You know, do we have stuff that's going around, so more and more, you know, kind of integrated

RFID tags so that we know where stuff is, and we can be finding it. And the same with people
when they choose to want to be tracked. It's like, you know, if you're working in a big office and
you want to meet up with somebody, and hey, can we get together? And you know, it's nice now
while I'm on the 16th floor, and you're down there at the third floor, you know, where do we
want to meet? Or are you even in the office? But do you think on the people tracking that's one
we're definitely finding? You know, we really need to be watching and monitoring and paying
very closely, close attention to people's personal preferences, and and making sure our
technology, you know, kind of recognizes them can work with that. And then finally, we have a
whole issue on the security and safety. You know, again, smart surveillance, do I really need to
know who that person is that's in that back? Room? Or do I just really need to know that there's
so many in the backroom that's not supposed to be there. So then we can respond accordingly.
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And then of course, emergency response, you know, when we have particularly as it relates to,
you know, emergency events, whether it's somebody who's fallen and hurt themselves and can't
get up and you need to know that they're there, they need to be responded to as up to you know,
big global, you know, more emergencies of pending earthquake coming, you know, and we need
you to be, you know, going going to a safe place now, fires happening, how do you respond to
that and and being able both to early detect, as well as to message out and notify folks so that the
responses can be taken in a an in a timely manner, with hopefully, you know, no injuries, no loss
to to life, whether it be human or you know, your your animals you know, kind of the natural
environment but really seeing a lot more of the technology going into kind of a smart building
applications. So there's a lot happening, okay, see wandering, as you can see.
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I then want to move so beyond kind of like the sense of control and these you know, kind of
intelligent things, how we're actually starting to see another cool thing on emerging technologies
I put in is the emergence of intelligent intelligent building materials. Now building materials
traditionally have been pretty dumb, right? You pour the concrete set it up and it just sits there
and provides a great surface, even IT services, you know, it's providing strength, all that kind of
stuff. Awesome, but it's not do anything else. The same with glass with Windows, Windows, you
have glass you can see out you can see in but you know they not respond. And so we're really
trying to see how can you know trends on hackling make our building materials more intelligent.
And you know, that that included? So I'm going to give you a case here, we're going to talk
about kind of Windows, but there's other things that are happening like how can we how can that
concrete block that you know, the foundation or the walls that are so big and thick? How can
they actually be used to store energy for example, and become intelligent that way? So there's a
number of things that are emerging, but let's just focus quickly on the Windows side.
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You know, typically about 40% of a building's energy use that's on the H backside is used to
compensate for heat gain or loss through windows and and in the so now, there's really been this
emergence of what we call smart technology, or smart glass technology. It's also known as
dynamic glazing. There are a number of different types that that we have out there, but so so, you
know, kind of the idea of what we have electrochromic. That's kind of how it really
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started, but that's basically using there's a small electric voltage that moves in the ions that are in
this in this pane of glass that allows it to change state that basically means based on the direction
that's being told, darken up, you know, get more dense or lighten up, become you know, clear,
and it's, you know, but if this is, you know, probably one of the ones that's really the closest in
terms of the, you know, linkage to kind of real emerging technologies as well as to hold the kind
of decarbonisation and electrification states, you then have thermochromic, which is we're
interesting where you have a material that responds to sunlight outside, so it will, you know,
darken itself or lighten itself depending upon kind of, you know, the sun from from the outside,
and then you have others that have kind of particle delivery. So the different number of different
technologies that they're looking but in essence, what you're doing is you're doing things you're
intelligent teeing up, you're making these these windows smarter so they can be more responsive,
so they just don't operate in one state.
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And here's an example from from a company called View glass where you it has different tints.
So it has a four tint stage and you know, go from light to dark and go from basically at tint four
which is its darkest you have one you know, basically 1% light transmittance to tint 150 8% light
transmittance, which is pretty standard, you know, that's your normal glass or what have that
kind of light transmittance, but then it also impacts your heat gain coefficient, and also impacts
your light transmittance. But you actually have control ability of this, you know, it's responding
to the environment to lighten or dark darken. And we actually have just recently installed we're
seeing more and more of this getting installed, for example, in airports.
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Excuse me long expanses, so that they don't have to do it. The beauty of this is then you don't
have to do with the shade network, which does actually doesn't work so well because with shades
and the TOT outside, the heat still comes inside gets trapped inside between the window and the
shade. And so you know, you still have an energy issue to deal with. And then of course, we
have shades, you lose your views, you know, so their whole number of benefits that are being
driven by these kinds of integrating kind of technology into our building materials to make them
more intelligent to make them more responsive.
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Now, in order for these to work properly, they have to take a lot of data, they get a lot of data
from the outside, they get information on what's the angle of the sun, what's the cloud cover,
because it you know, that could be if I'm reading my typical, you know, weather chart for this
location on this day, it's supposed to be sunny, well, we haven't have a thunderstorm rolling
through. So that means I probably can have my windows open, you know, kind of wide open
from from a light perspective because clouds are blocking the sunlight.
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You know, are there things like overhangs that are impacting it you know, kind of the you know,
sun heat hitting the kidding the project, what is the general building orientation, because the the
windows on one facade need to be responding differently than windows on the other facade.
