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Accelerate growth and loyalty through customer centricity in the digital age

Customers form the core of existence and growth of any business. Customer engagement and expectations are higher than ever. To adapt, new business models are emerging (or being thrust upon companies by new competitors) and companies who fail to embrace them will get left behind.

BFSI sector began their digital journey years ago and have clear digital strategies. Leaders in digital banking and financial sector are more customer-centric, tech-savvy, and more inclusive. And they change their fundamentals to achieve the best results. Perhaps the most important step, however, is that BFSI in the digital age requires a drastic, profound reset of how the staff reacts to customer needs. In order to meet consumer demands and match today’s pace of innovation, financial leaders are looking to implement digital transformation efforts to keep companies competitive, albeit at varying speeds.

Digital transformation in BFSI allows you to create a more cohesive and personal digital customer journey. Talking about CRM (customer relationship management) which is a category of integrated, data-driven software solutions that helps to improve the way you interact and do business with your customers. CRM systems helps to manage and maintain customer relationships, track sales leads, marketing, and pipeline, and deliver actionable data.

About the Virtual Panel Webinar:

The BFSI landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. Digital is disrupting the way organizations function and they need to look at new ways to engage with customers in order to remain competitive. Digital technologies – coupled with strategy – are reshaping BFSI operational effectiveness and customer experience.

Join us in this engaging listening circle “Reimaging BFSI: Accelerate growth and loyalty through customer centricity in the digital age” with leaders in BFSI space to understand how organizations are adjusting to meet changing customer expectations. We will dive deeper into evolving customer conversations, needs and innovation required to quickly pivot and adjust to customer demands.

In this session we will explore:

  • Changing customer expectations Pre – Covid and now
  • Role of enterprise technologies like CRM in enabling customer centricity
  • Technological barriers that prevent organizations from being customer focused

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Smart Data, Scalable Storage for Scoring Business Game

In today’s data-centric world, your data is your business. Data is the key to delivering rich, personalized experiences in the digital world. Data-driven digital transformation is no longer just a strategic initiative, but a new way to work, interact, and do business together—with customers, with employees, with the world.

IT is no more a back-end business function, it has moved front and center for your business. You will need the ability to instantly adapt to a rapidly changing new normal. To adapt, you must have access to the right data, at the right time, in the right place—at the right pace. In a nutshell, the need of the hour is to take care of your data and have the right storage formula.

The need is to optimize any workload and discover the value in your data. Accelerating your critical workloads from core to edge to cloud while decreasing application outages and reducing storage requirements with advanced deduplication should be at fingertips.

Join The Economic Times Roundtable, powered by Dell, to discover the formula of business success with smart data and scalable storage. Learn about the ground-breaking PowerStore family of all-flash data storage appliances that eliminate traditional tradeoffs in performance, scalability and storage efficiency, with a data-centric, intelligent, and adaptable infrastructure that transforms and mobilizes both traditional and modern workloads.

Key Discussion Areas:

Exploding Data growth –

  • a. Challenges for organizations
  • b. How to address the explosion in data growth in terms of scale, capacity, performance and availability
  • c. Data types: Block, File and Object
  • d. Data Sources
  • e. Data Storage

Agenda

13:30 – 14:00

Registration

14:00 – 14:05

Opening Remarks by ET EDGE

14:05 – 14:10

Setting the Tone by Moderator

14:10 – 16:00

PowerStore the Ace Card to Progressive Organizations

Meeting the ever-changing data growth requirements and catching up to constant innovations while protecting the data growth requirements is a must with safeguarding critical workloads across your organizations evolving landscape. This CXO round table would touch base on the importance of migration to PowerStore to rule out challenges and data mishaps on the way towards establishing a progressive organization

  • Efficient ways towards unstructured data storage
  • Unlocking the value of data with scalability, integration and cloud integration
  • Simplifying the monitoring and organizing the digital workplace with essentials
  • Synthesize data and creating the right models to create right volumes of data

16:00 – 16:10

Closing Remarks by Moderator

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ET Cutting Chai Stories – IBM

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ET Cutting Chai Stories – IBM

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Move Towards Circular Economy

Overview:

On a global scale, the packaging industry is an enormous economic generator. Packaging is an all-encompassing industry term for the technology and design work going into protecting or enclosing every sort of product destined for storage, shipping and sale. Manufactures across industries hold importance to PACKAGING of the product as this signifies their brand and thus an essential part of their business model.

The packaging sector is moving towards providing sustainable packaging solution. There has been increasing awareness on Recycling, Resource Efficiency, Sustainability etc.

