The 25 people defining Ohio’s AI economy

Ask most people where America's AI boom is happening, and they'll point to a coast. They'd be missing the story.

In Ohio, artificial intelligence isn't an abstraction or theoretical exercise. It's already on the job — digesting thousands of pages of child-welfare files so caseworkers can spend their hours with families, planning heart surgeries before a scalpel is ever lifted, welding the hulls of Navy ships, answering election officials' questions around the clock, and, yes, delivering a pastrami sandwich by drone.

It's happening because three things are converging at once: major capital flowing into the state, a wave of homegrown innovation, and a deep commitment to education and workforce readiness. Investment, innovation, and education — together, they're the foundation of an AI economy that belongs to Ohio.

That's what AI25 is built to recognize. Presented by Ohio Tech News and OhioX, it's a new annual honor spotlighting 25 people making a real AI impact across the state — founders and innovators, enterprise leaders and public-sector champions, educators preparing the next generation, and investors betting that incredible companies can be built in Ohio. They share a sensibility that feels distinctly Ohioan: not simply interested in what AI might someday, but what it can do right now, responsibly, for real people.

These honorees make up the inaugural People & Practitioners class — one of AI25's two categories, with Companies & Organizations to follow later this month. 

Here are 25 leaders building Ohio's AI future.

Shereen Agrawal: Associate Vice President, Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Executive Director, Center for Software Innovation, The Ohio State University (Columbus)

Shereen Agrawal is helping Ohio State translate its scale into one of the country's most ambitious university-led AI playbooks. As the inaugural executive director of Ohio State's Center for Software Innovation and, since January 2026, also associate vice president of student innovation and entrepreneurship, she has been a driving force behind the university's AI Fluency initiative, which partners across campus and faculty to embed AI education across the undergraduate curriculum, teaching students to critically evaluate and innovate with AI tools in field-specific contexts rather than only use them. In November 2025 she convened the inaugural AI Fluency Forum, moderating a cross-disciplinary panel on responsible adoption. A Harvard MBA who previously helped scale Root Insurance through its initial public offering (IPO) and led partnerships at Twitter and Cloudera, Agrawal is connecting Ohio's flagship research university to the startup economy growing up around it.

Rehgan Avon: Co-Founder & CEO, AlignAI; Founder, Women in Analytics (Columbus)

Rehgan Avon has spent the last decade building Columbus into a national hub for women in data and AI while architecting how enterprises actually adopt the technology. As co-founder and CEO of AlignAI, the Context Engine for enterprise AI, she helps organizations roll out governed AI at scale, work that earned her a spot among the 11 inaugural recipients of the Ohio Trailblazers Award presented by Verizon in 2025. She founded Women in Analytics in 2016, growing it into a global community of more than 7,000 members and putting more than 500 women on its stages. Its flagship event, the DataConnect Conference, returns to Columbus October 29-30, 2026, cementing the city's reputation as a destination for data and AI talent.

Lisa Chambers: CEO, TECH CORPS (Columbus)

Lisa M. Chambers has spent more than two decades making sure no Ohio kid gets locked out of the tech economy. As CEO of Columbus-based TECH CORPS, the national nonprofit she has led since 2011, Chambers oversees hands-on, career-connected learning experiences that help students build the skills, confidence, and awareness needed to succeed in an increasingly digital and AI-driven economy. Under her leadership, TECH CORPS has reached tens of thousands of students, prepared hundreds of educators, and engaged thousands of technology professionals as volunteers — and it is now pursuing an ambitious goal to reach 300,000 students nationwide by 2030 while expanding access in both urban and rural communities.

Chambers also helped launch Ohio's first AI pre-apprenticeship program, enabling high school students to earn industry-recognized credentials and real-world experience before graduation. Across every TECH CORPS program, whether serving students directly or preparing educators to lead, she champions an approach that helps young people understand, question, and responsibly use AI for problem-solving, career exploration, and skill-building in age-appropriate ways. A longtime advocate for computer science education who has served on Ohio's State Committee on Computer Science, Chambers remains one of the state's leading voices for the policies and partnerships that strengthen its technology talent pipeline — ensuring the next generation of talent is prepared to thrive.