When you're north facing you generally can probably be, you know your tint for most of the time
because you're not really having a sun issue. But if you're on the south side, or east or west
facing you're going to have much more of an issue. So you need to have that knowledge. You
know, are there obstructions that are nearby? One of the things that we have at the airports is
when the planes they're at the gate and when the plane is not there at the gate and that you know
how that how that affects the views and light and heat that are coming in through this Windows,
what the time of day is and you know, kind of you're having just photosensors of what's what's
going on. So there's a lot of information that we're gathering or is being gathered, that is then
going to the kind of the control systems that's controlling these windows to say here's what the
kind of tint is that you need to be in order to provide comfort. You know from a glare control
perspective from a reduced T perspective, provide comfort inside as well as energy management.
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And, you know, so the we're finding things like this kind of this dynamic SmartGlass you know,
is is resulting in a reduction in energy consumption anywhere from two to 7%. It can also really
help with reducing peak load significantly. We're which tends to really stress out your
mechanical system clearly supports kind of decarbonisation, again, by reducing this peak loads
by reducing energy consumption. But again, you know, kind of the real improvements and
benefits to owners is that it really, you know, provides the ability to have much more usable
space, whether it's in an office or with an airport, because you have you're controlling this glare
and as we you know, for those of you I think you know, we are also very much technology
dependent. We have our devices, they are reflective, they don't work well when sunny
environments, you know, when you have your phone and you go outside and you got to adjust
the, you know, adjust
the, the, the brightness of it in order to see it outside that's using more energy, by the way, but
the, the you know if we can get rid of that glare that we make much more comfortable
environments.
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And the other thing too, which is kind of interesting, and this was an after effect that nobody
even thought about when they're designing is because each of these panes of glass are linked,
you know, they basically have an IP address as or when, you know, somebody tries to break in
throws a rock through something, it immediately sends an alert saying wait a minute, there's a
problem because the, you know, the, the electrons have failed, stopped. And so there's a
notification. We know where there's a problem. And you know, that's really helpful for kind of
going from a security perspective, be able to go quickly, because traditionally in a building,
you'd have if you got something like that maybe you'd have the alarm go off but they'd have no
idea where in that, you know, ginormous 4000 4000 square foot facility. The breaking happened
and this kind of technology integrating that gives you that kind of intelligence. So it's kind of
cool stuff.
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But it is complex. We just got to be realistic about that. You know, working every every day to
make it easier and easier and easier. We all know as we've evolved ourselves through the
evolution of Word and PowerPoint and the Internet and HTML and HTTP you know, all the
sequel all these different languages. It's getting easier and easier and easier and more visual more
drag and drop. But there are you know, there's a lots of bits and pieces that are behind this. And
well how that's what the impact of that has really been kind of on the on the built environment is
the for the folks that are operating these facilities.
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Sorry, yes, I'll try and talk more slowly. I get excited.
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And, and so that they need you need to you need to to really recognize that the people that are
operating these facilities, traditionally you know, they were used to operating facilities with
screwdrivers and with wrenches. And now they have to operate them with code. And and that's a
learning. You know, there's a real shift in learning at all levels. And so you're certainly seeing a
lot of kind of workforce development programs that are coming into play in kind of facility
management areas to really help you know, kind of help the these you know, whether it's the the
million mechanical engineer that's working working in the site or the electric of the electrician
that's working there, to really start to, you know, be very fast seal in code to help you know,
detect issues control set things up. And so I think the end of that's something that we also have to
be really recognized. You can't just develop this technology and throw it out there or install and
say yes, good luck. You know, we really need to we need to be embedding and helping are kind
of the whole team that's operating our environments, to be comfortable with these technologies
to be able to feel that they own them and that they can really manage them.
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And if each one of these of course represents in itself, a technology that's you know, being
developed, whether you have you know, badges and Asset Tags, whether you have you know,
you get gateway devices whether you have your room control devices, whether you have your
you know your your server that's everything is energy manager and then speaking through API's
to all these other other systems, you know, each one of those is a is a an important technology
that that helps, that helps and enables it makes others work.
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And, you know, putting it all together, this is kind of an idea of how some of these technologies
we're seeing play out in an airport, where you're looking at, you know, the idea of being able to
really, you know, now quickly do screening, how many of you really love having to wait in line
to do TSA screening or you know, where whatever country screening you are, and there are
things that we can be doing much more quickly through facial recognition through other things
to say, yep, this person, you know, you go right here, whatever, helping to, you know, really
limit cueing, kind of letting people know, hey, you're waiting over here, but there's actually all
this space available down over here for you to check your bag or to go through security. And
being able to feed you that information, whether it's through your own device or whether it's
through you know, kind of more overhead monitors that you know really thinking that kind of
that kind of new seating but also again, letting you know I mean there's you know how often
you're also wondering when I'm you know, want to get to my my recording and how long is it
really going to take me to get there is this a three minute walk? Is it an eight minute walk? Is it a
15 minute walk? Is there a place for me to be safe is sitting while I'm waiting at the gate or is it
you know, I best kind of hanging around here because there's you know, standing remotely over
there. So a whole number of things that are coming, you know, what we're gathering this
information, making intelligent and then you know, processing it and then delivering it out and
notifying to really kind of enable and improve the experience of each of us individually. It's
pretty exciting stuff. Lots going on.
