 Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here. We are on the ground at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in the lovely Las Vegas, is about 120 degrees outside. Welcome to summer in Vegas at the Predix Transform 2016, the first ever Predix Cloud developer conference. Predix obviously the industrial internet cloud that GE launched about seven months ago. 1700 developers here for days and days and days, learning about how they can develop applications and take advantage of the Predix platform. And we're really excited to have our next guest on. This was like the rage of the keynotes of your watching Twitter earlier this morning. The thing just lit up like, who are these people? So we grabbed them, because that's what we do. So we're really excited to be joined by Lizzie Lee from the Innovation Services Program Manager and her cohort in crime, Michael Williams, also from Innovation Services Lead Engineer. So welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, thank you. So what were you talking about that just lit up Twitter like a Christmas tree? It was amazing. Yeah, we're developing something that will enable both developers and industrial customers alike to get connected at the edge, connect their devices, their machines, have an easy on-ramp to predict so that they can start developing applications and getting a lot of value out of the data that they're collecting. So that's a huge problem, right? Everyone always wants to know, how do I get started? How do I get started? And that's not even in the traditional industrial setting where you got a big giant factory that's been kicking out widgets for years and years and decades. So you're basically offering a solution to help them get started, to help them basically connect. Is that what this is? Yeah, exactly. Okay, and then how does it work? What kind of flavors do you have? Explain a little bit, Michael. Yeah, so the Predix kits kind of come in two main categories, industrial kits and developer kits. And the developer kits is really what we highlighted up on stage in the keynote. It helps developers get going in under 15 minutes. How to provision a prototyping board in under 15 minutes. Wait, wait, wait, back up there. Do what in 15 minutes? Provision a prototyping board in under 15 minutes. 15 minutes. 15 minutes. Connected to their thing. Connected, Predix machines streaming to the Predix time series. Going to the Predix cloud. Visualized in our kit viewer. And so you can see data streaming in under 15 minutes. Wow. So. I wonder they were cheering up and down. Yeah. So the goal of it is to help developers make sense of the industrial internet. Okay. But these kits not only allow you to provision something in under 15 minutes, but they also are built specifically for industrial use cases. So what we showed up on stage was a wind turbine. It was actually a mini wind turbine and it was monitoring very similar things that you might monitor in an industrial wind turbine. So you can start making sense of what it's like to not only build for IoT, but for the industrial internet. Right. Which is what we really care about. Right. So are there different types based on industry? I mean, obviously GE plays in a lot of places, oil and gas and aviation and wind turbines and locomotives. Or is it kind of a general purpose tool? How does it work within, you know, what are a variety of potential customer environments? Yeah. We are absolutely building domain specific or purpose built kits. So if you are trying to instrument a gas turbine, we would have a kit specifically built for that where you would either have sensors that are related to that application as well as the asset model that we pulled down from the cloud will be pre-configured to fit your gas turbine. Okay. And then a lot of kits we're building can span actually from the non-industrial to the industrial. So as part of our job, we get really lucky when we get to go to customer sites and see very interesting use cases. So recently we went to a vineyard where they have three small fields. This is something very industrial to me. Right. But I'll draw the connection for you. It tastes good. Tastes very good. They have three fields that have very different levels of grape production because depending on where the trees are, some fields get more shade or they get less wind and it causes very varying levels of production. And so to correlate the weather to the grape production, they put a weather station in each field. That same weather station is something that GE Power is looking to leverage at all of the sites that they monitor with their gas turbines because things like temperature, humidity, and pressure affect how much power output is expected from that gas turbine. So a weather kit could be one of those applications that can span both non-industrial and industrial. So in that case, who's the customer? Is it the turbine folks that are trying to get more data to be more efficient or is it the guy growing the grapes who's trying to be, I mean, what is he trying to do? Be more efficient in terms of his production yield? I mean, how is he using the data? But who ultimately is your customer? Who bought the kit and put the kit in? Is it the guy growing the grapes or is it the turbine guy? It can be both. Well, who was it in this one? So that's an example use case that we're working towards. Okay, so. Yeah, and so the whole idea of the kits in general for the developers is it's the same user experience for a developer to provision the kit as it is for a service deployer in the field. So if it's a service technician who goes and does it or if it's a vineyard owner who purchases it online and wants to deploy it in their vineyard, they can do it as well. And really what we're working towards is making that same user experience. So when a developer is building a new kit, it's built in the same exact way that the service individual is expecting to go and deploy it. So now we have repeatability in this common story from a developer all the way to production. Okay, and are these things available today? Is this GA or is it coming? What's kind of the status of the kits? We're an internal beta right now where we're testing with a couple of internal GE teams. And we'll be external beta coming soon. We'll have more information available in the coming months. Okay, so just go to where do they go for more information? Pridix.io Pridix.io, okay, great. And again, the interesting thing about these kits is they're not just toys, they're actually things that can go from kind of test dev if you will, get it tweaked, get it right, get it set up, and then actually just roll that same unit into production. Absolutely. That's correct. And the nice thing about Pridix and what we're trying to do with Pridix and Pridix Edge is it's the same software stack that you might run on a prototyping board as you're gonna actually run on an industrial hard-on device. So once you get it good on your prototyping board, you just take that same software and you go and put it on an industrial hard-on device and you're good to go. Okay, great. So a little bit of the vibe of the show here. First time ever, 7,800 people. Wonder if you could share some of the surprises, hallway chatter for the folks that aren't here. What's the vibe of the show? What have you been kind of surprised at so far? Yeah, we've been seeing a lot of really great excitement around what's coming out with Pridix, especially since it's a relatively new platform that's been externally available. And so everybody just wants to know how can we get started? What use cases can we start building? And so it's been really cool to see all of that excitement and people proactively trying to get a hold of our kits as well as all the other tools that are available. And one of the things I really enjoyed is the Pridix Builders community being launched and worked out is there's a lot of really great applications that have already been built in Pridix. It's only been GA for a few months and it's really cool to already see that people are contributing and building the whole application. Well, I would normally ask you, what are you working on for the next six months? But I think you already answered the question. You gotta get that stuff GA, right? Exactly. All right. Well, congratulations. And again, Lizzie, you gotta get a Twitter account because everyone was, well, who is that woman up there? She's giving a great presentation. So great job. Congratulations. And good luck getting the kits done and getting them out in the field. And let me know when you go visit that winery. I wanna go with you for a field trip. We'll do. All right. Lizzie Lee and Michael Williams from Innovation Services at GE. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE. We are at Pridix Transform 2016, the first one here at the Cosmo Hotel in lovely Las Vegas. Catch you next time.