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Aaron Lombard joins Chris Shipley live from the Williams Syndrome Association Convention in Buffalo, New York (2026) for a powerful, real-talk episode of Old Man Strength.Aaron shares his journey as the older sibling to his sister Courtney “Coco,” growing up in New Orleans, navigating a late diagnosis in the early 80s, moving the family to Phoenix, and stepping up as a fierce advocate. From the challenges of the special needs system and red tape to the life-changing impact of WSA conventions and Zoom “Dream Team” calls, this conversation is full of perspective, humor, and heart.They dive into sibling dynamics, step-parenting twins with Williams Syndrome, the importance of community and support, baseball roots (including Aaron's work with Oakley and Ken Griffey Jr.'s HBCU Classic), and why advocacy and awareness matter — especially around DEI and resources for families.Raw, honest, and inspiring — this one will make you laugh, think, and appreciate the strength it takes to show up for family.LIVE from the AKC Andrew Downs Studios.Sponsors:Powered by Revelton Distilling Company • Iowa Beef Steakhouse • Styled by JJ Boutique • Jenny Farrell – RE/MAX ConceptsFull episode on YouTube & all podcast platforms.Leave a review, share with someone who needs to hear it, and consider supporting the Williams Syndrome Association.

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. Subscribe where [00:46:43] Vince Menzione: you listen, and head over to the ultimate partner.com. [00:46:47] Vince Menzione: For show notes related content and the resources for this episode. And if you haven’t already, now’s the time to register for the Ultimate Partner Live Event in Reston, Virginia, October 26th through October 28th. Until next time, keep showing up in the rooms that matter because being in the room changes everything [00:47:09] I.

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This week, host Bob Traynor is joined by Sheena Burks, Chief Clinical Officer at WSA, and Dr. Eric Branda, Head of Audiology and Research, for an in-depth discussion on the unique hearing healthcare needs of U.S. veterans and how new technology is helping address one of audiology's greatest challenges: understanding speech in noisy environments.The conversation explores the realities facing VA audiologists, including high patient volumes, administrative demands, and the need to deliver efficient, high-quality care. The guests discuss Signia's Integrated Experience (IX) platform, multi-beam directional processing, instant-fit hearing solutions, AI-enabled personalization, and how these innovations are designed to improve communication for veterans while streamlining clinical workflows. They also examine the future of government hearing healthcare, the role of student education, and the importance of making advanced technology accessible across the VA and other federal healthcare systems.Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/

Rząd przeznaczy 9–10 mld zł na pozamilitarne przygotowania obronne infrastruktury drogowej i kolejowej. Budimex wybuduje fundamenty terminala pasażerskiego CPK za ok. 150 mln zł, a KIO uznała program naprawczy spółki za skuteczny. Grupa Pepco sprzeda 100% udziałów w sieci Dealz Poland z prawem do 35% zysków z przyszłych transakcji. WSA uchylił 500 tys. zł kary GITD za pośrednictwo przy przewozie osób. W ocenie fiskusa benefity na B2B mogą być kosztem tylko wtedy, gdy stanowią element wynagrodzenia wynikający z umowy.

What happens when Widex adds a dedicated AI chip to its signature natural sound platform?Andrew Bellavia travels to WSA headquarters in Copenhagen for an early hands-on look at the new Widex Allure AI RIC and Compass Cloud 2.0. Andrew sits down with Sonnie Harris and Karen Hougs from WSA for an in-depth discussion on the technology behind the new Widex Allure AI RIC, Compass Cloud 2.0, and the future direction of the Widex platform. Along the way, he shares his impressions after testing the devices in restaurants, hotel bars, live music venues, and other real-world listening environments.Topics discussed include:How the new Allure AI RIC builds upon the existing Widex Allure platformWidex's approach to AI and why the company resisted “artificial” sounding processingThe new Clarity Boost mode and real-world speech-in-noise performance• PureSound processing and low-delay audio designMusic listening impressions from jazz, rock, and classical concertsAuracast readiness, LE Audio, and connectivity updatesBattery life and dual-chip architectureCompass Cloud 2.0 and how clinician feedback shaped the new workflow updatesThe future of cloud-based fitting systems and personalized hearing careAndrew also compares the Allure AI RIC with other premium hearing aids during real-world listening experiences, with a particular focus on live music performance and listening comfort.Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/

 W rozmowie z Katarzyną Adamiak dziennikarz Radia Wnet Jakub Pilarek mówi o wyroku Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego, który podtrzymał uchylenie przez WSA decyzji Donalda Tuska o odebraniu Sławomirowi Cenckiewiczowi dostępu do informacji niejawnych. Według Pilarka, który zapoznał się z tekstem uzasadnienia, nie ma możliwości, by Służba Kontrwywiadu Wojskowego nadal kontynuowała postępowanie kontrolne wobec byłego Szefa BBN. 

