 So we have one of the super coolest people coming in here We have a panel which we are all very excited about the ultimate tech talk And we will start with the first elect female Premier Christy Clark and two tech leaders Daniel Dubois of Sharefield Sure-shed at Andrew Palmer of the way labs. So come on up everybody Dance almost happened. I know the energy's been incredible Everyone here is excited to talk to you guys obviously. Let's start with the premier What is so exciting you made this event happen? What is so exciting about being here in front of these kids and getting a chance to talk today? This this is the most important thing there are 5,000 people at this tech conference from all over the world And we have 100,000 people working at tech now in BC The thing that is most important about this is the fact that you are getting excited about the opportunity that's ahead Because technology is all about getting to be your own boss at a job where you get to change the world And it's when you're young that you are thinking about that most passionately and when you're full of all those ideas So to me Karina the most important thing about this is seeing all the young people who are here who are Thinking about determined to be excited for becoming tech leaders Creating ideas. We haven't even thought of yet because I believe in this room We probably have someone who holds the key to curing cancer or stopping the stopping the the movement of climate change somebody who's going to Invent something that's going to protect our privacy in a world where we see technology outpacing our ability to be able to control it that person may be in this room today, and I believe that all of those things are possible and that those Advances can happen right here in British Columbia. Love it round of applause for that answer Early about daring to dream big like crazy big and you have the premier saying listen The future is right here in your hands, and we have two phenomenal leaders. We'll start start with you Daniel So one thing about Daniel's side note. He just came from China and he did a race 100 kilometers on the Great Wall What what what what did you take away from that? Yeah amazing? So that's funny because it's never come up before but I was in China Shanghai in Beijing for the G20 Young Entrepreneur Alliance summit and I was meeting with the CEO of a company called Sanfo It's like the mountain does everyone know mountain equipment co-op here Let's see show hands make sure you guys are listening amazing so this is the China version of mountain equipment co-op and In China, it's all around building relationships So I asked him what I should do for the weekend that I had off I had a flight on Sunday, and he said he had tickets to a race He could get me in sure enough It's a hundred kilometer race along the Great Wall of China that wasn't even a shape to do a five kilometer run Stairs like this so anyways It was actually only the first six K that was along the Great Wall of China One of the rest were up and down mountains spiders like that big and I'm a tall guy So I was taking out all of them, but anyways back to your point what I learned is There's a quote in sports. I played competitive rugby and basketball not to the standard of Amazing athlete over here, but there's a quote that says that it's 30% physical 70% mental and I remember I hit a wall at the 28 kilometer mark and I was done I was trying to figure out how I'd pull out of this this race There's a heat wave and I remember thinking if it was 30 kilometers Maybe I could finish it, but it was 28 and I just felt like I had nothing left and Meanwhile, I finished 100 K well my my ankles were like that big I was almost crawling over the finish line, but it just it just taught me just how mental Everything is in our lives right and that's just one one example sport It's just a reflection of how we live our everyday lives What a great story because we've talked about this this morning how everything's not going to go according to plan There's going to be difficult times But is it here's an example of somebody who found a way and it is mental But you got to get through it and talking about getting through it Andrew you've been you've taken your passion and your purpose, but you do things extra Curricular that about like you do martial arts and stuff. How do you describe being a woman in the sector? I think for women in tech and for women in in anything that's kind of Underrepresented or any kind of minorities you really have to know that you're there for a reason and that you bring something unique to the table and So even if you feel like you shouldn't be there, you're not qualified enough You know you have to find out the way that you as a unique individual can add value to that situation and own that and know That you don't have to know everything you can ask for help and you should ask for help And you should find people who know things that you don't to support you to get better But that's really that's really the thing you have to believe that you're there for a reason and you have to ask For help when you need it because you decide who you are exactly other people don't get to decide who you are unless you let them decide who you are you decide who you are and don't be afraid of Deciding don't be afraid of taking the risks that it's going to take to do what you want to do and to be who you are whether you're a guy or a woman or whether you're from a visible minority and you know I mean, I mean Karina you would speak to this right as a as a world-level soccer player an athlete an Immigrant coming from a small