 And I want to thank all of you for coming to this event. This has been, for us on the committee, a remarkable journey that started in September or October as we started defining themes for this conference. And I want to just start with a group I'm going to thank multiple times today, the program committee. If you all have a program and you look on the second page down at the bottom of the planning committee, there is a significant group of people, about 14 altogether, who've been working on putting this program together. And I really like to thank that group for just a spectacular job that they've all done. So thank you. Also, on the front page, we have a group of companies who've agreed to sponsor this program. As you know, in the past, we've been working jointly with the Silicon Valley leadership group. We both had somewhat different goals for our conferences, so we decided to split up. And so we started with no sponsors at the beginning of the time. And I'm very appreciative of this group who stepped up to support what we've done. So thank you all for the sponsors of this. And then finally, we have a group of really great speakers. And I think you're all going to be very pleased with what you hear. We have one change to the program. There's bad news and good news. The bad news is that Harry Reid decided that members of the Senate should be voting today on the floor. And protests, I decided that if I were to call Harry Reid and protest, he probably wouldn't listen. So Jeff Bingham and is not going to be able to be here at the end of the day. That's the bad news. The good news is he's handled this in just a sort of classy way that you'd expect of somebody like Jeff. And when he called me yesterday, he offered to send his chief of staff, who some of you might know, Bob Simon, who just spectacularly good many years of experience, one of the top congressional staff members today. And he will be giving the comments on behalf of the senator and be prepared to answer questions and answers on behalf of the senator at the end. So we'll have the same substance, even though Jeff is not going to be able to be here. Administratively, as you all know, food's going to be outside. There's booths outside from our sponsors. Make sure during the networking, you get a chance to go and look at those very interesting set of materials. It would be useful, though, to know where the parallel sessions are going to be. So if you look in your brochure and you notice that there is a left column and two center columns, and left center and right column of the three parallel sessions, everything in the left column is going to be in the main room here. The center and the right columns are going to be in the Fisher Conference Center, so you walk all the way down to the end of this hall and you'll see signs directing which sessions and which of those rooms. So of course, all the plenary sessions will be held in this room. So what are the themes that we really try to look at? First, there's a lot of attention to energy efficiency. And we wanted to give you images of what people are doing in energy efficiency and in multiple different types of organization. So for those of you who are into that particularly, there should be many, many opportunities to follow. We wanted everybody to see not just what's happened in policy now in energy, but what's coming down the road? What are some of the issues that you may have to be thinking about and dealing with? And we have multiple sessions covering those. Important thing in Silicon Valley is new technologies and new business models, new ways of operating both in government and private sector. Some of them are as new, some of them are just evolving, but we want opportunities for you to see some of the new technological advances as well as some of the business models. And then some of the things emerging in the energy system and where the bright spot and really the very fundamental change we're seeing is in natural gas. And so we're having a session on what's changing there. So I hope you all are ready for a good stimulating day of presentations. And without any more introduction, I'd like to bring up our first speaker, William Perry. And if Bill, you would come up here and I will continue the introduction. Have a seat there. Bill, to me, is a very special person. As many of you know that Bill has had a long history here as an entrepreneur, founding at least one company, ESL, founding other organizations in the energy area. As a public servant, as the Secretary of Defense, and I like to think of him as truly the Secretary of Defense, not the Secretary of Offense. And very, very spectacular job in bringing the military up to the technological prowess that keeps a military at the head of the pack. He was a person whose decisions were instrumental in leading to stealth technologies as well as to, at a later point when he was Secretary of Defense, that was before he was Secretary of Defense, his first independent Pentagon. And as Secretary of Defense, he took the lead in bringing electronic and digital communication to the fighting forces in a much deeper and more profound way than they had in the past. He's also been a scholar. He still is a scholar. He leads activities here in preventive defense at Stanford University. And he, along with George Shultz and several other luminaries, have been waging a campaign in which they've really made progress in moving towards ridding the world of nuclear weapons. More than that, I'd like to think of him as a friend. And I'm very glad that his wife, Lee Perry, is here in the front table coming to join us. So I'd like to now bring him up in his most recent role as chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Committee. So I'd like to bring up Bill Perry. Thank you.