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slides. All right. Thank you everyone

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of the PyCon AU 2025 data and I data and

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AI track. And I almost made it through

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Um, we realized earlier that Jack didn't

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who are you and what do you do?

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Hello friends. Uh, so my name is Jack.

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I'm a freelance consultant. Uh, I am a

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CTO for hire, you might say. And I deal

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with a wide range of interesting, thorny

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opportunity to work with Nick and spark

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really interesting conversations today

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um was really exciting. I'm not a

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but I learned really quickly and that's

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why I've really enjoyed being in the

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room today. I've learned so much and uh

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it's been really fantastic. You know,

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So, what do you do? No, I didn't. Um,

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so, uh, hi everyone. I'm Nick. Um, when

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database data cloud uh, market. Um, and

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tack on AI. So, we do uh we do a data

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some some thank yous. Um the first group

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sponsor probably deserves a round of

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Applause. Thank you everybody.

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Our gold sponsors Snowflake and the

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RFPs for them." And we w we we went

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standing room only. Thank you all so

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you so much for making this a success.

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have dropped their gifts. Uh, Nick and

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of PyCon. some of the stuff that is uh

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Peter, our conference director, and the

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rest of the team, and also everybody

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here, we'd love to thank you for running

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Don't drop the mugs.

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welcome reception out in the foyer.

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um come say hi. We'd love to stick

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around. Thank you so much for being here

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