community like Maple Ridge There were all kinds of reasons you couldn't do that. Everybody would come up with reasons You couldn't do that But you weren't scared or you found a way not to be scared. Yeah You just figure out your passion and you follow it and you you're vision clear We talked about this before of like it doesn't matter what other people say about you It's what you believe about yourself. We have living proof up here. You guys are living proof It's not what everybody else says that you should do It's what you believe you should do and everyone up here You have from the Premier who's got the coolest job in the world who I'm sure it wasn't easy for her But she believed in it and she's consistently done it we talked about education now There's coding in schools. Yeah at a younger age. It's just starting. Yeah It's just we're just starting working with that with teachers make sure teachers get the training that they want and they need to be able to to teach it and I mean my my vision would be that everybody who graduates from a high school in British Columbia Speaks coding is a coder whether it's a girl or a boy So we're equal access to the tech industry if we want to go into it and to me That's the universal language. It's not Mandarin or English or French It's coding. Well, you guys know that I had someone asked me a question recently They said if there was this person who knew anything any answer that you could ever ask them They had the answer but the only challenge is they speak a different language from you Would you learn the language to be able to ask this person anything you could ever want to learn? And that's essentially what it is with coding, right? It's learning the language to be able to ask computers to answer anything you could ever imagine and those are the answers Where questions haven't even been asked yet, right? Yeah It's a beautiful thing finding the answers to questions that haven't even been asked yet And that's what you guys are doing today, right like asking yourselves those questions We talked about this earlier today ask yourself like why am I here? What am I passionate about? How did that start for you? That's a really good question it started out by not knowing what I wanted to do at all I knew when I was in high school that I was good at math and physics and I loved it I had the best math physics and calculus teacher and I wanted to be just like him And I was like I'm gonna grow up and I'm gonna teach just like he did and then as I started exploring career Opportunities someone my mom told me to try engineering and I didn't know what engineering was And I just took a chance and went into it and fell in love with coding Actually, it was my first year programming class And I learned that I could think like a computer and I could write script in a computer to tell it to do my bidding And it was great That's what I wanted to do And then I found I could do that with robots and then I started building robots that played soccer by themselves and competing them around The world and then I found this idea that you know Doctors save lives but engineers can save lives too You can create the technology that doctors use to save lives and keep buildings up and strong So people can live and thrive and you can really change people's lives through technology And that was kind of my journey of how I got to where I am now how I found my passion It was like this is a really cool thing and I'm really excited about it But also it has the impact to or the ability to impact Hundreds of millions of people around the world billions of people out the whole world. It's great That's amazing and you never thought that you couldn't do it and I So I was scared when you said, you know, you don't have to be scared I was scared. I'm like, I don't know if I'm the right person to do this But I just kept going and I was like if I'm not gonna do it then who will and why can't I do it? And so I just I just kept trying and putting things together and Karina. I'm gonna ask can I ask them both a question? Absolutely, I'm gonna bet that both of them have throughout their lives been surrounded by some people who have said no You can't do that You're not gonna be the guy that does that it won't you won't be able to do that People that are deciding for you that you're not good enough to do this thing that you think you can do and Then but you decided both of you to plow ahead somehow my cousins in from out of town he's staying with us right now and his his saying is Why not us? Why not us? The world's not created by people who are smarter than us It's just people who decide to do it and back to your point of changing the world It's all about getting started, right? You don't have to start with going I'm gonna cure cancer, but I'm gonna help people live a little bit healthier lives and figure out through that journey that there might be an Opportunity there that you never would have thought possible if you're just you know sitting positively Imagining what you could have done on your couch, right? So it's all about getting started You can't change nothing, right? And you have to find out what really Excites you what you're really passionate about and if it says this is a problem that you're thinking about all the time Then why wouldn't you be that person to carry that forward? Who else is gonna get as excited about that problem if you're not the one to convince them that it's important for you But my experience has been from my own experience and my son who's 15 He came to me a couple years ago when he was really worried and he said, you know The thing