 Well, hello smart beautiful people own it It's isn't this fun being in a big pack of brilliant people focused on one fascinating thing together It is So before you though go dive into the reason you came here and dive into the details of build packs and run times and Pushing applications to the cloud I just want to focus for a moment with you on what it means and consider what it means to be a Super focused technical solution seeking smarty pants That's what we are and I'm a different kind. I'm a mechanical engineer. So the kinds of Challenges and solutions I work with are very different than yours But the rest of the world kind of doesn't know that They think of us as kind of the same thing like when they're out When they're out At happy hour talking about I wish they talked about this at happy hour This is what I imagine talk about talking about the possibility of running out of fossil fuels Or the excitement that a friend of theirs with a spinal injury could maybe walk again Or how complex it is For an er doctor to be able to pull up our medical records But not your ex-boyfriend to check out what kind of meds you're taking and tell all his friends When they talk about that stuff Eventually one of them just says well, they'll think of something And they mean us And I don't remember. I mean, maybe you guys were more emotionally mature at Oh, we need a slide of them jumping of them stage diving into the yeah, there you that that's you Um Maybe you guys were more mature when you chose your field of study and you knew that you were setting out to help Humanity I was not I was not I don't remember signing up to help anybody I don't even remember Being that connected to other human beings at school Because if you were like me you spent a lot of time alone Did you? It's okay. We're among friends now. That's why we're all here together Because in first grade this is what I remember about first grade in anchor delasca where I went Um, there were reading groups our teachers set up reading groups and they were the zebras And the monkeys and the tigers And I was super psyched because I love animals and any one of those was fine with me I just couldn't wait to figure out what reading group I was in And then I was sitting at my desk Just to read on my own I was pissed a little six-year-old little Pigtails just furious sitting at my desk and looking at all the other reading groups And they looked like they were having a fantastic time Zebras were reading these little cautionary tales really about a fully dressed cat who's clearly a sociopath And they looked like they were having a great time And then the monkeys were reading short little vignettes about colors and fruit And the colors of fruit orange is orange for example Um, and then the tigers from what I could tell were just chewing the erasers off of their giant pencils and occasionally tackling each other and and a little bloodletting Um, but still I want and if you were a tiger don't be ashamed of that because you were probably a math genius Einstein was would have been put in the tiger group But it looked like every group was having more fun than me and that I was somehow being punished And it made me really sad and I thought that maybe the They had little codes on the playground like a tiger would see another tiger from another class and be like Gotcha back Like I don't know because I wasn't part of a group like zebras. Maybe they were like Hey But you weren't in a group either so you don't know Maybe they did that. I just remember feeling kind of disconnected like I was being punished for something and by second Grade or second through sixth grade anytime There was anything to do with reading or spelling or anything I was sent to the library just to read on my own Were you guys ever just sent to the corner to do your own thing? You were in the corner coding second grade I got this And then the library I kept myself busy. I read about um, charlotte the spider and um Hercules and Harriet Tubman the heroes And uh hitler the asshole because even at 10 years old I mean, you know, it's very clear And I felt like And this is why I didn't real feel very altruistic by the time I got out of school I didn't wasn't really interested in helping anybody. I mean by the time I was in sixth grade I had completely run out of material in the library. I was just trying to be helpful I helped the the librarian scraped gum off the bottom of the chairs like I was in a little prison camp Making plans for what happened if things Went bad in Anchorage, Alaska because I had I knew too much by then I'd even researched the atom bomb scraping gum thinking if it got really weird I was going to pull all the tigers together and get them to protect me Because I had also read Lord of the Flies by then I knew how bad it could get and I tell you this because I think being born like we were with a capacity to come up with solutions and to learn really quickly and to focus and to Need to satisfy our curiosity made us quick learners And that was sometimes a little lonely, but really it is a privilege But I think it's a lot like being born into royalty You don't choose it. You really don't choose to be smart and to be quick and to be focused But once you're there, you kind of have an obligation and it is it is A privilege and I know it doesn't feel like a privilege or it didn't feel like it then because we've all worked really hard to be where we are in our careers and it took um a lot of concentration a lot of study to do what we do and face it we survived the loneliness of grade school and the killing fields of the playground Running while the tigers chased you their eraser breath hot on your neck We survived all that We've earned this But it's hard but we are we are privileged and when we not only Have this capacity to help the world and change the world and to innovate But the rest of the world out there the non-technical people They believe that we'll do it unselfishly They believe that we're just happy to help And and luckily that is that is mostly true that we mostly are focused on the facts and focused on real solutions But it's a but we still have a choice really to uh To face this this expectation that our greater ability Means that we owe something greater. It's a um We have a choice to really embrace this noblesse oblige Yeah, I just said that I said no bless oblige