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MEDIA RESEARCHER AND line:85% position:50% size:80% ACCELERATE KENTUCKY DIRECTOR SAM line:85% position:11% size:13% FORD.

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line:85% position:29% size:65% BUT INVESTING IN NARRATIVE line:85% position:44% size:78% DEVELOPMENT IS THE VITAL FOURTH line:85% position:17% size:43% LEG OF THE TABLE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> PIKEVILLE KENTUCKY IS A line:85% position:50% size:80% REALLY SPECIAL AND UNIQUE PLACE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT HAS HISTORICALLY A CULTURAL line:85% position:50% size:80% LEGACY OF ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP line:85% position:27% size:63% BUT ITS PERCEPTION BY THE line:85% position:36% size:73% OUTSIDE WORLD IS NOT WHAT YOU line:85% position:25% size:60% FIND WHEN YOU COME HERE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THE SOURCE IS A COMPANY THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% STARTED OUT OUT OF NECESSITY, line:85% position:44% size:78% DUE TO THE COLLAPSE OF OUR COAL line:85% position:13% size:20% ECONOMY.

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line:85% position:50% size:80% >> BEE SPEND MOST OF OUR LIFE AT line:85% position:11% size:13% WORK.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND A LOT OF THINGS-- A LOT OF line:85% position:50% size:80% TIMES WORK BECOMES OUR IDENTITY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WORK IS NO line:85% position:27% size:63% LONGER NEEDED TO BE DONE.

line:85% position:20% size:50% THAT WORK GOES AWAY?

line:85% position:40% size:75% >> IF YOU ARE A COAL MINER AND line:85% position:40% size:75% THERE IS NO COAL TO MINE, THEN line:85% position:16% size:38% WHAT DO YOU DO?

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line:85% position:40% size:75% >> I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY line:85% position:15% size:33% THIS EVENING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I'M SHELLLY ZEIGERT, FOUNDER line:85% position:50% size:80% PRESIDENT AND C.E.O.

TO KENTUCKY line:85% position:15% size:33% TO THE WORLD.

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line:85% position:31% size:68% FOUNDED IN 2013, KENTUCKY'S line:85% position:31% size:68% MISSION TO THE WORLD IS THE line:85% position:40% size:75% INTELLECTUAL REPUTATION TO THE line:85% position:15% size:33% GLOBAL STAGE.

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line:85% position:33% size:70% TIMES HAVE CERTAINLY CHANGED line:85% position:36% size:73% FROM THE START, KTW LOOKED AT line:85% position:44% size:78% COVID NOT AS AN OBSTACLE BUT AS line:85% position:16% size:38% AN OPPORTUNITY.

line:85% position:24% size:58% COVID HAS GIVEN KTW THE line:85% position:40% size:75% OPPORTUNITY TO THINK EVEN MORE line:85% position:33% size:70% BROADLY AND REACH OUT TO THE line:85% position:50% size:80% STATE TO FORGE NEW RELATIONSHIPS line:85% position:14% size:30% AND PROJECT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AFTER MEETING AND CHATTING WITH line:85% position:33% size:70% SAM FORD, WE REALIZE HOW THE line:85% position:50% size:80% FUTURE OF WORK FITS INTO THE KTW line:85% position:13% size:20% MISSION.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AS SAM SAYS, IF YOU DON'T INVEST line:85% position:20% size:50% EQUALLY IN NARRATIVE line:85% position:24% size:58% DEVELOPMENT, ALONG WITH line:85% position:44% size:78% WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC line:85% position:27% size:63% DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY line:85% position:50% size:80% DEVELOPMENT, YOU ARE MISSING THE line:85% position:25% size:60% FOURTH LEG OF THE TABLE.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% AND NOW LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SAM, AND I WILL TURN OVER THE line:85% position:44% size:78% PROGRAM TO HIM AFTER I TELL YOU line:85% position:24% size:58% A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIM.

line:85% position:29% size:65% SAM FORD IS AN OHIO COUNTY line:85% position:29% size:65% KENTUCKY NATIVE, A WESTERN line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY ALUM AND A line:85% position:24% size:58% BOWLING GREEN RESIDENT.

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line:85% position:27% size:63% WHERE HE IS ALSO AN ALUM.

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line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I NOW TURN IT OVER TO SAM.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:18% size:45% >> THANKS, SHELLY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR COMING line:85% position:36% size:73% TONIGHT SHELLY SAID MY CAREER line:85% position:29% size:65% HAS BEEN DEAD DEDICATED TO line:85% position:31% size:68% MEDIA, HOW STORIES, JOURNAL line:85% position:44% size:78% ITCH, BOOKS, DOCUMENTARY IS POP line:85% position:44% size:78% CULTURE SHAPE HOW WE UNDERSTAND line:85% position:40% size:75% THE WORLD AND WHAT WE DREAM IS line:85% position:13% size:23% POSSIBLE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% STARTING ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, I line:85% position:31% size:68% WAS WORKING ON A PROJECT AT line:85% position:36% size:73% UNIVISION WITH LABS AT M.I.T.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WE GOT INTO A CONVERSATION line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT STORY TELLING AND THE line:85% position:16% size:38% FUTURE OF WORK.

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line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT WHY ARE THESE INSPIRING line:85% position:40% size:75% STORIES THAT ARE ABOUT SHAPING line:85% position:29% size:65% THE FUTURE OF THE KENTUCKY line:85% position:40% size:75% ECONOMY SO OFTEN NOT THE STORY line:85% position:16% size:38% ABOUT KENTUCKY?

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT IS THE STORIES THAT PEOPLE line:85% position:44% size:78% TELL ABOUT US FROM THE OUTSIDE?

line:85% position:40% size:75% ALSO WHAT ARE THE STORIES MANY line:85% position:44% size:78% IN OUR COMMUNITY TELL OURSELVES line:85% position:24% size:58% ABOUT WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU CAN'T DREAM IT POSSIBLE, line:85% position:21% size:53% HOW DO YOU GET THERE?

line:85% position:36% size:73% AT THAT POINT I BECAME REALLY line:85% position:40% size:75% PASSIONATE ABOUT THE QUESTION, line:85% position:25% size:60% NARRATIVE DEVELOPMENT IN line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE line:85% position:24% size:58% ORGANIZATION ACCELERATE line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY, WHICH YOU WILL HEAR A line:85% position:36% size:73% LITTLE BIT ABOUT TONIGHT, I'M line:85% position:27% size:63% FOCUSED ON THE MISSION TO line:85% position:33% size:70% CONNECT KENTUCKIANS WITH ONE line:85% position:31% size:68% ANOTHER, INFORM ONE ANOTHER line:85% position:44% size:78% ABOUT WHAT IS POSSIBLE HERE AND line:85% position:44% size:78% INSPIRE PEOPLE TO DREAM OF WHAT line:85% position:29% size:65% THEY CAN BUILD HERE IN THE line:85% position:15% size:33% COMMONWEALTH.

line:85% position:50% size:80% ALONG THE WAY, I MET KENTUCKY TO line:85% position:13% size:25% THE WORLD.

line:85% position:27% size:63% THEIR MISSION IS SQUARELY line:85% position:50% size:80% FOCUSED ON KENTUCKY'S NARRATIVE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% FOR THOSE OF HOW DON'T KNOW line:85% position:44% size:78% THEM, KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD HAS line:85% position:29% size:65% HOSTED MORE THAN 20 PUBLIC line:85% position:36% size:73% PROGRAMS SINCE 2013 WITH MORE line:85% position:50% size:80% THAN 6,000 PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% THEY HAVE AIRED 18 SPECIALS line:85% position:25% size:60% THROUGH PARTNERSHIP WITH line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, line:85% position:11% size:10% KET.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THEY PRODUCED HUNDREDS OF line:85% position:44% size:78% VIDEOS VIEWED MILLIONS OF TIMES line:85% position:33% size:70% ACROSS DIGITAL AND COMMUNITY line:85% position:16% size:38% PARTNER SPACES.

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line:85% position:33% size:70% PROUD TO KICK IT OFF TONIGHT line:85% position:44% size:78% WITH THEM AND WITH EACH OF YOU.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I'M ESPECIALLY PROUD THAT WE line:85% position:19% size:48% ARE JOINED BY THREE line:85% position:40% size:75% COLLABORATORS HERE IN KENTUCKY line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT I HAVE MET OVER THE PAST line:85% position:22% size:55% YEARS AND HAVE HAD THE line:85% position:50% size:80% MISFORTUNE OF WORKING WITH ME AT line:85% position:21% size:53% ONE POINT OR ANOTHER.

line:85% position:36% size:73% Dr. ALLISON DAVIS IS NOT ONLY line:85% position:24% size:58% H.B.