is is that everybody tells me at school and you know that I have to that I should follow my passion And I'm not really passionate about anything. I don't know what my passion is mom When am I gonna find out what my passion is tell them to go back Yeah, you know, he's figured it out since then but I didn't figure out what my passion was until I was in my 20s Yeah, it doesn't you know, you may not you may know it today You may not know it today But keep yourself open to figuring out what it is and then at some point be ready to change your paths When you figure out that thing that's gonna mean that you get to go to work every day and just Love what you do and know that it can change to know that you know If you're on a path and it's going really well And then you decide something else is really cool, too And you want to try that then be open to that. Yes that pivot. My son is not a hiker We can change that It's interesting that you guys say that because for our team We talked about this earlier how we came dead last in 2011 and our coach came up with well He didn't come up with it, but he said if not you then who if not now then when yep And it was one of those things is exactly what we're talking about it is passion and purpose You've got to do something in life that makes you not want to hit the snooze button When your alarm goes off and that's when you'll know you're connected to it because you won't want to waste The day away doing nothing it just ignites you there's a fire in within you that says yes This is what I want to do and if it's the tech world and that's what I see from you guys today because we've gone through it That's what it is But don't as you're hearing over and over again. Don't let somebody tell you know because their dreams failed You say yes because it is your dream and your purpose and from your your combination of passion and purpose You have a passion as we all see you have a purpose So talk to us a bit more about that combination for you as a woman in the world that you play You know I well I my dad was a school teacher and my mom was involved in setting up day cares for people who couldn't afford it and So I kind of grew up in a household where They were engaged in trying to change people's lives on a very individual level and that was what they We learned we really learned it from watching them Which was you should try and find your way into a profession where you are going to? make live other people's lives better and So I've always kind of followed that and you know public life is an expression of that But so is you know creating an app and a monitoring system to help people Monitor their mental health and their neurological function changing health care getting people out into the outdoors and Figuring out how to connect them face-to-face in a world where we are really disconnected. I mean those things through technology We really are changing people's lives now. There's a dark side to technology Which I think lots of people will know about and talk about well We need help with that too. How do we invent technology that's going to help us do better things like these two are and how? Do we create technology that's going to help us? Manage the downsides of some of the you know some of the consequences of the technology that's already out there Yeah, I think when when Steve Jobs said our our main role as entrepreneurs has put a dent in the universe I don't think he was necessarily referring to the next Angry Birds Like what can you do to put a dent in the youth universe to move society forward, right? And I think there's no one that has a greater thirst for that than the next generation that's coming up now Mm-hmm, it's true So where would you guys like to see technology in the next ten years in the different fields that you are each in I? Think technology is really going to transform health care I mean it already is but it's going to transform our our health care system, which is really dealing with people Once they get sick it's a sick care system and turning that into more of a preventative medicine model and in helping people be healthy all the time and So turning things like shared and getting people outdoors and exploring will be integrated into the health care model They'll no longer be like oh This is an adventure company and this is a health company like they will be integrated together in all aspects of daily life and Technology is so important to be integrated into that field and so they'll they're right now There are companies there are big data companies or you know companies that are only there to analyze all the information that We're creating online, but something like that is going to be Infused into every single industry and the industries are going to start to blend together I think Yeah, and I guess focusing on share shouldn't guide calm on outdoor adventure I can see in ten years a world of unlimited access to adventure where you have a sense of belonging anywhere you go You're able to connect with people that are like-minded that are share the same values and passions as you and there's nothing holding You back from getting outdoors and living vibrantly Because and and I think that's a really important element of this because Technology social media in particular means that we are interacting with other people without ever seeing them and There's a real downside to the way that that has changed Our society and our human interaction. There's a big upside to it, too I mean I'm a big fan of social media, but I think anonymity the anonymity of that connection really changes a Human connection and this is