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So, now jumping over to you know, what's happening in the world of kind of healthy
technologies.
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You know, we really know that health and wellness is a hugely consequential issue within the
business community but it's actually within every community, right? Healthy and happier, people
are more productive, more likely to collaborate, be better, socially, more engaged with
community and that you know, that that when you're highly engaged and you're satisfied, you're
more productive, you have fewer sick days. So how are things you know, what are the things that
accompanies or whether it's a company and educate you know, a school in a government office,
how can we be working to make sure that everybody is really as healthy and as happy as
possible? And again, this is driving and really kind of creating that thriving world. So I want to
talk a little bit about chemicals and in this so hope you've gotten your attention here. Sorry, I'm
gonna try and slow down again. They had the so one of the chemicals of concern that we call
them, this is called formaldehyde
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but the you know, getting your attention. We know that chemical exposure really is a lifecycle
issue. And unfortunately, unfortunately, the, you know, we're seeing now that there's like over
60,000 premature deaths attributed to, you know, kind of occupational related diseases being
exposed to chemicals that you shouldn't be that of the 3000 high production volume chemicals
that are going on in the world, right.
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There's hundreds of 1000 chemicals being produced, but 3000 of them are really high volume.
The permissible exposure limits exist for only 7% of them from a technology perspective. From
an understanding perspective, it's we're pretty pathetic situation of our understanding of the
impacts of all these chemicals that we're producing. And it's, that's, you know, kind of what I'm
trying to bring up for you an area that I think is ripe for opportunity to really saying how can we
be using technology? How can we be using, you know, Blockchain, AI, all these other things to
really kind of get a much better handle on early on potential impacts associated with all these
new chemicals that we're using or the ones that we already have out there such that we can be
managing them more appropriately. And the other you know, really unfortunate, true but very
sad situation is that immigrants minorities, low income workers around the world are sick
disappears proportionately affected significantly. Because exposure to all these things and we
that's, you know, we got to shift that up, that's not acceptable.
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And one of the things that, you know, really has become much more understood is that the
chemicals that we think you know, go into products for materials for reasons that they don't stay
there.
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They migrate, they're not permanently embedded and locked into those into the, into, into those
into those products, they move out and they they, they come to us, you know, it can be dermally
kind of like you know, we're touching it with you know, they just can migrate through our skin
because these are small parts, small, small, small, you know, microbes ingredients, and they can
come right through. They can come through inhalation, you know, they get airborne, and we can
be breathing them and then get into our systems that way. And then yes, ingestion, you know,
that we in, not intentionally eat them, but you know, you rub your hand and then you eat things
or, and then they get into different parts of your system. I mean, you know, what big thing of this
to think about is for those of you who have pets, right, if you're not going on the edge of a table
or they're, you know, chopping on you know, a sofa or whatever. I mean, those are those are
things that you have to be thinking about that those you know, you're potentially ingesting things
that weren't intended.
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So I want to introduce you to kind of that we're getting getting smarter about the technology is
evolving and are smart, I guess, smartness about kind of chemicals and chemical harm and what
we want to do and how can we really be driving to really have healthier products and healthier
people in our systems? This is from the green Science Policy Institute six classes.org. We're
gonna have a quick little exercise with this shortly, but I wanted to introduce it to you. So what
we have is these six classes of chemicals. I know most of you, you know may not say chemistry
is your favorite class. But you know, we all need to learn these things. If we want to take care of
our own health. You have your fluorinated compounds. These are the floorings that are used a lot
in stain and water repellents, you know, whether it's on clothing on furniture, we then have the
anti microbials and of course there was a big you know, push on all the anti microbials during
early COVID. Right? So because we want to wanted the anti microbials to potentially kill the
COVID bacteria, and there was a huge push there but the truth is antimicrobials are not so good
for us or you know, really anybody and when you think about that, flame retardants, all those
things we put in place to try and avoid, you know, to avoid things burning up. It's but it's that we
have a lot of natural materials that perform equally if not better, and don't need to have those
flame retardants to meet those needs.
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And it couldn't disrupted plasticizers this particular relates to all us, you know, our kids in our or
reproductive systems and our immune systems be Bisphenol A BPA, you know, that was the
liner of your water bottles, and phthalates, a lot of things that are kind of helping on the plastic
side, or solvents, you know, cleaning agents number two reasons. And then also, you know,
metals, things like lead, mercury, cadmium, and these are kind of really recognized these
categories are kind of coming up and surfacing up as being kind of really important ones that we
want to get out of our built environment and the products in our built environment. So let's
quickly talk about flame retardants, flame retardants, unfortunately,
something it's again, research is showing it's really not healthy for us. It's a, you know, cancer
causing agent precursor to cancer, but unfortunately, it's like getting put in everything. Um,
chances are the sofa that you have at home, has it in it.
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It's using, you know, polymer based building insulation, all kinds of textiles, you know, that are
using it because they don't want to burn up and they have to meet flame tests. And so they apply
flame retardants, car seats loaded with infant mattresses. If you have, you know, a carpet pad
underneath your carpet, chances are it's there as well. Fabric blinds, it's in paints and coatings.