PRICE PROFESSOR OF line:85% position:36% size:73% AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AT THE line:85% position:40% size:75% UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY AND THE line:85% position:27% size:63% EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE line:85% position:22% size:55% COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC line:85% position:27% size:63% DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE OF line:85% position:25% size:60% KENTUCKY, SHE IS ALSO AN line:85% position:50% size:80% ENTREPRENEUR HERSELF AS CO-OWNER line:85% position:29% size:65% OF LUN A'S COFFEE WINE AND line:85% position:50% size:80% BUTTERFLY CAFE RECENTLY FEATURED line:85% position:19% size:48% IN SOUTHERN LIVING.

line:85% position:33% size:70% CHARLES RUSTY JUSTICE IS THE line:85% position:36% size:73% SERIAL ENTREPRENEUR WHO SPENT line:85% position:33% size:70% HIS WHOLE CAREER AROUND PIKE line:85% position:31% size:68% COUNTY WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT, line:85% position:50% size:80% RADIO AND TELEVISION TO INTERNET line:85% position:40% size:75% INFRASTRUCTURE, ALL OF RUSTY'S line:85% position:31% size:68% BUSINESS VENTURES SHARE ONE line:85% position:44% size:78% THING IN COMMON: A PASSION FOR line:85% position:44% size:78% CREATING BUSINESSES THAT HAVE A line:85% position:22% size:55% FLACE IN THE FUTURE OF line:85% position:21% size:53% APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WHAT TO SAY ABOUT V.J., HE line:85% position:40% size:75% HAS LED INNOVATION INITIATIVES line:85% position:50% size:80% IN HIS NATIVE INDIA, INDEPENDENT line:85% position:40% size:75% NIECIA, PHILIPPINES AND ACROSS line:85% position:13% size:20% THE U.S. line:85% position:27% size:63% SINCE 2009, HE HAS CALLED line:85% position:15% size:35% KENTUCKY HOME.

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'S line:85% position:27% size:63% REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP line:85% position:21% size:53% ACCELERATION PROGRAM.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND OUT OF THAT WE HAVE FORMED line:85% position:27% size:63% THE NON-PROFIT ACCELERATE line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY DEDICATED TO UNLEASHING line:85% position:31% size:68% THE POTENTIAL OF KENTUCKY'S line:85% position:36% size:73% INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% TONIGHT ALLISON, RUSTY AND V.J.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WILL SHARE WITH YOU INSIGHTS line:85% position:27% size:63% FROM THEIR OWN REMARKABLE line:85% position:50% size:80% CAREERS HERE IN KENTUCKY AS WELL line:85% position:44% size:78% AS WHAT THEY LEARNED FROM GOING line:85% position:44% size:78% THROUGH THIS M.I.T.

ACCELERATOR line:85% position:36% size:73% FOR PLACES WITH OTHER REGIONS line:85% position:17% size:43% AROUND THE WORLD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% LET'S GIVE THEM A WARM WELCOME.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:22% size:55% >> THE FUTURE IS HERE.

line:85% position:20% size:50% IT'S JUST NOT EVENLY line:85% position:14% size:30% DISTRIBUTED.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND YOU FIND THAT'S ESPECIALLY line:85% position:44% size:78% TRUE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES WHERE line:85% position:36% size:73% WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO BASIC line:85% position:40% size:75% BROADBAND AND DIGITAL LITERACY line:85% position:25% size:60% IS NOT WHAT I SHOULD BE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THESE ARE ALL AREAS THAT WE ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% WORKING ON AS A REGION, AS A line:85% position:12% size:15% STATE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I THINK WE ARE MAKING GREAT line:85% position:15% size:35% STRIDES IN IT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> I THINK THERE IS A LOT OF line:85% position:50% size:80% POTENTIAL THERE TO BRING CERTAIN line:85% position:36% size:73% TYPES OF JOBS TO PLACES WHERE line:85% position:27% size:63% THE ECONOMY HAD FALTERED.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HAVING AND INVESTING IN INTERNET line:85% position:31% size:68% INFRASTRUCTURE AND RELIABLE line:85% position:36% size:73% SIGNALS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN BE line:85% position:40% size:75% CONNECTED AND DO WORK, CERTAIN line:85% position:36% size:73% TYPES OF JOBS FROM THE PLACES line:85% position:31% size:68% THEY MOST WANT TO LIVE WHEN line:85% position:36% size:73% THEIR HOME LIFE, THEIR FAMILY line:85% position:29% size:65% LIFE, WHAT MATTERS TO THEM line:85% position:29% size:65% CULTURALLY AND PERSONALLY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% >> THAT'S WHERE THE ECOSYSTEM line:85% position:33% size:70% CAN COME TOGETHER AND CREATE line:85% position:29% size:65% THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG line:85% position:44% size:78% BRAINS TO CHART THE FUTURE HERE line:85% position:36% size:73% IN KENTUCKY F. WE ARE PART OF line:85% position:36% size:73% THE FUTURE BEING CREATED, THE line:85% position:50% size:80% FUTURE IS NEVER A THREAT FOR US.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:21% size:53% >> HOLE OWE EVERYONE.

line:85% position:18% size:45% -- HELLO EVERYONE.

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line:85% position:40% size:75% THE PART OF THE WORLD THAT THE line:85% position:36% size:73% STATE THAT I'M FROM, HAS SEEN line:85% position:22% size:55% TREMENDOUS DISRUPTION.

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line:85% position:24% size:58% AND WE'RE ANYTHING BUT.

line:85% position:22% size:55% WE ARE VERY RESILIENT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO MY STORY IS I COME FROM line:85% position:29% size:65% AN ENGINEERING BACKGROUND.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I GREW UP-- MY DAUGHTER IS HERE line:85% position:44% size:78% TONIGHT THE FIFTH GENERATION OF line:85% position:25% size:60% OUR FAMILY TO BE BORN IN line:85% position:20% size:50% PIKEVILLE, KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% OUR ROOTS GROW DEEP AND SO WE line:85% position:16% size:38% LOVE OUR PLACE.

line:85% position:18% size:45% WE LOVE OUR STATE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND WE HAVE GREAT HOPES FOR IT I line:85% position:33% size:70% HAVE A DEGREE IN ENGINEERING line:85% position:44% size:78% FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY line:85% position:40% size:75% AND HAVE WORKED MOST MY CAREER line:85% position:19% size:48% AROUND QOAL MINING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% LOVE COAL MINING AND LOVE COAL line:85% position:50% size:80% MINERS BUT THERE IS NOT A LOT OF line:85% position:24% size:58% FUTURE IN THAT SO I GOT line:85% position:29% size:65% ASSOCIATED WITH A GROUP OF line:85% position:44% size:78% PEOPLE IN OUR PART OF THE STATE line:85% position:31% size:68% FOCUSED ON WHAT OUR OPTIONS line:85% position:11% size:13% WERE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WHERE WE COULD GO AND WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% WE COULD DO ABOUT IT AND ONE OF line:85% position:40% size:75% THE THINGS I'M REALLY PROUD OF line:85% position:40% size:75% OUR AREA IS HOW WE HAVE WORKED line:85% position:50% size:80% COLLABORATIVELY, FORMED THE SOAR line:85% position:40% size:75% INITIATIVE, WE DEVELOPED SEVEN line:85% position:50% size:80% PILLARS OF PROGRESS THAT WE WORK line:85% position:44% size:78% TOWARDS, OUR BLUEPRINT, WE CALL line:85% position:27% size:63% IT OUR BLUEPRINT FOR 21st line:85% position:27% size:63% CENTURY JOBS AND HUNT AND line:85% position:33% size:70% LEVERAGE THE BEST OF WHAT WE line:85% position:27% size:63% HAVE AND THE BEST, IF YOU line:85% position:36% size:73% HAVEN'T BEEN THERE, IS PRETTY line:85% position:40% size:75% DARNED GOOD SO WHEN I MET SAM, line:85% position:50% size:80% HE COLD CALLED THE OFFICE AT BIT line:85% position:40% size:75% SOURCE ONE DAY AND MY DAUGHTER line:85% position:31% size:68% WAS A STUDENT AT WKU AND HE line:85% position:24% size:58% IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS A line:85% position:44% size:78% PROFESSOR AND I THOUGHT SHE WAS line:85% position:40% size:75% IN TROUBLE SO I TOOK THE CALL.

line:85% position:24% size:58% SOMETHING ABOUT HIM, WE line:85% position:13% size:25% CONNECTED.

line:85% position:33% size:70% HE INVITED US OUT TO WESTERN line:85% position:33% size:70% KENTUCKY AND WE WENT OUT AND line:85% position:44% size:78% SPENT TWO OR THREE DAYS DRIVING line:85% position:40% size:75% AROUND AND LEARNING ABOUT THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% PART OF THE STATE AND WE INVITED line:85% position:50% size:80% HIM TO OUR PART OF THE STATE AND line:85% position:50% size:80% HE BROUGHT A COLORFUL COLLECTION line:85% position:44% size:78% OF PEOPLE WITH HIM AND WE SPENT line:85% position:31% size:68% THREE DAYS IN A VAN DRIVING line:85% position:44% size:78% AROUND THE MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN line:85% position:36% size:73% KENTUCKY AND WE CALLED IT OUR line:85% position:44% size:78% REIMAGINING APPALACHIA TOUR AND line:85% position:33% size:70% WE HAD FOLKS FROM M.I.T.

