 Thank you. I am grateful to be here today. I came here from New York and I Wanted to to use an opportunity here to encourage all of you to To understand that nothing is impossible. I I got involved in the communication industry simply by by an accident That in fact I am a misfit I don't know how many of you realize that if you're an entrepreneur that you have your own ideas that sometimes You get things way before anyone else does that you may not belong in a large organization because you have to create your Own companies you need to actually find a way for your voice to be heard as a kid growing up What I discovered Was that my passion to communicate enabled me to help change the world? But I didn't know what I was doing as I was doing it But I allowed my curiosity for communications to take me through things For example when I was nine years old, and I know but any of you have ever been lonely ever felt really by yourself But that was me and it was my uncle who took me to his office on Long Island Who demonstrated which today would be an old technology known as amateur radio or ham radio? But my uncle brings me to his office He shows me his shows me around and he had this object on his desk That he flipped a switch and these tubes that the radio lit up literally there were radio tubes inside And he spoke a very cryptic language because he was dialing around and he was finding I heard noise He heard voices and he simply put out this call. He said CQ CQ This is K2 QQ. I'm calling CQ says it for about a minute Let's go with a microphone and for the next hour I was mesmerized and my uncle was talking to people all over the world Saying his name is Fred. He's in Farmingdale, New York and giving a signal report of how strong the people were and As I'm doing that I'm listening to my uncle speak and I realize that my uncle has the cure for loneliness And all I had to do was take that radio out of his office put in my bedroom And before I wake up in the morning as I wake up in the morning before school and after school I could have friends but the catch Was that I had to actually teach myself Morse code College level physics and the rules and regulations to be an amateur radio operator So it I didn't actually get my license when I was nine It took till I was 12 and a half to get my license to communicate But I've ever since I've had that license. I haven't shut up and That opportunity to connect with the world is how I have lived my life. I grew up on the radio I grew up connecting people and it was obvious for me that to be able to connect a telephone to a radio was a good thing People would reach out to me from across the States I grew up in a time when long distance actually cost something so that if you're calling from from Finland to New York It wasn't pennies it was dollars and so as a courtesy on as amateur radio operators do somebody would call in and I would patch the radio together 20 years after being a ham operator. I found myself online on the internet I downloaded some software in February of 1995 called internet phone In fact the iPhone wasn't born in 2007 from Apple. It came out of Israel in 1995 the internet phone was the first product that successfully allowed us to connect and communicate around the world But the weird part was you didn't you did not need a radio? You needed a computer need a connectivity and 20% of the people who are online were using their ham radio call sign as their identifier So it was a very awkward way to communicate But six months into this project I started a mailing list and someone asked is it possible to interconnect a telephone in a computer being a ham operator with My phone patch it worked a month later in October 1995 I launched a project on the internet called free world dial-up. It was free It connected the world and it ran on dial-up and to this very day It was the first thing that one of the first communication projects that everyone viral on the internet by November 1995 We had hundreds of people and ultimately thousands of people offering free phone service around the world that brought six months later 300 phone companies to the Washington trying to stop everything happy to say that we created I created a trader organization that allowed it to actually Flourish that we were able to say no to people trying to disrupt us And that's what I learned that you can dream and you can do things That if you don't know you can't do something anything becomes possible for you to do it and that the future It truly is unwritten that it's not that you're qualified to be an entrepreneur. You're not qualified to be a disruptor you are And your ability to change the world is only bound by your imagination Everything can happen in front of you. It just depends upon how you want it to happen I'm very fortunate that over the years that my passion to communicate enabled me to do all sorts of other exciting things These days I focus on the intersection of messaging artificial intelligence Chatbots and I worry about where the future is going but I also am positive about it I have a positive slant that in the future things could be better not worse That imagine artificial intelligence that brings love into your life I'd like to show you a one-minute video if I it's queued up in the back called GPS If you could go to the