 Hi everyone, my name is Sue Choi and people ask me all the time, why are you so angry? And one, I think I have one of those voices that I just naturally sound angry all of the time. Also, I really could be angry. Anyway, so a little bit about me, I am old, like old, and I have picked up so much public speaking baggage throughout my travels. How old am I? Well, when I started in tech, there was actually not a nationwide cellular network. The number one phone manufacturer was not Apple, it was Motorola. Hands up for StarTech, yeah. To text my name to my friends, I would have to push 7777 66666. And Uber, Airbnb, TripAdvisor did not exist. So you sort of had to pray that your taxi driver knew where you were going and your client wasn't cheap and put you in a hotel without bedbugs and you were in a low crime neighborhood and who knows, Uber might not exist later. And traveling wasn't safe in any way, shape or form. One time I got into a taxi and the taxi driver decided, hey, you should meet my mom and started driving away from the city. And I actually, yes, I had to jump out of the taxi, which is fun in heels. And you start getting super anxious when you started traveling and going out to speak in public. I would hand out my itinerary to everyone like World War II propaganda flyers to make sure everyone knew where I was so I wasn't dead. And then I realized there's other women in my company that did the same thing and then we started talking and we realized we had client lists. Which of our clients were nice, which ones were grabby and which ones in no circumstances are you left alone with them. And a lot of the women that I worked with back then sort of opted out. Way back when conferences weren't safe, there were no code of conduct. And so there was blatant harassment at a conference and I went to the organizer to report this. And the only thing that he could do was give me two tickets to the breakfast buffet where I could eat my feelings, which I did. And so then you end up avoiding official conference hotels because like, okay, closing circle. And then you go up to your room and somebody gets in the elevator with you and followed me to my room and it did not end well for him. So, you know, you're exhausted all of the time because at two o'clock in the morning someone's like bing on your door because he has a critique of your talk, WTF. Or then your phone starts ringing and somebody wants you to like meet you at the bar, at the hotel, which you know is already closed. So, you know, but hey, it was the time in my career where I did some cool things. I was at NASA, I created my own startup called Anso Labs. We wrote the first code that was NOVA that became OpenStack. OpenStack, yay. Thank you. It was a really good time in my life. And so, you know, imagine a room like this and I've got all my public speaking baggage and I'm all mic'd up and people are coming into the room and a guy walks up to me and is like, hey, there's no coffee. And I'm like, that's okay because I'm jittery enough. And he's like, no, you don't understand, there's no coffee. And I didn't know they turned on my mic and literally like the audience just heard me like telling him where to stick his gender parts. So, you know, I was stuck here for a long time. I lost a promotion over this because I wasn't welcoming to the community with no context. And then I started looking for ways people insulted me, which they haven't, but I was so sensitive and everything was triggered. But there was this kind moment. And so, during that moment, Andrew Klescher came up to me after the big coffee incident and was like, are you okay? And I'm like, I am not okay. And he was like, okay, why don't you come sit down? Do you want to talk about it? I was like, no. And he's like, okay, I'm going to tell you about the DevOps. And at that moment, like something happened where I'm like, oh, this is not going to be so bad. A little bit of happiness like shown through. And hey, maybe I'll be happier in the future, but we're all complex people, right? And so we're going to be a little anxious, a little exhausted, a little angry. But maybe, you know, who knows, maybe I'll be less angry in the future. But what I'd like for everyone to walk away with is that this is so special, this DevOps community. DevOps is a safe place. And I love you all. I could hug you all. I was like cold, so I'm going to get you sick. But you get a hug, and you get a hug, and you get a hug. And we have to think about why. Why do what we do is so special. And so I'd like you, when you leave here, is think about constructs. Constructs are things that we believe are true, but have no empirical evidence. For example, right? I keep hearing, well, somehow the Global 100 is going to help us with diversion and inclusity. And guess what? A guy in a black turtleneck did not tell you to go do the DevOps, right? Your board will not tell you to go do the DevOps. Why are we waiting for them to teach us something about diversity and inclusion? And so I'd like to put a new construct out there that we will invent new ideas for diversity and inclusion within the DevOps community itself. We have all of these regional conferences, and all of these regional conferences spend time talking about diversity. Anyway, thank you.