a way to use technology to get people to connect Face-to-face and to interact with the natural world You know that's a that's a big change from the way we interact on social media, and that's a great I mean that's that's why I think it's such a breakthrough innovation amazing. Thank you Well done high five so we have some questions. We've actually gone and we asked you guys you guys got to pick questions So there was three questions, and I think all three of the students are here today It'll come up on the board But the first question I believe Nalisa rung is Nalisa rung here There you are round of applause So Nalisa had a question so what we'll do is we'll cue in It's the question should come up on the video like the voice of God Hello, my name is Nalisa Rung and I'm from Coraloo Secondary School in Cornell With all our exciting innovations we have to date. I have a question to the developers of the future How will you make sure we will be able to harness the exciting power of technology? While maintaining face-to-face relationships Who wants to take this one? That's a good question That's a great question. So I think that ties in perfectly to what we were just talking about and that's using the power of technology To get people offline and meeting face-to-face so we're growing closer and closer globally right now, but we're moving further and further apart locally and Airshed and guides comm my passion is changing that right and there's actually an entire movement called the o2o strategy So online to offline how can we harness technology to actually get people to meet face-to-face? And we're seeing that with companies like meet-up right where you can just create a meet-up post Knitting group or whatever you want and now you can actually meet up with people like-minded Over over mutual passions things like Airbnb where you can travel the entire world and have a sense of belonging Anywhere you go it gives me goosebumps I just got goosebumps thinking about Airbnb and the power of what they're doing and welcoming people into their own homes So there's so many opportunities Regardless of what your passion is to use technology as a tool to for matchmaking essentially Fantastic, do you do you want to answer that a bit? Does it can I ask a question who in the room feels like social media although it brings us together also? Pulls us apart in lots of ways Yeah, cuz I mean I I feel like that too in some ways I mean it's almost like if you're at a social event and you're posting about on social media sometimes That's like could be a anti-social thing to do exactly I feel like technology and social media gets a little bit of a bad rap on this friend because I heard a story recently that when Newspapers first came out they said that it would change the way people have conversations because instead of Talking to one another at the breakfast table for example You're now reading a newspaper and that is changing how people are actually interacting and they said that that was going to be the Worst thing in the world now we have social media Newspapers became a standard now we have social media and people read their social media And so we're not interacting in the same way that but I think we're evolving and I think that there is a way to Use social media in a positive way to interact and get your message out and and reach people that you've never reached before And you're not physically in the same location as and then you can also Get outside and look at Pokemon gold exactly exactly Pokemon go No, I think with social media one of the challenges is to make sure that we're true to who we are Yeah, right and the premier brought that up is don't let anyone else create who you are you? Intentfully intentionally choose on the type of life that you want to live and making sure that use your values as a filter in Living authentic to who you are and I think with social media it gets into the challenge of if we're trying to portray something and Some type of lifestyle that isn't actually reflective to our own values So it's an amazing tool. I'm I stay in touch with people I met while traveling and touch with my family So it really does bring us together, but it brings us together in an authentic way if we choose to make it like that I think the fine line though is is if you're having dinner or with your friends to actually put the phone and turning upside down Because I think the difficulty sometimes is actually just being present because we're so busy being like okay I just got a a text or a tweet or an Instagram and you want to respond But again, it's like the power of actually being present because life passes you by if you're so busy about trying to be Connected, you know, I know for me my my my parents a little old school So I my mom still does FaceTime like this Hi, and I'm like mom. I can just see your air put it down But I think it's important because they force us when it's family time to turn the phones over and just be present Because again, I think sometimes when especially the youth interacting they've forgotten the ability to have that conversation About yeah, I heard this and this but stay in that conversation. I think that's the challenge I think that's why so many people are turning towards mindfulness. Yeah, right Is that we have so many triggers that are demanding our attention right every time we get a buzz? It's a shot of dopamine. Yeah, right So we're hardwired to somewhat be addicted to technology But the the ability for us to just like turn everything off for a minute meditate morning routines Right being able to control where we're not so reactive, but