 Hello, hello. So we had a bit of a snafu this morning. And so I have a saying that pressure makes diamonds and we were able to find some awards that were missing. So thank you, Fred and Taylor, for assisting me. Thank you, gentlemen. So glad to be back up here again. We have 9,000 of you physically here at KubeCon. KubeCon, ClotNativeCon in Chicago and we have about 5,000 folks watching online. This is kind of one of my favorite parts of KubeCon recognizing individuals, organizations that have done incredible work over the years in kind of building and sustaining this amazing community. I can't kind of take credit for this saying, but we have over 175 projects in CNCF now that span from storage to web assembly, to container registries and so on. But I truly think the most kind of valuable project we have is our community here that all works together across the globe, 190 countries, 200,000 plus contributors, truly making the ClotNative ecosystem better. And I'm happy today to kind of recognize some of all y'all that have been helping out and doing some amazing things. So traditionally we have three awards that we have given out, you know, Documentaring, Maintainer, Chopwood Carry Water and we have a couple of new ones this year that I will get to eventually. But first, we'll start off with Top Documentarian. So documentation, as many of you know is critical to the success of an open source projects. It's not just code, having solid documentation that makes it easier for people to contribute, get started and so on and potentially even translate it to other language truly helps you build a community and we've had some amazing individuals over the years that have contributed amazing documentation. We had Tim, Catherine, Ray, fantastic folks. So they've definitely done an amazing job. This year, we would like to recognize a very unique special individual that some of you know, Divya Mohan who has Top Documentarian for this year. So please come on stage. Yeah, I know what you're saying. Awesome. Awesome and we'll take a nice little photo. Thank you so much. It's good to see you up here. Thank you. And we'll take a little photo. Got it? It's a little heavy. Thank you, Divya. All right, enjoy. So our next award we've been given out for a bit of a while. So documentation is important, but obviously code maintainers who actually are kind of the light blood of the CNCF are, you know, they are maintainers, they contribute code, they release projects and so on. And so over the years, we've had folks that have won this award, you know, folks that cover and contribute to Kubernetes, to Prometheus and a variety of different projects we've had over the years. You know, this year, the kind of TSC and community voted Top Maintainer and I'm happy to announce personally I'm a huge fan of him. He's based on his work and continuity, but I'd like to invite Akihiro Sudassan, Tom Pierre, for the award, on a skittish, so. Thank you so much. Thank you, Akihiro. Is there one? I'll take a picture. Thank you so much, Akihiro. Okay, next up, so, you know, a lot of you may not be familiar with this phrase, especially if you're kind of new to the community about, I think 53% of the attendees here, this is your first KubeCon. So, thank you for coming and I truly hope you feel welcome, but one of the kind of values that are really originated from the Kubernetes community is chop wood, carry water. And what this really means is, there's a lot of stuff that you need to do to make an open source project successful, right? You know, community is truly more than just code. You have things like documentation, fixing, you know, performance and builds, you know, fixing distribution of binaries, translating stuff, hosting events. And we've had so many people over the years have stepped up and done, you know, amazing things and truly kind of really reflects, you know, one of the core values of this global community. And you know, this year, I'd like to announce, we have five winners this year and I'd like to invite them on stage with the last minute awards that we found in the back. So this year we have Kastlin, Fisela, Arno, Lynn and Raj, if you're on stage. We've got, yeah, I'm gonna have to take a couple of calls. We've got Lynn first, Fisela in the back. I'm so happy we were able to find these. It was, you know, sometimes conferences get a little crazy. All right. Hopefully you get those home without the airport security giving you too much trouble. So, got a couple more left. So this year, you know, the community kind of asked us out a couple new awards, which was great. I love giving out awards. So one of the new ones we've added is called the taggy. So I'm sure some of you are familiar with CNCF. We have these things called, you know, tags. They're technically technical advisory groups that work on a variety of things. Storage and, you know, networking and so on. And we have an amazing group of folks that, you know, spend a lot of time in kind of focusing and then building community in these things and ensuring they're very effective and so on. And, you know, for the first taggy ever that we're going to award, I think some of you have seen her before, but Catherine Padignani is the first winner of the taggy this year. So thank you, Catherine, for all you do. So final one. So this one is not necessarily an individual, but if you're kind of familiar with the, you know, CNCF community, we have, you know, 200,000 plus contributors, 800, you know, members. And we have companies of all sizes from your billion trillion dollar companies to kind of your smaller startups to everything in between. And, you know, we really want to recognize, you know, organizations out there that truly punch above their weight in, you know, contributing to the community. And so for the first, we were calling it the small but mighty award is Weaver. So if you're familiar with them, they, you know, help build flocks to contribute to a variety of CNCF projects or their top 16 contributor overall. And I just want to congratulate Weaver Works for everything. And I believe there should be a representative here to come up. Yeah, awesome. Thank you. And I was also asked that if you want to go say hi, a lot of them will be hanging out the flux project, project meeting. So thank you. Thank you again. All right. So, you know, I am going to go hand it off now to my colleague, Taylor, to talk a little bit about our end user award. So, Taylor, please come on by. We're back. Howdy, everybody. So today I want to, I'm really excited to be able to talk about some end users yet again and present our top end user award with some end users. Unfortunately, we weren't able to book Amy Polar or Tina Fey to help us out with this one, but I can assure you they're just as funny. The top end user award within our community is a prestigious accolade nominated by our community and then selected by our community. This award not only recognizes folks' contributions within our ecosystem, but showcases leaders within the space as well. And now, without further ado, let's go through the results of this round of end users that were nominated for the KubeCon CloudNativeCon North America 2023. So, coming in at fourth place is Wayfair. Operating on a global scale, Wayfair has 8,000, more than 8,000 unique namespaces and actively contributes to key open source projects such as Kubernetes and Kivirno. And in third place is G-research, breaking new ground in AI, ML, and infrastructure. G-research has also contributed the Armada project to CNCF and excels in container security research. In second place is Fidelity Investments. With an open source first approach, Fidelity Investments boasts over 50% year-over-year growth in Kubernetes applications and holds a prominent role in the CNCF community. Taking the top spot is Spotify. They operate over 150 Kubernetes clusters that powers over 5,000 services and it's not just about scale. Spotify has made over 23,000 contributions to CNCF projects including significant contributions to Envoy. Their open source developer portal backstage has gained massive adoption and we appreciate their dual role as consumers and creators within the CNCF ecosystem. Congrats to Spotify and that's a wrap with our top end user awards. We want to extend our deepest gratitude to all of the nominees this round and your contributions to the cloud-native ecosystem truly are nothing short of inspiring. And each of you have demonstrated remarkable innovation, dedication, and leadership in advancing our cloud-native technologies and a big thank you to everybody who participated in the voting process because your voice is invaluable and recognizing excellence within our community. As we celebrate today's winners at KubeCon Cloud-NativeCon here in Chicago, we are thrilled to announce that the next round will take place at KubeCon Cloud-NativeCon in Paris. We can't wait to see the extraordinary contributions that will surface in the lead-up to this exciting event. And we do have one more thing to mention as well. We want to announce a huge congratulations to our ambassadors that were selected for this fall. If you're present, please stand up. We'd love to give you a round of applause. Awesome. What with that? Thank you so much, everybody. Great to see you all here. Hope to see you around the hallway. And Mayor KubeCon.