 It's nice to have support outside the wire, but it's also nice to have the support inside the wire So I'm gonna welcome to the stage now the Air University Commander and President Lieutenant General Hecker Please please sit down. Come on. Come on. How's everyone doing today? Got some great weather for let X 3.0 There were some great stories. I was traveling back yesterday and of course we were delayed a little bit But it wasn't as bad as some I heard that two of our guest speakers got on the airplane in Atlanta flew into here Weather was not good Their gear wouldn't come down So then they did an emergency gear extension They got the gear down but guess where the maintenance to fix those gear are back in Atlanta So they got to go back to Atlanta And then get the airplane fixed and at that time they just got a rental car and came here So it added some time, but they'll have some good leadership I'm sure stories about how they remain calm during that time Didn't use curse words and all that stuff. So that's good But thanks to the mayor for coming out really appreciate that mayor read And then thanks for everybody else coming out. This is a this a big deal, you know on behalf of air university I'd like to welcome everyone here. Some of you have been here before for some of you This is your first one for me It's gonna be my first one and I'm really looking forward to it But it's an important venue that we put on here and I'd like to thank the Air Command and Staff College Leadership team for putting this thing together. This doesn't just kind of come together. It takes a lot of work And then when he gets here if it's rainy, it puts a lot of you know Stress into the environment on how we're going to do this But the weather is going to get better this afternoon. It'll be good for tomorrow for this two-day event And we're really looking forward to it the the theme for this one is going to be Strategy leadership and innovation and how those converge and how we work with those things and we have over 30 guest speakers They're gonna be coming out and talking about those themes. I think it's gonna be great You'll hear some things that you've heard before You'll hear some things that are new you'll hear some things that maybe you disagree with What I ask you is keep an open mind Leadership's about taking inputs from everywhere Kind of simulating them and then determining how that fits into your leadership style Some of the leaders will be exactly like you some of them will be a lot different than you I think that you'll probably learn a lot more from the people that are different from you than the people that are like you So enjoy this conference. Thanks to ACSC for putting this together and without further ado. We'll go and get started. Thank you