AND line:85% position:50% size:80% CARNEGIE MELON AND KENTUCKY HIGH line:85% position:40% size:75% SCHOOL EDUCATORS AND WORKFORCE line:85% position:36% size:73% DEVELOPMENT FOLKS AND WE JUST line:85% position:29% size:65% DROVE AROUND AND LOOKED AT line:85% position:50% size:80% THINGS THAT WE LATER LEARNED ARE line:85% position:40% size:75% CALLED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT'S WHAT THEY line:85% position:17% size:43% WERE CALLED THEN.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WE WEREN'T THAT SMART YET BUT line:85% position:44% size:78% NOW WE HAVE A $5 WORD FOR IT AS line:85% position:25% size:60% WE SAY IN THE MOUNTAINS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO WE DROVE AROUND AND WE HAD line:85% position:36% size:73% IDEAS, BOUNCED IDEAS OFF EACH line:85% position:50% size:80% OTHER BUT WHAT WE REALLY DID WAS line:85% position:36% size:73% BUILD RELATIONSHIP ACROSS OUR line:85% position:12% size:15% STATE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE line:85% position:33% size:70% LACKING IN, ESPECIALLY IN MY line:85% position:36% size:73% PART OF THE STATE, IS WHAT WE line:85% position:20% size:50% CALL SOCIAL CAPITAL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE LACK THE NETWORKS TO BRING IN line:85% position:18% size:45% THE OPPORTUNITIES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S NOT THAT WE CAN'T DO THESE line:85% position:12% size:18% THINGS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE HAVE PROVEN BEYOND A SHADOW line:85% position:50% size:80% OF I A DOUBT, WE CAN PLAY IN THE line:85% position:44% size:78% BIG LOWING-- WE CAN PLAY IN THE line:85% position:14% size:30% BIG LEAGUES.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WE CAN DO ANYTHING THERE THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE line:85% position:12% size:15% WORLD.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SO IT'S JUST CONNECTING TO line:85% position:20% size:50% THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.

line:85% position:19% size:48% AND SO OUT OF THESE line:85% position:44% size:78% CONVERSATIONS, THE IDEA CAME TO line:85% position:31% size:68% APPLY TO THE M.I.T.

PROGRAM line:85% position:27% size:63% WHICH IS AN INTERNATIONAL line:85% position:36% size:73% PROGRAM, AND OFFER THE MONTHS line:85% position:27% size:63% AND A YEAR OR SO, WE WERE line:85% position:50% size:80% ACCEPTED AND SO WE KEPT BUILDING line:85% position:31% size:68% OUR TEAM AND I WAS ASKED TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SERVE AS THE ENTREPRENEUR FOR line:85% position:44% size:78% THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, WHICH IS line:85% position:29% size:65% A GREAT HONOR AND TO GO TO line:85% position:50% size:80% M.I.T., SOMETHING I WOULD SURELY line:85% position:33% size:70% HAVE GIVEN YOU GOOD ODDS FOR line:85% position:33% size:70% WHILE A STUDENT AT U.K. THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

line:85% position:40% size:75% I SAID TO MY FRIEND EARLIER, I line:85% position:40% size:75% FELT OUT OF PLACE HERE UNTIL I line:85% position:33% size:70% FOUND OUT, I REALIZED IT WAS line:85% position:31% size:68% BUILT ON TOP OF A LANDFILL.

line:85% position:29% size:65% THEN I FELT RIGHT AT HOME.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:17% size:43% WE WERE ACCEPTED.

line:85% position:44% size:78% KENTUCKY WAS THE FIRST DOMESTIC line:85% position:44% size:78% COHORT TO BE ACCEPTED INTO THIS line:85% position:20% size:50% PRESTIGIOUS PROGRAM.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHERE WE SERVED ALONG WITH SEVEN line:85% position:27% size:63% OR EIGHT OTHER COUNTRIES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE SPENT TWO YEARS STUDYINGING line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT line:85% position:44% size:78% BUT THE IDEA WAS BECAUSE OF THE line:85% position:36% size:73% CROSS STATE COLLABORATION AND line:85% position:36% size:73% RELATIONSHIPS AND TRUST BEING line:85% position:50% size:80% BUILT GREAT THINGS HAPPEN AND WE line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVE SEEN SINCE THAT TIME, TIME line:85% position:25% size:60% AND TIME AGAIN WHERE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% RELATIONSHIPS WE HAVE ACROSS THE line:85% position:50% size:80% STATE ARE BRINGING OPPORTUNITIES line:85% position:50% size:80% AND BENEFITS TO ALL PARTS OF THE line:85% position:12% size:15% STATE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% JUST LIKE BY LEVERAGING OUR line:85% position:36% size:73% STORY OF BIT SOURCE WHICH GOT line:85% position:44% size:78% QUITE A BIT OF A TENSION IN ITS line:85% position:40% size:75% TIME, WE FORMED A RELATIONSHIP line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT EVENTUALLY, I THINK, line:85% position:36% size:73% CONTRIBUTED TO KENTUCKY BEING line:85% position:13% size:23% ACCEPTED.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SOMETHING FOR THE STATE FOR THE line:85% position:40% size:75% WHOLE STATE BROUGHT ABOUT BY A line:85% position:33% size:70% COLLABORATION IN THE EASTERN line:85% position:18% size:45% PART OF THE STATE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% SO WE JUST SEE THAT TIME AND line:85% position:24% size:58% AGAIN, WHERE IF WE WORK line:85% position:29% size:65% COLLABORATIVELY ACROSS OUR line:85% position:36% size:73% DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS, line:85% position:36% size:73% WHICH WE'LL LEARN MORE ABOUT, line:85% position:36% size:73% AND ACROSS THE REGION, ACROSS line:85% position:44% size:78% THE STATE, GREAT THINGS HAPPEN.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IT'S EXPONENTIAL THE BENEFITS WE line:85% position:40% size:75% CAN ALL GAIN FOR OUR STATE AND line:85% position:27% size:63% OUR PEOPLE IF WE DO THESE line:85% position:12% size:18% THINGS.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING line:85% position:33% size:70% THIS CONVERSATION AND REALLY line:85% position:17% size:43% HAPPY TO BE HERE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:17% size:43% >> THANKS, RUSTY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% IT'S HARD TO FOLLOW THAT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% MY JOURNEY IS QUITE DIFFERENT line:85% position:33% size:70% EVEN THOUGH WE LOOK AND TALK line:85% position:12% size:15% ALIKE.

line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:50% size:80% WE'RE BROTHERS FROM TWO PARTS OF line:85% position:17% size:43% THE STATE, RIGHT?

line:85% position:44% size:78% MY JOURNEY STARTED ON THE OTHER line:85% position:24% size:58% SIDE OF THE WORLD IN AN line:85% position:44% size:78% AGRICULTURAL AND TRANSPORT AREA line:85% position:18% size:45% IN SOUTHERN INDIA.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I WAS BORN IN INDIA, GREW UP IN line:85% position:44% size:78% PRETTY SIMILAR TRANSPORT REGION line:85% position:36% size:73% GRADUATED ENGINEERING IN 1998 line:85% position:44% size:78% JUST ABOUT THE TIME BETWEEN THE line:85% position:31% size:68% RECESSION OF 1990 AND 2001. line:85% position:33% size:70% , I WAS WORKING OUT OF INDIA line:85% position:50% size:80% WHERE IT WAS TURNING FROM HAVING line:85% position:27% size:63% NO I.T.

INFRASTRUCTURE TO line:85% position:40% size:75% BECOMING WORLD SOURCE FOR I.T.

line:85% position:50% size:80% RESOURCES FROM NOTHING IN THE 10 line:85% position:31% size:68% YEARS BY THOSE TWO ECONOMIC line:85% position:36% size:73% CHALLENGING TIMES OF 1990 AND line:85% position:14% size:28% EARLY 2001. line:85% position:19% size:48% BEING THROUGH THAT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% 2000 CAME TO THE U.S. FOR THE line:85% position:40% size:75% FIRST TIME JUST ABOUT THE TIME line:85% position:40% size:75% SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THE line:85% position:50% size:80% Y2K PROBLEM WAS ENDING AND ABOUT line:85% position:31% size:68% THE TIME.COM DOUBLE DOT COM line:85% position:20% size:50% BUBBLE WAS BURSTING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THE FUTURE WAS NOT CLEAR AT THAT line:85% position:11% size:13% TIME.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT MALAYSIA, AT THE SAME TIME line:85% position:40% size:75% IS AT THE PEAK OF ITS ECONOMIC line:85% position:50% size:80% CHANGES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE line:85% position:17% size:40% ECONOMIC CHANGE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEY'RE JUST GETTING STARTED AND line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY HAVE THE INITIATIVES GOING line:85% position:40% size:75% TO BECOME GET THEIR INNOVATION line:85% position:50% size:80% GOING SO I PICKED UP MY BAGS AND line:85% position:17% size:43% WENT TO MALAYSIA.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WORKED THERE FOR THREE YEARS AND line:85% position:40% size:75% REALIZED PHILIPPINES, WHICH IS line:85% position:50% size:80% ABOUT AN HOUR FLIGHT FROM THERE, line:85% position:33% size:70% IS NOT DOING ANY OF THOSE SO line:85% position:29% size:65% IT'S A GOOD MARKET FOR THE line:85% position:44% size:78% DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HAPPENING IN line:85% position:40% size:75% MALAYSIA, SO WENT AND OPENED A line:85% position:44% size:78% BRANCH OFFICE FOR THE COMPANY I line:85% position:40% size:75% WAS WORKING IN MALAYSIA FOR IN line:85% position:17% size:40% THE PHILIPPINES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IN 2007, DECIDED TO COME BACK TO line:85% position:29% size:65% U.S. AND CAME TO KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AGAIN, AS FATE HAS IT, 200, line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT'S THE STARTING OF THE NEXT line:85% position:21% size:53% ECONOMIC CRISIS HERE.

