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 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.
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?
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.
And The Wall Street Journal might look at the same day and say, profits rise as worker productivity soars. The stuff you see on Downton Abbey , that was a tiny little sliver of the population.
Like I had one sister who didn't speak to me for five years, because she was saying they'll think it's us. She hadn't listened to "Abbey Road," and I had it in my basement room.
I had the good fortune of coming up with the idea of recording a record of a collection of their work. But then doing it at Abbey Road made it like going to Disney World as a kid. And we'll come to that later on in the talk.
Now, I'll admit to you, this does look like some kind of crazy steampunk post-apocalyptic Mad Max contraption. 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.
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.
It's mentioned in page one of Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey ." Yes.
She is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey , the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and
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.
So we've gone from these big halls, Abbey Road, real world studios, to people making music in their bedrooms.
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
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.
But yes, it's like "Harry Potter" meets "Downton Abbey ." Oh, there's going to be lots of Google fans for that.
So that's what we're trying to address aggressively. Yeah, amazing. And Abbey , you talked about taking a centuries-old idea, something that has worked in Africa in terms of communal savings, and using that to influence the service that you offer.
And finally, activism. As Ed Abbey said, "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
So I was getting these checks for 400 pounds and putting it into my instant savers Abbey National Bank account.
Yeah. Well, it is interesting. Maybe that's who I would like to meet, Abbey Lincoln, vocalist.
Yeah. We say it's like a family like the Kardashians moved into Downton Abbey .
I mean, Jeff and I both started at the bottom at Abbey Road, you know, working in the tape library then.
Again Pixar, "Homeland," "Starsky and Hutch," "Criminal Justie," "Appropriate Adult," "Downton Abbey ," "The Line of Duty," or "The Village," on BBC One recently.
on his state-of-the-art stereo with big speakers alternating an acetate of a forthcoming Delaney and Bonnie album with the Beatles Abbey Road. It was a
To Stanford for playing such a central role in my life, to my family, my son, my new daughter-in-law, and especially my wife who I was lucky enough to meet through Stanford. And to my colleagues and partners who did the real work, and especially to my founding partners, Doug Abbey and Bob Burke, who are both here. I now look forward to joining Doug in the discussion.