" https://tickerspark.ai/market/apple-inc-aapl-drops-5-3-as-price-hikes-spook-investors-1782399950638  Micron (MU) Q3 FY26 ACTUALS — Largest Beat in Company History; Revenue $41.46B (+346% YoY) Crushes $35.69B Consensus; Non-GAAP EPS $25.11 (+1,215% YoY) Beats $20.49; Record 84.9% Gross Margin (Higher Than NVIDIA); Q4 Guide $50B Midpoint vs $43B Consensus; Stock +18-19% Overnight to $1,242 https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nvda-who-micron-blows-doors-q3-earnings-revs  Cerebras Systems (CBRS) Q1 ACTUALS — First Earnings Post-IPO; Revenue $193.4M Nearly Doubled YoY; 2026 Guide $855-$865M Beats $824M; BUT Gross Margins Forecast 38-41% (Down From 45% Q1, Half of NVIDIA + Micron); Stock −20% AH on Margin Compression; Sets Up Inference-Tier Margin Debate https://investors.cerebras.ai/news-releases/news-release-details/cerebras-systems-announces-strong-first-quarter-2026-results  

On this weeks episode Brendan sits down with Dr. Jérôme Marty, Executive Director of the International Association of Great Lakes Research & Dr. Kathryn Peiman, Executive Director of the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences to discuss their upcoming joint conference in Winnipeg happening May 25-29th! The four day conference is being hosted by the International Institute of Sustainable Development - Experimental Lakes Area.   The conference theme—Connected Waters: Bridging Communities & Ideas—reflects commitment to fostering dialogue across scientific, Indigenous, and local knowledge systems. It recognizes that healthy waters are sustained through relationships among diverse communities, disciplines, ecosystems, and ways of knowing, and it underscores the importance of collaboration in addressing aquatic challenges across Canada, the Great Lakes, and beyond. From discussions around why now is the time for the joint conference, to the exciting sessions and inclusion of groups from all over a number of fields, places, and people, we dive into some of the big reasons you should make your way out to Winnipeg next month.     You can find more about the conference here, as well as registering: https://iaglr.org/iaglr-scas26/    Get in touch with us! The Fisheries Podcast is on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky: @FisheriesPod  Become a Patron of the show: https://www.patreon.com/FisheriesPodcast Buy podcast shirts, hoodies, stickers, and more: https://teespring.com/stores/the-fisheries-podcast-fan-shop Thanks as always to Andrew Gialanella for the fantastic intro/outro music. The Fisheries Podcast is a completely independent podcast, not affiliated with a larger organization or entity. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the podcast. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by the hosts are those of that individual and do not necessarily reflect the view of any entity with those individuals are affiliated in other capacities (such as employers).  

I säsongens fjärde avsnitt är Håkan Persson gäst, han är ansvarig för SCAs kontor i Hongkong och för försäljningen av trävaror i Asien. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna pratar Håkan om träprodukter i asiatiska länder, och berättar exempelvis om olika behov och förutsättningar på den stora kontinenten. Att jobba i ett annat land med annan kultur innebär också att man behöver vara förberedd på nya utmaningar och situationer. Både i jobbet och vid sidan av. Håkan har jobbat i många länder och delar med sig av sina erfarenheter.

In January 2026, the ACOG released its Practice Advisory on Screening for fetal Chromosomal Abnormalities. This comes after its Nov 2025 endorsement of the SMFM's Consult Series #74, “Cell-free DNA screening for aneuploidies: Updated guidance”. In this episode we will review the key parts of this PA. Is screening for microdeletions recommended? PLUS, we will focus on cfDNA for sex chromosomal abnormalities. Should screening for sex chromosomal abnormalities (SCAs) be an “opt in” or “opt out” process for patients? What are nest steps after an abnormal SCA screening result? Are commercial tests available for fetal gender recommended? Listen in for details. 1. ACOG PA Jan 2026: https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-advisory/articles/2026/01/screening-for-fetal-chromosomal-abnormalities?utm_source=higher-logic&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Jan-07&utm_campaign=acog2026-digest2. Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Consult Series #74: Cell-free DNA screening for aneuploidies: Updated guidance1 in November 2025.

I säsongens andra avsnitt är SCAs hållbarhetschef Per Funkquist gäst. Han berättar om hållbarhetsfrågor som är viktiga för SCA och skogsindustrin. Det gäller bland annat ramverk för hållbarhet och vad SCA gör för att stärka sin position. Han går även in på förordningar, och andras synsätt på hållbarhetsområdet. Per och poddvärdarna pratar också om vikten för skogsindustrin att lyfta fram hållbara alternativ, exempelvis substitution där förnybara produkter kan ersätta fossilbaserade råvaror. Inte minst för att öka den allmänna kännedomen om att vad man väljer kan gör stor skillnad.

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Andrew Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of the National Ataxia Foundation, has a dual mission of accelerating research for treatments and cures for Ataxia while supporting the patients affected by this rare disease. Ataxia describes both a group of hereditary genetic diseases and symptoms of lack of coordination seen in other conditions.  While genetic tests exist for hereditary Ataxia, a significant challenge in drug development has been the lack of a reliable biomarker. To encourage drug development, NAF has funded translational research and the world's most extensive study for SCAs, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, providing new data on the progression of the disease and for the design of future trials. Andrew explains, "NAF has been around for a long time. We were founded in the late 1950s by a neurologist in western Minnesota who had a disease called Ataxia in his family. And NAF's mission has really been twofold ever since that. Our formal statement is that we are trying to accelerate the development of treatments and a cure while working to improve the lives of those living with Ataxia. And so we really focus on research and support. We do a lot in the research world. We fund grants for researchers who are looking into the various types of Ataxia. You'd be hard pressed to find an Ataxia researcher in the world, I think I can say now at this point that hasn't received a grant from NAF at one time or another in their career. We also do a lot of translational-type research. We fund the largest natural history study in Ataxias."   "So, the term ataxia itself is even complex because it both describes a genetic disease, and I think of that as capital 'A' - Ataxia, but it's also a symptom of many other conditions. So small 'a', if you will. Ataxia just means a lack of coordination. It comes from a Greek word. And so what I mean by both hereditary and other things is if you, for instance, have too much to drink, you would show signs of Ataxia. You might stumble when you walk, and your speech might be slurred. Those are the two classic symptoms of hereditary Ataxia. Right. So that's really the Ataxias that we at NAF focus on. So hereditary, as in passed from parent to child, there are several hundred forms of hereditary Ataxia, and they continue to find more as more specific genetic mutations are discovered year after year now."  #NationalAtaxiaFoundation #Ataxia #PatientAdvocacy #RareDisease #SCA ataxia.org Download the transcript here

Andrew Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of the National Ataxia Foundation, has a dual mission of accelerating research for treatments and cures for Ataxia while supporting the patients affected by this rare disease. Ataxia describes both a group of hereditary genetic diseases and symptoms of lack of coordination seen in other conditions.  While genetic tests exist for hereditary Ataxia, a significant challenge in drug development has been the lack of a reliable biomarker. To encourage drug development, NAF has funded translational research and the world's most extensive study for SCAs, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, providing new data on the progression of the disease and for the design of future trials. Andrew explains, "NAF has been around for a long time. We were founded in the late 1950s by a neurologist in western Minnesota who had a disease called Ataxia in his family. And NAF's mission has really been twofold ever since that. Our formal statement is that we are trying to accelerate the development of treatments and a cure while working to improve the lives of those living with Ataxia. And so we really focus on research and support. We do a lot in the research world. We fund grants for researchers who are looking into the various types of Ataxia. You'd be hard pressed to find an Ataxia researcher in the world, I think I can say now at this point that hasn't received a grant from NAF at one time or another in their career. We also do a lot of translational-type research. We fund the largest natural history study in Ataxias."   "So, the term ataxia itself is even complex because it both describes a genetic disease, and I think of that as capital 'A' - Ataxia, but it's also a symptom of many other conditions. So small 'a', if you will. Ataxia just means a lack of coordination. It comes from a Greek word. And so what I mean by both hereditary and other things is if you, for instance, have too much to drink, you would show signs of Ataxia. You might stumble when you walk, and your speech might be slurred. Those are the two classic symptoms of hereditary Ataxia. Right. So that's really the Ataxias that we at NAF focus on. So hereditary, as in passed from parent to child, there are several hundred forms of hereditary Ataxia, and they continue to find more as more specific genetic mutations are discovered year after year now."  #NationalAtaxiaFoundation #Ataxia #PatientAdvocacy #RareDisease #SCA ataxia.org Listen to the podcast here

På SCA är ekonomi mer än siffror - det handlar om att skapa värde som växer över tid. Möt Olesia och Sebastian, som berättar hur det är att arbeta inom SCAs ekonomifunktion, hur samarbetet och utvecklingsmöjligheterna ser ut och varför de känner stolthet över att bidra till en hållbar framtid. Här får du en inblick i en arbetsplats där engagemang, nyfikenhet och omtanke genomsyrar allt vi gör. Vill du veta mer om SCA? Läs här: https://www.sca.com/sv/karriar/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join us at Heart Rhythm 2025 for the discussion of this study. Between July 2014 and June 2023, researchers tracked 641 sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) incidents in U.S. athletes aged 11–29. Overall survival was 49%, rising to 57% during exercise, and reaching 70% in game/competition settings compared to 53% during practice. Survival rates improved significantly over the nine years, yet notable racial disparities persisted: Black athletes were 37% less likely, and athletes of other non-White races 31% less likely, to survive exertional SCAs than White athletes. The authors emphasize that while improvements in emergency preparedness (CPR/AED access) likely contributed to better outcomes, targeted efforts are needed to address equity and bolster response during practices and in under-resourced communities. https://www.hrsonline.org/education/TheLead https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735109725053379 Host Disclosure(s): M. Middeldorp: Nothing to disclose. Contributor Disclosure(s): E. Chung: Nothing to disclose. R. Lampert: Nothing to disclose.