line:85% position:22% size:55% >> THE CAUSE OF ALL... line:85% position:36% size:73% >> SO EVERY TIME WE MOVED, IT line:85% position:29% size:65% WAS AN ECONOMIC SITUATION.

line:85% position:29% size:65% I'M GOING INTO AN ECONOMIC line:85% position:50% size:80% SITUATION, HAVE YOU NO IDEA WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% TO DO, PACK YOUR BAGS AND GO TO line:85% position:33% size:70% A PLACE WITH A 500,000 DEBT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% COMING HERE TO KENTUCKY A LITTLE line:85% position:18% size:45% BIT OF BACK STORY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% ABOUT THE TIME I WAS IN MIDDLE line:85% position:33% size:70% SCHOOL THE FOUNDERS OF LOGAN line:85% position:50% size:80% ALUMINUM, AT THAT TIME IT WAS AN line:85% position:44% size:78% COND A, WAS LOOKING FOR A PLACE line:85% position:29% size:65% TO BUILD ANOTHER CAN SHEET line:85% position:20% size:50% MANUFACTURING PLANT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY LOOKED ALL AROUND AND THEY line:85% position:40% size:75% CHOSE THE VALLEY IN THE MIDDLE line:85% position:40% size:75% OF THE FIELDS OF LOGAN COUNTY, line:85% position:44% size:78% 30 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THE PLANT WAS DESIGNED TO BE line:85% position:40% size:75% 400 MILLION POUNDS A YEAR WITH line:85% position:22% size:55% 600 EMPLOYEES IN 1985. line:85% position:31% size:68% 190 ECONOMIC TROUBLE, 2001, line:85% position:33% size:70% 2008, PANDEMIC LAIR, THEY'RE line:85% position:40% size:75% PRODUCING 2.4 BILLION-POUND OF line:85% position:50% size:80% ALUMINUM WITH 1400 EMPLOYEES OUT line:85% position:44% size:78% OF THAT ONE PLANT IN THE MIDDLE line:85% position:33% size:70% OF NOWHERE THE GROWTH IS NOT line:85% position:44% size:78% BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMPETITION line:85% position:27% size:63% OR THE PLANT DID NOT HAVE line:85% position:13% size:23% TROUBLES.

line:85% position:15% size:33% IT'S BECAUSE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS line:85% position:11% size:13% AREA.

line:85% position:44% size:78% THE STORY THEY TELL ME WHEN ANY line:85% position:33% size:70% NEW EMPLOYEE COMES TO LOGAN, line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY TELL US A STORY, AND WHY line:85% position:29% size:65% LOGAN CHOSE TO BE IN LOGAN line:85% position:17% size:43% COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% A CITY BOY LIKE ME KOALA LUMPOR, line:85% position:40% size:75% WHEN A CAR BREAKS DOWN, CALL A line:85% position:27% size:63% TOW TRUCK, SEND IT TO THE line:85% position:44% size:78% GARAGE, CALL IN AND SAY I CAN'T line:85% position:36% size:73% COME TO WORK, CAR BROKE DOWN.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHEN A FARMER OR A COAL MINER OR line:85% position:44% size:78% A TRUCK DRIVER IN THE MIDDLE OF line:85% position:33% size:70% THE DAY, IF EQUIPMENT BREAKS line:85% position:22% size:55% DOWN, WHAT DO THEY DO?

line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY LOOK AROUND FOR A BUNGEE line:85% position:25% size:60% CHORD, DUCT TAPE, GET IT line:85% position:44% size:78% RUNNING, FINISH THE DAY'S WORK, line:85% position:50% size:80% SIT THE NIGHT IN THE GARAGE, GET line:85% position:31% size:68% IT READY FOR THE NEXT DAY'S line:85% position:11% size:13% WORK.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT'S THE OWNERSHIP CULTURE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT'S THE MAKERS CULTURE OF line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY THAT'S THE CULTURE THAT line:85% position:31% size:68% MADE ME DECIDE KENTUCKY WAS line:85% position:17% size:43% GOING TO BE HOME.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THIS IS THE LONGEST PLACE I'VE line:85% position:50% size:80% EVER LIVED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND line:85% position:22% size:55% I'VE LIVED SOME YEARS.

line:85% position:17% size:43% YOU CAN SEE THAT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I BELIEVE THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF line:85% position:14% size:28% RESILIENCE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% ONE IS THE PHOENIX KIND, WHERE line:85% position:50% size:80% BAD TIMES COME AND IT RAISES OUT line:85% position:40% size:75% OF THE ASHES AND EVERY TIME IT line:85% position:50% size:80% BURNS DOWN, IT RAISES OUT OF THE line:85% position:12% size:15% ASHES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% UNDER THE DRAGON KIND, DESIGNED line:85% position:40% size:75% TO WITH STAND ANY FIRE THAT IS line:85% position:36% size:73% THROWN TO IT I THINK KENTUCKY line:85% position:25% size:60% HAS GROWTH BOTH OF THOSE line:85% position:13% size:23% CULTURES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% HERE WE HAVE BOTH THOSE CULTURES line:85% position:44% size:78% WHAT WE NEED IS A COLLABORATIVE line:85% position:40% size:75% STRATEGY GUIDANCE TO TAKE THAT line:85% position:50% size:80% AND MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT AND line:85% position:25% size:60% BE PROUD OF WHAT WE ARE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% >> AND SO THEN THE UNIVERSITY line:85% position:21% size:53% PERSON SPEAKS SO YAY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M ALLISON DAVIS, PROFESSOR IN line:85% position:40% size:75% THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL line:85% position:33% size:70% ECONOMICS BUT I'M ALSO NOW A line:85% position:36% size:73% ENTREPRENEUR, SO RUSTY, AFTER line:85% position:50% size:80% ALL THESE YEARS WOULD SAY TO ME, line:85% position:50% size:80% YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO line:85% position:18% size:45% BE A ENTREPRENEUR.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT'S JUST-- WE WOULD HAVE THESE line:85% position:50% size:80% VERY CULTURAL CLASHES BECAUSE HE line:85% position:33% size:70% IS A ENTREPRENEUR AND I'M AN line:85% position:33% size:70% ACADEMIC AND SO I STARTED MY line:85% position:36% size:73% BUSINESS FOR RUSTY SO I COULD line:85% position:50% size:80% NOW HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS AND line:85% position:44% size:78% SAY I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING line:85% position:44% size:78% ABOUT NOW BUT IT IS GREAT TO BE line:85% position:44% size:78% HERE AND I'M HONORED TO BE HERE line:85% position:36% size:73% REPRESENTING THE STATE'S FLAG line:85% position:40% size:75% SHIP UNIVERSITY AND LAND GRANT line:85% position:44% size:78% UNIVERSITY SO I'M GOING TO TELL line:85% position:40% size:75% YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MYSELF.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I'M FROM BALTIMORE, WHICH MEANS line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M NOT FROM KENTUCKY WHICH I line:85% position:44% size:78% STILL FACE EVERY TIME I GR INTO line:85% position:40% size:75% A COMMUNITY AND THEY SAY WHERE line:85% position:50% size:80% ARE YOU FROM AND I HAVE TO START line:85% position:36% size:73% WELL, I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 20 line:85% position:12% size:15% YEARS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH NO, IT'S line:85% position:21% size:53% STILL DOESN'T MATTER.

line:85% position:27% size:63% AS SOON AS I SAY I'M FROM line:85% position:40% size:75% BALTIMORE, I'M A CITY GIRL AND line:85% position:50% size:80% IT TAKES ME A LOT OF TIME TO GET line:85% position:31% size:68% THE LOVE AND RESPECT OF THE line:85% position:25% size:60% PEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I'M FROM BALTIMORE WHERE THE line:85% position:18% size:45% PREAKNESS IS HELD.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THEN WENT TO UPSTATE NEW YORK line:85% position:44% size:78% IN SARATOGA SPRINGS WHERE THERE line:85% position:33% size:70% IS ALSO A VERY POPULAR HORSE line:85% position:50% size:80% RACE AND NOW I'M IN KENTUCKY, SO line:85% position:36% size:73% CLEARLY EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT A line:85% position:33% size:70% GOOD HORSE BACK RIDER, I DID line:85% position:29% size:65% TRY, I'M TOO HEAVY FOR THE line:85% position:12% size:18% HORSES.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I DO HAVE THIS LOVE FOR HORSE line:85% position:13% size:20% COUNTRY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SO I HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 2006. line:85% position:33% size:70% I HAVE BEEN WOOED FROM OTHER line:85% position:36% size:73% PLACES GO TO OTHER PLACES AND line:85% position:36% size:73% THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY PLACE line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT CAN STAND AGAINST KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:21% size:53% I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT.

