 I'm going to introduce our next title sponsor, and that's Microsoft. We're very fortunate to have Microsoft here in British Columbia. We've got two offices in Vancouver, Microsoft providing high-paying, rewarding jobs supporting BC families. We're very thrilled to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Washington to create a Cascadia corridor. It's going to encourage meaningful and results-driven innovation between our two areas. It's going to help grow our technology industries across borders, and we talked about cross borders. It's about inviting the world to BC. It's about creating and strengthening job creation. It's about global enhancing, global competitiveness. I'm honored to introduce our next speaker is Microsoft's corporate vice president, Julia White. Julia leads marketing and product management for Microsoft Azure security products, as well as our national cloud and data center marketing. She's a 16-year veteran. When we hear veteran, we think of grizzled in battle scars. I imagine she has those, but she joined the company as a product manager and moved her way up to that position. From there, Julia moved into different roles, leading departments, leading teams of business channel marketing and sales, and played an instable part of exchange online. Do you remember that exchange online a number of years ago? It was one of Microsoft's earliest and most successful public cloud workloads. Julia provided product management and technical marketing for Office 365 and helped publicly launch Office for iPads app in 2014. She wholeheartedly embraces change, unafraid of challenging conventional thinking and standing out from the crowd. Whether her determination comes from being taught how to run a family business from the family dinner table as a child, or her training as an Olympic hopeful synchronized swimmer, or from earning her MBA from Harvard Vision School at a time when very few were willing to leave Silicon Valley. Julia is passionate about technology and ensuring Microsoft remains forward-looking. Without further ado, please welcome Julia White. Microsoft Cloud allows us to access information from anywhere. Microsoft Cloud allows us to scale up. Microsoft Cloud changes our world dramatically. It wasn't too long ago. It would take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome. Now, we can do 100 per day. With the Microsoft Cloud, we don't have to build server rooms. We have instant scale. The Microsoft Cloud is helping us to rebuild and brain interpret our business. This cloud helps transform business. This is the Microsoft Cloud. Thank you. Thank you so much. No, thank you. Great to be here. Absolutely. Fantastic to be here. Good morning. I'm thrilled to spend a little bit of time with you this morning talking about how technology is empowering people and organizations across the globe. Obviously, there's a lot in that. As I mentioned, I've been in technology for quite a while. I started in the cloud long before it was cool. Actually, my first job out of Stanford was doing quick and online banking. If you can believe it, back then, no one was willing to bank on the internet. That's how early days we were, the predecessor of the cloud. From there, I had the opportunity to go from having Exchange Online, our very, very first mailbox in the cloud, to what became Office 365. Then more recently, moved over to lead our Azure business, putting the entire infrastructure business into the cloud. It has been an amazing and awe-inspiring experience and certainly humbling and a lot of lessons along the way as well. But as I step back and think about, we talk about in this industry transformation and disruption. It's just the first time it's happened. I want to put a little bit of historical context to it because it's certainly not the first time and won't be the last. If you think back to a revolution from the steam engine, completely transformed what the transportation industry looked like, opened up new horizons. Electricity, we can now suddenly work and play 24-7. We didn't have to have candles and go to bed when it got dark. We could fundamentally change how everything worked. Many of us, myself included, have lived through the electronic IT revolution. Microsoft was founded on the idea of a PC on every desktop. When that was just 30-plus years ago, that was considered revolutionary and now seems almost archaic in the idea of that. The next, the fourth industrial revolution we like to talk about is the digital transformation. This is fundamentally how every business, every organization is moving to a digital business. We recently had Jeff Amlop from GE, C of GE come on, talk about how GE is now a digital business. Lots more examples of that, but there's so much potential in what we're doing in this area. But I want to step back for just a second on that electricity because I think it's a good analogy. In the beginning, individual farms, individual factories had a water wheel to produce electricity or had a windmill to produce electricity, and that was the efficient approach to go. But then over time we realized there's this incredible economies of scale and this standardization across, and we can offer this as an overall utility. And there's two big transformations that happen. First, the admin electricity in general, we could go and work and play and do things that changed our lives. But then the switch from being independent up into having a consolidated holistic system. And I actually think this analogy is quite similar to