Aaron Chow: Founder & CEO, Vixiv (Cincinnati)

Aaron Chow is building one of Ohio's most technically ambitious AI startups. As Founder and CEO of Cincinnati-based Vixiv, originally launched in 2024 as Voxel, Chow leads development and commercialization of an AI-driven generative design platform that produces validated, manufacturing-ready components for high-performance engineering. The company's edge is rare: a physics-based prediction engine trained on tens of thousands of physically tested parts rather than synthetic data, enabling the company to generate working optimized designs in minutes that traditionally take months. These parts then can be produced by Vixiv and delivered directly to customers, ensuring everyone can get access to the benefits of Vixiv AI. A Forbes 30 Under 30 and Next25 honoree, Chow has positioned the company at the intersection of AI, additive manufacturing, and materials science, with growing intellectual property (IP) across defense and medical applications and Cincinnati as its anchor.

Katrina Flory: Chief Information Officer, State of Ohio (Columbus)

As Ohio's State Chief Information Officer (CIO), Katrina Flory is responsible for the IT strategy and digital infrastructure that powers every state agency, and she has positioned Ohio as one of the most disciplined adopters of AI in U.S. state government. A career public servant who has helped shape Ohio's technology agenda across four governors and seven prior CIOs, Flory sits on the Ohio AI Council, which now governs over 130 approved AI use cases, with 87 in use and the remaining in development or proof of concept phases across state agencies.

Under her leadership, more than 15,000 state employees have been trained on responsible AI use through InnovateUS curriculum aligned to Ohio's AI policy, supported by a dedicated AI multi- environment sandbox, "Thrive Thursdays" hands-on sessions and additional role-based training opportunities. The State’s AI governance process was designed to support the DeWine-Tressel Administration’s focus on responsible use of AI while leveraging technology and innovation to improve service delivery.

Lisa Gray: President, Ohio Excels (Columbus)

Lisa Gray has spent her career working to improve outcomes for every Ohio student, and she's now helping ensure the state's classrooms are ready for the AI era. As founding president of Ohio Excels, the nonpartisan coalition of Ohio business leaders focused on education, Gray brings an informed industry perspective to K-12 policy at the Statehouse. She was a key convener alongside then-Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted on Ohio's AI in Education Coalition Strategy, the comprehensive K-12 roadmap released in November 2024, and she continues to champion AI fluency and career-connected learning as essential preparation for Ohio's future workforce.

Jerry Felix: Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Brain-CA Technologies (Cincinnati)

Jerry Felix is rethinking the physics of AI. After nearly 25 years at Cincinnati-based Electronic Commerce Link (EC Link), including six as CEO through its acquisition, he launched Brain-CA Technologies in November 2023. As Chief Architect, Felix is the inventor behind a patented cellular-automata-based AI architecture — protected by three issued U.S. patents — that learns without traditional matrix math, scales naturally, and uses a fraction of the components of a conventional neural network. At its core is the Brain-CA Estimator, an integer-only, parameter-free learning device he positions as a building block for AI the way a transistor is for digital logic. It runs the Cincinnati Algorithm, a procedure whose behavior is consistent with Bayesian inference and named in a nod to the company's Ohio roots.

The work has drawn real validation: a "Most Innovative Paper" award at an ISCA 2025 workshop, first silicon now in bring-up at TSMC, and selection by Silicon Catalyst, the semiconductor industry's most selective startup accelerator, alongside participation in the NVIDIA, Intel, and Google startup programs. Felix is also co-author of "The Intelligence Shift," with co-founder and CEO Steve Brunker. With a deeply Ohio-rooted founding team, he is making the state an unlikely but credible hub for first-principles AI hardware.

Beth Flippo: Founder & CEO, Dexa (Dayton)

Beth Flippo is making Ohio a national proving ground for autonomous drone delivery. As founder and CEO of Dayton-based Dexa, the company rebranded from Drone Express, Flippo leads one of only four U.S. operators holding all three critical Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) credentials: airworthiness certification, a Part 135 Air Carrier Certificate, and a national Beyond Visual Line of Sight waiver, putting Dexa in elite company alongside Amazon, Wing, and Zipline. Dexa designs and manufactures its DE-2020 hexacopter in Dayton, uses onboard AI (developed with Microsoft) to identify safe landing zones mid-flight, and on June 4, 2026 completed Ohio's first-ever commercial food drone delivery, a pastrami sandwich from All The Best Delicatessen, fittingly in the birthplace of aviation. Flippo's thesis: level the playing field for neighborhood retailers through autonomous local commerce.