line:85% position:13% size:25% THANK YOU.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND THIS IS THE ORGANIZATION line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT I RUN IS A STATEWIDE line:85% position:15% size:33% ORGANIZATION.

line:85% position:40% size:75% IT IS LARGELY FOCUSED ON RURAL line:85% position:36% size:73% PLACES SO IN ANY GIVEN DAY, I line:85% position:50% size:80% CAN DRIVE FROM HARLAN, KENTUCKY, line:85% position:24% size:58% OUT TO FULTON KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO JUST TO GET A LITTLE AUDIENCE line:85% position:29% size:65% PARTICIPATION, WHO IS FROM line:85% position:14% size:28% LOUISVILLE?

line:85% position:13% size:25% ALL RIGHT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHO IS FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY AND line:85% position:36% size:73% I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE BORDERS line:85% position:36% size:73% BECAUSE YOU CAN DEFINE IT HOW line:85% position:13% size:23% YOU WANT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WHO IS FROM WESTERN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:27% size:63% IS ANYONE FROM WEST, WEST line:85% position:13% size:23% KENTUCKY?

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO WEST, WEST KENTUCKY IS WHAT line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY CALL ILLINOIS OR MISSOURI.

line:85% position:11% size:13% SO... line:85% position:13% size:25% [LAUGHTER] line:85% position:36% size:73% AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY, I CALL line:85% position:11% size:13% OHIO.

line:85% position:13% size:25% SO ANYHOO.

line:85% position:33% size:70% I SPEND-- I STARTED OFF AS A line:85% position:44% size:78% PROFESSOR WORKING BY MYSELF AND line:85% position:36% size:73% OVER TIME WE HAVE GROWN TO AN line:85% position:36% size:73% ORGANIZATION OF 15 PEOPLE WHO line:85% position:40% size:75% WORK ACROSS THE STATE IN AREAS line:85% position:27% size:63% OF AREAS OF RURAL HEALTH, line:85% position:29% size:65% COMMUNITY DESIGN, ECONOMIC line:85% position:29% size:65% DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP line:85% position:50% size:80% DEVELOPMENT I KNOW A FAIR AMOUNT line:85% position:50% size:80% OF YOU HERE FROM WORK WE'VE DONE line:85% position:50% size:80% IN THE PAST AND I GET SO EXCITED line:85% position:29% size:65% BY THE WORK THAT GETS DONE line:85% position:31% size:68% LOCALLY AND I AM LOYAL TO A line:85% position:40% size:75% FAULT AND IN I TIME WE SEE ANY line:85% position:31% size:68% NEW STORY THAT POPS UP WITH line:85% position:27% size:63% SOMEONE WITH NO TEETH AND line:85% position:50% size:80% MOUNTAIN DEW, IT MAKES US WORK A line:85% position:20% size:50% LITTLEBILITY HARDER.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU CAN SHIFT THE CAMERA SIX line:85% position:44% size:78% INCHES TO THE RIGHT, YOU'VE GOT line:85% position:36% size:73% THE STORY AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE line:85% position:33% size:70% INVESTED IN PRIDE AND JUST A line:85% position:18% size:45% WHOLE NEW CULTURE.

line:85% position:24% size:58% I BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% NARRATIVE IS THE WAY FORWARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND IT BREAKS MY HEART EVERY line:85% position:29% size:65% TIME THERE IS A STORY THAT line:85% position:36% size:73% PORTRAYS A RURAL COMMUNITY IN line:85% position:50% size:80% OUR STATE AS SORRY, AS HOPELESS, line:85% position:36% size:73% AS USELESS SO THAT IS MY LIFE line:85% position:40% size:75% GOAL IS TO CONTINUE TO WORK TO line:85% position:36% size:73% SUPPORT OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT NEED PEOPLE WHO COME IN AND line:85% position:36% size:73% WORK ALONGSIDE AND HELP FOLKS line:85% position:27% size:63% FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE MOVE line:85% position:33% size:70% FORWARD SO WE HAVE TRIED-- I line:85% position:44% size:78% HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT I HAVE BEEN line:85% position:44% size:78% ENTREPRENEURIAL BUT JUST WITHIN line:85% position:33% size:70% WEARING A UNIVERSITY HAT, WE line:85% position:24% size:58% HAVE JUST TRIED THINGS.

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line:85% position:17% size:40% FAILURES, RIGHT?

line:85% position:36% size:73% RUSTY, HOW MANY FAILURES HAVE line:85% position:13% size:20% YOU HAD?

line:85% position:21% size:53% >> TOO MANY TO COUNT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% >> RIGHT, BUT WE SAY RUSTY, YOU line:85% position:18% size:45% KEEP GOING, RIGHT?

line:85% position:50% size:80% BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE IS GOING TO line:85% position:44% size:78% BE THE ONE THAT TAKES US OUT OF line:85% position:11% size:13% HERE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO MY HOPE IS TO CREATE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% SYSTEMS IN THESE PLACES THAT SAY line:85% position:36% size:73% RUSTY, YOU REALLY SUCKED THIS line:85% position:44% size:78% ONE UP BUT NEXT ONE YOU'VE GOT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THAT'S NOT THE CULTURE THAT line:85% position:18% size:45% WE CURRENTLY HAVE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WE NOW HAVE THE GOSH, THAT'S line:85% position:44% size:78% REALLY EMBARRASSING FOR YOU AND line:85% position:40% size:75% WE TAKE THAT AND WE EMBRACE IT line:85% position:36% size:73% AND WE SAY WE JUST CAN'T TAKE line:85% position:44% size:78% RISK ANYMORE AND ONE THING I'VE line:85% position:40% size:75% LEARNED ABOUT KENTUCKY, WE ARE line:85% position:17% size:40% NOT RISK TAKING.

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line:85% position:50% size:80% WE HAVE GOT TO JUST TAKE A LEAP.

line:85% position:20% size:50% IF WE FALL, WE FALL.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT I GUARANTEE YOU WE ARE GOING line:85% position:40% size:75% TO MAKE MIEF HIVE WE ARE GOING line:85% position:31% size:68% TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND WE ARE line:85% position:22% size:55% GOING TO MAKE IT OVER.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% THEY CAN START NEW ENTERPRISES.

line:85% position:25% size:60% THEY CAN BE RISK TAKERS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND THEY CAN BE EMBRACED BY line:85% position:17% size:40% THEIR COMMUNITY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND ONE OF OUR BIGGEST SUCCESS line:85% position:50% size:80% STORIES IS BACK IN THE DAY, THIS line:85% position:50% size:80% IS MANY, MANY DAYS, WE STARTED A line:85% position:40% size:75% PROGRAM CALLED YELP WHICH IS A line:85% position:27% size:63% YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM.

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line:85% position:33% size:70% AND WE HAVE NOW WATCHED THIS line:85% position:36% size:73% VERY YOUNG WOMAN, AT THE TIME line:85% position:29% size:65% SHE WAS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH line:85% position:50% size:80% SCHOOL, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT line:85% position:13% size:20% PROGRAM.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SHE THEN WENT ON TO UNIVERSITY line:85% position:14% size:30% OF KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SHE NOW WORKS FOR SEDIC AND NOW line:85% position:36% size:73% JEFF YOU MAY NOT HAVE MET HER line:85% position:31% size:68% BUT SHE COMES UP TO ME WITH line:85% position:50% size:80% IDEAS ABOUT CHANGING THE CULTURE line:85% position:36% size:73% FOR YUTD AND HOW DO WE ENGAGE line:85% position:40% size:75% YUTD AND HOW DO WE GET THEM TO line:85% position:40% size:75% BE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE NEXT line:85% position:25% size:60% GENERATION OF WORKFORCE.

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line:85% position:19% size:48% THIS IS ALL I HAVE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO IT'S WORKING WITH THE line:85% position:29% size:65% YOUTH AND PROVIDING THEM A line:85% position:40% size:75% PLATFORM FOR HALVING THOSE BIG line:85% position:12% size:15% IDEAS.

