Jeffrey Kier with the Qbert Computer History Museum in Mountain View California for the 14th annual association of corporate growth Silicon Valley grow Awards we've been here for a couple years now and it's a big event 300 people coming in to talk about really an ecosystem that helping other companies grow always great to be on the cube [Music] essentially what we are is an organization that's dedicated towards providing networking opportunities educational opportunities programming for c-level executives and other senior level executives at companies to help them develop their career and also grow their businesses tonight it's about tech as a force for good and I'm gonna talk about what I call the four superpowers today mobile unlimited reach cloud unlimited scale ai unlimited intelligence and IOT bridging from the digital to the physical world and how those four superpowers are reinforcing each other today very sophisticated population I mean it's just wonderful living in this seventy some people our biggest thing that we see is just the whole better together message that all of the resources from the strategically line businesses all working together to support the customers technology is evolving at a remarkable speed you know that's being driven largely by the availability of increased processing power less and less expensive faster and faster digital transformation IT transformation security transformation and work force transformation those are the big things for us this year it's great to be able to have a computer that really understands how to generate meaningful realistic text it's our opportunity to improve the quality of lives for every human on the planet as a result of those superpowers and really how it's our responsibility as a tech community to shape those superpowers for good there are issues created operationally day to day that we have to sort of always be on the watch for like you know readiness distance or these technologies it's the two sides of the same point always you can use it for good or you can use it for bad and unfortunately the bads within the news more than the good but there's so many exciting things going on in medicine health care oh yeah agriculture energy that the opportunities are almost endless not just the first world problems those of us here in the Silicon Valley see every day but really open our eyes to what's happening in other parts of the globe the need for water clean water water filtration clean air having access to information education so these are some things that are you know really personally dear to me in the last 50 years we've taken the extreme poverty rate from over 40 percent to less than 10 percent on the planet we've increased the length of life by almost 20 years these are stunning things and largely the result of the technological breakthroughs that we're doing that's the beauty of this right that's all of these things actually create opportunities you just have to stick with it and look at solutions and there's no shortage of really talented creative people to go address these opportunities and it's so fun to be involved in it right now the scale that we're able to now conduct business to be able to develop software to reach customers and truly write to change people's lives there are in many ways the technology halves and the technology have not absolutely and a lot of it is not just about making the product but then taking the product you've made and then implementing it in various use cases that really make a change from about in the world as I say today is the fastest day of tech evolution of your life it's also the slowest day of tech devolution of the rest of your life the rest of your life I'm Jeff Rick you're watching the cube from the a cts-v Awards thanks for watching [Music]