Gary Heinze: Founder & CEO, Northwoods (Dublin)

Gary Heinze has spent more than two decades building technology for one of the least glamorous and most consequential corners of government: child welfare and human services casework. Founder and CEO of Dublin-based Northwoods since 2003, he leads a company whose tools are now used by caseworkers across 13 states, including all 88 Ohio counties.

The company's Traverse platform, first released in 2016 and now powered by Anthropic models running on AWS Bedrock, lets caseworkers digest thousands of pages of case files in minutes, generate summaries and surface critical insights, work that used to take hours or days. The measurable results matter: roughly $50 saved per worker per day in overtime and mileage, an estimated $54,000 saved each time a county avoids replacing a caseworker, and faster audit prep with more accurate documentation. Under Heinze's leadership, Northwoods has become a national model for human-centered, responsibly deployed government AI, proving that Ohio's most consequential AI story may be unfolding inside its county human services agencies rather than its data centers.

Jon Husted: U.S. Senator (Columbus)

Few public officials have done more to position Ohio at the leading edge of artificial intelligence than Senator Jon Husted. As Lieutenant Governor, Husted convened the OH | AI Forums in Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati, uniting educators, industry and policymakers around practical AI action. That work produced two landmark deliverables: the AI K-12 Education Toolkit, advancing AI literacy and ethical classroom use, and Ohio's AI in Education Coalition Strategy, a comprehensive K-12 roadmap released in November 2024 that has since become a reference point for other states. As a champion of tech and AI economic development, Husted helped stand up Ohio's AI-driven workforce platforms and was instrumental in landing transformational investments in the state, including Anduril Industries' selection of Pickaway County for Arsenal-1, the defense technology giant's first hyperscale manufacturing facility for autonomous, AI-enabled systems. 

Now in the U.S. Senate, Husted has carried that agenda to Washington, introducing the bipartisan RAISE Act to make AI literacy a core K-12 standard, pushing for federal investment in AI workforce training and rural broadband, and serving as a consistent voice for Ohio technology leadership on national policy. Whether at the Statehouse or on Capitol Hill, Husted has been remarkably disciplined about a single thesis: that Ohio's people, classrooms and industries should help write the rules for how AI shows up in American life.

Srini Koushik: Founder & CEO, Right Brain Labs; Executive Advisor for AI Fluency, Ohio State Fisher College of Business (New Albany)

Srini Koushik has spent more than 35 years as an innovator and operator at the edge of emerging technology, and he is spending his next chapter on a harder question: what happens to human judgment when machines start doing the thinking? One of IBM's youngest-ever Distinguished Engineers, he went on to serve as CIO of Nationwide, CEO of NTT Innovation, CIO of Magellan Health, and President of AI and Sustainability at Rackspace — a track record that earned him a 2023 CIO Hall of Fame induction and three CIO of the Year honors.

In October 2025, he launched Right Brain Labs, built on a conviction he carried out of that work: AI is most dangerous not when it fails, but when it works so well that people quietly stop thinking for themselves. His point isn't that AI should be resisted, but that human agency should never be surrendered to it — so that human capability is amplified, never replaced. The foundation of his work isn't just teaching people to use AI, but teaching them to think with it. In December 2025, Ohio State University named him Executive Advisor for AI Fluency at the Fisher College of Business, where he is driving the university's commitment to AI fluency for every graduate by 2029.

Mark Kvamme: Co-Founder & CEO, The O.H.I.O. Fund (Columbus)

Mark Kvamme has spent the last decade-plus betting, repeatedly and at scale, that Ohio can be a national tech and capital hub, and he keeps being right. A former Sequoia Capital partner who became the architect and inaugural director of JobsOhio under Governor John Kasich, Kvamme later co-founded Columbus-based Drive Capital, the $2.2 billion venture firm that helped seed a generation of Midwest tech companies.

