 Hello and welcome to Github's Culture Open House, I'm Carol Teske, Senior Director of People Success here at Github. Thank you very much for joining us today. And today's event is really all about us opening our virtual doors to Github so we can share a unique culture with you as well as be able to connect and get to know each other. In a few moments, you're going to hear from Sid, who is our CEO and co-founder about our Github core values and these are essentially foundational to everything we do here at Github. And for those that might be familiar with Github, you may know that we have been embracing all remote work since our founding year. And in fact, leading up to the pandemic, we have been the world's largest all remote company with zero offices. We often get that question, no, we don't have an office anywhere. And what this is meant for Github is that we've been intentionally able to build a remote company culture and we've also been able to sustain that culture even in the current climate. And this is where many companies are faced with the sudden decision about whether to embrace remote work or not. But to give you another perspective of life at Github and all remote, I'd encourage you to take a look at the Fast Company article, which is linked in the main events page. And this is really great read about getting started in Github and what you could expect if you were to be part of a remote team. So I'd encourage you to please look at that. Okay, so let's have a look at the agenda for today. It's listed on the slide there. The sessions are designed to help you to get to know our team and the culture here at Github. And there are a couple of things that I want to highlight for you. First being that the Q&A sessions are really a great opportunity for you to get to know the teams at Github. They're going to take place in the get to know you sessions in the sessions area. And then on the reception page, you're going to notice that there's a Q&A doc. And this is really true to how we work at GetLab. This is where you can ask and follow along with questions during the sessions. And if you don't get to add your question there, you can add it in the chat and we'll make sure that we transfer it across to the doc for you. If we have time at the end of the sessions, the speaker can verbalize the question for you. But if we do run out of time, we'll make sure to answer these questions asynchronously for you. And you'll notice that there are five minute breaks between the different sessions. And this is because at GetLab, we all are our meetings defaulted 25 minutes to make sure that we do have that five minute break in between meetings. So we're following that. And then at 12 CET, you'll see that we are closing out the event with networking merge. And this is where you will have an opportunity to be paired with GetLab team member via networking roulette. And you can find this under the networking section. Okay, so now let's hear from Sid, who is our CEO and co-founder about a topic he's very passionate about. And that's our GetLab core values. My name is Sid C. Brandy, co-founder and CEO at GetLab. GetLab's six core values are the foundation for our company. These values are not static, they form a live document. Our values have been updated 62 times in 2020 so far. And our values are collaboration, results, efficiency, diversity, inclusion and belonging, iteration and transparency. Our six values spell out the word credit, which is what we give each other by a strong and good intent. You can see each of our values represented in the illustration above me. And if you look up GetLab values, you will find sub-values and many examples under each one. This is how we make them actionable and prevent misinterpretation. Staying true to the company values, enabled GetLab to sustain our culture as we grow. The values act as like a distributed decision-making framework. And it's very important that any new team members can see our values and the way we work before they decide to join. So they can see if GetLab is fit for them. That is why over 5,000 pages of our internal processes are public, including our strategy. We reinforce our values in 16 different ways. And the most important moments to reinforce your values are decisions that affect individual team members most. Hiring, promotions and bonuses. Every single promotion document at GetLab is shared with the entire community, the entire company, and it uses the values as the core structure. Anyone in the world can make a suggestion to our values in our handbook, including people who won't work at GetLab yet. I hope you do so. Thank you for joining us today. Okay, great. Well, last but not least, if you are interested in staying connected with us and you haven't joined our talent community as yet, the link is on the slide there and we would encourage you to do so. Okay, but so to kick us off, we have a few minutes left. Let's give you a sneak peek into how we ask and answer questions here at GetLab. So I'm going to go to the Q&A doc, which is also pinned in the chat and take a few questions there. So let's go to the Q&A doc. And the first question, okay, is from Betsy Bola. So Betsy is asking, what do you see as a top benefit for you personally of an all remote work? Thanks for the question, Betsy. So for me personally, I think it's really being able to balance my personal life with work. And the context for that is prior to joining GetLab and working in an all remote environment, I had been travelling globally for over 10 years for my job and had nearly resigned myself to the fact that I had to take a step back, if I wanted not to travel so much and just I live in Ireland to be able to stay here. And an all remote environment afforded me was being able to still have that career that I wanted while not having to sacrifice the time away from family friends and my own personal priorities. And what I learned really in the last year and a half or so since I've been here is that I actually like routine. I would never have thought I did, but I do and being able to now commit to being able to do something on a Tuesday night or Thursday morning or whatever it is, has really been very beneficial to me personally. So thanks for the question, Betsy. And we have time I would say for one more. Katharina Freira asked what's the biggest piece of advice you give somebody interested in starting a fully remote role, moving from a traditional in office environment. Katharina, thanks for the question. I guess what I would say to that is aside from, you know, figuring out what you need in order to set yourself up comfortably where you're going to work. We have advice and lots of guidance in our handbook on how to do that. And I would say thinking about what you're going to miss about an all in person environment. So for me personally, the biggest concern I had moving to all remote was how I'm going to get that social connection that I enjoy and I would be very much I get my energy from being around people. So that was a concern for me. So what I figured out is two things. One is that thankfully good lab is very intentional about making sure that we have the social connection. And that's through coffee chats or it could be team meetings talking about our different environments, getting to know each other, etc. Along with outside of pandemic being able to meet every nine months as an overall company. So that's the internal piece being very intentional. And then also looking where I used to enjoy going for lunch and meeting colleagues for breakfast. That now with family and friends and being able to still have that social connection, although it's not with colleagues, but it is it is still being able to to have that that those events. And that's been super helpful for me personally. Okay, so I think given the time we are at what we would like to do now is before our first session, ask you to go to the networking feature on the reception page. We have a number of good lab team members there and would be enjoy having a bit of a networking moment with you so please move over to that. And again, so thank you for joining us today. I look forward to seeing you in other sessions and enjoy the open house. Bye.