Eng rezent Affär vu Pedokriminialitéit huet fir vill Opreegung gesuergt. Afferschutzorganisatioune sinn entsat iwwer Delaien an Decisioune vum Scas, dem Service central d'assistance sociale. Ma warscheinlech ass de Probleem kee schlechte Wëlle fir d'Täter ze pëtzen an Affer ze schützen. Mee éischter eng Verkettung vun onglécklechen Ëmstänn an d'Penurie u spezialiséiertem Personal op méi ewéi enger Plaz, mengt d'Michèle Sinner a sengem Commentaire.

Eng rezent Affär vu Pedokriminialitéit huet fir vill Opreegung gesuergt. Afferschutzorganisatioune sinn entsat iwwer Delaien an Decisioune vum Scas, dem Service central d'assistance sociale. Ma warscheinlech ass de Probleem kee schlechte Wëlle fir d'Täter ze pëtzen an Affer ze schützen. Mee éischter eng Verkettung vun onglécklechen Ëmstänn an d'Penurie u spezialiséiertem Personal op méi ewéi enger Plaz, mengt d'Michèle Sinner a sengem Commentaire.

Fjärde avsnittet i årets säsong. Gäst är SCAs skogliga specialist Anna Cabrajic. Hon berättar om olika typer av naturvårdsarbeten som sker i skogarna. Vilka åtgärder görs för att få effekt på relativt kort sikt, och vilka görs med flera hundra års perspektiv? Tillsammans med våra poddvärdar Oscar och Sara pratar Anna också om vilka kompetenser som behövs för att både planera och genomföra naturvårdsåtgärder.

Welcome to the One CA Podcast. Today, Brian Hancock interviewed Ismael Lopez about OHDACA and Humanitarian Relief and his experiences as a Marine Civil Affairs Officer.  Brian's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-j-hancock/ Ismael's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishrlopez/  Transcript available below. --- One CA is a product of the civil affairs association  and brings in people who are current or former military, diplomats, development officers, and field agents to discuss their experiences on the ground with a partner nation's people and leadership. We aim to inspire anyone interested in working in the "last three feet" of U.S. foreign relations.  To contact the show, email us at CApodcasting@gmail.com  or look us up on the Civil Affairs Association website at www civilaffairsassoc.org --- Great news! Feedspot, the podcast industry ranking system rated One CA Podcast as one of the top 10 shows on foreign policy. Check it out at: https://podcast.feedspot.com/foreign_policy_podcasts/ --- Special Thanks to the creators of Jazz & Bossa Cafe for the sample of Positive March Music. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHeCxa0rMQ4 --- Transcript: 00:00:05 BRIAN HANCOCK Welcome to One Civil Affairs Podcast. I'm Lieutenant Colonel Brian Hancock, and I will be your host for this session. Today we have with us Major Ismael Lopez to discuss civil affairs, special missions, and the ongoing relief effort in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Lopez is the Excess Property Program Manager for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. He's also a major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. where he serves as the Latin American Foreign Area Officer and Detachment Commander with the 1st Civil Affairs Group. At DSCA, he oversees ODACA -funded Humanitarian Assistance, HA, supporting disaster relief and capacity -building efforts in over 28 countries, including the responses in the Afghanistan refugee crisis, the Ukrainian crisis, and humanitarian support to Gaza. In his expanded role, he acts as a liaison for civil affairs, focusing on training, project continuity, and aligning civil affairs efforts with strategic goals. 00:01:09 BRIAN HANCOCK With over 15 years of experience in security cooperation, Mr. Lopez has supported humanitarian assistance operations globally, including key relief efforts following Hurricanes Irma, Maria, and Iota. Major Lopez, welcome to the show. 00:01:25 ISMAEL LOPEZ Thank you, Brian. 00:01:26 BRIAN HANCOCK Boy, you've been busy. 00:01:27 ISMAEL LOPEZ I certainly have. Unfortunately, I've been really busy to do the things that I love. 00:01:32 BRIAN HANCOCK Now, let's talk a little bit about this mysterious full -time job that you do, the excess property manager for a defense security cooperation agency. Security cooperation being one of the three most important missions in the world, in my opinion. Can you tell us a little bit about what you do as the excess property manager? And if you're in the business of giving away property, how do I sign up for this? 00:01:54 ISMAEL LOPEZ What's funny is that, as you mentioned that, There is a running joke down at the Southcom HA office where they say, if you need a new refrigerator, Ish is the guy to call. Basically, what I do in a nutshell is I work with the combat commands and all the way down to the country teams to identify partners, to provide them non -lethal excess property in an effort to achieve very specific objectives in the country. What the program does is it'll take items that are basically pretty much brand new to a little bit of wear and tear, which we can refurbish in our warehouses. And then we issue them out or we donate them to the partner with the intention of meeting a very specific objective in that country. So aside from that, I also support DOD humanitarian aid efforts for any initiatives that are... utilizing the overseas humanitarian disaster and civic aid. So in a nutshell, that's pretty much what I do. And yeah, if you need a fridge, if you need a microwave, if there is an effect that could be achieved by me donating it to you, sure. 00:03:06 BRIAN HANCOCK We're expanding NATO a little bit. And many of the NATO countries, about 32 of them, they're putting a little bit more money into defense these days for a wide variety of reasons. And if they decide they want to send up a new office somewhere in Poland or something like that, How would they go about saying, hey, all those esks and chairs and things that you have in Dermo, we'd like some of that. And who pays the shipping? 00:03:29 ISMAEL LOPEZ The folks sitting in NATO would have to work with ODC and Poland first. They will validate that requirement, then submit it on up to UCOM. UCOM will have their lawyers look at it. And then from there, it will make its way up to DSCA for execution. Now, what pays for all this is the Odaka appropriations that gets earmarked from the Odaka budget that provides transportation for this program. So the program comes at no cost. It's all funded exclusively through the Odaka appropriation. 00:04:05 BRIAN HANCOCK Awesome. Let me talk a little bit more about that and ask you a few questions. Odaka is kind of a hidden gem that a number of us in the civil affairs community know about. Many other people don't, and you can definitely achieve effects with this, especially in competition, which is something that we're, I think, as a joint combined army, really struggling with, is how we get after having those influence and deterrence effects in the competition phase. ODACA is one of those tools that's available to us. It's the Overseas Humanitarian Disaster and Civic Aid Fund. Now, I have very limited experience with that program. Can you tell the audience a little bit more about the ODACA creation, how large it is, what it usually funds? 00:04:54 ISMAEL LOPEZ Yeah, absolutely. I'm able to see it from two perspectives, right? I'm able to see this from my seat at DSCA and then my seat in the reserve component as a civil affairs officer, where to your earlier point, ODACA is a bit of this hidden gem and it could be leveraged to help. achieving effects in the competition phase, but where there are issues is the lack of understanding of what you can and cannot do with the appropriation or how you can actually link it to creating those effects. And I get that because rewind the clock back to 2013 when I first delved into civil affairs, one of the metrics that are utilized to determine our success in country is How many projects can you nominate or how many projects did you complete? So then when you're aiming to achieve or hit that metric, you're not necessarily looking at the linkage. You're almost betting on that someone will create that linkage for you that you're providing the activity in support of. So Odaka, generally speaking, we're looking at about $26 to $30 million a year. But then that money... gets divvied up across the combatant commands and is prioritized based off of national defense strategy. So if it's called out very specifically country X or region Y is the priority when it comes to DoD humanitarian aid efforts, then preponderance of that money will be earmarked for that country or that region globally. Once you pull the thread on that, then there's different tiers. for the countries that are located in that combatant command or in that region of the world, and we're able to allocate money for those countries as well. Where it gets tricky is that what will factor into it is how proactive and how thorough the ODCs and the SCOs are with executing those HA projects and then the end -use monitoring piece of it. So their requirements are tied to these project nominations. The country team, the HA managers, the civil affairs teams that are assigned to or are deployed in that country are not providing the feedback necessary to determine the return on investment. Then the following year, what could end up happening is this country is a priority, but what we're not able to tell Congress is, are we actually achieving the effects that we're desiring in that country or in that region? And if we can't answer that with tangible metrics, then that will factor into a reduction of ODACA funding for the following year. Recently, in Indo -PACOM, the focus has been very heavy on the mill -to -mill engagement piece. What is starting to catch up now is the sieve mill piece. And so we have money allocated, but they're sort of playing catch up with the rest of the COCOMs as it pertains to. getting those funds and then executing projects and us being able to sustain them over an extended period of time. 00:08:01 BRIAN HANCOCK Yeah, it is a challenging problem set. One of the taskers that we get annually here in our command is to measure the strategic effect of DACA projects, which are largely tactical, in a bunch of different countries. and were given one week. Now you've got a rotational force here of about 15 civil affairs folks of various persuasions. Maybe a couple of them can be dedicated to that task. They had nothing to do with the inception of these projects. They were not part of the construction. They saw none of the... assessment or staff estimate documents related to them. All they saw was probably, if they're lucky, the proposal that went into the website to get them. And they don't have time to do extensive interviews or measurement. And it's pretty tricky to take something very tactical and then indicate not as an MOP you completed the project, but as an MOE it actually influenced the local populace towards U .S. and NATO objectives. That is a very tough thing to do mathematically, especially without the data, documents, and time to be able to do that. 00:09:18 ISMAEL LOPEZ is a 00:09:28 BRIAN HANCOCK What is the standard that is accepted by the panel who's controlling those funding and appropriations? What realistically do you have to prove? 00:09:39 ISMAEL LOPEZ So this has been a challenge for several years now. I saw it firsthand. As a civil affairs team leader in the South Com AOR, where I deployed to support a very specific commander, but as a, hey, by the way, while you're down there, there's these products that were funded several years ago. Do you mind taking a look? No context behind it. I can't do pre and post surveys on the local populace because I don't know what it was or what the baseline was prior to the construction or the completion. And then now. So it was very arbitrary. It was very much, yeah, it's good. Is the government still funding it? Sure. Are they employing people that are maintaining it? Sure. And I think back then, 2013, 2014 timeframe, I think the blanket answer to all that was, we're countering Russia, China. And so as long as you were saying that, then it was all gravy. And we've obviously have evolved from that to we're now tying these very tactical actions. to operational objectives, right? So are we supporting CoCom LOEs? And if we're supporting CoCom LOEs at the minimum, we understand that we should be integrated into strategic objectives, right? Because the LOEs are derived from those strategic documents. And we've gotten to that point, but now where we are able or unable to get that data or the metrics. really falls on the lack of funding to do it. So the easy button is, well, you have your security cooperation professionals that are assigned to the embassies. They should be. They can do that. Yeah. But the reality is all embassies, regardless of the size, they are overextended and under -resourced. So they're always dealing with VIP visitors. They're dealing with taskings from the State Department. They have their steady state activities they have to be supporting, and they're falling in on, let's just say, 30 projects over the last three years. And, oh, by the way, all these assessments need to be done, but your TDY funds are X. And there's no way of doing it. So then it trickles down to, hey, do we have any civil affairs teams coming downrange? Can they support? And I think we've gotten to a bit of a sweet spot. is this mutual understanding that civil affairs teams in country, as long as they're not being detracted from their main mission, are able to provide some sort of support in conducting those surveys and assessments. However, it's still not the right answer because they're falling in on rudimentary information, background information, and it's still very much from their perspective. At DSCA, we have increased our budget for AM &E purposes to help country teams that are in the red, so to speak, when it comes to conducting these assessments, especially countries that are a priority where we understand, hey, we need to continue engaging on the HA side of things and not the MIL side of things. So we need to get as close to valid or reality as we can. So we have contractors now that are assigned to the combat commands, folks within my office that can. be requested to go out and support. And again, we're working across the command and commands to see as appropriate where we can support. So a lot of work still has to be done there. But again, looking back to 10 years ago, even five years ago, I think across the board, DOD has gotten significantly better at providing metrics to validate activities vice. simply stating we're countering Russia and China and we're going to call it good. 00:13:35 BRIAN HANCOCK As they should. All of these projects should be tied to a line of effort, tied to a strategic effect that's in line both with the COCOM and the chief of mission. And then you would need a way to measure them at a granular level and then aggregate them to measure progress against a line of effort aligned to strategic intent. I don't think that framework has been built. I hope we eventually get there. If you ask some of the SCAs in the embassy, at best, they're going to give you anecdotal information. So there's a lot of things that we would have to do. And if we send a civil affairs team, depending on their training and background, that can be more or less successful. Now, you're probably tracking that in the Army side of civil affairs, we've built that 38 golf program where I can have an engineer with 20 years of experience. It seems to me that's the guy we should be attaching. to a civil affairs team to go do one of these assessments. What do you think? 00:14:33 ISMAEL LOPEZ I completely agree with that. And that's 100 % a step in the right direction. On the Marine side of the house, we sell the capability for civil affairs to do engineering assessments, bridge assessments. And I'm like, who here is an engineer? Who amongst us realistically do that? I mean, one example is I got asked to do a port assessment in Panama. And if you look at the J -SIMS form, It's very, very specific, very detailed, talking depth of water. And how am I supposed to do that? But A, because you're in the environment and you're there, you claim as a capability that you're able to do that, then go on and do great things. And I think one of two things need to happen. Either one, we need to re -wicker the capability to a more realistic set or... Very similar to the 38 golf program is start incorporating or cross -training those specialized folks that can actually bring that capability to bear and then have that as part of the team. And then now we're being more honest with what it is that we can do in our assessments and the information that we're providing to hire. Right. 00:15:41 BRIAN HANCOCK I appreciate that. I watched as the Navy discontinued its civil affairs program. Obviously, the Marines are part of the Department of the Navy, so I don't want to. miscommunicate that. But the Navy had its own civil affairs for a while. And when we as the Army Civil Affairs came out and were asked to do port assessments in Rim of the Pacific, quite frankly, we couldn't do it. And we had functional specialists because there's quite a bit of difference between a great engineer who's used to large infrastructure and other things go out and assess the full range of capabilities of a port, especially after a major disaster. We had to bridge that gap. We had to go to German portmasters, which is great when you're working with combined partners. I think that's an opportunity. And they knew this business, soup and nails. They went out there and everything on the Jason and more they did and could even do follow -ups to see the progress as repair work was going on. That was fantastic that we had a joint partner. I don't think we have an organic capability in DOD to do things like that. And when we're talking having to project power to your port of debarkation, that seems like a gap that we need to fill right now. 00:16:59 ISMAEL LOPEZ Yeah, I agree. And I have some good news for you. The Navy is reconstituting their civil affairs program. When we were out at Balakatan in the Philippines last spring, we had a full -up Navy civil affairs team. I was the first of its kind in this reconstituted form, but I was part of a combined Marine Navy team in the Philippines. So Big Navy has realized that understanding where we're going as DOD, that they're bringing it back. And hopefully that's part of the equation there. I hope so. One of the reasons it was closed down is because the way they scoped their mission for Naval Civil Affairs. 00:17:34 BRIAN HANCOCK of the reasons it was closed down is because the way they scoped their mission for Naval Civil Affairs. was somewhat redundant with what the Army and the Marine Corps were already doing. So instead of focusing on those things where they have almost unique capabilities, such as assessing aquaculture and water -based commerce and those effects and the port stuff, they were doing a lot of land -based types of assessments and other things. And I think they became a victim of budget shortfall if they were seen as a redundant capability. both in the Army and the Marine Corps, you and I both have responsibility since we both need naval partners to do our job to help shape their burgeoning program and make sure as it's resetting that it doesn't make some of the mistakes that were made previously and help them be a vibrant addition to our larger civil affairs community because I think we really need them. 00:18:32 ISMAEL LOPEZ I wholeheartedly agree. There are fortunate scenarios. When you look at the reserve component where you can have these very uniquely trained individuals that can come in. I had a ship captain as a corporal, so he could speak to that. But that is luck, right? I shouldn't be planning on, I'm going to have these uniquely talented and experienced folks that are going to be able to pour a mission set. Now, 00:19:01 BRIAN HANCOCK you're a major in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. and you serve as commander of Detachment 3, the first civil affairs group. What is that like? What's a day look like on that job for you? 00:19:15 ISMAEL LOPEZ So at first, it's been the funnest job that I've had. I was a civil affairs team leader before, but as a commander, it's been more fulfilling because I'm able to... lead and mentor Marines who are interested in this space or really want to make a difference and have a better understanding of how their actions support operational and strategic objectives. I think that's often missed by the less experienced civil affairs Marines. My typical day as a commander is just dealing with admin, to be honest. It's making sure that my Marines are able and ready to deploy, enabling them to be able to go and execute the mission. is really what I spend a majority of my time doing. 00:20:01 BRIAN HANCOCK Let's talk a little bit more about that training piece. I know you kind of build it. A lot of things you do as admin, but part of readiness is being able to do your job. The Marine is an expeditionary force, perhaps becoming even more expeditionary with the expeditionary advanced base operations construct the chief of the Navy signed off on. So very interesting training opportunities for the fleet right now. And you mentioned Balakatan and some of those other exercise -type missions that you've done. And I know you've probably done Marine Corps Warfighting exercise and mentioned JRTC. But what are some of these other missions you've done? You've talked about a dock -up. A dock -up is joined at the hip with Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief, HADR. The Navy has a huge role in HADR for just a whole bunch of reasons. Has your detachment participated in any HADR missions? Is that another training opportunity that you have with your Marines and detachment?

