 All right, you know, I think we're ready to kind of get started. It's 9 a.m. It's exciting just it's You know still a little bit weird to kind of be back, you know speaking at conferences and seeing people in person So I definitely want to Extend kind of a warm welcome and thank you for everyone showing up when we were originally Planning this event we were gonna do it as part of open source, you know some at Europe But we were lucky to have our collaborators in the Finnaz foundation that we're like Hey, we're doing something, you know in London. Let's let's see if we can make Ospo con Europe. So, you know, I definitely Thank everyone for taking the time to show up. This is our first, you know Ospo con you know in Europe that were that we're doing recently held one in North America in Seattle, which was fantastic to kind of see our North American community You know in terms of the event today, we have a lot of great talks, you know throughout You know the day planned, you know, just simple reminders regarding You know, we're all getting back to the whole conference scene So we have, you know, very strict health and safety guidelines, you know at this event So I'm sure you saw it as soon as you walked in, you know, be reasonable Respect people's space and so on there's little stickers you could put all put on in terms of Indicating your level of comfort and speaking with folks You know typical things regarding like Wi-Fi passwords on the back of your, you know You know badge and so on. So if you need anything, please reach out to either the event staff or Ann and I will help out Also want to thank our, you know sponsors that kind of came together to make this happen. So AWS Thank you for, you know, sponsoring this event from your Ospo. You have a great Organization there and the Alfred Sloan Foundation, which kind of helped bring some some folks here. So Thanks and and welcome truly welcome So they're gonna kick things off before I hand it off, you know to Anna, you know I'm sure a lot of you have kind of heard this phrase that, you know, every company is becoming, you know, a software company and You know, what's interesting is, you know, it's almost every week You kind of hear these quotes or stories from organizations that like Got to bring software development in-house or you know, we have to figure out how to, you know You know, build things ourselves and you know, potentially leveraging external folks We kind of got to kind of control our destiny and there was a recent quote out there from Porsche, which You know, you know famous automotive company that, you know, essentially they need to embrace You know software as one of these core competencies competencies is not something that they could just purely, you know You know outsource or, you know, not really handle that, you know, themselves, you know They establish an open-source office because most of software these days, you know Is available through open-source means and done through open-source collaboration and you kind of hear the quotes and reasoning You know from Porsche here is basically, you know, they're getting higher levels of maturity, you know through, you know, open-source You know lower costs, you know better transparency faster development cycles all things that benefit the actual end users of, you know Their product which is which is vehicles so and this trend is happening in all different sectors not only just, you know Technology but, you know, you know automotive, you know, we're even seeing You know, Ospo is being established in a variety of, you know academic settings research settings, you know governments and so on So, you know the power of kind of open-source to improve, you know Efficiency from, you know, a development perspective from a collaboration perspective is just it's happening everywhere So this is just something to kind of, you know, keep with you today, you know As we kind of go through and hear different people speaking from their different perspective and, you know I think, you know, one silver lining of the pandemic has been I think, you know It's kind of forced companies to, you know, accelerate and kind of deal with this, you know issue essentially It's kind of given them an accelerated digital transformation that they may have ignored, you know Or kind of deep prioritized before, you know that the pandemic happened so You know, a lot of these organizations are establishing open-source centers of competency or Ospo's, you know, colloquially You know, why are they doing this? And, you know, generally to have a You know, in order to basically, you know, have, you know A body with an organization to kind of truly focus on a particular problem is basically the only way to kind of really truly, you know Bring focus, you know, to something and, you know, as open-source percolates with an organization Generally, you have a couple folks or, you know, single body that's generally responsible for, you know, the management, you know Of kind of open-source policy. Sometimes, you know, a lot of these open-source Organizations or Ospo's are focused on, you know, it's either developer efficiency. It could be compliance It could be fostering business and partnership Relationship. It could be helping with hiring. There's kind of a variety of different things that You have to do to kind of truly participate in an open-source ecosystem and actually see the benefit, you know From an organization perspective. So, you know, you know, quickly these, you know These kind of open-source center of companies are called Ospo's. They've kind of existed for You know, it's about 20 years, maybe officially, you know, based on the first name I think if you kind of look at the history, you know, one of the first Ospo's came You know, from kind of the mid-90s timeframe, if you remember Company called Sun, you know, they were doing a lot of open-sourcing from things like Solaris and all this stuff And so they established what is kind of almost known as like one of the first Ospo's But if you look at the software industry in general, you know Developers have been sharing and collaborating software like way back to like, you know The 50s, 60s mainframe days, but I think, you know, from a company operational perspective I think it wasn't truly codified as, you know, a business unit or a particular type of job until, you know The mid-90s and, you know You know, Ospo's generally don't have one particular way of being structured A lot of companies do it differently depending on what they care about if they're, you know Shipping a lot of hardware devices, sometimes they see Ospo's very focused on compliance If they're building, you know, services, they may care more about developer efficiency and how faster developers could build software So there's no real one template we put together, you know, a little, you know Kind of definition, we call it the Ospo definition that we kind of steward within the two-group group It kind of tries to explain this to a wider audience, but you know, that's basically, you know It from, you know, what, you know, in Ospo is in terms of, you know How things are kind of typically structured. We've also been cataloging things, you know, in terms of like different Ospo's out there You know, a lot of companies sometimes have a very easy external public page, right? You know, VMware has a great, you know, open-source Ospo page, Intel, right? You know, Twitter or Facebook, but we've started to kind of catalog a lot of these things across, you know Different industries and a lot of tools that Ospo's use I highly encourage you to take an opportunity to contribute to this For some of you who know me from my kind of Kubernetes cloud native life We have a version of this that's a little bit larger focused on the, you know Cloud native ecosystem But you know, these things are just generally useful for you to kind of bring in catalog and build the community So we'd love people to kind of contribute to this as we kind of, you know, build this out Another thing, you know, that we do is we produce a lot of kind of interesting research and reports regarding the state of Ospo's We've been doing this Ospo's survey for about, I think, four or five years, depending when you want to look at it when we started it Basically surveys, you know, the whole kind of, you know, wider, you know Usually tech industry, but we've cast a wider net recently in terms of like, how is your Ospo structured? Are you planning to do one? How many employees do you have? What benefits do you receive then so on? And so we've had kind of great data, you know, over the years and we recently shared and The results from the 2021 survey and you kind of see, you know, the benefits, you know A lot of people are interested in, you know, increasing the funding and their open source initiatives You know, a good portion of folks are considering an Ospo, even though this is still a very new and nascent thing In the industry, a lot of people are kind of looking at, you know, establishing and forming You know, these so take a look the great thing about, you know, the to do group is we basically share an open source You know everything that we we basically do so, please take a look at it if you're interested in this kind of research and More importantly, you know, it's an open process, you know, in terms of like the questions We basically run this as an open source project So if you're interested in particular questions or things that you want to see In the survey, please open up an issue. It's as simple as opening up a github issue. So Other than that, you know, I kind of want to, you know, uh, you know, finish, you know, this welcome here and, you know Hand it off to Anna to talk a little bit about the kind of, you know Next wave of ospo development and kind of other interesting programs within the to do group and a lot of her work In Europe, um, you know, as I said, I'll be around pretty much all day If you want to kind of talk a little bit about open source ospo's Other topics, I'm happy to kind of, you know, take the time and talk with you all But other than that, I like to hand it off to Anna to kind of lead us through The rest of the day, she'll be serving as your official emcee also today. So, um, you know, without Any further, Anna, feel free to kind of take it up and go for the next step. So thanks. Thanks all and good to see you