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Simon Tomes
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.

“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”

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Thanks for being brave with me. It was a tricky topic, but I think people are ready to talk about it. Thanks for diving in and seeing what happens!
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Amazing work
There were a couple of times during the recent LWAI (Leading with AI) conference in London where there were technical difficulties.
These things happen of course.
Spotting that the audience were at risk of disengaging and moving to doom scroll on their phones, Simon jumped to the front, asking what folks were thinking from the current talk so far, engaging the audience, one comment or thought triggering another from someone else or Simon himself.

It felt planned but I was assured it was spur of the moment. It was a really great way to keep folks inspired during these technical difficulties and I felt like Simon deserved some recognition for this!

_almost_ hoping for some technical difficulties at MoTaCon :D 
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Amazing work
Thanks for sharing your insights today in the roundtable on how you're experimenting using Claude skills in the MoTaverse.  I and I'm sure other would like to know the finer detail :-D 
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