10 Ways to Become Event Tech Savvy

[00:00:00] As somebody who owns an event agency and plans events all over the globe, you want to know what's tough, Tess?

[00:00:07] What is tough, Keith?

[00:00:09] Finding people who are tech savvy.

[00:00:12] Why?

[00:00:14] Well, I don't know why, but if you're a planner and you want to get tech savvy, it will actually make you more employable,

[00:00:22] which then you can do your job when you want, where you want, how you want.

[00:00:26] And this is how you get there.

[00:00:29] You're listening to The Event Tech Pull Up, the show that brings you the good, the bad, and the ugly of event technology,

[00:00:36] with your hosts, Tess Vismale of iSocialX and Keith Johnston of i3 Events.

[00:00:42] All right, so that was a little bit overly dramatic.

[00:00:48] It's okay.

[00:00:48] But it really is true, right?

[00:00:50] You know, every time I'm talking to planners and you talk to them about software or maybe even things at the production table,

[00:00:58] you know, generally they're so focused, planners are so focused on planning the event that they don't learn all of the ancillary stuff that go into making an event happen.

[00:01:10] Right?

[00:01:11] And I think it hurts them a lot because they can't live up to the full potential of what they could do.

[00:01:23] And I understand tech is hard.

[00:01:25] I get it.

[00:01:26] It is.

[00:01:27] You know, but I think that, you know, using these itty-bitty little 10 tips that we have would actually, you know,

[00:01:37] if 10% of planners pay attention and actually implement, like, even half of these tips,

[00:01:44] you know, they are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the workforce, right?

[00:01:48] And I would love that, right?

[00:01:51] When I'm out looking for people to help at my events, work at my events, or my clients are looking for someone to be in-house,

[00:01:59] you know, these are the types of people that are needed.

[00:02:02] Yeah.

[00:02:04] I agree with you, Keith, because now the needle has moved around what the baseline knowledge should be.

[00:02:11] And I think that has only been fueled by two major things, the introduction of COVID that paused us,

[00:02:23] as well as now, what, three and a half years later, the boom of AI.

[00:02:32] Yeah.

[00:02:33] So those are the two things that have moved the needle that have raised, again,

[00:02:36] the baseline of what everyone should know, let alone just meeting professionals.

[00:02:42] Yeah.

[00:02:42] And back in the day, you know, when people would post, you know, a job description or whatever,

[00:02:48] and it always say, must have working knowledge of Word and Excel,

[00:02:52] you don't even put that in there anymore because it's expected.

[00:02:56] Yeah, it's colloquial now.

[00:02:57] That you know Word and Excel.

[00:02:58] It is.

[00:03:00] But there are so many more software products.

[00:03:03] There are so many more hardware products.

[00:03:04] It's everything out there now.

[00:03:06] Like, there is just so much tech.

[00:03:09] You know, how can planners get better?

[00:03:13] How can they learn that tech?

[00:03:14] What are some of the things that they can do?

[00:03:16] Well, number one is set small and achievable goals.

[00:03:20] And this was a hard one for me.

[00:03:23] Why?

[00:03:24] Well, because I'm one of those people where...

[00:03:25] That's CMP 101.

[00:03:26] Well, because whenever I adopt a new software tool, I try and learn it all.

[00:03:32] And it was when I started learning video editing that I said, oh, you can't do that.

[00:03:39] Right?

[00:03:39] Because there is so much to it that it's like it would take years to learn how to do everything in a video editing booth.

[00:03:47] So I concentrated on two things.

[00:03:50] Cutting clips and rendering the video.

[00:03:53] Basics.

[00:03:54] Yep.

[00:03:54] Just very simple.

[00:03:55] And you need that for anything.

[00:03:56] The tops, the bottoms, and that's it.

[00:03:58] Right?

[00:03:58] Yeah.

[00:03:59] So is that...

[00:04:01] Give me an example of how that's helpful across the board.

[00:04:07] Because the way that I kind of think about it is video is queen.

[00:04:13] It doesn't matter what it is, whether you're doing it for social media, you're doing it, you know, webinars,

[00:04:18] any of the things that you're doing, or even your full live events that video is there.

[00:04:22] If someone knows how to do the top and bottom and render, that's the basic.

[00:04:27] And then they can move from there.

[00:04:29] Well, yeah.

[00:04:30] Because...

[00:04:30] And what I did, you know, because I would import a video.

[00:04:34] Right?

