Justin Smith: So anyone who knows me or has ever spoken to me in a professional context knows I always like to start with two things. The first thing is lowering expectations. So Chad did a terrible job with that. So take wherever your expectations are and bring them down a notch. The second thing is I've heard that the best way to start these things is to begin with an attention-grabbing story. So I said to my wife, who's never wrong, what's a good attention-grabbing story I could start with? And she gave me one. And because she's never wrong, we're going to start with it. So on Sunday night, I played in my first ever adult hockey game. Let that sink in for a minute. No history of athletic pursuits on the ice, but I have a seven-year-old who plays hockey and he's very quickly about to surpass my ability. So as anyone would, I went to him before and I said, I need some advice. What should I do? And he told me, just don't be so slow. So I followed his advice and believe it or not, I scored three goals, a hat trick, in my first-ever adult hockey game. The good news is I felt great about it. The bad news is it's only downhill from there. So the moral of that story is not that I'm great at hockey, although the only reason I told that story is so that I could tell that story. It's that you never know where you are going to learn information that is going to potentially be game-changing for you. You never know who is going to solve a problem that you are facing, who's going to have the secret recipe to getting things done. This perfect fit for something that you're dealing with. Now, I in, no way mean to compare this panel to a seven-year-old. But the point is, the answers to the questions that you have may be out there in the audience here. And so we've got three people up here that are tackling big challenges, challenges that I would imagine a lot of people in the audience have either thought about or are, dealing with or maybe sitting at the starting line ready to start, but not sure what to do first. So I'm going to do a quick intro of my panelists here, and then we are going to allow them to fight it out for about 45 minutes. So toward the end, provided that we've got time, we're going to try to do a little bit of Q and A. Now, I know this is right before lunch, so that's typically a tricky time to ask people to hang out and ask questions. But as we go here, please, if you have questions, write them down, throw your hand up in the air, and Chad Coldiron and Shirley, who are in the back, are going to track you down so that when we get to the Q and A, you're ready to rip. So I'm joined here on the end by Aaron Lauenger from Ultag. He's the general manager of the transportation and water lifeline 00:05:00 Justin Smith: sector, Lifeline sectors at Alteg. I was told before this to make sure that I get Tierra's name correct because I've historically called her Tiara, like the thing you wear on your head. Tierra Marcus with ISG director or head of the project management department at ISG. And Brian Selaf of Tamarack Grove, CEO of Tamarack Grove. Now, what's unique about these three is that they are all staring down and in a lot of ways working on very different challenges within their businesses. But what is Similar about
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