 From Seattle, Washington, it's theCUBE, covering AWS Imagine. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in downtown Seattle at the AWS Imagine EDU event. It's their education event and education everything from K through 12 to higher education, community college, retraining after service, it's a really great show. It's the second year, we're happy to be here. We've got somebody who's come all the way from Spain to talk about his very special company. It's Ignasi Nuglez, he is the CEO of click.edu. Correct? Yeah, right. Nice to see you, welcome. Thank you and we are really pleased to see you with you. Great, so tell us kind of what is click.edu? What is kind of your core value? Yeah, it's a platform that makes all the things that the school needs, at least in Spain. So it's a mid-system, also an LMS, also the communication with the families, et cetera. It's a way to manage all the school and also a lot of things that they are related on. Right, and you've been around for a while, so when did the company start? How, it was kind of some basic numbers on how many customers do you have? Cause you operated in a lot of countries, there's a lot of schools. Yes, we have schools working with us already in all of Spain, also in Chile, Colombia and also in UK and also in a little country in Europe that is called Andorra, so we are really happy because we have more than one million of users working with us. One million, great, congratulations. And is it mainly, do you specialize between, say, K through 12 or higher education or are you kind of all over the place? Yes, we are focusing K-12 schools, so one of the important parts are the communication with parents and to follow all the things that the student does. Right, so you guys have a very special thing that you're announcing here at the show is really focusing on Alexa 4K through 12, which nobody else is doing. That's really something unique that you guys, how did you get in that? What did you see in voice communication in Alexa that you couldn't do in the platform before that you really saw the opportunity? Yes, all the people say that the future or the present now is the voice and all we will communicate by voice in the future over internet. You see a lot of young guys doing all the things by voice, not the right texting, et cetera. So we thought that it could be a nice idea that the communication between parents and also for students to the school and in the other way could be by voice. So we imagined how to do it and we did it. It's really new. When did you start it? When did you start that project? This project we began three months ago. Oh, three months ago, so you just got up? Yeah, it's really, really new, the voice idea. Right, right. It was in a show that I have seen. A lot of people were talking about that, but there were at least in Spanish, nothing about, so we thought we couldn't be the first, so we did it. That's great. So before we turn the cameras on, we were talking about some of the issues that you have and one of the ones is integration to all these systems because I have kids, I might have multiple kids in a couple different grades, you have kids, and if I'm looking for access on their homework or their test scores, you just got to integrate with all those different back ends to keep things private. But you're kind of at a good spot because your system is the one that's on the back end, right? Yeah, yeah, that's true. So that works pretty well. And then the other piece you talked about is two-way voice. I don't think a lot of people think in voice communication yet, it's still more of an ask and get a reply, ask and get a reply, but you guys are actually pushing notifications from the school out to the families using voice. How's that working out? What are some of the use cases after that? It's like the parent can ask to Alexa, for example, what's the homework for tomorrow for one of your son or daughter and echo tell you about that. So it's really impressive because in that moment, the system goes to the school system to get that information. It's your system? Yeah, and Alexa translates in voice. So yeah, it's funny. I just think it's funny that I get emails from all my digital assistants telling me, suggesting things that I should ask them because it's really not native yet as an interface to work with these machines. But you mentioned that the young people voice is much more natural. So I wonder if there's been some surprises or some things you didn't expect in terms of people's comfort level with voice as a way to communicate with these systems. Yeah, I think it's the most natural way. Also for us that we are not native, but of course we communicate better by voice and writing or texting. So of course it's the future because it's another way. So the use of that systems goes up because of that. So I think it's the most, the most thing that perhaps is more surprising. Right, and so will you guys supply the Alexa for people's homes or is it something they can tap into their existing Alexa? Yeah, usually the case for using that is in your home or also in your phone. So you can install Alexa in your phone and you can ask them as if you have an Echo. But how do I hook my existing Echo up to the school system? Yes, because sometimes some universities or they put their Echo in the, I don't know, in the university, et cetera. But you can use your Echo that you are using for other things, listen music, you can use the same. You only have to download an app for your phone. Now it's more or less the same, you ask Alexa to install Clicked app or a skill that is how it's called. And then you have it. So what's next? What's on the roadmap, on the voice specifically? Where do you see this kind of evolving over the next little while? Yes, our next goal in that part is that they can use the teachers in the school, the voice systems also. So for doing what they do every day in more writing or whatever, we can do it by voice. For example, an interview with the parents at transcript or for example, to say that somebody hasn't come to the school or to tell to the transportation that something is happening. This kind of things is what we are imagining. It's in our next things that we will do with voice. So it'll be Alexa in the classroom, hoping that the classroom not just at home. What about privacy? I would imagine, it was funny, in the early days of cloud, security was not good. It was a showstop where people were concerned. 10 years later, now security is a strength of cloud. It's probably more secure than most people's data centers or disgruntled employees. I would imagine privacy and security is probably pretty top of mind in the school districts as well. There's a lot of personal information. Are they comfortable? Do they kind of get the security of cloud and cloud infrastructure? Or is that still a sticking point? You know that in Europe, there are really strict law about protection of data. So we are really concerned about that. So we are talking with the schools what kind of systems they will be comfortable because we want to use it. So we will have to find the clue to do that. But it's really important. I think all over the world, but in the States or in Europe we are really concerned about that. So we'll see how to find it, but we can create a private skill. Right. Yes, because there are a version of Alexa that is for business. So you can create your own private things and you don't have to be sure that somebody is listening to you. Right. So last question here at the conference. Did you come last year? No. So what are you, just your impressions of the conference? How is it nice to be with a bunch of like-minded, kind of forward-thinking educators? Because education doesn't always get the best reputation for being kind of forward-looking. But here you're surrounded. So I just wonder if you could share some of your thoughts of the event so far. Yeah, I think these kind of events give you more motivation and you increase your way to see that there are a lot of people that is pushing to innovate and do the things different. So really, really interesting to go to some machine learning exposition about California, what they are doing, et cetera. So I'm really interested. Good, good. All right. Well, Nossi, thanks for taking a few minutes and congratulations on that project. That's really crazy. Thank you for your interest. All right. You say, Nossi, I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're at AWS Imagine in downtown Seattle. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.