Tredje avsnittet i årets säsong. Vi får besök av Merle Runsvik och Pierre Ragnarsson, båda medarbetare inom SCAs skogliga verksamhet. Merle är gruppchef inom skogsproduktionen, och Pierre en av våra egna skogsmaskinförare. Våra gäster pratar med podvärdarna Sara Holappa Jonsson och Elin Eriksson om olika delar inom sina yrkesroller. Som gruppchef har Merle uppgifter som varvar mellan att vara på kontoret, ute i fält och ha kommunikation med skogsmaskinförarna. Pierre berättar bland annat om vad skogsmaskinföraryrket innebär och vad som är viktigt för att allt ska fungera bra inom laget. SCAs egen utbildning till skogsmaskinförare är också en del av innehållet i avsnittet.

Andra avsnittet av årets säsong. Gäster är de båda driftingenjörerna Josefin Wänglund och Olle Johansson som pratar om erfarenheter från SCAs trainee- och utvecklingsprogram ”Early Career”. Josefin och Olle berättar om upplevelser och sin medverkan i det 18 månader långa programmet som varvar utbildning med ordinarie arbete. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna Oscar Walheim och Robin Ferm pratar de också om vad som varit de största lärdomarna. Fram till den 22 januari går det att söka till nästa omgång av Early Career som startar i höst, mer information om programmet finns på sca.com.

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Första avsnittet av den nya säsongen. Vi får besök i studion av Roger Östlin som är chef för drivmedel på SCA. I avsnittet berättar han om SCAs och St1s planer på att göra flygbränsle från skogen, vad som sker just nu i det förberedande projektet och vilka kompetenser som behövs vid ett bygge och när fabriken är i full drift. Roger och poddvärdarna pratar även om alternativa användningsområden för drivmedel från ett bioraffinaderi. Andra saker som tas upp är värdet av att kunna vara självförsörjande på förnybart bränsle för det svenska flyget.

The 11th episode of "Are We All Clear? Facilitating Security Clearances" explores the role of outside directors and proxy holders within the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) framework and their significance in insulating a cleared company from its foreign owners. Host Molly O'Casey and International Trade attorney Antonia Tzinova discuss practical approaches to the selection, employment and accountability of these positions, as well as delve into the broader context of Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) mitigation to protect U.S. national security interests.Their conversation covers a myriad of topics (and acronyms!), including recent developments in FOCI, facility security clearance (FSC), NISPOM, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Special Security Agreements (SSA), Security Control Agreements (SCA) and the Government Security Committee (GSC).

Sjätte avsnittet och säsongsavslutning för SCAs podd. Fredrik Westling är gäst, han jobbar till vardags med att sälja SCAs och andra svenska skogsföretags träprodukter i Japan. I avsnittet berättar han om användningen av svenskt trä i Japan, kundrelationer och kulturella aspekter. Fredrik och poddvärdarna pratar om vad som är viktigt i både arbetslivet och privat för den som jobbar utomlands. Han berättar också om kontraster, att jobba omväxlande i japanska mångmiljonstäder och på den svenska landsbygden. Han går även i på likheter mellan nationerna.