[00:04:35] That's what I learned how to do.

[00:04:36] And then I learned how to cut it.

[00:04:38] Mm-hmm.

[00:04:38] Right?

[00:04:38] Because that's very basic.

[00:04:40] And then remove that cut so that the, you know, so that that piece was gone.

[00:04:45] And, you know, that's an acceptable video.

[00:04:49] Right?

[00:04:49] The basic cuts will get you to the end product.

[00:04:52] And then once you're comfortable with that, you start going, well, I would love to have a transition in that video.

[00:04:58] Right?

[00:04:59] And so then you learn the transition.

[00:05:00] Right?

[00:05:01] And at first for me, it was just fades.

[00:05:03] Fade in and fade out.

[00:05:04] Right?

[00:05:05] And then you start to, that it was, let's add some music.

[00:05:08] Yes.

[00:05:09] Right?

[00:05:10] And when you look at a tech tool like Cvent, it's a massive product.

[00:05:15] It's huge.

[00:05:16] Right?

[00:05:17] And I think that if planners who don't know Cvent go ahead and set up an account and just go learn where everything is.

[00:05:25] You don't need to learn how to use it.

[00:05:27] Just know, oh, click here.

[00:05:29] Oh, that's where the emails are.

[00:05:30] Oh, this is where you put custom registration questions.

[00:05:33] Right?

[00:05:33] You don't necessarily have to know how to use it all, but you need to know where it is.

[00:05:38] Anyway.

[00:05:39] There you go.

[00:05:40] Well, that's going to take us into number two.

[00:05:42] Which is?

[00:05:44] Which I'm going to cue.

[00:05:45] You know, we'll put a link to the clip, but if you watch Ted Lasso, you know, the darts, the dart scene where he was playing darts.

[00:05:54] And he said, you know, be curious.

[00:05:58] Right?

[00:05:58] Right?

[00:05:59] And the other guy wasn't curious and didn't ask Ted Lasso if he knew how to play darts.

[00:06:04] And so Ted kicked the guy's ass.

[00:06:06] So, but that's really important.

[00:06:11] Right?

[00:06:12] And, you know, enroll in relevant courses.

[00:06:14] Right?

[00:06:15] There's a million of them out there on how to do.

[00:06:17] And this isn't necessarily all about event technology because there's a lot of technology that powers events.

[00:06:22] Right?

[00:06:23] So if you're curious about Notion or Evernote, you know, go watch a 10-minute tutorial on YouTube.

[00:06:30] YouTube is really, truly what I would call a live version of Encyclopedia Britannica.

[00:06:37] You can literally.

[00:06:39] You can learn anything.

[00:06:41] So my dishwasher broke.

[00:06:43] Right?

[00:06:44] Okay.

[00:06:44] And the thingy bajinky on the bottom wasn't spinning.

[00:06:47] And I went to YouTube, figured out what it was.

[00:06:51] Because I was able to go in there, pop the thing, put it back together, and now my dishwasher works and I didn't have to call a guy.

[00:06:57] There you go.

[00:06:58] Because you only need to call a guy when it's deep and you need to call a guy.

[00:07:01] Exactly.

[00:07:01] Again, like I said, leveling up the base knowledge so that that way you can do what you need to do and keep moving on.

[00:07:09] And now you can save some money around it.

[00:07:12] So let's look at number three, embracing experimentation.

[00:07:15] That's kind of my jam in a sense.

[00:07:18] People are kind of apprehensive of dipping their toe into the ocean, or I should say the baby lake or the ocean.

[00:07:26] Which one?

[00:07:27] Chicago's lake looks like an ocean.

[00:07:29] But let's say the baby lake.

[00:07:33] The baby lake.

[00:07:33] But absolutely we use our tablets, our smartphones, and our computers.

[00:07:36] But what kind of modern devices around being user-friendly to allow us to be more apt to experiment?

[00:07:47] Okay.

[00:07:48] So this one I actually, this one actually, I can actually come up with a very practical use for this.

[00:07:54] But most people are iPhone users.

[00:07:57] No, that is not true.

[00:07:58] You know I'm going to stop you there.

[00:07:59] Most people on the planet are Android users.

[00:08:02] Only people in the U.S. are iPhone users.

[00:08:04] Most people in the U.S. are iPhone users.

[00:08:08] And it's really funny, the mindset that you get into.