we're proactive and looking after ourselves. So yeah Fantastic good question question number two Hello, miss Clark. This is Stephanie. I'm from Steven Cooper Academy. I'm in great help now and I'm going to ask you a question What kind of technology do you? Expect to have in the future which faceted people in positive way Mm-hmm. Good question. I I think in BC we are going to be leaders in Artificial intelligence. I think that's going to change the world I can't even predict how that's going to change the world, but I'm told it will virtual virtual and augmented reality with huge opportunities right here in BC again Virtual reality for example will change anybody here from Poco. Is there anybody from Poco? So a couple people from Poco. So one of the biggest virtual reality Studios in the world Microsoft is contracted with a company called finger foods out in Poco And they're going to change the way we understand how to build public spaces whole neighborhoods It's going to change the way we we operate health care. It's going to change obviously entertainment It's going to change it's they are changing the way we build automobiles and trucks And you know, I can't I can't even guess what that's going to mean I do think though right here right now. We have Some of the best cancer researchers anywhere in the world at the BC Cancer Center If you are unlucky enough to be diagnosed with cancer this is the best place in the world to be diagnosed because you're going to have the best chance of getting treated and cured and We have a chance here. I You know honestly to find the cure for cancer Right here in the city of Vancouver. I think that would not be amazing. That was a British come on guys a British Columbia innovation Now just to jump in so on a personal level just I don't know if anyone watches Brené Brown But the power of vulnerability right and so just being vulnerable my mom passed away from pancreatic cancer two months ago And I think part of actually discovering the cure for cancer is educating ourselves around cancer And I mean this is this is an interesting shift I think it's super powerful because right now where we are so Reactive right you're diagnosed them. What do I do but imagine if this audience today starts researching What leads to cancer because we've all been affected to it and then what can we do to help change that? Because I think that's where true innovation will come is from someone who's just extremely curious about something outside of the industry and starts Educating and then one innovation after the other then will lead to to cure at least miles ahead of where we are today Mm-hmm, and I think as BC is becoming more Leaders and experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning And virtual and augmented reality we can use those technologies to for cancer research For example imagine if you can pick up a device and you can see the tumor You know on your phone you can see it in 3d. You can see how it interacts with other systems all because This AI system is making that for you and your virtual reality or augmented reality machine is displaying it for you and then how that can empower researchers to then learn more and machines and artificial intelligence can then take and look at those patterns that we don't Necessarily recognize with our human brains and be able to analyze them and come up with new Suggestions for research on on how to move forward to bring all of those innovations and technology together for cancer research Just as an example, there's so many other apps. I'm starting to feel like I'm sitting beside the person who is actually gonna cure I just like technologies Thank you for sharing that story with us Daniel I think everything you're hearing here guys is is exactly like the premier said like Imagine if you took your passion and something you care about and you love and you can actually Help save lives That's powerful And I think that's what you guys need to process right now is that it's a simple passion that you took But it's it's a mom that he lost that your passion could help save somebody's life You don't know but help change the lives of others and I think that's pretty powerful So thank you as simple as one thing that I had no idea of how important it is is taking vitamin D Out of all things taking vitamin D and living in Vancouver. There's a chance that most of us here by the sun right yeah from the Sun right you get vitamin D from the Sun and When my mom was diagnosed for vitamin D levels were near non-existent. They're extremely low So we had my dad just the other week two weeks ago get tested for vitamin D The doctor said he'll only call if it's serious and the only reason he was falling up in his blood work It's because of extreme low levels of vitamin D So that's one of the things that would be great. I know this is off topic But a powerful takeaway to just do a little bit of homework on how important vitamin D is and then have that conversation with your parents Wow sooner than later. I'm gonna go get some vitamin D And the powerful thing vitamin D comes from the Sun so you can create a daily habit or reminder to shine bright and be true To who you who you are right just like what the Premier was saying and choosing to live your own life So Premier can we get more Sun here in BC? No Where are we at with that? Well climate change if we're depending on climate change to make it better That's a bad idea. Yeah, we should be fighting climate change All right, the third question comes from Ruben Stepler from Pacific Coast School in Prince, Rupert. Was she here here? Are we here? Yeah Life