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line:85% position:25% size:60% WE CAN'T THINK ABOUT THE line:85% position:13% size:25% POTENTIAL.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND I REMEMBER I DROVE OUT AND line:85% position:50% size:80% MY OTHER COLLEAGUE HAD JUST BEEN line:85% position:36% size:73% LEADING A SESSION WITH YOUTH.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND SHE CALLED ME AND SHE SAID line:85% position:40% size:75% THIS WAS THE MOST AMAZING TIME line:85% position:15% size:35% I'VE EVER HAD.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SHE SAID THE KINDS OF IDEAS THAT line:85% position:33% size:70% WERE SPEW TBRG THEIR MOUTHS, line:85% position:36% size:73% SOME WERE TOTALLY UNREALISTIC line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT THE THINGS THEY WERE TALKING line:85% position:22% size:55% ABOUT WERE THE FUTURE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO SHE NEVER GOT TO DO THAT line:85% position:12% size:15% AGAIN.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND I ALWAYS TOOK THE YOUTH line:85% position:25% size:60% SESSIONS FROM THAT POINT line:85% position:13% size:20% FORWARD.

line:85% position:27% size:63% THE YOUTH ARE THE FUTURE.

line:85% position:17% size:40% I'LL STOP THERE.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:36% size:73% >> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS line:85% position:14% size:28% NOT COMING.

line:85% position:13% size:25% IT'S HERE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THERE WILL BE THINGS THAT IT line:85% position:44% size:78% DISPLACES AND THERE WILL BE NEW line:85% position:21% size:53% JOBS THAT IT CREATES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> IN THE HISTORY OF NEW AND line:85% position:40% size:75% EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, WE USE, line:85% position:36% size:73% OFTEN WE USE STORY TELLING TO line:85% position:40% size:75% THINK THROUGH BOTH THE UTOPIAN line:85% position:40% size:75% AND DYSTOPIAN POSSIBILITIES OF line:85% position:24% size:58% THOSE NEW TECHNOLOGIES.

line:85% position:44% size:78% HOW CAN THEY TAKE ON UNINTENDED line:85% position:15% size:33% CONSEQUENCES.

line:85% position:40% size:75% HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY TURN ON US.

line:85% position:33% size:70% >> WHAT CAN WE DO TO PROTECT line:85% position:13% size:25% OURSELVES?

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> WE REALLY NEED TO BE line:85% position:25% size:60% INTENTIONAL ABOUT HOW WE line:85% position:27% size:63% IMPLEMENT TECHNOLOGY, THE line:85% position:40% size:75% UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF THE line:85% position:20% size:50% INTEGRATION OF THESE line:85% position:15% size:33% TECHNOLOGIES.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND ALSO THE POTENTIAL GOOD THAT line:85% position:14% size:30% THEY CAN DO.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:50% size:80% >> SO I THINK THE WAY WE WANT TO line:85% position:50% size:80% KICK THIS NEXT PART OFF IS IN MY line:85% position:40% size:75% ROLE, I LEAD THE CERTIFICATION line:85% position:25% size:60% FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT line:85% position:44% size:78% PROFESSIONALS ACROSS THE STATE, line:85% position:50% size:80% AND SO WE HAVE FOLKS WHO ARE NEW line:85% position:40% size:75% TO THE POSITION AND WE KIND OF line:85% position:44% size:78% GUIDE THEM THROUGH WHAT DOES IT line:85% position:22% size:55% MEAN TO BE AN ECONOMIC line:85% position:27% size:63% DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONAL.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, IT'S line:85% position:17% size:43% VERY CHALLENGING.

line:85% position:29% size:65% WE HAVE A CULTURE OF SHOOT line:85% position:50% size:80% ANYTHING THAT FLIES, LET'S BRING line:85% position:13% size:25% JOBS HERE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% I DO A LOT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING line:85% position:29% size:65% WITH COMMUNITIES AND AS AN line:85% position:44% size:78% ACADEMIC, WE DO LOVE TO DO WORD line:85% position:36% size:73% CLOUDS, AND SO WE DID SURVEYS line:85% position:33% size:70% AND WE SAY WHAT DO YOU NEED?

line:85% position:21% size:53% WHAT DO YOU HOPE FOR?

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND I DID A WORD CLOUD ONE TIME line:85% position:50% size:80% OF 1200 SURVEY RESPONSES AND THE line:85% position:40% size:75% BIGGEST WORD, THE ONE THAT WAS line:85% position:50% size:80% REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN WAS line:85% position:12% size:15% BRING.

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line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO MOVE line:85% position:13% size:20% FORWARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND SO MY GOAL, LEADING THIS line:85% position:40% size:75% EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR ECONOMIC line:85% position:36% size:73% DEVELOPMENT PROFESSIONALS AND line:85% position:27% size:63% THE WORK THAT I DO ACROSS line:85% position:50% size:80% COMMUNITIES, IS TRYING TO CHANGE line:85% position:33% size:70% THAT NARRATIVE FROM BRING TO line:85% position:12% size:18% CREATE.

line:85% position:24% size:58% NOT THAT BRINGING ISN'T line:85% position:13% size:25% IMPORTANT.

line:85% position:27% size:63% LOGAN ALUMINUM IS A GREAT line:85% position:13% size:20% EXAMPLE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% TOYOTA, YOU KNOW, KENTUCKY WOULD line:85% position:31% size:68% LOOK VERY DIFFERENT WITHOUT line:85% position:12% size:18% TOYOTA.

line:85% position:33% size:70% BUT IT'S GOT TO BE A HYBRID.

line:85% position:36% size:73% IT'S GOT TO BE A PORTFOLIO OF line:85% position:14% size:28% STRATEGIES.

line:85% position:33% size:70% AND OUR STATE HAS NOT REALLY line:85% position:29% size:65% EMBRACED BEYOND THE BRING.

line:85% position:24% size:58% WE HAVE A LOT OF RIBBON line:85% position:13% size:23% CUTTINGS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE HAVE GREAT INCENTIVE PACKAGES line:85% position:31% size:68% TO GO OUT TO, YOU KNOW, BIG line:85% position:33% size:70% INDUSTRY AND SAY YOU COME TO line:85% position:50% size:80% KENTUCKY AND THEN WE'LL GIVE YOU line:85% position:22% size:55% SOME GREAT INCENTIVES.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND WE IGNORE THE EXISTING line:85% position:33% size:70% INDUSTRIES AND WE IGNORE THE line:85% position:24% size:58% ASSETS AND THE CREATIVE line:85% position:31% size:68% CAPABILITIES OF OUR PEOPLE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND IF WE COULD JUST SHIFT SOME line:85% position:50% size:80% OF THAT INVESTMENT, SOME OF THAT line:85% position:19% size:48% CAPACITY TOWARD THE line:85% position:31% size:68% ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM, line:85% position:27% size:63% IMAGINE WHAT WE COULD DO.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND SO THAT HAS BEEN KIND OF MY line:85% position:36% size:73% LIFE LONG GOAL IS TO SHIFT IT line:85% position:27% size:63% FROM A BRING TO A CREATE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, line:85% position:40% size:75% ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW, WE HAD line:85% position:50% size:80% THE OPPORTUNITY, SAM, WHO IS, OF line:85% position:27% size:63% COURSE, THE CENTER OF THE line:85% position:29% size:65% UNIVERSE I'VE NOW LEARNED, line:85% position:31% size:68% BROUGHT US THIS M.I.T.

REAP line:85% position:36% size:73% OPPORTUNITY AND IT HAD A VERY line:85% position:50% size:80% QUICK TURN AROUND OF ABOUT THREE line:85% position:33% size:70% OR FOUR WEEKS TO TRY TO PULL line:85% position:29% size:65% TOGETHER AN APPLICATION TO line:85% position:14% size:30% PARTICIPATE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AND WE WOULD BE THE VERY FIRST line:85% position:29% size:65% U.S. GROUP TO PARTICIPATE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% I DON'T KNOW IF HE SAID IT.

line:85% position:27% size:63% REGIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP line:85% position:29% size:65% ACCELERATION PROGRAM REAP.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IT IS LED BY M.I.T.

FACULTY AND line:85% position:29% size:65% IT IS A GLOBAL INITIATIVE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% SO WHEN WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY line:85% position:44% size:78% TO APPLY, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN line:85% position:17% size:43% THE SIXTH COHORT.

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line:85% position:31% size:68% SO WE THOUGHT CERTAINLY THE line:85% position:50% size:80% STATE OF KENTUCKY CAN NEWSMAKERS line:85% position:16% size:38% A PLAY AT THIS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO MY GOOD COLLEAGUE LUKE PULLED line:85% position:50% size:80% TOGETHER LOTS OF PARTNERS AND WE line:85% position:50% size:80% HAD THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AS OUR line:85% position:12% size:18% REGION.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND I HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME-- line:85% position:31% size:68% I OFTEN LEAD THE KICKOFF OF line:85% position:36% size:73% LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY-- I DON'T line:85% position:50% size:80% KNOW IF ANYBODY HAS PARTICIPATED line:85% position:29% size:65% IN THE LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY line:85% position:13% size:20% PROGRAM.

line:85% position:36% size:73% I LEAD THE KICKOFF ABOUT WHAT line:85% position:40% size:75% DOES OUR ECONOMY LOOK LIKE AND line:85% position:33% size:70% WE ARE NOT A UNIFORM ECONOMY line:85% position:17% size:43% ACROSS THE STATE.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND SO IT IS VERY TRICKY TO line:85% position:36% size:73% THINK ABOUT HOW DO YOU CREATE line:85% position:36% size:73% POLICY, PROGRAMS, CAPITAL, TO line:85% position:31% size:68% MEET THE NEEDS OF A VARYING line:85% position:12% size:18% REGION?

