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Why Norliza for Convera:

• Convera’s leaders operate in environments where hesitation carries real cost; Norliza equips them with a disciplined decision-making operating system.
• Her keynote supports faster alignment and execution across senior leadership teams.
• Content is pragmatic, pressure-tested, and grounded in real leadership consequences.
• Interaction is embedded through decision prompts and reflection appropriate for executive audiences.

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The Conviction Effect: Decisive Leadership in Uncertainty

When uncertainty rises, hesitation becomes the costliest decision a leader can make. The Conviction Effect gives leaders a clear, actionable blueprint for navigating ambiguity with confidence, speed, and strategic clarity.

Drawing from the life-or-death moments that shaped her leadership instincts, and her journey building five businesses from zero capital, Norliza reveals the internal mechanisms that allow leaders to decide boldly, act quickly, and create alignment even when the path forward is unclear.

This keynote reframes decisive leadership as a teachable system. Leaders learn how to eliminate analysis paralysis, accelerate execution, communicate conviction, and sustain momentum during shifting conditions, limited information, and organizational pressure.

This is not inspiration. It is a leadership operating system forged in adversity and refined in global business environments.

Ideal For:

• Executive leadership teams navigating volatility
• Sales leaders managing shifting markets
• Directors and mid-level managers taking on greater responsibility
• High-growth companies needing faster execution
• Strategic planning sessions and leadership off-sites
• Organizations where slow decisions create missed opportunities

Attendees Will Gain:

1. The Conviction Moment: How to identify the precise point where hesitation must end and decisive action must begin. Leaders learn to recognize and trust the cues that signal it is time to move.

2. Speed Over Perfection: Why fast, aligned decisions outperform slow, perfect ones in uncertain environments. A tactical framework for accelerating execution without sacrificing strategic clarity.

3. Adversity as Forward Momentum: How to convert setbacks, pressure, and ambiguity into fuel for progress. Leaders learn to move teams through disruption without losing morale or direction.

4. The 60-Second Decision Script: A tool that helps leaders distill complexity into simple, actionable choices. Practical steps leaders can apply immediately to unblock stalled initiatives.

5. The 5PM Alignment Ritual: A daily three-step method for ensuring decisions stick and teams stay aligned. A repeatable habit for sustaining momentum, visibility, and accountability.

Why This Keynote Resonates

Leaders do not need more theory. They need a decision-making system they can rely on under pressure.

Norliza’s frameworks resonate because she has lived the consequences of high-stakes decisions without resources, support, or guaranteed outcomes. Her direct, pragmatic tools help leaders build:

• greater confidence in ambiguity
• faster and more aligned execution
• stronger influence across teams
• resilience when decisions carry weight

Leaders leave equipped, not just inspired, to make faster, smarter decisions that move their organizations forward.

Highlights

• Founder and operator of five businesses built from zero capital, requiring sustained leadership under uncertainty and pressure
• Recognized leadership voice on decision-making, conviction, and execution in ambiguous environments
• Developed proprietary frameworks for accelerating decisions and eliminating analysis paralysis at the leadership level
• Extensive experience advising and speaking to senior leadership teams navigating volatility and organizational change
• Known for a direct, no-nonsense leadership style grounded in real-world consequence, not theory
• Delivers clear, structured decision tools designed for immediate use by senior leaders and executive teams

Why Nikolas?

‍Nikolas is uniquely qualified to speak to Convera's Leadership Teams as they navigate the future of payments, financial technology, and customer experience. His ability to translate complex signals of change into clear, actionable strategies makes him an ideal fit for forward-thinking organizations ready to stay ahead of disruption. With deep experience advising leading financial institutions—including American Express, VISA, PayPal, JP Morgan, and the Electronic Transactions Association—Nikolas brings unmatched credibility and relevance. His engaging, research-driven keynotes empower audiences to think like futurists, build innovation mindsets, and uncover opportunities that drive long-term growth.

