 We sit here today in Portland with an auditorium full of float center owners, float researchers, float tank manufacturers, float tank associations, and generally just fanatics in the world of floating. A community of people that seems to have discovered a secret calmness in the world of otherwise great calamity and chaos. We're all here today because I think we all feel a drive, a force that has been pushing us all since the time that we first stepped into one of those first salty chambers. A force that drives us all to tell every person we meet and every person that we see on the street about floating and about how much that it can impact their lives. It's this drive that brought us all here today. The dedication to giving floating to the world the way that tanks have given to all of us. The undeniable force that pushes us all to build float tanks and start centers and push forward research and legislation and as each of us pushes with as much energy as we can we begin to build up steam and steam has been building. We can all feel it. We all know that it's happening, it's the reason that we have so many people here today. In 2010 a float summit was held in London, it was the first conference of its kind in the float community in almost 20 years and it was attended by just over 20 people. We sit here just two years later with 165 people in this auditorium right now which I actually just found out about five minutes ago from Peter Sudfeld and Rod Borey that this is the largest float tank conference that has ever happened. So congratulations to all you guys for being a part of it. While these numbers may seem a little small in comparison to the giant industries that kind of dominate the public spotlight that we know of in our world, the rate of growth that we see in this field of floating I think is tremendous. I mean to go from 20 to 165 in two years is something that I think is hardly rivaled by many other industries in this world and so we should all feel proud of that. And this growth is going to continue and we're here to guarantee that it's going to continue. We've all flown and driven and bussed and biked and hitch-kiked from across the world to gather in this auditorium to guarantee that that growth is going to continue. Because time and again we have managed to demonstrate that as a community we are more powerful than us as individuals. By helping each other out with our knowledge and experience we all gain and we all grow and this too will continue. This quality of sharing and generosity is embedded in us from being in the tank. It's what's brought us here. It's what makes us drawn to each other. The force that has pulled us into this shared space. Look around you here in the auditorium. These are your people, your fellow floaters. These are the people that make it seem like no matter where in the world you've traveled from, be it Sweden or Poland, Australia or Taiwan, that you have in fact been traveling not farther away but closer. These people around you are the people that would create your future with you. We are the people that are laying the foundation of an industry that is ready to explode and together we can make that foundation strong. So welcome everyone. Welcome to your conference. Welcome to your community and welcome home. We have an awesome lineup of people today and I'm just going to get right to it and say let's have a freaking conference.