Could understanding individual sound preference be the key to improving hearing aid adoption and satisfaction?Bob Traynor, live from WSA headquarters in Copenhagen, speaks with Lise Henningsen, Head of Audiology Evidence & Validation at WSA, about the emerging concept of sound preference—and why it may be a missing piece in hearing care. Drawing on WSA's latest research, they discuss how patients with similar audiograms can have very different reactions to sound processing, and why traditional best practices alone don't always lead to successful outcomes.The conversation explores how clinicians have long observed this variability in practice, often working across multiple brands and sound philosophies to better match patient needs. Henningsen explains how sound preference—though difficult to measure—plays a meaningful role in patient experience, influencing comfort, satisfaction, and long-term device use. WSA is now working to better define and quantify sound preference through ongoing research, including controlled studies with the University of Washington and Vanderbilt University. These efforts aim to better understand how preference affects acclimatization, mood, and overall outcomes—and how simple tools, such as short listening assessments, could help guide more personalized hearing care.To learn more about WSA's sound preference research and clinical implications visit: https://www.wsa.com/soundpreference/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/

Państwowy fundusz inwestycyjny Arabii Saudyjskiej PIF chce finansować Port Polska. Rada Przyszłości chce wspierać transformację Polski w gospodarkę opartą na technologiach i innowacjach. Fundusz private equity MidEuropa nabędzie istotny pakiet mniejszościowy w OSHEE. NSA orzekł, że akt notarialny może zastąpić fakturę przy odliczaniu VAT od zakupu działek, jeśli zawiera wszystkie dane o transakcji i spełnione są materialne przesłanki prawa do odliczenia. WSA w Warszawie orzekł, że ulga na robotyzację może objąć nie tylko pojedyncze roboty przemysłowe, ale całe zintegrowane linie produkcyjne.Zasubskrybuj prasówkę na www.businessupdate.pl.Podcast powstał przy pomocy ElevenLabs.

Die heutige Folge steht im Zeichen des Confidence-Buildings! Aufsaugen und selbstbewusst durch die Saison marschieren!Heute dreht sich alles um die allgemeine Verunsicherung, die wir über die Saison hinweg spüren: Vorweg widmen wir uns dem Thema der "Bereichs-Nomenklatur" (was für eine Wortschöpfung) - wo wir darüber sprechen, was denn nun richtig ist - WSA, EB, GA1, GA2, HIIT, whatever ;) Im zweiten Themenblock stellen wir uns die Frage, wo bleibt die Form? Wann sollten wir nervös werden, was ist vielleicht sogar erwünscht, fühlt sich aber ganz anders an? Und zuletzt, wie wir mit dem "Crowding" umgehen, also Einflüssen und Zurufen der Außenwelt - mögen sie auch gut gemeint sein, aber doch spürbar zur Verunsicherung beitragen. Wenn wir dir auf deiner sportlichen Reise im Triathlon oder in einer der Einzeldisziplinen helfen können, so besuche unsere Website unter www.sweetspot-training.at und melde dich ganz unverbindlich über das Kontaktformular oder schreib uns direkt eine Email unter der unten angeführten Adresse. Wir freuen uns vorn Dir zu Hören! #startlikeapro Habt ihr Feedback oder Fragen:  info@sweetspot-training.at    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SweetspottrainerInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/sweetspottrainingYoutube: https://bit.ly/3cq9Btm

Przy rządzie zainaugurowano Radę Przyszłości. NFOŚiGW ponownie zreformuje „Czyste Powietrze”. Kraków Airport realizuje największy w swojej historii plan inwestycyjny. Polska stal nie jest w stanie konkurować z niemiecką. Rubicon Partners zainwestował w Trimlogic – dostawcę usług IT opartych na danych, AI i technologiach IBM. Prokuratura skierowała kolejny akt oskarżenia przeciwko byłym członkom zarządu GetBack S.A. WSA w Warszawie uchylił decyzję Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości o odebraniu licencji doradcy restrukturyzacyjnego.Zasubskrybuj prasówkę na www.businessupdate.pl.Podcast powstał przy pomocy ElevenLabs.

 Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w Krakowie częściowo podważył uchwałę o Strefie Czystego Transportu. Sąd uznał za nieważne m.in. zapisy dotyczące definicji mieszkańca opartej na meldunku oraz różnicowanie zwolnień z opłat dla pacjentów publicznych i prywatnych placówek medycznych.Wyrok jest nieprawomocny i do czasu jego uprawomocnienia zasady SCT pozostają bez zmian. Jednocześnie sąd podkreślił, że sama idea strefy jest proporcjonalna i co do zasady uzasadniona.W Radiu Wnet sprawę komentowała mecenas Monika Brzozowska-Pasieka, reprezentująca Fundację Wolność i Własność, która brała udział w postępowaniu. Jak wyjaśniała prawniczka, sąd odrzucił skargi osób prywatnych i gminy Skawina, uznając, że nie wykazały interesu prawnego. Kluczowa okazała się natomiast skarga wojewody, w której część zarzutów została podzielona przez skład orzekający.Sąd częściowo uwzględnił zarzuty wojewody. My, jako Fundacja Wolność i Własność, od początku zwracaliśmy uwagę właśnie na te kwestie, które zostały uznane za niezgodne z prawem– mówiła Brzozowska-Pasieka.Unieważnione zapisy dotyczyły przede wszystkim definicji mieszkańca Krakowa opartej na meldunku oraz zasad zwalniania z opłat pacjentów korzystających wyłącznie z publicznych placówek medycznych.Już dawno w orzecznictwie ukształtowała się linia, że mieszkańcem jest ten, kto faktycznie mieszka na terenie gminy, a nie ten, kto jest tylko zameldowany. Druga kwestia to faworyzowanie placówek finansowanych z NFZ i całkowite pominięcie prywatnych podmiotów leczniczych– podkreślała.Dane wrażliwe pacjentów i chaos organizacyjnyNajwięcej emocji w rozmowie wywołał wątek pacjentów dojeżdżających do krakowskich szpitali. Zdaniem mecenas Brzozowskiej-Pasieki przyjęte rozwiązania są nie tylko uciążliwe, ale mogą naruszać prawo do ochrony danych osobowych.Pacjent spoza Krakowa, który ma stary samochód, musi się wcześniej zarejestrować w systemie, podając imię, nazwisko, PESEL, datę wizyty i nazwę placówki. Tworzy się rejestr danych sensytywnych i nikt nie potrafi jasno powiedzieć, kto będzie miał do nich dostęp i jak będą chronione– mówiła.Jak ujawniła, sąd zapytał pełnomocników miasta, ile placówek podpisało porozumienie z magistratem umożliwiające korzystanie ze zwolnień.Okazało się, że takich placówek jest… siedem. Strefa obowiązuje od 1 stycznia, mamy połowę miesiąca, a większość szpitali nie ma podpisanych umów, które są warunkiem skorzystania z wyłączeń– relacjonowała.Dodatkowo pacjenci mieliby potwierdzać swoją obecność w placówce za pomocą specjalnych tabletów.Mówimy o danych wrażliwych: czy ktoś leczy się onkologicznie, psychiatrycznie, ginekologicznie. To są informacje, które wymagają szczególnych audytów i ocen skutków dla ochrony danych osobowych, a w uchwale ten problem został kompletnie pominięty– zaznaczyła.„Uchwała dociskana kolanem”Fundacja od początku domaga się unieważnienia uchwały w całości. Zdaniem jej przedstawicielki lista problemów jest znacznie dłuższa.To różnicowanie mieszkańców Krakowa i innych gmin, brak zwolnień dla przedsiębiorców, absurdalne wyłączenia jednych form działalności przy całkowitym pominięciu innych, jak spółki z o.o.– wyliczała.Wskazywała też na realne skutki ekonomiczne nowych przepisów.Dziś wjazd do strefy to 100 zł miesięcznie, w 2027 roku 250 zł, a w 2028 – 500 zł, czyli 6 tysięcy złotych rocznie. Dla drobnych przedsiębiorców z okolic Krakowa to są dramaty, które już teraz do nas spływają– mówiła.Jej zdaniem uchwała została wprowadzona w pośpiechu, bez realnej analizy skutków społecznych.To jest uchwała kompletnie nieprzemyślana. Została, mówiąc kolokwialnie, dociśnięta kolanem. Jest niesprawiedliwa, a w naszej ocenie – bezprawna– podsumowała.Choć wyrok WSA jest nieprawomocny, Fundacja zapowiada dalsze działania.Czekamy na pisemne uzasadnienie. Sąd wskazał, że było zdanie odrębne jednego z sędziów i liczymy, że da nam ono paliwo do skargi kasacyjnej do NSA– zapowiedziała prawniczka.Równolegle fundacja rozpoczęła szeroką ofensywę prawną, informując m.in. prezesa UODO, Rzecznika Praw Pacjenta oraz izby lekarskie.To jest dopiero początek. Zachęcamy wszystkich, którzy mają problemy związane ze strefą czystego transportu, żeby się do nas zgłaszali. Dostajemy od pięciu do dziesięciu maili dziennie i za każdym z nich stoi realny, ludzki dramat– mówiła na antenie Radia Wnet./fa

Międzynarodowe konsorcjum pod przewodnictwem NASK zbuduje w Polsce pierwszą mobilną stację naziemną. GDDKiA planuje w 2026 r. oddać do użytku ponad 290 km nowych dróg. Brytyjski sektor naftowo-gazowy na Morzu Północnym zanotował w 2025 r. najgorszy rok dla poszukiwań od lat 70. CD Projekt podpisał z Michałem Kicińskim umowę sprzedaży 100% udziałów w platformie dystrybucji gier GOG. Chiny uruchomiły narodowy fundusz venture capital oraz trzy duże fundusze regionalne, aby wzmocnić finansowanie rodzimych spółek technologicznych. NSA orzekł, że zamiana nieruchomości mieszkalnych z budynkiem gospodarczym nie pozbawia całkowicie zwolnienia z PCC. WSA w Gdańsku orzekł, że wypłata starego zysku po przekształceniu spółki komandytowej w spółkę z o.o. i przeniesieniu udziałów na fundacje rodzinne będzie opodatkowana PIT jako przychód z innych źródeł, a nie jako dywidenda.Zasubskrybuj prasówkę na www.businessupdate.pl.Podcast powstał przy pomocy ElevenLabs.

Sprzedaż detaliczna w listopadzie nieco słabsza ale analitycy wskazują na nadchodzące wzrosty. W SSP zostaną powołani pełnomocnicy ds. rozliczeń poprzednich władz. Chiny nałożą tymczasowe cła w wysokości do 42,7% na wybrane produkty mleczarskie z Unii Europejskiej. MON sfinalizowało przejęcie Huta Częstochowa. CBA zatrzymało cztery osoby, w śledztwie dotyczącym zmowy przetargowej przy modernizacji infrastruktury tramwajowej w Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowskiej Metropolii. WSA w Gdańsku orzekł, że fuzja spółek nie wyklucza zwolnienia dywidendy z podatku dochodowego ponieważ przejmująca spółka wstępuje we wszystkie prawa przejmowanego podmiotu.Zasubskrybuj prasówkę na www.businessupdate.pl.Podcast powstał przy pomocy ElevenLabs.

Host Austin Jenkins sits down with Dennis Worsham, Washington State Department of Health Secretary.