[00:08:11] And I see this a lot with Teams, where people who work in organizations where they use Office 365,

[00:08:18] they're always sending Teams meetings.

[00:08:21] And half the world doesn't use Teams.

[00:08:23] Or doesn't care to or shouldn't.

[00:08:25] Because Teams is the worst product ever made.

[00:08:28] I said it.

[00:08:29] But because they don't take the time, because going back to number two, because they're not curious,

[00:08:36] they don't understand the ramifications of sending out Teams meetings notifications.

[00:08:40] Right?

[00:08:41] They don't use Zoom or...

[00:08:43] Same goes for people who use Gmail.

[00:08:45] Or Google, rather.

[00:08:47] Google Workspace.

[00:08:47] They'll send out a Google Meet notice.

[00:08:49] And people who use Teams are like, oh my God.

[00:08:51] So what you need to do, and here's where it's practical.

[00:08:55] I think every organization that plans events should have a whole drawer full of dummy devices.

[00:09:02] Yes.

[00:09:02] Where you should have an Android tablet and an iPad, an Android phone and an iPhone,

[00:09:09] so that you can actually see what the attendee experience is on all of those different devices

[00:09:15] before you pick some tools.

[00:09:17] Exactly.

[00:09:18] That would be amazing.

[00:09:20] But does anyone do it?

[00:09:23] No.

[00:09:23] No.

[00:09:24] We do.

[00:09:24] But we should embrace that experimentation that way.

[00:09:29] I have a little shelf in my office that has a Lenovo Android tablet.

[00:09:34] It has an older iPad.

[00:09:36] It has an iPhone SE.

[00:09:39] Right?

[00:09:39] It's got all of these devices.

[00:09:41] Yes, you can see where all the things...

[00:09:42] Yep.

[00:09:43] And now we...

[00:09:44] Do you have a flip phone?

[00:09:45] So you can see what it looks like on a flip phone.

[00:09:48] Nobody should.

[00:09:51] But, you know, although with a lot of modern platforms, we won't bother to test, right?

[00:09:58] Because they do work across.

[00:10:00] But when an attendee calls in and says, I'm having a problem...

[00:10:03] And you can't figure out how they can undo it or guide them to support them.

[00:10:09] I can...

[00:10:10] You need to see it the way that they say.

[00:10:11] I can pull that Samsung phone right out of that little shelf, plug it into a charger, fire it up, and go see exactly.

[00:10:18] Which, a lot of times, you realize it's actually not the device.

[00:10:21] It's maybe a user setting.

[00:10:23] Right?

[00:10:23] So it allows you to help that attendee.

[00:10:25] And, you know, that's for another episode.

[00:10:27] But I think tech support for attendees is horrible across the industry.

[00:10:31] Okay.

[00:10:32] And I'm not leaving myself out of this, right?

[00:10:34] We could all do better.

[00:10:36] But, again, that's how you do it.

[00:10:38] So experiment with stuff.

[00:10:40] Yeah.

[00:10:41] And for the next one, we actually talked about this a little bit before, but we can dive a little bit more.

[00:10:45] It's utilize online video tutorials, right?

[00:10:49] That thing with YouTube.

[00:10:51] Yeah.

[00:10:51] It was really funny.

[00:10:52] We had a client that wanted to do something on their website.

[00:10:57] And I knew it could be done.

[00:10:58] So when the client was saying, I would like to do X, Y, and Z, and I'm in that meeting, I just went, okay.

[00:11:04] I had no idea how to get that done.

[00:11:06] But you knew there was a source.

[00:11:08] But, well, I knew it could be done.

[00:11:09] And then, so then, Matt and I, who we were, you know, he helps me with the websites.

[00:11:15] We went and a four-minute tutorial, and we were like, holy crap, that was easy.

[00:11:20] Right?

[00:11:21] And now we actually implement it across a lot of different client sites.

[00:11:24] But, again.

[00:11:25] It's those little things.

[00:11:27] So many people would just say, no, that can't be done.

[00:11:31] Which, you should still, going back to experimentation, you should play.

[00:11:36] See if things can work.

[00:11:38] See how you can make things, quote-unquote, customized to how you want them.

[00:11:45] And, you know, and try.

[00:11:46] Yeah.

[00:11:47] What's our next one?

[00:11:49] Number five.

[00:11:50] Seek assistance from tech-savvy individuals.

[00:11:53] So basically, people should just subscribe to this podcast, and that's it.