In June 2024 he launched The O.H.I.O. Fund with Ray Leach, Mike Venerable and Jill Meyer, an evergreen, Temasek-inspired vehicle designed to keep growth capital inside the state and stop Ohio's best companies from selling themselves out of it. The fund has since grown to $647 million and is increasingly leaning into physical AI as a thesis. Take the fund's investment in Dublin-based EASE Logistics: it funded an AI tool built with Columbus-based Jakib.ai that helps the company make smarter freight decisions in real time. The bigger point: physical AI only creates value when there are real people and real infrastructure to back it up. Ohio, Kvamme argues, has more of that than almost anywhere in the country.

Frank LaRose: Ohio Secretary of State (Columbus)

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose has positioned his office as one of the nation’s leading examples of practical AI adoption in government. Under his leadership, the Office of the Ohio Secretary of State developed and implemented its first AI-use policy, empowering staff to responsibly leverage emerging technology to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and better serve Ohioans.

In November 2025, LaRose unveiled the Elections Virtual Assistant (EVA), Ohio’s first AI-powered election administration assistant. Available 24/7 to election officials in all 88 county boards of elections, EVA is trained exclusively on Ohio’s 524-page Election Official Manual and annual election calendar. By delivering source-grounded answers in seconds, EVA eliminates hours of manual research, streamlines election administration, and allows legal and policy staff to focus on higher-value work requiring human judgment and expertise.

EVA is part of a broader modernization effort led by LaRose that includes real-time voter registration dashboards, advanced voter roll integrity systems, and other data-driven tools that enhance transparency, accuracy, and public confidence. Together, these initiatives have positioned Ohio as a national leader in the responsible use of artificial intelligence and data technology in the public sector.

Alex Lonsberry: Co-Founder & CTO, Path Robotics (Columbus)

Alex Lonsberry is the technical architect behind one of Ohio's most ambitious AI companies. A Case Western Reserve robotics PhD, Alex co-founded Path Robotics alongside his brother Andy and has worked from day one to build the company's AI and hardware platforms. As Chief Technology Officer, he leads development of Obsidian, Path's foundational physical AI model trained on tens of millions of welded inches, and the recently launched Rove mobile welding system, which pairs Obsidian with a quadruped "walking" robot to bring autonomous welding directly to large structures in shipyards and heavy construction. His engineering leadership is anchoring serious AI robotics research and development in Columbus.

Andy Lonsberry: Co-Founder & CEO, Path Robotics (Columbus)

Andy Lonsberry is putting Ohio at the leading edge of physical AI for manufacturing. After earning his PhD in robotics from Case Western Reserve, he co-founded Path Robotics in 2018 with his brother Alex, scaling the company from a basement project to the global leader in AI-driven welding. As CEO, Lonsberry has driven a breakout 2026: a memorandum of understanding with HII, the nation's largest military shipbuilder, to bring physical AI welding to U.S. Navy shipyards, and a parallel partnership with Saronic for autonomous vessel production in Louisiana. Path has now raised more than $370 million to address the projected 320,500-welder shortage by 2030.

Melanie McGee: Co-Founder & CEO, SkillSpout (Cleveland)

Mel McGee has been building AI long before it was fashionable, with nearly three decades spent making sure Ohio's workforce comes along for the ride. Her early work included conversational AI agents like "Zoe" in the 2000s. Today she leads SkillSpout™, a Cleveland-based firm helping companies adopt AI responsibly through its Human-First AI Maturity Model, with people at the center. 

Under her leadership, SkillSpout has helped Ohio businesses secure more than $2 million in state funding to deploy AI thoughtfully across the workforce. McGee also architected the live "AI Panelist" for the Greater Cleveland Partnership, putting AI directly in front of the region's largest chamber of commerce. She has since built SkillSpout into an AI-native organization through ExoCog, her own agentic AI system now being brought to market, proving the model she helps other companies build. Named a 2025 "Progressive Entrepreneur" honoree and featured in Cleveland Magazine's 2026 Community Leader series, she bridges deep code and human capital as one of Ohio's most pragmatic voices on responsible AI adoption.

