 Okay, hi, so this is something that we've been baking for a while, we've been baking this since April, so it's a mentoring program that we will be introducing to JunoDef Singapore. So this first batch will be starting in September, so let me just go through a little bit more details. If you want to know more about this, take a photo of this QR code, it's basically a link to this slide. So I'll be going through quite a few slides, so if you want to follow along or if you want to share this link with your friends, it might be of interest to some of you, right, got it? Okay, almost there, almost there, right, everyone got it, okay, cool. So what is this all about? So the mentoring program, so we did a survey for our group, JunoDef SG sometime earlier this year. Basically to identify like what are your mentoring needs, the things that you guys all feel that you want to learn and to grow. So basically we identified three areas, one is that you all are looking for some form of career coaching and guidance, you really desire professional growth, and you're looking for some work related or technical skills levelling up, right, basically this is something that we hope we can provide for you and help you in your journey as a developer. For the technical skills we already have the developers gym that we conduct every two weeks, so that kind of like helps you with the specific tech skill. So I hope that for those of us who have been participating in the developers gym, I hope you have been benefiting a lot from those coding dojos and what not. But I think it's something we also want to help is in the area of career guidance and professional growth. So if you might be best to address this with a regular form of mentoring session. So we tried this as a pilot program sometime in April, and right now we're kind of ready to announce and share with you all what we're going to try to do. So one thing we want to focus on is a group mentoring kind of a format. So why do we want to do this? Because we feel that in doing this with a consistent group, we hope to get and of course with regular cadence, we hope to provide a safe zone for you all to have more meaningful and deeper sharing with people. And to basically create connections with people in the industry and friends and even mentors that you could have who could even be your co-workers in the future. So our hope is that you form some accountability circles through these groups and be able to continue growing along the way. So before the sessions, what we hope to do is to meet with the mentors and have a mentors orientation. This will be on the 13th of August, and we will prepare the mentors for the mentoring session. And we'll also kick it off on, so the official kickoff will be on the 20th of August, where we'll have the shortlisted mentees will be introduced to mentors and basically we'll have a, to help set expectations for everyone and how we could probably go forward with this. And so everyone can have alignment about what we want to learn. And from the day mentees can nominate three persons who they want to be as their mentor. And then we'll form groups after the kickoff. So that's essentially, that's how we will kind of kick it off. And that's how we, and the mentoring groups will try to keep it at a good ratio. Basically two mentors to three mentees, ideally, and will probably be a mixed gender kind of a mentors. Basically there'll be one guy and one lady leading each team. And we believe, so again, we believe in healthy and balanced mentor to mentee ratio is kind of important to maintain quality and provide quality attention to everyone so that everyone can feel that they're taking care of and their needs are listened to and we can cater for everyone. So as such, we will need to kind of limit or rather our capacity to take in mentees is based on how many mentors we get, right? So if you have the capacity to become a mentor with us, we would like you to invite you to join us as a mentor. So if you, and tell your friends, tell your colleagues, tell your mentors at work that they can now mentor the group of people, hopefully, right? So of course, mentees with a gender preference, we can also put you in all women, all men's group. We understand that sometimes women feel that some people feel that they're more comfortable sharing things with a group that's of the same gender. So we understand that and we want to cater for that as well. The group mentoring sessions, we hope to do like six sessions once every three weeks on Tuesdays. We like Tuesdays because, you know, Tuesdays are nice. It's not Monday, so it's Tuesday. Anyway, so we'll try to do it all in the same venue for all the groups. So all the different groups come together in the same room and we'll probably have little corners where we can do our own group mentoring sessions. So why we do want to do this? Because we want to allow the groups to also get to know each other and for some groups where maybe some people may not be available, or the mentor may not be available, we can also have the option to occasionally combine groups if there are short for. So this kind of worked out for us in the pilot run, which we did in April. So the session will usually start with a dinner. We'll have some talks by mentors on a specific team. So what we learned from our pilot run is that some of the mentoring groups felt a bit aimless, as in we didn't actually prescribe what you should do during the mentoring session. So some of them felt a little bit unsure about what you should do, and some mentors to their credit did improvise and try some interesting things. Like someone, one group actually went out and started doing UX wireframing session and kind of learned how to wireframing Sheldon was in the group somewhere I think. And another group did a mock interview where the mentees were actually interviewing the mentor just to find out how it's like to be on the reverse side of the equation. And they learned quite a lot from that session. So essentially, so this time now we'll try to make it a bit more directed with mentoring. So we'll have a team set up for each team for a mentoring session where we'll have some mentors talk a little bit about this, about a specific team. And then we'll break up into small groups and they'll basically do their group discussions about this team. And then we'll share back about what they have learned to inform each other. Hopefully in the sharing back you'll also learn. We believe that in sharing you'll learn, you basically grow more. I see you learn from each other and there's so many different insights you can get from just listening to what other people have to say about the team. Right, so and after that we'll be free, have time, we'll go for supper. Yeah, so groups may arrange for additional social gatherings in between because we say it's going to be every three weeks. In the pilot run we actually did it every two weeks, which for some of the mentors was a little bit taxing. Yeah, and some of the mentees as well, they felt that they couldn't quite come for all the sessions. So we try to, so we're changing it to