the cloud and individual companies having their own data center today, but the prospect and the promise that a global cloud infrastructure can provide and the innovation it can unlock, to me that is incredibly exciting. And we're just in the beginnings. I know the cloud is everywhere and the cloud is big and people are talking about it, but actually we're still so early in the potential that it has in that area. And certainly with this comes change. If you were the candle maker before electricity, after electricity you go from being a necessity to being a novelty, and you had to adjust and adapt to that, but that's where innovation comes and it creates so much new innovation and jobs around it. So as we move forward, it shouldn't be as a surprise if you think about what's top of mind for CEOs in this time of digital transformation. And I can't tell you how much, I've talked to different customers around the globe and they say it in different words and say it in different ways, but fundamentally it's about this fourth industrial evolution of that digital transformation. And if you look from a CEO perspective, 86% consider digital their number one priority. And even looking across different factors happening from globalization, urbanization, other things, climate change, it's about that technology shift. And to me, this is why I love being in this industry, because it's always in the place of breaking through and making the impossible possible. And that's why events like this are great to bring us together and talk about what those possibilities can be and how we move all of us forward in that way. And this transformation is really relevant to everybody across all different industries. There isn't one kind of place that we can't see this type of transformation. I was actually just last week in Washington DC talking with a company doing research around MRIs and using the ability to do table side analysis and rendering and then using the cloud to do massive processing such that they were actually shortening the time that kids had to be in the MRI and getting much better imaging out of it. Great patient care, better outcomes, lower costs. There's one example. Public safety. Another one, very topical, particularly in the U.S. or better or worse. Things like IoT, when police draw their guns on IoT device signals, they know what's happening. Body cameras. In Azure, we're streaming body cameras so you can actually see what's happening real time in these frontline officers to make sure things are going all right. Lots of different opportunities there. And then certainly into IoT and what it's enabling with the device connected to the cloud. Think about oil and gas and refining and mining and we'll actually hear a little more about that today of how you can do things so differently with that type of sensor information coming off real time, understanding environmental impacts, understanding costs and benefits of that, understanding safety and health around something that in historical sense is going to be quite dangerous. So each industry, these are just a few examples, has this opportunity. And kind of the thread that we use through all of these is the new data we have. So much information. Back when I started in technology, data was scarce and power sat with data. That has completely changed. It's now open, widely accessible. So now it's about the insights. We all have the data. And things like AI are truly possible because of the richness and the robustness of the data and the compute power of the cloud. And so as we head forward into the AI capabilities in a very mainstream way, it's now possible the things we've been dreaming about for years as technologists now on the cusp. And when we talk about digital transformation, they tend to cluster in groups and ultimately digital transformation takes all of these shapes collectively. So let's try to break it down a little bit in how we think about digital transformation. The one you probably hear about most or see examples of is around engaging customers in new ways. Now we can put your entire company experience in your customer's pocket. That's very different than it was just a few years back. So thinking about how do you create these robust experiences. One of my favorite customers I worked with is Real Madrid, the football company. And they have this interesting thing that their customers are 450 million fans around the globe. So many fit in a stadium. So how do they create this experience that's rich and personalized and relevant to all of their fans even though they're watching from all over the world and working with them on this incredible customer engagement experience that they developed which is revolutionary in the football area. Certainly empowering employees, making sure that we're productive and satisfied and engaged. Their productivity around employee engagement changed dramatically. And there's lots of stats showing that engagement and output are very directly tied. So how do we create experiences that are rich, that are possible, the technology gets out of the way for the business to run in bridging those areas. Certainly a lot of opportunity and optimizing operations where that'd be using IoT devices and mining, connecting cars, other technologies where you can just run more efficient systems. And in this case also just take advantage of the economies of scale that the cloud offers even if it's just continuing to maintain your existing systems. And then transforming products. How you go from being a