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I want to start with tech. We just got I think talking about tech. You have afro tech, right, So afro tech is a convention, right, or 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.
Yeah, so afrotech started ten years ago. You know, I started my career in Silicon Valley. Working it into it, 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
failed because they didn't evolve 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 ten to fifteen years to really learn. So there's this huge gap and the reason Afrotech has been so successful and why people continue to need to get into technologies because 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 three hundred clients. These are corporate tech companies everyone from you know, your Intel to Lockheed Martin to Nvidia to Boring B to
B companies that are billion dollar companies. You've never heard of like F five run by a blackman, fifteen billion dollar 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, hey, it's going to take my job. It's
like a I's 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?
Yeah, I think you said that. An interesting seat in this As an event such as athletech gets to see a lot of the entrepreneurs inside the tech space in terms of innovation. We try to stress the people like we have to take part in this, We have to be part of 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 in our community specifically, do they understand the severity of what's ahead of the ahead of us over the next two to five years. We don't get this right, because I know we will get it right.
But if what I think they're trying, you know, I think Afrotech 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 in 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 forty fifty 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.
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