 All right, let's get started. This is going to be a quick little welcome and introduction to folks that are attending OSPO-Con as part of open source summit. So for those of you who don't know me, my name is Chris Anizic. I have the fun job of helping run the Cloud Native Computing Foundation at the Linux Foundation, but also am involved in a lot of other efforts, things like to-do group, which helps organize OSPO-Con along with a variety of other things at the Linux Foundation from starting foundations and all that good stuff. What's interesting about this event is traditionally at open source summit, we've always had this open source programs track or open source type of track. And it was last year that we finally decided, you know what, why don't we actually kind of make this a more formal larger part of the program? And so I want to thank a lot of folks that were involved in a lot of those discussions that kind of push us like, you know what, some of us work at OSPO's and so on, why don't we actually have a formal event around kind of our career and craft? So thank you for all those folks that supported us in putting this together. It's been kind of a journey. Anytime you do a first event of its own type. Also, as you saw in Jim's keynote, we're definitely taking health and safety series at this event. For many of us, it's our first conference in God way too long and we're kind of all adapting to this new way of doing things and then transitioning back to business. So to kind of formally kick this off before handing it off to our wonderful speakers, Nithya's up next, I just kind of want to lay what's actually going on and why OSPO is becoming more critical to many different parts of the industry. So as many of you folks are aware, almost every company out there is making a digital transformation. They're either deciding, hey, we need to re-platform and become more of a software company. We need to bring engineering in-house. I just saw this recent example from Porsche, which is an automotive company, I'm sure many of you know them, where they recently started an open-source office and basically for them, they're basically like it is almost existential for us to essentially embrace software as part of our organization. If we essentially don't do this, we may be in trouble and we may not be able to adapt due to all the competition that's going on. And to be honest, cars historically have always shipped a ton of software. It's just that what's happened is there's more and more things that are being part of your car. You have a whole experience, you have auto navigation and so on. So software is a critical piece of that and you could see Nick Peters from Porsche basically said that the whole benefits here of Porsche embracing an OSPO and becoming more open-source forward is they're getting high-level software maturity, reduced cost, potentially faster development cycles and shorter time to market. A lot of us who have worked in the text industry, whether it's been at traditional companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, we've all seen these benefits for many years and that's why these organizations adopted OSPOS. It's just we're seeing this next wave of companies essentially adopting open-source program offices as a way to move themselves forward. So I don't have to explain this to you, open-source is truly everywhere. It's completely phenomenal to kind of see things as you kind of come across them. My wife and I are kind of building our first house and just the amount of things that you come across that. It's like why do toilets have internet access and why do fridges, everything's connected, there's software everywhere and a lot of these companies and organizations that build these things they have to become software companies themselves. So it's just truly amazing to kind of see how things have evolved with this over time. And I think OSPOS are playing a critical role here as this kind of center within a company organization to kind of truly push forward best practices and so on. And what's interesting is doing a little bit of history and research of kind of like where have OSPOS come from which was like the first OSPOS. I think if you kind of look back, the early corporate OSPOS, things that you saw at Sun, Intel, IBM, I think kind of truly laid the foundation of where things are today. And those generally focus on optimizing how we could consume software that was open source, how we kind of produce and release open source software while pleasing our lawyers at the time. And I really call that kind of like OSPOS 1.0 kind of basic foundations that were basically tech forward companies, your sons, Intel's, IBM's, Microsoft's, Google's, they all kind of went and adopted OSPOS over time. What we've kind of seen in the last five years is a next set of companies that are kind of embracing their digital transformation journeys. Your folks like Porsche, your automotive companies, you're seeing gaming companies now adopt more open source practices. But what's also kind of a new trend is there's been a lot of great folks pushing forwards to having open source be critical in academic environments. So there's universities out there like John Hopkins, RIT, that actually have formal kind of open source program centers there. There's a big push in government now, not only from a policy perspective, but trying to evolve these practices of how governments procure open source software that is a little bit different to how they've done things with commercial software. So you're seeing a big push in the EU where recent regulation and documentation has pushed that there's gonna be things such as government OSPOS across EU in the future. So we're kind of seeing this wonderful evolution of open source being just a focal point in not only just corporations and traditional tech companies, but a new set of companies and also governments and academia. So to do group where did it come from and so on. So I think originally there was a small group of us in the Bay Area at the time that essentially were running open source programs. I think it was a Twitter, Facebook and Google initially and we were kind of just sharing practices, had a private mailing list of like, hey, what happens if you ship GPL software accidentally here? Like there's something, how do you do this? And so eventually this small network started to grow while other companies approached us and we formally started the Twitter group in 2012 to kind of bring together a set of companies to share practices, produce information because the fact of like people individuals you're reaching out to you privately over email just on scale, right? And hey, we run open source at companies, maybe we should open source some material to help people out. So it was founded in 2012, it's kind of grown to encompass a lot of the early, I would say kind of progenitors and kind of leaders of the OSPO movement. We have 60 plus companies and organizations from corporations, universities that are starting to evolve to kind of help grow this essentially network of OSPOs and information. If you look at the organization, it produces kind of great content. We've always had our guides that a lot of people have referenced. We have an OSPO 101 course. We kind of have this new program we've kind of started called Ospology which is all about sharing, how people kind of do OSPOs in a more public fashion than we traditionally have within the organization. Kind of another big thing we do is surveys. I think for the last four years, we've been kind of this, let's go survey the industry of like, how are you doing OSPO management within your organization and so on. And so today we're happy to kind of announce our I think fourth edition of the OSPO survey results which if you kind of look and dive into this report is obviously the tech, traditional tech industry is leading the forefront of open source programs and so on but what we're actually seeing is a lot more kind of OSPOs coming from non-traditional areas like academia, government and kind of, let's call it laggards in kind of the tech industry. So overall kind of think great information that you could go look on GitHub, it's all available for you to kind of review, look at and kind of learn from and I hope things like this truly help us take open source program management and OSPOs as like a serious career path for many folks because to me it's a great kind of community and for those that have known me, I kind of hearkened this to what happened in like how CISOs kind of came to be. If you kind of know the story, I think it was Citibank in the mid 90s where they just got hacked and it was bad, they lost like tens of millions of dollars and they're like, all right, we got to do something, right? Hence they hired their first CISO and CISOs have kind of become a thing in the industry and you're seeing the same thing, I think happened to OSPOs where sometimes companies were forced to hire like a compliance officer or someone to take over the open source but a lot of companies now are realizing this is just so critical for us given how open source is everywhere. So I kind of want to stop with the welcome and intro, it's just so happy to kind of see so many faces in this room. I want to thank the program committee that was involved in putting this together. We have some great folks, Greg, Claire, Stephen, Anna, Craig, Dwayne, Justin, John, Ashley and Henry and I see some of you in the audience here which is great and thank you for the volunteer time in putting this wonderful program together and I look forward to talking to many of you and seeing how we kind of continue to improve OSPO-Con and so on. We're doing an event in a couple, is it next week? I don't even know anymore. I think it's next week in Europe so we have the first OSPO-Con in Europe and look forward to seeing some of you, hopefully there for that one but other than that, thank you, I hope all of you take the time to network, learn from each other. If you're kind of need help with any OSPO related, let me know, there's a lot of great folks in this room that lead open source of a variety of companies from Microsoft. We're gonna hear from Nithya next on Comcast and there's a lot of great stuff online so thank you for being here and excited to see all your smiling faces behind the mask. So thanks all and Nithya, whenever you wanna get up so thanks, thanks all, good to see you.