 From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of PegaWorld Inspire, brought to you by PegaSystems. Hello everybody, this is Dave Vellante and welcome back to our coverage of PegaWorld Inspire 2020. This is the preview show and you're watching theCUBE. Stephanie Lewis is here. She's the senior director of community and developer relations or programs actually at Pega. Stephanie, good to see you. Thank you so much for having me Dave. I'm very happy to be here today. Yeah, so, you know, let's get into it. I infer from your role that obviously all about community, which is critical, developers are all about community, but talk a little bit more about kind of how you spend your time. Sure, so I am really excited about my role. I've been here for a year and a half and I transitioned from the product world. So I really understand what developers need and how they use the product. And if we have jurors, but developers don't know how to use them, that it's kind of pointless. So I am truly passionate about ensuring that every individual understands how to use the product and feels inspired to use the product and then also gives back to the community and builds a better ecosystem, helping everyone around them to build better software. So product knowledge obviously crucial in this role, but developers, they want access to the tools that they want to be productive. So tell us more about what you're finding that developers need. It's a just in time type of situation. So I'm going to plug my own agenda here as well, in addition to Pegor World, but we're launching a brand, Pegacombo, which is where our developers get enabled and we are supporting the just in time. So we have the curated learning paths because picking your journey and your career path is critical, like where do you want to go? What credentials do you want to have? What jobs do you want to have? That's absolutely important, but when you're on the job and you have a question, how do I do this? Or when do I use this? That's absolutely just as important. And I want to ensure that everybody can easily do that when they need it. So Pegor World's big show, we had Alan on recently, we're talking about, I mean, I said to him, you're going to miss doing your keynote because he's such a great speaker, but you're also involved in the keynote. You're going to be interviewing Kareem, who's the head of products, and you guys are going to be digging into that, obviously with your product background, but set that up for us. What should we expect? Sure, so there's a couple of sessions I'm going to highlight. One is Kareem is one of the biggest highlights, in addition to Alan with the keynotes at the in-person Pegor World, and we're going to continue that in the virtual aspect. So he's going to have his own standalone keynote, highlighting the product capabilities that people need to be aware of as they're enhancing their own digital transformation. And right now, we're in a disrupted world. So he's going to talk about how our three key themes of our products can really help companies not only adjust to the current environment, future proof. So he'll talk about those themes, he'll bring a customer on stage to talk about how they have used those, and then he'll also give a demo of the latest capabilities. So that's at the beginning, and then at the end, I will be able to come on and put him on the hot seat. So I'll ask him about the product roadmaps. I'm going to take questions from the community to be like, hey, Kareem, the community is asking about this, what do you think? And then we'll take questions live that he'll have to answer live during that session as well. And of course, the thing about Pegor World is it's got a lot of customer content in there. So I presume you're going to have some customers, some clients interacting as well. That's true, yeah. So not only in the keynotes, but we bring customers on to talk about their stories and put the theoretical product capabilities to life with how they've used those. But then we also have, we've taken the tech pavilion, which is kind of where you go around and you see the different product capabilities, but we will have customers that are part of that as well as part of what are the breakouts, where they will be telling their story and talk about how to take in digital transformation and turn their business around. Love it, a lot of product talk, architecture, roadmap, showing off a little bit of the future, that's fantastic. So talk to me like I'm a developer. Why should I go to this event? What's in it for me? So I think it's always important to understand the trends, right? As a developer, if you just take what someone tells you as a requirement and you just go code that, then you're not a true engineer or an innovator, right? It's in the problems that you're solving. So I think that is something to take to heart and that is something that you'll truly receive by coming to Pegarol and hearing the end-to-end story. In addition to that, this tech pavilion that we've turned into the Innovation Hub is more than just looking at recorded demos. You'll be able to participate with product experts live coding and ask them questions. So you'll see them build an application or build a chatbot or utilize a feature and ask them questions, Twitch style. You're actually to participate and then take that back to your job the next day and utilize those new capabilities and the innovation that we're able to show you with this new virtual event. So Stefan, I got to ask you, you mentioned requirements docs and a lot has changed there, right? I mean, it used to be, you'd have these big tomes and you'd hand down the edict from the business. Talk about how that whole dynamic has changed. It has changed quite a bit with the PEGA platform and the technology that we have across our products because it's not just a, like you said, it's the edict that you hand down and the developers just implement and don't ask the why and then don't get the opportunity to think about how to better that. So all of this has done now within the technology itself. So nothing has lost. And as you start to iterate on, why are you doing this? How is this good for the customer? What performance improvements or what are you trying to automate and better? All those questions are answered and then can be put right in there and allows developers with their own innovation into the why and the how and the what, which I feel like will end up as a better result for the end customer and their end-to-end experience. So maybe this is a sign of progress. It would be something to be optimistic about because six weeks ago, we started with COVID. That's all we talked about. Now we're going to end with COVID. I wanted to ask you about the whole work from home and remote workers. Developers are collaborative. They do a lot of whiteboarding. So how have you seen developers sort of responding to this pandemic and what kind of things are they doing to actually maintain that productivity and that collaborative spirit? So I've seen a couple of things there. One is utilizing some of the frameworks that we've put out for like the starter of some of the COVID tracking apps. We've put some of those out on our marketplace. So businesses, we've had several businesses use those and go live really quickly to just help respond to the pandemic and operate and track the safety of their employees. And developers then have taken that in addition to what they need to do to progress their career. So they've used that, then they've used our academy to continue their enablement as well as the collaboration. So we've got a great forum, a very active forum where people are able to post questions and answer them and stay connected in this virtual environment. We've increased webinars. We just launched a virtual hackathon. That's focused around doing good. So it's not just about a hackathon to prove your skills and win the prizes but we want to focus on how are you in the world respond to the situation. So we're trying to intertwine all of it because I think I truly believe that every person not only wants to progress their own career but also give back and do good. And if you combine those two together that's how you achieve the optimal results. Stephanie, how about new developers coming into the PEGA? Community platform, what's that like? What's that experience like? Can you update us on that? Yeah, I'm glad you asked because we just launched some very new, like I'm new to PEGA, what do I need to do? So we've got the curated courses which we're gonna call missions around those but we also have a trial. So if you just want to figure out and get your feet wet you're not quite sure what this PEGA thing is sign up for the trial and then we have guided tours. So it shows you what the different capabilities are and really guides you through that experience. And then if you are experienced you can skip those tours and be like, nope, I know what I'm doing. I just want to dive in. But for those new people we have those curated tours so you're able to orient yourself and be more comfortable before you start to play around. How functional is that? I mean, a lot of the sort of trials are neutered or can I get the full picture or how does that work? Absolutely, I think that's a really good point is that we don't handicap anyone. Like there's no limited functionality if you want the trial, you want to figure out app studio and have that guided experience, you can do that. If you want to unlock all of it, just go wild and play with all of it, you can do it. It's limited 30 days, you want to renew it, go ahead. But we don't restrict any of that because we want you to get access to the capability so that you can do your job better and that you learn the true power of the technology. Well, we're excited for PEGA World 2020. It's on June 2nd, starts at 9 a.m. East Coast time. So just Google it and go sign up. This automation economy, it's going to kick in in a big way, already has actually, but it's going to accelerate in this post COVID era. Stephanie, thanks so much for coming to theCUBE and give us a preview of PEGA World Inspire 2020. Thank you and I hope to see you there. All right, you will. And thanks for watching everybody and we'll see you at PEGA World Inspire 2020. This is Dave Vellante for theCUBE. We'll see you next time.