Because I'm in a whole room of smart people and I can use big words I can use other languages as needed No bless oblige as you know means the the obligation of the nobility of those born into privilege To be protective and helpful to those not born into privilege And I know that sounds a little bit snobby a little bit Classist in a way, but it's just us so we can talk about this We're smart And there are some people out there who are not as smart and that's okay. We do have an obligation To use our ability to make the world better and it took me a long time to grow into this And I'm in my late 40s now and it took me a lot a lot of my career I was just out to you know have enough independence and enough money and to do what I wanted and be respected for my intelligence And now I realize I have these projects where people could really Get hurt if I do it wrong. I have a project in Portland that I'm working on now With a bunch of great structural engineers and architects real architects And it's a patient tower it's a nine-story patient tower with a psychiatric lockdown and a nICU with these babies Like the size of your hand with people who are Going through Chemotherapy and dialysis. It's this huge tower full of the most vulnerable People in my community and I have to make sure it gets properly Seismically upgraded and that the air flows are changed so that we're not swapping infections from sick people to Babies that it's safe so that the people in lockdown who really can't get out in emergency are still safe and Team has to do it in a way So that if there is an emergency And people go streaming toward hospital at the hospital is still standing. This kind of freaks me out And we're really we're all in this together because 80 years ago if they were power outage or prolonged power outage I'm glad a few candles in a party were good But now between your pack of geniuses and my kind of engineers We make sure that the power is on that the water is running the communications are up And if things go bad If if we don't get this right now they're really in a prolonged outage There really could be and will be food riots I know this because I hosted a tv show where all we did was look at worst-case scenarios And if that happens in fact if there's a power outage for very long since you are the The solution people the technical people your friends and neighbors will come and find you They'll come to your house and they'll expect you to like make a generator out of a stationary bike and a car battery And and purify water from a waiting pool and a bunch of saran wrap Just because they expect you to have answers and they also expect you to do it in a way that's very Generous and and doesn't turn you into like the warlord of clover court. They expect this of you Can I get that next slide and see if you guys do you know who this guy is? This is the super nerd of the world our comedies And he's the this is his moment his eureka moment in the bathtub when he understands buoyancy and then runs out in the street naked Which in high school the way I heard the story was Blah blah blah naked guy in a bathtub blah blah blah naked guy running through the street But he's he's the super nerd and and we retell the story of his death because there's something kind of oddly Sweet about it his um because he's just such a nerd even to the moment of his death And this is kind of what the world expects us to be so above the fray He's Syracuse has been sacked by a roman general and the roman general has said to his soldiers bring this guy back alive Because he's an innovator. He's a smarty pants He's very useful and he's sitting there doing Geometry or something in the sand Doing a new prototype for a water screw and the roman soldier comes up and says come with me and our comedies is go away I'm doing geometry and the roman soldier kills him and there's something so oddly sweet about this story because He's so in love with innovation and and knowledge and invention that he literally dies for it Like he doesn't even bother to look up at this invading soldier Or also it was just a giant misread of social cues which were also known for like you You cannot get any more socially awkward than Stay away from my geometry armed soldier. Yeah, that didn't turn out well for him, but it's kind of sweet That's how the rest of the world thinks of us pure sincere And it's it's kind of terrifying For me, maybe you embraced it early, but I am coming to it late It's a great responsibility and by just showing up at cloud foundry summit today I can tell that you're committed to this especially on the biggest hangover day of the year, right day after mother's day I know stay hydrated Mom's home still drinking Gatorade starts with like one mimosa at brunch Then suddenly it's four in the morning you guys are spray painting obscenities and the window of a quiz nose together I know matching mug shots every year. Do we need another set of mug shots the family album? So you're here obviously because you're committed To sharing technology and self-policing and educating and training the next group coming up and in some ways obviously you've Internalized this oath of the innovator That I will code and build and design with the next coder builder designer in mind I'll leave some breadcrumbs. I'll do it sensibly I will put collective progress before individual recognition Which is funny that this group got it so right because it's something that That governments and hippie communes have been going for since the beginning of mankind and somehow you guys got it right And mostly the oath of the interview the innovator is I will just I will be worthy of the world's trust And that's a big one It's like this guy. We don't really belong in the groups of zebras or monkeys or tigers We are like freaky royal born unicorns the geeky superheroes Next slide geeky superheroes This is not to scale by the way. Just want you to know that I understand that That's that's how superheroes look see these are the beautiful people because we're crucial In fact, some of you've gotten a little bit more beautiful since you walked in Did not expect the group to be this good-looking. I I gotta tell you But whatever we are the world the world believes in us completely and sincerely they trust us They know we will think of something So do that Go think of something Go think of something