 Hello and welcome to JSA TV Live. We are the live streaming news source for DataCloud USA here in sunny Austin, Texas. I'm Keeley Dorian and joining me right now we have Kurt Friesen, he is the director of North America for the International Data Center Authority or IDCA as you might be better known. So welcome Kurt, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you so much, we're thrilled to be here. Well, we hope you're having a wonderful conference so far, how's your experience been and what really attracted you to come here today? Well, I mean, we are kind of in my backyard so that helps but there's a really great attendance here at DataCloud. I'm actually really pleased with the results so far and the turnout, the conversations. Buffy, thank you so much for the panel you hosted yesterday on diversity in the industry which is a big deal but we're at a beautiful resort and we're having a wonderful time. Absolutely, and absolutely a big shout out to our colleague, Buffy. She did a fabulous job hosting not one but two panels but let's talk just a little bit more generally about the IDCA and congratulations, I hear that you're newer to the organization so congratulations on that but what are some of the exciting things that you guys do and are working on? Sure, yeah, it's about week two for me so I'm still trying to fully grasp all of our capabilities and our reach just internationally which has been really impressive so far. I'd say right now our flagship product is our facility audits and certifications. They're really designed to identify weaknesses and the strengths of a facility as well then recommend optimum revenues for the operations and the infrastructure. We do audits on design and build and operations. We do certifications for the entire data center facility itself. We do cloud certifications and we even do certifications on the IT and the application level so pretty robust suite of services that we offer to the industry. And you've been having a lot of really great conversations lately before we sat down over here you were letting me know you were just speaking with quite a few international embassies to talk about putting together some more of those solutions internationally. Yeah, in fact, just last week I was in DC where the IDCA's headquarters is just outside of DC in Rockville, Maryland. And on Thursday we were hosted by three different embassies including Oman and Hong Kong and Malaysia and the point of that was to open a dialogue and a discussion on how the IDCA can provide some strategic consulting to assist in digital transformation for some of the developing sectors of those countries which we've done in the past as well. Definitely important conversations to be having right now is we're just diving further and further into this fourth industrial revolution so we're just excited to see what you guys do and where everything is going. Any sneak peeks of things to come on the horizon that you can share with us right now? Yeah, absolutely. So I think it's exciting to announce it that we're finally going to be doing in-person training again, I think we're pretty much out of the woods. I'd like to say. And so I've identified the markets that we're going to be doing that in over the next 12 to 18 months. The schedule will be released shortly. The markets are San Jose and Phoenix and here in Austin, we're also going to be in Chicago and Atlanta, New York and Loudoun County, Virginia. The idea also is to ideally host these trainings at Colo facilities in these markets. It really doesn't matter which ones. Ideally we want to be able to have those in the facilities so we can provide hands-on training in the data center itself. Kind of a call to action for all the Colos in those locations. Feel free to reach out to me. But you can probably expect me to be calling you within the next few weeks to discuss that anyway. So we've been forewarned. Where can people just keep an eye out on the schedule for those trainings or if they just want to learn a little bit more about IDCA, where can we go? Yeah, we'll be announcing that on idc-a.org. Other announcements to come too will be we're rolling out a membership platform over the coming weeks and I've already started planning a mega conference that's going to be within the next 18 months as well. So that's idc-a.org or Curtis at idc-a.org. Well, Kurt, thank you so much for joining us here at both at Data Cloud USA and then of course on JSA TV Live, we appreciate you being here. So thank you and thank you to our viewers for tuning in and as always, happy networking.