Widex has expanded its Allure™ hearing aid platform with new form factors and charging options, giving hearing care professionals more flexibility across a wider range of patient needs. In this discussion, Dana Helmink, Au.D., Senior Director of Clinical Development at WSA, walks through the addition of a rechargeable Allure BTE, Widex's first rechargeable ITE, and a new portable charger for the Allure RIC — designed to support travel, active lifestyles, and extended daily use.The conversation also explores updates to Widex Compass Cloud™, the company's cloud-based fitting software. Dana explains how frequent rolling updates, precision fitting tools, and in-ear measurement capabilities like the Allure Sensogram are designed to improve first-fit accuracy, reduce follow-up visits, and support more personalized fittings. The shift to cloud-based software allows Widex to release new features on an accelerated schedule without requiring manual software installs.Together, the platform updates reflect Widex's continued focus on natural sound, speech clarity, and environmental awareness. The discussion also touches on the role of the W1 chip, backwards-compatible firmware upgrades, AI-supported personalization through the Widex app, and how these advances translate into real-world patient outcomes in complex listening environments.For more information on the Allure portfolio expansion: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearing-technologies/2025/widex-expands-allure-portfolio-with-new-hearing-aid-models-and-charger/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn, Instagram and X.- https://x.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinhearing/- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearingVisit us at: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/

VAT na bezalkoholowe odpowiedniki napojów alkoholowych oraz energetyki zawierające minimum 20% soku wzrośnie do 23%. W czwartek, w wieku 75 lat, zmarł Leszek Gierszewski, prezes i założyciel firmy Drutex. Netflix przejmie większość aktywów Warner Bros. Discovery za ok. 82,7 mld USD; transakcja budzi kontrowersje antymonopolowe w USA. Decyzja inspektora pracy o przekształceniu zlecenia lub B2B w umowę o pracę będzie wywoływać skutki wyłącznie na przyszłość. NSA uznał, że BIK nie może samodzielnie pozyskiwać i przetwarzać danych o upadłości konsumenckiej z Monitora Sądowego i Gospodarczego, gdy nie pozostają w związku z konkretną czynnością bankową. WSA orzekł, że podatnicy mogą modyfikować stawki amortyzacyjne na przyszłość oraz do już rozliczonych okresów podatkowych.Zasubskrybuj prasówkę na ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.businessupdate.pl⁠⁠⁠.⁠Podcast powstał przy pomocy ElevenLabs.

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Ende November verwandelt sich Graz wieder in ein Zentrum für junge Innovation: Das European Young Innovators Festival, organisiert vom Team der World Summit Awards (WSA), bringt seit vielen Jahren kreative Köpfe aus ganz Europa zusammen. Zu Gast im Podcast powered by Next Incubator sind zwei Personen, die bei dem Event wichtige Rollen einnehmen werden: Nora Wolloch, Executive Manager der WSA, und Christa Kloibhofer-Krampl, verantwortlich für Marketing & Kommunikation beim Next Incubator der Energie Steiermark & Podcast Host von What's next?. Christa wird beim European Young Innovators Festival ihrerseits ein spannendes Live-Podcast-Interview mit dem Titel "The Climate won't wait: Why do we" zum Thema Klimakrise und ihren Auswirkungen liefern. Wir sprechen mit ihnen über:Das European Young Innovators Festival und die Bedeutung des diesjährigen Mottos "Connect, Create, Collab"Was das Festival für junge Innovator:innen attraktiv machtDas Programm bei der diesjährigen Ausgabe des EventsDen Live-Podcast von Christa, bei dem Laila Kriechbaum, Sprecherin von Fridays For Future, zu Gast sein wirdDie Zukunftsangst, die viele junge Menschen heute fühlenWie junge Menschen die vielen Krisen dieser Zeit bewältigen könnenWie wir die Narrative ändern können – weg von Dystopie, hin zu Hoffnung und MotivationWie Communities wie die der WSA und des Next Incubator junge Menschen mit innovativen Ideen unterstützenWeitere Informationen zum European Young Innovators Festival finden sich hier. Die WSA verteilen mit diesem Podcast außerdem vier Freikarten für das Event. Meldet euch jetzt auf der Website mit dem Code "WSACOMMUNITY" an, um euch eine der Karten zu sichern, solange der Vorrat reicht!Wenn dir diese Folge gefallen hat, lass uns doch fünf Sterne als Bewertung da und folge dem Podcast auf Spotify, Apple und Co. Für Anregungen, Kritik, Feedback oder Wünsche zu künftigen Gästen schick uns jederzeit gerne eine Mail an ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠feedback@trendingtopics.at.

Der Tag in NRW: Land legt Gutachten zu Polizei-Tasern vor; Ministerin will weniger Pflanzenschutzmittel; Martinszug durch Düsseldorfer Altstadt; Paderborn bekommt Supercomputer; Wie geht's weiter mit den Regioflughäfen?; Digital-Förderung für Essener Schüler; Hilfe für Braunkohle-Dörfer; Wsa machen Straßenwärter?; Moderation: Wiebke Dumpe. Von WDR.