traditional manufacturing company to being a digital company fundamentally at the core of what you do. So I want to give an example of that transforming product. One of my favorites, a great customer of ours, Rolls-Royce, the airline engine manufacturer, traditional industry, and they called us a while back now and they were in trouble. They were about to lose one of their big customers, an airline provider, an airline carrier. And they're like, we need to innovate. We need to do something different. We're not being as competitive. So we worked with them. We went in, we saw what they had from the data perspective, what insights they had, how they were running their systems, what kind of customer engagement they had. And we built a completely transformative system that fundamentally has allowed Rolls-Royce to go from selling engines to selling engine hours as a service. Huge shift. They have a different business model now. They have different customer engagement now. So first, a global dashboard. So they can see every system across the globe. Every airplane that has a Rolls-Royce engine in it, they need to know where it is. If they're the service provider for those engines, they need to know where they are. They need to know what's going on. They need to have instant notification if, in this case, a fuel pump looks like it's failing in one of the planes in Frankfurt. Having that at that operations room, command center, so they can see exactly what's happening. But then they can also drill in using IoT and machine learning, looking and seeing specifically on that engine. What's the utilization? What altitude has been flying? What pilot's been flying it? Because there's differences, deep insight. So it's not just predictive maintenance. It's actual real maintenance based on the different attributes going on around that specific airplane and that engine so they can do the right kind of servicing. Obviously with planes, the two first things I have is a dangerous situation or a delayed situation. So these are very material in real time and critical systems. But then it's about how do you put it into your front-line system so all the insights are great but if you don't change your business, it doesn't matter. So working with Rolls Royce connected it right down to their field service system. So once they see that fuel pump, they figure out that that plane is on the ground and ready for maintenance, they can make sure they have the right person, the right part, and they're scheduling that replacement on time down to that assignment that the agent gets on their mobile app on the ground to go fix that fuel pump. Just an interesting example of how the technology and taking information they had but putting it forth in a different way allowed them to fundamentally digitize their business and going from a manufacturing company to a service provider. Incredible opportunity for them. Now, rather than talk about other customers, I thought we'd bring it home a little more local. So I'm actually going to invite Gold Corp up but before that I'm going to play a video so you get a chance to learn a bit more about the company but think about maybe the original industry of mining gold and how does technology revolutionize that. So we're going to roll the video and then I'll bring them up. At Gold Corp we're at the cutting edge of leading producers for gold mining companies. We're always trying to take the best avenue we can to make the most efficient and safe product. We work in a very complex industry with a lot of information. We're looking at new ways to innovate and to bring technology into the workforce. What I envision for the Mine Control Center is to have the geologists, the engineers and the dispatch operators working together in a central area where all the information can be integrated through the HoloLens. The Mine Control Center is going to allow everyone that needs to contribute to this concerted effort and be able to see exactly what's going to move where and how it's going to happen. The team is able to pull in the drill map and see the next blast set up and see where the ore blocks are located in the dig map and then understand where the priorities are to separate the ore and waste. The HoloLens is going to enable the communication between the Mine Control Center and the operator so that the operator will know exactly when it's time to switch directions or to stop sending a certain type of material or when to completely stop digging. Doing so is going to enable us to send the right material to the right destination and when you can do that we're going to get a much better return on the material that we're mining. This is a powerful tool for mine management. The Mine Manager can put on a HoloLens and walk through the daily plan. The Mine Manager is able to pull in all the information and analyze what happened during the day and get answers to any questions they may have about the production plan. The Mine Control Center can take what the Mine Manager was looking at and package up that plan that's been carried out for the day and it can be sent to any location in the world. Back at the corporate office the executive is now able to review and understand the plan in a whole new way. The most exciting part of this project is I can see some very tangible benefits and once we start using it it's all going to come together and it's just going to blossom. The partnership with Microsoft HoloLens can improve communication, it's going to improve mining accuracy and really