[00:11:56] That's all they need to do.

[00:11:57] Done.

[00:11:58] All right.

[00:11:58] Let's go to number six.

[00:12:00] But we also want them to look around them, too, and ask the questions, right?

[00:12:06] And request the help that they need on those specific tasks.

[00:12:10] Well, yeah, because sometimes you won't.

[00:12:12] And it's funny, my go-to suggestion on this one now is always Leanne Velke, right?

[00:12:17] With Sivan.

[00:12:17] Right?

[00:12:18] She is a god when it comes to Sivan.

[00:12:21] It is.

[00:12:22] Call her.

[00:12:22] Ask her.

[00:12:23] She knows it.

[00:12:24] Yeah.

[00:12:25] Or hire her.

[00:12:26] Yeah.

[00:12:26] Bring her in.

[00:12:27] I didn't mean call her for free, but call her, yes.

[00:12:29] But she also will throw out a lot of tidbits online.

[00:12:32] Yeah.

[00:12:33] She definitely will.

[00:12:35] Right?

[00:12:35] And pay attention.

[00:12:37] Right?

[00:12:37] When somebody like that says, hey, here's a new thing, pay attention.

[00:12:42] That way you are in the know.

[00:12:43] Yeah.

[00:12:44] Definitely.

[00:12:45] Number six.

[00:12:46] This is my favorite.

[00:12:47] Oh, oh, oh, oh.

[00:12:50] Leverage search engines effectively.

[00:12:52] Okay.

[00:12:53] What does that mean?

[00:12:54] You can tell them.

[00:12:55] There's only one search engine, right, Keith?

[00:12:57] Are there others besides Google?

[00:13:01] No, not really.

[00:13:02] Well, you know, any search engine, even if you do use Bing, or even ChatGPT, right?

[00:13:11] Because even though, like, a ChatGPT is an AI product, they do.

[00:13:17] They actually just introduced a search function.

[00:13:20] Yeah.

[00:13:20] Right.

[00:13:21] And you can also use the extension for Perplexity AI and change your browser from, even Chrome,

[00:13:29] change your browser from utilizing Google as search to Perplexity.

[00:13:34] Yes.

[00:13:34] And so, and understanding how to search.

[00:13:39] Right?

[00:13:40] You know, you don't, you may not necessarily, you know, you can type in, you know, how to

[00:13:44] use Stova.

[00:13:46] Right?

[00:13:46] And you'll get some answers.

[00:13:48] But be specific.

[00:13:49] You know, with the AI models that are now built into search, or just Google itself, you

[00:13:55] know, you should learn search operators.

[00:13:57] You know, if you are searching for my name, Keith Johnston, you're, after that, you're going

[00:14:02] to want to put minus Johnson.

[00:14:06] Because it always thinks that you've misspelled Johnston, and will give you results for Keith

[00:14:11] Johnson, which there are 8,000 of them.

[00:14:13] Like a billion of them.

[00:14:14] Right.

[00:14:15] So, you know, again, just learn, learn how to search.

[00:14:18] It only takes 20 minutes.

[00:14:20] Or less, just depending on how things are.

[00:14:24] Well, the next one is not my favorite.

[00:14:27] Number seven.

[00:14:28] Master email communication.

[00:14:29] You know, I've been trying to get people out of email hell forever.

[00:14:33] Well, mastering email communication should come down to don't use email, but we won't

[00:14:38] go there.

[00:14:39] No.

[00:14:39] No, but with mastering email communication and becoming tech savvy, while they, let's call

[00:14:47] those adjacent.

[00:14:48] Okay.

[00:14:49] You know, being proficient with email communication doesn't make you tech savvy, but it's definitely

[00:14:57] right in there.

[00:14:58] Right?

[00:14:58] It's those people that don't understand how their email works.

[00:15:03] They don't understand the out-of-office responders, how to set them up.

[00:15:07] They don't understand.

[00:15:08] Auto responders.

[00:15:09] Yes.

[00:15:09] They think they're out-of-office, but they're actually auto responders.

[00:15:12] Yes.

[00:15:13] And they can use them for all kinds of things.

[00:15:15] All kinds of things.

[00:15:16] So they can, you know, you can actually set them up so that only certain responders go to

[00:15:23] certain people.

[00:15:25] Searching within email.

[00:15:26] Right?

[00:15:27] If you use, you know, Office 365 is great, whatever, but no one will ever beat Google when

[00:15:31] it comes to search.

