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“<br />
Cloud Hero is the most fun I have had at Google Next.<br />
It was a real challenge, so everybody was very<br />
focused and willing to win.<br />
I would say it was very positive and thrilling.<br />
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Lorenzo Ridi<br />
Cloud Hero Winner, Google NEXT<br />
Tel Aviv, Israel<br />
Fun fact: Bethlehem is in Palestine! Which we<br />
were surprised to find out during a tour of Old<br />
Jerusalem. After a successful Cloud Hero event<br />
in Tel Aviv, some of the team decided to stick<br />
around to immerse ourselves in some of the most<br />
historically significant cities in the world. When<br />
our tour of Jerusalem was complete, it was time<br />
to go Bethlehem. We had to switch vehicles and<br />
tour guides to cross the border into Palestine. Our<br />
swanky tour bus was replaced by a series of cars<br />
and vans. Despite the high-speed driving down<br />
narrow and crowded roads, we arrived safely to the<br />
birth sight of baby Jesus. Yeah. THAT baby Jesus.<br />
Lee Christofferson<br />
Head of Production<br />
Bend, Oregon<br />
Bend has a uniform and that uniform is strongly<br />
rooted in flannel and IPA. Cloud Hero Bend was the<br />
inaugural stop for the 2019 Cloud Hero roadshow.<br />
Working with local tech companies and developers,<br />
Launch and Google produced a localized version of<br />
Cloud Hero with an accompanying Exec Connect<br />
roundtable. The event bridged the gap of technology<br />
and business, showcasing the power of GCP and how<br />
transformational it can be for business objectives.<br />
CBD water on tap plus 12 inches of snow made<br />
for an interesting 24 hours in Central Oregon.<br />
Marco Green<br />
Solutions Architect<br />
São Paulo, Brazil<br />
We knew going in that delivering Google Cloud<br />
Hero in Brazil would be challenging due to the<br />
fact that the one person at our company who<br />
spoke Portuguese wasn’t able to make it. Over<br />
the last year as we deployed Cloud Hero 11 times<br />
in 8 countries, we’d relied on the team’s high<br />
school language skills. What did we discover?<br />
That a selfie is a celebration in any language!<br />
The people of São Paulo are creative, business<br />
savvy, entrepreneurial and dedicated to doing<br />
good. During our trip we went from meetings…<br />
to espresso and Pao de Queijo (Brazilian<br />
cheese bread) at an office park with an outdoor<br />
ping pong table and hammocks. Note to self:<br />
install at Launch offices under rain cover!<br />
Leslie Redd<br />
Director<br />
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