 Hi, I'm Dave Lounsbury, CTO of the Open Group, and I'm here on day three of a very exciting conference in Taipei I'm here with Patty Dunovan who is our VP of membership in events. Hi Patty. Hi Dave. Thanks So Patty what what brought us to Taipei? What was our objective in holding a meeting here? Well Dave, I think one of my objectives, and I believe it's one of your objectives as well, is to increase member participation globally. And we knew that we needed to go to Asia and hold one of our quarterly conferences and we were lucky enough to have help from our local partner the Open Group China through KingD and through the Association of Enterprise Architects here in Taiwan to help us get here. KingD, of course, is our platinum, but I also think they were very helpful in arranging some contacts with local universities who also helped us get the conference organized, right? We had a huge amount of help from Tam King University. We had David Chi who actually opened the conference for us as well as he had Mickey Harn and Kathy Sung who helped us bring in a lot of local participants here. Excellent. Excellent. What what for you have been some of the highlights of the conference? I think we've had a lot of participation and contribution from that. So any highlights you'd There have been so many highlights. You know in each conference there are so many things that are happening every day. You would have asked me a month ago how many people I expected here in Taipei. I would have given you a number and hoped for a little more, but once we were here we got over 250 attendees. And one of the things that I really liked about Taipei is that it brought in over 60 members of the open group to come here and participate with us. So that to me was a huge highlight. Yeah, what about the the Punnery session? I remember we had some excellent excellent presentations who were some of the We had a presentation, a couple of presentations, case studies from Cathay Pacific and the University in Singapore. We had the founder and CEO of Kingdy come and keynote for us as well as Andres Decau came and helped us. He's our Platinum member from IBM. One of the things that struck me very much in helping develop that interaction between the Asian community was we had the simultaneous translations and it actually it kind of cut both ways because you know the somebody like the presentation from the gentleman of Kingdy was was in Chinese and the translation helped the English speakers understand it and and vice versa when we had the gentleman from Cathay Pacific who spoke in English. Right. So that was really helpful in you know building that bridge to be a global organization. It really is that there are almost too many highlights to single out at the conference. The working sessions for me I attended some of the sessions on the security and cloud and the real-time and embedded systems for them. And one of the things that really struck me was that by being in Asia we got people bringing ideas to us that we we would not have heard before and I've heard a couple of striking ones and these will get up on the conference web for our members. But you know that's it just underscores the fact that we have to go to all regions of the world in order to get that contribution that's the real foundation of what the open group does. So so following on the success of this conference what's coming up next for the open group? We have several things coming up. Our next meeting up is in Sweden in November 8th. We have another meeting in DC the middle of Washington DC in the middle of November and then our next member meeting quarterly conferences in San Francisco and we have a huge line up there, so I'm hoping everyone will see the promotional flashes that we send out and come on and join us and sign up. I think you and you and Jim Hightower of EPS security have also talked a little bit about activism and people will see that separately. It's a potential theme there. I'm really looking forward to I'll be at the DC meeting and the San Francisco meeting and I really think we'll have a lot to say there. Where should people go to learn more about the meeting? Well, you can go to our website or open group website and I think we'll probably be putting up a URL for it and registration's open. It's up. Y'all come and join us in San Francisco. Excellent. Well, thank you very much Patty. All right. Thank you Dave. Bye.