Hey, everybody. It is Wednesday night. It means one thing. Tech Vibe Radio is heading your way. And we're jumping right into it. We can't even mess around. Oh, it's great. I'm very excited to have Aaron Watson in the house. Me too. Hey, Aaron. It's a pleasure to be here. Yeah, thanks for stopping. So you're here, and you're going to talk, just tell us quickly about Piper, and then we're going to jump in and talk about this going deep summit. the real reason why you're here.

Sure.

So two years ago, I co-founded a company. And you're going to talk, just tell us quickly about Piper, and then we're going to jump in and talk about this going deep summit.

The real reason why you're here.

Sure. So two years ago, I co-founded a company called Piper Creative with a tremendously talented visual media artist named Hannah Phillips.

And what Piper does is helps our clients primarily in the B2B services sector.

Produced digital media, think LinkedIn videos, YouTube videos, podcasts, all sorts of digital media to help their brand story tell and get exposure on those platforms.

I would call you Pittsburgh, Mr. LinkedIn.

I'll take it.

Just saying, he's got some great strategies around him.

He knows his stuff. But what I think is so cool is that you're doing this going deep summit. This is like a passion of yours. Like putting on events is no easy thing. No. And you guys do a great job with all the tech council events. Thank you. It's not for the light of heart. So when I see someone going out there and trying to not just do an event, but do an event that's really trying to be substantive and really trying to change some minds and get people connected. Yeah. We want to help you promote that. We think it's pretty cool. Yeah. Talk about the premise of it. And then what's the 3.0 version. Yeah. So what we've learned, what we've developed. So this is the third version. The first one was in February of 2018,

I'm sorry, January of 2018, then March of 2019. And now the most recent one, or the up forthcoming

one, is going to be March 28th here in 2020. And the themes of the day are fill your heart,

expand your mind, grow your tribe. And we try to design a day. It's a Saturday full length

in the Union Trust Building to, number one, collect some of the region's most ambitious,

aspirational people, not just to speak on stage, but to be there in the crowd, to learn,

to grow. And both years, we've had people come in from D.C., New York, Chicago, California. It is both

a cultural event for the City of Pittsburgh's aspirational class and one that brings those same

type of characters to the city of Pittsburgh. What was your inspiration to start this up in

the first place? So I went, I've gone to a bunch of events, South by Southwest, collision conference,

DLD, Next Gen Summit, so on and so forth.

And every time while I was attending those, I felt like I was meeting my people.

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