 Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Laura Noland here in beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii at PTC 20 I'm here at the Millennials in telecom reception hosted by NJFX and we have some special guests talk about the event We've got Felix Sada general manager and JFX and Sarah Kurtz business development manager at NJFX All right, let's get started Felix. What was the inspiration for tonight's Millennials and telecom reception? Yeah, we'll start again the industry about four years ago I just thought it was really important to develop something for young leaders in the industry to become empowered and and grow as vocal leaders in the industry and develop a leadership initiative that we can all become you know socialize with each other and Take the initiative to grow together for the next wave of the industry So what are some of the goals for the outcome of tonight's event? I know you led into that But when they leave here today, what do you hope happens? Yeah, well, I think the first and foremost want to have young leaders in the industry become empowered and and become more vocal and have the ability to not only take on new leadership initiatives, but also become more vocal in their respective fields and Also to have industry veterans who have helped build the industry into what it is today Become mentors and give us some insight and perspective as to how they have built this phenomenal injury into what it is today Wonderful and Sarah you're a newcomer to the industry and what do you hope folks in your age group take away from today's event? Yeah, so I joined the industry about four months ago I've been to a couple shows being young and a woman. I sometimes feel like a bit of an outcast, but I've gone to some of these shows And they all have women's initiatives, which is great, but I have yet to see a young person initiative So I'm hoping today People who come we can kind of establish a group and grow together in the industry and we can kind of bounce ideas off of each other Wonderful, and there's more to come from NGFX. It's early in 2020 So we're thinking ahead to what's ahead for the rest of the year So tell us about some more exciting things that's that's happening at NGFX Yeah, well the biggest thing right now is is growing out the ecosystem which we've done a great job with about 20-something carriers right now But obviously I think what everyone is waiting for is the arrival of half root AC2 Which is set to go live in a few months later this year And that's gonna be the latest transatlantic cable connecting the US with Europe And that's the newest cable to go live in about 20-something odd years So it's gonna be a big one for us, and I think the industry is a whole very exciting Sarah. How about you? Yeah, so as Felix said we're trying to obviously keep growing our ecosystem And that kind of shifts our focus to some of the enterprises and the financials in 2020 We're hoping to get in the building Great. Well, thank you Felix. Thank you Sarah for joining us today on JSA TV And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcast. Happy networking