 Hi everyone, I'm Barb Mitchell joined with Candice Cipos here from JSA wrapping up day one Here at Capacity Europe at the O2 in London. It's been a great first day. When you say Candice It really has been we are in this beautiful new space the peninsula ballroom I believe is what it's called. So it didn't even exist last year. We've been at JSA We've been in capacity Europe several years in a row So this is an annual tradition for us but new space so that kind of shakes it up a little bit And it's also it feels very kind of executive and quieter down here in the peninsula area And then it's a very busy and buzzing We have had it just a few minutes to kind of run upstairs in between Interviews here and there and it's very you know expo floor upstairs So, you know, it's hard to imagine that they can expand into a whole nother space And it's still be full and as busy as this space is absolutely. Yeah, it's definitely been quite busy We've been really excited to host so many of the the carriers that are here at Capacity Europe as well as you know As service providers who are serving those carriers all kinds of different folks from Different areas within digital infrastructure. So what do you what do you think? Well, you have different areas Geographically and areas in terms of focus of business you said carriers. We had yeah, we had Colt. We had Orange here. We also talked to some data center providers and Some folks that are building out infrastructure in areas like Africa. So IX Africa was one that we spoke with Yeah, really interesting and some key themes came up. Don't you think? Yeah, absolutely We've we were Barb and I were just chatting about kind of the power of partnership being a big Headline we feel like from the interviews were we're having but also just generally from what people are talking about around the conference So, yeah, I mean, I think the correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what I was Hearing some of the themes we've been hearing about Throughout the year and probably the year before Sustainability and continues to be on everyone's mind, but also a lot around artificial intelligence Yeah, and again, it was last year too, but this year even more so, right? I had someone say to me that last year they were talking about the metaverse and this year It's more about specifically around AI several people were talking about that But I think you mentioned partnerships and one of the things that really stood out to me was just again this emphasis on the need for the global community to come together to enable the Infrastructure buildouts and and support the networks to have this global connectivity That's going to support the needs of up clients and partnerships and and organizations absolutely I feel like a lot the underlying theme of a lot of these conversations is just the demands like the intense demand that the industry is Seeing and and we'll continue to see because of AI and these intense workloads And so how do we tackle that together? I think is one common theme and then also how do we Generate the interest in the industry and you know have enough people to tackle that just the workforce conversations I feel like especially over the past year this year I feel like those have really been front and center at these conferences not just this one But certainly I think this morning capacity Europe opened with a big Roundtable discussion with a lot of really, you know Insightful thoughts around how to solve that issue with the workforce. So so interesting It's hard to stop talking because there's so much to say we'll have more to say later We're gonna continue the conversations. There's a networking reception I know that starts shortly here where we can continue the conversations We've been having with some folks on JSA TV and we'll take it sort of behind the behind the scenes And and we'll have more to say tomorrow because we start live again tomorrow at 9 a.m. Local time That's like live 9 a.m. British Standard Time. That's right. Yeah, so bright and early for everyone else Hopefully watching from from the US and other areas of the world depending on where you are, of course You know, but if you're here if you're watching live and you're in UK time Actually, I think we're starting at 8.50 even because we snuck another We're getting so much demand for these interviews. So we're kind of sneaking them in where we can so we will see you there Yeah, okay, great. Well, thank you Thank you Viewers for tuning into JSA TV and JSA podcast will be back again tomorrow and until then have a great night. Happy networking We'll see you soon