line:85% position:36% size:73% I MEAN FROM NORTHERN KENTUCKY line:85% position:24% size:58% WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM line:85% position:33% size:70% SLEWVILLE TO LEXINGTON, FROM line:85% position:50% size:80% PIKEVILLE OUT TO THE MISSISSIPPI line:85% position:44% size:78% RIVER, IT'S NOT A ONE SIZE FITS line:85% position:11% size:10% ALL.

line:85% position:36% size:73% SO WE REALLY SET OURSELVES UP line:85% position:22% size:55% FOR A VERY CHALLENGING line:85% position:14% size:28% EXPEDITION.

line:85% position:50% size:80% SO AS PART OF THIS REAP PROGRAM, line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE line:85% position:29% size:65% PARTICIPATION IN FROM FIVE line:85% position:13% size:20% SECTORS.

line:85% position:31% size:68% SO THE UNIVERSITY, WHICH IS line:85% position:20% size:50% ALWAYS EASY TO FIND.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE HAVE OUR GREAT CENTER COLLEGE line:85% position:33% size:70% FRIENDS HERE WHO ARE PART OF line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:18% size:45% U.K. WAS ON BOARD.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THIS IS ALWAYS SOMETHING FUN line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT UNIVERSITIES LIKE TO line:85% position:16% size:38% PARTICIPATE IN.

line:85% position:29% size:65% SO THAT WAS TAKEN CARE OF.

line:85% position:27% size:63% SO THEN WE NEEDED TO HAVE line:85% position:15% size:33% CORPORATIONS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% SO WE WANTED TO BE OUT, WE line:85% position:31% size:68% WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE line:85% position:40% size:75% REPRESENTATION FROM ACROSS THE line:85% position:12% size:15% STATE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE WERE FORTUNATE TO FIND V.J.

line:85% position:40% size:75% AT LOGAN ALUMINUM REPRESENTING line:85% position:44% size:78% THE ENTIRE ALUMINUM INDUSTRY IN line:85% position:17% size:43% WESTERN KENTUCKY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% WE NEEDED TO HAVE GOVERNMENT, line:85% position:50% size:80% WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT-- YOU ARE line:85% position:40% size:75% GOING TO TALK ABOUT GOVERNMENT line:85% position:12% size:15% LATER?

line:85% position:22% size:55% I'M NOT GOING TO-- THE line:85% position:40% size:75% NON-UNIVERSITY PERSON IS GOING line:85% position:27% size:63% TO TALK ABOUT GOVERNMENT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% BUT WE NEED TO HAVE GOVERNMENT line:85% position:16% size:38% REPRESENTATION.

line:85% position:31% size:68% AND WE WERE AT A TIME OF IN line:85% position:18% size:45% BETWEEN GOVERNORS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% AND SO THAT MADE IT VERY TRICKY; line:85% position:29% size:65% THIS POSITION THAT WAS THE line:85% position:31% size:68% DIRECTOR OF ENTREPRENEURIAL line:85% position:25% size:60% DEVELOPMENT OR OFFICE OF line:85% position:44% size:78% ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT THE CABINET line:85% position:27% size:63% WAS VACANT AT THE TIME WE line:85% position:31% size:68% STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS.

line:85% position:22% size:55% SO WE NEEDED TO HAVE A line:85% position:36% size:73% GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE AND line:85% position:19% size:48% THEN WE HAD TO HAVE line:85% position:36% size:73% ENTREPRENEURS WHO NOW HAVE TO line:85% position:19% size:48% PAY TO PARTICIPATE.

line:85% position:33% size:70% THIS WAS NOT A FREE PROGRAM.

line:85% position:22% size:55% WE HAD TO PAY TUITION.

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line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY HAD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE line:85% position:33% size:70% PROGRAM AND WE HAD TO HAVE A line:85% position:31% size:68% CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVE AS line:85% position:11% size:13% WELL.

line:85% position:15% size:33% RISK CAPITAL.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WE HAD TO HAVE RISK CAPITAL.

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line:85% position:29% size:65% WE WENT UP TO M.I.T.

THREE line:85% position:36% size:73% TIMES, TWO TIMES, ONE TIME WE line:85% position:36% size:73% HAD TO MISS BECAUSE OF COVID.

line:85% position:25% size:60% WE SPENT A WEEK IN LEEDS line:85% position:13% size:20% ENGLAND.

line:85% position:25% size:60% BUT IT WAS JUST AMAZING.

line:85% position:36% size:73% OUR OTHER FOLKS IN OUR COHORT line:85% position:44% size:78% WERE FROM DENMARK, FROM NORWAY, line:85% position:44% size:78% FROM MONTEREY, MEXICO, ECUADOR, line:85% position:17% size:43% ITALY, AUSTRALIA.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I HAVE THE LIST HERE AND CHINA.

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line:85% position:36% size:73% AND SO IT WAS NOT WITHOUT ITS line:85% position:13% size:25% OBSTACLES.

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line:85% position:31% size:68% WHAT CAN YOU DO BETTER THAN line:85% position:12% size:18% OTHERS?

line:85% position:50% size:80% WHAT DO WE HAVE IN KENTUCKY THAT line:85% position:25% size:60% WE DON'T HAVE ELSEWHERE?

line:85% position:44% size:78% WE HAVE CERTAIN THINGS THAT ARE line:85% position:18% size:45% REALLY INVALUABLE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% A LOT OF THEM WE RECOGNIZE AND line:85% position:22% size:55% SOME OF THEM WE DON'T.

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line:85% position:33% size:70% JUSTIN HALL IS HERE TONIGHT.

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line:85% position:33% size:70% OPPOSED TO A SMALL TO MEDIUM line:85% position:14% size:28% ENTERPRISE?

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line:85% position:36% size:73% SOMETIMES THEY LOSE MONEY AND line:85% position:50% size:80% THEN THEY GO UP BUT THEY HAVE AN line:85% position:31% size:68% EXPONENTIAL GROWTH AND THEY line:85% position:24% size:58% CREATE WEALTH AND JOBS.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% AND MARKETING THEM TO THE WORLD line:85% position:29% size:65% AND DOING VERY WELL AT IT.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND SO THAT'S-- THERE IS A line:85% position:40% size:75% BUSINESS WE NEED TO GET BEHIND line:85% position:16% size:38% AND BE GROWING.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THEN WE LEARN TO THINK ABOUT OUR line:85% position:24% size:58% BUSINESSES DIFFERENTLY.

line:85% position:20% size:50% ALLISON TALKED ABOUT line:85% position:14% size:30% RECRUITMENT.

line:85% position:31% size:68% GOVERNMENT WANTS TO RECRUIT line:85% position:13% size:25% ELEPHANTS.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE NOW THINK ABOUT BUSINESSES, line:85% position:36% size:73% ELEPHANTS, GAZELLES, MICE AND line:85% position:13% size:23% UNICORNS.

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line:85% position:22% size:55% ACADEMICS WANT TO HAVE line:85% position:36% size:73% HACKATHONS AND STARTER CAMPS.

line:85% position:20% size:50% NONE OF THIS IS BAD.

line:85% position:29% size:65% IT'S JUST ONE DIMENSIONAL.

line:85% position:29% size:65% WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT OUR line:85% position:36% size:73% SOLUTION IN A MULTIDIMENSION, line:85% position:15% size:33% HOLISTICALLY.

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line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT IF WE PLANT THOSE BUSINESSES line:85% position:33% size:70% IN POOR SOIL, THEY JUST DIE.

line:85% position:29% size:65% AND THEY'RE NOT GENERATING line:85% position:12% size:18% WEALTH.

line:85% position:36% size:73% GAZELLES, ONGOING BUSINESSES.

line:85% position:17% size:40% WE OWN GAZELLES.

line:85% position:25% size:60% HOW DO WE GROW GAZELLES?

line:85% position:44% size:78% THAT'S NOT BEING THOUGHT ABOUT.

line:85% position:20% size:50% THAT'S ACCELERATION.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% WE THEY'D TO RECRUIT ELEPHANTS.

line:85% position:29% size:65% WE NEED TO HAVE START-UPS.

line:85% position:21% size:53% WE NEED THOSE THINGS.

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line:85% position:40% size:75% RUSTY SAID UNIVERSITIES, LARGE line:85% position:40% size:75% GROUP, GOVERNMENT LARGE GROUP, line:85% position:36% size:73% VENTURE CAPITAL, VERY FEW AND line:85% position:24% size:58% ENTREPRENEURS VERY FEW.

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line:85% position:18% size:45% >> HE IGNORED YOU.

line:85% position:29% size:65% >> HE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THAT'S HOW CORPORATIONS ARE IN line:85% position:29% size:65% THE ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% WE, AS, WHEN WE MET IN REAP, line:85% position:25% size:60% THAT'S THE CONVERSATION.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% AND TAKE A PICTURE AND BE DONE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE GAVE.

line:85% position:20% size:50% WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO line:85% position:14% size:30% PARTICIPATE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% CORPORATIONS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO line:85% position:33% size:70% PARTICIPATE IN THE ECOSYSTEM line:85% position:33% size:70% DEVELOPMENT AND ACTUATING AN line:85% position:13% size:25% ECOSYSTEM.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE ARE SO FOCUSED ON RUNNING OUR line:85% position:14% size:28% BUSINESSES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% THROUGH REAP, BOTH FROM OUR line:85% position:24% size:58% GROUP AND OTHER GROUPS, line:85% position:40% size:75% CORPORATIONS SHOULDN'T BE THAT line:85% position:11% size:10% WAY.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS FOR THE line:85% position:13% size:25% ECOSYSTEM.

