 It is now my pleasure to introduce Chris Anizek. He is the CTO at the CNCF as well as the VP at the Linux Foundation. He's going to speak to us about charting a WASM landscape. Please help me welcome Chris to the stage. Hello, hello. It's good to see everyone here for the first WASM con. It's actually fun seeing everyone in this room because we've been discussing doing this for well over a year. We've had some great success with our cloud native WASM days that we've hosted in the CNCF community. And there's been kind of a demand to do something a little bit broader to include, not only kind of the builders integrating with the CNCF and cloud native ecosystem, but folks that want to learn about WebAssembly, folks that want to kind of talk about their kind of use cases outside the cloud native community. So today, you know, I'm going to have a couple announcements. I'm going to pine a little bit of my kind of thoughts of where WASM is and where WASM is going and then kind of make some short quick announcements before handing it off to our other speakers. So, you know, from my perspective, I kind of see WASM in kind of the early, early kind of cloud native container days. If you remember back in a day, there was a lot of innovation happening in the container and cloud native space. There was multiple run times, multiple specs, everyone kind of fighting for mind share. I feel like something similar is happening in the WASM space. And that's kind of where, you know, we currently, you know, are, I think it's just natural innovation cycles in CNCF. We have this, what we call, you know, this kind of famous diagram of having different little levels from the Crossing the Chasm book. And a lot of the adoption and innovation happening in WASM is on the early adopter side and it will naturally progress. Like in CNCF, you have things like Kubernetes, they're on the, they're over the hump, right? But all the other early stuff is, you know, still kind of brewing. In CNCF, oddly, we've been an early adopter of WASM technology. A lot of our projects have used WebAssembly to, you know, do a plug-in, you know, system to support multiple languages, things like Qboard and Istio, et cetera, all kind of have that path. We also have some run times in our space because people are like, well, if we're running containers in Kubernetes, we might as well try to do the same, you know, with WebAssembly. So it's kind of nice to see this, but we're still very, very early days. And I kind of expect this space to evolve pretty fast. One interesting thing that has been done in our community, people have asked us, like, what are people doing? You know, how can we make things better? And so we went and talked to a lot of our member community. And we actually found out that there's actually a lot of early adopters in WASM. We have folks like BBC, Disney, Amazon, you know, using, you know, WebAssembly technology, Bosch in the automotive sector, Goldman Sachs in the finance sector. So there's a lot of companies, you know, experimenting and kind of sharing what they're doing. Also something very critical is there's kind of a lot of, you know, startup innovation happening in this ecosystem. So people taking crazy bets and trying to do some new things. And we're kind of seeing this innovation cycle happening where a bunch of startups form, then natural consolidation, you know, kind of happens. And we've kind of already seen that with F5, a established vendor acquiring suborbital not so long ago. So that's kind of my quick little, you know, overview of kind of what's going on in the ecosystem, how early things, we have a couple announcements. So our members have asked us to basically kind of what's going on WASM land. So today we're open sourcing and sharing a state of WebAssembly report that kind of covers what folks are, you know, using a WebAssembly for things like, you know, which areas, whether it's web applications, serverless, et cetera, what are, what's attracting developers to WASM and also what are people's kind of sentiment on the future of WebAssembly. So all this stuff is available online for you to kind of, you know, look at and, you know, kind of get the data that you're interested in there. So the final bit of announcement that I have is, you know, something that's near and dear to my heart in CNCF as we have this crazy landscape that has kind of evolved over the years, where started out pretty simple and kind of a joke to have the community help do some of our work in tracking this. And it's kind of grown to be this huge, you know, thing. We've had a lot of people ask us, can you please like do this for WebAssembly too? Because there's a lot of these projects popping up. There's companies and so on. So, you know, happy to kind of, you know, announce today that, you know, we've worked to kind of commission and build out our first kind of WASM landscape. So if you go to WASMlandscape, you know, .org, you could go check out what's there. And we have different areas broken about like which runtimes are out there, which languages, platforms, what observability options are there for WASM. So this is a first stab at it. It's definitely not feature complete by any means, but we want to work with all you in the community to ensure that this kind of continues, involves and is as useful as the lovely CNCF landscape is. So, you know, I don't want to take any more time, but please check out the state of WASM survey that we are committed to continuing to do every year. And then also, let's help build a little WASM landscape so we kind of have an idea of what this ecosystem is growing into. So other than that, thank you and enjoy the rest of the conference.