 Welcome to JSA TV live the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals I'm Barb Mitchell coming to today live from PTC 2023 in Waikiki, Hawaii Beautiful place to be joining me today is Bill Klayman. I'm Mason's advisory board member and group leader for Millennials and Gen Z. Yeah, got that right? Yeah, and also general friend to JSA friend to the industry Friend all around so we're happy to be chatting with you today. I am Clearly so happy to be here and hey everybody watching you're live with us here at PTC, but you're not here with us in Hawaii It's really warm. If you're anywhere really cold right now. We are doing our best to project Project the sunshine at you. I'm so sorry. It's really nice outside But we're inside but it's nice outside. Yeah. Yeah Um, yeah, so thank you and so let's talk about the event I saw you the other night at the I Mason's event You had just come from I know that they did a special event for for veterans And then we were able everyone sort of friends by mason's were invited to join saw you there What tell us what what happened? So I've been here since Friday and Remarkably, it's been kind of non-stop already We had a really wonderful infrastructure mason's armed forces event where it was it was full I believe we were represented by almost every single branch of the military and some international folks as well and The message was really special barb and everybody listening if there's vets out there as well You know, we're gonna cover a lot of topics here But you know use us as a resource infrastructure mason's my name is Bill claiming you can find me on LinkedIn We talked about transitioning soldiers into our industry and just how much Barb how much their skill set Directly impacts what we do in our in our space. I mean these people can perform under pressure They can do extraordinary tasks. They can they can literally impact digital infrastructure And what our job our goal was to help transitioning soldiers our active duty personnel and military spouses See how and what they can do in our industry and we had like an hour presentation We talked about the jobs that they could do and then honestly the best part was the networking We had a chance for like two or three hours We had a whole bunch of leaders coming into our environment our in a little little gathering And we we spoke to these soldiers some of them were out in a few months One of them came up to me is like I'm out in three years. How do I get started? What sort of vacations do I get brilliant? And I mean those conversations are so meaningful You can have them online, but when you start to do them interpersonally and again If you know a soldier if you know a friend if you know a military spouse This industry needs you because we're growing as you know. Yeah, so brilliant actually I love the work that you know, you're doing in cooperation with with I masons with infrastructure masons It's just touches so many Parts of our industry for the industry from the industry and for the world actually in a lot of ways Speaking of for the world That's my segue Thank you for the pin. Yeah, and I was in a selfie with you the other day. Tell me about your selfies Wow. All right. So so I've I've It's funny I don't know how to start these conversations because they're always a little bit weird, right? So I was introduced as Bill claiming remarkably. That wasn't really by name when I was born as Vitaly Vitaly, you're rich. Nice to meet you up And we came to the United States nearly 90s I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and so we have we have friends We have family still there and we have very very dear friends who are on the front lines and fighting and You know risking the lives to have a free independent and democratic Ukraine and so I like to take pictures I like to take selfies and it is it's cheesy. I know it's cheesy But in this sense, we're doing something special something selfless Selfies for Ukraine so for every single selfie that I had a chance to take here and a couple other people contributing as well We're doing $20 to the Ukrainian armed forces and this this thing is taken off this hashtag selfies for Ukraine We have enough to actually now not just support some of our armed forces friend We're actually gonna have enough to buy one of our medic friends a medic medevac van Oh, this was damaged and so now you can actually not an ambulance is literally just a get soldiers off the front line So if you if you find me here at PTC or anywhere else, I'm giving out these really cool Ukraine pins all you got to do a smile that that's all you have to do Yeah, I think we're at like 80 or 85 selfies. It is a personal best. My phone is like bill You need to chill out man, right? But it is very special and it means a lot and it's just getting the message out and it's very easy to participate and Thanks for bringing it up Bob. I really appreciate it. Well, and what about the people we already? Sadly mentioned that not everyone could be with us here today So what if someone wants to do a selfie and they're not in Hawaii then what you know what? Since this is live and I know since I'm gonna bounce off of this thing and my phone's gonna light up if you use the hashtag Selfies for Ukraine. I am monitoring it if you get out there and you just take a picture and you put that hashtag out there It will count towards towards the total. You don't have to be here with us there's no cap take some selfies tag yourself send it to me and You're doing something really really special for my home country and just and just thank you. Yeah It's such a great initiative again. You have so many so many. What's next? What's next for this year for? I don't know that can there be more can there mean was I think it's always more So I just had the chance to to leap switch my my former company on January 1st It was a great departure and you know the company was it was acquired and now they're off in a new direction It gave me the opportunity to take a deep breath. Yeah, which I have not done a good job of I'm Totally not taking any time off I'll tell everybody something special I'm working on it's a Ukrainian company that does machine learning ML Ops And they're the only organization that does data modeling and training a hundred percent sustainably on Sustainable infrastructure, but also environmental reporting that can so that that's that abides by EU and United States standards and They're a Ukrainian company and so what we're doing right now is we're helping bring that business here because a lot of the revenue Was with with Russia? So it's a big big part of the project that I'm working on helping bring jobs back supporting wonderful people throughout the country That's a part-time thing. I'm really excited about that as far as everything else We're gonna be working with I mason's gonna be working still in this infrastructure industry And we're gonna be doing some really fun events at data center world for example look for some fun reports You can tell this isn't even a coffee talking like there's just so much happening. Yeah, I'm gonna do a shameless plug Hang on and then we've also got this really great book here greener data, which is an Amazon bestseller I think my chapter is chapter 12 if I'm not mistaken He might be right and I talk about Ukraine and am I upbringing there a little bit and how I got into technology And how that actually the nexus of it started in an apartment in Kiev with a telegraph machine You have to read the book for more though. I'm not I'm not gonna give it away. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for me I'm glad you brought that up for anyone who hasn't already read greener data Don't forget to get a copy. Yeah, actually good read. It's a good read and thank you for being part of that It's been amazing. And so, you know, we look forward to hearing more as the as the year unfolds and see how these projects are You know developing for you and and all the great updates. I'm sure we'll touch base again. It's PTC 2024 probably many times before then but thank you. Thank you so much for joining us today. We've a It's my pleasure Barb. Thank you for having me here This industry is not slowing down for everybody watching I think if I was gonna give one theme away from this PTC conference is just Unrelenting growth look at how connected we are and coming out of obviously 2020 our digital environment digital infrastructure It's just mind-blowing and it's not gonna slow down and that's been the theme of this entire conference Is how do I keep up with digital demand and it's just extraordinary here these conversations? Yeah So true so great. Thank you. Thank you and thank you for your energy and for my pin again I really appreciate it. My pleasure. Yeah, and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV here Coming to you live from PTC 2023. Mahalo