In a special live taping at WSA, Lauren is joined by The RealReal's Kristen Naiman, Marisa Meltzer, Erika Veurink, and Puck's very own Sarah Shapiro for a spirited chat on fashion's resale boom. The group weighs in on the enduring power of vintage, the role of resale in maintaining brand value, how the secondhand market is reshaping both closets and balance sheets, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wisconsin soybean harvest is right around the corner but before farmers get in their combines, the Wisconsin Soybean Association (WSA) is reminding growers to enter the 2025 Wisconsin Soybean Yield Contest before the Aug. 31, 2025, deadline. “You can’t win if you don’t enter,” said WSA Director Shawn Conley, a professor in the agronomy department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s an opportunity to have fun, learn and grow.” A husband-wife team from Berlin have found the contest is a great way to benchmark their farm practices, and maybe have a little friendly competition between the two. Dan and Emily Sleik were intrigued to see how they'd stack up against other Wisconsin soybean growers. Emily is a seed representative herself, so she knew how valuable the data could be. Dan wanted to see what practices produced the most on the unique soil types they're farming. After learning the ropes in 2024, they're back engaged in the competition again this year! Emily says, "Dan and I just said we didn't know if we'd win or not, but we really wanted to benchmark where we were at with everyone else. When I think about agronomics and inputs, really that return on investment, what does the future look like for us and our customers." Sleik's say that they're big believers in foliar feeding and not just one blanket application in spring. She said they believe in 'practicing what they preach' and are most excited about being able to replicate results. Organized to encourage the development of innovative management practices, the contest highlights the importance of using sound cultural practices in Wisconsin soybean production systems and features growers’ dedication toward improving their operations. Any soybean production system can enter the contest. Two winners will be selected from each of the four geographical divisions in the state. Divisions are based on long-term county soybean yield averages. Additional awards in the contest include the Planting Green Award, New Contestant Award and WI 100 Bushel Soybean Club. To enter the contest, entry forms must be completed and returned on or before Aug. 31, 2025. The winners will be recognized at the 2026 Wisconsin Corn•Soy Expo at the Kalahari Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells. “Any farmer should enter the contest; there are opportunities for those that have been in it for a long time and have continued tweaking their production practices. We also have a category for someone that’s new to the contest and for farmers that are really focusing on conservation practices,” Conley said. “There’s plenty of room in the tent for everyone to join and participate because it’s great to learn from your fellow farmers and be recognized for what you’re doing on your farm.” Supported by the Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board and Wisconsin soybean checkoff dollars, the yield contest is marking 15 years of commemorating Wisconsin soybean management practices this year. “Wisconsin’s soybean growers are diligent stewards of the land and savvy businesspeople,” said WSA Executive Director Adam Kask. “WSA’s 2025 Soybean Yield Contest spotlights how these two attributes come together on farms across the state to produce superior quality soybean crops.” WSA wants to know – does your operation have that big bean energy? Prove it by entering the 2025 Soybean Yield Contest. Visit wisoybean.org for more information and to download the rules and entry form. Interested producers can also visit coolbean.info to download contest forms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the more than four decades since Wisconsin’s first soy checkoff program launched, growers often wonder where, when, why and how checkoff resources are directed toward funding research, creating value-added uses and increasing market access. The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board (WSMB) is inviting growers from across the state to get a closer look this summer by applying to participate in WSMB’s second statewide See For Yourself (SFY) mission Aug. 12-14. The tour’s first iteration was held in August 2024 in Wisconsin and Illinois, comprising WSMB and the Wisconsin Soybean Association (WSA) leaders. This year, WSMB is inviting grower participation from beyond the board. “We welcome the opportunity to be transparent and bring in our state’s soybean producers to join us and see for themselves how the soy checkoff is driving profitability and innovation at every turn,” WSMB Executive Director Adam Kask said. The board is offering spots to eight active Wisconsin soybean farmers. The delegation will also include WSMB farmer leaders, staff and University of Wisconsin researchers, including Dr. Shawn Conley. Expenses, which include two nights lodging, meals and transportation, will be provided by WSMB. Checkoff check in The tour will begin Tuesday morning, Aug. 12 at the Arlington Research Station, where Conley and colleagues Damon Smith and Rodrigo Werle will showcase the latest advancements in checkoff research. “We work with farmers a lot,” said Conley, a WSA director. “They want to know what their checkoff dollars are being used for, so my biggest goal is showing the work and significant amount of research dollars that farmers are supporting, and how we take very seriously the opportunity given to use these monies in a good way.” Conley said he’s also excited to demonstrate the latest technologies in drone and sprayer technologies. “There’s a lot of tools we’re developing in AI that we want to show growers,” he said. “Farmers like to see the cool things we’re doing with our technologies.” The delegation will then head to an area cranberry facility before visiting Chippewa Valley Technical College for an outdoor demonstration of SoyFoam, a soy-based firefighting foam created by Wisconsin native Dave Garlie’s Cross Plains Solutions. “SoyFoam is a project our board continues to be passionate about as a value-added use that protects our first responders, and we’re seeing that momentum behind a soy-based firefighting foam spreading across the country right now,” WSMB President Jonathan Gibbs said. On Aug. 13, growers will tour Alsum Farms & Produce and later visit Crave Brothers Creamery to learn more about how dairy cows, the state’s largest consumer of soymeal, add demand to Wisconsin soybeans. Day 2 is capped by another WSMB checkoff investment, the DeLong Co.’s Agricultural Maritime Export Facility at Port Milwaukee. The terminal is estimated to increase exports through Port Milwaukee by as much as 400,000 metric tons per year. Kask, who’s toured the facility multiple times, said WSMB continues to search for new international markets for the state’s soybean farmers, who export around 60% of their commodity. “Diversifying our markets, promoting new uses and sponsoring some of the nation’s most advanced soybean research – those are all core priorities our farmers are depending on to improve their bottom line,” he said. The SFY tour will conclude Aug. 14 with a return visit to the Arlington Research Station for a plot tour. Click here to review the tentative agenda. Interested SFY applicants can click here to apply for the SFY mission by July 22. Farmer applicants approved by WSMB will be July 25. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Live at WSA in New York City on September 24, 2024. Academy Award‒winning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson talks with Williams College pioneering developmental psychologist, Dr. Susan Engel about his debut children's picture book The Idea in You. The book was written to inspire kids to find and follow their own creative voice. We talk about Questlove's childhood, his creative roadblocks, his current relationship to supporting his inner child, Susan's pioneering work researching curiosity in children and what we know about how children come up with ideas. This podcast was produced in collaboration with Water Street Projects, NEW INC and the New Museum.