[00:15:33] Learn how to search within your email.

[00:15:35] Email, you know, it's so funny.

[00:15:36] People will have folders in their emails, you know, and they've dropped, like they'll have

[00:15:40] it by client or by event, whatever, and they drop all the emails in there and they've got

[00:15:44] a folder for AV and all this.

[00:15:45] I do not do that because I know how to search within my email.

[00:15:50] So if I need to find a proposal from Encore for an event that is happening in Saskatoon,

[00:15:55] Canada, I can get that email in less time than it would take me to actually set up a folder

[00:16:02] and move the first email in there.

[00:16:04] Yeah.

[00:16:05] So people should really know how their email works.

[00:16:07] And it's getting better and better and better now.

[00:16:09] Every single day.

[00:16:11] The next one, which is, and this will be number eight on our list of ten, which is very important

[00:16:22] now, you know, it, which, and it's stay informed about social media trends.

[00:16:30] And I think that this is so key right now with marketing your event, keeping attendees informed

[00:16:36] at your event.

[00:16:37] You know, there are, it is a lot more now than LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

[00:16:41] Yeah.

[00:16:42] Or I'm sorry, X, whatever he's calling it nowadays.

[00:16:45] Right?

[00:16:46] X is basically dead.

[00:16:49] You don't even need to be there, you know, but do you need to be on Blue Sky?

[00:16:54] You need to figure it out and see.

[00:16:56] Or do you need to lurk on X to understand what's still happening under another handle and then

[00:17:06] still find out what's happening going on?

[00:17:09] Well, I love a couple of tools.

[00:17:10] I love Social Media Examiner.

[00:17:13] It's one of my favorites.

[00:17:14] Yes.

[00:17:14] To stay abreast on what's going on because it'll give me my little newsletters all the

[00:17:19] time and I can just peek in and peek out as I need to, to stay.

[00:17:23] And then if I need to test some of the tools or know what's happening, then it's not as bad

[00:17:27] as if I'm getting newsletter updates from each one.

[00:17:30] Even though I do get updates from LinkedIn to see about the new releases and a few other

[00:17:35] things.

[00:17:36] But I like to have one general that kind of gives me, keeps me abreast.

[00:17:41] Well, and I think Social Media Examiner as an example, and it is probably the, that's

[00:17:46] probably the one.

[00:17:47] If everyone just subscribed to Social Media Examiner, you've nailed it.

[00:17:52] But it also tells you what's important.

[00:17:54] Yes.

[00:17:55] Right?

[00:17:55] LinkedIn is going to give you, you know, when you get their email update, they're going

[00:17:59] to give you every little tool and change or whatever.

[00:18:01] Exactly.

[00:18:02] Well, that's kind of overwhelming, right?

[00:18:03] Where Social Media Examiner, they've already done the research.

[00:18:06] They're going to say and say, hey, LinkedIn has a bunch of new features.

[00:18:08] This is the only one that matters.

[00:18:11] Exactly.

[00:18:11] Exactly.

[00:18:12] So, ooh, ooh.

[00:18:14] Now we're up to my second favorite.

[00:18:16] You take it.

[00:18:18] So, and I'll use video editing.

[00:18:21] Oh, no.

[00:18:21] I'll use when I'm at the production table.

[00:18:23] Okay.

[00:18:23] So, I'm at the production table and people are always mesmerized by, like, they will hand

[00:18:29] me PowerPoints or they will hand me whatever.

[00:18:31] And within two minutes, it's ready to go to screen.

[00:18:35] And people, and they're like, whoa.

[00:18:37] Is that because you practice keyboard shortcuts?

[00:18:40] It is.

[00:18:41] It's all about the keyboard shortcuts.

[00:18:43] Oh.

[00:18:43] And everything has keyboard shortcuts.

[00:18:45] Right?

[00:18:46] You know, if you're in Excel, there are keyboard shortcuts.

[00:18:48] If you're in Zoom.

[00:18:49] If you're in Zoom.

[00:18:50] Oh, Zoom's keyboard shortcuts, they are, well, they're off the hook.

[00:18:55] Right?

[00:18:55] That's how you can do production in Zoom.

[00:18:57] Right?

[00:18:57] You need to know how to do keyboard shortcuts.

[00:19:00] You know, video editing.

[00:19:01] If you want to do it quick, Control-C for cut.

[00:19:05] Right?