it's just a stepping stone at building the mine of the future. Please welcome Luis Kenapare from Gold Corp. Vice President of IT. Don't trip on your way up. Thank you so much for joining. Thanks Julia. Now by the way that was the first time we've showed anyone that concept video. It's early work that's piloting doing on Gold Corp so thank you for letting us share that innovative technology that you're doing on that front. So I just wanted to show the HoloLens so let's talk about augmented reality a little bit and I know you're an early concept and you're exploring the opportunity so tell me a little bit about how you're thinking about applying that to mining in the original industry. Well Julia, you can imagine mining is still a bit backwards. We just started our digital transformation and as an industry we're a bit behind everybody else. Oil and gas and financial services everybody else have taken a leap forward in embracing technology and we're just a step behind but this is our opportunity to leapfrog and embrace some of these technologies and make them our own and I envision a mind the first time I went down to Redmond our account team took us to the demo center and I remember being down and looking at Mars. You had your HoloLens I brought Gail Lawson with me our head geologist and Gail just turned around and said we would have our stops our new mind developments being virtualized and now a geologist in Quebec could be looking at our mining in Argentina or from Vancouver being transporting yourself to any of our mines in a safe manner we keep talking about reducing cost of operations but I'm also very excited about this because it's a way to take people out of harm's way so mining is still a dangerous industry we still have people working underground and the more we can use this technology to make people safe and work from remote locations where you don't have to expose yourself to mining hazards it will be much better Absolutely, imagine using drones and HoloLens so they can be in the mine without being in the mine Economically, imagine if we could develop areas of the mine that you will not traditionally do because they're dangerous or they're unstable and you can't if you're not putting people at risk you could actually develop these areas to make your mines more profitable Now earlier we were talking about we might not know but in mining, gold particularly the hit rate is quite low it's less than 1% so it's an expensive endeavor to go and look and find the right places so I was interested in how you're using artificial intelligence and how you're thinking about using this new capability to help improve those rates Absolutely, well exploration is probably one of the areas that I believe is more rigged for a change Traditionally mining in general is very hard to identify a new ore body is very difficult and not only to identify it but also to develop ore bodies are deeper and deeper in the ground and it's a lot more complex they're not continuous, you have to do different mining methods to extract them and they're becoming more cost ineffective One of the things that we're evaluating is we're looking at artificial intelligence as a way to take all our exploration data and using these AIs to identify patterns that humans can find we're hoping that if we can number one, if we can make all these data structured because again we have balls full of data that are in paper if we can utilize all of these make it available to our geologists and somehow structure it and make it more consumable I believe our success of exploration will improve significantly Alright, then last area around the cloud despite being in what you're calling yourself a laggard industry but you've been using the cloud for a while so interested in how that's helped you and what ways it's impacted your business I was your first client in BC I was the first one to embrace artificial intelligence Thank you for that So we're the first company to move but we are certainly looking into it I have this vision of a mine that doesn't require servers that we can move all our technology outside of the mine and basically operate from the cloud I mean we operate in very remote locations and sometimes to maintain these systems is very expensive for us so the cloud could be a significant player we have to figure out how we get some of these operating technologies and IOT outside, once in a real time how we get them outside of the mine with latency issues but once we sort that out I believe that will be one of the first companies to fully embrace cloud Now you're using it for your employees and then helping your employees connect in a better way Absolutely, we have a lot of our systems already running on the cloud and a lot of our we're even looking at moving our European to the cloud as well in the following years but I have the dream of making that first mine that is 100% cloud You're on the cutting edge of your industry in that front Thank you so much for sharing some of your stories and the experiences you've had Absolutely So where does Microsoft fit in this in this overall digital transformation So I just wanted to step back for just a second and Microsoft is very much a values based company and at our core is this mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more So all of our innovations, all of our investments all our resources here and globally are about achieving that core mission and particularly in the area that I focus on so much of this is made possible and what we can do because