back there. All right, let's check out the question Come from an economically disadvantaged household and I'm looking at a mortgage on my education How will your government provide funding and incentives for students interested in science and technology at the post-secondary level? Fantastic question Ruben And so a couple of things one We've just you know make make student loans more accessible and cheaper Which is what we've just recently done but also increase the number of spaces that are available and you know That's one of the things that we're finding in science and technology the stem science technology engineering and math Is that there are huge long line-ups for people to get in lots of people want to get in and you can't get in unless you Have absolutely the top marks. I wouldn't get in if I apply today Yeah, so exactly and you know you've done pretty well right turned out you were a good investment So we should think we've got so we've got we are expanding the number of seats in post-secondary institutions in the stem Areas to try and make it a little bit easier for people to get in from all across the province And make it easier for anybody to be able to get in if you're a British Columbian And also, you know one of the things we're thinking about doing is creating stem schools so high schools around the province where You they specialize because you know there are schools that specialize in the fine arts There are schools that specialize in athletics Let's maybe some schools that specialize in stem where you know It's it's all publicly hundred percent publicly funded and it will prepare you to really get into a post-secondary institution anywhere in the world to study to study any any areas of the science science technology engineering and math and that's we've really got to open up that Those avenues for people the other reason is it's not just so people can get in and get the education It's so that technology companies will want to locate and start businesses here Because one of the biggest things is going to attract a tech business to Prince Rupert is Knowing that there are a lot of people in Prince Rupert who can do coding who are educated as engineers Who are going to be able to go to work for them in that business and we've got to spread that all around the province We've got to make sure people are available and then those companies will come and that'll mean more tech jobs and more jobs for people to Go work in great answer I think what I'm bringing back to technology as a whole it empowers people to get educated for a lot less right? There's massive online open courses called MOOCs where you can take Stanford level education for free The only challenge is people being disciplined when they're not actually paying any money to attend these incredible courses that are online And you can do it now if you haven't heard of them You don't have to wait until you're in university to participate in these courses anyone can sign up if you're eight years old You can sign up for a course on data analytics or an intro to programming if you don't have that in your classroom And you can learn that right now And one of the other investments that we are making this year is in is in the first Nations Technology Council And the reason I raised this I don't know if Ruben is a first Nations Community but lots of kids in Rupert at Pacific Coast School will be and one of the things we know is that the first Nations communities are the fastest growing demographic in British Columbia and That's a huge opportunity for employers and a huge opportunity for British Columbia to get people engaged in the workforce But many first Nations kids find it difficult to step into the technology sector because many are from smaller rural or remote communities So making an investment the first Nations Technology Council, which will specifically target education in Technology for first Nations students to encourage a lot more first Nations People to find their way into the technology industry because there are for first Nations people as well There are specific health challenges that need to be solved and need to be approached specific cultural issues that need to be supported and need to be approached and it will be first Nations people that are Going to be coming up with the answers to that But they need to be in the industry if we want to make sure that they're there to do it So many things to process here. I think I like If I were to ask you a question let me start with the permit because we have to close it up But I were to ask you go back to being their age What would you tell yourself? At that age is an advice to follow You know when I look back to being Like what is everybody kind of like between 15 and 18 here? Most people most people put your hand up if you're between 15 and 18. Yeah, okay There you go. So I look back when I was 15 and 18 and I was not a very pretty girl and I was at a high school in Burnaby in a junior high in Burnaby back in the day and I was really insecure and I Really didn't have very much ambition for myself and nobody really had any ambition for me Because it wasn't obvious at all that I could ever be successful in anything at the time and I remember the overwhelming feeling was being scared of being judged by other people and What I used to do when I was 15 is I used to accept people's judgment of Who I was rather than creating my own sense of who I was and it was In you know I look back at Karina and I feel like when I was 15 the biggest feeling I had most of the time was I was scared Hmm. I was scared of being judged. I was scared of