Joseph Ours: Partner, AI Solutions, Centric Consulting (Westerville)

Joseph Ours was working on enterprise AI strategy long before ChatGPT made it a boardroom topic, and that head start is showing up in how Ohio organizations actually adopt the technology. As the partner leading Centric Consulting's AI Solutions practice, the Westerville-based strategist has built and scaled the firm's AI service offerings across Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, positioning Centric as a trusted advisor for Ohio enterprises navigating complex AI transformations. 

A Forbes Technology Council member and frequent keynote speaker at RIMS, PMI, SIM and AHIMA events, Ours focuses relentlessly on AI readiness, governance and the gap between hype and operational reality. His team built an AI governance framework grounded in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework for a major Ohio property and casualty insurer, and he is currently leading a high-profile engagement with a major Ohio city, rolling out enterprise-wide AI governance alongside Microsoft Copilot Chat and two strategic Copilot agent use cases, making him one of the most consequential practitioners shaping how responsible AI gets deployed across Ohio's public and private sectors.

Bharath Prabhakaran: Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati)

Bharath Prabhakaran put the University of Cincinnati on the national map as the first Ohio university to launch its own private AI platform. Under his leadership, UC's Digital Technology Solutions team built BearcatGPT, a secure, university-only generative AI environment, a "walled garden," as he describes it, where data never leaves to train outside models. Rolled out to faculty and staff in late 2025 and expanded to all UC students in February 2026, the platform now serves roughly 70,000 users and hosts nearly 100 custom agents, including Bearcat Study Pal, Bearcat Test-Prepper and Bearcat Genius. A former Oracle product leader with 28-plus years in IT, Prabhakaran was named 2025 Ohio ORBIE Enterprise CIO of the Year and now sits on Microsoft's Higher Education Advisory Board, extending Cincinnati's voice into the national conversation on responsible AI in higher ed.

Lakshmi Prasad Dasi: Founder & Chief Technology Officer, DASI Simulations (Dublin)

Dr. Lakshmi Prasad Dasi is rewriting how cardiologists plan complex heart procedures from a base in suburban Columbus. A former Ohio State biomedical engineering professor, he co-founded DASI Simulations in 2019 to commercialize technology born out of his Ohio State lab, AI- and computer-vision-powered "digital twins" of individual patients' hearts that let surgeons virtually test transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and other structural heart interventions before ever entering an operating room.

The platform, cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has since secured Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement approval, opening a scalable path for clinical adoption, and in October 2025 Medtronic announced a strategic partnership with the company to advance predictive, personalized TAVR planning. By combining fluid dynamics, advanced imaging and AI, and keeping the company's roots in Ohio's life sciences ecosystem, Dasi is helping make precision structural heart care a national standard, with Ohio at the center.

Paul Roetzer: Founder & CEO, Marketing AI Institute and SmarterX (Cleveland)

Few Ohioans have championed AI for as long, or as publicly, as Paul Roetzer. A graduate of Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Cleveland-based Roetzer founded the Marketing AI Institute in 2016, six years before ChatGPT, making him one of the earliest voices arguing that AI would reshape business. In 2019 he launched the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON), which now draws thousands of marketers, executives, and AI leaders to Cleveland each year, putting Ohio on the global map for AI events. Roetzer is also co-author of Marketing Artificial Intelligence, co-host of The Artificial Intelligence Show podcast, and a leading evangelist for approachable, human-centered AI literacy.

Grant Schneider: CTO, Upstart (Columbus)

Grant Schneider is one of the people most responsible for putting Columbus on the AI and fintech map. A southeast Ohio native with three Ohio State degrees, including a PhD in statistics, Schneider joined Upstart in 2014 as one of its earliest machine learning engineers, helping build the AI-powered lending models that underpin one of the most-cited examples of consumer AI at scale. In 2018, he helped bring Upstart's second headquarters to Columbus, arguing the city had "all the ingredients to become the next great tech center in the U.S.," and then built it, growing the Short North office into a meaningful hub for AI, data science and engineering talent in central Ohio. After serving as Upstart's VP of Machine Learning and helping scale the platform through more than $40 billion in originations, Schneider rejoined as Chief Technology Officer in February 2026 amid the company's leadership evolution.