of the cloud and what's happening in the cloud So I want to talk a little bit about what does that mean people talk about the cloud, what is it what's part of it and just how we're addressing it and have a point of view on what the cloud is possible to do So first of all starting with productivity and then really getting after that employee experience how do you create engagement but also across the supply chain across partners in the BDB area of how do you create great productivity experiences and then as we think about into business applications ERP CRM and historically productivity and business applications were very siloed and what you did in your email or your I am or your chat was very different than your structured business processes but we really believe these are kind of becoming more and more integrated and even as we now Microsoft recently acquired LinkedIn new capabilities of bridging those experiences and insights of how to connect people more effectively across business and their personal life as well Obviously the core of so much of digital transformation is around application innovation and invent that next incredible experience how do we create that new application on HoloLens that gets people out of the minds and into more safe areas those kinds of things from the whole spectrum and that's really where Azure Cloud Platform comes in to enable all different flavors of that and as we talked about data is the fuel of this digital transformation so enabling artificial intelligence in a first class way in a cloud model as well and then of course nothing can be done without great security and management across those pieces Now customers and partners use different parts of the cloud based on their unique needs and any combination and that's great, that's how it should be there isn't an all or one or one size fits all and how this looks and what you need for your unique situation but the thing I love about what Microsoft does is that no matter what part of the cloud you use no matter which technology problem you're trying to address we deliver it in a holistic way so they build on each other and we see those kind of things across and the three core promises around global, trusted and hybrid so from a global perspective we have data centers right here in Canada but we also have them around the globe we have 38 data center regions over 100 data centers across the globe we have more distinct regions than our competitors combined in terms of the geographical footprint that we have and we've done that very specifically because we knew that would matter to businesses here as well as in many other countries from a trusted perspective many years ago now when we were very first starting our journey to the cloud I thought for people to work with us and put their mission critical applications in our cloud they have to trust us and so we set up principles in the beginning the trust was made of compliance, privacy, security and transparency and that everything we do across our cloud would live up to those promises our favorite example of what we are willing to do in this space is that we actually in the principle of privacy of our cloud technology we sued our largest customer the US government because they were asking for information in the Dublin data center and we felt that was not right so we sued them and we won now you can clap almost two years we went to court with the US government and we won that case and that was incredibly important for Microsoft with the industry to make sure that privacy in this world is maintained and respected and so much of this area is still gray and we are committed to working in the front lines with the Canadian government as well as across the globe to make sure those standards are set and that we meet them and then in hybrid now people talk about what is hybrid cloud what does that mean and a lot of people say I know I call it hybrid washing they talk about hybrid as a way to say that's not how I think about it hybrid is about enabling every organization no matter what existing infrastructure you have today to take advantage of the cloud capabilities to bridge this generational shift in a way that makes sense from a security, privacy, economic perspective and that's why across all of our cloud services we have a rich consistent hybrid experience so having on-premises technology and cloud technology can live compatibility without the complex and cost that it can be otherwise across our entire stack so core, core investments in that area but of course the cloud is not just something by itself it needs to be connected to people and information and devices and that's where that connection comes from our cloud into the device world as well and that's from everything from IoT millions and millions of IoT devices to PCs to phones and then of course into the HoloLens which in our Microsoft Canada R&D center doing work right here on the ground in this area in such a fantastic market can't wait to see what this group of people in this area of the world can innovate around augmented reality now to kind of make that a little bit more real I wanted to first play a video but I'm going to then invite Modio who is a great new innovative startup to talk but let me first roll their video to give you an introduction to who they are we live in an increasingly smart and connected world yet more than a billion vehicles remain so incredibly unconnected the automobile is the missing piece in a smarter more connected world but change is coming