failing. I was scared of trying I was scared of growing up. I was just scared a lot and When I look back, you know, if I could go back to being 15 I was way better at 15 than I am now Except that I'm just a lot more confident now I had a lot more going for me and so my advice for all of you would be Don't be scared Don't accept other people's judgment about who you are Don't let people other people decide who you are and what you can be don't let them kill your dreams Figure it out and find that confidence in yourself Because if you can find that confidence when you're 15 rather than you're 25 or 35 or 45 You are going to be a huge success at whatever you decide to do Andrea you want to you want to take that question you have a different path. What would you tell your 15 18 year old self? I feel like when I was 15 and I was trying to decide about my university path I focused a lot on, you know, finding the right path and Finding something that would be certain that I knew I was gonna love and I would want to do for the rest of my life But we were talking about this earlier, and I think you really have to be okay taking risks And you have to be okay knowing that this path this thing you really really want to try It might not be the best thing for you, but you're not gonna know until you actually do it There's a quote by someone named Tom Chi. Do you know the Google glasses? Do you know what Google glasses are? So Tom Chi was the one who made the first version of the Google glasses and his quote that he says all the time is Thinking is a terrible way to think Doing is the best way of thinking and you really have to go out and you have to do it And you have to take those risks because you're never gonna know for sure just by thinking about it Time to start doing yeah, how about you? Yeah, I'm thinking back when I was that age. I was I was a terrible student. I started skipping class and don't tell people that Really do not regret that no Were you also this tall? Oh, I was skyrocket. Yeah, it's like that awkward phase, right? But but it was just I wasn't passionate about what was being taught in school and then when I went into university I found my passion, right? I found and Education is less about filling a bucket with Information by reading and more about igniting your spark and finding what your spark is and then following that right? And I think one of the best decisions I made it was when I graduated high school I took a year off and I backpacked Australia for six months Australia and Fiji and it just changed my life It just revealed so much about the type of lifestyle that I want to create for myself As far as advice, there's one thing I just thought of actually saw my my buddy Mike in the audience today And I spoke on a panel with him recently And he came down to the end of the panel and what advice we would give He shared the best story and hopefully I don't butcher it for him but he was on a walk with his grandma and They're walking behind the family a bit and she brought him back and was like Mike I want you to I want you to promise me something She said I want you to promise me that you'll view your life as a movie And that you pick the characters that are in that movie you pick the adventures that you go on You pick the entire plot that you want to create and promise me one thing That when your grandchildren watch that movie that by the end of it, they'll want to see it again And I think it's just so so so powerful and has resonated with me Wow Get advice Mike well as you've heard here today you've heard incredible speakers, but it's about knowing that being scared is okay It's about doing and not thinking and it's about creating your own movie that Generations to come your grandkids will be proud of I mean for me I've told you guys this before like don't be scared of failure dare to fail greatly It's a beautiful thing because beyond that as you hear over and over and over again is your truth Your greatness we all have a greatness within us whether you felt left out and you didn't fit in and you were scared at that age I'm still scared now too Whether you decided to just make the decision. You know what the time is now and the time is to do it Whether it's to do a hundred kilometer race in a foreign country And to know that you know what so much more of it is mental that you know, that's life But I think you walk away from your understanding that no matter what avenue you take Time is now to do time is now to dream time is now is to believe and town is now for you to understand that in this room Are the future heroes in this room are the future doers in this room are the game changers And that's the premier said BC's where it's at So I want to thank you guys all for being here. This has been fun Have you guys had a blast with them round of applause? And I don't know if the premier if you want to say anything else because or if you guys wanted to step off Well, I hope everybody enjoys the rest of the conference I you know I just hope that everybody here walks away with a connection an idea an Inspiration that means that every one of you can pursue your dream in technology. This is the place to be for tech I think in the next 10 15 years We are going to be one of the world's great tech hubs But we're only going to be that if we have great people building it and great people are gonna be building it are all of you So get to work. We have high expectations. Thank you for coming all of you. All right a round of applause. Thank you very much There's my mics out live events, there's my mic. Thanks. Thank you have yourself. Thank you. Thank you You