Off the clock, he's also putting capital back into the part of Ohio that raised him, leading the adaptive reuse of Marietta's historic Glass Press buildings into a mixed-use development with a food hall, coffee shop, office space, apartments and a family arcade. It's a telling combination: an AI executive helping a frontier-coast company succeed from Columbus while reinvesting in Appalachian Ohio's main streets.

Beena Sukumaran: Dinesh & Ila Paliwal Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing, Miami University (Oxford)

Dean Beena Sukumaran is positioning Miami University as one of the most forward-leaning engineering and computing colleges in Ohio. Since taking the helm of the College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) in 2020, she has led the launch of Ohio's first Bachelor of Science in Quantum Computing, and the first in the nation focused on software applications, alongside a new AI degree program distinguished by its focus on building AI systems, not just using AI tools, and on applying AI responsibly across industries. A civil engineer by training and former Vice President for Research at Rowan University, Sukumaran is also a national leader on inclusive engineering education, recipient of the 2020 WEPAN Inclusive Culture and Equity Award, and a key voice building Ohio's next-generation quantum and AI workforce.

Ratmir Timashev: Founder, OH.io (Columbus)

No private individual has bet more on Ohio's tech future than Ratmir Timashev. An Ohio State graduate student turned serial entrepreneur, Timashev co-founded Veeam Software in Columbus in 2006 and grew it into the global leader in cloud data protection before its $5 billion sale to Insight Partners in 2020. In 2023, the Timashev Family Foundation made a record-setting $110 million gift, the largest single donation in Ohio State history, to establish the Center for Software Innovation, anchoring entrepreneurship education and the Techstars Columbus accelerator. He has now committed more than $200 million to making Columbus a technology capital, including launching OH.io, a privately funded initiative to bring 100 global B2B software and AI startups to base their U.S. commercial operations in Columbus.

Katie Trauth Taylor: Co-Founder & CEO, Narratize (Cincinnati)

Katie Trauth Taylor is Co-Founder and CEO of Narratize, an AI-native product knowledge orchestration platform helping research and development (R&D) and innovation teams turn expertise into competitive advantage. A Purdue PhD, she founded the company in 2022 alongside Catherine O'Shea as Chief Product Officer. Today, Narratize serves leading organizations across manufacturing, consumer goods, and engineered systems with AI agents that accelerate product development and portfolio decisions. Following earlier backing from North Coast Ventures, Engage, and Comcast, the company recently completed a new round led by Astia and Silicon Road Ventures. Katie is helping establish Cincinnati as a hub for applied enterprise AI.

Julia Wynn: Senior Director of State Government Affairs, CodeAI (formerly Code.org) (Columbus)

Columbus-based Julia Wynn is leading the charge to make computer science and AI education a foundational part of every Ohio student's experience. As Senior Director of State Government Affairs at CodeAI, the national nonprofit committed to digital fluency for every student through computer science, AI science, and data science, Wynn convenes the Ohio Computer Science Advocacy Coalition, a diverse group of industry, K-12, higher education, and nonprofit organizations united around computer science for Ohio students and the state's economy. Wynn has been a leading advocate at the Statehouse for a computer science and AI graduation requirement, arguing it is the single most impactful policy for closing access and participation gaps. Her work is positioning Ohio students to have agency in an AI-driven society and to be prepared for the in-demand careers of the next decade.

Twenty-five names can't capture everything happening in Ohio AI right now — and that's rather the point. We received submissions from across the state, and the process was highly competitive. Consider this list a snapshot, and an early one at that; the Companies & Organizations honorees arrive later this month.

A project like this depends on people willing to read closely, weigh hard tradeoffs, and make the tough calls about who makes the list. Our deepest thanks to the reviewers who lent their time and judgment to AI25:

Duane Powell, Miro Humer, Anthony Joy, Standish Stewart, Tony Pietrocola, Todd James, Pinak Barve, Aud Jucaitis, Jessica Sublett, Tim Grace, Jessica Kopelwitz, Colleen Bush, Kristy Campbell, Patricia Colella, Ilana Habib, Brian Boye, Cheryl Turnbull, Arun Moolchandani, Steve Cross, Fe MacKinnon, Tonjia Coverdale, Elizabeth Crowe, and Keith Instone.

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