 Hi, welcome to theCUBE. I'm Lisa Martin on the ground at the Computer History Museum with the Association for Corporate Coast Silicon Valley. Tonight is their 13th annual Grow Awards and we're very excited to be with one of their big sponsors, Deloitte. Christy Simons from Deloitte, welcome. Thank you. Great to have you here. So you are a veteran in technology. You've been in the tech industry for over 25 years. You've probably seen incredible transformation. Tell us about what you're doing with Deloitte and the advisory services that you offer. Okay, so we offer a number of services, so advisory, audit, tax, and obviously consulting, to in Silicon Valley, to a lot of these emerging growth companies. And so it's been very exciting in my career to see the evolution of Silicon Valley and what I call old technology, right? Where we've kind of got the traditional software, semiconductor, box companies to what is now the digital economy or what I call the new technology and what is propelling the economy and the growth that we're seeing, not only in Silicon Valley, but in the natural economy. Exactly, so right now you are working, leading growth and development of Deloitte's technology practice up in San Francisco. You're working with clients and you mentioned digital and cloud and internet media sectors. Tell us about that, especially as you mentioned new technology. So a lot of them are startup companies which is really the sweet spot of ACG and it's why we're so involved with ACG. But a lot of these new technology companies that you mentioned, cloud, software as a service, internet media, data security, those types of companies is really propelling the digital economy. And so we see a lot of growth in that sector, primarily in San Francisco, but also in the broader Bay Area of Silicon Valley. Being a tech veteran as you are, you mentioned kind of what's going on domestically but also internationally. How do you see the influence of Silicon Valley, both here in Silicon Valley, as well as across the globe? You know, there's a lot of factors. We serve companies all over the globe and so primarily Silicon Valley is propelling a lot of those and to the extent that companies here are international. Most of them, a lot of them are multinational companies and do you sell their products globally? They're developed here, but their products are actually sold globally. Are you seeing kind of the inverse where companies maybe headquartered in Europe or Asia are influencing and bringing technology over to the Silicon Valley that's being led us here? Yeah, some of that, especially as we think about the engineers and the aspects and some of that development that happens there, obviously sourcing that from around the globe. I'm curious from an industry perspective, in 2017, it's like every company is a tech company. We look at Tesla down the street, we look at Walmart Labs and what they're doing there. How are you seeing some of the clients that you advise for? What are some of the industries that you're seeing are now technology industries? Yeah, so there's definitely a convergence, as you mentioned, to many industries, actually all industries. And so when we think about financial services, FinTech, when you think about life sciences, health tech, when you think about retail, right? You've got internet. So we're definitely seeing convergence and technology is impacting our daily lives and almost everything that we do and in almost every product and service that we buy, there's some form or element of technology involved. Exactly, it's really remarkable. And speaking of remarkable, tonight we're here with ACG to recognize two fantastic companies, Twilio, who's the emerging birth winner of 2017. And NVIDIA, the Outstanding Growth Award winner. If you look at NVIDIA, for example, Inventor of the GPU, which is really catalyzed, a tremendous amount of technology across industries as we were just talking about. You look at their market, what do you see them over the next couple of years? What are some of the market drivers that you think are going to impact NVIDIA? Yeah, so you mentioned NVIDIA, right? At Graphics, which NVIDIA is. We historically have been known for games and films and virtual reality kind of things. Well, now they're actually moving more into artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, AI, the new buzzword, right? So there's probably a lot of opportunities there for NVIDIA as that technology evolves and develops over the next several years. And same question for Twilio, who's winning the emerging birth award tonight. What do you see for them? So they're a cloud platform company for software developers. And so if you think part of the new technology is the cloud and a cloud platform. And so providing an opportunity for engineers to develop software and software is involved in almost everything that we do as well in our daily lives. So that convergence of all the industries that's happening, a lot of that is a result of software and the developers who are creating that software, Twilio is providing a platform for that communication. So again, tremendous opportunity for both of those companies in this new technology world. Well, Christy, thank you so much for joining us on theCUBE and sharing your insight with us. Have a great evening tonight. Yes, it's a great turnout. Isn't it a lot of fun? It is. We want to thank you for watching theCUBE. We are on the ground at the Computer History Museum with ACGSB. I'm Lisa Martin. Thanks for watching.