your smarter more connected life is expanding to your car Deutsche Telekom and Modio have partnered together to give every vehicle a voice by harnessing Deutsche Telekom's leading pan-European network to connect millions of vehicles with Modio's cloud platform we unlock hidden data that makes driving safer, more reliable and less expensive through partnerships with manufacturers service providers and internet of things leaders we are revolutionizing the automotive experience soon our vehicles will communicate with each other sharing real-time data to increase efficiency and help save lives these digital conversations between vehicles, people businesses and cities will connect our world and drive it forward together we are connecting the vehicles of today for the journeys of tomorrow this is your car only smarter I'd like to introduce Keith Hawk to come join us for the CEO of Modio Kenny Hawk I'm sorry thank you so much pleasure to be here come on up I know you just recently released that video and not too long ago I went into market so give us a little bit about your journey that you've been on with your company maybe we can get a hand held up much better started in 2012 based here in Vancouver on House Street I took over a year and a half ago and the company started as a B2C company trying to sell new technology for conducted cars directly to consumers that wasn't working we shifted the business as most startups do and to B2C model and very much focus on mobile carriers and today happy announced we launched on schedule on budget with T-Mobile nationwide in November less than two weeks later launched with Georgia Telecom in Europe and we built all that on top of Microsoft Azure and in the process we grew our team from 15 people to 45 today and will be about 70 or 80 by the end of the year now what I think is so particularly amazing about your story of going from basically launching to going to a massive global system that's fairly daunting so interested in I'm sure people will be interested in what was that like and how did you have to think about that daunting or crazy maybe a little bit of both think about a small growth company deciding to launch with T-Mobile not just a few test stores but launched nationwide 4,000 locations, trained 24,000 sales people and oh by the way let's launch with another carrier less than two weeks later in Europe our investors thought we were crazy and we pulled it off you might have been crazy in fact in fact you pulled it off made you not crazy well you know when we launched I have to say we had very optimistic hopes and those were blown away by T-Mobile we blew through our projections in the first couple days our system went down to launch and have an outage in your first couple days and we had to call in all the way up to the CEO of Microsoft to come help us we said please we're going to shut down T-Mobile we need help we need an ASAP and the next day we had the A-Team from Microsoft up there Scott Guthrie, Mark Sims Mark stayed there for three days day and night almost slept at the office to get us back up and running and for a growth company to have that kind of support from a giant like Microsoft I mean to me it was unbelievable it's why I'm here today to personally say thank you for getting us back up and running absolutely and thank you for your business just thinking about what caused that from being a little startup in some level to being a global industry obviously only possible because of the cloud technology obviously I mean architect it in an efficient way but think about your technology choices we had to decide what do we do inside what's special and different and what should you differentiate on and what is just kind of context that you can buy the best from somebody else and we decided even though we're backed by Amazon it's kind of crazy Amazon's an investor and we're not built on Azure but what we needed the core was all in Azure and it was what we needed today is there we need in the future is in your roadmap and so we decided to not reinvent the wheel leverage off what you're already doing and do only the special things that are going to be differentiated from Ogeo and we also knew from the beginning we're building a global company here it's not a Vancouver company we're based in Vancouver but our customers are global so have that kind of scale was also important to us winning T-Mobile winning Deutsche Telecom winning the other carriers that were will be announcing later this year so we can focus on what we do different absolutely and one of the things we were talking about backstage is Microsoft and Deutsche Telecom also run a what we call our German cloud Microsoft did that it's run in Deutsche Telecom to offer another level of privacy for the German market and something we're both jointly working on we discovered backstage so lots of connections in the German black forest and it's really important to keep data in Europe stays in Europe data in North America stays in North America and we thought a lot about privacy and you know just to if you're wondering what we do all the car companies are advertising connected car you know to track your car bill to find your car bill to know what's going on with your car but for half a billion cars that are out there that are not connected we want a very easy way to connect them that's what we give the carriers a very simple way to connect up your car and put high speed Wi-Fi in there so when something is wrong with your car instead of just getting an orange