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Hopeful Futures: Looking to 2035 and Beyond

What if we can build hope as an energy for change, ignite imaginations, and build anticipation to create better futures through leadership and providing vision and agency to the teams we lead?

Nikolas will deliver an energetic and inspiring keynote that helps you explore and see opportunities in the future of payments, and the exponential changes in society and the technologies shaping our world.

Nikolas will show you how to think like a futurist and shift your mindset from what is to what if… towards hopeful futures. You’ll see global megatrends are changing power dynamics (economic shifts, population growth, climate change, water-energy-food resiliency, sustainability), and explore the trends that will transform the payments – digital transformation, data growth, Artificial Intelligence and automation, spatial computing, banking and fintech,  healthcare, smart cities, construction, transportation and logistics,privacy and cybersecurity, and more.

• Adopt a Hope Engineer™ mindset - Ignite imagination, build anticipation, and a develop a deep sense of empathy for how change will impact companies and industries;

• See the hopeful futures ahead of us - Explore signals, trends and scenarios that show how industries will change in the next 5, 10, and 20+ years. Anticipate opportunities, challenges and risks;

• See high-hope leadership in action - Learn the  stories of how world-leading companies are applying futures thinking to supercharging our strategic thinking.

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Highlights

• Chief Futurist at Futurist.com and global foresight thought leader.
• Author of the bestselling Facing Our Futures—named a Top-50 Business Book by The Next Big Idea Club and JP Morgan Private Bank’s “Next Gen Pick.”
• Author of U.S. government-commissioned white papers on payments futures
• Has delivered 300+ keynotes to 200,000+ attendees across 30+ countries.
• Frequent contributor to BBC, Forbes, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Business Insider.
• Advisor to Robert Downey Jr.’s Age of A.I. series; featured in SMART DRUGS – A Futurist’s Journey into Biohacking.
• Helps organizations build futures literacy, anticipate risk, and create bolder visions of growth and innovation.

Why Chris Baréz-Brown Is a Strong Fit for Convera

Chris is a compelling fit for Convera’s Leadership Team Offsite given the organization’s focus on leadership, mindset, engagement, and teamwork within a complex, high-performance environment.

His perspective resonates particularly well with senior leaders who are navigating growth, change, and ambitious goals—while also grappling with how to sustain energy, alignment, and momentum across teams. Chris doesn’t speak about leadership in abstract terms; he reframes it through the lens of human energy, talent, and behavior, helping leaders rethink how work actually gets done.

For a senior, global audience, his style offers the right balance of:

• Strategic relevance without corporate jargon
• High engagement without gimmicks
• Inspiration grounded in practical, immediately applicable insights
  

His sessions are especially effective in offsite settings where leaders are stepping back from day-to-day execution to reset how they lead, collaborate, and show up in the year ahead.

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Proposed Keynotes:

Make Every Day Count: Learn how to unlock clarity, sharpen your thinking, and feel in control.

Chris shares why we our minds are simply not designed for the world we live in today and how the daily struggle for clarity, leaves us feeling lost, stressed, and unsure about what truly matters. Through this keynote he shares simple approaches to help everyone cut through the chaos of work and life, to unlock clarity and make every day count, all whilst giving your well-being a boost. Supported by the Talk It Out, this session is proven to help everyone get clear about what’s truly important to them every day. A game changer for work and life!

How To Have Kick-Ass Ideas: Learn to love creative leaps by getting curious and adventurous.

We can’t think our way to ten out of ten. With the best data and insight, you might be able to think your way to a six. To get to a ten you need to make a creative leap. Chris shares simple behavioural approaches to help everyone embrace innovation and use their inner creativity to make it a fun and fruitful ride that delivers impact and a new energy for you and your business.

Upping Your Elvis: Learn how to get your energy right to make work and life a fun and fruitful ride.

Chris shares simple behavioural tune-ups that will transform the way you show-up and make every day awesome by bringing more impact, clarity and energy to everything you do. Supported by Chris’s digital programme (the Elvis Energy Lab) to lock-in your learnings, this combo is proven to open your eyes to a new way of living and working.