Femte avsnittet i den nya säsongen av SCAs podd. Jeanette Hammarström, laboratorieingenjör vid en av SCAs plantskolor, är vår gäst. Vi får veta mer om utvecklingsarbetet med träd, och vad som händer med de ca 100 miljoner plantor som SCA förser både sina egna och andras skogar med. Jeanette pratar även om andra delar i föryngringsarbetet. Flera faktorer spelar in som att löpande utveckla träden, stärka dem sett till klimat och skadedjur, och att anpassa metoder till nya miljökrav. Hon berättar även om olika vägar in till plantskolorna för dem som vill arbeta med utveckling eller skötsel av plantorna.

Fjärde avsnittet i den nya säsongen av SCAs podd. Gäst är Jonathan Mattsson som är sågverkschef och även ansvarig för virkesförsörjningen vid sågverket. Han berättar om sina erfarenheter inom skogsindustrin: från starten som egen företagare, vidare till virkesköpare, affärschef och till den nuvarande rollen som ung VD. Våra poddvärdar pratar också med honom om viktiga delar i ledarskapet, att kunna prova olika roller på arbetsplatsen, att ta chanser och rekryteringar.

Tredje avsnittet i den nya säsongen av SCAs podd. Gäst är Susanna Fält och Hans Johansson som både jobbar med forskning och utveckling inom SCA. De berättar om samarbeten med startup-företag som deltar i Forest Business Accelerator. Det är ett program där SCA samarbetar med Bizmaker, IBM och Processum Biorefinery Cluster. Våra poddvärdar pratar med Hans och Susanna om de gemensamma fördelar som samarbetet innebär, där de nya företagen får stöd i produktutveckling, affärsmässighet och digitalisering. Arrangörerna får i sin tur inblickar i ny spännande utveckling. 

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NIPT is a prenatal SCREENING method that involves analysis of cell-free fetal DNA (cfDNA) in maternal blood. Prenatal screening for sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) has become readily available through expanded non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT). NIPTs became commercially available in 2011 and has since been introduced in more than 60 countries around the world and is now part of mainstream obstetrical practice. Initially offered as a secondary screen for pregnancies with a high probability of a fetal chromosomal anomaly, NIPT is now often offered and recommended as a first-line screening test for the main chromosomal aneuploidies. Initially, NIPT was available to screen for fetal trisomies 21 (Down syndrome), 18 (Edwards syndrome) and 13 (Patau syndrome). This has expanded of course to include (separately) fetal sex chromosome aneuploidy (SCA) screening. However, there are some VERY important points we must remember when seeing an “atypical sex chromosome” NIPT result. What is the PPV of a SCA found on NIPT? In this episode we will highlight a recent NIPT atypical sex chromosome result from our practice and review what this may and may not actually mean, and review why NIPT screening for SCA is actually VERY controversial with some potential ETHICAL concerns, with some countries recommending AGAINST ordering it. Lots to cover here….so listen in.

Andra avsnittet i den nya säsongen av SCAs podd. Gäst är Henrik Bengtsson som är strategisk IT-arkitekt inom SCA. Mycket händer, Henrik berättar om flera delar i IT-utvecklingen och även hur AI kan bli ett stöd för bland annat produktion, underhåll och gemensamma system. Henrik och poddvärdarna pratar också om att den snabba utvecklingen skapar många spännande uppdrag för de som vill jobba med IT inom industrin.

Welcome to our latest episode where we explore a financial asset often overshadowed: Segregated Checking Accounts (SCAs). Join me as I unravel the who, what, when, where, and why behind these lesser-known accounts, providing key insights into their significance in today's financial landscape. In this insightful episode, we will delve into the fundamental definition and structure of SCAs, comparing their distinct features and benefits against traditional checking accounts. Discover how SCAs present a robust shield, offering enhanced security and specialized segregation for specific financial purposes, revolutionizing the way we manage our finances. Uncover the underlying reasons propelling individuals and businesses towards SCAs as we dissect their advantages in financial management, security, and organizational efficiency. Through real-life examples and scenarios, understand how SCAs emerge as indispensable tools for precise financial control and protection. I'll help you navigate through the target audiences and scenarios where SCAs truly shine, offering tailored financial solutions. Discover the ideal timing and settings to implement these accounts and find insights on where to access and harness the benefits of SCAs. Join me as we conclude this insightful journey by summarizing the vital aspects of SCAs discussed in this episode. Evaluate whether SCAs align with your financial objectives and consider integrating them into your financial strategy for improved financial management and security. Have a topic you want me to discuss? Feel free to send any questions or comments to hannah@themoneymultiplier.com.  To view a recorded version of our presentation on the Infinite Banking Concept, please visit: https://themoneymultiplier.com/presentation Make an appointment with me: https://go.oncehub.com/hannahkesler For other resources: https://linktr.ee/themoneymultiplier  Hannah: https://www.instagram.com/hannah_kesler  

Första avsnittet av femte säsongen för vår podd. I premiäravsnittet får vi besök av Till Henschel och Carina Viklund som båda jobbar med förnybar energi, och till stor del vindkraft. Vindkraft är ett växande område för SCA, och vi får veta mer om förutsättningar, utveckling av egna vindkraftsparker och förberedelser av mark för andra aktörer. Viktiga delar är även interna och externa samarbeten som ingår i projektutveckling och som berör många. Det blir även ett samtal om andra områden som solenergi och planer på ett bioraffinaderi. Och, förstås om det rekryteringsbehov som följer med en utökad verksamhet.

Catarina Cascarrinho, jornalista do CM e CMTV, assistiu às duas sessões de julgamento do caso Sara Carreira e conta tudo o que viu e ouviu, como as imagens de videovigilância da A1 que captaram o acidente. Este é o tema do ‘Crime e Castigo' desta semana, onde falamos também do drama da grávida que carregou a filha morta durante quatro dias. Um podcast com Paulo João Santos e Catarina Cascarrinho, apresentado por Rita Fernandes Batista e editado por Inês Ferreira.

Mike McDonald is President at Dablicator and how their patented oil applicator continues to connect with more brands. Experienced in consumer products manufacturing, finance, marketing, and sales, Mike has guided Ammonite's rapid development from a start-up to one of the most innovative hardware platforms in the cannabis industry.Originally created by one of California's leading cannabis brands, Dablicator partners with vertically integrated operators and premium extract brands to deliver the easiest, most versatile way to experience cannabis. Their patented Dablicator™ oil applicator is designed to replace a messy syringe and is ideal for all oil types including live rosin, solventless, live resin, RSO, distillate, hemp CBD, and more. The Dablicator brand partner program provides a turnkey solution with fully brandable hardware, packaging, and marketing materials that drive product innovation and accretive retail revenue with your brand and your oil.Dr. Jim Woody, CEO and Director of 180 Life Sciences, a clinical-stage biotechnology company. 180 Life Sciences aims to develop SCAs that are safe, non-psychoactive, and formulated to improve efficacy and bioavailability – a real alternative to unregulated cannabidiol (CBD). Through this program, 180 Life Sciences is working on orally available SCAs, not derived from plants, to address the deleterious issues of medical cannabis. If successful, these SCAs could offer a robustly consistent and safe dosage that allows patient intake to be carefully controlled.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Sjätte avsnittet för säsongen. Vi får besök från SCA Logistics av Ellenor Nordborg som är chef inom Forwarding-området och SCAs terminalchef Peter Gyllroth. Det blir ett avsnitt om logistik där det händer mycket spännande just nu. Peter och Ellenor samtalar med våra poddvärdar om hamnutveckling där SCA, kommunen och staten bygger för framtiden och vad detta betyder för SCA och andra aktörer. Vi får även veta mer om logistikområdet där SCA planerar och hanterar frakter både för eget behov, och för externa kunders gods som ska vidare ut i världen. Vid sidan av det får vi höra mer om hur SCA Logistics samverkar med olika utbildningsverksamheter för att säkra sin kompetensförsörjning.

What you'll get out of this episodeTim sat down with Carla Bond, Founder and CEO of UpSkill VR, to discuss the transformative role that virtual reality is playing in emergency training. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) kills 1 person every 2 minutes in the United States, and 70% of SCAs happen at home. But did you know your chance of survival increases 45% when CPR is administered promptly?! UpSkill VR uses VR to help students, EMTs, and communities prepare for emergency situations, rooted in Carla's own personal experience. She shares her personal experience as an EMT, including a story where she arrived at a call and found an infant in need of help and the surprising realization that led Carla to founding the company. We dive into the details of her journey as an entrepreneur, her target market, ideal partners and end users, and what's next for UpSkill beyond CPR. Here are some of the key takeaways from the episode:In this episode you'll discover: Why Carla and UpSkill VR are on a mission to improve the ways emergency training is delivered using virtual reality, and how they create more immersive and realistic scenarios for trainees to practice in a safe environment. Carla's personal story as an EMT and how that experience shaped the UpSkill mission. We discuss the potential of VR to help bridge the gap in healthcare education and training and improve patient outcomes. Carla talks about the importance of partnerships in growing UpSkill VR and how they are working with different organizations to expand their reach. We also chat about Carla's experience as a Navy veteran, the challenges she faced transitioning to civilian life, and the importance of having a support system within the veteran community. Finally, we explore the exciting developments on the horizon for UpSkill VR beyond CPR training, including the potential to expand into other areas such as public health and safety. Final Frontier - 5 Questions in 50 Seconds Top Challenges:  Exposure, VR hardware prices, content availability Top Opportunity: Personalization Tech Trend You're Following: Realism – game art and design Top Media Recs:  The Transition, by Bunker Labs (Link→) "Stand for Something", by Brian Burkhar (Link→) Healthcare / Tech Leader(s) You're Following:  Ryan Ribeira, CEO at SimX (LinkedIn →) Tim Cook, CEO at Apple Quotables“When you think about a traditional CPR class, you're in a controlled environment and you're playing essentially with a doll, of course they are manikins, but it's a torso. So the first thing you're not going to encounter out in the real world is a torso and a head that needs CPR, and there is nothing else going on. So me showing up to calls; to summarize, I showed up to a call that really was a catalyst for me, I showed up to a call where according to the mother who had been a nurse for 20 years; so that's at least 10 CPR classes that she sat through, but when we got there, he was still wedged between the tub and the toilet. It was not that she did not have the education to do it, she did not have that emotional tie to be able to take what she used in the class room and bring it to real life, and that's where VR came in. ““Our perfect candidate is people who are professionals in the healthcare space, who are typically 1. Required to have it, since they are doing it anyway, and 2. Students who are going into the healthcare field, whether they are in highschool or college. We want to be there before you hit the clinic or hospital, so by the time that you get your first job, you've had endless amounts of practice on the most realialistic scenarios possible so we don't have doctors passing out at the first sign of arterial blood or EMTs having those difficult calls. We can out them in there ahead of time and expirence it. This weeds out a lot of darkness, because you don't really know how you're going to respond, but if I out you in VR, I can pretty much tell you how you are going to respond. With our experiences, we track your heart rate, so I can tell you when you got scared, and I can tell you when you got out of breath. It's like flight simulation, we want you to screw it up with us, not with anyone else.”Recommended Resources NIST, Commerce Launch Emergency Response Training Center with Virtual Reality (NextGov) Emergency Medicine VR (Booz Allen) See What Richie's Plank Game Looks Like (Playstation VR) Join the Conversation Are you a healthcare innovator? Tell us what topics and people you'd like us to cover in future episodes:Carla Bond on LinkedIn“Upskill VR is excited to be pitching this year at the annual DC Startup Week Early-Stage Pitch Competition next week on Friday, September 16th at Convene sponsored by Sands Capital!! DC Startup Week is the largest event in the DC area for entrepreneurs and startups!

