Hi everybody,
I need to write this out to You right now, because I already have so many beautiful and interesting news in my pipeline, which I would like to share with You, and I don`t want to run the risk, to lose this opportunity because of so many more new events, travels and activities coming up next.
And the moment for me to write this post could not be better. I have just finished a fully wonderful week of participation in the AMCHAM Brazil Mission to Recife, at 2652 road kilometres distance from the small town Vinhedo in the interior of Sao Paulo state, where I live, and where we altogether – a group of approx. 100 empreneurs and executives from all over Brazil – have participated in the great Rec`n Play (https://recnplay.pe/) event, a festival of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with more than 70.000 participants.
But I will not give You insights today about my participation in our Mission and my personal & professional experiences during Rec`n Play and this week in Recife, my 2nd home since meanwhile 20 years.
As most of You have already become aware from my frequent publications in linkedin (www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-friedrich-hepp-51991520) and instagram/facebook (klausfhepp), I have been travelling and participating in exciting events non-stop since my “Independence Day” September 1st, 2024.
Today, saturday, was a wonderfully warm day here in Candeias, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Greater Recife, where my familly owns a small but very beautiful “flat” in a tall building close to the beach. Actually this has meanwhile become my 2nd home besides our house in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo, and I always fully enjoy the totally natural, non-touristic ambient in this part of the city, where hardly foreigners end up and where the local residents go after their normal occupations without any hectic and stress.
Now its night and I have just returned from my evening walk on the still crowded beach. Time does not stand still here, but it definitely doesn`t fly…
What I have chosen as content for sharing with You tonight is my last week`s participation in the incredible AMCHAM Talks 2024 (https://talks.amcham.com.br/) in Campinas, an important and very beautiful Festival of Tendencies & Innovation.
Actually during abril this year, when I decided to do the re-branding and facelift for KFH IM & Consulting Services Ltda (kfhservices.com), my own company, which I had founded immediately after my arrival from Mexico back (home) to Brazil during 2010, I came to the conclusion that I should present myself and my freshly relaunched company to the public and participate in an appropriate public event.
Finally, when I decided during june to join AMCHAM, which I knew and esteemed since many years, as an associate with my company, it was an almost natural consequence that I decided to become a sponsor for AMCHAM Talks 2024 and to participate with an own exhibitor booth and a panel speech.
On the eve of AMCHAM Talks my friends and supporters from the amazingly creative small brazilian digital marketing agency AMPLIA (amplia.derybr.com.br) and I had a last detailed look at our booth and cleared out some remaining organizational questions.
My first ever own booth at an exhibition !!!
What made me feel extremely happy and proud was the fact, that my lovely wife Selma and our great sons Gabriel and Geywison promised to participate together with me and many of our friends all day in the event.
I love my familly !!! Gabriel, Selma and Geywison together with me at our booth at AMCHAM Talks 2024 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
It was a wonderful day and event. Many friends visited us at our booth and I also made a lot of new friends. At this kind of events almost all participants are totally openminded, have interesting experience & qualification backgrounds, like to make new acquaintances and love to exchange experiences & insights. To be true – the main objective for most of us as participants in such events is the excellent opportunity for networking and getting to know new things.
For sure my panel speech under the title “From Employee to Entrepreneur: Paths & Learnings” was the absolute highlight of the day for me, my familly our friends. I admit that I was not nervous at all before and during my speech. I have lost the nervosity during such acts completely several years ago. For sure due to my numerous speeches, presentations and round table and discussion panel participations during all these years and in many different countries. Today I fully enjoy it as a form of expression and communication with the different audiences.
Live on the stage…
What impressed all of us at Campinas was the great number of people listening to my speech.
I since ever prefer to speak freely to the audience instead of having a prepared, written down speech text.
Wow – a real crowd of listeners to my speech…
Now I will share two real insights with You:
1st insight: It was very moving for me to receive such a lot of warm-hearted and supportive compliments about the beauty of my branding, my booth and recognition and approval about my speech from so many wonderful people.
2nd insight: My friends from “my” digital marketing agency Amplia had – with the help of AI – prepared a “movie” about all stages of my life from out of a lot of fotos, which really deeply impressed me. The only detail which I did not like at all was that they – for technical reasons – needed to substitute the heads of my two beloved rabbits by heads of two cats…
Here comes this “movie”:
And here`s my presentation which I had used as a backdrop…
Im not sure, whether this sharing of my powerpoint presentations will work 4 you. If not, I´ll share all single charts. Let me try this out first. Didnt work. Please find here the video version of my speech presentation including a mixture of publications from my “Aforismos de Klaus” (https://www.linkedin.com/company/105122589) :
This is the movie version of my presentation – upgraded by interspersed publications from my series “Aforisms de Klaus”
No way out – as this is a video without music, I need to publish immediately one of my favorite brazilian music videos:
Its midnight now. Time to have a nap. Tomorrow is coming soon and I will fly home to São Paulo in the afternoon. On monday I`ll be leaving for important business activities in bloody cold Germany.
See you soon back again here in my blog. Take care !