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‍Why Natalie Nixon Is a Strong Fit for Convera

Natalie is an excellent fit for Convera’s Leadership Team Offsite given the organization’s focus on leadership, mindset, engagement, teamwork, and big-picture thinking in a rapidly changing global environment.

Her work resonates strongly with senior leaders who are under pressure to move faster, innovate more effectively, and deliver results—without losing sight of the human systems that power performance. Natalie helps executives shift from short-term, reactive thinking to strategic creativity, equipping them with frameworks that translate imagination into execution and ROI.

For a senior, global audience, Natalie offers:

• A clear business case for creativity as a competitive advantage
• Practical, evidence-based frameworks that leaders can apply immediately
• A leadership-appropriate balance of inspiration, intellectual rigor, and strategic relevance
  

Her sessions are especially impactful in offsite settings where leaders are stepping back to realign priorities, challenge assumptions, and build shared momentum for the future.

Recommended Keynote:

Adapt and Disrupt: Building Creativity’s Business ROI

Your organization is trapped in a dangerous cycle: quarterly pressures drive short-term thinking, innovation initiatives keep failing to gain traction, and attempts at “design thinking” have produced more Post-it notes than actual results. Meanwhile, industry disruptors with seemingly limitless creative capacity are capturing market share and top talent. The harsh reality? Without a systematic approach to building creative capacity, your business faces obsolescence in an economy that increasingly rewards imagination over execution.

In this paradigm-shifting keynote, creativity expert Natalie Nixon dismantles the myth that creativity is a “nice-to-have” soft skill and reveals the hard business case for imagination as a primary competitive advantage. Through rigorous research and compelling case studies, Natalie shows why organizations that systematically cultivate creativity outperform peers by up to 20% in revenue growth and 15% in market valuation.

Leaders gain access to Natalie’s proprietary frameworks to assess their organization’s creative capacity, identify critical gaps, and implement targeted interventions with measurable ROI. From reimagining meeting structures to redesigning physical and digital workspaces, this session offers practical strategies that have helped organizations significantly expand innovation pipelines and improve solution quality.

Participants leave with a clear roadmap for building creativity as an organizational muscle—complete with metrics, methods to overcome resistance, and strategies to embed creative practices into everyday operations. In a business landscape where adaptation is table stakes and disruption is the goal, the ability to systematically harness imagination becomes essential for long-term success.

Highlights

• Selected for Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2024.
• Named one of Real Leaders’ Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World (2022).
• Author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap, recognized by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards (honoree).
• Founder of Figure 8 Thinking, recognized among top women-led innovation firms (Core77).
• Trusted advisor and keynote speaker for organizations including Microsoft, Salesforce, Comcast, Citrix, VaynerMedia, Bloomberg, and more.
• Serves as a trustee of the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, bringing deep credibility in design, innovation, and future-focused thinking.

Why Clara Durodié Is a Strong Fit for Convera

Clara is exceptionally well-suited for Convera’s Leadership Team Offsite, particularly given the seniority of the audience and the organization’s position at the intersection of global payments, financial infrastructure, technology, and geopolitical complexity.

She brings:

• Board-level credibility with deep experience advising C-suite executives, directors, regulators, and global institutions
• A non-hyped, strategic perspective on AI, grounded in governance, risk, and real-world business implications
• A global lens on how AI is reshaping decision-making, operating models, workforce strategy, and competitive advantage in financial services
• The ability to engage senior leaders in thoughtful, executive-appropriate dialogue, moving beyond inspiration into strategic clarity
  

Clara’s style is particularly effective for leadership audiences who are navigating complex change, regulatory pressure, technological disruption, and long-term strategic bets. Her sessions prompt leaders to think critically about how AI influences not just technology decisions, but leadership behaviors, organizational resilience, and governance at scale—making her an ideal fit for a forward-looking, global leadership offsite.

