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This webinar highlights the new features in August’s release of Seequent Central.

Discover even more ways to easily communicate and collaborate with your project team including:

  • New scenes capability, making it easier than ever for you to engage with key stakeholders and keep them up to date with the latest developments in your projects.
  • Web visualization improvements, enabling you to view your project in 3D, right in the web browser.
  • Connect with GeoStudio, allowing multi-disciplinary modelling across your organization by connecting your geological model updates with geotechnical analysis.
  • And much more.

Overview

Speakers

Stephanie Vanos
Project Geologist and Data Management Specialist – Seequent

Duration

19 min

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<v Stephanie>Hello and welcome to today’s webinar.</v>

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My name is Stephanie Vanos

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and I’m Seequent North America’s Data Management Specialist.

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I’ll be your host in today’s featured demonstration

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of our latest Central release.

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Before we launch into the presentation,

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our Seequent is now part of Bentley systems.

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And as a public company,

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I need to briefly share the statement of confidentiality

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and disclaimer and ask that the audience

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please respect the intentions it expresses.

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The software products that will be shown today

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are the latest versions of Central August 2021

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and GeoStudio 2021.

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Despite the webinar’s technical connotation,

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the presentation is designed for all Central users

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from the technical and non-technical domains.

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During the webinar, the audience is muted

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to ensure that the presentation doesn’t run over time,

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but should you have any questions,

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please don’t hesitate to write into the question window

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and go to meeting.

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We will make sure that a personalized reply

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will be sent to you via email in due time.

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After the webinar, we would like to ask you to remain

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for one to two minutes longer to partake in a short survey

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that will help us understand your needs

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and learn how we can improve our offering.

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And as always, if you wish to maintain

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or share a recording of this webinar,

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a link to the video will be sent to you shortly

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after the presentation.

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Okay, so let’s get started.

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This Central release is filled

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with a multitude of new features

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that aim to optimize your daily modeling workflow

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and meet your data management needs.

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And we will show most of these

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in the live demonstration portion,

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but there are three main components

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that I’d like to highlight

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which truly enhance your ability to work

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as a connected team of Geo Sciences experts.

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The first refers to the addition of 3D scenes to the portal,

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which will allow you to capture essential moments

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in your project history that make it easy to engage

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with your colleagues more strongly

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and build a compelling story of what’s next.

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The second refers to a new set of reviewing tools

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in the 3D web browser that allow

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for even greater granularity

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and more effective stakeholder collaboration.

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And the third feature brings

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yet another geoscientific discipline to the table.

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For the first time, we can invite geo-technical experts

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to collaborate through a direct connection with GeoStudio.

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Let’s start by looking at the addition of 3D scenes

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into your portal environment.

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Modeling projects can be or become quite complex,

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especially as time goes on.

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And for non-technical users

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or those less familiar with the project,

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it could be difficult in Central to figure out

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what they were supposed to focus on.

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There was no way for users to easily navigate

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to the important points of interest in a project.

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Comments helped, but they are tied to specific branches

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and revisions and don’t persist

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as the project evolves over time.

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The scene axis of 3D bookmark allow you

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to easily navigate back to the same view of the data in 3D.

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Scenes also allow your team and stakeholders

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to rapidly navigate to the point of interest.

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Scenes in Central exists at the project level,

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which means that they never get lost

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in the history of your project.

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They can also be easily opened

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on the latest version of the model.

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Next, we’ll look at a new set of reviewing tools

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in the 3D web browser that allow

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for even greater granularity

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and more effective stakeholder collaboration.

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Engaging and collaborating with a wide audience

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is challenging.

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And the requirements of using desktop software add to this.

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With organizations consisting of multi-disciplinary teams,

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one of the best ways to enable collaboration

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with key stakeholders is around a visual representation

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of an asset.

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Over the last few months,

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we have introduced a huge amount of functionality

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within the Central portal to enable you

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to visualize your project in even greater depth in 3D

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right in your web browser.

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Easily navigate through time

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and step through older versions of your project

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to understand changes.

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Truly collaborate with your peers

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utilizing the latest features our cloud technology offers

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without the need for a full software license.

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The third release highlight and major milestone

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for Seequent Central is the integration with GeoStudio.

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This integration brings yet another geoscientific discipline

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to the table.

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For the first time, we can invite geo-technical experts

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to join the team through a direct connection

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with GeoStudio.

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This is our first step or phase in the interoperability

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of Leapfrog, Central, and GeoStudio

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enabling 3D meshes created in Leapfrog

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to be published to Central and then imported into GeoStudio.

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Directly connect to a central geological model

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to import mesh-based topographic or context surfaces

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into build 3D to use as background geometry

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or for parametric surface fitting.