Our guest this week is a Surfboard Shaper and Shop owner that found his love for Surfing in 1959. He surfed in the WSA's as a Grom and was sponsored by Greg Noll. He found love for board building while living in Hawaii and worked for Greg, Mystic and Lightning Bolt Surfboards. When he moved back home he opened up his own factory Sakal Glassing and shaping boards for ET Surfboards and other shops and eventually opened up a retail store called “Bullit Surfboards” in Huntington Beach. He later changed the name to Sakal Surfboards and moved the shop to Downtown on Main Street where the shop is still located and family ran for the last 34 years. We welcome to the show, Mr. Ed Sakal Sakal Surfboards. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Paul, Richard, and Leo unpack the twice-delayed unveiling of Moment 5 for Windows 11 and the long list of small features it brings to users, alongside whispers of new Surface devices on the horizon. Plus, they dissect the implications of Elon Musk's critical eye on OpenAI and the captivating prospect of upscaling classic adventure games via DirectSR. "Moment 5" Moment 5 is here. Sort of. In preview. Well, some features This was supposed to happen before last week's Windows Weekly, but the announcement was delayed twice Windows 11 Microsoft quietly reveals that it is killing the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), triggering two reactions: "Who cares?" and "Why?" Beta: Controversial new mouse hover experience for Copilot Dell had double-digit revenue declines in Q4, all of 2024 HP revenues fell 4.8 percent in Q1 Surface Rumor: Microsoft to launch Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 soon, with both Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite variants AI Microsoft engineer continues to raise disturbing issues with Copilot Microsoft Edge picks up two new AI features: Video highlights and screenshot integration Copilot is coming to OneDrive (commercial) and Microsoft 365 mobile app Microsoft announces Copilot for Finance Microsoft files motion to dismiss parts of the NYT's copyright suite, compares AI to a Betamax machine. Maybe not the smartest comparison Elon Musk sues OpenAI because something something ChatGPT picks up a Read Aloud feature. Is there anything AI can't do?? Anthropic announces a three-tier Claude 3 family of LLMs with the usual claims Apple releases the M3-based MacBook Air. Or should we call it the MacBook AIr? Brave brings Leo AI to Android app Xbox Microsoft comes clean on DirectSR, will say more soon Xbox Partner Preview event today - Final Fantasy XIV, STALKER Original Trilogy, more announced MLB The Show 24, more come to Xbox Game Pass in March Linux exceeds 4 percent usage share for the first time. Is this the "SteamDeck" effect? Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Twitter user? Disable this new feature immediately App picks of the week: LibreOffice, Vivaldi, Anytype RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading TLS with Scott Helme Brown liquor pick of the week: Hornitos Black Barrel Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: kolide.com/ww

This week, Paul, Richard, and Leo unpack the twice-delayed unveiling of Moment 5 for Windows 11 and the long list of small features it brings to users, alongside whispers of new Surface devices on the horizon. Plus, they dissect the implications of Elon Musk's critical eye on OpenAI and the captivating prospect of upscaling classic adventure games via DirectSR. "Moment 5" Moment 5 is here. Sort of. In preview. Well, some features This was supposed to happen before last week's Windows Weekly, but the announcement was delayed twice Windows 11 Microsoft quietly reveals that it is killing the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), triggering two reactions: "Who cares?" and "Why?" Beta: Controversial new mouse hover experience for Copilot Dell had double-digit revenue declines in Q4, all of 2024 HP revenues fell 4.8 percent in Q1 Surface Rumor: Microsoft to launch Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 soon, with both Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite variants AI Microsoft engineer continues to raise disturbing issues with Copilot Microsoft Edge picks up two new AI features: Video highlights and screenshot integration Copilot is coming to OneDrive (commercial) and Microsoft 365 mobile app Microsoft announces Copilot for Finance Microsoft files motion to dismiss parts of the NYT's copyright suite, compares AI to a Betamax machine. Maybe not the smartest comparison Elon Musk sues OpenAI because something something ChatGPT picks up a Read Aloud feature. Is there anything AI can't do?? Anthropic announces a three-tier Claude 3 family of LLMs with the usual claims Apple releases the M3-based MacBook Air. Or should we call it the MacBook AIr? Brave brings Leo AI to Android app Xbox Microsoft comes clean on DirectSR, will say more soon Xbox Partner Preview event today - Final Fantasy XIV, STALKER Original Trilogy, more announced MLB The Show 24, more come to Xbox Game Pass in March Linux exceeds 4 percent usage share for the first time. Is this the "SteamDeck" effect? Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Twitter user? Disable this new feature immediately App picks of the week: LibreOffice, Vivaldi, Anytype RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading TLS with Scott Helme Brown liquor pick of the week: Hornitos Black Barrel Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: kolide.com/ww