Session Approach & Customization

Rather than delivering a one-size-fits-all keynote, Clara Durodié works closely with leadership teams to shape a session that reflects their strategic priorities and real-world challenges. Drawing on her deep expertise in AI, governance, risk, and global financial services, Clara can speak to themes including leadership through change, decision-making in uncertainty, workforce and operating-model shifts, and how emerging technologies are reshaping strategy at the executive level. For Convera, she would collaborate with stakeholders in advance to tailor the content to the leadership offsite—ensuring the session is relevant, practical, and engaging for a senior audience, with space for thoughtful interaction and reflection rather than generic inspiration.

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Why Jay for Convera

• Convera’s leaders are managing both technological and organizational disruption; Jay bridges these realities.
• His keynote provides leaders with structured navigation tools rather than abstract change theory.
• Particularly relevant for leadership teams balancing speed, engagement, and execution.
• Interaction is embedded through reflection and leadership decision prompts appropriate for senior audiences.

Topic

Navigate: Leading Teams Through Digital Disruption

Navigating this era of digital disruption can often feel like we're journeying into uncharted territory, where change rockets ahead at supersonic speed. While we strive to drive meaningful and innovative transformations, we grapple with overcoming change fatigue, fueling team engagement, and supercharging our skillsets.

As leaders, the challenge we now face is figuring out how to lead our teams confidently through the turbulence of disruption. In this 60-minute keynote, disruption strategist Jay Kiew will share research-backed case studies and playbooks of the Mavericks - trailblazing organizations and individuals that have successfully navigated change. He will unpack Compass, the leading change navigation playbook that will equip your teams with the tools and strategies needed to skillfully navigate the future of work.

Audiences will come away with…

• Key research-backed insights and case studies about market leaders that have flourished in disruption.
• Compass, the proven three-step change navigation playbook for leaders to create adaptive organizations.
• How to use personal and professional challenges as catalysts to cultivate growth and resilience.

Perfect for…

• Leaders who are looking to develop leaders
• Leaders wrestling with digital transformations and human capital disruptions

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 Highlights

• ‍2024 PMI Future50 Honoree, recognized by the Project Management Institute for leadership in AI Fluency and Agentic AI adoption
• Organizational transformation strategist advising senior leadership teams on AI-enabled change, digital disruption, and workforce evolution
• Creator of Compass, a structured change navigation framework used to guide leaders through complex, multi-year transformation
• Research-backed authority on change fatigue, engagement, and resilience in rapidly evolving organizations
• Extensive experience working with Senior Director and C-suite audiences navigating technology-driven change
• Known for translating AI and transformation complexity into clear, repeatable leadership actions that scale across organizations

Speaker Demo - https://youtu.be/zmyTJVWyQJI

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Why Jim for Convera

• Convera’s leaders are operating in a VUCA environment shaped by AI, geopolitical risk, and market volatility; Jim addresses these realities directly.
• His keynote helps executives understand disruption not as noise, but as strategic signal.
• Jim brings both macro perspective and practical leadership implications, grounding AI and innovation in decision-making and resilience.
• Particularly effective for senior leadership teams responsible for future-proofing the organization.

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Leading in Turbulent Times (VUCA): Building Agility & Resilience

Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) – is the defining reality of modern business. For today’s executives, mastering VUCA is essential to navigating the turbulence and turning uncertainty into opportunity.

The Age of Accelerated Change

We are witnessing the fastest, most disruptive period in corporate history. Markets shift overnight. Technologies leapfrog decades. Consumer behaviors evolve in real time. The scale and speed of change are without precedent:

• On April 3-4, 2025, US markets lost $6.6 trillion in value following President Trump’s announcement of tariffs on 90 countries. Five days later, after the decision was paused, markets rebounded by $5.4 trillion – a staggering single-day recovery.

• On January 27, 2025, China’s DeepSeek unveiled its R-1 AI model, instantly disrupting global tech. U.S. high-tech firms lost $1 trillion in a single day. NVIDIA alone dropped $600 billion, the largest single-day market cap loss in US history.

• It took the airline industry 68 years to reach 50 million users. It took Pokémon Go just 19 days.