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Import your mesh directly into Central

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from Build 3D and using GeoStudio.

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For the first time,

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geo-technical engineers can be fully immersed

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and interactively engaged in the modeling process

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of the physical site and introduce essential 3D surfaces

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directly from Central as soon as change occurs.

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This allows them to pursue an agile geo-technical analysis

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throughout the life cycle of an asset.

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Now, I’ll move over into the active demonstration

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and give you a little bit more insight

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into just what these new features can do.

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So here we are in our Central portal

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and I’ve already opened the relevant project.

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Let’s say I have a new member joining my team

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or maybe an auditor request some insight,

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or there’s a C-level executive that needs an update

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for budget purposes.

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In the past, sharing this information

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would probably have required me to portray the history

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of the project and the main decision making process

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through both 2D and 3D means.

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Most likely, a PowerPoint with some screenshots in it

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and opening up Leapfrog Geo to spin the model around.

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Central already helps dramatically

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through structured publishing events,

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establishing version control,

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and correlated notes and comments.

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I can add my new team member to the portal

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and they can easily see the history of the project

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and what decisions were made

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that has influenced the model so far.

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Sometimes, major milestones can be buried

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in the comment section, making them hard to find.

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To address this, we can now add scenes.

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Some can be pinned to highlight their importance

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and set on top of the list and others can be used

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for current conversation or exchange.

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Anyone with access to the project can easily navigate

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to the most important parts, engage as a project team,

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and ensure that they are looking at the correct aspects

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of the project.

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If I click on a scene,

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it opens the scene properties window

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where I can see information about the scene

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and choose to open it in the original revision

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it was created in or in the latest revision.

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Let’s start off by opening the original revision.

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Clicking on this takes me right to the scene view

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that was saved, showing everything

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that was originally loaded on a Geo tag

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of the area of interest.

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The scene was created for two reasons.

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The first being to show off the gold trend

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from the drilling, and the second to indicate

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that it looks like the early diorite shape,

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which is the lithology the gold distribution is linked to,

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is being blown out to the east and needs to be refined.

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In addition to scenes,

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we can now easily navigate our project history

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from within the web visualization.

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If we click on this arrow up here,

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we can then switch to the latest revision.

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I now have the same view of the data,

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but I can see how the addition of new drilling

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has changed the shape of the gold trend.

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The comment about the shape of the diorite

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has been taken by a colleague over to the lithology branch,

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where the shape has been refined based on the findings

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of the resource model.

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We can move between the previous revision

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and the latest one,

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just to see how much the shape has changed.

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Now, let’s say I’ve been tasked

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with planning drill holes for the Dacite dike.

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This is something we’ll probably go back to a few times

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or need to share with a colleague or superior.

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So let’s create a scene of my lung section

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showing my drill hole pierce points.

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I’ll create a slice, set the width

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and go into my Scenes tab where I can add the scene.

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I’ll give it a title,

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a brief description,

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and maybe a Geo tag of where I want to drill first.

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Then I click on Add,

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and now it’s saved a new lithology branch

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and I can go back to it whenever I want to.

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Now that my scene is saved,

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I can go to the previous revision

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and see how the drilling that I’ve done

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has changed the shape between the last revision and now.

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In the future, when there’s another revision,

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I can see how the shape continues to evolve

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with the drilling that we’ll be doing.

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If I want to make sure my scene doesn’t get lost,

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I can click on the ellipses and pin it to the main bar.

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Now if I go to the project overview,

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my scene is front and center

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and I can easily open it to get back to it.

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It’s very easy to maintain a clean environment

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by editing, unpinning, or deleting scenes

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you no longer need.

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I can also share my scene with other Central users

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by clicking on the arrow and inviting them to collaborate

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through their email address.

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This notifies them of the scene

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and sends them right to it from an email

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or the notifications pane.

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Now we’ll take a closer look at more of the new features

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included in the web visualization.

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Let’s say I made a mistake when naming my branch

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or one of my team members gave a branch a name

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that was a bit odd.

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Now, finally, it can be renamed.

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This has been one of our most requested features,

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and we’re happy to bring it to you.

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Opening the revision, I can now multi-select objects

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and drag and drop them into the scene,

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making it faster to look at my data.

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I can cut a slice through my scene

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and have individual objects be sliced from the scene

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or unsliced allowing me a greater variety of ways

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to look at my data.

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Uh-oh!

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Now I’ve lost my solving space.

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I hate it when this happens.

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Ah, but that’s okay,

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because now I have the option to click on the ellipse

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and zoom to view, which will bring me right back

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to where I need to be.

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Let’s have a closer look at these drill holes.

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I’d like to look at the gold

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so we’ll turn on the gold color map,

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but I also have copper values.