It's an all the kind of wiring and cabling cheating, it's in you know your transportation, whether
it's kind of your bus seat, your car or your airplane seat. And unfortunately, and we love those
gym foam blocks, they're fun to fall into but that's loaded with it. And then also, you know, like
your television and you know, all your display cases, a lot of times they have flame resistance
retards and they don't really need to, they shouldn't need to. And so we need to kind of get those
gone and just meet and you know, how can we be using technology to say, let's get these
dangerous chemicals out of our products. And then we have fat plates. These are used a lot in all
kinds of PVC products that gives its its flexibility, its durability, its ability
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to color, all kinds of things. And yes, we all love our rubber duckies but you can learn more
about fairleads on your own. And then you know again, I wanted to kind of quickly go into the
whole issue on the anti microbials and you know, these are the problem. We find them all over
the place. This is an example of like a typical kitchen. You know, it shows you where you know
manufacturers are sticking these anti microbials. Now, why do we have these in here? They're
intended to help avoid mold and mildew. You can understand that but you know many cases that
might mean you need to make sure that your countertop is dry versus leaving it wet to avoid you
know buildup and mildew. But you have it in you have it on on a door handle so you have it on
countertops, we find it in tables, we find it in chairs, we find it in upholstery, we find it in
electronics, you'll find it in the wallboard,
they're all over and they really don't need to be and we need to find we need to leverage
technology to get them out. So I wanted to propose we're going to do a quick or a little 15 minute
exploration.
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What I'd like you to do is to all transport yourself over to this website, six classes.org I want you
to spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with the information provided on the site. You
know, maybe you know figuring out kind of the technology that they're using. To actually just
even display and share the information.
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Pick one video to watch. And then while you're watching the video, think about how we might
be able to use technology to really track these chemicals that are in the products that are being
used, and also how we might be able to use technology to better predict the unintended
consequences of new chemicals that are being created every day. Okay.
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So, hold on. It's so go to six classes.org you can all see my screen.
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It's si X CLA s s e s.org.
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Then here it gives you have a little more information on each of the different kinds of classes of
concern
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and then you can pick one
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like let's do the elites
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gives you a lot more information. And then there's videos for each one. So pick one that you
decide that you want to do video, but again, be thinking you know, how can we might be able to
use technology to better you share that Eve that Kim these chemicals of concern are in these
products. How can we use technology to help get them out of these products? How can we do
better at using technology to deter you know figure out unintended consequences. Before they
happen?

So with emerging technologies, we really start to learn a lot more about the health impacts of all
these different chemicals that are in our products. And now let's say how can we be leveraging
technology to really reduce, get rid of those, get rid of those problems in in these products?
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Okay, so moving on
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the other part and other key factor again, there's many kinds of technologies that are involved in
kind of this whole kind of help space.
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But what I also the other thing I want to talk about is the whole idea of what are we doing in
terms of really helping to use technology to get to really drive and enable much more nature
based solutions in our in our environment or a built environment, and we know we need to be
bringing we need to be having more nature in nature much more visible and active. Humans are
distinctively bonded to nature. They make this mix secure, incorporating reduces stress. There
are a whole host of reasons that we really admit of course, better air quality, better environmental
quality, when we get when we are working more collaboratively with nature. And we again,
research is showing again, that exposure to nature led solutions, you know leads to a 50%
increase in you know the huge benefits of providing we biophilic elements in the workplace, in
hospitals in schools, and you know, providing both employee you know, be more productive and
providing better benefits of course to the companies but also just you know, better health
outcomes people get healthier in when they're in hospitals when they're you know, given the
access to views and plants. Just, you know, it's really amazing.
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And so we're seeing, you know, fortunately starting to see the green and the recognition of the
importance of it in our urban environments.
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But we know in the end, we need to be protecting these resources. And so the great technologies
coming out, you know, where we have kind of be 73 maps, different tool sets that are being used
and, you know, different cities are engaging and this is this is definitely community action
oriented. Folks are starting to get up there. They're mapping the trees and putting it into the
database shared with others, and then they're taking ownership of it right, looking to watch and
saying, hey, we got I mean, we might have a problem. we have a broken branch on this tree, or
we have Notice that might be a little bit of root issue on the sidewalk that we probably need to
fix that
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ownership of it taking care of it and making sure you know that it's super exciting.
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and really helping to deliver, you know, wonderful kind of nature solutions or help support those
for for immune based.
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On the other side of that, we're also seeing what emerging technology that is, you know, kind of
taking charge or snail mapping and we're like this is a highway that runs from east to west.
Along the Amazon. And you know what?
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From the satellites in the sky and putting all that information together, what's happening from a
deforestation perspective?
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And as was predicted by many when they built this highway, they said, you know, it's gonna
cause increased deforestation along the highway and everybody said no, no, no, it's not and yes,
yes, yes.
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What can we be really learning?