CONSUMERS NOW JUDGE BRANDS BASED ON SUSTAINABILITY

Consumers prefer products which are nature friendly and innovative. With plastic packaging having a significant market share, the growth of the industry is affected by the polluting effect of the material.

According to a recent global survey; 83% of global respondents believe it’s important or extremely important for companies to design products that can be reused or recycled. Source: Accenture (North America, Asia, Europe)

Fact:

The India Packaging Market was valued at USD 50.5 billion in 2019, and it is expected to reach USD 204.81 billion by 2025, registering a CAGR of 26.7% during the period of 2020-2025. Source: Mordor Intelligence.

The global beverage package market size was 123.39 billion in 2018 which is projected to reach USD 177.04 billion by 2026, exhibiting a CAGR of 4.5% during the forecast period from 2019-2026. Source: Fortune business Insights

Packaging Solutions in Beverage Industry

Sustainability and smart packaging technologies are the buzzwords resonating among brands for building the future. This creates opportunity for the vendors with innovative solutions to gain the competitive advantage in the local market, as well as gain the market share with strategic partnerships of long-term material supply. Packaging in beverage industry, is among the front-liners where massive investments are being made for expansion and technological upgradation. The packaging of beverages both carbonated and non-carbonated, is a complex technological branch.

The changing trend is observed in the materials used from traditional returnable glass bottle to newer plastic containers as well as other materials with the objective to improve the conventional practices, extend their share in the large market, extend the shelf-life of the products, provide greater consumer convenience and ultimately to produce economic packages. Among the widely discussed material these days, ALUMINIUM is the word.

ALUMINUM IS WINNING

Aluminium’s ability to form any shape and its protective qualities have made it the most versatile packaging material in the world. In addition, a key benefit is that aluminium cans can be fully recycled and reused an infinite number of times. Aluminium cans allow the beverages inside them to retain their taste, while protecting them from the negative impact of the elements. In addition, the can itself does not get rusty or lose its properties in any other way.

These cans are the natural sustainable choice of packaging as they are lightweight, stackable and strong, allowing brands to package and transport more beverages using less material. They also have a higher recycling rate and more recycled content than competing package types. Aluminum cans are recycled repeatedly in a true “closed loop” recycling process. They are also unbreakable, impact-resistant and tamper-proof.  It can also withstand extreme temperature and pressure.

SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING WEBINAR

“Sustainable packaging refers to the sourcing, development, and use of packaging solutions that have minimal environmental impact and footprint”. Sustainable packaging is becoming a higher priority for both brands and consumers – more now than ever before. In fact, implementing eco packaging in your brand’s operations is no longer an option – it’s a necessity.

The virtual webinar with the Theme Move Towards Circular Economy is trying to gather the sustainability experts for indispensable discussion to connect and shape the future of beverages packaging industry with the use of sustainable packaging materials specially aluminium.

Discussion Points

  • Sustainability and functional benefits of aluminium beverage cans
  • Why Brands prefer aluminum packaging
  • Growth in Green: Opportunities for Sustainable Packaging
  • How do we increase the adoption of sustainable packaging materials?

Speakers

Amit Lahoti
VP and GM – India and South East Asia
Ball Beverage Packaging (India) Pvt. Ltd

Ashish Sachdeva
Founder President
Green Dream Foundation

Chakravarthi AVPS
CEO, Managing Director
Ecobliss India

Dia Mirza
Actor, Producer, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals

Himangshu Watts
Consulting Editor
ET

Kartikeya Sharma
President – India & South East Asia
AB InBev

Manpreet Singh
Partner, IGH – Climate Change & Sustainability Services
KPMG

Namrata Rana
Director
Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Rajiv Sangoi
Director
RIO INNOBEV PVT. LTD

Agenda

14:45 - 15:00

Registration

15:00 - 15:05

Opening Remarks by ET Edge/Moderator

15.10 – 15.20

Keynote Address by Special Guest: Circular Packaging, it is a necessity not an Option!

Kartikeya Sharma, Vice President, Sales, AB InBev India

15.25 – 15.45

Fireside Chat: The most sustainable beverage container

As the most valuable package in the bin, aluminum cans are, by far, the most recycled beverage container. The average can contain 70 percent recycled metal.

Moderator- Himangshu Watts, ET Editor

Dia Mirza | Actor | Producer | UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals

15:50 - 16:05

Spotlight Talk by Ball Corporation: Why Aluminium is Winning?