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Previously, I would have to look at them separately,

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but now I can scale my radius by a different legend.

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Let’s see how the gold and copper values compare.

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I can also click on each individual disk

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and see the values of my data.

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I can measure distances in 3D.

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It looks like this drill hole spacing is pretty broad,

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so we might need to add another hole between these.

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We also have the ability to adjust the add settings

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by exaggerating the z-axis scale,

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changing the camera angle,

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and choosing whether we want to see the screen grid,

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access lines, scale bar, and compass ball.

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This new functionality allows me to navigate

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to the project much easier,

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see all the data that’s relevant

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and removes the need for me or other team members

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to have access to desktop software

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when not actively updating the model.

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For projects which have a lot of activity,

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being notified every time there is an event

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can be a bit annoying.

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In this new release,

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notifications emails are sent in batches

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every 30 minutes based on the events that occur.

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This reduces the noise for customers

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who are active in Central

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and provides a more effective report structure

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for supervising team members.

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For the third release highlight,

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let’s pretend that I’m a geo-technical engineer

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and I’ve been invited to Central to familiarize myself

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with the project that I will be collaborating on.

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I can use this handy pin scene to quickly open the project

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and the relevant data in the web visualization

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and familiarize myself with the content of the project.

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I can see here that there are three relevant surfaces

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that I will need to do my analysis.

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And I can click on them

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and find their names here in the bottom corner.

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Moving over into GeoStudio Build 3D,

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I have already imported a background mesh

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for the topography of the site.

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Let’s just give that a spin

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and make sure everything looks okay.

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Now to bring in the needed meshes from Central,

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I’ll navigate to Import

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and choose Import Background from Central.

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In this window, I select the Central server,

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then the project name,

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the branch,

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the ID or in this case, we’ll use the latest revision

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and finally the geological model.

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After hitting OK,

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I’ll navigate into the import background window

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and change some of the key settings

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to create these background meshes.

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First off, notice I can select which background meshes

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I want to include from the geological model.

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Further down, we have the transformation section

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of the dialog box.

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Notice once the import is complete

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that the background meshes are not oriented

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with the surface topography.

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From the dropdown, I can select to save transformation,

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which automatically remaps the meshes

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from Leapfrog coordinates to GeoStudio coordinates.

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This moves the base point,

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such that the background meshes are located closer

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to the 0, 0, 0 axes.

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And just like that, I’ve downloaded my meshes from Central

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and I’m ready to use them in GeoStudio.

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To connect with the Central August 2021 release,

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you will need to ensure you are using these versions

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of our desktop solutions.

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In summary, this release of Central

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is probably one of the most significant for Seequent,

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with huge amounts of development time

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and company resources committed to delivering

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the best products and solutions we can

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based on your needs, ideas and suggestions.

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All features, whether they be the creation of scenes,

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improvement of web visualization tools,

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or our phase one integration with GeoStudio

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are all aimed to connect you

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and your multidisciplinary network more strongly,

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visually engage your audience,

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and allow everyone to create a real time,

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subsurface digital twin.

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Before we end our release webinar today,

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we would love to provide you with a sneak peek

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of what other great Central features await you in 2021.

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One of our main objectives

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is to forward our continued software integration,

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not just with GeoStudio but also with Oasis montaj,

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to be able to share even more objects,

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both in the 2D and 3D world as well as taking advantage

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of the model management capabilities of Central.

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Being able to cast an even wider net

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to all stakeholders involved in the project

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is a key component for effective collaboration.

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As such, we will provide the ability

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to share 3D scenes through public sharing

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and embedding capabilities.

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No sign in required, just send the link.

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And finally, it is the little things

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that make such a huge difference to our daily modeling

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and data management routine.

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As such, we are working hard on adding estimation objects

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to support mining customers and partners,

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surface metadata to support our civil customers,

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section line work, both for GeoStudio

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and civil customers and published linked geological models,

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which closes off key feedback

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from the Central 4.0 release.

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As always, you the customer,

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are key in the development of our products,

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and we invite you to continue to share your ideas

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and suggestions .

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Together, we can create a product

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that not only fits your needs today,

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but also anticipates the demands of tomorrow.

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And on that note, I’d like to remind

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and encourage everyone to attend Lyceum 2021.

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For more information and to register,

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head over to seequent.com.

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Thank you so much for attending today.

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I hope this webinar held some valuable information for you.

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And as always, should you have any questions,

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please don’t hesitate to reach out

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and get in touch with us

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through our regional representatives.

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If you have a few minutes to spare,

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I would also like to invite you to a brief survey

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at the end of this presentation

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that will help in identifying what’s important to you

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and what we can do better next time.

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Thanks again and have a wonderful rest of your day.