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Fjärde avsnittet för säsongen. Anders Petersson är gäst, han är innovationschef och ansvarig för hållbarhet inom SCAs träområde. Anders berättar om intressant utveckling av träprodukter vid sågverken och i den vidare förädlingen. I avsnittet pratar han och poddvärdarna även om digitalisering, hållbarhet och samarbeten med universitet. De resonerar också om användningsområden för Contortatall och det unika tillfället att få vara med i produktutvecklingen av ett nytt trädslag.

Säsongens andra poddavsnitt. Vi möter hållbarhetsexpert Peter Holmgren som berättar om skogens roll för klimatet och varför skogen samt skogsindustrin är intressanta hållbarhetsområden. I avsnittet pratar Peter med poddvärdarna Therese och Alma om bland annat sina erfarenheter från skog och klimat, SCAs klimatmodell och om skogens roll i idag och framåt.

This week, I share some insights from our end-of-year event on Building Powerful Relationships.  Three powerful women presented at this year's event. Ruby Marsh spoke about ‘Prosperity', the importance of having enough energy to achieve what we want and the powerful role of small consistent actions (SCAs). Leila Lutz spoke about the importance of ‘Self-parenting' and balancing the Mother and Father archetypes and how food gives us power. Jessica Ash finished off the weekend with a bang - she spoke about the 7 practices of a powerful body image, and the importance of learning the language of your body. WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER > The Red Umbrella Analogy > Why powerful relationships are important > What negatively impacts our relationships > How we have powerful relationships with our goals, food, training and ourselves > Key questions to ask yourself to help you build powerful relationships > Small audio clips from the three guest speakers > How small consistent actions help you achieve your goals > Why logging is important > The 7 principles of a powerful body image > How to create a successful and sustainable training practice And so much more Featured on the show About Warrior School https://warriorschool.co Apply for Warrior (Applications open January 2nd) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS7OVobSu60FFc1pyIQVySKasuwjWvWnttTJOMRrgj6MLEPw/viewform Ruby Marsh https://www.instagram.com/rubykmarsh/ Leila Lutz https://www.instagram.com/leilalutz/ Jessica Ash https://www.instagram.com/jessicaashwellness/ Creator Club https://www.creatorclub.link

Första avsnittet av SCAs fjärde poddsäsong. Vi får besök av Sofia Malmberg som valde att göra sitt exjobb på SCA R&D Centre under sin utbildning till civilingenjör. Det ledde vidare till en anställning på SCA som utvecklingsingenjör. Tillsammans våra poddvärdarna pratar hon om exjobbet, sitt hållbarhetsintresse och vad som gör det nya jobbet på Östrands massafabrik både intressant och lärorikt.  

Nesse Giro 360 #174, enquanto esperam os números da nova pesquisa Serpes, Marcos Carreiro e Caio Henrique Salgado conversam sobre os primeiros movimentos dos candidatos a governador. E já deu para ver que Aparecida de Goiânia vai ser um terreno para a disputa ferrenha de votos.O governador Ronaldo Caiado fez primeiro ato de campanha lá. O parceiro de chapa, Daniel Vilela, fala em instalar inclusive uma vice-governadoria na cidade, se eleito.Por quê? Gustavo Mendanha, segundo colocado nas pesquisas, foi prefeito de Aparecida duas vezes, onde goza de popularidade.Vale a pena olhar esse campo de batalha que se insinua.Curte os nossos podcasts? Assine O POPULAR e ajude a mantê-los no ar.https://opopular.com.br/popstore-web/

Show Notes: Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the #1 leading cause of death in student athletes. Michelle Temple is donor mom to hero Grayson Temple and started Gray's Army Foundation in honor of her son. The foundation has passed legislation as a way to help prevent sudden cardiac arrest in children and young adults. They also focus on education, providing student CPR training and AEDs to schools in need and preventing SCAs through the promotion of free heart screenings for student athletes. Then Nila gives tips for living in the present and being grounded, and we honor Grayson Temple.

Artur Andrade (@sr_artie) e Nathalie Martins (@natfanatic) analisam com spoilers o episódio 3x08 da terceira temporada de The Boys. Nesse intenso season finale, importantes arcos se fecham e novas ameaças surgem! Também comentamos o que esperamos da quarta temporada da série, que já foi confirmada. Apoie o nosso trabalho ouvindo o Tênis Verde na Orelo! Siga a gente nas nossas redes sociais! TIKTOK @tenisverdecast | INSTAGRAM @tenisverdecast | TWITTER @tenisverdecast Quer mandar um e-mail pra gente? tenisverdecast@gmail.com

Åttonde avsnittet av vår tredje poddsäsong. Vi får besök av SCAs VD Ulf Larsson som tillsammans med poddvärdarna resonerar om SCAs framtida fokus och hur SCA ska fortsätta att skapa värde från skogen. De pratar också om aktuella investeringar, framtida möjligheter och medarbetarnas betydelse för SCAs framgångar. Ulf berättar även om sin roll som VD.

Sjunde avsnittet av SCAs tredje poddsäsong. Vi får besök av Susanne Rutqvist och Jörgen Bergström som är ansvariga för produktutveckling inom områdena förpackningspapper respektive pappersmassa. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna berättar de mer om utveckling av både nya och existerande produkter, och om hur en ökad e-handel, substitution och större krav på hållbarhet ger nya möjligheter. De tar även upp hur metoder som innovationsrace går till. 

En Dënschdeg de Moie war d'Direktesch vum SCAS eis Invitée vun der Redaktioun.

Sjätte avsnittet av i SCAs tredje poddsäsong. SCAs hållbarhetschef Hans Djurberg kommer på besök och tillsammans med poddvärdarna pratar han om SCAs hållbarhetsplattform, framtid inom området och varför det finns skillnader i synen på hållbarhetsfrågorna hos olika aktörer. Tillsammans går de också igenom andra delar inom hållbarhet som definitioner, olika aspekter på biologisk mångfald och standarder för hållbarhet.

I säsongens fjärde avsnitt får vi besök av Ida Norberg som är affärschef på SCAs sågverk i Bollsta. Ida berättar om sin roll och om möjligheterna som finns i ett högteknologiskt sågverk. Ida och poddvärdarna resonerar också om hur hela trädet tas tillvara. Från skogen kommer timret till sågverket som första station i SCAs värdekedja, innan det går vidare till fortsatt användning.

I säsongens tredje avsnitt får vi veta mer om hur det är att vara industridoktorand. Hur fungerar det att dela sin tid mellan jobb på Östrands massafabrik och doktorandstudier tillsammans med SCA och Mittuniversitetet. Adam Lundström är gäst och han resonerar med poddvärdarna om sin forskning inom området underhåll och hur det är att vara industridoktorand i praktiken. Adams redogör för uppdraget som rör både algoritmer och machine learning. Ett spännande område där han till stor del också har sitt forskningsfält på plats i produktionsmiljön.

I säsongens andra avsnitt tittar vi närmare på rekrytering och karriärmöjligheter inom SCA. Våra poddvärdar får besök av SCAs rekryteringschef Maria Nyberg och HR-chefen Lotta Wikström. Tillsammans går de igenom olika vägar in till jobbet, samarbeten med universitet och vad som kännetecknar SCAs arbetsgivarvarumärke. De resonerar även om olika utvecklingsprogram som medarbetare och chefer kan vara med på för att växa i sina roller.

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I säsongens första avsnitt får vi veta mer om SCAs kommunikation och vad SCA och skogsindustrin kan föra fram i skogsdebatten. SCA kommunikationsdirektör Anders Edholm är gäst. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna tar Anders upp olika delar som rör SCAs och andras roller när det gäller kommunikation om skogen och skogsindustrin. Avsnittet går även in på flera andra områden av SCAs kommunikationsarbete. Anders delar även med sig av sina tidigare yrkeserfarenheter från Svenskt Näringslivs verksamhet i Bryssel. 

In this episode I get to chat with pioneer in HAI and visiting professor at Lincoln, Dr Sandra McCune. Sandra qualified as a registered veterinary nurse (Royal College of Veterinary Nursing) in Dublin before completing a degree in zoology from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has a PhD in animal behaviour and welfare from the University of Cambridge, U.K. She has studied a range of companion animal topics including aspects of temperament, behaviour, cognition and welfare, and Human-Animal Interaction (HAI).Until 2019, Sandra was a scientific leader for Mars Petcare, based at the Waltham Petcare Science Institute. For 12 years, she led the HAI area in research and then HAI science communications, and established Mars as the industry's thought leader in this field. She has extensive experience studying HAI from both animal and human perspectives in collaborations with HAI researchers from the USA, U.K., Austria, France, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Russia, Japan and China and regularly presents internationally on companion animals and their relationship with people.Sandra was instrumental in the establishment of the public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health and Mars/WALTHAM focused on child development and HAI resulting in a multi-million dollar programme of high-quality HAI research, workshops and several edited volumes, journal series and book chapters.She is the founding director of Animal Matters Consultancy Ltd, providing expert input on a wide range of animal issues. She is a SCAS trustee and a Fellow of the Annenberg PetSpace Leadership Institute. She shares her home with her family including two cats and a lurcher.Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Mccune/publications.Twitter: @sandra_mccune LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-mccune/

Neste podcast de Mouzar Benedito ele nos conta um pouco sobre o livro “Faíscas Verbais”, do jornalista e seu amigo Márcio Bueno, Conta Mouzar que o autor declara que “muitos são capazes de dar laço no vento, nó em pingo d'água e, se cair um raio, antes de escaparem ilesos ainda aproveitam a oportunidade para […] O post Mouzar Benedito: Faíscas Verbais apareceu primeiro em Rádio Brasil de Fato.

