analytics. Welcome, Eyitemi. Next on stage, I'll introduce Abbey Wemimo. Abbey is co-founder of Esusu which is a financial technology company that helps people save, bills, credit, and provides a bridge to financial access and inclusion. The company's name is derived from the Ghanian Twi language word susu, which means to plan.
Yeah. Well, it is interesting. And Abbey's work and voice is so rich and so beautiful, and has a lot to say a lot of commentary about things that she's lived and seen.
And then , close the loop by sending the results back into the cloud. Pieter Abbeel, at Berkeley, which is to use robot learning from demonstration.
And the most recent lineup includes, surprisingly, "V For Vendetta," featuring an anti-hero with anti-authoritarian and totalitartian powers, and yes, "Downton Abbey." Now, let's dwell on the internet a bit. The internet has been a very positive force in compelling Chinese state and the media to open up.
We want it to be a backstory. So I called Abbe Land from the Trevor Project, and now she's my boy.
Hamid Moghadam earned his MBA from the Stanford GSB in 1980 Three years later, he co-founded AMB Property Corporation with Doug Abbey and colleagues, and John, who's here with us tonight too. Doug's a lecturer at the GSB, and he is going to lead our fireside chat later on with Hamid.
it didn't matter if you were-- no kidding-- we called it upstairs or downstairs. It was like "Downton Abbey." It didn't matter if you were front office or back office. Each of those roles was critically important.
You may like what they did before and after; and how they handled the breach, you may agree or disagree, but they are victims of a crime. Any Downtown Abbey fans-- it's very much like that-- sort of the usher's office underneath the White House that keeps that sense of history, and protocol, and class,
Do composers have a choice of which session musicians to work with. whether they go to Abbey Road or down in LA, or-- how does that work? And does it influence the process?
Abby at milk is the real deal where that that uh concept for the oldest library in an Abbey in Europe it's at The Abbey at milk it has the original neong and lead from you know the beginning of time at this conference there was a young uh
that we thought was something for historical drama. I'm a big "Downton Abbey" fan. Have you ever gigged?
had many privileges, who sort of hasn't learned the same life lessons, but who also just has a very different way of seeing the world. And I think that the abbess is one of those sorts of people.
And he actually, in one brain stroke of genius, he predicted that, for every matter in the world, there's the opposite matter or the antimatter. And when you visit Westminster Abbey, you can try to find the plaque commemorating the famous Dirac equation. And in 2012, one of the most humbling experience in my life is to receive the Paul Dirac medal.
I've been trying ever since, well, in the last few years, to reconnect with some of those people that were in the queue so we can try and do an Abbey Road reunion shot at some point. I met three people so far, and obviously you're all far too young to have been in that queue.
She ordained as a nun 40 years ago and has been blazing new trails ever since. She is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the United States.
The stuff you see on Downton Abbey, that was a tiny little sliver of the population.
She hadn't listened to "Abbey Road," and I had it in my basement room.
But then doing it at Abbey Road made it like going to Disney World as a kid.
So I went down to Lacock Abbey in England where photography was invented.
I don't think I read "Northanger Abbey." But, anyway, I read the big ones and just immersed myself in the voice and in the period and annotated
I was actually on the staff at Abbey Road.
When I first started at Abbey Road Studios, we were called Balance Engineers, not Recording Engineers.
I know I was talking about Abbey Road engineers.
And it was not in Abbey Road.
He was the best of that Abbey Road sort of system.
worry about it this is a temporary abberation you know we made so much money on this thing if it goes down a
It allows people to advance financially and overcome the constraints of poverty. Welcome, Abbey. And finally, I'd like to introduce Michael Rain onto the stage. Michael is a co-founder of ZNews Africa, a media and technology startup that publishes stories about the global pan-African community.
OK. Now somebody who perhaps has a lot of this data in a digitized form that could be ready to be consumed by Greg is Abbey, right? So you work on Esusu, which is a digital platform for savings.
had many privileges, who sort of hasn't learned the same life lessons, but who also just has a very different way of seeing the world. And then much of her disappointment comes from the abbess who she at first admires so much.
It's mentioned in page one of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey." Yes.
One of his assignments was to sketch the tombstones at Westminster Abbey.
But that was the way the training happened at Abbey Road.
And one of the things he did at Abbey Road like any engineer there would do is orchestra one day, rock band the next day,
They quickly outlawed primogeniture-- those who've watch Downton Abbey know what I'm talking about.
I think we were in Studio 3 in Abbey Road, then Studio 2.
As did a lot of the unsung heroes of Abbey Road.
So that's really, I don't think it. It was gonna be Azrak, Abbey, and Moghadam.
In the "Imitation Spies," he's played by one of the "Downton Abbey" actors, the chauffeur in "Downton Abbey." And the lean Cairncross is played
And Brian May walked us through his writing process on that at Abbey Road Studios, before we shot.
had many privileges, who sort of hasn't learned the same life lessons, but who also just has a very different way of seeing the world. But also, I wanted for the abbess to be a character who has achieved great things, but then kind of pulled up the ladder after herself.
So we've gone from these big halls, Abbey Road, real world studios, to people making music in their bedrooms.
And one of his excavations, Moulin Quignon near Abbeville in Northeastern France, he found an anatomically modern human
According to modern geologists, that layer at Abbeville is about 430,000 years old.
And I think the Tudors and Pillars of the Earth and Downton Abbey and all the different costume and historical dramas, the Elizabeth miniseries about Elizabeth the First, it’s
i need to ask a favor of you i'm stuck in abbeville louisiana and i want to move
smart it's great it's affordable and then you have someone like Carl abber who's been uh behind the scenes at Mark
So Jahan's going to share just a few remarks, and then he'll welcome Hamid to the stage to also share a few remarks before a conversation, a fireside chat with Doug Abbey. So Jahan, the floor is yours.
And finally, activism. As Ed Abbey said, "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
And I'm like, the fact that there's plays on in the Abbey, there's screenwriters writing your great TV, there's musicians writing great music
my dad's Greek Pantheon was John Muir, and Ed Abbey, and David Brower.