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Welcome everyone.

It's great to have you here for the kick-off
of this incarnation of the NAB Hack Day.

Hackathons are a way to drive innovation
out of our people,

to be able to speak to the people on the floor

and hear their ideas

and bring those ideas to fruition

and then put those ideas on display in front
of senior stakeholders.

When a NAB app goes down we want to give
customers the ability to play a game

and the points they win for that game

we will donate money to a charity
of the customer's choice.

The stuff we're working on the moment,
it's called 'Smart's Waiting Branches'

and the idea is that as NAB customers
come into the branch

they can get an accurate
estimate of how long they're going to wait for.

Customers in using online banking it's
a very impersonal experience.

What we're trying to do is at the end of their
transaction we're going to try and give them

a bit of information about our people
and their stories.

We're looking pretty good. We're confident.

We're excited but excited in a nervous way.

You can never tell what's going to happen.

So what we find with Hack Days it
creates an environment that is collaborative,

that's energetic, breaks down barriers.

It's gender inclusive, it's diverse.

So it just creates that sort of fantastic

environment that we want in our workplace.