I säsongens sjunde avsnitt av ”SCAs ingenjörspodd” få vi veta mer om transporter från skogen till kunder i hela världen. SCA Logistics marknads- och försäljningsdirektör Nils-Johan Haraldsson är gäst. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna berättar han om hur frakterna går till och vad som är viktigt i transportkedjan. I logistiken är planering och hantering av gods på lastbil, genom egna tågset och egna fartyg samt samarbete med andra logistikföretag betydelsefulla länkar. Transportkedjan går till kontinenten där trä, pappersmassa och papper ska till kunder på exakta tider. Stora delar ska också vidare ut i världen, direkt från Norrland eller Europa. Vi får också veta hur framtidens transporter kan ske på ett än mer hållbart sätt. Att SCA samfraktar andra kunders gods är en del i detta.

I säsongens sjätte avsnitt av ”SCAs ingenjörspodd” får vi veta mer om framtidens arbetsplatser. Gäst är Andreas Ewertz som är ekonomichef inom pappersmassa, Andreas har tillsammans med en av våra poddvärdar varit med i projektet ”Framtidens fabrik”. Ett aktuellt område på flera sätt, inte minst eftersom vi på SCA genomför stora investeringar i våra industrier. Tillsammans med poddvärdarna resonerar Andreas om hur våra arbetsplatser kan se ut i framtiden, det rör bland annat teknik, arbetssätt och mångfald. En del i avsnittet handlar också om ekonomitips, där Andreas som Investor Relations-expert delar med sig av sina erfarenheter.

Have you ever wondered if your struggle to conceive could be caused by your genes? Today we're going to answer that question and more about genetics and fertility by talking with two certified genetic counselors with CooperGenomics: Sharyn Lincoln and Sheila Johal.In this episode, we cover:Infertility is a disease affecting nearly 7% of all couples. It is a highly heterogeneous pathology with a complex etiology that includes both environmental and genetic factors. In this episode we will be focusing on the genetics. What percentage of infertility can be attributed to our genes? Genetics and Female Infertility47,XXX (trisomy X; Triple X)⁃       What is trisomy X?⁃       How common is 47,XXX?⁃       What are the symptoms of Triple X syndrome?⁃       How common is infertility in women with Triple X?⁃       Will the children conceived also have this chromosomal abnormality?Turner syndrome (monosomy X)⁃       What is Turner Syndrome?⁃       How common is it?⁃       What are the symptoms?⁃       How common is mosaicism with this chromosomal defect?⁃       How common is infertility in women with monosomy X?⁃       Will the children conceived also have this chromosomal abnormality?Single Gene Disorders⁃       Fragile X (Primary Ovarian Failure)⁃       Premutation⁃       Galactosemia⁃       OthersPolygenic, complex female infertility (environment & genetics)⁃       Endometriosis⁃       Is there a genetic link?⁃       Fibroids⁃       Is there a genetic link?⁃       Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC)⁃       Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)⁃       Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)⁃       Primary Ovarian Insufficiency (POI)⁃       Is there a genetic link?⁃       XXX syndrome⁃       Fragile X syndrome Genetics and Male InfertilityKlinefelter syndrome⁃       What is Klinefelter syndrome, 47,XXY?⁃       How common is Klinefelter syndrome?⁃       What are the symptoms of Klinefelter syndrome other than infertility?⁃       Is it possible for a man with Klinefelter syndrome to reproduce?⁃       Will the children also have chromosomal abnormalities?47,XYY syndrome⁃       How common is XYY syndrome?⁃       What are the symptoms of XYY syndrome other than infertility?⁃       Will the children also have chromosomal abnormalities?Structural chromosomal abnormalities (SCAs) include deletions, duplications,translocations (balanced, imbalanced, and Robertsonian), and inversions.⁃       Y chromosome micro deletionsSingle Gene Disorders (Cystic Fibrosis)Why has it been so hard to pinpoint the exact genes associated with male and femalefertility?Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

“Assim também a língua é um pequeno membro, e gloria-se de grandes coisas. Vede quão grande bosque um pequeno fogo incendeia.” Tiago, 3.5 Os capítulos finais do livro de Juízes chocam de diversas maneiras: a degradação moral e espiritual extrema de Israel; o tratamento dado às mulheres, independentemente se fossem esposas, filhas ou cidadãs de Israel; a perda absurda de vidas. E onde tudo isso começou? Com um problema conjugal. Esta catástrofe final narrada no livro me fez lembrar um trecho da exortação do apóstolo Tiago, falando sobre a língua: “Assim também a língua é um pequeno membro, e gloria-se de grandes coisas. Vede quão grande bosque um pequeno fogo incendeia.” Grandes incêndios começam com faíscas. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/a-palavra-responde9/support

Femte avsnittet av ”SCAs ingenjörspodd” handlar om jämställdhet. Vi får besök av SCAs Elin Olofsson som vunnit flera priser för sitt jämställdhetsarbete. Elin var med och startade #slutavverkat inom #metoo-debatten. Våra poddvärdar Linnea, Sara och Ludvig för ett intressant samtal tillsammans med Elin om hur man kan tänka kring bland annat omedvetna normer och värderingar. Viktiga frågor för att öka jämställdhet och mångfald inom arbetslivet. Elin är till vardags avdelningschef inom området verksamhetsutveckling, men är uppmärksammad för sitt jämställdhetsarbete i branschen. Hon är även en av grundarna bakom nätverket NYKS.

Säsongens fjärde avsnitt av ”SCAs ingenjörspodd” handlar om forskning och utveckling inom SCA. Då passar det bra att SCAs forskningschef Jerker Jäder kommer på besök till studion och samtalar om FoU-arbetet och SCA R&D Centres roll. Tillsammans med våra poddvärdar Sara Starrsjö, Hilma Bolin och Therese Nylander tar Jerker upp spännande forskningsområden som produktutveckling och förnybar energi från skogen, men även olika yrkesroller inom forskningen.

Épisode 511 : On le sait, les algorithmes sont complexes et exigeants, mais les dernières révélations sur le fonctionnement d'Instagram risquent de nous amener à repenser notre manière d'utiliser la plateforme. On décrypte tout ça pour vous !Depuis la nuit des temps, ou plutôt depuis 1945 date à laquelle a été créé le premier ordinateur, les algorithmes fascinent les geeks. On s’est passionnés pour les gourous du SEO, de Matt Cuts à Olivier Andrieux et puis aujourd’hui, notre marotte ce sont les algos des Réseaux sociaux !Le 20 Décembre, la créatrice de contenu Rachel Reichenbach aka Raylune a publié sur son blog les échanges qu'elle a eux avec Instagram au sujet de l'algorithme et on analyse etout ça pour vous !Pourquoi les algorithmes évoluent ?Tout comme leurs prédécesseurs, les algorithmes des réseaux sociaux sont d’humeur changeante et sont extrêmement évolutifs.Si ils évoluent, c’est pour s’adapter aux nouveaux besoins de la société, des plateformes mais aussi des utilisateurs.Par exemple, ces dernières années, la hausse des démonstrations violentes, racistes, homophobes dans le monde et sur les réseaux ont refaçonné le visage des plateformes et donc de leurs algorithmes.Autre exemple, les nouvelles extensions ou fonctionnalités ajoutées aux plateformes ont du elles aussi être intégrées à l’algorithme.On ne peut pas intégrer un nouveau module sans lui laisser de place, enfin si un peu avec IGTV ou les articles Facebook.L’algorithme de Google au sommet de son art incluait l’optimisation d’absolument tous les paramètres de votre site web, on ne pouvait pas optimiser le poids de ses images et laisser de côté la sémantique de ses contenus.Les plateformes s’en fichent bien que vous restiez dans votre petit cocon de reach et dans votre bulle d’engagement. Quand vous croyez avoir la maîtrise de la bête, elle évolue, vos habitudes deviennent payantes et il faut se préparer à évoluer avec elle.Les nouvelles exigences d’instagramCe qu’il faut retenir, c’est que l’algorithme d'Instagram vous récompensera ou vous punira en fonction de votre utilisation de l'application dans son ensemble.On apprend via cet article de blog qu’il existe plus de 500 facteurs différents dans l’algo, et que notre utilisation d’Instagram est beaucoup plus prise en compte que les likes, les vues, les commentaires, d’un ou plusieurs contenus. Les 3 axes abordés dans l’article :L’utilisation de toutes les fonctions d'instagramLa création de reelsLa cohérence / tenir le rythmeUtiliser toutes les fonctionnalités d'Instagram pour être performantsQuand on parle de toutes les fonctionnalités, on est pas simplement sur les reels, ITGV, post et stories ah que non. On veut que vous viviez Insta, que vous pensiez Insta.Les filtres en réalité augmentée, la géolocalisation, la messagerie, les stickers d’interaction, l’intégration de gifs, tout ça tout ça !Publier des reels pour être plus visibles sur instagramEt bien tout simplement, car Insta veut mettre le paquet sur nouveau format qui est sa meilleure chance d’écraser son concurrent TikTok et qui mieux que les utilisateurs peuvent validerez entériner le format ?La réponse d’insta à ce sujet est claire : si vous ne publiez pas 1 reels par semaine vous serez pénalisésCas pratique : Je poste un reels le Lundi, pendant 1 semaine, mes posts bénéficieront d’une prime de sympathieInstagram évoque même le fait que le rythme idéal serait de 4 à 7 reels par semaine.. L’équivalent de ce qu’une marque bien installée sur la plateforme fait en Story.INsta dispose d’une team entière qui scrute les reels pour trouver des pépites à mettre en avant et le Recyclage TikTok n’est pas une option !Le mot d'ordre: Cohérence et persistanceLe tout c’est de tenir sur la durée et d’être réguliers dans l’effort. Ex: Un post le lundi, le jeudi et le samedi ou un reels tous les mercredis, ou 2 stories par jour. Suivre les horaires de publication appropriées.Alors à quelle fréquence il faut publier sur Instagram ??La quantité idéale et très surréaliste de publications de chaque type par semaine selon instagram :• 3 post par semaine (y compris posts issus de reels et IGTV)• 8 à 10 stories par semaine, de préférence +2 par jour• 4 à 7 reels par semaine• 1 à 3 IGTV par semaineSi on doit être raisonnable, 2 à 3 posts par semaine, 1 à 2 stories par jour , 1 à 2 reels par semaine et un IGTV si on est chaud,. . .Le Super Daily est le podcast quotidien sur les réseaux sociaux. Il est fabriqué avec une pluie d'amour par les équipes de Supernatifs.Nous sommes une agence social media basée à Lyon : https://supernatifs.com/. Nous aidons les entreprises à créer des relations durables et rentables avec leurs audiences. Nous inventons, produisons et diffusons des contenus qui engagent vos collaborateurs, vos prospects et vos consommateurs.