This week, Paul, Richard, and Leo unpack the twice-delayed unveiling of Moment 5 for Windows 11 and the long list of small features it brings to users, alongside whispers of new Surface devices on the horizon. Plus, they dissect the implications of Elon Musk's critical eye on OpenAI and the captivating prospect of upscaling classic adventure games via DirectSR. "Moment 5" Moment 5 is here. Sort of. In preview. Well, some features This was supposed to happen before last week's Windows Weekly, but the announcement was delayed twice Windows 11 Microsoft quietly reveals that it is killing the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), triggering two reactions: "Who cares?" and "Why?" Beta: Controversial new mouse hover experience for Copilot Dell had double-digit revenue declines in Q4, all of 2024 HP revenues fell 4.8 percent in Q1 Surface Rumor: Microsoft to launch Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 soon, with both Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite variants AI Microsoft engineer continues to raise disturbing issues with Copilot Microsoft Edge picks up two new AI features: Video highlights and screenshot integration Copilot is coming to OneDrive (commercial) and Microsoft 365 mobile app Microsoft announces Copilot for Finance Microsoft files motion to dismiss parts of the NYT's copyright suite, compares AI to a Betamax machine. Maybe not the smartest comparison Elon Musk sues OpenAI because something something ChatGPT picks up a Read Aloud feature. Is there anything AI can't do?? Anthropic announces a three-tier Claude 3 family of LLMs with the usual claims Apple releases the M3-based MacBook Air. Or should we call it the MacBook AIr? Brave brings Leo AI to Android app Xbox Microsoft comes clean on DirectSR, will say more soon Xbox Partner Preview event today - Final Fantasy XIV, STALKER Original Trilogy, more announced MLB The Show 24, more come to Xbox Game Pass in March Linux exceeds 4 percent usage share for the first time. Is this the "SteamDeck" effect? Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Twitter user? Disable this new feature immediately App picks of the week: LibreOffice, Vivaldi, Anytype RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading TLS with Scott Helme Brown liquor pick of the week: Hornitos Black Barrel Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: kolide.com/ww

This week, Paul, Richard, and Leo unpack the twice-delayed unveiling of Moment 5 for Windows 11 and the long list of small features it brings to users, alongside whispers of new Surface devices on the horizon. Plus, they dissect the implications of Elon Musk's critical eye on OpenAI and the captivating prospect of upscaling classic adventure games via DirectSR. "Moment 5" Moment 5 is here. Sort of. In preview. Well, some features This was supposed to happen before last week's Windows Weekly, but the announcement was delayed twice Windows 11 Microsoft quietly reveals that it is killing the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), triggering two reactions: "Who cares?" and "Why?" Beta: Controversial new mouse hover experience for Copilot Dell had double-digit revenue declines in Q4, all of 2024 HP revenues fell 4.8 percent in Q1 Surface Rumor: Microsoft to launch Surface Pro 10 and Laptop 6 soon, with both Intel Core Ultra and Snapdragon X Elite variants AI Microsoft engineer continues to raise disturbing issues with Copilot Microsoft Edge picks up two new AI features: Video highlights and screenshot integration Copilot is coming to OneDrive (commercial) and Microsoft 365 mobile app Microsoft announces Copilot for Finance Microsoft files motion to dismiss parts of the NYT's copyright suite, compares AI to a Betamax machine. Maybe not the smartest comparison Elon Musk sues OpenAI because something something ChatGPT picks up a Read Aloud feature. Is there anything AI can't do?? Anthropic announces a three-tier Claude 3 family of LLMs with the usual claims Apple releases the M3-based MacBook Air. Or should we call it the MacBook AIr? Brave brings Leo AI to Android app Xbox Microsoft comes clean on DirectSR, will say more soon Xbox Partner Preview event today - Final Fantasy XIV, STALKER Original Trilogy, more announced MLB The Show 24, more come to Xbox Game Pass in March Linux exceeds 4 percent usage share for the first time. Is this the "SteamDeck" effect? Tips and Picks Tip of the week: Twitter user? Disable this new feature immediately App picks of the week: LibreOffice, Vivaldi, Anytype RunAs Radio this week: Upgrading TLS with Scott Helme Brown liquor pick of the week: Hornitos Black Barrel Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Check out Paul's blog at thurrott.com The Windows Weekly theme music is courtesy of Carl Franklin. Sponsor: kolide.com/ww

