RIVARD REPORT
The Rivard Report is San Antonio’s leading local online news source. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan and we do not have a paywall. Our content is available at no cost to everyone in the city and beyond. We publish without fear or favor, or any obligation to outside owners or interests. We cover all that is best about San Antonio: its personalities, neighborhoods, businesses, culture, cuisine, arts and entertainment. We tackle the city’s problems and challenges, too, and spotlight innovative solutions, many to be found in other cities competing for the next generation of talented workers and their families. For more information visit www.RivardReport.com
Percona
Percona is a leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class support, consulting, managed services, training and software for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, PostgreSQL and other open source databases in on-premises and cloud environments. An unbiased, trusted partner, Percona provides single-source expertise in multi-vendor environments that eliminates lock-in, increases agility and enables business growth.
Our services and software accommodate rapid growth and application development, help you develop and deploy agile solutions and improve your ability to keep up with customer needs.
With Percona open source database expertise your business can avoid downtime and outages, meet expected customer experience, foster operational and developer collaboration and manage enterprise risks through sound database architecture frameworks.
Percona was founded in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko and now employs a global network of experts with a staff of over 170+ people. Our large and diverse customer list boasts one of the highest renewal rates in the business. Our expertise is visible in our widely read Percona Database Performance blog and our book High Performance MySQL.
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Art of Awakening
Art of Awakening is a unique, creative and vibrant consultancy firm offering business and communication solutions using visual thinking processes. Based on the foundation that emotional engagement is the key to learning and greater understanding, we use visual tools, strategies, and frameworks, to simplify and clarify complex communications. We turn your conference, business or learning event into a vibrant, colorful, engaging learning environment. We do that by getting our graphic facilitator in visualizing and synthesizing the conversations, live and in real time, into large colourful posters, using key words, stories and images.
Our visual thinking tools and trainings, support teams to generate more ideas, focus on the shared vision, and see the big picture.
We create an environment allowing participants to re-ignite and focus creativity in individuals, teams, and organizations!
Our esteemed clients include and not limited to Ministry of Education, Civil Service College, Peoples Association, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore Health Alliance, Singapore International Foundation, Human Capital Leadership Institutes, DBS Bank, ING Bank, UOB Bank, BNI Bank, Rolls Royce, Microsoft, Accenture, Bain, SAP, Procter & Gamble, Nike, Sony, PwC, The Economist, Danone, UNESCO, Rockefeller Foundation, Khazanah National, Korn-Ferry, Accenture, Oligvy, and more…
Chief Facilitator
Tim Hamons, is a visual strategist, facilitator and creativity consultant with over 20 years of experience in the corporate world, largely developing and delivering visual communication programs, creativity trainings, and facilitating events using a combination of visual storytelling, process tools, and live sketching.
Tim’s passion is bringing people to a higher level of performance and purpose through innovative thinking and tools, engaged teams, and collaborative work environments. As a speaker, he uses live sketching in his presentations to frame the key messages for the audience.