I säsongens andra avsnitt av SCAs ingenjörspodd besöker Chalmers-studenten Robin Ferm våra värdar Therese Nylander, Ludvig Persson och Linnea Nyström. Robin fick i somras det spännande uppdraget att sommarjobba som chef på SCA. Sommarjobb har alla våra poddvärdar erfarenhet av, men inte i rollen som chef! I avsnittet berättar Robin om sina tankar när han såg jobbet och sina erfarenheter av sommarjobbet på SCA Underhåll.

The Climate Front Line is a show that engages social movement & industry leaders as well as artists. Each conversation changes the narrative by centering the interest and needs of communities at the front line of climate change. This week is community week, we are going to change the narrative around "Thanksgiving". This is the third episode in a week long series!Tobi Shannon "You can catch me talking about how often we repeat and reimagine the same practices of our ancestors, while ruminating over a nice glass of wine--sometimes on the beach, and sometimes in front of a mic."Tobi and I met through our graduate program, and she is co-host of a podcast called Mimosionally Unavailable. She also has a course she offers, which I was really excited to find out about! Check out Intro to Healing from and Unlearning Internalized Anti-BlacknessStay engaged with Tobi!http://Scas.thinkific.cominstagram.com/mimosionally.unavailableinstagram.com/tobiwithaneyeStay Engaged at the Climate Front Line I also have some gifts I would like to share with this community, hats from Peru for both children or yourself. And a bunch of other little gifts, I wanted to give you. All you got to do is sign up for the Climate Front Line newsletter at https://www.climatefrontline.com. At the end of the November I will be letting folks know who have been selected, drawing will take place when I go live. Please be sure to leave a review on apple podcast. Stay engaged at the Climate Front Line in social media, links below:Facebook https://www.facebook.com/climatefrontlinepodcastInstagram https://www.instagram.com/climatefrontlineTwitter https://twitter.com/cfl_podcastE-mail climatefrontlinepodcast@gmail.com

I premiären av den andra säsongen, besöker vår innovationschef Magnus Viström ”SCAs ingenjörspodd” och våra värdar Sara Starrsjö, Therese Nylander och Hilma Bolin. Magnus är drivande i det interna innovationsarbetet och delaktig i utvecklingen av Arcwise®, en hållbar förpackningsteknik med attraktiva former. Han berättar också om SCAs samarbete med start up-företag, där det hela tiden finns spännande idéer att utveckla tillsammans.

Rafinha, Juju Massena, Magro Lima e Cosma, juntos com as presenças itinerantes de Ki Fornari e Cris Pereira fazem testes, desabafam, dão dicas de filmes e coisas pra se fazer no finde, recebem convidados de Vitor Kley até Paulo Zulu e muito mais nesse programa sem pautas e sem vergonha. Veja muito mais no youtube

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I vårt femte avsnitt av podden kommer Anna Schönström till poddstudion och våra värdar Sara Starrsjö, Linus Babar och Joel Sävström-Engman. Anna är en av SCAs yngre kvinnliga chefer och jobbar inom träförädlingsverksamheten vid ett av våra sågverk. Tillsammans resonerar de om vad som är viktigt i ledarskapet, men också om vad som kan vara fördelar med att vara ung chef. Detta i en bransch som kombinerar stolta traditioner med snabb utveckling av teknik och produktutveckling. Anna berättar även om sin medverkan i #slutavverkat, som varit en del av metoo-arbetet inom skogsbranschen.

I vårt tredje avsnitt av SCAs ingenjörspodd kommer Anders Edling Hultgren på besök till poddstudion och våra värdar Sara Starrsjö, Linus Babar och Joel Sävström-Engman. Anders leder SCAs bioraffinaderiverksamhet. Det blir ett spännande samtal om de möjligheter som skogen erbjuder för en fossilfri framtid, exempelvis för miljövänliga drivmedel. Och inte minst, vilka möjligheter som finns inom SCA!

I vårt andra avsnitt av SCAs ingenjörspodd besöker Wilhelm Nordmark våra poddare Sara Starrsjö, Linus Babar och Joel Sävström-Engman. Wilhelm är en av SCAs yngre medarbetare som valt att flytta för jobbet. Det är något som även våra tre poddvärdar har erfarenhet av. Vad finns det för olika sidor av att flytta för jobbet, och hur kan man utvecklas av att söka sig till både nytt jobb och ny bostadsort.

I första avsnittet av SCAs ingenjörspodd får våra poddare Sara Starrsjö, Linus Babar och Joel Sävström-Engman besök av Albin Nilsson. Albin har fått pris för att ha skrivit Sveriges bästa exjobb, och han gick efter studierna vidare till sitt första jobb inom SCA. I avsnittet reflekterar de tillsammans om tankar och förväntningar inför det första jobbet efter studietiden.

Sedan november har proteströrelsen gula västarna demonstrerat varje helg i Frankrike, och samlade som mest 300.000 personer. President Emanuel Macron har backat i frågan som utlöste protesterna (prishöjningen på bränsle), och inlett en nationell konsultation med landets invånare. Trots detta fortsätter demonstrationerna och har även utnyttjats av andra grupper som t.ex. vill avskaffa Frankrikes könsneutrala äktenskapsbalk och infiltrerats av bl.a. ukrainska separatister. Den formellt ledarlösa rörelsen ger uttryck för ett stort missnöje bland den franska allmänheten, men vad vill rörelsen egentligen? Kommer presidenten och politikerna att lyckas fånga upp konkreta krav, eller är problemet större än rörelsen? Ett föredrag av Jenny Andersson, Professor vid Frankrikes forskningsorganisation CNRS och föreståndare för MaxPo-centret vid universitetet SciencePo i Paris. Våren 2019 är hon fellow vid SCAS vid Uppsala Universitet. Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare Utrikespolitiska institutet. Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.

Jakten är äntligen igång!! Vi har startat på var sitt håll med lyckat resultat. André drog iväg till Västerbotten med Petter för skogsfågeljakt tillika fadderjakt och Nicklas trotsade vädret och fick en lyckad sjöfågelpremiär för sig själv nere på sjön. Petter "klick-klick" kallas numera för Petter "Stryparn"... och har äntligen lyckats peta säkringen åt rätt håll. Tusen tack till Urban Ekskär på SCA för sponsring med jaktkort och tusen tack till Stina och Torkel för förstklassig kost och logi!! Om ni också vill jaga på SCAs marker så ska ni klicka in er på scajaktochfiske Älgjakten drar igång för oss till helgen och förberedelserna inför denna premiär är i full gång. Nåja, mycket nöje - och som vanlig hör av er på Instagram @shoottoeat eller till shoottoeat.pitea@gmail.com om ni har jaktrelaterade frågor eller funderingar eller om ni rentav vill ge oss lite beröm. Hörs, hej!    

Neste episódio, Gustavo Zanotto e Guilherme Carnicelli abordam as falhas de processo do mercado imobiliário que frequentemente geram desentendimentos entre corretores, imobiliárias e construtores. Quer saber mais sobre essas falhas?

Os últimos meses tem sido dominados por rumores do próximo iPhone. Essa semana não foi diferente, mas com o lançamento tão próximo, parece que já temos a confirmação do design por causa de um escorregão da Apple. Ou será que foi um vazamento proposital? Além de discutir isso, Rodrigo Gonzalez está de volta pra falar sobre o mercado de wearables e um gadget universal e Rafael Silva fica triste com a volta do Rod. Além de falar sobre os recentes problemas que a HBO vem enfrentando com hackers e um gadget pra proteger sua privacidade com estilo. Todos os links estão no post no B9: http://www.b9.com.br/77229/tecnicalidade-054-bugou-as-faiscas/ Apoie este podcast! Seja um patrono: http://patreon.com/tecnicalidade Quer ajudar em reais? Faça uma colaboração no Padrim: http://padrim.com/tecnicalidade

Join Finlandia Fridays this week as we are excited to sit down with two very special guests, Claudia Youakim and Hailee Johnson. These two ladies walk us through an exciting SCAS capstone project also when and where to come see the presentations. Finlandia University: www.finlandia.edu Finlandia Fridays: www.finlandia.edu/fridays Finlandia SCAS: www.finlandia.edu/academics/arts-sciences/

I veckans avsnitt av Fill or Kill Mat.se bud från Axfood - Framtiden? Vad tror vi om ICA och Axfood? Renonorden - Nytt Vardia, hyllad i annan podd. SCAs förvärv - Dyrt men hyllad SSAB Volvo cars prefensaktie Index och Veckans Fill or Kill  

Det finns två saker som vi svenskar gör allt för att undvika att prata om, pengar och döden. I dagens pod pratar Peter och jag om båda. När det kommer till vår privatekonomi är det nog ingen sak som är så jobbig att ta tag i som vad som ska hända vid vår bortgång. Vi tar upp tre punkter att fundera kring: Vad händer om jag går bort? vad vill jag ska hända? och har jag informerat mina anhöriga? Men vi börjar med att prata om SCAs uppdelning, investmentbolag med utmanade värdering, och Ericsson bla…..