a three week interval. So basically you have time to take a rest, do your other things and even you also have the freedom to catch up with your mentors and mentees during this in between the three weeks, right? We also try to institute a body system. Basically between the mentor and mentee in the same group will probably create like a body system where it can be a bit more, a bit more time and follow up and be individually accountable to each other. So this is something we'll try to introduce. We'll see how it goes. It's, yeah, anyway, there's also going to be an enrollment fee, you know, a token for $40 because, you know, we need to, we had feedback during our, again, through our pilot run that feeding them pizza all the time was a bad idea. So, yeah, so, you know, health concerns and some variety, children, yeah, so no pizza. And of course, you know, to do that, we probably need to collect some money and help us pay for the, pay for good food, right? So yes, the money will go to food and logistics. Mentors get to come for free. So that's, that's one thing we want to try and encourage more and more mentors in this program. Of course, it's only payable after you've been accepted into the mentoring program, right? So, I'll show you some photos of our pilot run. So we run this between 11th of April to the 21st of May. We only did one kickoff and three mentoring sessions. It's kind of like to kind of figure out what it's like running this program. It's either way, it's my first time running a mentoring network like this, the mentoring program like this. So it's also for me to learn how to go about running this, right? So this is how the group looks like. So there's a big bunch of them here. You actually see them in the audience right now. It's catered by the back over there, it's wing over there. And you shot one of our mentors over there. Max down here, one of our mentors as well. Sheldon over there, another one of our mentors. So yeah, so this is, this is actually the last mentoring session that we had on 21st of May. And this is the group that showed up. So on the left here, you see the photo of us doing the kickoff session where everyone was sitting in a circle, they introduced each other, they introduced themselves to the group. And then we did like more networking sessions and talked to each other and find out who they like and maybe find out more about the mentors that they felt they have more affinity to. And they basically talk a bit more and then they nominate three names that they wanted to be in as their mentor. Some of them actually have no preference. So okay, you have no preference then I will show you into one of the groups. Yeah, which is actually, which works quite okay as well. Yeah, so on the left you see this one of the mentoring groups, they were doing like a wireframing session because I didn't kind of give them any curriculum. So they kind of like came out of their own. So it's kind of interesting. Of course, we have supper as well. Yes, drinks and more. Yeah, these are two examples of the all women's groups that we had. So they had a couple of them. Isha over there, see, sit over there. Happy smile, yes. So you can talk to Isha later. She can tell a bit more about this. She's a boy, exciting to come back. Yeah, yeah, more examples of the attendees. And of course, if you are interested, after my somewhat not so charismatic sharing about this, you may wish to sign up and join us. So mentees, you have the link on the left and the mentors, you have the link on the right. So take this photo. You have already taken a link or photo of the slides. You probably have access to this too, right? So it's a simple Google form, we'll ask you some questions. And I hope you can join us in this and I hope you can also learn from everyone through this program. And yeah, any questions? Yes. Is there any specific context when building something or is it more like sharing? It's more of sharing experience and knowledge. To be specific, in the sense this mentoring program is not technical, as in we're not here to kind of teach you a technical skill. We feel that technical skills and technical learning, we have other things that we can provide for you in terms of those technical learnings, like learning how to write CI, how to do clean code, all that stuff. We have developers gym that happens every two weeks. You can come for that and you can learn more coding skills. You have interesting topics that you like us to cover and during the developers gym, we can let us know. And we can also try and bring together the content for that. So mentoring session is a bit more, more of the soft skills as in things that you don't read in the textbook. I think a lot of things that I myself as a developer learn, I learn from other developers. I learn from seniors and mentors that I have learned that has taken time to invest in me. And I think it's time that we pay it forward. I want to pay it forward to the rest of the community and for all the, I'm sure many of you have benefited a lot from having mentors in your life. And I want to also pass it on to you. I want to share that knowledge with more people. Any other questions? Yes. We have a, so it'll be one kickoff and six mentoring sessions. Yeah. So it definitely won't cover everything. I probably have to pay some from our own pocket. So yeah. Of course mentors can also add money to the pool if you want to. It's okay, you know. Yeah. Now you're done. Bye. Bye. And may I ask the mentors and mentees from the pilot batch to stand so that I can, people can recognize you and for me to thank you for helping me to figure out these things. It's Max over here, Caleb, Wing, where Raven, Prem and Sheldon, right? So, and Isha, hello, hi. Where are you going? I see. So of course we also, I also want to thank Joy, Joy Zhang from Facebook. She is the one who inspired me to try this. So thank you. So I hope you all will spend some time and talk to the mentors and mentees from the pilot batch and to find out their experience. I hope you can find out more from them and you feel that this is something you'd like to take the part of. Of course, this will not be the first batch we'll run. So after the first batch running, after up to December, we'll probably try to run the second batch in 2020, right? And then we'll have 2020 vision. No. No, I'm kidding. So anyway, yes, that's all I have. And of course, as always, there's also this little thing that I do then and end of every session is to share with you this link. So you will not join us in the deaf ASG telegram chat, you can join us there. So it's like a telegram chat for all the developers and Singapore. You'll find all the cool kids there, including me. I'm not that cool, so but you know, you can just go there and say hi. Yes. And yeah, that's all I have. Do you guys have any other questions about the mentoring program? Please go talk to the mentors and mentees on the first batch and ask them about their experience and sign up. I hope I look forward to your submissions. And actually, that's the end of the evening. Yes, Kaho, what? Just one more announcement. Okay.