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I want to start with tech. We just got finished talking about tech. You have Afro Tech, right?
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Yeah.
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So Afro Tech is a convention, right, for people that's interested in technology. People that's in technology. Right. Black people. How do you see this landscape changing as far as artificial intelligence and all of these robotics? How, how is this changing in real time and how is that impacting black people that's in technology and black people that's trying to get into technology?
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Yeah. So AfroTech started 10 years ago. You know, I started my career in Silicon Valley working at Intuit, which is, you know, a company that has huge monopoly on like TurboTax and so many other products, QuickBooks. And what we've seen over time is that these companies are very good at evolving. And a lot of companies fail, right? Like companies take a shot and then they completely fail because they didn't evolve quite quick enough. The evolution and the speed in which these companies is moving is something we have never seen before. And when it comes to labor and teams and hiring, they are not able to keep up with the pace of hiring that they need to for these technical skills because a lot of these skills take 10, 15 years to really learn. So there's this huge gap. And the reason Aperture's been so successful and why people continue to need to get into technology is because who there is a large gap in the labor market. I mean, it's one of the reasons we're in this trade wars now really. And I think for Afro Tech, you know, we have about 300 clients. These are corporate tech companies. Everyone from, you know, your intel to Lockheed Martin to Nvidia to boring B2B companies that are billion dollar companies. You never heard of like F5, run by black man, $15 billion plus revenue. Like, it's amazing the impact these companies can have. What's happening is that with AI, they're all trying to figure out what is the disruption in the industry that's going to happen. And I think that a lot of times people are getting AI wrong. Like, people are like, AI is going to take my job. It's like, AI is going to take your industry. Like, so there's not like, it's not like, oh, it's me against the person using AI. No, the whole industry is gone. What do you do when you're playing that game?
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Yeah, I think you sit at an interesting seat in this. As an event such as Afrotech gets to see a lot of the entrepreneurs inside the tech space in terms of innovation. We try to stress to people, like, we have to take part in this. We have to be part in the innovation. We have to be a part of the engineering. As you start to see businesses that are coming to the event each year, do people really, and I say people, our community specifically, do they understand the severity of what's ahead of, ahead of us over the next two to five years if we don't get this right? Because I know we will get it right. But if.
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What if we don't? You know, I think Afro Tech reaches people who are have a higher proclivity of being able to say, like, I know that there's something out there that I need to know, you know, and that's why we do events all over the country. We do happy hours all over this country. Got a happy hour tomorrow. And you, Houston, New Orleans, you know, we're trying to bring it to the people, not just have this huge mega thing that happens in Houston, which is in October this year. What I'm seeing is that people know that there's a gap between where they are and where they need to be, but they're not quite sure if they're willing to take the risk to fill that gap. You know, I think it's the same that happens in other industries where people are like 40, 50 years old and they know that these kids grew up with technology. And you kind of have to decide, am I going to try to play their game or am I going to like, lean on my leadership skills or my soft skills that can only take you so far. And that gap is really, really small with the world of AI.
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