Amit Lahoti, Managing Director – India & South East Asia Region, Ball Beverage Packaging

16:10 – 17:10

Panel Discussion: Managing the sustainability journey together

This session, which will ideally have five panelists along with a moderator, is going to be led by leaders who are going to apprise the audience of different benefits of recycling, reusable products in beverages packaging and for economic growth. The session will also emphasize on how the businesses can make this sustainability as part of their decision-making process.

Discussion points will include:

  • Growth in Green: Opportunities for Sustainable Packaging
  • How do we increase the adoption of sustainable packaging materials?
  • Aluminium as material for beverage industry
  • Aluminium cans – Carry lower carbon footprint

Moderator: Manpreet Singh, Partner, Climate Change, Sustainability & CSR Services Global Leader, Green and Social Bonds, KPMG India

Panelists

  • Chakravarthi AVPS, Global Ambassador - World Packaging Organization
  • Ashish Sachdeva, Founder President, Green Dream Foundation
  • Rajiv Sangoi, Director, RIO INNOBEV PVT. LTD,
  • Namarata Rana, Director, Strategy and Brand, Futurescape, India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

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Redefining Business Resilience with Autonomous IT Operations

Today, enterprise systems lack a comprehensive and unified view of their IT estate. Absence of this contextual awareness often impacts decision making in all aspects of IT operations. Also, the effectiveness of IT operations inherently relies on intuition and tacit knowledge, making them costly, time consuming, of variable quality, and extremely difficult to scale to today’s volumes.

The autonomous enterprise is a self-driving business model which can be enabled through applied artificial intelligence and automation. Organizations are looking forward to reach self-sufficiency by the ability to operate with less human intervention, and a fully autonomous enterprise is one that can configure, monitor and maintain itself independently.

Solutions like Ignio built on Azure platform gives an ability to create an end to end context of an enterprise’s IT landscape. The solution leverages the context platform across all stages to provide autonomous IT operations, thereby helping build a data-first foundation to all decisions, enabling smarter decisions reducing time to action.

Join this session and learn how to –

• Create an Autonomous IT operations environment
• Improve end-to-end transparency across IT Ops Lifecycle
• Enable and accelerate data-driven decisions

Speakers

Sandeep Alur
Director – Microsoft Technology Center
Microsoft Corporation India

Jatin Raval
Head of AIOps and Former CTO Asia Pacific
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An accomplished business leader with over two decades experience across general management, finance, commercial and supply chain in the packaging industry.

A considerable part of his career has been with Ball Corporation world’s leading suppliers of metal packaging for beverage, personal care and household products. Ball is a Fortune 300 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Amit is the Managing Director for the India and South-East Asia beverage packaging business where Ball have four manufacturing facilities in India, Myanmar and Vietnam servicing customers in Asia and Africa. Amit also holds directorship in Ball’s JV’s in South Korea and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Previously, Amit was the regional Finance Vice President for the AMEA region based out of Dubai where he help establish the region and helped Ball grow through organic and inorganic expansion. Amit joined Ball in London and has since then successfully completed 3 different, progressively senior leadership roles in the finance function in different business based out of Europe and Asia. Amit has also worked in accounting and consulting firms in 3 different countries over 10 years prior to joining Ball.

Amit has completed the General Management Programme with the Harvard Business School and is an alumni of Harvard. He also enjoys playing tennis and supports the Manchester United football

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Ashish is the Founder President of Green Dream Foundation, a new-age NGO based in New Delhi, India. Before committing himself completely to the service of the planet and people, he also worked in senior leadership positions across different multi-national corporations for over a decade.
His mission has been to create an educational and socially responsible advocacy platform for people to empower and engage their peers in environmental activities to ensure a healthier, cleaner and more sustainable planet for businesses, customers, employees, homeowners and families. As a young person, he realized that “not-knowing-how-to-get-things-done” was restricting young people from ‘taking the plunge’ and standing up for issues they felt deeply about. He felt a strong urge to develop a platform for changemakers & environment enthusiasts across the world to synchronize their approach towards addressing these issues. His will to fight for the odds against the environment sowed the seeds of the Foundation.
Green Dream Foundation (GDF) was founded in 2008. GDF is focused on generating mass awareness about environmental issues through effective & innovative channels. It engages with communities through social media and conducts innovative IEC activities, workshops and seminars to educate people, drive action on ground and then measure results. It facilitates steps that help drive environmental action so not just education but also ‘end to end consultation’ as the core team believes that learning should be followed by real action. GDF also supports companies with their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) & EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) initiatives that really make a long-lasting impact both in terms of education / awareness and actual impact on the environment and society aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals. Agility and innovation form the pillars of all organizational initiatives.
Under Ashish’s leadership, the organization has launched various unique awareness campaigns that drive action at the ground level. Plasticophilic, Paint My City, Man Sagar Cleanup & COVID SOS are the most recent ongoing initiatives.
Read more here:
a. https://yourstory.com/2019/04/plastic-reduce-recycle-ashish-sachdeva
b. https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/saharanpur/the-message-of-cleanliness-and-greenery-through-wall-paintings-saharanpur-news-mrt449986923
c. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/clean-lake-drive-yields-1-5-tonne-trash/articleshow/70322082.cms
Ashish has delivered thought-provoking talks at global leadership forums around environment, CSR and sustainability. Global CSR Summit, Aligarh Muslim University, Smart Cities India expo, TEDx and Indian Institute of Technology are the recent ones.
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Global Ambassador of World Packaging Organisation’ and member on the Executive Board.
Recently awarded, ‘Most Influential Leader in Packaging Industry’.
CEO, Managing Director of Ecobliss India, a global leader in innovative packaging solutions.
Honorary Adviser for Pharmexcil.