video, please No, no, no, no, no, let the nice man clean your window Give him the 50 Yeah, okay in 100 meters turn left in 50 meters turn left Call your mother Mom the GPS is telling me what to do How's dad stop the car take off your shoes and socks tomorrow take the day off work I can't I can't take the day off work. I'm just too busy reached your destination See he found his destination So that's an example that was built that was that filmed in 2010 that was an idea that was before Conversational interfaces became popular But the idea that we could add artificial intelligence to our lives in a meaningful way and actually help connect things I mean look the more The more virtual we become I think we have a much stronger need ever to be face-to-face with people There's something about the power of a hug and this interactive Interaction that cannot be replaced with any other technology other than people the ability for us to connect on a meaningful Levels is going to be restricted only by how we're able to create communication systems that connect to us and for all the fancy Messaging services that are out there today. What I find absolutely crazy is how hard it is to communicate with people because these days Am I gonna be on telegram? Am I a messenger on my whatsapp? Is it gonna be SMS? Is it gonna be email? It's gonna be Facebook. You just don't know we have too many methods to communicate two different ways to actually do things But you know unfortunately for us for least as far as I can tell email is a cockroach the internet It does not die people in trying to get rid of it for 40 years It seems to persist it seems to continue in our lives So for all the other communication systems out there don't give up on email will not give up on itself When I look at our ability to make things happen though I do think I do take things personally I do believe that it's our responsibility to stand up and do what we feel is right and it's your responsibility To stand up for your dreams when I was discovering voice over IP I was working in Wall Street and I shared with friends the idea is to have web-based email But someone said that was a stupid idea so I didn't pursue it I had an idea that I should do broke that I should do a mortgage brokering on the internet Another friend said that was a stupid idea. I shouldn't do that and what I realized that I had to find new friends That that I had to find people that didn't put me down Even if I wasn't being understood that I had to encourage myself to actually find a chance to be in to be an innovative and so I am But it takes a lot of strength and a lot of courage But sometimes it's ignorance that is bliss because if you're not bound by what you can't do anything and everything is possible That when you're sitting here thinking about the dreams that you have or how to pursue it Don't let anyone get in the way of your dreams including yourself You need to understand that you need that there's a strength you have inside of you that gives you an idea What to do every day you may choose to go in one path But when you wake up and you find your center and you realize how how short life really is and how many years Do you want to spend doing someone else's dream want to spend that time pursuing your own? I've recently had some life experiences that really allow me to appreciate the moment and appreciate every breath and every Every chance to do things that that I'm passionate about so I I do travel around the world I do photograph the Milky Way because there are times when I'm looking up at space And I realize how small we are compared to the rest of the galactic universe is out there But I could find the time and just relax and to look up at the stars and try to Understand maybe there's something else that's happening around us Sometimes I get inspired. I know about you though the best ideas for startups. I ever get wasn't a shower I never quite figured out in America. Why is it that if I get these ideas for startups in the shower? I go to work. They're no showers. Like why do I have to go to work to work? Why can't I actually go there to dream? But one maybe one day we'll figure that out. Maybe there are other cultures where you can shower work, and it's cool But for me, it's the inspiration comes from working with people that get it They'll allow you to be a misfit allow yourself not to fit into anything else, but to be yourself Personally, I like the number dictatorships Those are companies that I run based on my rules because when you're an entrepreneur you get to set the culture that works for you And so it's one of the biggest benefits too is to be able to be disruptive to allow yourself to find that path That allows you to figure out what you want to be if any of this is is interesting to you Feel free to disrupt me. You could find me on Twitter at HF pulver I'm also on Instagram and if any of you need any any advice, don't call me But my number is plus one five one six three one two three two two seven you could find me on telegram You could find me on SMS I'm happy to help. I'm trying to encourage as many people around the world today To stand up and find their dreams and to understand the future is in your power It's it's only that we look to you to bring the next generation of innovation into this world Thank you very much