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I think the other thing too, is as we start to get more and more governments and countries
committed to, you know, really limiting deforestation and bringing back or adding to kind of
their diversity of their own of their of their space. This kind of technology can help us really
audit that. Is it really happening? Are we really seeing kind of the reforestation that you have
committed to, because we have, you know, we do have a channel that have been made, you
know, from a greenhouse gas perspective, from perspective, of being able to audit it and being
able to validate it and being able to hold the active parties responsible for achieving or not
achieving, and it's certainly technology nology the optical technologies.
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Data Processing and pulling it all together is just, you know, really taking off and enabling us to
iterate and help verify we would love to trust everybody. But we need to verify, sorry, and the
technologies that are really moving in this direction.
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And on the positive side to what we're seeing is, you know, growing technology whether it's kind
of soil moisture, tied to weather, kind of weather sensors, tied to satellites, to be able to, you
know, feed real time information, where you were able now to to basically grow and produce
really fertile environment, fertile environments and farms, in areas that you know, when were
desertified before, it's being smart about water management. It's being smart about the right
crops, and leveraging technology to really enable this to happen. I would encourage you all if
there's a there's a great YouTube video called Turning desert sand into fertile farmland. You see,
it's on the low side here. This is on for deserts that are actually in northern Mexico. But equally,
there's also activities that are happening. There's a you know, big movement of, you know, kind
of greening up parts of Saudi Arabia, I would imagine in Morocco, you also have, you know,
kind of definite interest in these kinds of things. And technology is really enabling us to do to do
these things appropriately, and not using water, but really providing you know, great, you know,
again, providing work providing global food sustenance and what we're living within the
constraints of the resources that are in community.
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And now I want to jump over to the whole concept of decarbonized and how emerging
technologists is really helping to drive and to help us achieve our goal of kind of zero emissions,
zero carbon emissions living and so all about, you know, really we want to be kicking our co2
habit and we want to be moving towards a low carbon economy across the globe. And, and we,
you know, brought this up last time, but again, it's going to reinforce within the built
environment and really, you know, have a weight. Carbon comes into the equation when we're
operating and are using our buildings or, uh, you know, using our streets and then there's the
embodied carbon, which we'll talk more about last time, kind of that that's involved in making
stuff. And then we have, of course, how we're offsetting it, whether we're generating our own
clean energy or whether we're carbon sequestration because we are turning deserts into into new
to viable farms and sequestering carbon using that carbon and that's the overall impact. But what
I want to kind of really hear from are on the operating carbon side and also renewable energy
production. And one of the first things that we really are looking at is how we are smarter about
using energy ideally using less energy in our buildings and we talked earlier on you know, a
number of the technologies and sensor control technologies that are coming up and here's we're
really starting to put into practice, what you're seeing, you know, when we have like, optimizing
our central plants, to reduce heating and cooling because it's reading, it's reading what is really
needed through the sensors and the technology that's embedded within within each, you know,
kind of floor within the ceiling. That's providing information to the central plan to say, Okay,
here's what we need to be doing heating and cooling and it's leveraging, again, with weather data,
what's forecast now we're gonna be rainy or we're going to have undergone another 100 degree
day or we're going to have a minus zero degree, where you know, minus 10 degree weather they
you know, kind of the, the idea we put energy storage unit so scaling batteries actually being
assigned to actually having some redundant power supply inside.
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battery technologies are really fancy so quickly, you know, again, coming down in size coming
down in in hazard risk being available.
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Your own battery pack for local energy, intelligent lighting systems again, we talked about that,
you know, with daylight dimming occupancy sensors, that we have an integrated, it's connected,
but it can also be connected to a dynamic you know, pleasing system. And then you can, you
know, that the mechanical
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system itself which is relatively new technology is helping to reduce energy, energy.
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So, a whole bunch of technology that's actually coming into play into, you know, we're censoring
what the situation is, and then we're delivering that information to, you know, kind of our energy
using system or a track system or a lighting system, make it smart saying deliver what is needed,
and by helping to reduce the energy which of course, helps to reduce the fuel use, which helps to
decarbonize and then we have, you know, the big, big move on decarbonisation is electrification
going all electric and whether it's at the building scale, this is a big new building for Adobe,
many of you use their products, probably daily views.
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Headquarters in this building is all and they source 100% clean power. So it's a carbon free,
operating, new high rise, and it's definitely one of the first in the United States and I think you're
gonna you're gonna be seeing this becoming more more, more, more. And then of course, there's
also the automobile side, you know, which is the electrification of our transportation network.
Whether it's, you know, your personal vehicles with I think what's really exciting is Rex, in part,
one of the big things with trucks so much more than vehicles is what it's doing to reduce
unhealthy emissions coming out of those trucks. And you have you know, a long big industrial
corridors airports where you have a lot of trucks, air quality is usually not good. And people that
live in those communities typically, lower income ticket, typically more immigrants, and they are
suffering significantly because of that really bad air quality from these heavily congested
industrial areas due to trucks. And as we move more and more of those vehicles, we're going to
be getting, getting rid of them.
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Really helping to make these communities healthier and safer.