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line:85% position:44% size:78% NOBODY IS CLEAR ABOUT HOW TO DO line:85% position:11% size:13% THAT.

line:85% position:33% size:70% DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE LEARN AS A CORPORATE TABLE, line:85% position:40% size:75% WE SAT AND TALKED ABOUT SYDNEY line:85% position:20% size:50% IS REAL ESTATE BASED line:85% position:15% size:33% CORPORATIONS.

line:85% position:44% size:78% SAME WAY NOVA SCOTIA AND CANADA line:85% position:21% size:53% IS MARITIME INDUSTRY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% WE DON'T HAVE TO LEARN FROM-- WE line:85% position:44% size:78% LEARN FROM ALL THOSE COUNTRIES.

line:85% position:31% size:68% WE DON'T HAVE TO LEARN FROM line:85% position:11% size:13% THEM.

line:85% position:40% size:75% RIGHT HERE IN LOUISVILLE, MATT line:85% position:29% size:65% IS HERE AND TAMMY DAY RUNS line:85% position:33% size:70% LOUISVILLE HEALTHCARE C.E.O.

line:85% position:31% size:68% COUNCIL THAT HAS BEEN DOING line:85% position:27% size:63% WONDERFUL-- THAT'S-- WHEN line:85% position:31% size:68% CORPORATIONS COME TOGETHER, line:85% position:24% size:58% GREAT THINGS-- THEY CAN line:85% position:14% size:30% PARTICIPATE.

line:85% position:36% size:73% THEY CAN MAKE A CHANGE IN THE line:85% position:40% size:75% ORGANIZATION BUT CORPORATIONS, line:85% position:36% size:73% IT'S HARD FOR CORPORATIONS TO line:85% position:15% size:35% COME TOGETHER.

line:85% position:31% size:68% THAT'S WHEN THE REST OF THE line:85% position:33% size:70% ECOSYSTEM HAS TO CREATE THAT line:85% position:27% size:63% COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM OR line:85% position:40% size:75% ENVIRONMENT WHERE CORPORATIONS line:85% position:21% size:53% CAN COME TOGETHER AND line:85% position:16% size:38% PARTICIPATE IN.

line:85% position:27% size:63% ACTUALLY CORPORATIONS ARE line:85% position:29% size:65% RESILIENT ECONOMIC UPTURN, line:85% position:40% size:75% DOWNTURN, THEY GO THROUGH THIS line:85% position:27% size:63% AND SURVIVE THROUGH THAT.

line:85% position:40% size:75% THEY CAN PROVIDE THAT SURVIVAL line:85% position:33% size:70% TO THE ENTREPRENEURS, TO THE line:85% position:50% size:80% RISK CAPITALS, TO THE GOVERNMENT line:85% position:36% size:73% WHERE THERE IS NO CONTINUITY, line:85% position:36% size:73% CORPORATIONS CAN PROVIDE THAT line:85% position:14% size:28% CONTINUITY.

line:85% position:50% size:80% IF YOU LOOK AT KENTUCKY, WE HAVE line:85% position:29% size:65% HEALTHCARE WE TALKED ABOUT line:85% position:14% size:28% HEALTHCARE.

line:85% position:40% size:75% WE HAVE METALS, WHERE KENTUCKY line:85% position:36% size:73% IS A VERY WIDE METALS ECONOMY line:85% position:40% size:75% METALS AND ADVANCED MATERIALS.

line:85% position:36% size:73% LOGISTICS, AGRITECH, A LOT OF line:85% position:40% size:75% INDUSTRY GROUPS THAT ARE THERE line:85% position:27% size:63% THAT CAN COME TOGETHER TO line:85% position:44% size:78% COLLABORATE AND THAT'S OUR HOPE line:85% position:24% size:58% AND STRIVING TO GET THE line:85% position:25% size:60% STAKEHOLDERS, ESPECIALLY line:85% position:44% size:78% CORPORATES TO COME AND TAKE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% PARTICIPATE ON THE TABLE, COME line:85% position:50% size:80% TO THE TABLE AND PARTICIPATE AND line:85% position:40% size:75% RAISING TIDE RAISES ALL BOATS.

line:85% position:27% size:63% IT'S NOT A ZERO SUM GAME.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WHEN ALL OF THEM COME TOGETHER.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND ONE PARTNER WE DID NOT TALK line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT, ALEX DAY, WE USE THE line:85% position:50% size:80% CONNECTIONS PLATFORM TO CONNECT.

line:85% position:36% size:73% STILL IN THE EARLY STAGES BUT line:85% position:21% size:53% BRINGING TOGETHER THE line:85% position:27% size:63% COLLABORATIVE WORK IN THE line:85% position:25% size:60% ECOSYSTEM IS WHAT BRINGS line:85% position:40% size:75% KENTUCKY TO WHERE WE SHOULD BE line:85% position:31% size:68% AND WHERE OUR MAKER CULTURE line:85% position:31% size:68% SHOULD BE IN OUR ECOSYSTEM.

line:85% position:14% size:30% [ APPLAUSE ] line:85% position:50% size:80% >> PEOPLE TALK ABOUT RESKILLING, line:85% position:14% size:28% UPSKILLING.

line:85% position:44% size:78% I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR line:85% position:50% size:80% US TO THINK CONSTANTLY ABOUT NEW line:85% position:29% size:65% SKILLS THAT PEOPLE NEED TO line:85% position:13% size:20% ACQUIRE.

line:85% position:50% size:80% TALKING ABOUT THEM ONLY WITH THE line:85% position:33% size:70% SKILLS THEMSELVES MISSES THE line:85% position:50% size:80% BROADER NARRATIVE, WHICH IS HAVE line:85% position:50% size:80% HOW DO YOU TEACH PEOPLE TO THINK line:85% position:31% size:68% ABOUT A WORLD OF CONTINUOUS line:85% position:12% size:18% CHANGE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% IF YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE THEM A line:85% position:25% size:60% SET OF NEW SKILLS BUT NO line:85% position:33% size:70% CONNECTION TO HOW THEY MIGHT line:85% position:44% size:78% ACTUALLY EARN AN INCOME WITH IT line:85% position:40% size:75% AFTER THAT TRAINING PROGRAM IS line:85% position:50% size:80% OVER, IT CAN MAKE MATTERS WORSE.

line:85% position:24% size:58% >> TRANSITIONING IN THE line:85% position:29% size:65% INCUMBENT WORKFORCE TO NEW line:85% position:33% size:70% INDUSTRIES IS A CHALLENGE IN line:85% position:12% size:18% ITSELF.

line:85% position:24% size:58% THE BIG PART OF THAT IS line:85% position:33% size:70% OBVIOUSLY HAVE YOU TO DO THE line:85% position:29% size:65% SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, SKILLS line:85% position:29% size:65% TRAINING, SKILLS TRANSFER.

line:85% position:50% size:80% BUT WHAT YOU FIRST HAVE TO DO IS line:85% position:29% size:65% CONVINCE THEM THAT THEY'RE line:85% position:17% size:40% CAPABLE OF THAT.

line:85% position:44% size:78% AND THAT INNER VOICE IS A THING line:85% position:25% size:60% YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME AND line:85% position:13% size:20% ADDRESS.

line:85% position:21% size:53% AND WE DID THAT HERE.

line:85% position:44% size:78% WE WERE ALL INTIMIDATED BY THIS line:85% position:31% size:68% WHEN WE STARTED, BUT IT WAS line:85% position:40% size:75% MOTIVATION THROUGH STARVATION, line:85% position:40% size:75% ONE OF OUR DEVELOPERS LIKED TO line:85% position:11% size:10% SAY.

line:85% position:22% size:55% SO WE FOCUSED ON THAT.

line:85% position:50% size:80% >> COAL MINERS ALREADY LEARN HOW line:85% position:21% size:53% TO MOVE MOUNTAINS AND line:85% position:14% size:28% ALIGNMENTS.

line:85% position:50% size:80% THERE IS A LOT OF MOUNTAINS THAT line:85% position:40% size:75% NEED TO BE MOVED IN TECHNOLOGY line:85% position:40% size:75% AND THE FUTURE OF WORK THAT WE line:85% position:36% size:73% ARE GETTING SO THAT MIND SET, line:85% position:50% size:80% THAT DRIVE TO MINE THINGS OUT OF line:85% position:31% size:68% THE EARTH, WORK IN A LOT OF line:85% position:50% size:80% OTHER WAYS OF MINING THINGS LIKE line:85% position:24% size:58% DATA MINING, ARE MOVING line:85% position:50% size:80% MOUNTAINS OF WORK USING ADVANCED line:85% position:14% size:28% TECHNOLOGY.