These events aren’t anomalies – they’re signals of a world in permanent flux. Leadership strategies must evolve accordingly.

The Executive Imperative in a VUCA Landscape

For C-suite executives, this moment demands more than operational excellence. It requires visionary leadership, systemic thinking, and a willingness to experiment at scale. Key questions every executive team must address:

• How can we adapt faster?
• What systems will allow us to pivot, scale, and sustain momentum?
• How do we build organizational resilience at every level?
• How do we make bold, high-stakes decisions amid uncertainty?
• What kind of leadership is required when there is no clarity?
• How do we lead through crises (economic shocks, pandemics, geopolitical upheaval?
• How do we keep our people engaged, aligned & inspired amid constant change?
• How can we future-proof our business in the face of accelerating disruption?‍

VUCA as a Strategic Advantage

Leaders who understand the nature of VUCA don't just survive—they thrive. They create adaptive organizations, nurture courageous cultures, and lead with both decisiveness and humility. In a world where transformation is not optional, mastering VUCA is essential. Those who develop the capacity it will outpace disruption—and shape the future of business.

Associated Topics -

Geopolitics & Global Risk

• Trade wars & tariffs (US-China)
• Regional conflicts (Ukraine-Russia)
• Sanctions & economic upheaval
• Deglobalization
• Shifts in global alliances
• Supply chain
  

Technological Disruption

• AI and automation (GenAI, job loss fears)
• Cybersecurity & ransomware
• Quantum computing

Highlights

• #1 international bestselling author of Blindsided!, published in 80 countries
• Named 2024 Speaker of the Year by TEC Canada (Vistage CEO network)
• Recognized as one of North America’s Top 10 speakers on AI and disruptive innovation
• Trusted advisor to global organizations including American Express, IBM, SAP, Swiss Re, Walmart, and the UK Cabinet Office
• Leads executive strategy sessions on AI, disruption, and resilience for senior leadership teams

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Why Keith for Convera

• Convera’s leadership team is responsible for translating strategy into execution across a global, complex organization; Keith’s work directly addresses this leadership gap between intent and action.
• His keynote reinforces clarity, ownership, and momentum—core needs for senior leaders managing change while maintaining engagement.
• Keith’s style delivers interaction with purpose: moments of reflection and application that engage executives without diluting senior-level rigor.
• Unlike purely inspirational keynotes, Keith equips leaders with execution frameworks they can immediately apply with their teams post-offsite.

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Recommended Keynote:

Invigorate Yourself: Creating Unstoppable Velocity

In this powerful keynote, Keith Abraham shares how to unlock momentum, drive clarity, and accelerate achievement across your personal and professional life. This presentation is built around three core components:

1) Discover Your Drivers
Understanding the 8 emotional drivers that move you to achieve goals
The 3 components that turn interest into committed and compelled achievement
Discover the 6 elements that will accelerate your velocity in all areas of your life

2) Define Your Desires
The 4-part HOW Formula for achieving goals faster, easier, and sooner
Apply the 6-part Goal Achievement Blueprint to your most important goals
Clarify the roadblock that is stopping you from being the best version of you

3) Develop Your Determination
How to starve distractions and feed focus in your leadership role
Identify the micro-wins that will have the biggest impact
Create a 1-minute / 1-hour / 1-day / 1-week / 1-month implementation roadmap

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Highlights

• Creator of the GoalDriver™ Formula, used globally to help leadership teams align priorities, focus execution, and sustain momentum through change
• Trusted advisor to organizations across 43 countries, impacting 1.7M+ professionals, including senior leaders guiding large, complex teams
• Five-time bestselling author, published in 12 languages, reinforcing authority beyond the keynote platform
• Recipient of international honors including Keynote Speaker of the Year and the Nevin Award, recognizing sustained leadership impact
• Particularly effective in senior leadership offsite environments where alignment, engagement, and shared direction are the primary objectives
• Delivers structured, practical leadership frameworks leaders can immediately apply following the offsite

Why Mark for Convera

• Convera’s leaders are guiding teams through ongoing evolution rather than one-time change; Mark specializes in sustained transformation.
• His keynote addresses both the strategic and human dimensions of change—critical for senior leaders responsible for engagement and performance.
• Mark equips leaders with a shared framework for understanding how people experience change, enabling more consistent leadership behavior across teams.
• His interactive style deepens engagement without sacrificing executive-level depth or rigor.