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And, you know, electric electrification, one of the big things we have is going to give up my
guest
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shadows behind everything wonderful advances of technology perspective, of really delivering
green environments using low energy much healthier by going electric using induction. This is
from Google's big commercial kitchen that they have in Mountain View, and they you know,
stepped up and said yes, we're gonna go all electric and they were concerned, what is it going to
do to our pizzas and grill thanks. And they have been absolutely delighted and it's now saying,
No, this is the way we're going. And the workers it's a much safer environment. You have a lot
less hazardous products that are in the air because you don't have fire there are induction
induction cooktops. Don't burn yourself. It's not metal, right? I mean, there's just so many,
multiple elements that are coming
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that are emerging, I think you're gonna see huge shifts. in how we design and how we operate,
you know, kind of our kitchens or catering facilities and going electric and there's so many
benefits that are coming from that.
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And then let's talk a little bit about making your own power. You know, this whole kind of the
idea of integrated PV PV on roof, you're seeing more and more of it, you see a lot of big ground
mounted. PV, we certainly know that, you know, what we're seeing is that solar farms are
producing electricity, globally, much cheaper than any other any other renewable, or even non
renewable resource at this point in time, and we're going to see more and more of it, and trying
to, you know, how we don't just have to use green fields, or, you know, deserts.
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We should be integrating and where appropriate putting in planning in our buildings.
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New York has implemented an ordinance that now requires that roof some old new buildings
afternoon
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this is a project that we're working on.
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And say we told you that we're going to really maximize PV on the roof of this building, but
importantly for us, is that we wanted more and more vertical or high rises in downtown or was
going vertical and we looked down and we want
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to be delighted about your environment last time. And so I think, you know, it's interesting now
we're starting to see bringing a design to this technology, such that it's delivering multiple
benefits. Yes, it's generating power, but it's also design and you know, driving how we can also
make easier to organize how we are
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you're gonna be a lot more intelligent
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because
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this is a six megawatt installation. Which is one of the largest largest insulation on the world.
This
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technology is now coming out. This is smart, lower solar. It's basically based on it again, it
doesn't take up as much space on the ground or on the roof.
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produces more power generates 40 to 50% more power, because it can actually follow and track
regardless, differently than fixed, roof or ground mounted facilities that don't have the option to
to pivot. You know, it's wonderful, kind of fun thing and I think you're gonna see more and more
of this kind of, you know, technology.
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power generating technologies, getting implemented, you know, globally.
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And so then, you know, what we want to do also is really kind of under we need to be
understanding so all these activities are happening is, is our grid greening. Are we really getting
you know, better there? Oh, no.
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Wow, the zation of what's in terms of energy, electricity. Let me qualify that electricity
production across the world. And every year every month, it's more and more countries are
getting engaged. So we still have some blank spots in Africa and Morocco is not yet part of the
program. So hopefully, we can maybe you all can, can note that along and start to get that get
that reported in what we're really seeing how you know, kind of the grids and how green they're
going, clearly Europe has been has been making some big, big strides and maybe the key
countries in Europe to really strike. By the way here's the what this the color coding means this is
the carbon intensity of the grids. So if expressed as grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per
kilowatt hour of electricity produced, and so then you can hear that, you know, it ranges from
zero which is great. Three, basically, they're not generating any carbon emissions associated with
their electricity production. And all the way to, you know, really dark black 1500 grams of
carbon dioxide equivalents per kilowatt hour of energy produced when this you know, kind of an
indicator from is heavily probably heavily coal dependent. Others may be in a more green, a lot
of wind, a lot of solar a lot.
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There's probably a little bit of nucular playing in some of this as well. But I think it's really
interesting and informative to even start to that we have now this insight into, into what's going
on with the you know, our grids across the world, great use of technology of sharing information,
they get this information directly from available, you know, have created API's that allow the
utilities to import the share information with them. And they're actually reporting this is actually
an hourly schedule. So a lot of technology companies are actually using this to trend and track to
say what is their true being an annual yearly performance of our elbow are different sites. So I
want to jump in and do one a little exercise. We're gonna go over to app electricity maps.com.
Again, it's app type it in app dot, TriCity picks
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for you, and I want you to spend a few minutes familiarizing yourself with the information
provided on site and then use a seven year scale to look at one location. And then again, think
about why we're watching you know, there's no video sorry about that. How sorry, I meant to
delete number four and five. So go to number three.
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That's what happens when I do things too quickly. I'm going to jump over there right now. We'll
show you around. Oops
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where where'd you go
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so if you all see my screen here this is when you land. I've actually picked
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California
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but you can see here and let's just for kicks and giggles. Let's pick Spain. Spain currently is
running in about 234 grams of co2 e equivalent per kilowatt hour that 63% of it is low carbon,
and of that 40% is renewable. The difference is if we click on we click on this, you will see over
here on the left side, detail of that power, right. And so you're seeing that they are and part of the
reason you have the difference between low carbon and renewable is they generate a fair amount
of their power from nucular sources, right. They also use some biomass, they do have some coal,
they have a good amount of wind, less solar than you think for Spain. That's kind of surprising.