President of INBA H, an Indo Netherlands business Association.
Was chairman for Indian Institute of Packaging, Hyderabad and for prestigious IIP Golden Jubilee Committee.
Winner of Worldstar awards (the highest in packaging excellence) for five years in a row with 100% success, a World Record!
Also the lone winner of Ameristar award for pharmaceutical packaging innovation from India.
Three and half decades of experience in paper, printing and packaging.

Published articles in various magazines and participated in live programmes of public interest in TV shows.
Toured extensively worldwide, during the past three decades!
Spoke on various international platforms in more than 25 countries.
Delivered lectures, KNAs, chaired various sessions on various topics and mentored different programmes in FICCI,CII, IIP, CPHI, APF, WPO, Iphex, Elite Plus, FAPPCCI, IPC, PEF,INNOPACK, PPL ,WPC, RISI, UNEDO and so many other platforms.

Awards & accolades :

*UBM recognition award for contribution to Indian Pharma industry.
*PHARMEXCIL (pharmaceutical export promotion council of india) recognition & felicitation
*Padma Mohana award for Industry leaders.
*Packaging Leadership Award from World Quality Congress
*Chairperson for PPL, an Indian Express initiative
*TV 5 business leaders finalist.
*Jury for various National & International awards.
*Secretary General – World Packaging Design and Technology Congress
*Chief Advisor – Indian Pharma Congress

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Dia Mirza is an award-winning Actor, Producer, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador & United Nations Secretary-General Advocate for Sustainable Development Goals. As a champion of nature, Dia Mirza dons many a hat with élan and ease.

Today, Dia Mirza has become the voice of environmental and wildlife conservation in the country and a torchbearer for causes related to nature. She was appointed as the United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador for India at the UNEA assembly held in Nairobi. She championed the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution along with the UN leading to World Environment Day in 2018 when India was host nation leading to the historic declaration by PM Modi to make India Single-Use Plastics Free by 2022. Her exhaustive list of titles include Founder member of Wildlife Trust of India’s Club Nature, Ambassador Wildlife Trust Of India, Ambassador for the Swachh Bharat Mission’s “Swachh Saathi” program, Ambassador for Sanctuary Asia’s Tiger Conservation – Kids For Tigers program, Member of the Governing Board of the Sanctuary Nature Foundation, and the first Indian Ambassador for Save the Children. She believes that the creative arts, cinema, documentaries and photography are powerful tools for social change and conservation.

As the forerunner in reigniting and strengthening the relation between man and nature, Dia is a champion of nature in its truest sense. A perfect combination of beauty and intelligence, Dia was crowned Miss Asia Pacific at 18 and has gone on to establish herself as a versatile and well-respected actor in the Indian film industry, popularly known as Bollywood. She was last seen in the biopic of actor Sanjay Dutt titled Sanju, where she played the role of his wife Maanyata Dutt – a rock-solid woman who was the pillar of strength in Sanju’s life. Dia’s portrayal of Maanyata was par excellence and won her much appreciation.

Her most recent project Kaafir, a strong and highly acclaimed web-series on the Indo-Pak cross border dispute, positioned her right at the forefront of compelling storytelling. As Kainaaz, she wore her character with absolute honesty, persuading viewers to invest in her character and hooking them onto every scene. Yet again, Dia proved that an actor’s true worth lies in their dedication to the craft. As she continues her cinematic journey, Dia has a strong list of upcoming projects including Thappad directed by Anubhav Sinha and Wild Dog in which she essays a strong role opposite superstar Nagarjuna.

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Himangshu Watts has an experience journalist with held important positions in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata for top national and international news organisations including the Economic Times, Reuters News and TV-18 in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.