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Future Proof: Navigating Change with Confidence and Excitement

Imagine a new way to change: unhurried, composed, and confident instead of the usual frenzy, chaos, and uncertainty. The Empowered Change strategy presented in this high-impact keynote equips participants to transform the pace of change and drive sustainable success by providing a clear roadmap for navigating the stages of change.

This program is perfect for leaders and teams in the midst of constant change who are:

• Going through organizational growth, such as mergers and acquisitions, leadership changes, restructuring, and digital transformation
• Navigating their team members’ reactions to the volatility, complexity, and ambiguity in their work and life (like frustration, anxiety, confusion, and fear)
• Feeling unprepared for their evolving roles and responsibilities or unable to change at the rate and pace needed to keep up with ever-increasing changes

After this intensely practical session, the audience will leave with:

• A Journey-map framework for understanding any change they experience
• A personal plan for confidently navigating the transitions between each stage of change  
• The skills and mindset for boldly mobilizing through disruptive change to accomplish their objectives

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Highlights

• Trusted advisor to global organizations including NASA, Coca-Cola, GE, Siemens, McDonald’s, and Royal Bank of Canada
• Recognized authority on the human and behavioral side of organizational change
• Founder of Empowered Change™, a widely adopted change leadership framework
• Extensive experience guiding senior leaders through large-scale transformation
• Combines behavioral psychology with real-world enterprise change experience

Why Scott McArthur Is a Strong Fit for Convera

• Aligns closely with Convera’s focus on leadership, change mindset, teamwork, engagement, and big-picture thinking
• Particularly effective for leadership teams navigating sustained change rather than acute crisis
• Speaks directly to the “Messy Middle”—when performance is stable, transformation is largely complete, and judgement and leadership behavior become the key differentiators
• Helps leaders regain clarity, focus, and momentum in complex, fast-changing environments
• Brings a distinctive blend of future literacy, human behavior insight, and strategic foresight
• Offers credible perspectives on technology, AI, and market change without hype
• Delivers executive-appropriate interactivity that prompts reflection and discussion without putting individuals on the spot
• Well-suited for an offsite setting where senior leaders are stepping back to reset priorities, alignment, and direction

Proposed Session:

Summary “I help leaders and organisations navigate the messy middle by building future literacy and offering credible glimpses of what could come next, so they can make better decisions with confidence and hope.”

I work primarily with CEOs, executive teams, and boards who are leading through periods of sustained change. Often this is not crisis leadership, but the more difficult phase where organisations are performing well enough, yet progress has slowed and traditional leadership levers no longer create the same momentum. The themes you highlight, particularly leading through change, mindset, teamwork, engagement, and big-picture thinking, sit directly within this space.

For an audience at Senior Director and C-suite level, I would typically frame the session around helping leaders navigate what I call the “Messy Middle”. This is the phase where transformation programmes are largely complete, governance and performance management are in place, but judgement, focus, and collective leadership behaviour become the differentiators of performance. The emphasis is on helping leaders think clearly about where to act next, how to create movement without burning things down, and how to lead effectively in an environment shaped by ongoing technological and market change.

The session would be delivered as a keynote with executive-appropriate interactivity. This is designed to prompt reflection and discussion, challenge assumptions, and support practical leadership conversations, without putting individuals on the spot or turning the session into a workshop. I would tailor the content specifically to Convera once I have a clearer sense of current priorities and context.

I regularly deliver internationally and am comfortable working with global leadership teams (examples include Amazon, Microsoft, Swiss Re and Atos). A 60–90 minute slot works well for this type of audience and allows sufficient depth while keeping energy and engagement high.

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