There's Fairmont hydro, they and they also do some higher storage pumping, and then they have
they use a lot of natural gas. So that kind of their predominant energy source. But then you can
also see kind of their carbon intensity over the last seven years. That's if you click this last seven,
seven years, tab down at the bottom, you can get that information. And you can see, you know,
kind of how they've trended they've definitely been reduced. They had a little bit of a spike in 22
but they're bringing their carbon intensity back down now in in 2023, dropped down to one to
173 grams of co2 per kilowatt hour. And then you can actually see the breakdown of the
different energy sources over that time. So kind of loaded with cool information. So pick a
favorite spot that you want to go to potentially and give yourself a little word
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recognize the time and so I'm gonna ask that you all come back. Hopefully you had a good time
and we're exploring and able to kind of learn a little bit about kind of electricity in different
countries and what the makeup is and what the fuel sources are. That kind of also, you know,
global going forward. How you can, you know, kind of leverage that and just trend and track and
start to see how different areas are really helping to you know, working carbonizing their own
you know, their their electric grid
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so, recognize time so it just, you know, if we start to start pulling all these things together, you
know, what you're really leveraging how can we leverage tensor tensor technologies to really
deliver intelligent technologies to really help deliver healthy and decarbonized environments? So
this is some work that we were doing with with Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where you start to
kind of put them you know, imagine this these futures and once you start to imagine them, we
can start to make them happen. And you know, whether it is leveraging technologies to then be
able to you know, kind of know that your buses are working on time that you are driving you
know, kind of the the health that you're getting kind of the health outcomes that you want people
because you've got healthier environments that you have good you know that that the all your
your major all your plants are living, thriving or not using too much water providing shade that
that is desired. All these technologies start to blend together to really help craft and create for us
what I really think are you know, those items that are so key to provide thriving life for all in the
world.
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So just finishing up this final This is a shot of our new office and updated office in San Francisco
that really speaks to you know, leveraging intelligent and delivering healthy and it's leveraging
current decarbonize technologies throughout that skylight you see, is dynamically glaze so a
darkened is one there's way too much sun coming in from the top. And then after all kinds of
natural light. We are on a complete all electric system. So really looking at decarbonize, we have
all kinds of sensors to control from a daily perspective from a from a from a comfort perspective
from a heating and cooling space.
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We are carbon zero 2025 clean energy project so we're really really delighted but it's leveraging
all these different technologies
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that it's just so exciting to see, to experience how technology is emerging technologies across
materials across just data gathering, you know, across kind of health and natural systems really
can be leveraged to truly deliver a thriving world.
26:42
So with that, we'd like to open it up to questions for a few more minutes.
26:49
And again, I'm going to be sharing, provide this presentation to the team and then they will
distribute it aloud I'd actually help the last time to get out to you as well, but there's some
resources I wanted to add. So you'll be getting both those presentations hopefully early next
week. They'll be in your inboxes
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not only are these deep waters
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handled
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know I drew a lot out from excitement and speaking so quickly.
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I'm working on
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email but also my LinkedIn.
28:02
Too bad yeah. I would love to have you here
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investing in Nicholas
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nothing there's a question in in the chat.
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Is there any danger devices
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we need to watch the really important thing is the proximity of these devices listening when he
screams like you're definitely not skinny, you should not be sleeping, you should not move inside
your terminal or you know, kind of having them because there is a veteran there. You know that
that risk is being reduced. But that is you know
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known for bringing it up but that's a game changer
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for universal
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others Technology is changing as we're using different materials inside them. so, you know,
again that Japan tracking that highlighting of where where we need to be concerned and where
it's not not an issue is important.
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How's it can benefi can then how can do.
Pretty, isn't it? It's like you don't want to do cleaning your hands.
0:05
Because the other thing too is that many of these active antibacterial products are harming. Good
for us to have you know, we definitely learned there's been a challenge with you know, a lot of
some parents taking care of kids that have been over protected and overseeing Okay, don't play
in the dirt and don't do them. And they have immune deficiencies because they've not been
exposed to those, you know, bacteria gradually like they normally would growing up and all of a
sudden they have a problem. So So you know, it's like snowing and you have your kids playing
in the dirt.
0:39
And there's you know, unless again, exceptions, when you have if there is you know, your bad
scrapes, cleaning up yes, there are times when we need it very, but it needs to be pinpointed
pointed not to general
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Great.
1:02
Question, can you give us better or like
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let you know I can probably use these. I am not a UI designer and I'm not in agreement does that
we can point that out. I think that there are you all have universal design training classes. This
would be a great application is, you know, experimenting out and having, you know, mock ups
of different designs and then
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you know, folks at different ages of different races of different cultures of different languages,
kind of looking at that and seeing that saying, how does that work for me, I think would be
really, you know, a really good exercise.
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But then also, you know, there are so many really, you know, leading groups on the kind of user
interface design that I would encourage you to kind of just reach out for but I will try and remind
myself to kind of come up with some links. Maybe we can add it to this presentation
2:17
of how can we prevent harmful products
2:24
Well, you know, it kind of comes in many cases to people will use them if they're, if the people
will follow advice if it comes from those that they trust, and you know, they see a reason. So, I
think part of it is just telling people saying you should stop using this a lot.
2:43
There, they're going to be well, what's the why? And I think, you know, there there certainly is
the it's one thing for a kind of global audience to tell people to stop using stuff, but it's another if
your best friend says, you know, I really think you should want to stop using this. XYZ why?