He is currently based in New Delhi as senior editor with Economic Times in charge of the energy and commodities verticals, heading a team of reporters in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune and Kochi for the past eight years.

Before ET, he was with Reuters News for 12 years. He served as Reuters’ chief correspondent for company news based in Mumbai; chief correspondent, energy and commodities for South Asia, based in New Delhi; and Reuters senior correspondent for eastern and north-eastern India, based in Kolkata. He also worked for TV-18 as senior editor for the Asia Business News channel.

Himangshu holds a Physics (honours) graduate degree from Delhi University’s Hansraj College and a masters degree from JNU. He is a wildlife enthusiast, and fond of travelling and reading.

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Kartikeya started his journey with Anheuser Busch InBev in 2005 and currently heads the South Asia Business for the company. Kartikeya has held various key positions within the company including Business Development for new markets – East and West Africa based out of Leuven, Belgium, Brand Manager – Global & Local Portfolios here in India, Vice President Marketing for South Asia and Vice President Sales here in India.

Kartikeya is a passionate consumer focused sales and marketing leader with a proven track record of driving sustainable portfolio, brand performance and profitable growth. He holds strong expertise in unearthing key consumer insights and translating them into impactful sales and marketing plans. He is known for rendering strategic thinking and complimentary breakthrough innovations combined with a creative edge and sharp commercial acumen that fuels top and bottom line growth.

Prior to joining Anheuser-Busch InBev, Kartikeya was the President for AIESEC India and holds keen interest in both regional and global consumer product goods marketing and innovation.

Kartikeya has a business school post-graduation degree in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and a Leadership Development certification from the Harvard Business School.

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Manpreet is a Partner at KPMG and leads the climate change and sustainability services. He is an expert in environmental finance and helps KPMG clients to assess the viability of climate-related projects and access funding for these projects. Manpreet has in-depth experience in guiding companies through the process of issuing green and social bonds to fund infrastructure projects including clean power, low-carbon transport, affordable housing and energy efficient buildings. Outside work, Manpreet is a member of the UNDP Roster of Experts for climate change mitigation. In this role, he advises on the implementation of large-scale greenhouse gas reduction programs in developing countries.
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Namrata Rana is Director-Strategy and Brand, at Futurescape. She helps companies and foundations build sustainable experiences. She is visiting Faculty at IIM Udaipur and India Ambassador of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

FOCUS AREAS OF MY WORK

I believe that this is the time to create a better world. Working towards the common good has to take primacy and be the defining metaphor of our times. For this, we don’t just need big words but things that build trust, transparency and believability at scale.

I help brands reconsider what the new health, new retail, new transport, new tech and new work will be like. I help them redesign and recreate, responsive and responsible experiences. Deep insights and on ground research are then used to create technology enabled sustainability solutions for brands.

Sustainability and responsibility need processes and technology as enablers. That’s a core element of our work.

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I have a Bachelors degree in Polymer Engineering from MIT, Pune and a Masters degree in Material Engineering from RIT, USA.

Worked with Bausch and Lomb in the contact lenses division for 2 years. Came back from the USA in 2005 and joined Tata Auto Plastics R&D division. Started RIO Innobev along with my brothers in 2007. We are into manufacturing, marketing and distribution of sparkling fruit drinks and energy drinks. Our brands are RIO fusion drink and BOOM energy drink. We have a presence in 25 cities across India. Currently I am the operations head for the company. My specializations include lean manufacturing and inventory management.

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As a Technology Leader at Microsoft India, Sandeep Alur heads ‘Microsoft Technology Center’, an Experience Center focusing on helping Customers accelerate their digital transformation journey. He has donned various technology leadership roles in his 22 years of industry experience providing technology and architectural guidance. His experience ranges from dotcom days to the distributed/cloud computing to the next generation intelligent computing era. He has architected solutions across technology/platform landscapes and is a stern believer of his own philosophy, which says “Enterprise architecture is an evolution, and it grows with innovation”.

From an innovation standpoint, he believes that the next big leap is in ‘Data Science’, and ‘AI’ will elevate Customer Experience to greater heights. Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in ‘Mechanical Engineering’ from RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru and a Post Graduate degree in ‘Data Science and AI’ from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

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Jatin has spent the last two decades designing, engineering, incubating and commercializing AI technologies for IT operations. In his current role as Head of AIOps technologies, his square focus is to help create autonomous organizations driven by self-learning and self-healing capabilities. As a former CTO, his deep client relationships have helped customers scale AI/ ML in their respective enterprises. Jatin is based in Ahmedabad, India.
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