The tail numbers NASA 911 and NASA 905 were used for the two Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, converted Boeing 747s that carried the shuttle between the landing sites and the launch complex at Kennedy Space Center. Our guest in this episode is Ace Beall who flew the SCAs for several years. We talk about operations, modifications on the airplane, the flight characteristics with and without the shuttle as well as some anecdotes from Ace's time on the SCA.

What kills 1000 people a day or one person every two minutes? What kills more people annually than breast cancer, lung cancer and HIV/AIDs combined? What is one event that kills most of the people who suffer from it, but who could possibly be saved? The answer is sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Today's show will be about the survivor of, not one but over 140 sudden cardiac arrests, and his wife. We'll learn why he has suffered so many SCAs, even though he is a relatively young, otherwise healthy man. Lastly, we'll find out what his experience has taught him and his family and what he and his wife have established so others, like he, will be survivors.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/HearttoHeart)

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It's called the Spartan Crusade for Academic Excellence, or SCAS. It's the newest academic and community initiative at Norfolk State University, designed to change the educational landscape in Hampton Roads. On the next Another View, we talk with NSU President Tony Atwater, Ph.D, about SCAS - what is is...how it works...and how it will improve on-time graduation rates and lower the drop out rate. It's all a part of WHRO's American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen. Join guest host Lisa Godley for this criticial discussion, Friday, April 27 at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM, or stream us at whrv.org.

Welcome to the second episode in our two-part series covering the modified Boeing 747s that NASA uses carry the space shuttle orbiters when they need to be repositioned between Edwards Air Force Base in California, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and other locations. We talked about the basics of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or "SCAs" in Part One, in which we also interviewed SCA crew chief Pete Seidl. If you missed that episode or if you're a recent subscriber, please be sure to download that episode as well. Today we're going to talk to one of the pilots who flies NASA's SCAs. To say that Gordon Fullerton is an SCA pilot would be true, but to stop there would be to fail to outline as rich an aviation and aerospace career as anyone could claim. He's presently associate director of flight operations at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. In addition to flying the SCAs, his assignments include a variety of flight research and support activities piloting a variety of multi-engine and high performance aircraft. Fullerton entered the U.S. Air Force in 1958. After primary and basic flight school, he trained as an F-86 interceptor pilot and later became a B-47 bomber pilot. In 1964, he attended what is now be called Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base and was later assigned as a test pilot with the Bomber Operations Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. While still in the Air Force, he went on to become a NASA astronaut and served on the support crews for the Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17 lunar missions. [Audio] The voice there saying "Roger, you have good thrust" is Fullerton, who was the man at the CAPCOM station in Houston for Gene Cernan and Jack Schmidt's liftoff from the Taurus Littrow Valley as part of Apollo 17 - the last manned mission to the moon. In 1977, Fullerton joined one of the two two-man flight crews that piloted the Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise during the Approach and Landing Test program, which involved flying the orbiter to altitude on an SCA, separating the orbiter from the SCA, and then gliding the orbiter to a landing to validate landing procedures. Fullerton logged 382 hours in space during two space shuttle missions. He was the pilot for the eight-day STS-3 orbital flight test mission in 1982. STS-3 landed at Northrup Strip at White Sands, New Mexico because Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base was wet due to heavy seasonal rains. He was also the commander of the STS-51F Spacelab 2 mission in 1985, which landed at Edwards. Fullerton has logged more than 16,000 hours of flying time and flown 114 different types of aircraft, including full qualification in the T-33, T-34, T-37, T-38, T-39, F-86, F-101, F-106, F-111, F-14, F/A-18, X-29, KC-135, C-140 and B-47. Since joining Dryden as a research pilot, Fullerton has piloted nearly all the research and support aircraft flown at the facility and currently flies the center's Beech King Air 200 as well as the B-747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. He was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2005, and the International Space Hall of Fame in 1982. We started the research for this episode intending to focus on the SCAs themselves. We were delighted to have access to one of the pilots of these magnificent machines. But we had no idea when we submitted the initial inquiry that that we'd end up talking to a man whose career has been so intertwined with the space program and the national dream that has captured so many imaginations. With your indulgence, then, we couldn't help also asking Gordon for his thoughts about the space program - where it's been and where it's going. We caught up with Gordon by phone at his office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. [Interview audio.] Image used per NASA's policy entitled Using NASA Imagery and Linking to NASA Web Sites (October 13, 2005) located at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html. NASA does not endorse Airspeed or any commercial good or service associated with Airspeed. See more pictures of the SCA at http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-Ferry/index.html.

Subscribe to Airspeed through iTunes or your other favorite podcatcher using the feed http://airspeed.libsyn.com/rss or listen to audio at http://airspeed.libsyn.com.Everyone knows that the orbiter of the Space Transportation System (or "STS," and more popularly called the "Space Shuttle) doesn't always land back at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Sometimes, it lands at Edwards Air Force Base and, if needed, it could land at White Sands or one of several other emergency landing sites around the world.That's great, but it puts the orbiter several thousand miles away from its launching facility at the cape.So how does the orbiter get around? Most of you know that the answer is that you mount it on the top of a specially-modified Boeing 747 called a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft or "SCA." But, if you're like me, you probably didn't know much about the SCAs. How are they different from a stock 747? How many are there? What's it like to maintain an aircraft like that? What's it like to fly it?Well, if there's one thing you know about Airspeed, it's that we never pass up the opportunity to go right to the source to get real answers from the people closest to the aircraft. And that's just what we did for this special two-part series.First, a bit about the SCAs. There are two of them. NASA 905 (tail number N905NA) is a Boeing 747-100 and the other, NASA 911 (tail number N911NA) is a short-range Boeing 747-100SR.The two aircraft are very similar and have nearly identical operating characteristics. If you happen to be lucky enough to see one on the ramp but can't see the tail number, NASA 905 has two upper-deck windows on each side while NASA 911 has five.The SCAs have a maximum gross taxi weight of 711,000 pounds. A stock 747-100 weighs about 380,000 pounds empty and an SCA weighs even more than that. Once you add 180,000 pounds or more for the orbiter, you have less than 140,000 pounds or so left for fuel and other stuff. And there's precious little other stuff because even using the entire remaining 140,000 or so pounds for fuel only gives you about a 1,000-mile range.That's actually a little gratifying, because these are some of the same concerns that those of us who have flown ultralights, Cessna 152s, or light sport aircraft know a thing or two about. If you've ever left your flight bag, spare change, and shoelaces back at the FBO and still had to closely manage the amount of fuel in the plane to get two average-sized guys into a C-152 under max gross, you've had the same thing on your mind - at least at some scale - that our guest today deals with very frequently.We start off the series on the SCA by talking to SCA crew chief Pete Seidl. Pete started working with the SCAs in 1979. He's an employee of Computer Sciences Corporation (or "CSC") under contract to NASA's Shuttle Support Operations Office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. He heads a team of five at NASA Dryden that does the regular maintenance on the two SCAs. Among other things, Pete was on the crew that took NASA 905 and the Enterprise orbiter to the Paris Airshow in 1983.Before we get going, a couple of notes for non-space-junkies.You'll hear us talk about hypergolic fuels. Hypergolic fuels ignite immediately when the two components of the fuel come together. They're very reliable, even if their components are sometimes highly toxic. Examples are hydrazine paired with nitric acid and monomethylhydrazine (MMH) paired with nitrogen tetroxide, the latter pair of which is used in the space shuttle's reaction control system. Early uses included a critical application for the Apollo program's lunar modules.One other insider point. Moving orbiters is complex enough with a crack team, lots of support, and only one orbiter at a time to move. But, in early 2001, NASA came within 37 minutes of having a formation flight of the two SCAs, each with an orbiter aboard.On February 20, 2001, Space Shuttle Atlantis unexpectedly had to land at Edwards. Atlantis needed to be received, processed, and ferried back to the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Space Shuttle Discovery was undergoing upgrades at Boeing's facility in nearby Palmdale and needed to be at the cape in preparation for launch by March 8. NASA 905 was already in Palmdale awaiting mating of Discovery for the ferry flight, but NASA 911 was at Evergreen Air Center in Marana, Arizona undergoing maintenance.Two orbiters, two SCAs, an almost simultaneous deadline, and not much time to organize and carry out an amazingly complex set of operations. Pete and his team faced an unprecedented challenge. But, on March 1, 2001, the two SCAs, each with a national treasure mounted atop it, launched for Kennedy Space Center with NASA 905 and Columbia taking off at 11:00 a.m. local and NASA 911 with Atlantis taking off at 11:37. Although each encountered bad weather and other difficulties, each made it to Florida in time.The aircraft took separate routes and a formation flight would have been impractical and beyond the mission risk profile, but at least I'm not the only one to have allowed the thought to enter my head and think that that would have been a deeply moving picture.Anyway, on to the interview. We caught up with Pete Seidl at an office at NASA Dryden a mere 150 feet from the nose of NASA 905.[Interview audio.]Many thanks to Pete Seidl for taking some time out of his day to talk to us.Tune in next time for the view from the cockpit of the NASA Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with SCA pilot, project pilot, former astronaut, Shuttle Approach and Landing Test pilot, STS-3 pilot, and STS 51-F commander Gordon Fullerton._________________________________________A special note of thanks from the Airspeed crew goes out to a heroic listener who works for Apple. We redirected the feed for the podcast on Labor Day weekend over to Libsyn from a prior RSS provider. Apparently, whether due to a glitch in the RSS provider's system or iTunes, when we let the old forwarded feed go away, we winked out of existence on iTunes. Thanks to some fast footwork on the part of a listener and the willingness of the folks at iTunes to hustle the re-listing of the podcast through, we got back online quickly and lost little, if any, or our subscriber base that subscribes through iTunes.Thanks to Apple and to that heroic listener for helping us keep Airspeed up and available._________________________________________Image used per NASA's policy entitled Using NASA Imagery and Linking to NASA Web Sites (October 13, 2005) located at http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html.See more pictures of the SCA at http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-Ferry/index.html.