Because I learned, you know, it's the these antimicrobials they basically impact our immune
system they, you know, they are resulting because we're having more and more of these
antibacterials around that we're creating starting to create superbugs, where our medicines can't
even treat it because you know, they've developed this and so much of this antibacterial stuff
around these bugs themselves have developed and evolved because they you know, their
evolution psychometrics.
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And they've been evolved to to work around it and, and so, you know, as an example, or in the
case of phalanx, right, and those plastic things and they give you bad names around and
annoying on it, that you can fully expect that there's going to migrate and they have potential to
cause future harm. You know, whether it's the form of cancer of, of, you know, some of key oil
key organ cancer, whatever, or you know, reproductive you subsequent issues, you know, the
full list of hazards, potential hazards, is along.
4:02
And so, but again, people are willing to receive an asset on that message in different ways. The
best ways is from a person they trust they care about and then they agree. So sharing the
information, yes.
4:18
Because we have shame that reason.
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activity or Mike Chang, that question will add something.
4:34
Hello, everyone.
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Thank you, Christian for this session.
4:43
I really appreciate it. Sorry about the excitement.
4:47
So my question is, how do we ensure that privacy and security when using and you're in
Greenbrier than practices
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so, you know, it's definitely evolving but the number one thing really least at this point in time,
most people are fine with it's okay for you to know that there's somebody here in this space,
particularly means I want the lights on, but I don't want you to know that it's great. So so you
know designing the technology or you're using because in many cases it might be able to identify
to you but it's where you have to screen that out. You have to filter it out. And you blog into you
block that out through through the API coatings.
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There are different ways that you do that. But it's easiest, of course. If the technology at the
beginning doesn't actually capture the information of who it is. So you know, you don't use you
know, you probably say we're not going to be using that facial recognition feature of this of this
device.
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Because we don't want to know the who we just need to know that there is a what that's involved.
6:02
But it's constantly evolving without a doubt. And it's important thing is that you recognize that
you remember it and you look at it and as you're designing these technologies, just because you
can do this doesn't shouldn't be able to do because the world is not prepared for that.
6:23
The unintended consequences are significant. And so we you know, we always have to balance
ourselves. When we're when we're designing technology. Oh, I can do this. I can do this.
6:36
Maybe we should call it I don't want to use the word.
6:42
I like to put it in the backyard or put it on the porch so that we know that we can do it. There
might be a time that might be an appropriate reason to bring it at some point in time. But right
now, let's just let it kind of hang out on the porch or in the back here.
6:59
Okay, thank you so much. So we have another question.
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Like what kind of training or education is needed like for professionals in the building industry?
To effective way can you know use AI theory in their work in their in their work?
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Well, I think you're seeing it come in, just
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because it's emerging we're also I think most of the professionals are post college and so we're all
kind of learning as we go. Because it wasn't there was no kind of when we were growing up.
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But for those of you that are blessed and saying okay, it's now going to be part of curriculum you
can be learning it.
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We see it a lot coming, particularly like for example, in architecture world, if I'm in the art
design tools, like with the whole idea of moving our models that used to be you know, lines on a
piece of mylar moving into the cloud now digital being able to be worked on simultaneously but
number of other folks being within taken out to the field and documented exactly what we're
exactly as it did that walk in and stole the Where exactly was that plugged put or where exactly
is the server going? So that you're then starting to develop these digital twins. So it's constantly
evolving. I think that's the other thing too, is you need to be prepared saying it's not one and
done.
8:34
Technology and emerging technology. It's not one and done saying I'm you know, taking this
class and anything about it. I'm gonna have to learn anything more the rest of my life. That's not
gonna work. You. You have to, you know, really set yourself up for what am I doing to
constantly expose myself to what's happening.
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And, you know, working with whether it's attending sessions of my professional organization,
whether it's just you know, setting my own self, you know, an hour a week where I'm out there
kind of, you know, reading Digi trends reports or, you know, finding certain kind of, you know,
websites or channel YouTube channels where folks are delivering that kind of content. And
you're just, you're immersing yourself but you're here kind of staying up there, continually
learning.
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Please, please, please, all of you embrace that.
9:28
Embrace that concept and find ways you know, a tiny automatic you know, atomic habit,
something that you just do for yourself. Because that's, that's going to be one it's going to bring
you I think great joy, but it's also going to bring you know great value to you. You know from
from a marketing positioning perspective as you want to grow and become a leader of a team of
a community of a government. That you know, that you're you're, you're you're showing that
you're keeping yourself current and knowledgeable about what's going on, but you got to make
the commitment you have to make the investment to do so. And you all are kind of for example,
in being in this program, which is really really wonderful.
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But gotta keep it up.
10:14
Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
10:17
You're okay my friends, I'm going to have to sign off now. My hope I will get to have a chance
to meet some of you in person when I get myself over to Morocco. keep you posted on that. But
looking forward to connecting on LinkedIn and and again, why you're one of my Year's
resolutions this year is I'm going to be more more reliable LinkedIn correspondent as it were in
terms of actually posting our information insights as well. so you know, stay tuned for that.
10:45
Okay, very much and that was really delightful. Thank you very much and we would love to
keep you updated about the project that we're going to have this year. Please do. Yes, that would
be great, great, so have a great day and have a good night for the viewers.
11:06
Thank you so much.