[00:19:05] You know, again, you want to learn Control-C, Control-V for copy and paste.

[00:19:09] You want to know what those keyboard shortcuts are because then you can actually take the

[00:19:13] keyboard shortcuts to the next level, which are utilizing a little tool like a stream deck.

[00:19:20] Right?

[00:19:20] Where you can actually program one button that is a keyboard shortcut.

[00:19:24] And then you go, bing, and it's done.

[00:19:26] Yeah.

[00:19:27] Bing.

[00:19:27] It's done.

[00:19:28] If you ever wondered, in a lot of productions, you know, when it switches from the PowerPoint

[00:19:33] to a video and then back to the PowerPoint, yeah, the guys can click and they can do that.

[00:19:39] But you'll notice at a lot more production tables now, it's, you know, you've got all

[00:19:43] the whole setup, but it's a whole bunch of stream decks that are up there.

[00:19:46] Yep.

[00:19:46] And they're literally hitting video one, video two.

[00:19:50] There you go.

[00:19:51] And that's how they got it to just say video one and you hit the button and the video plays

[00:19:56] is they program those shortcuts into the stream deck.

[00:20:00] From the run-up show.

[00:20:01] Yeah.

[00:20:02] So, all right.

[00:20:03] Bring us home, Cass.

[00:20:03] From the queues into the run-up show.

[00:20:05] I see.

[00:20:05] Number 10.

[00:20:07] Explore programming concepts.

[00:20:09] So, this is the one I think most people try to avoid.

[00:20:13] Yes.

[00:20:13] And actually, we actually talked about this before this ever, before we ever recorded.

[00:20:19] We actually do discuss these things.

[00:20:20] And this was the one where we were both like, should we even include that?

[00:20:24] Yeah.

[00:20:25] But I think it's necessary that we should.

[00:20:27] Because if you master all the other nine, right, then you're, then you're the final step

[00:20:33] is programming concepts.

[00:20:35] And you can use, you can, and no one is saying that you need to learn how to hard code an app

[00:20:41] by hand.

[00:20:43] But you can use little things like there's a programming language called PHP, right?

[00:20:48] Where you can use PHP to bulk rename an entire folder full of files.

[00:20:54] Look at there.

[00:20:56] Right?

[00:20:56] You can use it to run formulas in Excel.

[00:21:00] You can, you can, if, if, if you're using gravity forms for event registration, it only downloads

[00:21:10] all the data as CSV.

[00:21:12] And then you need to make a change to that.

[00:21:15] To Excel.

[00:21:16] So, you can download all of the different reports.

[00:21:18] And instead of opening them, saving as Excel, open and save as Excel, you can just run a little

[00:21:24] script and it'll convert everything in the folder to Excel, which is definitely the way

[00:21:31] to go.

[00:21:31] Definitely the way to go.

[00:21:33] So, there's HTML, CSS, kind of things that you want to demystify.

[00:21:38] And there are tons of online classes.

[00:21:40] There are coding clubs out there.

[00:21:43] Platforms like Meetup.

[00:21:44] We've also said YouTube.

[00:21:47] And, you know, you could also use AI and say, you know, I'm really interested in learning

[00:21:51] how to do X, Y, and Z.

[00:21:53] And then ask it to teach you how to do X, Y, and Z and learn from it.

[00:21:57] But also ask for those resources so that you can go to the resources and learn a little

[00:22:02] bit more.

[00:22:02] Yeah.

[00:22:03] And if you have kids, they will be hyper impressed.

[00:22:06] Hyper, hyper impressed.

[00:22:08] Hyper.

[00:22:09] Kim, I want to close by saying this one thing.

[00:22:11] I know just earlier this week or end of last week, the state of Arizona has already approved

[00:22:16] where they're going to begin to open schools that focus on teaching from the AI perspective.

[00:22:23] So, like Khan Academy is a part of it and some others.

[00:22:26] So, I think it's interesting that there's a state out there that instead of, remember,

[00:22:31] you have regular school, you have private school, you have charter schools, you have home schools,

[00:22:35] and now you're going to have schools that open up that literally come from being taught

[00:22:41] by AI with a teacher in the room who's more of a coach and assisting that AI process.

[00:22:49] Huh.

[00:22:50] It's an entire school.

[00:22:51] I don't know how I feel about that.

[00:22:53] Yeah, well, we can talk about that on another episode.

[00:22:55] But I thought that that was interesting.

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