check engine light we tell you what's wrong how important it is can you fix it later do you need to fix it right away how much you should pay for the repair and eventually insurance companies will give you a discount for having that in there and in this very near future you'll have a message at the end of a trip saying you know Julia as you're driving down the highway your car slipped around that corner it's time for new tires for your car BMW 525 I and based on how fast you drive and how wild you drive we want you to get the performance tire it's in stock at the lowest price at this shop click here to have it installed or we can come install it at your office compared to waiting till you have a flat or a blowout on the highway so saving time saving lives and proving teen drivers is what we're all about that's fantastic now you're in a very I think very exciting space and what's possible and I do feel like it's we're doing setting scene credible innovation but it's still early so what you know if you had to predict looking forward what would the few things in the future might look like well I think that in the past we've had to take care of our cars you know something goes wrong we have to take care of it in the future I think our cars are going to take care of us they're gonna let you know it's time to get new tires they're gonna find you a parking spot they might even reserve one ahead of time instead of figuring out which of the three different reward systems you use when you go to the gas station your gas is already paid for you already are getting your points and you're finding a place that has the best price and then the other thing I think about just is a growth company the biggest thing is talent and getting great talent and to hear Premier Clark talk about the things that they're doing here in British Columbia and what Prime Minister Trudeau is doing for innovation in the future I love building a company here talent is the key and getting great talent has just been awesome in Vancouver fantastic thank you so much for sharing the story and for your partnership thank you and I love it's a very real experience but to me what's possible before the cloud a small business like that would have had to build incredible infrastructure or make all kinds of different partnership arrangements now they can just do that and overnight become a global success and that to me is what again is so exciting about the technology space all up so in transition we're thinking about Microsoft in Canada specifically if you're not aware we have an incredible investment here locally and around the country and just to highlight a few but over 2,000 startups that are in our Canada BizSpark program and this is actually Modio was part of one of our BizSpark startups but investment in technology and resources and expertise to help your startup grow and take advantage of technology in the best way possible and of course it's going to be unique so they're going to be working hand in hand on what everything from that business model might look like to how you use the technology we obviously have a huge thriving partner ecosystem which is wonderful 12,000 partners across the country doing a range of things whether it be augmented reality apps to helping people run their data centers more efficiently and work and transition to the cloud in that front as I mentioned earlier we also have two data centers here in Canada an early investment we made several years ago both in Toronto and in Quebec City to make sure that if you wanted to run in the cloud in Canada and you wanted to make sure all your information stayed within Canada we made that possible for you and so something you can take advantage of along with tapping into the overall global infrastructure as well and something I'm actually personally excited about is actually that Microsoft was from a diversity and inclusion perspective we rated number four as one of the best places to work in Canada in the Microsoft Canada team so fantastic work on that front as well as Mayor Clark said more work to be done in bringing more women into technology but I love to see that progress we're making as a company but also as part of the local ecosystem here as well and we've had a long and fantastic relationship between Microsoft and the local Canadian government as well and that's part of being here today and a major investment we've made together as Premier Clark mentioned the Cascadia Innovation Corridor bringing the best of Seattle's cloud city together with incredible innovation particularly in augmented reality apps thrilled to see the new investment and tax incentives they're working around continuing innovation in that area to kind of bring those two places together across our two cities we have over 12 million citizens we can help and drive more social and economic viability for as well and one of those key investments in establishing this innovation corridor was investments in the University of Washington as well as in the University of BC to work together and collaborate particularly on social and socioeconomic issues that face collectively in that area and again we're still early on this journey and there's so much more potential in the partnership here overall but I'm thrilled to see our two cities working hand in hand to drive greater innovation for our corridor but ultimately for the world and all of the customers we serve around the globe so with that thank you very very much for having me today and enjoy the rest of the conference