Our book launched on Tuesday, February 6th, and thanks to each of you and many others, we are International Best Sellers!!I have dedicated this miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of my 44 fellow women authors who penned 'Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.' Today, I am in the guest chair as Gail Watson, Founder and CEO of the Women Speakers Association, interviews me. Gail was my guest on the first episode of this miniseries, and the Voices of the 21st Century Book series was her brainchild!#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #bermudianauthor   #voicesofthe21stcentury #passionandpurpose #wsapublishing #womenauthors #womentransformingtheworld #womenempowered #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcast #yourstorymattersSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Leading up to our book's release date next week, on Tuesday, February 6th, I have decided to dedicate a miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of the 44 women authors who penned 'Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.' Today, I am ecstatic to introduce you to more of my magnificent co-authors, my fellow Bermudian authors.Andrea Tompkins is an Integral Master Coach, co-author of the bestselling book Voices of the 21st Century: Women Transforming the World, and speaker. Andrea shares her experience, strength, and hope and coaches motivated clients to move toward their goals in a new way of being. She is available online globally and in person on the beautiful island of Bermuda.Lorene Phillips is a former international (re)insurance underwriting executive and founder of Clarendon Wallace, a boutique firm that provides executive coaching and leadership consulting services. She is a sought-after speaker and author of 2 books. Lorene coaches her clients in executive leadership roles and aspiring leaders to create opportunities and career advancement on their own terms. She is also the creator of 'The Huddle', a free webinar series for youth leadership development, and the host of the limited podcast series 'Coaching to Win!". She holds a BA (Econ), is a Chartered Insurer, and is an ICF-accredited executive career & team coach. Please meet Andrea and Lorene.#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #bermudianauthors #andreatompkins #lorenephillips  #voicesofthe21stcentury #passionandpurpose #wsapublishing #womenauthors #womentransformingtheworld #womenempowered #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcast #yourstorymattersSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Leading up to our book's release date of February 6th, I have decided to dedicate a miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of the 44 women authors who penned 'Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.' Today, I am honored to introduce you to four more of my magnificent co-authors.Maryann Rivera-Dannert, MRD Empowerment Solutions LLC's founder and owner, begins this week's co-authors. Maryann is a certified life coach, empowering you to discover and unlock your full potential, paving the way to a life marked by freedom and balance.Paula M. Kramer, of Speaking From Triumph Over Tragedy LLC, overcame three life tragedies to go from a silenced voice to an international voice. Her mother tried to kill her twice. Medical professionals misdiagnosed a childhood spinal injury for 33 years. Her husband died when their daughter was eight months old. Paula is now an International Bestselling Author, Professional Speaker, TV Producer, and Soft Skills Mastermind. She teaches soft skill power strategies for the kind of unimagined success she's been attracting since she was 11. Her greatest unimagined successes came after age 70.Joy Freeman of Just Own Yours is a transformational speaker, coach, and trainer committed to sparking growth, fostering confidence, and championing holistic well-being. With an unwavering dedication to creating safe spaces for personal development, Joy infuses her presentations with positive energy, dynamic charisma, and an inclusive delivery style. Her mission extends to strengthening employee engagement, enhancing corporate culture, and guiding individuals toward their unique definitions of success.Creator of Permission Granted to S.T.A.Y. #StartThinkingAboutYOU®, founder of KYS Solutions Kelli Y. Stonework is a communication strategist and award-winning author of The Ultimate Presentation Roadmap: How to Write for the Right Audience and Present with Confidence. In addition, Kelli has been featured in numerous publications, including Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and the American Bar Association's GP Solo Magazine. She has also written devotions for Mothers, Women in Business, and Joys of Living Great Affirmations. As a mother and business owner, Kelli is passionate about helping women amplify their voices. She firmly believes that how YOU speak impacts how I listen, and how I listen impacts how YOU speak. Kelli's call to action ... remember to Invest in YOU!Please meet Maryann, Paula, Joy, and Kelli.#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #maryannriveradannert #paulamkramer #joyfreeman # kelliystonework #voicesofthe21stcentury #passionandpurpose #wsapublishing #womenauthors #womentransformingtheworld #womenempowered #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcast #yourstorymattersSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Leading up to our book's release date of February 6th, I have decided to dedicate a miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of the 44 women authors who penned 'Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.' Today, I am honored to introduce you to four more of my magnificent co-authors.Brigitte Stills is a property management consultant with Stills Properties, coach, and published author with over 38 years of experience in real estate.Combining her multi-award-winning copywriting skills with lived experience, Karen Anderson founded a charitable organization called Escape to Better Foundation. Supporting victims of domestic violence and family abuse, as well as their families, friends, workplaces, and the broader community. Zaneta (Zan) Varnado Johns is a four-time bestselling author of Poetic Forecast, After the Rainbow, What Matters Journal, Encore, and Voices of the 21st Century (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024). Zan is also the co-editor of the Social Justice Inks and Dear Heart anthologies and an editor of the Fine Lines Literary Journal. Her creative expressions appear in numerous international publications. Kashaun Parker of Next Step Forward is an exceptional coach and speaker who dedicated her career to helping individuals and organizations realize their true potential and achieve extraordinary results.Please meet Brigitte, Karen, Zan, and Kashaun.#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #brigittestills #karenanderson #zanetavarnadojohns # kashaunparker #voicesofthe21stcentury #passionandpurpose #wsapublishing #womenauthors #womentransformingtheworld #womenempowered #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcast #yourstorymattersSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Leading up to our book's release date of February 6th, I have decided to dedicate a miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of the 44 women authors who penned 'Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.' Today, I am honored to introduce you to three more of my magnificent co-authors. Dr. Teresa Barnes is a psychotherapist whose private practice, Restorative Place, is a safe space for physicians, healthcare professionals, teachers, therapists, and pastors to find healing.Marsha Lake, the principal of Marsha Lake Secretarial Services, is a visual presentation and transcription expert with forty-one years of experience operating a successful secretarial and administrative business in Sydney, Australia.Glendoria Boyd is an author, poet, and motivational speaker with powerful words to set your heart ablaze.Glendoria, an experienced author, has penned four books and numerous blogs before being an Author in Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose.Please meet Teresa, Marsha, and Glendoria.#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #gailwatson#voicesofthe21stcentury #passionandpurpose #wsapublishing #womenauthors #womentransformingtheworld #womenempowered #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcast #yourstorymattersSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Wow, this dream I have held to be an author will be realized soon!! Leading up to our book's release date of February 6th, I have decided to dedicate a miniseries of The Embrace Family Recovery Podcast to introducing you to a few of the other 44 courageous women authors who penned Voices of the 21st Century Women Empowered Through Passion and Purpose. Today, I am honored to introduce you to Gail Watson, the Founder and CEO of the Women Speakers Association, the organization under which the Voices of the 21st Century Books evolved. Voices of the 21st Century is a platform that emerged to amplify and grow the visibility of remarkable women in this community.  Women Speakers Association's vision is of a world where women are empowered to express themselves authentically, build a thriving, prosperous business, and feel a part of something greater. A world in which women take ownership of and step into being the leaders that they are, using their voice to inspire others powerfully, thus causing transformation in the lives of their clients, their companies, communities, and the world.Meet Gail Watson.#embracefamilyrecovery #WSA #womenspeakersassociation #gailwatson#voicesofthe21stcentury #womenauthors #familyrecovery #familyrecoverycoach #familyrecoverycoaching #womenpodcaster #podcastSupport the showClick here to grab your copy of Healthy Strategies for Family Members to Cope and Even Thrive Through Addiction and receive my weekly newsletter. Click the links below to follow me on social media: Facebook Instagram LinkedIn