 Welcome everybody to JSATV Live. We are live streaming from NTIB guys. This is the wonderful newsroom for telecom and data center professionals, JSATV Live. Today we are speaking with investors, data center platform owners, and energy specialists as they converge right here at Platform Congress along the French Riviera. All right, guys. I'm Jamie Scaracatella. Joining me today is my friend, Terry Shamayu. He is the Vice President of Cloud and Service Providers and the mayor here for Schneider Electric. Terry, welcome to JSATV Live. Well, thank you very much. It's a pleasure for me to be with you today. Really, truly. And as you said, beautiful place out here, where to be on top of everything. The French Riviera. Can you beat this location? No. No. And gorgeous September weather, literally the heart of the world. We're right here. So also we should mention you were the very opening speaker today at Platform Congress, really setting the pace for the event. Can you tell us what are the key points you hope attendees walked away with today? Well, you said it. It's very interesting actually to be to be the keynote speaker and opening that platform event. Because you're always trying to figure out whether you're going to be making the point or are you going to be clear enough? Are people ready to hear you what you're saying? Because we've all enjoyed a very nice dinner the night before. Care of Schneider. So no, in all fairness, what was important for us to share was again, the fact that in Schneider Electric, what we are extremely proud of is the fact that we're a growing tech company that our commitment to sustainability is paramount and not to be proven because that's something that we have started more than 20 years ago. And it's all about sharing what we've been through, what we see, how we anticipate that should be the new trends. We're all clear about what has to be happening and definitely focus we have to be on the climate change and do the appropriate and necessary measure. So yeah, so I was very happy to take the audience through what is super important and at the very heart of Schneider Electric. As I said, we look at it in a very holistic way of it and it's very much in our DNA. Absolutely. Schneider Electric, the DNA core values, absolutely lives with sustainability. So what are you most looking forward to this week at Platform Congress? I tend to say that a good day for me is when I get too bad a bit less silly than the way I woke up in the first place in the morning. So learning. I think that learning is the most important thing and learning not for keeping it, learning for sharing it. So my ambition, my obsession for this week is to understand, see, feel what others have gone through and for me to share 100% that what we're doing, what we've been doing and what we're actually putting in place for the future. So that sharing, that cross-null sharing, that open platform that we've talked about, yeah. And such an international stage as well. It's really quite the audience here. Look, you're right, the world is here. I was chatting with a friend of my longtime friend from South Africa. And now he's flying back and forth between the US and South Africa. I've seen people from Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, do you name it? So yeah. Yeah, and just later today, in a couple of interviews later, we'll have the chairman of IX Africa joining us as a further example of this international Congress here today. Now, there's a lot of talk on sustainability efforts within the industry. Of course, the topic, like we mentioned, core to Schneider's business. Schneider's outlined a concrete, ambitious targets for sustainable impact in support of the United Nations, sustainable development goals. Can you tell us a little bit more about this program and your company's involvement? Absolutely. So let me bounce back, baby, on something that I shared and introduced this morning during the presentation. So you were there, so you heard it. But I think that for the people listening and watching us today, I think it's very important. From the outset, when Schneider has been embarking into sustainability, for us, we've made absolutely zero space for debate on whether we should articulate that in a manner that is going to be kind of a private very linked to what Schneider does and does only. So the only way that we could have something which is going to be really impactful is to take, essentially, a size-based target, is to take on everything that, as you rightly said, the sustainable development goals that United Nations has put forward and embraced. So I mean, the six elements is 100% part of our strategy. The way we look at that strategy, by the way, is very simple or difficult, the one you want to play it. But we do believe it's very simple. It's lead by example. So it's RCO who's actually driving it from the very top of the organization and is making sure that it percolates down into the entire organization. And just to make sure that we're having, at any given time, a local field and a local implication to the community, we have divided those six major commitment into a set of 11 plus 1. The plus 1 is actually the local goal that we have into what we call internally the Schneider sustainability impact. And where we start measuring, again, on size-based targets, what we're doing, how we're doing. And this is not only limited to the CO2 emotion. We're talking about the water anyway, the wastewater. We're talking about giving a chance to a person irrelevant of male, female, young, talent, experience, sound experience people. We're also making sure that we're applying that in the way that we select our suppliers. And there is something which is very important in sustainability, which is very important around the ESG discussion, is that if you mean what you say, it means that at the point in time, you have to make a choice in your suppliers. And for us, the choice has been to explain to all of our suppliers, to all of our customers, to all of our stakeholders who we are and how we do those things. And making a choice means that we need to cut that time. So there are some suppliers that are still our suppliers because they have embraced our goals, our ambition. And that's the reason why you've heard that our ambition in Schneider Electric is to have in 2050 the entire supply chain to be absolutely carbon zero. So amazing. And so important too, as businesses are really trying to understand what their scope three emissions are, they need to understand who their suppliers are and how they're protecting and getting more green for our environment. So if you could give one piece of advice for the companies out there who are on their journey towards digital transformation. What would it be and why? Well, I would say the very key element is don't look back. There is only one thing that we're sure of about the future is that we don't know. The only thing that we're aware of, and that's what I was sharing this morning again, we're saying that we are actually that generation talking about climate change who is actually witnessing what's happening and having the opportunity to change that. The digital transformation is absolutely needed in the sense that you cannot leave with managing hardware or getting the hardware to end up managing what you're doing because you cannot react on time. You need to be capable of managing remotely. You need to be capable to understand way in advance before anything occurs. You need to be on a predictive capability. And again, I think that if you mix the digital transformation, which is inevitable, you heard me talk about the COVID-19. Some people are saying that it's what fuels some kind of recession or the trend that says that density and urbanization and so on and so forth has a direct impact on the climate change because that has not changed as a priority. But the reality is that if you go with a recession, what do you think is gonna happen? People are gonna digitalize to be capable to survive to that earthquake. So at the end of the day, your digital transformation is inevitable. Every data you're gonna create to manage your business tomorrow and not to be managed by that business has to be managed into our data centers. And our data centers have to be absolutely green because the pledge to the climate pledge and the climate change is something that we do not negotiate. So you could see that there is a very virtuous circle that we have embarked with our stakeholders, with our customers. So the one message would be don't change, I mean, or don't leave space for doubt. That's the only way forward. Make it right, so make it green and make it with us. Yes, yeah, think forward. Think forward as my husband likes to say. Think green, think Schneider. Exactly. All right, so where can our viewers go to learn more? SchneiderElectric.com? Twice. One for you, one for where there is. I love that, I love that. Thank you so much for your time here today. Thank you very much, thank you. For your wonderful keynote inspiring us all. Thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV Live. And as always, stay safe, stay green and happy networking.